Do your dolls reflect your own ideals of beauty?

Do your dolls reflect your own ideals of beauty?

Um...
It's either No or Not yet.

Another user's dolls do reflect my ideals of beauty! I saw the photos and I think she is so talented, I'm somewhat glad that we like different dolls, because, otherwise, I would be frustrated that I couldn't draw face-ups that good or saw the clothes like that!
I guess I won't write her name here and send her a huge-fan-PM instead!

 

I don't have any characters in mind for my doll, so I don't have any goal really other than something pretty to look at.

For me an ideal beauty would be very happy, though, so very few BJD sculpts actually appeal to me. Even the one I've chosen to get, Lasia, is a bit vague-looking for me (i might try opening her eyes a little?) but hopefully I can fix that up with a faceup.

I would also love some "softer" dolls (more of a classic figure) but I kinda understand how that might not be so appealing in a fixed medium as resin...haha!

 

I think that I do. I tend to lean toward more feminine looking men.

 

Ｙｅｓ！　it does reflect your personal taste!! You would like to have the doll dressed the way you like it instead of someway you do not appreciated it. I like a mitual feel and cool feel for my doll, so i always find somehting that can shows that .

 

Well, I don´t know. I don´t think my dolls does reflect my ideals... I love to make ugly clothing and stuff for my dolls... Maby that´s beacuse I don´t want it to look too cute.., It´s more realistic for them to be "not so perfect".

 

I think it's reasonable to say that we create based on our ideals. But that doesn't have to be a beauty ideal. To me, it seems well within the realm of possibility to believe that dolls reflect the creative ideals of their owner/keeper, even when it's a doll that's, say, based on an anime or TV character.

 

I think so, yes. Without realizing so, I have one dollfie who is a major crossdresser, very androgynous, and another who is an emo boy. Both looks I adore in "reality", and my third doll is an Iplehouse Lee, who I am now considering selling. Although he is a very nice doll, excellent quality and detail, I do not "love him". He has a very, very muscular body, something I am never attracted to in real life males, and that is the part of him that I am most put off by. I'm sure it's partially that he just doesn't fit in with the rest of my doll family with that build, but I think it also has to do with me personally not finding that look attractive.

 

Simply answer, yes.

I wan't them to look beautiful to watch and I made them look as I wan't.

 

Totally yes!

For me it's important that they look beautiful in my eyes but I also that they're appreciated by others

 

Yes and no. Sometimes I wished there where a bit more natural looking dolls. They tend to look like supermodls, it would be nice to see less supermodel dollies with a bit more healthier body scults. ^^

 

Oh absolutely! (Excuse me while I talk about all of my planned dolls like I own them already, lol)
As a start, all of my dolls are based off of settings I find beautiful and romantic - I have circus performers, fair folk, succubi, angels, artists. Their personalities are all of the kind of characters I love to read about and develop for myself, and the ones that have stories have stories that I think are interesting.
They also look like what I find beautiful. Every single one is slim and either relatively curveless or has a bottom-heavy body shape besides one girl (and she's still not so well-bestowed XD), they all have hair colors and eye colors that appeal to me, and they all seem to have funny shaped eyebrows. They're flawed, but in such a way that they look perfect to me.

 

i don't know about any of my dolls reflecting my ideals, but then i'm not sure i think i have any one ideal. i like mine to be unique, but i also want them to look attractive and as 'real' as possible. so maybe they are my ideal dolls? i do tend to collect sculpts that i find beautiful and realistic so maybe the fact that they appeal to me somehow reflects those ideals i didn't know i had

 

I meanwhile cannot name my boy a beauty ideal as he is waited still by changes. But he is very close to an ideal!))

 

I don't think my doll need to be ideal... I believe in love on the first sight... yes.. even with doll..

 

I tend to wanna dress a doll in a pretty dress and long hair rather than how i actually am. i think that they are absolutely gorgeous but i know that i couldnt pull it off.

 

I think that my dolls do exhibit beauty but realistic beauty or creative beauty? Non of my dolls are beautiful in the same sense of like me...but they are beautiful I think they are beautiful in the way that i feel anime and graphic novel artists renditions of beauty are gorgeous. So to be honest I don't know.

 

My dolls do reflect my standards of beauty to a certain extent...if a doll has an attribute that I consider beautiful, then I buy it. My favorite dolls are usually redheads or orientals, but my collection does not consist solely of that type of doll.

I am neither oriental nor a redhead, by the way. I just happen to find Asian people and red hair beautiful!

 

Umm, you know.. Before now I was upset about I could'nt find my only doll. And then I figured out that it was because of.. I wanted them to be completely perfect and in every doll I liked I could find some things wich weren't ideal, so I was catching myself on thinking very often about how can I help it, change this things, even if they were really minor details wich the ordinary man won't even recognize! Just like.. "too long" wrists in longsool body, lol) but otherwise it was perfect to me! Everything is because of I'm a perfectionist)) I mean I was.
Now I learnt how to accept each doll's personality as it is, do not require pecfection from everything) And I see they are all beautiful, despite that my beloved Lance's nose is very long in my opinion.

BUT. Of course I still try to make my dolls more beautiful day after day and yes, they present my ideas of beauty. Even if they were characters from my head, all of these guys are beautiful to me)) So, there's no other way for my dolls just to be as pretty as they're able to be!

 

Hm, yes I believe so. One of my dolls is not beautiful, in fact, compared to my other two she is a bit plain, but she is still incredibly dear to me. I look at her and I think she is absolutely gorgeous. She still needs a little work to match my character completely but still...

 

Absolutely. If the doll isn't pretty (even pretty in it's own way) then I won't buy it. I wouldn't buy an ugly doll unless they were really endearing, which would basically mean they aren't ugly anyways. I think humans in general are very beautiful, so, really, my ideals of beauty are very broad. I don't have a set of ideals like "beauty is large eyes, tiny graceful body" etc so everything goes. But certainly, my dolls are definitely examples what I think is 'pretty'.