>>5929762Mine does wear a wig.
She can actually wear those really well made fashion doll wigs, which is cool because there are lots of styles for them out there (and in nice colors too).
Mine also came with the helmet and kitty ears, but the helmet looked weird.
The heads are, hm, pretty basic?
You can see on the pic that they don't have that much depth, but there are cute little robot faces so it works.
Can be very nicely painted and the resin is good.
The heads are pretty small though, what body do you plan for yours?
>>5929770Some have opened up to other doll communities (you can get more money with Blythe or selling Pullip customs), most are just burned out.
Lots of the good ones have painted commissions for years and now more and more want to go back to painting for themselves only.
If you get into the whole commission thing it's hard to get out of it again.
I'm in the same position, I like painting for others, because I get to do things I like doing but don't like seeing on my own dolls...and I get to see dolls without having to buy them.
But it's not worth the money, because you can never ask a comfortable price anyway.
I don't think we should have something like Blythe prices, where people blush a face and ask 150$ for it and want extra for eyebrows and lashes.
But spending 15+ hours painting a face, carefully painting details with a brush, staring at a small head for hours, painting dozens of heads to gain experience etc. while dealing with MSC fumes and material costs is not worth getting paid 2 bucks an hour.
It's only BJDs that are so cheap, I personally blame the cost of default face-ups for that.
Other communities don't have that, you get the doll either blank or completely factory finished with some mass-produced, simple paint job.
It's pretty much expected that you have to fork over a little more to get something custom.
A BJD you can buy with a hand made, detailed face-up for 60$ straight from the company.
