Do you have any damage on your dolls?

I dropped my most precious doll on her face a couple days after I got her. I think I had been playing with her just a few hours in total, since I only have time for dolls in the late evening. I was handling her with gloves and maximum care because she was fully blushed and absolutely perfect, also really expensive, so my brain decided to get faulty and I placed her somewhere unstable for 1 second and she fell straight on her nose on ceramic hard floor. Between the damage itself and the sanding from the person who tried to fix her she completely lost the beautiful profile that made me fall in love with the sculpt.
That was the first time a doll fell during my first year in the hobby and it was completely my fault, happened in February but I still get in an extremely sour mood when I think about it and have thoughts like quitting the hobby. I love that doll so I'll send her to someone competent to get fixed up and I hope the grief will stop eventually. I really wish I'd gotten away with it and she broke a hand or something replaceable but of course that's my luck. End of rant.

 

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!