How do you decide which dolls you REALLY want and which you're just infatuate...

I did my research, and has an extensive wish list, then I discovered DC doll, and experienced deja vu, its like meeting special people. You didnt think, or anticipate it, your paths cross, and everything feels kismet

 

I still can't tell the difference between really wanting a doll and just been infatuated. Some times I wonder if I'm just infatuated with the whole hobby and wonder in the long run if this is what I really want. I sometimes look at my girls and wonder why I have them, but other times i adore them. I saw the new minifee Rin, in my head I knew she wasn't my kind of sculpt, but I couldn't let her pass by, I just had to order one.

 

Well, for myself it just clicked. I had the character already in mind and when I saw what I wanted I knew it had to be him. Same thing with my second and third and so on.

 

I usually don't buy a doll on impulse (clothes, wigs ... yes, but not the doll itself). In fact, I agonize over if I should buy it or not. Usually I will place it in my 'cart' ... or bookmark it and keep going back and looking at it. If I still have a strong feeling about it after looking at it and pondering over it, for a couple of weeks, then I'll know it's not just an infatuation with the newest/latest thing available. If it's something limited, I usually wait until the last possible moment to order it ... just to be sure I really want it. If it sells out first, then I figure it just wasn't meant to be.

 

For me, I stuck with 'if it's months and months and you still visit that page and drool...'

 

For me I call it the Like vs Love dilemma. How do I know if I like it vs love it, well in the case of my little yellow Pipos mouse which im close to getting payed off. I had the anime sparkles floating all around me when I seen her. Now, normally I am an avid fan of Blue, which the doll did come in Blue, but this Yellow mouse just struck me, any time I would think of dolls I came back to the mouse. I know she was different because I have always liked Resinsoul Mei, she's just so pretty and elegant looking, but as much as I like her I always seem to find another doll that trumps Mei on the list, like the Mouse. So I know I just "like" Mei, but I LOVE my mousey. If I can instantly create a character for a doll I know I love it. Like the Mouse, I have long since had a "friend" pair of Cat characters, Furrico and Purrico, well I thought why not mix it up and make Furrico a mouse? And thus the Character was born and needed an avatar. When I look at Mei... I draw a blank and just think, what a pretty doll.

 

It's usually a feeling for me. If I can instantly imagine having that doll, knowing how I would dress it and what characters of mine I could associate with it, it's usually a sign that I know I have to have it. I also stick it in my shopping cart and figure out the pricing with all the fixings (face-up, eyes, wig, body type, etc.) and shipping and if the price doesn't turn me off, which is very easily can, then I know that I'll be happy with it~

 

Do I have a character for it? No? Probably shouldn't get it.
Do I have the money for it? No.. Probably shouldn't get it because I'd like to eat food.
Is it out of my size range? Yes? Just look and lurk and be a bit jelly because I do not want a doll half the size of me. Doesn't mean I can't look at all your pretty little resinoyd though ^__^.

 

Usually I try to hold off on buying a new doll until I've really thought about it. For example if I still want a doll I'm looking at a month from now then I know that I'll be keeping it if I do buy it. If I forget about the doll within a month or so, then I know it's infatuation.

 

My approach is similar to several of the people in this thread. I wait. If I really want it I will look for owners photos, keep checking the company website, and generally be totally obsessed with that particular doll. If a month goes by and that doll is still on my mind, it's time to buy.

 

If it's a doll that sticks in my head for a very long time, and I don't fall out of love with it once seeing multiple owner pictures, then it's probably one that I really want.
I've had lots of infatuations, but they all fall away after awhile. It definitely helps that I'm not one who immediately jumps at purchasing the moment I see a new one. Being given a few months to think things over can break that immediate- and often misguided- new love.

 

I'm just wondering how each person decides whether they love a doll enough to actually buy it. Do you just get a 'feeling' when you see a special doll?
I do not have a special feeling from the start. I think of a doll, imagine having it, trying to understand what it would look like when I get it. But in many cases I couldn't be sure untill I get the doll in my hands.
Have you ever bought a doll only to find you liked the idea of the doll more than the doll itself? Have you learnt to tell the difference?
Well, at first it was very difficult for me to decide which doll I want the most. I didn't know why did I want that doll and didn't know sometimes what to do with them when they arrived. I ended up selling them after learning something about BJD dolls. And it was several times this way as if I was trying to find a perfect doll. And there are no perfection in this world.
My first dolls were simple and sweet youngsters. Than more adult and beatifully looking. Than their posability became a preference.
At some point I just became so disappointed in it that I sold all of them.
And now I do have a doll, so imperfect and so suitable for my personality, that I can play with it, restyle it, sew clothes for it (only beginning to do it).
Could you bond with any doll you bought or are some dolls just a temporary obsession?
There are lots of dolls, not only I don't have financial ability to buy them, but I don't really want to have all of them at home. After all its my home, not theirs
Not all dolls I can bear to have at home. I remember wishing to have realpuky Soso for quite a time. When I got it, I found it irritating. Its face looked to me not joyous but kind of cunning, crafty. I was ready to sell it for any price as soon as possible. And it didn't disturb me to look at its pictures and enjoy them afterwards.
There was also a too serious doll, too cold looking, that I couldn't stand at my home.
And are you satisfied to just enjoy wanting some dolls or do you have to try and buy every doll you want?
Well, as I know that big dolls are not for me and not for my rather small flat, I could like several dolls of a large scale without having them. If I start thinking how to buy one of these, I just take a tape-measure and remind myself how BIG it really is. it scares me so much that I begin to think more practically ))

 

I plan on only having one doll (which isn't going to last long. I know this already haha) which kind of causes a lot of stress for me at this question!!!!
I want something that suits my personality well but I can't decide if I want a cute clone or someone a little more fantastic... Hmmm. Very hard to decide.
But of the ones that I have bookmarked and favorited, I definitely feel something different as compared to the ones that I think are beautiful but don't suit me.

 

I have a policy: I can oogle and 'gush' over a doll, but I can pass it by--unless I see that face and it has a name. I "shell" characters I RP, so I usually have a pretty good idea of how a character looks or should. So if I see a doll and I /know/ it's that character, that's my green light.

 

It depends, for some dolls one look is enough to know i want to have them. Some of the dolls make me feel at first look i want to buy them, like "wow so beautiful", but then after few moments i'm starting to see the things i don't like. I would say if i'm wondering too much about: should i or should i not? then it's the first sign to not buy it.

 

For me it is "do I keep thinking about this doll?" If I end up thinking about it for days or weeks, I know I really want it. If it goes away in a day or two, I know it was just an infatuation. The current BJD companion I am buying was a bit of an exception to this rule, though. I saw him and within a day was buying him. But in that case I was thinking about him pretty much non-stop since I saw him and knew I just had to have the little guy.

 

If I still want them after a few months, then I probably really want them ^^;

 

With my first, I was so worried about making a mistake, I deliberated for months. I saved pics of a shortlist of dolls to my phone and used them as wallpaper. Then bought the one I didn't get bored looking at. I was worried that my second doll was a mistake whole I was waiting for him, because I chose him in a day, and after ordering him, kept finding other dolls that I wished I'd considered. But he arrived over a month ago and I'm smitten still!

I probably won't buy another for a year, but I'm keeping a list of possibilities already. Any doll who stays on the list for more than six months, I think I'll be safe with. But the important thing is, do they fit a character in my head and the rest of my resin family? If they fit those two criteria, I don't think I can go too wrong.

 

I have to have a character in mind for a doll before I buy it. I never impulse buy, and always wait a week or two (usually more) before buying. If I'm still in love with a doll after waiting a while, then I know I'll really love him when he comes home. Unlike real life, where I tend to know right away if I'll like someone, with dolls I often think "I hate this sculpt", but it grows on me until I love it. This happened with my very first doll and my grail doll. Usually if I find myself infatuated with a sculpt, it wears off in a few weeks, and it's the ones I initially didn't like that stay in my mind and I grow to love.

 

I don't know if its an infatuation...
If it is, I am still in it... ^^

For me, I know I want it when I see the doll and experience this feeling of deja vu, can't seem to forget about him despite the days passing by, can't find any flaws with the sculpt - any little "defact" which I might not like about him..

That's when I know I got it good, & that's it..
Haha.. ^^

You didn't think, or anticipate it, & when your paths overlaps, everything seems like it was meant to be..