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

I'm currently saving up for a body for my floating head, and I think that says it all. In actuality, I'd prefer a complete doll instead of having to buy it in parts; in fact, I'd prefer buying a full set, since I think it won't be as expensive as having to buy clothes, wigs, eyes and shoes separately and you even get the face-up done. But even if I've been considering a full set, as soon as I think on the taxes I'd pay I get discouraged. It's 30% over the total price of what you're getting in one shipment, that's it, customs in my country don't charge you for each individual item, but they charge that 30% for the total that appears in your receipt or the declaration of goods. I don't entertain the idea of paying $600 for one doll, and then $180 in taxes.

Getting back to the topic , I mostly bought my current floating head so I could try doing a face-up, since I like the idea of customizing my dolls myself. I'd buy more (floating) heads, but I intend to get my first little head a body before I buy anything else. How do I treat my head? Just as though it was a complete doll, of course. Since it was sort of cruel IMO to have it just there, I got an Obitsu male chest part so I could make a bust of sorts, and "dressed" it with a t-shirt I got as a gift from a past purchase at Mintoncard. The t-shirt reads "I broke the mold" but truth is, I'd prefer the "Floating heads scare me" one (the t-shirts were random).

 

I didn't intend to buy floating heads. But when I completely redid my collection, after downsizing to smaller MSDs for space purposes, I became a lot more picky about what I was looking for. By then I had been in the hobby for 2 and a half years and my tastes had changed...I was much more character driven, knew exactly what I was looking for and what the possibilities were. Other than the one tiny I needed, I was looking for sculpts that were either mature-looking or quite unique (not the easiest thing to find in MSD size.) That led me to DIM minimee sculpts...fabulous sculpts that are by nature floating heads! Fortunately (or unfortunately in "delayed body" terms) the perfect MSD minimee group orders I needed for my characters all showed up in the marketplace at roughly the same time! Because of their very limited nature, I had to go for all four of them fairly quickly...leaving me rather broke and needing to save up for their bodies over the long term. But as my dear hubby told me, "You can always get the bodies later but the heads are special and hard to come by." Can't fault the guy's wisdom, so a gal's got to do what a gal's got to do, right?

And as for how I treat my floating head (only one has been completed so far by DIM and is already in my possession), I treat him with love and awe like he's a rare treasure even without a faceup. I take him out and look at that gorgeous perfect sculpt and know I've made the right decision to wait on bodies. Everything will come together in it's own time.

 

I now have another floating head. I'm considering him just a faceup practice head, but I know he's eventually going to become somebody, I just know it. He's currently borrowing Kale's body, but will have to give it back tonight or tomorrow. I think I'm just going to have to keep an eye on the marketplace for a body that might work for him, but since he has no clothes or hair (or character, or name...) of his own he's fine as just a head for now.

 

Eli, my floating MD Miho head, hasn't left Hajime's lap except when Hajime got a new face up yesterday. He sits there and watches TV with the rest of us.

 

If I want the doll to have it's original body, then I prefer to buy it all at once.

It doesn't normally work out that way though-a lot of the time, I prefer hybrids. It was a big hassle to sell the bodies of the dolls I did buy complete, and a lot of times, it would have cost me a lot less to just buy the heads separately.

So now, I mainly just buy heads. I have 6 floating heads at the moment, but there were 8 others that I've already gotten bodies for.

I just keep my heads in a box. I do have one rule though-I always give them the eyes they're going to wear when they're complete.

Other than that, I don't really do much with them except look at them from time to time. They definitely don't have much personality until they're complete with a body, especially since I don't bother to give them a face up until then.

I'm not excited about heads, but it is exciting when they finally come together! Honestly, I don't really enjoy them until they're at that stage-heads are just heads, but complete dolls are something else. Completed dolls get a lot more adoration from me .

 

Right now, my Abadon head is floating. I've got a body for him on hold right now (I just have to sell 19 bucks worth of stuff here and I can pay him off!) so soon he'll be whole. I can't stand having floating heads - I try to get bodies as soon as I can.

Recently Xia Li had been on my old Soulkid body, and when I sold that she was floating, which I HATED - until I really lucked out and traded my stupid floating DoC body for her appropriate BF TF body FINALLY.

I get so anxious though to have the whole doll. I put a wig and temporary eyes in my Abadon, but it's not enough for me. I was going to swap heads with one of my other dolls, but out of my like 20-something member brood, NO ONE matched him at all. I out him on my Souldoll bod for a second but it was just horrifying xD.

Seems like whenever I buy a head, it ends up on an FDoll body... luckily every head I've put one on so far has matched perfectly. It bothers me a little bit, though, especially Kazuya and Lucien - I'd like to someday upgrade them to Crobidoll and Luts bodies, respectively. I just feel like it'd be a better investment or something.

Anyway, right now my bodiless Abadon is right here on my vanity in my room, next to the laptop, with a too small wig on xD for cushioning. And my stupid DoC U I can't seem to get rid of, his head is downstairs on my desk under some papers. Shows how much I care, haha.

But yeah, I try to keep the floaters to a minimum, just because I'm so impatient and want what I want when I want it xD.

 

My first (and only, so far!) doll was a floating head for about a month. While I waited for the opportunity for her body, I took the time to practice her face-ups and figure out what I wanted to do with her eyes since she was a dreaming head. I think maybe having a body without a head would be weird, but then again while I take my slow-ass time with her face ups now, I do kinda just have a body lying around. It doesn't bother me either way, I suppose. I definitely feel more of a connection with her because of this, though. I don't know if I could ever sell her. ^^

 

I tend to have a love of Artist Heads and will buy ones that jump at me as soon as I can, bodies cost ALLOT more, also I'm very picky about bodies.
The Body has to be perfect for the character, so I do actually like to spend time with just the head, doing it's faceup, setterling with a pair of eye's.... getting just the right wig, so I get to know what sort of body the head will need and there are SO MANY good ones.
I have had some floating heads for almost a year now and my first floating head will be loosing his body soon as I feel it just isn't working out for him, so he will be just a head again for a bit, but I bought him a new wig and eye's to make him feel better ^.^;
It will probabaly be anouther year before he gets his body though but I don't mind waiting because I know I'm never going to grow bored with him, he has the best face ^.^ hee

 

I have 2 heads bought from the marketplace... I was excited at first since they're my very first floating heads...once the excitement died, I felt that I might be neglecting them since I can't bring them out...

I've been trying quite hard to bond with them. The bond's there and I love them. So not exactly worrying... The worrying part comes later when I've gotten them bodies... What if I neglect them and bring my other 2 dolls out more...?

Ya...but I do treat all 4 equally at home. Like...talking to them and pouring out my worries and stuffs. Somehow I felt that the 2 heads are better listeners than my 2 complete dolls...

 

Ah, reading a few posts here... XD I kinda enjoy having floating heads? I rather not store them away in a box in my closet or what not. I like to set them out in my dolly area and be acknowledge as part of my doll family without a body. But it's not too fun to have a floating head around as everyone knows. You can't dress him/her or do much. You can put on a wig, insert eyes/eyelashes, and do a face-up but that is what it comes down to.

I treat my floating heads as if they were whole. They still have the personality and character that I gave to them. Though, I do neglect them and forget about them at times. But I know sooner or later, I'll have enough money to get their bodies. :'D

 

I just keep him with me. He'll be a lot more hard to manage when he's a whole doll! But I just sit him down next to me even though he's just a head. Or sit him on Tima's lap when they're both not with me. I carry him around MORE because it's so convenient and I wanna bond with him as much as possible before he gets a body ^^

 

My Wintery head floats serenely on a bed of clean tissues, nestled inside a porcelain Chinese rice bowl. xD;;; I suppose it's just going to kind of chill there until I give it some kind of purpose in life. -w-;;;

 

Bumping this, I have 4 floating heads at the moment, and I saw some pictures of head stands very recently, but I cannot remember which company made them! Does anyone have a clue? Could it be Domuya? Links would be very much appreciated

 

I cannot handle floating heads; I used to have a few, but I didn't like the fact that they weren't whole, so I sold them.

When I buy dolls, I almost always get them whole.

 

I really love hybrid dolls, but that means I'll end up with some floating heads. I don't mind them, but my family thinks they're really weird. But I think that having just a body would be more strange.

 

I've had a lot of dolls in the past where it's been a "two heads, one body" kind of a deal, which has worked perfectly well for me. In addition, I actually have a head only which is a full character; he'll never, ever have a body, and even though I sometimes forget about him a little (much harder to include in photoshoots, heh), I am just as attached to him as any of the others.

That said, generally I prefer having the whole doll at once. ^^

 

I will buy piece by piece if they're hard to come by sculpts or if I specifically want a hybrid (e.g. my Zaoll Luv/Notdoll hybrid). Otherwise, I like them as full dolls.

 

My tender elf sha head 'Haruka' is still a floating head - id never get rid of him, hes got too much personality and im too attached to let him go. I will hopefully one day be able to get him a new boy body from DOD and then he wont have to live his days tucked away in a box for safekeeping.

 

I got the Sleeping Vampire head with my Lu-Wen. I did his face up. It's very basic painting and I'm not sure if I'm completely happy with it. Right now, Monday is just sitting on the shelf next to Sakura ('cause he's her daddy). I'll get him a body. Eventually.

 

I have 4 floating head right now... I HATE IT! I am despirately trying to save for bodies and switching heads on one body gets tiring. As much as I am attached to the dolls who are heads... I find myself constantly thinking of selling them.