Things That You'd Never Do Again

Never buying another mohair wig - from my experiences, they just so easily acquire flyaway strands and I'm such a perfecionist about hair so I get driven insane by the random flyaways I see, whether on a straight or curly mohair wig.

 

*stupid,stupid,stupid I really know better but...*
Use fine tipped metal tweezers to adjust/move glass eyes. OnO" Scraped Nicky's eye all up. >n<" *head desk*

Restring without gloves...xD The s-hooks are feisty buggers...and pinched fingers are not fun, either.

 

Me too. Now I have to find something stronger to take the old face up off. I also won't buy from a certain etsy seller ever again. Took months and had gotten lost in the mail and it was all for one shirt.

 

I will never again trim the bangs on a wig whilst said wig is on a doll. One little slip and I made a scratch on the faceup. Its only tiny but I know it's there! I also bought a stupid to long wig that just tangled constantly. Oh well live and learn.

 

painting facup when I have no direction on what I want... or getting distracted. I like 'winging' it and this ends up great with making outfits but faceups I end up wiping or with a faceup I am not happy with for ages (due to the hassle and wiping/starting again) I currently have at least 3 faceups which I really need to redo and get alittle twitchy looking at >_> the one where I got distracted, the eyebrows became rather bushy ... luckily the wig intended had a low fringe which hides them (happy with the rest of the faceup though)

 

I have a floor-length wig for a 60 cm doll, and it has come out of its package for pics twice in three years. I am SO AFRAID of snarls. I also always get really long wigs as "random wigs" with purchases, and that makes me cross.

I will never again buy "SD" sized outfits that do not have measurements available. My busty girls (who really aren't very) can't fit into the fantasy or traditional outfits I bought for them, so that's money that I might as well have set fire to.

 

Count me in for no more curly wigs. I have a beautiful one from Leeke, and the doll it was intended for never uses it because it is such a mess. I plan to either sell it, swap it, or cut it short.

 

By curiosity, why? Did you had a bad experience with them?

As for myself, never buy items that I want quickly from Alicescollection. It was my first time buying from them and I only bought small things, eyes and boots, but they took forever to arrive! I had no idea most of their stuff was made after orders, even for simple things like what I bought.

 

I'm never using a magic earaser on a faceuped bjd ever again. I still don't know why I did that

 

My new baby's wig (tanned Latches elf Lati White ) came in (finally!) but it was too puffy looking. O I'll just trim the top a little . . DoH!! note to self. Trim in small increments from the bottom/underneath!! I cut a big chunk off of the top and its really obvious. At least it was a fairly cheap wig but now I have to find another one.

 

I remember when my first doll arrived (dreamofdoll petsha, msd), I showed her to several of my friends, and one of them said something like "her stringing is rather tight". So when I went home I thought "oh well, I'll just re-string her!"

...it was a nightmare in many ways x'D Thankfully, I learned to do it correctly now (altho the doll ended up much tigter than she was in the beginning but as long as she's standing firmly again I won't complain).

But still, in the future, I'll only re-string my dolls if I really REALLY have to.

P.S. I'm praying that I'll never have to re-string my 10cm dolls x_X

 

I will never take photographs of my dollie with my cat unless she is totally comfortable with it, last time my little lady received a ninja kick from her!

 

Never again:

-Use craft acrylics on a faceup (they looked clumpy or bled out)
-Buy a doll because it's cheap (because I'll end up wasting money to reshell it later, or sell it at a loss)
-Settle for the wrong sculpt because the right one is hard to find (REGRET!!)
-Buy from Bobobie (broken doll, bad customer service)

 

I will never again buy cheap wigs from ebay- they are cheap for a reason, I have about 10 and none of them look right. Leeke world from now on. Its just a shame parcel force delivered my first ever link wig to the wrong house, now sat here waiting for next door to get back so I can get my wig from them

 

Curly wigs! When I first got my DD Yukino, I bought her a lovely light pink/blonde wavy wig but it was such a pain to deal with. It was so messy all the time, and nothing made it any better. My IslandDoll Amy came with a wavy blond wig that I still put on her, but since it's not a thick it's at least decently easy to deal with.
Also, vinyl dolls. I'm never buying a Dollfie Dream again. They stain so easily and I don't like how they pose.

 

Never again will I buy a cheaper body for a floating head. I find most less expensive body options unattractive and poorly engineered, which means that in the long run I won't enjoy my doll at all. I hate floating heads, but float they shall until I've saved enough to buy them proper bodies!

 

This!! My CP El has a little red slash on him from my nailpolish while I was restringing him. To add to that, I will NEVER try to remove a faceup again while wearing nailpolish!! You want to talk about a disaster, try getting a neon yellow streak on a doll's face that's REALLY hard to remove, even with Windsor & Newton! Certainly learned from that one.

 

This would be mine XD Kadan has several small marks from different random objects that I used in attempt to restring him (as did my hands for a good week >_>)
So... restringing is what I loathe the most.