Have you ever regreted something with an order?

Hopefully you'll be happy with it anyways when it arrives. And if not, you could always sell it.

 

Yes! I think it comes down to the fact that this is an expensive hobby and after spending so much on something non-essential it is natural to have doubts and focus on „what if”. The choice has been made so your brain will ponder over „lost” alternative.

I have ordered my first doll in white skin and then, 2 days after, I panicked over it and asked dealer to change to peach.

But I am fairly new in the hobby so still testing resin colours, face-up vs no f-u etc. I am ready for messing up my orders and learning from that experience.

 

Sometimes I do with resin color or bust sizes. I know there’s dying and modding but it’s a pain

 

I regret ordering my bloodwood M Duke head in light tan. I love the head and colour but there are so few options for a body in a matching resin colour that has the correct neck size.

I still love the head but if I were to go back in time to when I ordered it I would definitely just get it in white or normal yellow.

 

I ordered one doll in white resin, but I wish I chose tan. At the time I thought I would like white resin, but I prefer tan.

 

I actually regret buying the extra sleeping heads I never get around to giving them a faceup so they just sit around packed away. I'm always like why do I keep getting the extra head if I never use them I banned myself from buying them now lol

 

I ordered the wrong head for my DDY TT_TT, now she looks so.. dead inside ;_;, but it did motivate me to get into trying to make my own faceups now xD!

 

Count me in the "I wish I bought a different resin colour" crowd. I ordered a doll in white skin, then after a month wished I'd bought it in normal skin, and after another month wish I'd bought it in tan.

But all this happened well after I bought the doll, when I sat down and thought about the doll's character (I shell OCs) and what kinds of colour schemes I'd like to put on it. It so happens that all my dolls at home are pale-skinned, so I must've initially chosen a skintone I was familiar with... but now I'd like a bit of variety in skintones. But honestly? I don't know what I want, lol, and I haven't received the doll yet so it's too early to make judgments. I think I'll still be very happy with this doll in white skin. We'll see if I still have regrets after it comes home and I try some different styles.

 

I regret not buying fullset, More specific my E-an. had the option to get the clothes (sadly hat was not included) I still want that suit til this day I also regret not buying my Myou Vieruodis as fullset with everything except bodyblushing. I believe it was because I thought I could get her faster that way.

 

I regret not ordering fullsets for three dolls I'm waiting on, but since the sculpts were being retired and I ordered all three at once, it would be far too expensive to do so. Maybe it's just me fretting over nothing atm since I may want to go for a different style from the company's styling after I receive them. I do like painting and styling them myself, but I don't think I'll be able to make it look as good as the company's.

 

I am hoping I don’t regret not getting a sleeping head with my Bimong Cocoro order, but I was pushing my doll budget limit already, I just couldn’t justify dropping another $100.

 

The only thing I really regret about an order was not getting a face-up on my first doll and not ordering something basic for her to wear. More so I regret not getting the face-up.

I was in school and had limited time, and I think I bit off more than I could chew with trying to both learn face-ups and trying to learn to sew at doll scale. I should have just picked one to start with, and realistically, I should have picked sewing. Still, even having a basic dress when she got here would have taken a lot of pressure away.

Ever since then, I feel a sense of being overwhelmed when I have too much to do for a doll, especially a new doll that I’ve had to wait months for. Now I try to either make sure they have clothes ready or a face-up when I get them — not being without both.

 

This is my regret, too. I was trying to save on costs at the time and decided hey, I'm crafty! I'm an artist! I can totally do my own faceups and sew my own clothes!

Spoiler, I could not do either of those things and it greatly impacted my ability to enjoy my doll.

 

I kind of regret the color choice for my Sweet Gale Cyril's body. He's a hybrid, and his body is "normal yellow" from Doll Chateau, which, at least for the year I got it, was actually kind of orange. I was able to get his head blushed somewhat to match, but I sort of wish I'd gone with either white or straight to tan. I guess I had no way of knowing it would turn out orange, though.

 

Not getting option parts/extra hands. I hardly ever order anything new, but it was an absolute ordeal to get the extras later on and the production times were/are unfortunately similar for both bigger and smaller parts. I also wanted to change resin colour after already making an order once because I got a better idea but that was an easy fix thankfully.

A bit of another angle to this - I've also wished I made the order from another dealer/shop - but sometimes you just don't know if things are going to get weird so it's always being smart in hindsight.

 

I have to laugh about it at this point but almost every time I regret not getting heeled feet...

 

I ordered a Dollfie Dream Kirika Towa Alma that was in bad condition... then realised there was a mint condition one available.

So I ended up with 2x Kirika.

I'm kind of glad I acquired both. Now my bad condition one mostly lives life as Empty Miku because her original owner took her eyes out. Also Kirika has become exceedingly rare, and I have a couple of them.

 

haha I am totally the same!! But over the years, I learned from my mistakes and I ordered extra parts at my last 2-3 orders