WORST Doll Experience EVER

yumi~: I wish it was through paypal T_T at least I would've done something and I had no choice but get over it was back in february I was mad at first but then I realized there's nothing I could do It was my fault in the first place, no she's not from DoA and I defiantly learned a lot from that bad experience and I would never do it again ever XD

 

Okay, soo! My DDE DZ order is in my country (and possibly state) but it is now stuck in customs. I'll be waiting a further 5days to 6weeks for my dollies...

I'm not very happy right now =_=


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New bad experience. Dyeing my doll today with darling Fiance helping me because I'm a ball of nerves. The dye didn't take, at all. She's still ghost white! I got up all of that courage to dye a $$$ doll and nothing happened. He is now rushing to Michaels to get me some more rit dye because we burned through a whole bottle not getting it right! Fiance says the water might have been too diluted but it looked practically black, how could it be diluted!? We're going to try again but I'm so frustrated that I want to cry. She's not herself unless she's tan, it HAS to work!
Now while I wait for him to get the dye, I'm sitting here reading every tutorial I can, trying to figure out what went wrong. I had the steel pot, I made the water super dark, I left the pieces in long enough. I even salted the water like someone said to do.

BOO!

 

Give the doll a gentle sanding with wet & dry sandpaper all over, or a really good going over with magic sponges.
The likelyhood is that the doll may have been sealed with something that is preventing the dye from taking.
I also wouldn't add salt to the dye solution unless the instructions say to, but it is a good idea to rinse the parts in a solution of salt and vinegar afterward.

I just had a thought is your dye solution hot? it needs to be really hot, but not boiling.

Anyway, I made a step by step tutorial awhile ago, I use Rit powder dye, not liquid dye but it might be helpful.

http://www.denofangels.com/forums/s...torial-Dyeing-my-doll-Chicline-Rou-gets-a-tan

 

Being called hysterical whn I was trying not to cry because the person who opened a doll box for me to check everything was safe and sound lost one of the pieces and didn't realize how expensive it would be to replace. And when I told them how expensive it would be, they said that was ridiculous.

 

Yours is the tutorial I was reading. I really admired your courage and I jumped in like LET'S DO THIS! 6 exhausting hours later, not so much.
My problems resulted in being sold a "stainless steel" pot that was only stainless steel on the outside. The inside was aluminum. We tested it with a magnet, who would have thought? The dye was also expired and missing it's safety cover. She ended up mold green, a lovely, lovely shade of fuzzy moldy bread green. We got the green off with magic erasers for the most part and our new pot and new dye helped a lot! She didn't turn tan, only like a Volks normal skin color. I'm very confused by this. I used the ENTIRE rit bottle and I only used enough water to submerge the parts, but my girl's resistant to color, I guess. The next round is with two bottles of rit and a few prayers(maybe alcohol will be involved >.>)

Thank you, though, for making that tutorial. I'm sure you've given a LOT of people courage to make their dream doll. If I didn't find a simple tutorial, there's no way I would have attempted that, and now I'm not giving up until she's right.

and on topic with the worst doll experience :

My doll turned green.
I dropped my doll head on the floor today(thank god it didn't break, I've never dropped resin before, damn near had a heart attack)

 

I'm sorry these things happened to you guys. Awful stories. Those people should be ashamed.

 

Oh my goodness mouldy bread green doll!!!
That must have been terrifying

Yes in the tutorial I used Rit bronze powder dye, and an ennamel pot. I wonder if you need a slightly darker shade of dye, or maybe a couple of "dips" in the dye to build up colour????
6 hours of horror, I am so sorry this experiment has been punishing you, and I hope doubling the liquid dye will get you better results.

 

Oh yes. I collapsed in my chair, holding one of her green arms and I cried. My fiance came in like a superhero, magic eraser in hand and started scrubbing her. He joked that my girl's getting the "royal treatment" from all the polishing we did. I'm very lucky it all came off(well enough) with a magic eraser!
Another strange thing happened, her knees took on a bruise-like color. We kind of like it since I was going to give her bruises anyway(she's a hero, they get hurt on the job) but I'm puzzled by it. She was cleaned well, but not sanded(no mask for sanding) and she's a somewhat old doll I got second hand, so maybe that was just showing signs of her wear?

I had bronze but it was too summery for my girl so I switched to cocoa brown for more of a pinky, darker tan. I've been warned it can come out a purple-y color but so far it just seems to make her a pinky normal skin color with one bottle of dye. It's the darkest brown they had so I really think I'll have to double the dye to get the color dark enough. I'm pretty confident dipping her more times would have slowly built up her color but it had been 6 hours by the time she turned a flesh color instead of white or green, so round two starts...some other time, haha. It's really not that difficult, I'll be happy to do it again!

Thank you! Once she's finished I'll post my results somewhere. It just doesn't look like my girl right now.

 

Good luck!
Maybe the bruisey colour is where she came into contact with the aluminium pot?

 

Rynn007- I'm so sorry to hear that this has happened to you, not one but numerous times. I know if you lived near my sisters and I, we would have tons of BJD parties and take lots of photos with our dolls together. I can't honestly believe that people would do that to anyone in this hobby, it's terrible, you have gorgeous dolls, we all know that and you don't have to prove it to them
I think the key is to find people you get along with and have separate meetups with just that specific group. My sisters and I usually have our meetups with the same people who we have come to be good friends with over the years. The last time we didn't have a meetup with this group, we had a similar experience to you. No one seemed to notice or care about our dolls or ask any questions or anything really, was terrible, we were totally ignored. Also, we live in a French province and we're Anglophone, so it's hard finding English-speaking owners. Mostly at meetups there's a language barrier which is why we stopped attending meetups with new groups in our area. I hope that you find a new group who is actually interested in other people's dolls, don't let that turn you away from meetups in general, you can make some really great long-term friends that way Good luck

 

Thanks, Belladonna! Yeah I wish I lived closer to you three! I love your dolls!

 

I had two dolls heads get lost in the mail when they were sent out together for face-ups. It took me nearly a year to get new heads with face-ups and get money back.

 

I read in another dyeing tutorial/journal that using magic erasers can polish the surface of the resin so smooth that it will resist the dye... Since you said you used the eraser all over to get the green off, maybe this is why the tan didn't take? The person I read about, their doll dyed beautifully all over except the face x-x because she had always used magic erasers to remove his numerous faceups... Anyway, just a thought! Glad you at least got something that looks okay in the end, anyway.


As for me I've never really had anything terrible happen with my dolls (wow way to tempt the storm...). Just some faceplants which Cissy survived without any damage... the usual. Sounds like I'm very lucky from some of these stories...

 

Latest worst doll experience is waiting over 7 months for a doll that has now been shipped to my apartment and I won't get to see her until the end of the month umu;;

 

I've luckily not had really many bad experiences (after reading some of these stories, I realise how incredibly fortunate to have only been hit with slightly unreasonable customs charges hah..) but the WORST thing... I bought a doll from someone on here (who is wonderful xD) and I was sooo excited to receive him. She shipped him super fast and since she wasn't far away it would only take a few days. I watched the tracking like a hawk and was SO stoked when he arrived at the depot, and was put on the van for delivery.
I waited and waited in the house... and then checked the tracking, to see that it was marked as "Attempted delivery" then "At Depot". It didn't say what depot, or what courier it was with (the lady had sent him using TNT, which apparently is a load-of-balls-courier) so I had to keep phoning all these different companies that TNT had told me they use to try and find where the doll was. It took me OVER A WEEK to actually track him down, after the lady who'd sold him to me contacted TNT at her end and she sorted it all for me xD It was A NIGHTMARE and I was so relieved when he arrived =___=;;; after that, I made sure anyone who was shipping me doll stuff wrote down my address EXACTLY how I was typing it to them.

But again. There are way worst stories on here D':

 

My worst bjd experience was acquiring my first doll. I decided I didn't need to wait until I came across my grail on the second hand market (which I still haven't seen) to buy a bjd, but that I would be ok with purchasing another doll first as long as the sculpt spoke to me. Well, after years of saving, researching, stalking doll sites, and going doll-less to doll meets, I found her. She was a doll from a newer company I hadn't heard of, but she was the only other doll where that little voice in my head told me "you need this one." So I went to order her. And she was sold out. boo. But to my amazment, I went back to the site later to torture myself in not being able to have her. Boom! She was available again! woo-hoo! I ordered her and life was good again and I would be a full fledge memeber of the bjd owner community.

Then I found the thread here about this particular company. oh, no. How had I not thought to look at this sooner. The early pages of the thread were good reading, but the farther in I got, the more I had worries of my order being wrong, missing the face-up or extra hands, getting the wrong doll, or worst of all - my doll never coming! My communication with the company had been acceptable to this point, so why not just shoot them an email to confirm things were going ok? No reply. *stomach sinks a little* This is what others were experiencing who were trying to find out where their dolls were as well.

It was weeks of wondering if I would ever get my girl and if I would ever try to order another doll again if this was what acquiring one entailed. Then one day I came home from work to find "the box". Do I open it? Will the right doll be inside? Will she have her face-up and hands? Will she be the right resin color? I almost didn't want to look. So many others from the thread had been disappointed. I didn't want to be in that group. I bit the bullet and luckily opened the box to have everything be as I ordered and intact.

I was happy the wait and not knowing was over, but not being sure the doll you have paid for will ever come and if the company is still around to recoupe your refund is one of the worst, nerve-twisting experiences entering the hobby one can have.

 

For me the worst Doll experience I've had yet...Was when I was looking for a new MSD...Someone messaged me about a doll and showed me pictures, and things, asked me to see my work since I was only doing trades... I sent a PM...I waited all day even though this person was online...Waited a lot the next day and didn't bump up my WTT thread, which I had regretted instantly because I had a bad feeling.... Then she goes and pretty much tells me she only wants to sell him, but a few days later I see someone saying they JUST bought that doll off the marketplace and I felt awful. I know she was not obligated to trade him to me, but she could have at least told me she had a buyer, and not make me wait all that time, on pins and needles eager to start work...I had even started to think of names for him... It was a very unpleasant experience that made me jumpy, thankfully the trade I eventually did to get my beautiful girl Noah, her owner was very prompt and kept me informed on things, and she was very sweet, even wanted to see pictures of Noah when I got a chance to spoil her rotten.

It ended well, with me getting a far better doll, then what I had been offered, but it makes me wary of a certain user on here in the end.

 

I'm going through a bad experience right now....I wiped out the beautiful face up of a doll to give it one from me and....it's the worst decision ever I hate the face up I did and wish I could get the old one back. I hate it so much that I even thought of selling my doll XD

I try to laugh at this whole fiasco but I was really frustrated before ~_~ I might try to redo it later but now I don't have the confidence that it will come out as how I want it so I don't feel like redoing it any time soon.

 

Yumi, you can always commission an artist to redo the face-up for you. If you don't have much money, you can chose someone who is just starting with their face-up shop, as they need to built up a client base and portfolio.