Have your dolls hurt you?

Restringing can be brutal. Also the new Super Gem body's elbows are pretty pinchy.

 

Ha ha I am so glad I am not alone here! I didn't think it would be possible for my dolls to hurt me as many times as they have considering I haven't had them for that long. (under 6 months)

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I often pose him standing on my desk while sitting in my desk chair (so he's standing quite a bit above me) and if he's feeling mean sometimes his upper half will collapse and he smacks me on the head with his face/chin! It hurts a lot especially if I don't realize that he's falling (working closely to him on his laces or something detailed like that) and he gains some momentum lol. Actually the very first time it happened was the day I got him lol. I learned not to hold him in a standing position by his legs, but rather his waist so he can't flop. He also likes to pinch me with his joints, though not nearly as much as Winter . I can often be heard during photoshoots yelling, among other things, "Hey! Don't pinch!" and I get laughs and awkward stares lol.

Winter-
He's a pinchy little booger if I had to say anything about him! His body is strung really, really tightly and I frequently get my skin pinched in his joints when posing him. He even gave me a blood blister once with his super kicky knee joint that snapped closed on it's own on my poor ring finger! It actually hurt enough to make me yelp and bring tears to my eyes and it hurt for days until I got up the courage to pop it and relieve the pressure. Little sadist lol...
Also when I was restringing his arms I had no ribbon to use so my roommate/bestie (who watched/helped my floundering attempts to restring his arms and laughed her butt off) gave me some of her bracelet making string. Baaaad choice, but I had no other options. My circulation in my fingers was cut off almost instantly when I started applying tension and since it was my first time restringing any part of a BJD ever, I had to do this several times to get everything right. My fingers were swelled like red sausages and raw from the string slipping sometimes under the tension and giving me "rope" burns.
It suuuucked.

Dolly injuries hurt but just make me love them more lol because it gives them personality. Mean personality lol but still personality. Makes them seem so mischievous ^_^

 

Like most people posting, I too have got my fingers caught in joints. But I have also been posing my boy, Lucien, and as I am adjusting his legs he has fallen over and cracked me on the head. I also had an incident where my doll, Matthias, was sitting and I went to move him and the elastic in his one arm let lose and he made a "smacking" motion on my face... this didn't hurt so much as it was just really weird haha.

 

Long before knowing the wonders of kips on the neck area = several headbutts to the nose when trying to fix his wig
And long before learning the usefulness of forceps when stringing a body = hand/feet projectiles hitting me too

 

Seraphine kicks me when I'm dressing her sometimes. Ces still hasn't hurt me though.

 

Do you know what is even worst than getting skin pinched by joints? It's getting a big MASSIVE CHUNK of Idealian torso hitting your head suddenly while you're trying to make him stand or whatever. That's the point when you say: go stand by yourself, ARF!

 

Many times i took photos of my girl and she was always very wise and cute, but once i try to take one with my boyfriend. I installed her next to his head like he was lying in the bed, and just one second after i press the button, my doll suddenly felt down and gave him a head-butt right in his check. She didn't wear her wig... and apparently a MSD's bald head heart very bad ^^'. My poor love !

 

Yes..... My DreamingDoll Misora was standing on my sister's desk and when she leaned over to do something Cinnamon's legs buckled and she went down! I was sitting on my sister's bed right next to the desk and went to catch her, her head hit my head hard with her nose! It hurt so bad tears came to my eyes, but I only started to cry when I found Cinnamon was alright lol.

 

Me? No, My wallet? yes lol. I guess you count the soreness from restringing

 

*crosses fingers* not yet. But I fear the 'goose' pinches (in joints) and the black eye a fellow club member got from being kicked by a tightly strung doll O_o. But what I fear most is my dolls getting hurt. I heal they don't.

 

I haven't hurt myself too bad yet, but I know it's coming. Angelo has "bitten" me several times with his back/butt joints, but never left a mark. The S-hook in Lily's head is a horror. It's got this really jagged piece that pokes and it hurts. I took her head off once and it took me twenty minutes to get it back on. (It takes me like two minutes to pop Angelo's head on and off.)

 

my girl recently started pinching me with her thigh joint when I'm sitting her down or straightening her legs (I totally deserve it for letting her fall twice though)

 

One of my guys almost poked my eye out. I was trying to fix up one of his shoes so my face was bent pretty close when suddenly his arm snapped up and got me near the eye. I don't know what I expected since this one gets punchy at the slightest movement.

 

So far none of mine has hurt me at all... well except for my wallet but that's a different story

 

I always hurt my fingers when restringing dolls...

 

Only financially. D:

 

I bought a Doll Family doll to get a body for a floating head, so when he arrived, the first thing I did was try to remove the head. He was strung super tight, though, and the S hook in his head was really small. I hooked my finger under it and pulled it up...but the tension pulled my finger down the neck hole together with the hook! Ack, it hurt soo much and my finger was stuck in there, trapped under that hook. I had to just force my finger out, and go around with ice on it the rest of the day. It put a damper on the new arrival for sure ;_; And I ended up not liking the body for my floating head.

I haven't had any real incidents other than that, just some strenuous restringing sessions, or the difficulty of scrubbing off old body blushing, sanding, etc.

 

I restrung my Stasia the other day to make her strings tighter and her torso snapped back and smacked my finger nail making most of the whole thing black

 

The times when I think I'm strong enough to twist neck hooks and take heads off without forceps.. but otherwise, no.

 

Jethro got me good the other day. He was sitting on my lap, shirtless, when he snapped back onto my exposed arm. I've never had any issue with my previous dolls pinching me so I got a little careless, I guess. Luckily, no blood was drawn but I had a good inch long bruise on my arm.