I like them thick eyebrows. No pencil lines for me. That and either smug or smiling faces. They just feel cheerier and more alive to me that way.
Looking at my collection right now, next to me, I’ve just realized that I have A LOT of dolls with purple hair. Like nearly half of them.
I’ve been collecting since 2006, but it wasn’t until the early twenty-teens that I noticed I’d developed a basic unintentional “type”. I’d purchased a realistic-looking elf girl to shell a character (the realistic look was coming into vogue then and I was eager to try one.) She had every attribute that would make her a perfect fit for my collection…or so I thought. Well, 10 minutes out of the box and I suddenly realized she simply wasn’t for me. Turns out my heart had already been taken by the big eyed, small mouth, ever-so-slightly anime look of the “old school” style. Anything else lacked the “fairytale” look I needed to make my ever-expanding dolly-verse fit my imagination. Now I’m content to just admire those gorgeous realistic sculpts from afar.
For me it's probably smirking sculpts, and to a lesser extent, sculpts with tongue pieces. I just love it when a doll has a clear personality in its face! I also tend to like sculpts with elf ears.
My accidental types are the overall gothic aesthetics--half my characters could be vampires; black or red hair; and green and grey eyes (seriously, its getting over the top). A a red haired girl with greenish hazel eyes, who sometimes dresses like I stumbled out of Dracula's castle, I accidentally became my type too. Oh, also twigling gamine. I have 2 of that head now, and am getting a third, with a possible plan for more--I'm also sitting at 5 ingenues, which is less ingenues than I've previously had, honestly.
As far as sculpts, I’ve always really liked big round lips and big noses on dolls. I think it stems from when I draw I always add these traits XD I’m also a fan of distinct/puffy eyelids ^^
I've got a lot with black or dark brown hair. More than half of my dolls have dark hair. That's partly since it works well with the tan resin I have a weakness for, though there's some light skinned dolls in dark wigs too.
same lol i have a few smiley or dreamy" looking dolls but i really like ones that look a bit grumpy or pissed off lol
Narrow-eyed dolls! A lot of companies in Korea like to refer to these as the 'romantic' versions of the normal open eyed versions. I think it has a sense of looking ethereal and I love it.
Red hair. Somehow I am always attracted to red wigs. Natural looking color reds, not the electric neon colors. half my dolls have red hair. I have Irish redheads in my real life human family, so maybe that is why. Plus I have "pixel crushes" on Reno and Genesis from FFVII, both redheads. Go figure LOL
Long-legged guys. Most of mine, and my favourites, are long-legged guy sculpts. With strong jaws. Straight noses, usually. Blue eyes, as well. I love blue eyes in real life, and most of my dolls have ended up with that colour by happenstance. So, I've got quite a few spare blues in my collection.
It seems brown eyes for me. I'll try different colors and often come back to deciding brown suits them best.
Sculpts with full lips are a thing for me. It is why I love Soom Dia so much. I also like long hair on men, but that was long before I started collecting dolls. Nearly all my boys have long hair.
Apparently I have two boys with identical eye shape. They're by different dollmakers in separate countries. I completely didn't notice their resemblance until a friend observed that they looked like brothers. I did discover both sculpts at around the same time (although they came home almost a year apart), so I must've been subconsciously looking for a certain male face...
Unintentionally, I've ended up with teeth showing on 4 of my 5 dolls. 2 even have a separate teeth part, none of which I've consciously chosen (happy with the outcome nevertheless!)
