Do your dolls reflect your own ideals of beauty?

Yes.
I think all my dolls and future dolls are beautiful, and represents my view on beauty.
That said, it doesn't mean that their look necessarily has to be "perfect".
Scars and imperfections can be very beautiful too.

I like men with sharp eyebrows, long hair and dark make up and such. This is not to everyones taste, but it is to mine, this means that my male dolls will probably look like that.

 

I'd have to say it's a definite yes for myself.
When I first began looking around for my first doll, I was a bit discouraged at the slender female bodies I was finding with almost every doll I looked at. The slender look does wonders for so many dolls and their owners, but I imagined my girl having a more mature, womanly figure, with a bit o' meat on her bones, and curves!!
At one point I was beginning to think I'd have to settle on a more slender body (which wasn't too terribly disappointing, as I still saw so many beautiful examples of such bodies).

Then, well...I found Iplehouse.

My girl sports red hair as well, which I happen to have a bit of an obsession with~

 

Yes my dolls really do reflect my own image of what constitutes true beauty. But what is true beauty? Example my little BID looks like Oprah Winfrey who I always considered a beautiful woman.

 

I love my boys, they're beautiful to me, but all incomplete and I think they'll achieve there full potential and my ideal of beauty once I have more time and money into them. Also once a few of my skills are mastered, I'd like to get a bit better at faceups, I think I'm alright at this point, but I know theres room for improvement, and once I master photography so I can show their true beauty. :]

I do think my sculpts are attractive and do justice for the characters i have in mind. ^^

 

My dolls are very attractive to me, of course, and they all represent what I think is true beauty, even the anthro, haha.
I can't tell you how thrilled I was to discover a doll like Sleeping Elf's Bonbon and Coco. Rounded bodies are sweet on Yo-SDs but it's lovely to see them on adult dolls. So while some of my dolls are rather slender, I prefer dolls that are a bit softer around the bellies. That's my ideal beauty.
I also enjoy scars, cataracts, and white hair so I hope to incorporate them into my dolls.

 

Yes, I think so. And it's the same for child type. I want my children to look cute and innocent and proper and happy. And I want my girl doll to look beautiful and wanted to be held and have nice skin. It's not me compensating for something I don't have, but I do think about what I like and I put that on my doll (future doll) because I want to love/like my doll, so why would I put something on her that I don't like/think is beautiful?

 

Most of them do represent my ideals or at least something I find attractive in some way. A lot of their perceived beauty comes from how attached I am to the character, however. A sculpt I really love that doesn't end up with a 'personality' is unlikely to appeal to me as much and may eventually stop appealing to me altogether. Whereas some that I wasn't original keen on that fit a character well end up becoming very attractive to me.

 

Yes, my dolls reflect and will reflect them. I wouldn't dress any of my doll into a flappy-baggy jeans ._.

 

Yes, very much so. I won't buy a doll that doesn't fit inside my parameters of beauty because I don't see the point in spending that much money on something I'm not going to enjoy looking at. Doesn't mean they're ugly or anything, but they're just not for me. Everyone has different tastes, that's what's so interesting about the hobby.

 

I try to make my dolls beautiful and unique at the same time.

 

Absolutely yes. Although it depends on the character. I have some dolls, who I found very beautiful, but they aren't my ideal of beauty. But yes, in the basic they have to be beautiful. I'm strongly addicted to beauty, so of course I love to have beauty around me. It's often not what the main line think is beautiful. For example most of the models, of which the whole world is saying they are sooooooooo beautiful, aren't beautiful in my point of view, they aren't ugly, but it's not that I say yeah beautiful.
I love Gothic Beauty, so many of my dolls represent that style and I prefer my girls to be more womanly, meaning more hips and chest. I would never buy a skinny or flat chested doll. I don't want to say flat chest is ugly, but it's not my view of feminity. (my girl all have the normal bust) The same goes for skin colour, I always prefer white skin, as this is what is my taste of beauty.

All my dolls have to fit my point of beauty in a way. Of course I'm trying to make them as unique as possible and I'm always trying to give them a different style etc. I always try to show their personality somehow, but yes all of them are beautiful for me. I would never spend that lot of money for a thing which is not beautiful to me.

 

Not really. Dolls can induce many different thoughts and feelings from people. Cute, beautiful, badass, awesome, wonderful, majestic, etc...
I prefer having the feeling of awe and fulfillment when I see them(in my hands).

 

In some ways yes, and in some ways not. For example in real people I rather like plump or chubby women to be pretty, where as my dolls are all the "slim" type. I also like the Doll Chateau bodies that are REALLY skinny. So on dolls that's pretty since they are kind of fantasy characters to me. It's somehow odd, that on dolls things I normally would consider not so pretty, can be very beautiful in somekind of creepy way Also I like dolls with some imprefections, they make them look more personal. This I also like in real life as well. So my doll taste is kinda mix and match of what I find beautiful and not so beautiful in general.

 

In a way, yes. I view my dolls as creative outlets, allowing me a 3-dimensional medium for artistic expression. There are some ways that they represent elements I find beautiful, but not necessarily to their fullest extent. Like the OP, there are some extreme ideas of what I find beautiful that my dolls do not bear because such things don't fit their characters.

As for a doll that I found unattractive but was perfect for a character- the answer is yes, I would get the doll. I actually have one on my wishlist at the moment for my vampire OC. I'm planning on getting a Dikadoll Ruber vampire, whom I didn't find really attractive at first (partially due to the face-up in the company pics) but I know he's perfect for the character I have in mind. Heck, my husband even said that he is when he saw the doll's face. The thing is, the character is my favorite OC (even if he's a psychotic little bugger, lol) and I'm really excited for the opportunity to get him in dolly-form, even if it was a stretch for me to like the sculpt.

 

For me the answer is definitely!

My beauty ideals for facial features are full lips, arched hollywood brows and a square-ish jaw, and when it comes to dolls I like smaller eyes, and generally more realistic proportions. These are the types of features I look for in my dolls now.

When it comes to eyes and wigs, I find I'm pretty narcissistic here because I tend to go for black/very dark brown hair and light brown/amber eyes, which is my colouring.

However a recent doll I have on the way is not meant to be attractively, femininely beautiful as I normally like, her beauty is of a different type. She looks sickly, with fairly distorted features (DiM Laia), white blonde hair and white blinded eyes. She is not something I'd find all too attractive in a human (her colouring I would perhaps because I like albino colouring though her colouring isn't exactly albino lol. But her face looks, frankly, dead, I just happen to like that aesthetic as well; creepy and scary), but aesthetically I find her strangeness beautiful in itself. It's difficult to describe, I find her beautiful, but not attractive beautiful. She's cool looking like Tilda Swinton, but my normal taste is Angelina Jolie, if that makes sense. I find Tilda Swinton beautiful, but not in the same way Angelina Jolie is beautiful.
I'll still find her beautiful, but she isn't my 'ideal'.

When I first started the hobby I went for my favourites from Resinsoul because they seemed a nice starter company, I wouldn't buy the dolls I chose then now, but I won't sell them because they're my dollies!

I think of my Resinsoul Ya as pretty rather than beautiful, but I'm working on that, will probably get her a new wig and redo her face-up. Pretty doesn't satisfy me. Just like I'm not satisfied being called 'pretty', and find it a little insulting ahah. I need my dolls to be beautiful or I don't feel so much of a connection with them, but I'm pretty beauty obsessed people-wise, not just with dolls.

 

They do indeed, but my idea of beauty is... different... from most of the people I know. I do not find beauty in special characteristics of humans, but more in the diversity and irregularities of them.
One moment I may acquire a real fairylike little girl, then the next moment a boy with serious skin trouble (or, resin trouble, shall we call it? XD) and after that, a girl with a pear-shaped body, all while I may be longing for a directly fat doll. All of those represent some of what I call beauty, because their uniqueness and individuality incorporates something of my ideal of beauty. Just in being different from each other, they fulfill my criteria.

 

Interesting question! My husband is kinda jealous of my BJD guys ( specially one of them) cause he says I idealize too much on them... and they reflect the man of my dreams... LOL crazy!!!

But yes I think they do reflect my idea of sexy, cool, attractive. When the doll dont correspond to my expectations being the way I want them to be I sell them and its really frustrating.

 

Most definately!!! (with the exception of my Dollfie Dreams) All the male dolls I own have something in them that personifies what I think is male beauty. Thin lean muscles, tossled hair, thick lips, etc. Same with the girl dolls....I dont own any female SD's yet but the ones I tend to like have less makeup, smaller breasts etc.~ a more natural look which is what I think is beautiful!

 

I am very new to this hobby but i do spend hours on line looking fo the perfect doll. I have a few picked out and i have many plans for them. So my answer to this question would have to be yes. When i look for a doll i look for featurs in the face i find atractive. And what i think atractive is may be diff from alot of people. But thats ok. As long as i love them it doesnt matter.

(Saying these thangs kinda makes me feel like im shallow....but im really not lol. I just like pretty dolls that i can make into my characters.)

 

I think it happens subconciously or completely aware that the dolls end up looking like how we would want to look like or what we think looks beautiful in our own mind. But it's very interesting.
Then again it's no wonder, we poor our soul and mind on the dolls to make them stunning and beautiful, I don't think anyone would make their doll look unattractive on purpose.