Do you have any damage on your dolls?

No damages yet, but in time maybe. I feel like that if you take good care of your dolls, I think it will be okay; however, it is bound to happen. I feel like sun damage is what I am scared of since they can turn yellow.

 

When I answered this awhile back, I was BJD damage free.

Alice was the first of my dolls to get damage, she fell at a weird angle when I was posing her and one of her fingers popped right off. I fixed it back with superglue and I can't even see the break unless I look very closely. But it made me realize that a slightly broken doll is not that bad at all.

Lately, I've been buying slightly damaged dolls 2nd-hand. If it's something I can fix or live with it's no longer a problem for me. I bought a doll whose finger was broken, but came with the broken finger, the finger wouldn't sit exactly right, maybe a chip got lost, so I made him a ring around the break. I also got a boy with horrible wig stains, I can't get them out and the hands are yellowed so bad they are practically orange. I have a LUTS girl with a greenish nose.

I had a doll come new with a slight ankle chip, I decided the damage was too minor to worry about. Although for the doll that came with the busted leg, I did get that replaced.

I just don't think damage on the dolls bothers me that much. I do purposeful damage when I mod them. I thought I would be upset the first time I broke off a finger on a doll, but somehow I was kind of casual about it. 'This finally happened.' and I fixed it.

Old second hand dolls that come home to me damaged have character, they have a story to tell. When I look at them I wonder what lives might have been like, and what they went through before I got them. I know they are dolls, but I'm overly imaginative, and I like to think these things.

 

I'm not careful with my dolls at all (I love how sturdy resin is!) so minor scratches do happen sometimes, especially from S-hooks. I don't mind much, though, everything can be fixed and I'd rather not feel too precious about handling my dolls. Sometimes it's impossible to control, too - my newer soulkid body is a bit different from my older one and somehow the same S-hooks seem to scratch wrists and ankles from the inside no matter what I do. Not visible while the doll is intact but I am a bit unhappy that they updated the body and made it slightly worse for wear and tear.

Nuoyi's body came with a little scratch behind the thigh, and I later managed to scratch the other thigh with a zipper - at least they match now . I also managed to get an annoying stain on her head while finishing the faceup but it's covered by a wig at all times.

One of Dott's hands loops came off after I had received her but epoxy glue seems to hold it quite well. It doesn't fit as perfectly into the joint any more but the wrists were not so well engineered to start with. I also dropped her head with a fresh faceup so there are some minor dents in sealant under the wig area.

Both Acorn and Michi arrived to me badly stained. For Michi I painted over it and with Acorn sanded the wig stains off the head. Acorn also took a nosedive off my desk and chipped the faceup on the nose but I sealed it again and can't even tell tbh - I feel like the damage would have been more with MSC but liquitex seems to be very sturdy thankfully.

I guess dolls tend to end up a bit like the owners - I have tons of little scars from being a clumsy being so my dolls are not much worse off

 

I purchased a lovely secondhand volks boy who came with two very very minor scratches on his facial sealant that aren't even visible unless you look at it from an extremely specific angle in the light, I was super worried it would be very visible or lead to some other complication or damage somehow but so far so good!

 

I took Ciel to Dolly Day in Barcelona. She got horribly stained from this outfit. Thankfully it was mostly her legs.

I've now reversed 95% of the damage. Thankfully her legs are replaceable but in a few months she should be 100% recovered. Vinyl is a miraculous material.

Quite a lot of my collection have been stained at one time or another. It's something you get used to.

 

Ingrid came to me damaged, as Resinsoul Mi has very delicately sculpted hands that are prone to breaking during shipping. She now has jointed hands that she wears 24/7 instead.

I have owned dolls that stained/smudged in the past, though none of those dolls are currently part of my collection.

 

One of my girls had a finger broken years ago, I don't even remember how, but I glued it back on and it doesn't bother me too much. (I'm planning on sculpting some new hands for her anyway though, just because I can.)

Some of the others have some minor chips and scratches due to to age but I kind of just accept that this will happen. I'd rather that than keep them in pristine condition but never do anything with them,

 

I have a lot of second hand dolls who came to me with various types of damage, from minor scratches, dents, chips, to broken fingers and hairline cracks. However, once in my care, even if I'm not the most careful in my handling at times, I've have very few incidents that resulted in damaging my dolls. I've had a couple take honestly spectacular falls and come away without a single scratch. Like when my Soom Breccia fell and slid on rough concrete. She threw her resin fox ears as well when she landed on her chest and face but...she was somehow fine? But when standing my most expensive doll, Volks F-38 in sunlight skin, directly in front of me on a wooden chest, with both my hands out almost hugging him for support...he slipped through my fingers and jack-knifed. He bonked his face and snapped a finger off. I wanted to cry! His face was fine, thankfully, but his finger not so much. I've since glued it back on but it's very visible. I guess it's a good thing that I'd ordered him with extra hands but even still...Damage can happen at any time even when you're being super careful. But resin is tougher than it looks and I'm always so thankful for that!

 

I'm still miffed about the time I was changing hands on my Soom Teenie Gem and the S-hook took a little chip out of her forearm. Always be careful when changing out hands!

 

Gosh yes, I have two dolls with broken fingers (now glued) one 2nd hand Volks head with a deep cut that was disclosed as sealant chipping (mostly sanded away now). And because many of my dolls are old and second hand some shiny areas and faded/ chipping faceups. It will be time soon to overhaul many dolls in my collection….

 

When I first got my 80 cm, my partner made a loud noise while the cat was near the doll, got knocked over and now has a giant scratch on the shoulder. Noticable too. I've been meaning to body blush, so I'll probably turn it into a scar, hahahaha.

 

Eh, lessee... so far, somehow, all the dolls that have faceplanted still have their noses. Biggest damages I have are a small crack on a silicone bust (no idea how or why, but weirdly fits the character) and upon restringing a secondhand doll I discovered that her neck has a LOT of damage (again, no idea how). My first ever resin has a faded spot on his lips, and one of the vinyls has some minor staining from a pair of treacherous trousers... and my obitsu had to have both her ankles replaced.

Overall though it hasn't bothered me anywhere near as much as I thought it would. I would like to try and secure/stabilize the neck damage and maybe do something with the silicone crack, but I'm not feeling any pressure about it so eh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

A few of my dolls have yellowing due to age and one of my dolls has some minor scratches. But outside of that there is no major damage to them. They sit either in boxes or a glass cabinet at this point and rarely are taken out other than to take the occasional picture.

 

Like @cobaltconduct I’m quite clumsy at times and coupled with middle-aged eyesight I don’t always notice things until I put on my glasses or I’m examining a photo I took.

Most damage has just been normal wear and tear such as mild scratches and chips around the head cap or neck from the S-hook or age related yellowing.
It’s also surprising how many dolls actually have minor chips and sanding scratches on them even when you get them brand new!

I have however had cracking and chipping appear on the fingers of Doll Chateau’s MSD jointed hands where the S-hooks are. Didn’t notice until I was looking at photos, rather disappointing considering I didn’t handle her much. That same doll also developed bad discolouration where she had been sanded by DC. She was the older NS yellow resin and suddenly after a couple of years a pale ‘bloom’ began to appear, small patches at first. They got worse and I ended up selling her as I don’t have the skills to fix such problems.

I recently had to commission a faceup for the first time as a second hand Leekeworld Mihael head I got did not like having the previous owner’s faceup removed. White patches appeared on the brow area, top of the cheeks, nose, around the mouth in a symmetrical fashion. They were smooth and shiny, not sealant residue. I tried my best to cover them up myself whilst attempting to give him a faceup but I could still see them. I was so broken hearted I contemplated selling him even though I love that sculpt so much.
Eventually though I contacted a particular faceup artist, showed them pictures of it and asked if they thought they could do anything. Thankfully they’d seen this problem before, it’s as if some older resins just suddenly lose surface pigment when in contact with the chemicals used to remove a faceup. They did an amazing job fixing the issue (which included sanding) and he’s now on his way back with a gorgeous face!

I’ve also dropped a few dolls over the years or had them fall and faceplant, usually there’s no damage to anything other than the faceup but I do think I may have some minor cracking on one of my tinies, can’t see due to his faceup but I can feel the roughness on his wee nose. I also damaged his faceup being too forceful putting in eyes.

 

My collection is both a good chunk second hand, and decade spanning (I think my oldest is 21 by now) so I've got quite a variety of chips, yellowing, and other shenaniganery around here. Ironically, the worst damage has been on brand new dolls - Ringdoll Bast arrived with his headcap shattered (since replaced), at which point I just sort of accepted that I'd escaped any major disasters so far so this might as well happen.

The vagaries of resin are bewildering - There's been times when something should've broken (one of the Shiwoos deciding to scare the crap out of my non-bjd friend by flinging himself backwards, slamming his head on a soda can and sending his headcap flying springs to mind) and was totally fine, vs the Mystic Kids Ellis came with broken fingers despite being extremely well packaged.

I've just sort of accepted at this point that Entropy will do as it do do, and there's no doing anything about it.

 

I've had a secondhand doll come t me with broken toes/hands. I'm planning to purchase new ones, but thankfully nothing happened to the face sculpt.

 

My Minifee Honoka has some staining from the eyeliner of her faceup, but thankfully that is all so far. I just plan on covering it when I redo her.

 

One of my dolls has a chip at her elbow joint due to my own mishandling But then there's also the inevitable dings from S-hooks. There might be some very minor damaged faceups (possible staining on one but I have no intention of ever wiping her), but other than that, only the one doll really had "real" damage. And that's considering that my one pukipuki fell out of a tree. Twice! And not a scratch on her.

 

My dolls are all old and have plenty of damage. Thankfully nothing that shows too much when they're all dressed and wigged up though. I buy most of them secondhand so they came to me with damage. Stains, scratches, face-up chipped or wearing away in places. The damage on my Iplehouse girls was all me though. I threw one of them on the hard kitchen floor (I don't know how she survived it with just a scratched face-up) and the other one faceplanted in some mud, back when I was brave enough to take them outside Poor babies.