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What part of the doll customizing process do you DREAD?

Jun 1, 2021

    1. Taking the doll apart so that I can add tattoos and restring in general.

      I'm new so 90% of the hobby still terrifies me XD

      Oh and trousers! No-one has trousers but I'm spatially impaired so making patterns is excruciating for me.
       
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    2. The parts of the projects that I know I can't afford mistakes frightens me a lot - be it a limited amount of fabric that I can't get any more of or permanent modifications, i.e. dyeing.

      It can really make me want to take a break from a project, or work on something else, thinking that I need to get more experience in my sewing etc. skills before attempting the more difficult work.
       
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    3. Finding the perfect clothes is such a pain :roll:
       
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    4. Restringing. My god the required tension for the doll not to kick. Creating my own faceup. Currently stuck at how do I even glue eyelashes well.
       
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    5. putting in eyes, if anything is even a tad off your doll can look like a chameleon.
       
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    6. I dread eyebrow/hair painting the most followed by cleaning alpaca. But I do both myself despite me dreading it. I figure one day it may get easier maybe :vein Other than that I find things enjoyable. :whee:
       
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    7. Eyeputty grosses me out, especially the waxy or clay-like type that hardens inside the doll head and gets under your fingernails … :eek: I like to reposition the eyes of my dolls quite a lot, so I'm using poster tack or kneadable eraser which is okay-ish. But oh the dread when my face-up clients send me dolls with meticulously placed eyes under a concrete-like thick putty layer …
       
    8. I like clothes shopping but I also hate it. It's so cool seeing all the possibilities for my dolls but I also have a hard time choosing... and my wallet isn't much of a fan either. :XD:
       
    9. Making/ styling wigs ><
       
    10. I'm a bit nervous about doing faceups, but if we're speaking about real dread, for me it's restringing smaller dolls like slim MSD, this size already feels so fragile. I'd also like to try and pierce my doll's ears, but have no courage yet :)
       
    11. Honestly I'm torn between two phases! I hate restring my dolls because it never feels like it's "right" in the sense of it being too tight or too floppy. However, faceups also are a really hard part for me because I don't know how to do them and then having to wait extra and trust someone with my dolls is always worrying and I'm impatient and don't wanna wait haha
       
    12. Mailing a doll part away for customization. I’m afraid it could get lost in the mail.
       
    13. I def dread faceups...I haven't even tried to do any of mine so they're still just blank >u>; I feel bad because I know what I want it to look like but the whole idea of doing the faceup makes me nervous. Aside from that, I dread the idea of having to restring an SD...I've managed with YOSD's just fine and a few of my teeny tinies...MSD and bigger make me nervous xD I know it will have to happen one day which makes it worse in my mind cuz I am not a strong gal
       
    14. Restringing is for sure the thing I hate the most.
      I've been in this hobby for almost ten years and I still haven't found the perfect point of tension for dolls that have been by my side for more than five years.I can't understand why and it makes me feel so frustrated... specially if I get to see those same bodies in pictures online posing like champions while mine are too floppy or kicky.
       
    15. I came here to change my response lol. I few months earlier in the year I sliced a couple of my fingers trying to restring one of my dolls. Never happened before and it was the worst.

      Now here I am needing to restring that same doll, and it's like giving me flashbacks :doh immediately remembered this thread as well. As this is probably the thing I hate and dislike the most since the incident.
       
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    16. I'd call this more of a mild dread, but...sewing/finding clothing for busty and curvy girls. Those chest lumps always make fitting difficult, and finding trousers for those wide hips is a pain. I've got one Impldoll girl in particular I've spent a good long while looking for a specific style of trousers, with the only candidate—being boys' trousers not wide enough to accommodate her curvy tuckus.

      I see a lot of people say that they find it easier to shop/sew for girls, but believe me— that's certainly not been my experience!:XD:

      (Mind—I'm a novice with sewing who's still working on how to do proper fits, so it's easier for me to sew and make patterns for a frame with less complexity.)
       
    17. I love most of the process, apart from the waiting! I am terribly impatient and I get anxious about things getting lost in the post. I once sent a head to a face up artist in Poland. The postal service, for reasons known only to themselves sent it to Beijing, where it then languished for three months, before coming straight back to me. Even the postal person looked perplexed when she handed it to me and admitted she had no idea what had happened. I lost out on £20+ shipping, and I had foolishly purchased another head for her body as I had given her up as lost, so then I needed another body… So, yes, expensive and stressful.
       
    18. My biggest fear are modifications/sanding. Although there are dolls that I want to mod, I am too afraid to do so and therefore haven't even tried yet. I'm just so afraid of sinking so much money into something I might end up ruining!
       
    19. There are two things. I do faceups, and the worst part of doing faceups for me is the respirator. It's an extra step that is super annoying despite how important and necessary it is. (No matter how annoying or uncomfortable it is, always use a respirator! Your lungs will thank you when you're older!)

      As for the second, it would have to be restringing. Which sucks because I need to do a lot of restringing this year. There's just something about having a doll perfectly intact and having to take it apart that stresses me out. I've only done it a few times, so I'm not still used to it yet.
       
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    20. My big Granado guy hacked a chunk out of my finger when I was just swapping his hands... Fortunately(ish) my hands are so callused that it just dug a chunk of that out and I didn't bleed like a stuck pig. The idea of restringing him gives me nightmares.