Do your dolls reflect your own ideals of beauty?

Yes I believe this applies to me. Since I don't do roleplays I tend to like dolls I find beautiful. Not necesserily in the conventional sense of beauty. Beauty can be many things.

 

I think all my dolls reflect my idea of beauty even if they are not everyones taste.

 

Yes, I find my self gravitating to white skinned dolls with an almost ghost like quality. I also love very dark skinned dolls with ethnic features (wish there were more to chose from!!!). I have always found beauty in extremes so this does not surprise me at all. All my dolls tend to have large eyes, full lips and very long hair (including the males). My boyfriend's hair is almost down to his waist so without realizing it my dolls definitely reflect what I perceive to be beautiful physically in humans.
My favorite expressions are sad and serene so I guess that probably speaks to what I think is beautiful from an emotional stand point too. Great question and great insight into why some of us collect dolls!!!!!

 

Personally, the dolls I like are all gorgeous dolls to me. I like big eyes and toned bodies, which are pretty easy to find amongst BJD. I do notice that I prefer dolls around my own age. The dolls I enjoy all have light make-up that looks very natural. This is not to say I don't appreciate the avante-garde styles of many BJD, but I find myself drawn to "natural beauties". These things are all standards of beauty that I admire real people for.

As to characters with something ugly, I feel so attached to all the characters I've created that it is impossible for me to view them as "Ugly" (even if they looked like Quasimodo).

 

I suppose yes, since I create my characters as dolls, and my characters are what I think is beautiful, with my own idea of beauty

 

My girl reflects my ideals of beauty. I didn't make her but I make her clothes and so when ever I make them, I put my passion and love and quality into that item so that I love it and think it is beautiful, and would look beautiful on my girl. Any doll has potential though, it just depends on if you can bring that beauty out...however beauty is in the eye of the beholder! If you own, it is probably because you find the doll beautiful or at least somewhat attractive.

 

I think my doll reflects the handsome qualities that I long to have personally... being a effeminate looking guy I get confused as a woman at least once a day. I feel like my doll, while still shy like myself, would not be easily mistaken for female. I'd love to make him some outfits that are very manly and still ''beautiful'' .

 

Haha I would think so? It's the same reason I love dress-up avatar websites and so on. I don't have my first bjd yet but I'm thinking of getting a bluefairy boy. I would love for me to have a little boy one day who would look just as beautiful and would allow me to dress him up. I also really like victorian styled clothes but I myself would never be able to afford a full wardrobe of it.

 

Whatever form the doll takes is what the owner wants of his or her doll. It can be beauty, or a physical manifestation of a character or an idea (like grotesque, cyborg, or fantasy mods which can be based on beauty or just something interesting the owner wanted to be able to look at). In my case my dolls represent my ideal of beauty as much as they can (short of me making the mold myself).

 

Do your dolls reflect your own ideals of beauty?

Well, yes. I want my dolls to be pleasing for me to look at every day. Of course, my own ideals for beauty are not really what the average person would think of, I guess.

But isn't that part of what makes BJDs so much fun? Dolls automatically pick up some of their owner's personality because of how their owner dresses them, does their faceups, and cares for them. A doll designed to fit one persons ideal body type/face/style would probably be considered unattractive by many other people. Not because the doll is unattractive, but because other people have other ideals.

 

I actually think that your dolls do represent what you find most beautiful!

I've heard it said many times how one's personal preference effects how you choose your dolls. Like I could look at a doll someone has and think: "Ugh! How could they want something like that? It looks so strange!" While the owner thinks it's the most beautiful think they've ever laid eyes on.

Or when I'm all excited over a certain mold I wanna get and I show it to my friends and they just react normally like "eh... not my thing," I feel all ruffled, but I know it's not the kind of thing they're attracted to. It's just inside my head, and I'm absolutely in love with it. Granted, others may not quite see it, but I would look at them and I would always think how happy I am to have them since they're a vision of beauty.

 

I will say yes...
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It actually reflected my ideal..
I love doodling and stuffs .However for 90% of the time people find it hard to identify the gender of the character I'm doing....-__-||I find it the same as well OTL.
Then I thought it's just the style I draw.
Later on when I got my first doll-__-||I realized the same thing happened.
Most people couldn't identify my boy as a HE ....Even when I dressed him up in some boyish clothes-_-; They'll still find some feminine sense in him...So,both points matched.

 

A very interesting post ...
I think a little of our concept of beauty plasma to create our wrists. I am an artist and as such I believe that everything we do we put something of ourselves. I like to see my wrist and think it is beautiful, give it a few features and then do your makeup or clothing that suits her. Maybe you make a doll that is a bit capricious or some little defect but certain that it happens as with the people you love, forgive them all XD
I do not know if I would make a boy like my "ideal man" but it sure had some detail as a knob or a nice smile.

 

Yes, that is the point of the hobby for me. It also helps me explore WHAT I think is beautiful and explore the lines between art/craftsmanship, tasteful/garish, pretty/interesting and so on.

 

Of course. No one would put something on their doll they truly despised and keep it there. If you put it on your doll that means you appreciated it in some way so you saw the beauty in it.

Everything you do to your doll (unless you do something bad by accident of course) is something that was in your heart.

 

My ideals of beauty? Depending on what you mean by beauty, yeah I'd say they all do in different respects. I love traditionally "beautiful" things, but I also love gross and ugly things just as much if not more. Flaws are what make something worth looking at. So I find Yoko, who is meant to be very perfect, as beautiful as my zombie doll but less interesting. I'd just as soon be the zombie if I could as be Yoko. Pretty much anything I can label "visually striking" fits in my definition of beauty. I usually go out of my way to give my characters a couple of odd, "unattractive" features. Like a girl with a low square jaw, or a guy with a big nose. Or one has missing an arm and another has a lazy eye.

One of the problems I have in finding a doll for my characters is they are all always too perfect and pretty looking, haha. Especially male dolls.

My next doll is going to have four arms and most of her face burned badly, but when I look at my sketches of her I think "Man, she is going to be gorgeous." *shrug*

 

Of course!

I like many different looks, mind you, from natural to goth to glam, and many different body types. But each doll I select I select based on whether or not I like it's face. I'm still looking for a nice 'homely' doll, though. It's hard to find a doll that isn't perfect but that I still don't find very ugly xDDD

 

I have a set of caracters in mind for when I start my collection. My first will be Leeke's "Lionel" who I will customise to be what I have in my head. His face up is perfect for what I want and I will endeavor to let the character show through. I have plans for an Iplehouse Asa as his girlfriend and several ideas for friends for them both.

But I have one in mind who will be specifically MY friend, not necessarily theirs. It's not everyone's idea of "beauty" I guess but I find something incredibly attractive about cross dressing men. I know several people have cross dressed their dolls as part of a character. But this one will be purely for me to look at and admire. Men who are so comfortable with their sexuality that they feel comfortable in a dress is something that I find devastatingly sexy and just for once I'd like my perfect guy, even if he's only in a doll form. I know he won't be my first because he has to be "perfect" and as yet I haven't found what I'm looking for. But when I do I won't worry about costs, he'll be worth the expense as well as worth the wait.

 

My doll (at the time, I only have one) has flushed cheeks, red hair, and an epic amount of freckles. His looks mirror my ideals of beauty before they mirror a certain character concept; though his appearance is not out of character, it did create the character to a degree. (He is outside often, thus freckled and flushed, ect. )

In the scenario mentioned in the first post, I don't generally have characters I don't find beautiful. I get an image first in my mind and then the character, after all... I have many definitions of beauty but most of them do hinge around awkwardness and the element of fakeness found most often in middle and high schools.


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This is really a very intersting question. I've been into bjds for many years and I've found that my taste has changed. Before I was more into dolls which one can say had what can be described as beautiful features. But I've found myself looking more and more to dolls with features that many people would not consider beautiful. I'm more drawn to the unique, if I can put it that way. It's something in the face I find intersting and appealing, but not conventionally beautiful.