Floating heads - How do you treat it when it's JUST a head?

if you are really attached to her I'd say keep her head if you HAVE to sell the rest of her to get the money you need. at least with her head you can always buy her another body. and people are always looking for the mature lishe body. so even if you part with the body you still have her head and her personality. she's just "hybernating' for while until you can afford to get her a new body.
I have a shiwoo elf who as of yet has no body but I still love him!

 

Neither of my Woosoo boys has a body, and I'm about to get a third head to have no body. lol If Portia is really special to you and you *have* to sell her body, do so. Bodies are replacable, to me the personality of any doll is in their face not in their body.

 

I've found that heads by themselves can have quite a bit of personality on their own. Rolling into photoshoots, stealing other bodies (even ones that don't fit) Sometimes saying a word or two. Mind, I, and all of my doll owning friends, see them as dolls, and have the dolls' personalities to see themselves and other dolls as dolls. To me it was more of an antsy thing waiting for a body than a weird and unbonding time. But that is naturally just me. ^_^ I do have a friend with a sleeping head, and I'm currently on the hunt for a Futurama style jar for her to keep it in. (complete with a bottle of fish food!) So all in all, I personally wouldn't have too bad of a time with a disembodied head lying around indefinately, especially if it was a limited head that was dear to me.

What it really comes down to is how YOU feel about it. Maybe remove her head and put away her body for a bit and see how you feel, or put the doll away and do the same. Good luck with your situation, and I really hope you don't have to go through the stress of selling a dear doll in order to alleviate financial troubles!

 

Amaranth is just a head on a cloth-wrapped tea bottle. I got the head to practice faceups before my Heath arrives, thinking they might be able to share the body later, but as soon as the first face was on the bald head began developing a personality... and it was NOT a happy one. At first he looked sad, and then as each week went by he looked more and more angry.

It wasn't so bad when the faceups were lousy beginner ones and they weren't sealed or anything, but now the faceups are better, and even though I don't plan to keep them I do the finishing (MSC, gloss, lashes) to learn how it ought to be done, and Amaranth has his own personal wig that my Heath will never borrow. Amaranth doesn't look like a practice head anymore, he looks like a beheaded doll. I ordered a stuffed cloth body for him and can't wait for it to arrive. It won't be as good as a real body but at least he won't be giving me evil reproachful looks because I knocked the table and his head fell off the bottle and rolled all over the place.

Still, I think the head is the most important thing in defining a doll's personality, and if you keep Portia's head you can get her a new body later when your finances improve. I think she'll still be Portia. But if you have any expectation that this might take a while, more than just a month or two, it would be good to put her on a better substitute body than a bottle.

 

Hahahah, I'm gonna vouch for the head-hunters around here;
I think holding onto a head is a perfectly GREAT idea because even if you put her on another body she is still herself^-^
My first Super Dollfie, Cloud, I bought as a head and got his body about 3 weeks later, but I thought he was so cute. One of the drawbacks is that they have trouble expressing themselves without a body. I felt bad about this often, but I've realized that it can be a motivator for you to work hard and get a new one for them^^
And they just look at you waiting patiently to be completed, sometimes they can look sad, but overall I think they seem greatful that you kept them as best you could instead of getting rid of them completely, because you make up who they are. (I hope I'm making sense^^; )

One of the biggest things overall is the happiness you get when you give them their new body and complete them again and sigh, thinking, "I'm so glad we stuck it out together."
That even through the tough times, you made it together.
It can be very rewarding; as you've had a hand in their making^^

 

Floating heads are sometimes difficult to deal with, in my opinion. I tend to forget about my Bomi-girl head because I keep her in a box out of sight (I think it's kinda creepy to have her out). When I do see her, I feel bad because she's stored away. I initially bought the head to do practice faceups and thought it could share a body with Florizel. As it turns out, Florizel doesn't want to share and the first faceup I did suited the head so much that I don't want to change it. I guess this is one of those times when dolls seem to have a will of their own and end up oppposing your plans. XD

 

I have Erik's head and I'm fine with it...he's still my sweetheart, and a dream doll at that, and having no body is a temporary aggravation. I still play with him, change out his wigs, take him out to meet other dolls, and so on. It's given me a chance to really appreciate just him, without the distraction of a body. Of course, I'll throw a huge party when he does get a body, but until then, he's my dear.

I guess it just doesn't bother me too much when they're just heads. I don't find it creepy or strange...it's just something that happens in this hobby.

 

I have a lishe girl, on a dd body. If worse came to worse and I had to get rid of the body, I could still be happy with her head. I think her presence has alot to do with her face, and eyes, and expression. That is what im attached too. Her body can come and go. As long as I can still look over and see her smiling face, Id be happy till I get her a new body.

 

My Isao is waiting for his body. I keep the head in a box because it's a safe place for it, and it'd be weird to have just a head out, chillin' -- not to mention, I'd totally worry about my cats messing with it.

I certainly think it's better to have the head of the doll you love, rather than sell the whole thing and possibly never get to have a doll like it again. I would never "trade off" a head for a less expensive, smaller doll, but that's just me.

 

I think Luts sells a cloth body that you can use as a temporary replacement for a resin body. It wouldn't be the same, but at least she would have something to hang her head on.

 

I had a couple of floating heads for a while, but now I'm down to two boys and a head. Although in a month or less it will be 3 boys and a head.... *falls over giggling for no reason* It's like the movie... 3 men and a baby.... ah nevermind.

 

I had Archer as a head only for a long time, I think... at least... I don't know. I'm thinking at least two or three months. I put his head away in my closet in a box. It wasn't that I didn't love him, cos the head was just beautiful. But I didn't want to get sick of just seeing a head for a while, and I wanted to put him on his body and it be like I completely just got him. I forgot about him in my closet and went on with my life.

You might as well sell the body, and put away the head and not look at it. If it turns out that it doesn't work, sell the head a little bit later.

Sorry if someone already said that, I don't really have the time to read through whole threads, only your post and then skim. XD

 

I'd agree with most people and say keep the head! I think the head holds the personality of the doll, so by holding onto that, you'll probably find she'll be right there again once you get her a body. It's up to you of course, in the end. ^_^

I've had two heads rolling around - I sold one though, after my plans to make him into a whole doll sort of fell through. I'm a bit at a loss of what to do with the other head, he was bought with the intention of making him into a doll whom I couldn't afford the sculpt that I really wanted for him. But I actually managed to get the preferred sculpt, so now I have this... head. lol. I'm thinking about it. I really like the head though, even if it doesn't have a personality affixed to it. I keep eyes in it, and randomly change it's wig every so often...

 

After wandering around the marketplace, ebay, and y!j, I noticed that a majority of posts were for seperate pieces of dolls, rather than whole dolls. So, I was wondering, what do people prefer? And, why do you do it? Do you buy the doll piece-by-piece to save money, or search for perfection? Do you get the doll all at once for a better "bonding experience"?

I myself, after having a multitude of heads come in and out of my house for various reasons, have found I really only get attached to complete dolls. Except for a Shiwoo head I owned, all the other heads seemed to be just what their were.. doll heads.

 

Well, what I do and what I'd like are two different things. I'd LOVE to just buy a doll whole, but I've never fallen in love with a doll from a company that sells bodies. I keep getting hooked on the heads only places, so I've kind of got to do it that way.

Sometimes seeing my boys in pieces makes me think that I'll never finish them. That it would be easier just to sell them and buy a whole doll that I can actually finish. But I could really never sell either of my boys, even if I knew they would never have a body, I just don't think I could do it.

 

I only buy piece by piece when it's possibly the most likely way to eventually get the full doll, but that certainly doesn't make it cheaper! All it does is perhaps spread the cost over a longer time period, and ultimately may cost more. However, I have obnoxiously "expensive tastes" - the dolls I like best have all turned out to be LEs. *facepalm*