Do your dolls reflect your own ideals of beauty?

For sure! The hair, the clothes and how my doll poses is all about the beaty sense I have inside me....this is something I do without realizing

 

Absolutely, for me yes. I am finally getting my very first BJD and she definitely has a "look" that reminds me of what I used to look like BK... lol! She has quite the "hour-glass" figure and very pouty sexy lips. She is really beautiful in my mind and I think I chose her in because she either reminds me of someone or something like that ... ^_^

 

I have to say that my ideals of beauty in persons who are living are very different than my ideals of beauty for dolls. There are many things that I think don't translate well from one to the other. This is simply a small example, but I think blue eyes are very lovely on living persons, but are not nearly so lovely for BJDs, I prefer a deep brown for a doll.... it evokes a different feeling.

 

That's a really good point, blue_wysteria. I find the big eyes and little puckery mouths to be beautiful on a doll, but on a human it would look very strange indeed! I saw a photoshopped imaged some time ago where they turned a human into an anime character and it was the strangest thing. There are lots of things that don't translate well, as you put it. Thanks for making me think about it.

 

I have yet to own my first 'proper' bjd but have bought around 20 small heidi ott dolls (small dollshouse bjds) for my online 'soap opera'. For the sake of the storyline I have had to purchase dolls that I don't think are attractive but as I need to reflect 'society' then the variation in their physical appearance (good or bad, young or old) adds to the credibility. I've actually come to love the unnattractive dolls just as much although they don't get the best storylines!!!

 

Although I find that most BJDs are incredibly beautiful (I prefer the grown up, male BJDs or the fantasy style stuff) that is not the reason for my dolls.

The one I currently own was brought as he looked like someone whom I had loved who had passed on. With no photos of him, I brought the doll as a reminder. I don't think the doll is beautiful, but I do think it is perfect for what it is. .

As for the one I am planning, he is going to look rather odd and possibly creepy. I will find him to be glorious due to what he will mean to me and his character but I'm not sure that is the same as beautiful.

 

Yes and no. I love sophisticated features and make-up style of my Leah Cox, I'd be happy if someone'd say that I look like her. As for Lisa Rubik's face up, I'd better say that I'd hate it if I'd seen it on a human. I'd call her vulgar and cheap, just a crap. But I adore her make up as it belongs to a doll.

 

I guess so.. Elly has pale skin which I find really pretty (can't understand why people use fake tan) and she has pink hair which I so wish I had. But I'm still at school so I can't dye my hair pink Also I put her in big evening gowns that I'd love to be able to wear but I never have the occasion to wear them.
In terms of her actual facial features, I think she is what I think is pretty (if that makes sense). She has a pointy nose (I have a stubby one ) and a heart-shaped face and I tend to think those kind of delicate features are very pretty

 

I do think that the dolls I choose reflect my own ideas of beauty. That's why I buy them. Each doll gives me a sense of pleasure when I look at it. Sometimes the outfit also adds to the overall sense of beauty. But beauty or cuteness in the doll's face is what I look for whan I am buying a doll. And, I'm pretty sure that decision is be based on my own ideals.

 

Same here. =)

 

Yes, my dolls definitely reflect my own ideals of beauty. To be honest, that's what attracts me to dolls in the first place. Not to sound creepy, but they can be made into whatever ideal body type/face and maintain that look forever. Similar to my attraction to art that is human marble sculptures made by the Greeks and Romans, except dolls are more fun and fashionable haha.

 

She Will, Once I Actually Buy Her

 

I think that everyone has a different view of what they consider to be beautiful. That's one of the best things about dolls in my opinion, that you can change them and style them as you see fit, until they are beautiful in your own eyes. I think Imperfections are beautiful, so I don't find traditional beautiful people all that alluring, truthfully I think they are a little bit boring. When I find my perfect doll, I'm sure some of my tastes will leak into it as part of her creation.

 

My dolls, represent different parts of me. Some parts I find ugly, and not necessarily attractive, but I almost find it required to do that, because life cannot just be beautiful. Just like life cannot be simple, and it just feels right that way.

 

mine sure do. They are everything I am not. Young, thin, perfect skin.

 

I don't own a bjd yet, but I find that the ones I am most drawn to really follow the standards of beauty that I wish I looked like:

Big eyes-My fiance says my eyes are big but I feel they are too small.
Long hair-People tell me its a bad idea but I want my hair longer-its already 1/2 way down my back.
Dark Hair- Even when my hair is black I want it darker since my hair has natural red highlights which I think are ugly.
BRIGHTLY colored eyes- Mine are hazel/brown and I wish they looked like Elizabeth Taylor's. XD
Petite facial features- Again, people tell me I have a cute small nose and cute little lips but when I look at myself I think my nose should be even smaller.
Petite body type- This one will never happen for me, since I am 5 foot 9 inches.

I want my doll to be my dream self, something to help inspire me to become that beautiful.

 

Well naturally we want a doll that appeals to us. Why would we get a doll if we didn't like it? Though usually my dolls(I only have one so far, but I've gone a new one coming in and three more planned out) have their appearance based off their personality. Fynn, my RS Song, for instance, has freckles and green eyes with wild brown hair to accentuate his boyish attitude and his love of nature and adventure. Momo, the doll coming in who is a Felixdoll Green, has big poofy red hair and pink, green, or brown dresses to show off her adorable bouncy self. The fact that she never wears shoes.

Then I have two twin princesses planned out; Kaya and Sadie. Both very pretty, but prettier than I would normally get for a doll(yet still what I would consider beautiful) though one looking girlier than the other.

Then I have a geeky boy planned named Toby. He's a technowizz(actually based off Eddie from Double Switch) So his appearance will look very similar to what Eddie would wear.

 

When I was searching for my first BJD, I establish how I want her to look like. She needed to look beautiful for me. So I chose a doll which reflect my ideal of beauty.
I think dolls are made to look beautiful, to be beautiful.

 

What she said!

 

For my girl dolls, they definitely do reflect what I find beautiful and attractive in a female, but since I appreciate a variety of types of beauty, they are quite different. They do have some traits in common though -- thus far they are all under 60cm, perhaps because I am a short person myself and have never aspired to obtain the sort of beauty that a 5'10" model has. And I give all my (non-child) girls long hair because I have always loved long hair for girls.

As for boys though . . . I guess that they reflect a different sort of beauty that I like. I remember reading in a psychology class the theory that people find things beautiful/attractive for one of two reasons: the desire to have (as a spouse, worker, friend, toy, eye candy, etc) or the desire to be (like that person/thing in some way, however small). For example: a man has a picture of a bikini model in his gym locker because he finds her beautiful and wishes he could have a girlfriend that looked like her. While a woman may have a picture of the same bikini model in her gym locker because she finds her beautiful figure motivating and aspires to be more like that. So I guess all of my dolls reflect my ideals of beauty, just not in the same way.