DoD Horror stories?

I've never heard anything about that. My friend has a DOD and she hasn't said anything. Personally, I dislike the way DOD lips look. So maybe if you didn't get the face-up, it'd be alright?

 

I have a DOD shall, and I take her out and about all the time. I've had no problem with her lips or anything. But I never leave her in a car or under a window, I don't know any sensible BJD owner who would. all I can say is I haven't had trouble and my Shall is in great condition.

 

That was back in 2006 when it happened alot. My DoC Wi's lips turned a dark gray and I had to remove his face-up. But otherwise, nothing else happened- I think they have good quality dolls myself, sometimes it takes a bit for them to get it to you, but it used to take way longer when they sanded the seams.

 

I received my Shall in Jan, around that same time period. I think it's settled and pretty rare for it to happen. If it does, contact them, and I'm sure they'd help you out.

 

I haven't seen any black lip problems from DoD in a long time really. That last one in february was a Luts one, I believe.

My Homme Ducan has a brown face-up from back in December of 2006 and his lips are still fine.

 

oh really? Wow, I didn't even know there were anymore cases. About I think 6 months after my boy's incident, DoD said they were changing gloss and shouldn't be a problem. There are many talented faceup artists here in the US you could send him to if you don't want a DoD faceup, you don't have to limit yourself just to them.

 

I had heard those horror stories too... right after I ordered my boy. .^^ Needless to say, I was very paranoid for a long time. But I've had him for over two years now, and have never had any problems with his faceup. It gets really hot and humid here in the summer, and still nothing's gone bad.
A friend of mine has five DOD dolls, ranging from a year and a half old to just a few months old, and none of them have ever had any problems either.
Between us, we have a lot of experience with DOD dolls, all with default faceups from the company, and... yeah, no problems. No sticky, no black lips. Nothing falling off or falling apart. So... I'm actually rather inclined to say those that did have problems may have been flukes....

 

My DOT boy is from last month only and believe me, its freakin hot over here for the past few weeks! No issues with gloss or anything. I believe that funky gloss was caused by a batch of bad gloss by the gloss company..

good luck on gettng your boy ^^

 

The problems weren't flukes- trust me. Hunter's lips did turn a dark gray. 0_O It may be because of where i live- it gets very humid sometimes. ><

 

I recieved Kotori in October.
Her lips are still beautiful. and she's been outside a fair few times.

I do have to say, Do not let your doll get near any heat, leave in a place where it gets hot, etc. It will ruin your doll D:
As long as you keep him/her out of the sun, and out of hot places I think he/she will be fine.

 

Yeah, humid weather isn't good for dollies. Like I said this was mainly happening 2 years ago, so everything should be fine now. (the case this year might have been isolated also, since I was surprised to hear about that one)

 

ahhhhh! that's scary. I should really make sure I don't bring my future dollie in the sun too often.

 

I have 4 dolls from DOD the oldest is a little over a year old.
I've never had any problems with their lips or anything else.
keep my dolls in their bags/boxes when I don't play with them, since I have large windows in my house and we get lots of sunlight.

I take them outside fairly often and I haven't had any changes to their makeup (and I live in a desert)

I think your doll will be just fine

 

Worst that's happened to my three year old DOC's faceup is that the eyebrows rubbed off from wear (had them redone) and she has a chip in her lip paint. No black or any funny gloss stuff. My U came with a default faceup too (that I had removed since I wanted a custom one) and there were no problems with it, either.

Black lips aren't the end of the world, anyway...I like custom faceups much better than DOD's anyway (I have four DODs and only one has default faceup) and there are plenty of people on DOA, probably even some local to you, who can do lovely faceups should DOD's faceup end up not being the greatest.

 

Naw, I own 3 DOCs, my oldest being almost 2 years old, and their lips are just as when I got them.

The only thing I have noticed is that one tiny bit of an eyebrow has chipped, but it's too small, nothing to worry about

 

i live in Houston which might as well be the surface of the sun. I have a DOC and he's done amazingly. I actually bought him from a girl in Mexico so I imagine that they can take the heat well.