Do your dolls reflect your own ideals of beauty?

My answer is "yes". I have Morten with his strong skull and small lips, and huge nose, I find that really handsome. And then Helena with her full cheeks, some people dislike it but I love it, it's like she actually got flesh on her face. And then there's the personality. As some of my dolls are based off characters I've created years ago, I find them beautiful, and complex (if that makes sense?). I usually like unique looking sculpts vs "generic" sculpts (you know, those dolls sometimes you can't tell apart from each other) that might be really gorgeous-looking, but they're souless to me. In conclusion, I agree with Saraqael xD

 

exactly! if you weren't attracted to or drawn towards the doll in the first place, you wouldn't have bought it.
i can understand if you have an OC that looks unattractive that you want to find a doll for, but other than that, if you have the doll, you liked it for some reason.

 

I totally sculpt dagger to my idea of beauty.
I find Dolls bodies also very important and I like mature dolls who are not cutesy pretty but seem confident probably a bit lost in thougt and are far from childlike.
Also in clothes and hair I dress her in things I would (maybe~probably) like to wear myself but are just to sexy/weird for everyday life. ^^" hihi

I love her dreamy eyes with large eyelashes and gave her freckles well because I think it's beautiful/pretty not especially because it would suit some kind of character...

 

I find all of my OCs (who will eventually make their debut out of my mind as 3D dolls) beautiful in someway- whether it be physical beauty like the Trance, who shall be the first to make his dollie debut, or a beautiful personality like another (currently unnamed) OC... they're beautiful to me and I love them.

 

This! I often see dolls that I think are really beautiful while on DOA but I couldn't have them for myself, namely the Soom MD dolls since my characters are all human. I do notice that my planned dolls follow a stylistic set of 'rules' in my head but I think that is just because they're family and would naturally look alike.

 

Well, for me, since I only want male dolls, I think it's more a reflection of the inner me. Or at the least the lost beauty we all have inside are selfs that most feel we've lost or never had....so I think it's a reflection of the inner beauty we need.

 

For me, my doll has been faceup-less for the duration that ive had him, a year. Now i know that for a doll to be faceup-less this LONG seems ghastly to the Doll community. whenever i tell people they say just to try it out. But ive grown so fond of him with his pale, pure naked face that i don't want to try and change him yet. Not untill he gets a girl that is. then maybe it can be a ceremonial thing possibly. i just don't want him to be clothed on his face and her not be and it to be a separator between them.

ANYWAY, the reason this correlates to my image of beauty is because i NEVER wear makeup, well rarely, only for special outings and such. Its just my clothes, the glitt, the glamor, but not the essential, basic standard of honest beauty that i subscribe to. And i suppose thats why i dotn feel that he needs anything to make him beautiful. Just in what he came as, the essential simplicity that he was, i feel is beautiful enough. i like the cleanness. the empty canvas

 

No not really, my doll isn't quite mature/realistic looking yet I don't dress him as a child should dress. So he would not be an attractive adult to me. I think of him as what he is, a doll. I do think he's cute, but if he were real, I wouldnt feel the same.

 

I would have to say so. After all, my dolls are all molds that I thought were very beautiful. Though when I do buy dolls, they must also be a good representation of the character they are going to be. So I guess you could say that even my characters are projections of my ideals of what is beautiful. Either way, I spend a great deal of time trying to make them perfect in my eyes.

 

My dolls do represent what is aesthetically pleasing to me. Even though my favorite doll, my Euclase, has a nose I'd find horrific on a real person, on a doll it's just perfect. I think I hold different standards for dolls than I do for people, but I think that's okay, just like holding different standards of beautiful for sculpture versus painting. But overall, I would say yes, I think my dolls reflect my personal sense of beauty, since they are the most aesthetically pleasing dolls I have found.

 

Not all of them, no, but definitely a few.

 

Not at all, they are my dolls after all. Granted they are beautiful but i keep a line betweenn my ideals of beauty and the beauty of my dolls. Before i even got into the BJD hobby i met a gorgeous chinese man and I married him, after that i saw a BJD doll... a lot of people assume that I had some sort of asian fetichism and that is why i married my husband. Husband=dolls=asian looking daughter...

My dolls are my dolls, they are lovely, i love them to bits, but that is all they are,my material comforters whenver i am stressed

HOWEVER: I will say that i bought a DollLove Ke just because she reminded me a lot of how my daughter looked when she was starting to walk...

 

I have yet to see an obese BJD.

 

I think my dolls are somewhat ideals of what I find beautiful...I can't say I really ever thought of it before. And as to the question you asked I'd have to say yes, even if I found the doll/character unattractive I'd still own him/her if I found a fit. The outside isn't what makes something beautiful whether it's living or inanimate...having had that character with me for so long would make them something important to me. I know that kinda sounds corny >.< Maybe I get attached easy.

 

most of the dolls I like have "barbie" like faces. I'm not sure if that's b/c that's my idea of beauty or b/c I collect barbies as well I've just become used to seeing that type of face.
Many of the more mature girls I like have an angular face with a pointed nose much like Avril Lavigne, and while I think she's pretty I don't really see her as my ideal of beauty.

 

lol yes. I love my ryu with his plain brown eyes and plain brown hair and big nose and gangly limbs. I find these kinds of boys the best kinds of boys. Just so long as they like Star Trek. And TLOTR. And Buffy.

 

To be honest, my dolls truly represent in what I find as a beautiful doll. I mean I really like many of the other dolls out there and I find some owners who have just amazlingly beautiful dolls. But to me, my dolls will always represent my idea of beauty. I wouldn't want something that I define it as ugly because I wouldn't ever be satified with it. As long as I'm satisfied with how the doll is then that is what I view as beautiful.

 

Yes. Because there is no point for me in surrounding myself things I don't consider beautiful.

 

I believe that my doll is definitely my ideal version of something--but not necessarily beauty. Maybe a version of similarity? Likeness? Growing up, I'd always wanted dolls that looked like me--black hair, yellow-toned skin, slightly slanted dark brown eyes. Never had that. But now I can...

 

My doll represents what I think is beautiful, he's dressed in the clothes that I like but rarely see in people walking the streets, accessories that match with his particular style that week, and hair/eyes that fits with his look and outfit for a particular week. I think everything about my doll - from his clothing to his shoes represent what I personally like. =)