Do you bother with eyelashes?

Most of mine don't, I don't really feel like it's necessary for them and most eyelashes are far too long for my taste. Pushing them back further in the head when applying just adds a level of challenge that I'm not usually up for (although for me personally that gets better results than trying to trim them). As of late, I don't even paint on lower lashes. I have a lot of boy dolls, though, and I find that a lot of time adding lashes just makes them look more girly, and that's already a fight with the androgynous aesthetic that's prevalent in my particular collection.

I've owned a few sculpts I felt didn't look right without them, though, and when I work with a sculpt like that I will apply lashes. Usually this just means I found the shape of the eye to be a bit awkward. Eyelashes can change the feel of the eye a lot.

I have a doll I haven't painted yet that has a heavier make-up look. That one will be getting eyelashes for sure, as the dramatic look will certainly call for it!

So I'm firmly in the "depends on the sculpt and what style you're going for" camp.

 

I will be adding upper eyelashes. I am not, however even painting on lower lashes on my dolls. It looks pretty..but it's not for me.

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Lashes up and down for me. Even my boys. There is one without lashes and that is my zuzu delf. It just didn't feel neccessary to me. But other than that, I love eyelashes, even long ones. I don't like seriously out of scale fan like lashes and lashes that point downwards are a pet peeve. Up, up, up you go. :p My DZ Maca came with lashes that pointed down. Ripped those out and replaced them with better looking ones.

 

I love a nice set of eyelashes on a doll, I can't even lie. It's a war trying to them on, though.

It totally depends on the face-up to me. I once had a doll with a dark face-up, with a nicely done black winged-eyeliner, I kept the eyelashes off and I loved it. With a super light face-up, I think my girls may need them because I absolutely couldn't stand it when my girl had one and didn't have any lashes. It just looked super creepy.

 

I like eyelashes on dolls. They complete the look for me. c:

 

It depends on their faceup. The girls and boys both have them but my dolls with that "romantic" look don't. I can't see their eyes when they do. I'm also terrible at setting the eyelashes and I'm horribly rough when traveling in my opinion. My cousin boxes them up nicely in the comfort of cushions with restraint and face covers. I set them in my lap or in a seat with a seat belt on. They also hold each other. The ones I handle less also get lashes.

 

Actually, that's an interesting point. I wonder if that's why I don't tend to like light faceups when I try to do them.

 

I have dolls who have lashes and some who don't. It's because they came off and I haven't reattached them yet. I prefer my Pukifee without lashes so it's likely she won't get hers reattached. My minifee will be getting new lashes though. Her's were to spidery and it scared me. I was glad when they came off. Fairyland doesn't use the best glue. I still haven't decided if I'll add them to my SD yet. I like him without them but ...I'm curious what he would look like with them.

 

Juliet came with eyelashes, but they have come off. Not through any man handling or me pulling them off, they just... didn't stay on. I do hope to put them back on after a face up that I want to learn to do.

 

I like eyelash, so all my dolls have eyelashes But the problem is...they comes out so often and I have to fix them back again and again. Sometimes I also feel tired of it, but still...I want my doll have eyelash! Haha!

 

LOVE eyelashes. I think it adds to the dimensionality and realism of the face. People have eyelashes, even animals have eyelashes. Just seems important to me, unless going for a certain kind of look.

I also don't man-handle my dolls too much. Nor do I change faceups (I still have original faceups on ALL my dolls and I started buying them in 2004). I use face protectors when I'm moving them around and traveling with them.

 

I love long thick eyelashes on my bjds. I only collect SD or larger size girls with an exception of one MSD. But all of them have long eyelashes. The doll pictured below has the most perfect lashes in my opinion. Pepstar did the faceup on this Sooah doll. It's not my doll but I am using it to show you what I think are perfect eyelashes on a doll.

 

I definitely prefer to use eyelashes but a couple of my dolls look better without them, in that you can see their eyes better. So those don't have them, but the rest do.

 

Sometimes. I like the look of eyelashes on a doll, but with MSD's I find it hard to get eyelashes small enough. So my Lusis has some, and my Sist does not. But the latter only has her sleeping faceplate painted, and I don't think sleeping faceplates really need eyelashes. They look so sweet anyway.

 

My girls have to have eyelashes. I don't like the extremely long lashes, though. I like the natural, subtle ones that gently shade the top of the eye and add a feminine quality, in my opinion. My Leile looked like an alien without them. XD I tried to leave them off of her, but no matter what faceup I gave her and how childish/ girly I made it, the missing lashes put me off.

Now my two boys don't have them and I think they look fine. If I ever put any on, they'd be very subtle and short. BUT, I do plan on getting some funky ones for my Sapphira, because he's an elf and I think it'd be cool if he had them to match whatever wig coli I eventually settle on.

 

I'd really love to, but so far, every time I got a doll with eyelashes, they don't stay on. I'm no good at attaching them myself, so I just leave them as is. To be honest, it doesn't really bother me that much; it doesn't detract from their beauty in the slightest.

 

Eyelashes are an absolute must for me. All my dolls have them and I don't like how they look without them.

 

I always put eyelashes on my bigger dolls. I feel like they are more realistic this way. But my DC MSD dolls don't have them. I do not even paint them. And it feels quite comfy as well. My bigger dolls never travel, so I can be sure not to damage them. But it's not the main reason. I re-dress my dolls quite often but I never crash face-ups. May be I just use a good glue ^^; So, answering your question, it feels absolutely ok in both cases for me.

 

For boy dolls, I prefer no eyelashes. I only have one lad with eyelashes and that's because he was limited and came that way.

I think eyelashes on boys (my boys, anyway) give them more of an effeminate face and that's not the look I'm going for.

However, if/when I get a girl, she'll more likely have eyelashes.

 

I currently have one doll with eyelashes. I am not sure I will bother to put eyelashes on the others. It just doesn't appeal to me.