Things that annoy you... *Rant Thread*

When people say, their dolls came back from the spa That's so annoying!

 

Oh no- I'm sorry to hear that happened to you. Were you at least satisfied when you first saw the doll?

 

I'm sure in time I'll have more, but:
-I wish there were more mature and less 'babyfaced' MSDs
-I wish it was easier to find more elf bjds (seems like most are always LE...)
-I wish more companies offered more standard colors (grey, lilac, and light blue are literately my jam and dying a doll terrifies me atm lmao)
-I wish there were more 'in-between' sizes; I'd love a 35-38cm msd (think chibi unoa, I guess?), and more 48-50cm dolls (so somewhere between 'tall msd' and 'small sd' but being able to like, interlope between the two)
-When people don't mention what sculpt a doll is.
-poor resin matches between companies (unavoidable, but still disappointing)
-orange tan resin. why.

 

Yes, she is super cute!

 

Yeah.. I ended up buying her from Denver Doll. An An is on the way!!!

 

I love her! If you figure out a better way to get her to stand let me know! I love my girl but she does NOT stand

 

I have a new thing to mention on this thread. It's not a big thing or anything worth a rant, just a little something inconvenient.
When doll companies sell doll eyes, but don't post pictures of said eyes on a doll. I personally find it really difficult to imagine different kinds of eyes on a doll, so I need reference. I oftentimes notice the eyes look completely different from what I initially thought when I compare the picture of just the eyes with a picture of the eyes on a doll. Maybe it's just me. : p But yeah, not really a big deal.

 

I just recently encountered this one:

Cutting someone a deal on a doll that you love because you desperately needed the money, sending them a bunch of extras for free, just for them to turn around & put her up for sale two months later, $150 more than they bought her for.

Am I salty?

Absolutely.

 

I'm a Volks fan and I'm pretty annoyed/salty over staining issues. One of the reasons I started getting into SDs over the vinyl Dollfie Dreams is that resins are supposed to be harder to stain. But then I was reading today how Volks' wigs can still stain even resins.

*sigh*

 

ANYTHING can stain... BUT the upside is resin has a much better chance at cleaning. It takes something pretty dreadful to permanently stain good resins. (there area always the crappy ones that stain by being looked at ><)

 

• Wigs that are listed as "black" but are actually "natural black/dark brown" and not pure black. phew, boy does that get me!
• Sales posts without any information on the item. INCLUDING no price??? Just "message if interested". I'm interested, I assure you! But will the price make me disinterested? Too lazy to find out, lol.
  
• Absolutely what OP said about dolls being flopped over and tossed around in pictures. I understand photos can be pretty hard sometimes. But.... please pick your baby up?
• Dirty dolls! Now people don't usually show them off in photos, but getting a dirty second hand doll? Ew!! Why are they greasy? Why are they covered in dirt?? Why are they like this and what happened here??? And we're not talking stains that cant be removed, I'm talking just filth on the doll that I easily removed with some TLC.
• Anyone touching my dolls without washing their hands. Okay this one might be me personally, but before I do anything with my dolls I make sure to wash my hands. I don't know why, but I just don't want them to get all gross and greasy or something from my hands? Not that my hands are laying around with grease on them, but just natural oils and maybe something gross from my computer mouse or food. When I have friends come and meet my boys, I have to hold my breath as I watch them handle them without having washed their hands. It's probably a fear from when I got my last doll second hand and he was super oily and gross. I'm afraid my first boy will get like that if I don't take care! :'(
• When companies temporarily discontinue things (cough cough Luts' optional part!!)
• That one BJD confessions tumblr dedicated to people starting drama and talking about other people like it's their own life. Wow, some of the stuff there is just so unnecessary and rude. It's honestly why I'm terrified of the doll community. I've met some really nice people, but I've seen a lot of entitled, "im older than you so I know better", "i've been in the hobby longer, i'm better than you", "lol, i love starting drama BUT I HATE DRAMA!!!" kind of people in the community... and it's very off putting. (I found a tumblr along the lines of BJD lets be friends and it only has positive, uplifting, and friendly anonymous confession, and it honestly means the world to me to see people treat each other like that! ; w ; )
• Seeing companies selling items I've seen on Ebay for $1, selling them on their site with either a little alteration or nothing changed at all for quadruple the price. o_o I totally understand having to make money some how, but I feel really bad for those that buy the item at that price.
• Ebay companies selling "tripod" cases as "bjd carriers" for triple the price.... I fell for it. Bought a $30 bag that was only worth $5 on ebay.... I wish I had known to think of camera tripod carriers before shelling out $30. ; - ;
• The yellowing. Lmao, no this can't be helped at all and I know that. I just get really sad thinking about my boys yellowing to no return as the years go by. ; w ;
• EDIT: When you're sooooo close to finishing a faceup, you seal it, and then.... you see it... a big old sealant drip. Or speckling. Something involving the sealant not going on perfectly and absolutely RUINING all your work! ; - ; Or even worse, you drop the piece by accident as it's drying, ahhhh! or even messing up so many times on a faceup that now the sealant under is rubbed away and you have a hole in your sealant layer. mmmm. It wouldn't make me feel so bad if it wasn't so hard to get sealant off your resin, lmao.
  
• EDIT: Dreadlocks on white dolls. Makes me cringe, man. That's all I can say.

Ahhh, so sorry to make such a big list! ;////;

 

For me, it was not getting into the hobby soon enough! One of my favorite books is the Little Prince, and I was looking for ideas to dress an incoming doll as the little prince. I found several dolls made by the company to be exactly what I want, but years ago, and none available.

Figuring out different sizes is also a bit of a stress for me. But I assume the longer I am in the hobby the easier it will be.

Recasts being sold as legit. Newly into the hobby, it is angering that people strive to take advantage of newbies with what is basically stolen artwork.

 

when super newbs (ones who barely understand what a bjd is new) ask you to essentially tell them what doll to get O_o... are you kidding me? How do 'we' in the hobby have a clue what you even might like? These newbs are the ones who "like the idea" of a bjd but not actually any particular dolls ... They make me wanna scream.

That's like me deciding what flavor of ice cream you gonna get and TELLING you this is what you are going to like... not knowing if the like the food period... it can't get more nuts than that.

What's worse is after 50 ppl's suggestions of types and companies are shared... They finally say what 'kind' they like (think syle/size).... if they knew that then why did they not START with I want something like "blah" it's a hella lot easier then.

 

I am currently annoyed at myself for not being able to explain my hobby. Like...I'll say I collect dolls, but not creepy or ugly ones, but that sounds kind of bad? I don't want to insult people who think that dolls I personally don't like (antique dolls, porcelain dolls, etc.) are lovely, but I don't know how else to explain to the general public (who usually doesn't see dolls in a very positive light) that my dolls are artistic and pretty and not weird... And I know a lot of people wpuld probably think my dolls are weird or creepy anyway, but still! I wish there was an easier way to describe BJDs that sets them apart from other types of dolls. (Even describing them as customized art dolls or representations of my characters doesn't really help. Oh well, I guess! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

And another thing that doesn't really annoy me, per se, but kind of makes me sad, is newbies these days who are introduced to BJDs on communities like Tumblr, where there's so much drama and toxicity, and then assume the whole doll community is like that. I'm not faulting the newbies here at all; I just wish for their sake that they had gotten a better introduction to the community aspect of the hobby! Tumblr wasn't really much of a thing when I first got into BJDs, so DoA was my first experience with any kind of online doll community, and it was fantastic. Definitely nowhere near as drama-ridden and angry and catty as the Tumblr community. I keep well away from the Tumblr doll community (and Tumblr as a whole) these days. (This isn't meant to insult anyone who does like the community on Tumblr either; it's just really not for me!)

 

I've had pretty good luck with saying I collect "Asian ball-jointed dolls." Since most people don't know what that phrase even entails, it usually leads them to ask what an asian ball-jointed doll is (which is exactly what I want them to do). Since they've now taken the initiative to ask me for more information, that gives me conversational freedom to go - briefly - into more detail about the customization, supporting hobbies (e.g. photography, sewing), etc. A much better approach than saying in one breath that you collect dolls, but not like antique dolls and not anything pervy, yadda, yadda, yadda. If they don't ask for clarification then I'm still off the hook anyway since they clearly don't care!

 

My biggest annoyance right now is waiting. Waiting for a pre order, waiting for wigs, eyes, clothes, waiting for good weather to do all the face ups I've been putting off, and the worst wait is the one when your doll is shipped to you and it disappears into customs for days. I know waiting is a big part of this hobby, but sometimes it just gets burdensome. OK, mini whine over, back to waiting...

 

I'm very annoying when :
- a seller dont' answer for an item you want to buy, and when he answers two weeks later, it to say it's sold
- waiting for a doll and nothing change at the statue for months !
- a doll stand up perfectly when she's on her shelves and when I want to photoshoot, she acts like she hasn't elastics --'

 

omg lmao ... meeeeeeeeeeeeee! and even when they sit!... sits nice on the chair on shelf... in chair for shoot... nope ><

 

The only thing that annoys me the most is Volks' inconsistent head size. I love their sculpts but some of them are clearly bigger than the others and that makes it hard for me to pair them up or take their pictures together. Like one of their old FCS sculpts, F31, is like big mellow so I had to search high and low to find him a twins brother.

 

I just want some nice t-shirt fabric for an undershirt. Something I can make fall nice and easy.

I need to go to Jo-Ann's or something. My favorite fabric store closed.

 

I don't have a lot yet since I'm still kind of new but..

People who give inaccurate information when selling dolls.. My first doll was sold as perfect, but when she arrived she was green and sickly in her face due to yellowing.

Also I second the clothes size thing, a lot of awesome dresses are SD, so my poor MSD girl can't wear it. I also have a hard time finding nice outfits for my yosd boy, I want something that fits his fantasy theme but most things I find are either dresses (it's a boy!) casual wear or cute-sy wear.

 

I feel you man. It's hard to find good yo-sd clothing, especially shoes. My girls both have more old-fashioned doll shoes because nothing I buy them seems to fit them properly and I'm too stubborn to buy 'nice' shoes. Their boots both make their feet go upturned in them and they can't stand in them. Which really pisses me off because I spent good money on them. With one it's not a problem cause I love making frilly, girly things for her since she's a total girly girl. The other, she's supposed to be ore of a hunter (though I still dress her in cutesy things sometimes) and just a miniature version of her character.

 

Some doll owners/sellers who have IG accounts post wonderful pictures, and then talk about their private lives to the point of making me very uncomfortable. Talking about a stalking husband, crazy ex-girlfriend, and other personal details is TMI for me...I prefer just the dolls and clothes!

 

Yeah, exactly! I actually don't have shoes for any of my dolls. (Well I only have 2 complete doll now, am waiting for my third, but still!)
My girl needs dark brown or very very light brown/broken white cute shoes. However all the shoes I find are either completely brown, an ugly light brown or a bright brown color. And for the yosd I simply didn't find anything I really liked so I ended up having both dolls barefooted. They have nice clothes now though.

 

Honestly I'm debating trying again with buying them new shoes but the memory of the last time I thought I had a great deal comes back to haunt me. I know there's some simple tutorials on here for shoes including how to make them out of faux suede but... Eh I'm not sure still.

 

Oh man, I feel you on the shoe thing! My slim mini guy STILL doesn't have shoes of his own. He just has to borrow flats from my sister's MNF girl now that she only wears heel feet. It's... not ideal, haha.

 

THIS. ALL OVER. SO many beautiful sculpts on dolls that are waaaaaay too big for my tastes...

 

I wish I could find the confidence to try making my own shoes :') But I'm too afraid to fail. So well, they'll be barefooted for a while longer.. I'm just waiting for the perfect pair to come around :P

 

:P I feel you trust me. I'm still not sure myself if I wanna resort to shoe-making yet.

 

Not yet, but maybe some day. Like I started trying out some face ups.. Because, well, adding to this topic,
It annoys me when the face gets chipped or yellowed and I can do nothing about it. It also annoys me to have to pay so much extra just to get a head somewhere, and have the possibility to lose it in the mail.. I completely understand the prices for face-ups, of course, but the mail and the possibly problems with that kills it for me '^^. So I tried a face-up, but I'm not as good yet xD.

 

Hey practice makes perfect. I don't have great hand-eye coordination so while I can sew pretty well and coordinate outfits... Faceups are not where I shine. I've only had one doll had his face-redone (my Resinsoul Song Avalon who was my first MSD) and I only got it done because it was someone in my meetup group who I knew would take care of him.

 

When a head previously had blushing in its ears and it's near impossible to clean them completely >_<

 

True enough, well, I plan on practicing more, but only if I can find some cheaper heads to practice on. Don't want to risk ruining an expensive doll.. And yeah, I recently got one of my faces redone because of yellowing. The one doing it lived like an hour away so I actually drove there to bring the doll and also went to pick it up.. just to avoid the mail :')

Oh I had this before, but in an open mouth. I had no idea how to clean it, it was the first time cleaning and doing a face up for me too. I ended up not getting it cleaned up, but it was red and it was going to be red anyway so I just went over it and it looks fine now.. but I can imagine that being different for ears.
I actually am not really familiar with cleaning off face-ups, so it annoyed me he had stuff in his mouth anyway because he was supposed to be clean, without any make-up left.

 

I get ya. I used the heads of OT dolls to practice on initially.

 

Alright, something that annoys me: when companies take terrible photos of their wigs. It's just...vaguely irritating when I see a wig I really like in an owner photo, but when I go to the company the pictures are bad and the wigs are all fuzzy and aren't sitting right on the models' heads, etc. etc. Like...I don't doubt they'd probably be great in person and I could make them look as good as I saw in the owner photos, I just can't being myself to buy something that looks cheap and bad on the website, even if it's not. Maybe I'm just picky...? (I've been looking for a long, curly/wavy, natural red wig with bangs, and though I've found a couple that will work, there hasn't been anything absolutely perfect. Oh well! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

 

The lack of diversity/darker skin tones available. Some companies handle this better than others. I get that darker skin tones are more unpredictable and why they have to charge more for them; that's fine. I also get that some companies are probably too scared to mess around with dyes or their resin recipe. But it does bother me when they have that option but as a "limited edition". It seems vaguely insulting to make such a big deal out of something so normal. If you can do it, why not offer it all the time, even if it has to be at a higher price? Sales incentives, I guess. But using that as a sales incentive is even more insulting....

 

That and when doll owner that always posted only pictures of their dolls is suddenly posting pics of their children/food/family and other private stuff.

 

also bear in mind some companies are not big enough in terms of staff and space to do the darks on a more permanant basis AND some are held hostage more to weather depending on physical location. Example Iplehouse is a lot smaller as a company than a lot of ppl realize.