Do your dolls have same face syndrome?

I think I have a lot of variety in my collection, but the siblings are similar to each other.
For example:
Wedding VIII - family by Arengil Tajedinápravá, on Flickr

 

I have a sibling who keeps me from adopting the same face over and over again, luckily!

When I'm raving about a new doll and they say very pointedly 'Oh, of course you'd like that. That's the kind of mouth you always fall for", then I know I'd only be buying someone I already have, because they see what I don't see. And I really like diversity in every respect unless I need the similarity for the char I'm inresinating, as in dolls who are related, so...

On the downside of that, the sculpts I end up buying are slowly becoming quirkier, to avoid what I already have. But quirky is good, right?!

 

Two (plus another planned) of my dolls are from the same company that definitely has a particular aesthetic, so they do have similar facial shapes. I do think the features are quite different though - different noses and eye shapes that even my non-doll husband noticed. The planned one does have some similarity to my Dollie (similar nose and eye shape), but it is intentional, since Dollie was purchased as a travel-friendly version of the bigger doll.

Anka is definitely an outlier right now, being very decidedly not doll-like compared to the other two. If I do end up getting her 1-2 new friends, they'll all be ones meant to suit very different roles so they'll have different faces (Anka is androgynous, while the remaining two dolls I'd get would be masculine and feminine, so I could do a variety of styles).

 

This applies to me. My collection is currently single digits and I'd like to keep it that way (for as long as possible!), but I also like variety in faces and bodies. Currently, the way I collect is to not buy more than one head sculpt from a dollmaker. And when I'm considering a new doll to buy, I do compare it to my crew - if it's too similar to anyone, I lose interest in it.

I don't think my crew has too much of same-face, but there are recurring themes. I've noticed that the boys all have sad eyes with a downturned outer corner (and two of them have identical shaped eyes); the girls all have more upturned catlike eyes. I also like males with sharp cheekbones and hatchet faces, and aside from one boy (the oldest one) all of them -- at home and on order -- have lean faces.

 

Can’t really say cuz I have 6 dolls of the same 2 sculpts from Doll Chateau though XD

 

Well, I have a lot of unintended twins: two Twigling Eloy’s, five (?) ingenues, and 4 gamines. None of them are even related characters, and all the faceups are distinctive enough that they look different enough for me to be satisfied. I have two identical sculpts (MDR Zuri, my only non-twigling repeat) that are intended to be fraternal twins (very different skin colours).

for the rest of my dolls, I think there’s a lot of variety. I will say though, I tend not to go for very child like sculpts, with really rounded features, so my dolls are more alike with all having mature features

 

I try to avoid this with my collection, but when I go browsing, doll molds start looking alike to me. There's also a lot more variety now than when I startd collecting 15+ years ago. Hence it's plausible some of my earlier dolls might have same face syndrome due to head size, eye size, mouth type, etc.

 

Well, I can tell them apart...

 

Noooo, all the dolls I've ordered are really distinguishable! Otherwise I'd only need the one!

 

I try to get distinguishing features on all of them. I am face blind so I want to be able to see a difference between them. That being said sometimes when looking at dolls from the same company they look eerily similar to me. Maybe it's a jaw line that they all share, or a type of nose. But, the wigs and faceups make them more distinguishable for me.

I think that's why I like dolls so much their facial features don't move and change shape like real people do. They are consistent, so I can see them better. So, to the best of my knowledge they all look a bit different... but this is from someone who has trouble finding their own mother in a grocery store amoungst other similar women.

 

Hehe, I try to avoid it! I've definitely noticed that a lot of dolls in certain categories tend to look "samey" to me - dolls from more established Asian companies tend to look a lot alike from my eye, a lot of the newer mondo muscleboys look the same, a lot of the Kaye Wiggs-style Western BJDs look the same, and a lot of the like, "Instagram artist" Western BJDs share a lot of similar features. Sure, each is going to have their unique points, and there's some where I can still get an idea of which company made a doll (Volks I can tell aren't a say, Luts doll, but that doesn't mean I can tell one Volks doll from another!) but in their categories, they tend to become a, well... doll amalgam? Weird description I know!

My favorite dolls and the ones I tend to bring home end up looking very little like each other. A couple fall into those doll amalgam zones - I do love my Nikki, my Megu, and my Tian Ni! And there's features a number share, like for some reason I love slightly open mouths. But there's no same sculpts, and some wildly different styles. Even though they all have big eyes, smaller mouths, and I got them in paler resin tones, my Tian Ni, my Wol, and my Olivia aren't getting mistaken for each other any time soon.

There's only a few where I'd be tempted by similar or the same sculpts. I do love Megu and wouldn't be opposed to having an actual SD-size Megu, I would go for another Wol if I could get an artist-cast head, and MerryDollRound's Mei Mei sculpt, which is aimed at being Fang's little sister and thus has pretty much the same features but on an MSD body, charms me so. But aside from Wol, those would all be different sizes, and for all of them, I only have so much doll space!

 

I definitely prefer dolls with kinda sad expression. I don't like a lot smiling dolls they kinda scare me and don't know why.

 

Not so much the same face, but definitely similar. I am also a big fan of mournful-looking face-ups which dictate my doll's appearance by a bit.

 

Other than the near identical twins that have the same sculpt, no, I don't think so. Looking through photos of them the only similarity I can see is that none them have very sharp features... Granted, when it comes to their styling I've always tried to go for maximum variety, so, that could be helping them seem way more different to each other than they really are.

 

I would admit I am a sucker for those big eye anime face type dolls. I also prefer my dolls to have fuller lips. As far as faces most of my collection have that anime face look, but I do own a few dolls who are definitely different than my collection majority because I don’t like too much monotony.

 

Not seem face, but same coloring for sure. I tend to have a lot of pale dolls with long, center-parted dark hair. I think it comes from growing up seeing that as a very unusual, “dark fairytale“ kind of look. (The irony is that I have that coloring myself, but my mother so strongly convinced me that I just had “dark blonde“ hair growing up that I couldn’t see it until I was like 20 and still struggle to perceive my hair color correctly. So dolls that look like that still seem very different from me in the back of my mind.)

 

Two of mine have the exact same head sculpt, but other than that, not really. I don't exactly have a large sample size right now though, so it could very well change in the future lol

 

No, but that's probably because I don't have too many BJDs, yet.
I wouldn't mind getting the same sculpt or a doll that looks similar to one that I already own as long as I know what to do with it.

 

kinda haha I like all my dollies to be in the visual kei style so I like all my boys to have heavy lashes, deep eyeliner, strong defined lip colors, the works! usually they end up looking different if I shell them as real visual kei musicians because I do their classic makeup that's usually pretty distinctive!

 

In a sense ... yes, with all my dolls being the same two characters and most of the faceups being done by myself.
So the overall features for the boys will be similar, but it is still almost all different sculpts.
And I do like to have variation in expressions, while still keeping in in character.