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

I prefer to buy a complete doll, but when it comes to the more expensive releases and limiteds I honestly can't afford to shell that much money out at one time. It may be a bit more expensive in the end, but buying a doll in pieces is a bit easier to accomplish for me. I don't keep credit cards... ^^;

Also, I like to buy pieces just to see how I'd like the doll before I actually buy a full one. I bought a Dollfie Dream head not too long ago, just to see what they were like. Though DDs are quite pretty, I was glad I hadn't bought the whole doll because it ended up not being what I wanted. ^^

 

I only buy complete dolls; the concept of having a "head cabinet" just freaks me out a little too much. I'd feel like Mombi from The Wizard of Oz, remember her? She had a whole hall full of heads that were alive, and she could pop them on and off when she felt like it? Not my thing. My Soo Ri came with a free head, and I'm buying the body for it next month. That's the only one that's been in pieces. Everyone else came complete.

 

I prefer complete dolls, but if I can only buy a head then I would do it and get a body later. It doesn't matter.

 

Two of my girls came as pieces, two came as whole dolls. My bonding experince wasn't affected in the least (my strongest bonds are with one of each). I'm happy once my heads have bodies, but I'm no less excited when a head arrives as a full doll.
Though, I will mention that buying a doll piecmeal doesn't save you money. It's significantly more expensive, in my experience.

 

It really depends on the doll. Some dolls i'd prefer to buy whole. Usually, if the doll has a particularly nice body, or if the skin tone is difficult to match, i'd rather buy the whole doll. But if the doll is rare (so i could only afford the head at one time), i don't like the body, or the head is easy to match with a body, i'd rather buy them seperate so i can save money.

 

The anxiety of waiting for a body for a disembodied head seems like it'd be worse than waiting for the entire doll. XD It's the "so close and yet so far" feeling. The only way I could see myself getting a doll in pieces is if I ordered the head and body at the same time. ^^;

 

Simon was a full doll...

Kazu was two seperate pieces... (he's the only tan skinned sleeping chiwoo I know of, that isn't TAN skin from luts... he was part of one of their darker resin batches, and luckily I found a body that matched with him perfectly!)

Xharlii was a whole doll...

And Haku will be a whole doll...

I'd take them anyway I can (I'll usually purchase a head and then find it a body)... the only problem (that seems to be a luts problem) is finding perfect or nearly resin-perfect matches...

 

Well, I only have one doll so far, and she came to me as a kit, so I'm not quite sure what I think about the other options yet. I think my preffered way of getting a doll would be as a kit (I like to assemble and do face-ups myself)from one company, though (no messy trying to make different resins match) - but I'm in no way closed to the other options. Heck, I have already been contemplating getting a Happydoll Carrie head with a different company body. ^^;

 

My first doll is going to be bought piece by piece, but only because Bluefairy (the company) puts only the normal girl body on their standard dolls, and I want the blossom body (with a larger chest). But it will be coming at the same time as the head. :-D
- Cayate

 

It's easier to have dolls together if you can afford it. Abacus had huge a huge wait to get him together, faceup with a body and wig. It was terrible.

Generally, it's harder for me to bond with a doll like that, I don't know why. Dolls in that position are at a risk of being sold early.

Because of my obsession with turning girl molds into boys, it's pretty much my only choice a lot of the time. >_< !!!

Oh, and as people have said, yea. @_@ It sure can get expensive.

 

as a "BJD Idiot" i can only manage complete dolls (without even the slightest customization)

 

I'd love to buy entire dolls together, but its just too expensive, usually its easier for me to get a head that I really want first, and save for the body later (which somehow doesn't quite happen) XD so I have quite a few disembodied heads that take turns on the limited no of bodies that I have. ^_^;

 

Starting with an original-faceup head (without original eyes), I finally put together a complete Volks Limited Edition full set doll: original eyes, clothes, hands, wig, accessories and all, piece by excruciating piece.

It took me 6 months to do so. It was nerve-wracking, and probably more expensive than buying the whole doll all at the time I started, which was at the time highly unlikely, as it was pretty darned scarce, and has only gotten much scarcer and much more expensive since. Plus, my husband insisted on a basic "max price" for a partial version of the doll - so the only way I could get a full set (which of course would cost more) was to do it piece by piece under his radar... :p

(Somebody recently listed the head of this doll mold for sale at more than our entire doll and accessories cost me!! Maybe that person got ripped off on Y!J and hopes to recoup all, but still... o.O)

I DON'T like doing "piece by piece". I REALLY prefer buying a whole doll at once. -_- But, I was obsessive about restoring this one to original condition. And I don't regret doing it. (Insert Gollum voice) "My Preciousssssss...." XD

 

OK, so i just bought a floating head. it'll be Christmas at least before i can afford a body for her. i have no clue why i did this- i saw the head for sale and it just howled "BUY ME!" and suddenly my boys have a little sister. i did discover the stuffed cloth bodies at Luts and so she'll have one of those, but still- not a bjd, at least not yet. so what is up with this? why do people do this? why do people accumulated two or ten heads instead of buying bodies for the first? and what do you do with them? do they develop personalities/storylines the same way complete dolls do? do you buy wigs/eyes/faceups for them or just let them sit around in eventual hopes of completion? i don't know whether to be excited or creeped out about this!

 

My first head...was a fluke. I got her with a soony special I bought from lutz. In fact I had decided I wouldn't keep her, but i've still got her. The second two, began as a pet project, I'd get bodies for them quite soon...but other whole dolls demanded attention first and well...the fourth head, was limited so Ho could I turn her down. Will they get bodies, I have every intension of getting bodies. Of course I've decieded that after my next doll purchase, I can't buy another till I get at least one body.

Well see how that goes.

Christal

 

lol I know how you feel, as I've head a dreaming el head for at least a year. Basically, I hold out hope that once I've saved enough money, he will get his BJD body....I must believe this ^^;

I think the reason people do this is the same reason artists have tons of canvas if they can afford it, and writers always have zillions of notebooks (well, I do); the promise of a blank slate. The heads hold all the personality of the doll, naturally, and they are often much cheaper than whole dolls, so it is a perfect place to start....or so it seems ^^;

My Xavier has gone through tons of makeup changes and is still "in process", but so long as he's just a head, it's easy to scrub him down and start over; if I had his body, I'd be under a lot of pressure to get him perfect right away! So, I like having him, but I would only own one separate head, because I feel a touch bad about having him as this makeup experimentation instead of his own person yet -_-;

 

For a lot of the normal skin dolls on my list, getting their head is the main concern (Tohya, Tsukasa, Sweet Dream Lucas etc.) so I will most likely have one or two bodiless-heads sitting around for months at a time. I usually keep heads in their boxes because there's just no place for the head to sit out safely. They may get face ups, wig and eyes in the mean time but I won't keep them out. I don't "bond" with the head when it's in its box but that doesn't bother me, just having the head in my possession is what counts.

 

One of the heads I had (Tien Jen) was supposed to be an alternate head for an existing doll (Harumatsu). Obviously, he had other ideas. He ended up with a bod and personality of his own post haste.

The other two "floating heads" that I've bought (Nightengale and Sannru) were destined for specific characters and bodies of their own from the start, but for one reason or another weren't acquired the same time their bodies were. In Nightengale's case, it was partly economic and partly a matter of the mods I knew he needed have before he would be "presentable". (ie: I knew it would be awhile before he needed one-) For Sannru... She was a male head, a vampire elf Yder, that happened to work really well for a female character of mine. I wouldn't have needed the male bod even if she had come with one. ^_^

 

I currently have 6 severed heads. I just have a THING about them. I love them! XD The heads that I have though are actually perfect for my characters, and that's why I have them. One of them is getting a body very soon, so that'll be one down! The others will have to wait a little longer.

 

My first doll is a floating head. Bought at the end of last month knowing full well I won't be able to add much at all to my doll funds until the end of July. I don't really have a problem with this ^^; I did wait 4 months before purchasing anything. I'd like to hope this means it's because I'm not going to be a compulsive spender with this hobby, but it's mostly because I don't have much income right now. :p

He is getting a cloth body, but this is mostly so I have a constant reminder just how big he will be. Even bald and without face-up I'm getting an idea of his personality. Of course, I want to make sure I remedy his floating head problems before I start getting other dolls, but because some on my list are more limited there's a chance his body will fall behind first priority. I just think this means his personality will have more time to develop (edit: in my head, so I'm more sure not to change it much when he's complete). Until he's a full doll I draw him all the time to tide me over.