Do your dolls reflect your own ideals of beauty?

of course, i wouldn't have dolls that i didn't think were pretty, or i wouldn't pick a doll that i was not 100% sure of visually

 

I bought my dolls because I think they are beautiful, they are both different though and I find many different sculpts beautiful so I'm not sure that they directly reflect my ideals of beauty rather I just find them beautiful in their own way. I wouldn't buy a really ugly doll though.

 

Some days ago found that all the dolls that attract me look like me at some points. SOOM Amber deer with huge hips, Dollshe Saint with face, Spiritdoll Acer with the form of his eyes. Guess, i'm narcissus, cos i can admire dolls olny when they look like me at some points, but are more beautiful than me.

 

Of course I pay attention to the look of the doll, but all my dolls look very different. I don't buy my dolls according a certain idea of beauty. The look must fits to the dolls and looks well for me.

 

;v; Yes, to a certain extent I think my taste in dolls does reflect my own ideals of beauty. I think "dreamy" eyes, a little bit of chubbiness, and pouty lips are absolutely gorgeous, so I tend to gravitate to dolls with these features. But my concept of beauty is very broad, and I don't think that one needs to have a very specific set of features to be considered "beautiful" in my eyes.

That being said, if I see a sculpt and I don't consider it in some broad way to be beautiful I wont buy it. And the reason being is because I envision all of my characters/dolls as being "beautiful" but in their own ways and not necessarily fitting a specific ideal. I of course do not want all of my dolls to have dreamy eyes and pouty lips just because I like them. But if I can't see the beauty in the sculpt, then it doesn't feel like my character to me because the character is beautiful in my eyes, if that makes sense. Not necessarily my definition of idealistically beautiful, but the sculpt must be beautiful (or captivating I guess is a better word) in some way to me.

 

Ideals of Beauty... Not really.

What I find interesting or attractive or cute... Maybe.

I think there is a kind of fascination with all kinds of things that are not classically beautiful. So I can believe that an owner would love a doll that is not traditionally attractive.

I buy dolls mostly for things that attract me... and perhaps I find those things beautiful, but not Ideally Beautiful. Just something that calls to me.

I DO find the dolls beautiful in many ways, but I don't just want gorgeously beautiful things lying about looking beautiful. I like things with stories and with character and with costumes that add to it all...

Of course, my ideas of what I find attractive must be affecting my doll-buying decisions at least unconsciously. But I'm not sure if I can truly say that my dolls reflect my "ideals of beauty."

 

Well yes and no.... All my dolls are reflections of characters for a book I'm writing... and with all of them I strive to give them some sort of flaws... Of course just looking at the default dolls on almost any doll site now days seems to project the stereotypes of what society seems to deem as beautiful... There really aren't many realistic projections of beauty in dolls anyways... Most of the female dolls have perfect breasts and toned bodies, with long eyelashes (referring to default face-ups) and beautiful perfect hair... The males have that the perfectly sculpted abs and chiseled features.... so really no matter how you look at it even if you do mod your dolls to add flaws most times you are already paying for something that already has projections of beauty in the artistry of the sculpt you are paying for.

I have dolls that do have the toned stomachs and perfect breasts etc... although several I have redone the face-ups added scarring and modded them with flaws etc to make them unique... but I realize that they will still have the original projections of beauty through their sculpts.

I seriously have yet to see anyone make a morbidly obese doll or a severely anorexic doll or even a doll that has a muffin top lol... the reason being, people think it's unattractive but that's what we see in our everyday life that as a writer using dolls to help in my visualizing journey it would help to have characters with those kind of bodies etc... but thus is the way of society so we will continue to create more dolls as the image we would rather see, than what they should truly look like.

(Sorry for my tirade but it's something that's bothered me with society and it's projections of self image via dolls like barbie that hold people to unrealistic standards of self image...)

 

Yes and no (like a lot of people who have replied!).

For me there are two standards of beauty? And one is what I hold myself to and one is what I hold other people to. I want a doll who looks like a standard of beauty that I want, but can't achieve. So the doll I am pining and waiting for at the moment, I know that she will share some similarities to me in appearance (brunette, freckles, young-looking) which I like in myself, but she will be much more beautiful than me. It will be nice to look at her and feel satisfaction in how she's turned out, even if I can't be that pretty myself. For my future dolls, this probably won't be the case so much! But I still want them to have the same archetype of being slender, youthful, long-haired, gorgeous, etc, etc. I want them to be beautiful, definitely.

But I wouldn't say I want someone who is the most beautiful person to me (my girlfriend, of course) as a doll? I mean, her face is so human and lovely that it would look strange to try to have a doll who looks like her. I don't find dolls attractive like /that/ so of course there's going to be a difference between what is the ideal of beauty (girls like my girlfriend) and what is beautiful in a static, unattainable, colder way (dolls). I hope any of that made sense.

I wouldn't want a doll who was very ugly, I think. I know I will use my doll as a cathartic experience and I think looking at something unattractive wouldn't be as helpful to me, it wouldn't calm me. I wouldn't want a very overweight doll because it doesn't fit into the right kind of beautiful (larger human girls are definitely hot to me, but it's not the static, unattainable beauty that I want in a doll). And I definitely wouldn't want a severely unattractive doll because that would make me very uncomfortable. So yeah, I feel like my dolls will be a little unvaried but that's okay. I'll be happy with them and that's the main thing.

 

definitely yes but also incorporate my style at the same time. i like more pale skined dolls( like myself) and try to fit a style that they would look good in. even though i think all dolls are beautiful in there own way,just depends on the person creating a character.

 

I think I suppose to say yes to this question, I dress all my dolls as oriental style with stunning ornaments

 

I have some rather odd ideas of what is and isn't pretty and what is or isn't attractive. I mentioned them separately because I consider them to be different things. I often find things that are not exactly pretty to be more attractive, and things that are super pretty to be less attractive or even not at all. This is especially true of how I judge appearances.

 

It depends, really. A lot is determined by the dolls personality. Some of them don't really fit my idea of beauty much, if at all, but I still find them to be pretty in their own way. They all have something about them that's beautiful. Like, my DZ Cherry. She's not very pretty personality-wise, and I wouldn't exactly call her a traditional beauty, she actually looks kind of boyish to me, but I still think she's pretty in her own way. She has a nice, fairly natural looking face-up and the body that I have her on is a lovely pear shape. She also has really pretty hands. She's not based on my own ideals of what's "beautiful", but she's still pretty in her own right and I still love her.

 

of course, i wouldn't pick a doll i dont think was beautiful, i pick all dolls based on their face, unless the face is my idea of perfect i wont buy it.

and like always, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and as in real life its the imperfections we have that make us beautiful to someone else.

 

I would say yes... there are features of the dolls that drew me to them. I mean when I'm looking at dolls I don't find one I think is ugly and then think yeah I want that it. However, I don't know that what I find beautiful in my bjds translates well to a real human.

 

Yes, I very much think so.
My doll has a general face shape I find beautiful with a small nose.
She has eye color and hair color(s) that I think are the most attractive.
Her clothing is all feminine and pretty.
So for me, yes.

I don't think it's that way for everyone though.
I really like to see peoples unique dolls that are heavily modded or scarred.
Maybe that is their sense of beauty or maybe something they are really into (or maybe they just think it looks cool, in which case, I agree- It is cool! ).

 

sort of...not all my dolls are "beautiful". Silas is a drunk with sallow skin, dry lips and deep bruises around his eyes. Alistair is going ot have acne halfway down to his chest. But the dolls that aaare beautiful? I buy sculpts that are shaped like how I draw, especially eyes, and draw them up the way I'd draw...and I draw what I think is beautiful, so..

 

I think my dolls are more like my idea of beauty.
I mean I want to look at them and say, 'wow they are beautiful and I created them'. You know what I mean`?
I never would make a doll to fit a character, if that would mean, the doll would look ugly.
I suppose I would use basic information about the character ( such as scars hair colour and such) but would make the doll look beautiful,
even if the original character wasn't.

 

Yes. I like my doll to look like a little princess

 

I think it's only natural that one's dolls should reflect their own personal aesthetic. For example, as I lolita I am drawn to dolls with that type of styling.

 

Definitley. My mum actually said my latest doll looks like the kind of guy I'd go for! (tall, skinny, smirky). I prefer thin, sharp facial features on both my dolls and people in real life.