Struggles that you've had with your doll?

This is exactly my problem too! Floating heads everywhere, most of them unfortunately unpainted (4/6 ugh) because I'm terrible and need to buy more bodies. I'm so picky about body shape though, which I know is stupid because all the outfits I have picked out have long sleeves! The only part of the body that shows will be the hands!

 

Aidan: I want more clothes! And shoes! And wigs! And stuff!
Me: Shut up, you just got more stuff!
Aidan: *that LOOK*
Me: *sigh* Ok, ok, what do you want?
Aidan: Well, now that we know I can wear Iplehouse - how about at least a quarter of the girl outfits they got in stock?

My diva in a nutshell. XD

 

I've had posing struggles... like some dolls just do not want to stand no matter what. It's frustrating when one doll, fresh out of the box, stands so perfectly well and another, which was twice as expensive, flops around like an idiot haha....
I also dislike restringing cause at the end it gets so hard to do I can't do it well without help.

Bonding is a thing too... I'll have phases when I am all about my dolls and I shop for new clothes and get excited and give them all my love and such, but then there's always times... months even... where I don't handle them at all and when money problems arise I even think of selling them cause at that time I am not that attached anyways. So that doesn't help my bond. But when I get into a BJD mood again and dress my dolls or tend to them, I feel I can't just let go of them at all cause I really love them! Boohoo!

 

This, this THISSS. I can never get my dolls looking good, smh. I always bring in another doll and then have other dolls looking disastrous

 

Finding the time has been a great struggle for me. There are tons of things I want to do, sew, face-ups, pictures, modding.., the list goes on and on, but the time I have to do those things is limited. The priorities of being an adult with great responsibilities is time consuming.
One of my greatest struggles right now for the time being is disappointment with the purchase of a very expensive doll that has way too many flaws for the price. I don't mean just stringing, posing and seam lines, but mold problems.., like half of my dolls head has thicker resin than the other side, so one part is protruding while the other is receding. I'm also new to the hobby so I wish I knew better about which company to stay away from, because there isn't much I can do about resin uniformity, no matter how much I try to mod the problem. For such expensive dolls you would think these companies had better quality control.

 

I really want to buy my dolls nice clothes and accessories. But instead I spend all my savings on the new doll. I waited almost a year to buy Avian the eyes and string he needed because after I got him, I started saving for the next doll.

 

Buying too much fabric and finding places to store the extra.

 

My current struggle is, as many other's, money related. I have a boy I soo badly want to buy, but I don't have the funds. I have calculated that I will have saved up enough money for him in January 2017, but by then he will most probably have been sold out. It's a painful thought.

Now I had almost come to terms with the fact that I would most likely never get this boy when a relative all of a sudden said "why don't you borrow money from me?" And now I'm very confused, it feels like a wonderful opportunity, but in the same time I feel like a spoiled brat and I also am afraid of being indebted to someone. Even if it is a relative.

*Angst angst angst*

 

I never fully bonded with my first BJD; the character and the style she had didn't match her sculpt and so I ended up selling her.
Also I've had trouble with clothes. I usually don't worry about prices but it's hard to find something professional looking in a certain style sometimes.

 

I'd say that's a pretty wise instinct... Getting into debt for something necessary isn't bad. Without loans, most of us wouldn't be able to swing houses or cars. (Or University tuition these days. Yeesh!) But getting into debt for something like a doll? That's a different story. It's worth thinking over.

 

Thank you @plantgauze and @Brightfires both of your input was helpful

 

Shoes are a struggle for me. 80% of my dolls are barefoot. I either can't find shoes that fit and are the right style (*glares at MNF Moe body*), or the shoe is okay, but I don't want to pay their crazy prices to bring them home. Maybe I should learn to make my own shoes, I don't know.

For my face ups, I struggle with lower eyelashes. Or any lashes on a sleeping head. *glares again at MNF*

I'll join the chorus about the money struggle. Why does it all have to cost so much?!

 

My current dolls are based on characters of mine from an in-progress novel, which takes place in 1931 Chicago. Clothes are a constant, never-ending struggle. Even with my non-period dolls, I always seem to fall for oddly sized dolls that don't fit in "normal" clothing. I've actually ended up selling dolls because I got too frustrated with trying to find clothing for them.

Also, props. There are so few 1:3 scale props that are both affordable and period appropriate. Why couldn't I have gotten into 1:6 scale dolls instead? Everything comes in that scale! Maybe someday, I'll find and be able to afford appropriate salesman samples...

 

Getting them finished! Almost none of them have a face-up, wig, and eyes I'm happy with. And the majority are blank, as I haven't had the time or motivation to paint them. It takes a while as I'm new at it.

And then there's my second doll. She's small and cute, but is driving me crazy. Her head is small enough to be out of scale with the others, her tiny wig will NOT stay on her head, and I just can't quite come up with a character for her I can connect with. I think she's going to have to go, and I'll give her name to another doll who will fit in better.

 

I have a little 21 cm doll. The 1/6 clothes are to big and the1/9 are to small. Finding clothes for her has been a nightmare. But since I seem to be good at ball gowns that seems to back all she wears.

 

I have issues with making sure they don't get stained or something breaks... Also to find clothing & especially shoes that fit my boys correctly!!