Letting other people hold your doll?

Well, yes, I don't mind as soon as I know this person and I know she or he will be careful with it^^
My mom sometimes happens to steal my Hujoos from me to expose them in the living room, which I find pretty funny !

 

As long as they won't do anything bad to my dolls (Like be rough with them, mess with the faceup or anything major), I would really have no problem with people holding my dolls. As long as they're gentle and understand that I have a special bond with them, I don't mind.

 

Hmm...I don't typically have a problem, so long they are careful and don't go near the face with their hands.

 

Depends on which doll. Star and Lulu are a massive HELL NOPE, but the others I may say yes to depending on the vibe I get from who's asking.

 

I won't mind someone holding my YOSD because she's relatively harmless and not easy to drop. However, if it's my SD17 or EIDs, I would only do so if they understand how expensive these dolls are. Most of the people ask me how much these things cost, I tell them straight out and after they learn the price, they become very wary when handling them.
There is one thing though, everyone seems to love yanking the rings off their hands. Sometimes, they break, sometimes they don't. What is it about rings and people's fascination toward them?

 

I don't go to meetups or carry my dolls around in public, so I've never been asked by a stranger if they could hold one of my dolls. No one I know asks to pick up or touch or hold my dolls, either, though they see them if they're at my house and come into my art room. And I don't know any doll people in person (other than my daughter, who can pick my dolls up any time she wants and lets me do the same with hers). So this is something that's never really come up for me.
If it did, though, I'd say no. I wouldn't ask to hold someone else's doll and I wouldn't be comfortable with people holding mine. "Look with your eyes, not with your hands" seems to be a good policy here. (It's not just dolls, though--- with the exception of family I greatly dislike people touching me or my belongings in general.)

 

I think outside of doll meets, people don't usually ask me if they can hold my doll, but I think I am pretty cool about it overall. I drag my dolls around the house all the time and generally just think they're pretty sturdy as far as artsy toys go, haha, at least the resin itself. I do their faceups and am not fussy about their faceups, so I don't even mind touching the face. ...Unless it's the one boy who has a factory faceup because he was a limited fullset so I feel like since I paid money for it... OTZ But even then, no big deal.

The biggest thing I'd worry about isn't even dropping a doll, because I've actually done that before and I generally think other people are usually less clumsy than me. It would depend mostly on the clothes my dolls are wearing at the time. Some clothes, I'm not fussy about because they were cheap or they seem easy to clean or replace in an emergency or whatever. I have a few outfits though that are very expensive, very white, quite non-replaceable by buying something similar. For that kind of outfit, even I get nervous about touching them at all without washing my hands first. Resin is easy to clean, short of a sharpie attack or a malicious lighter, haha, but delicate fabrics are another issue entirely.

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If I see that they respect my wishes to have their hands washed and they are actually interested in them, then I have let people hold them. I have yet to have someone just reach out and look like they are just going to pick it up and wave it around like a Barbie, haha. I hope I continue to have good luck of people actually being interested in them.

 

I have very few reservations about handing one of my crew over to another owner... Basically, anyone that I know has a good sense of how heavy they are and how to hang on to one of them properly. I'm a little more wary of handing them to non-owners who may NOT be quite so experienced with handling large, expensive hunks of breakable resin.

 

No, I wouldn't. Although, generally speaking I don't like it much when other people touch my things to begin with.

 

For me it totally depends on the person,I don't see myself letting a stranger or small child hold my dolls but I'd have no problem letting my adult relatives handle them.

 

not comfortable doing this unless they are doll people.

 

when my girl was getting made at dollisim, (finding clothes, a head, acc.) i handed her off left and right to complete strangers, although they were part of bjd so it didnt bother me. She was rather inexpensive to build so i dont get to worried with anyone holding her. It might change the more involved i get. Especially when i get my new doll from DDE, i might be a little more DONT HURT MY BABY!

On that statement though im a gear head, my car is my baby and i wouldnt just let anyone drive it. I can see how the same feeling would apply to dolls.

 

Im a bit cautious to start with... I only take my obitsu out to cons, and I get a little embarrassed beause people say oh shes like a barbie. yes shes the same-ish size, but that's it.
a lot of people at meets are fascinated by her soft torso, icludng 'squishy boobs', and a lot of people are like "can I un dress her" and most of the time isay yes, cause I know they are generally interested I them xD and plus she I easily cleanable.

M resin bjd on the other hand... I havent taken her out of my house yet, ad I don't really lik my family touching her cause they don't quite understand wht she is and that they are different to my obitsu....
I allow my best friend to touch my dolls as she has some (including obitsu) so I know she wont drop her or lose their items, the same as my partner, athough he doest ave any dolls, he knows that they mean a lot to me and I tell him a lot about them xD

I probably wont take my esin bjd to cons,as people like to hold, and to mch holding ill cause her and herclothes to getdirty. (ihavea rule that imust wash my handsbefore touching her to try stop dirt/sweat/oils ruinig her resin. people at dol meets understand that fact, and are gentle with dolls, but I wuld still be cautious around them as some aren't very gentle with dolls :S

 

I only let people hold my doll if I have instructed them on how to do so or if they have dolls of their own. I only let people hold my princess if I really need a place to put her down, want a picture of her with that person (this happened with a Suigintou cosplayer at the convention I went to this past Saturday), or if they ask and their hands appear clean.

 

I tend to be kind of a "case by case" person. If I know the person I'll usually let them hold my doll, and people I don't know but who also own dolls are also okay with me....but random strangers outside the hobby not so much. I once had a random stranger go to pick up my doll off a chair to look at her, and ended up knocking her onto the floor. No thanks!

 

I let my friends hold them if they want to. I haven't really encountered a stranger who would want to because he hasn't gone outside yet, but I think it all depends on the person.

I probably wouldn't let a small child hold them unless I knew this child and knew he or she wouldn't damage him. (I was taking care of a seven year old who grabbed one of my figures without permission and ended up breaking his sword. So it would definitely need to be someone I trust in the case of a child.)

For unknown teens/adults, it would depend on the situation and the person. If I ever go to a convention or something, I would probably trust most people to know what they are doing.

If it's some public place, if I wouldn't let them pet my dog, I probably wouldn't let them hold my doll.

 

It depends on person sometime. One of my close-friends is a very friendly and nice person, except she is so clumsy and always breaks somethings or forgets things... That's why I just can't let her hold them, although we know each other so long and as a trustful friend. I'm afraid that my dolls will become another victim of her clumsiness. Anyway, generally I don't mind as long as they are careful with it.

 

I never thought I minded until my relative tried touching their face or holding them with one hand. But their slight carelessness is probably because they don't know how expensive they are. Although one time my relative tried bringing my doll into the bright sunlight to see his faceup better, my immediate response was "ahh yellowing, stop!".

 

I don't like it, I let my sister hold her and she came back stained. That's why I don't trust people when it comes to my dolls.
They say that I'm too much but I really get angry when people do not take care of my things...
But I didn't get to meet people in the hobby so I think I will be able only to people who knows bjd