I've decided that I would like to take up a new hobby...Doll Collecting. I love dolls that are eerie and darkly beautiful and I would love such dolls to grace my shelves with their presence. I've been looking into the "Bleeding Edge Goths" collection, but if anyone happens to have any favorite recommendations before I purchase my first doll, I'd love to hear.

I'm always quick to whore out BJDs (ball-jointed dolls), since they can easily be customized into the gothier sort (look at Dollheart clothing for some seriously awesome darkly pretty things). Someday I will own an Evangeline Ghastly as well.

(And to express my love for dollies there are old porcelain doll heads and limbs in my wedding centerpieces....)

Me too. Which brings up a question: Which type is better -- resin or vinyl? Doesn't resin chip?

-- Nephele

Take a look at these http://click.infospace.com/ClickHandler ... F7147976A7

I'm a member of the site and a member of the livingdeaddolls.com forums. Also I've collected 4 living dead dolls so far.

IT really depends. I prefer resin myself- it's heavier and has more...warmth to it if you will. Resin will chip, and it will yellow over time. It's not as fragile as porcelain, but not as resilient as vinyl. However, I find resin to amazingly customizable and hard to damage. I've had dolls topple off shelves with no breakage (knock on wood). It's much easier, imo, to paint and repaint and mod resin. Vinyl has a lot of appeal, being light weight, squish-able, and usually easier to pose. So that's a round about way of getting to the fact I think I'd prefer a resin Evangline if I were going to repaint her and do some modding, and vinyl if I were to keep her as is.

Resin Evangeline's seem to have more options for eyes and wigs (they're most often permanent, but not always, on her vinyl versions). Resin is a bit bigger though, according the company.

Actually, I've decided to go with my own collection of LDD's. = ) So far, I've got Sadie and Pixie.

Do you live in America? If so you might wanna get as many ldd's as you can before the economy gets even worse.

Lucky you. I just own two. This one (picture by me XD):
http://c2.quickcachr.fotos.sapo.pt/i/bc ... 97ArP.jpeg
And this one:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5252/545 ... 117614.jpg
And they cost a lot. The big one was a gift from my grandma. But the small one...was expensive.
Besides that, they are hard to find. I would like to have this one:
http://www.livingdeaddolls.com/lddarchi ... 04_001.jpg
It's the one that I like most, of all colections. It was always my favourite one, but I can't find her here anymore, and I'm not allowed to use E-bay...

Another dolls that I know are the ones from D.L.Marian (some are a little bit macabre. And their eyes...some of them look like they're alive!)The first one is my favourite one:
http://www.boo-spooky.com/wp-content/up ... SKYA_2.jpg
http://darkcreation.com/images/305_doll_8.jpg
http://blog.amandanorman.com/wp-content ... girl_2.jpg
http://img.weburbanist.com/wp-content/u ... MARIAN.jpg
http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?. ... d=18505530
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DXlyB_nx1nU/T ... hyGOTH.jpg
Marina Bychova:
http://img.weburbanist.com/wp-content/u ... -dolls.jpg
http://www.iheartberlin.de/wp-content/u ... at_web.jpg
Paranoia Dolls:
http://media.picfor.me/001E36C/Paranoia ... _large.jpg
Virginie Ropars:
http://www.le-point-g.ch/blog/pictures/2007/vr.jpg
Dollmore:
http://www.dollmore.com/shopimages/doll ... 002282.jpg
Ellowyne Wilde (not all of them, but some are just beautiful)
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3560/3376 ... 3d376c.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ya36MFwZ9L0/T ... +wilde.jpg (I want this dress ^^)
http://i41.servimg.com/u/f41/11/21/45/50/460_1_10.jpg

And I already know Evangeline Ghastly =)

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