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

I chose complete doll, because that's what I prefer but I will get the doll piece by piece if I feel like I need to. For example, right now I'm in a GO for a MNM head because if I don't get it now, I probably never will, due to their limited nature. I have no idea when I'll have the money for her body. I have another floating head that I got for a good price a while back. I had a floating head of a doll that used to be limited, but isn't anymore. I sold it because I didn't like the fact that it didn't have a body. Also, now I will be able to get it in normal skin instead of tanned like I would rather have in the first place.

Also going a bit with the "whole doll" theme, if I can afford it at the time, I will wait till I have the money for a faceup and an outfit so my doll feels "complete" to me. And if it's a limited doll I will pay for whatever extra faceplates may be available even if I can't afford a faceup on the extra faceplate.

 

It would be nice to be able to get a complete doll all at once, but if I fell in love with a head I would not mind going piece by piece.

 

I prefer to get a doll all at once, but will get them piece by piece if I need to. I wouldn't have my MNF Shiwoo for a long, long time if I was saving up for him whole, but I was able to get a different body and his head much less expensively. That way the character can be here while I save up to eventually get his "real" body that I want him to have. I also have another doll I'm putting together piece by piece, I saw his head only in the marketplace and had to buy him, and then found a body I think he'll work on.

 

I prefer full dolls (especially for a first doll - it gives a fuller experience). I really try to get head and body together, but sometimes it just doesn't work (like the 08 mand head that I wanted to sell eventually but she made herself right at home and is patiently waiting for her time to get a body).

I'm also considering a Buddydoll Raphael with a Dollzone body (it would be nice to have him a bit taller) so I might get him in pieces, too...but all in all I'm not a floating head kinda person If I had to buy a head alone I would hurry to get a body for it (well except for poor 08 man...she's totally down on the food-chain around here...as well as a practice head^^)

 

I'm definitely more into buying a complete doll than a doll in pieces. It just feels right, lol.

 

I voted for the complete doll.

I had always wanted an Iple Harin and had had dreams about her limited fullset. Well, I was lucky to find someone willing to sell me her fullset outfit. The sale eventually included the limited wig and head, but no body. The head was sooooo lovely, the limited face-up was perfectly in tact, but when I finally got a body from Iplehouse the resin colors did not match. I did not want to blush the head to match the body. It would destroy the face-up! The difference in resin color bothers me so much that I am buying a new Harin head. This way, I have a resin match and a clean head that I can do my own face-ups on. I am wishing I had just bought a full Harin from the start and just kept the limited head safe in a box or something. That way when I want to have my doll in her fullset dress, I can use the limited head and when I have her in regular clothes I can have the other head in place.

 

3/6 of my dolls do not have bodies. That's what i get for going overboard! Whenever i see a head i like i say "OMG!! I need HIM!!!" and i often forget that i have heads sitting at home with no body~ T_T" Choosing a body will be the fun part!

 

3 bodies.

9 heads.

Lots of love. XD I'm just a head bonder....I love my boys sculpts so much..that's what makes the doll for me. And it's easier on my wallet, room space, and all that jazz. So yea...I'm a head hoarder.

 

While I'd prefer to have the income to buy the full doll, usually I have to go piece by piece. Heads are the cheapest, so I get those first and save for the body over a longer (sometimes much) period of time. I have one floater at home, one on the way, and one planned and budgeted for.

That's my problem. I keep buying heads instead of bodies. But I have limited myself to only four dolls (at least until after college), so I only have to buy three bodies...instead of something like twelve. Still, bodies are expensive. I wish they were cheaper. ;-;

 

I've found that I can't treat floating heads as I do full dolls. But sometimes I do like to take them apart from time to time to remind myself that they are dolls, and not some small people who exist to drive me insane.

 

I chose that it doesn't matter because the ultimate goal is to have a complete doll, so I dont' mind starting with a head, it gives me the objective of finishing what I started.

 

I've only got a head at the moment and I was so glad that he arrived, still am and it's been quite awhile. Everytime I look at him it makes me happy. x3
As soon as I can get him some eyes, maybe a wig and do his faceup, I think I'll properly bond with him.
Though, I still can't wait until he's a full doll~

 

I have had to bodyless heads since I've started the hobby, I've got one of them a body but I don't feel attached to her as I did when I had her take over another body while that one gt it's face re-done.
The other head sits away wrapped up, getting no love, not even a face-up.
I feel bad for having odyless heads and sometimes I wonder do I even want the head in the first place or did I buy it to have more dolls.

 

I'd go for piece by piece as actually i own two floating aheds and parts..he he,
but even complete doll do not matter to me, it depends if the complete stock dolls match totally with my character.

 

i just simply store it in my cubboard

sometimes i let the other doll hold it or maybe put it in front of the computer - depends

 

I have a head that I've DEFINITELY bonded with (an F-16) but he/she is often bodiless. If he/she was going to stay that way for a long time, I'd probably buy one of those resin busts, but otherwise, I just rotate heads to give him/her some "body time" while I look for the perfect body for him/her

 

I love my Cyndy head, even though she has no eyes in her. Her personality grows everytime I look at her and it just makes me even more excited to get her body since I already have her head! I say keep the head if you love doll, you can replace the body in the future. The head is where the 'doll' reall is anyway, the soul, the personality.

 

I'd prefer a completed doll. I have Jason's head here, and even though I know I'll love him when he's on a body, I just can't DO much with him like this! It's hard to give personality to something that spends most of its time in the middle of a faceup.

 

I prefer to have whole dolls, but I do have a floating head at the moment. It was an even head. Because the mold doesn't fit any character I have in mind, I really just think of it as a tool to help better my face-up techniques. I'm not as attached to it as I am to my other dolls.

 

I prefer the whole doll. I think many do really. Its hard to really envision the dolls character without it.

I have two floating heads. I think on might try and kill me if I don't get his body before I get another doll. Like he is watching, waiting angrily for any more boxes to come to the house. I promised his body soon, but eh...
The other is calm. he knows that right now I'd have to get a full doll just to get his body because Luts isn't coming out with the Super Senior Delfs bodies.

I have:
LUTS/CP 08 man head
DOD DOT Lahoo head