First Doll Accident

Its understandable, when i first joined the hobby i was so paranoid. Now after almost 6 years and bc i can fix stuff myself im less woried. If its a face-up by somebody else i still get upset since its not my work

 

Is it the face up that got scratched maybe?
I hope you can fix it

 

Yeah, I had one too, with my first doll (now gone). Same thing with photographing him, as above. I had him standing on a playground platform and he tipped over, smacked face first into the metal, and fell into the mulch. He had a scratch on the tip of his nose and I felt horrible about it. But they really are quite hardy.

 

I totally feel you recently, I had a head done by my favorite artist and she was so beautiful. That is until I got her in the mail and my post office messed her up. I tried fixing her and completely destroyed the whole face up and ended up removing the whole thing. I felt so embarrassed I didn’t tell the artist and had to resend her to another artist I liked. But it just wasn’t the same because that first face up won my heart.

I guess my advice is to not freak out and maybe put the doll away for a while so you don’t get tempted to “fix” it under distress. I did that with a couple of dolls and ended up forgetting where the chips and accidents happened by the time I was ready to see them again

 

I had one of my dolls fall off a shelf onto my tripod, it smashed his eye socket in on the lower lid and the head was unsalvageable. I had to buy him a new head, and I never felt the same about him after that. I hope you manage to fix your doll. I know it's hard when stuff like this happens.

 

Oh no! It's totally understandable to be upset over an accident like that. I mean, yes, it's true that these things are bound to happen, but it still sucks!

 

It's not silly to be upset, the first damage is always the worst because we handle the dolls so carefully, and we can really be hard on ourselves out of guilt or feeling we did something wrong. In reality, stuff happens, and often it's beyond your control.

My first incident was my second doll got "injured" because I left him standing on a tile floor while I went to grab my first doll and told my husband to watch the second one. He fell face first onto my husband's shoe before he could catch him, and he chipped his nose. I held him and cried so hard, apologizing over and over and just feeling like I ruined something so special. Then within a week or two, my first doll fell on carpet from a standing position, and gouged his eyebrow. It bothered me, and I still can't figure out how that scratched him, but since I'd already dealt with the emotions of damaging a doll, I just kind of shrugged it off and let him have a scar.

 

Don't feel silly for feeling that way - How you react is how you react, and life's too short for beaing yourself up for a natural emotional reaction. Allow yourself the reaction.

Teddy

 

I remember being devastated about my first (and so far only!) doll accident with my 4th doll, too, it's totally normal because these things cost a lot. I had a doll that I believe hated me from the bottom of her resin heart. I could not bond with her and I tried to sell her for months, but nobody was interested even though I dropped my asking price a lot from the company price and she was practically new. Once I took her out for some pics to update the sales post, and she took a nose dive right to my phone. It wasn't just the faceup that got harmed, her nose got a visible nick to the resin, too.

I was devastated and sold her for less than 1/3 of the original price stating about the nick on the nose. She sold right away, which was good because I couldn't bear having her around any longer. Since the incident happened at my home, the story had a happy ending: my home insurance company compensated me for the full value of the doll after I showed them pictures of the damages and receipts. I used that money on some other doll I was probably happier with.

I never cared much about the faceups/body blushing, since I do them myself and they're fixable. I have damaged a few noses while doing kiss photoshoots. I don't really mind as long as the resin is not harmed. But if I managed to damage the resin again on some doll, I bet I would feel just as bad as last time. I do my everything to keep my dolls in pristine condition, and then they thank me like that!

 

My first accident involved one of my dolls and one of my friend's. I had a 75cm boy sitting next to her 26cm girl. When I picked up my boy, his foot kicked out and smacked the little girl in the head. She fell over and got a chip on her nose. I was absolutely mortified, but thankfully my friend knew it was an accident and wasn't angry. The ironic thing is the character I shelled in my boy is a psychopath so it was entirely in character for him to be a complete jerk.

 

I have a tiny frosted opaque Aki by Akhmel. She is strung with the most delicate of elastic. One day I was posing her and for some reason her elastic broke! She fell into a pile of disjointed little pieces. I almost passed out. The holes in her long thin limbs were like needle holes. There was no way my 65 year old sausage fingers could restring her. I finally contacted her creator, Nadia Zhubreva in Russia (I am in the US) who graciously offered to restring her FREE! I paid shipping there and back and now my Aki is whole again. What a wonderful thing for the artist to do!

 

I had my first doll accident today and I'm mildly upset about it. I changed one of the hands on my Myou Michelle, and while the hand pose is super cute, the hook from the hand I removed took out a chunk of her resin. Luckily, it's on the inside of her arm so it isn't visible but it still makes me sad knowing it's damaged.