Does your dolls have same face syndrome?

How do I say this... I have 2 pairs of twins (dolls of the same mold, although not necessarily twins as characters) That's how much I like certain types of faces! I was also going to buy a head I was eyeing for some time, but then my mum pointed out it looks A LOT like one of the heads I already own, despite being a head from another company. That was a revelation to me, honestly. I am now paying more attention so my dolls don't look too much like each other and trying to put an end to my love for twins lol. But it's harder to have a diverse collection when you mostly collect dolls of the same gender, made by the same company to boot

Anyway, I don't think it's a bad thing, because that's simply your preference, but if you want more variety, then go for it!

 

I don't think so. However, I have definite preferences for a certain roundish square jaw face shape and there are other features I gravitate towards as well. That being said I have dolls who look better and worse together and I think I have some different styles in my collection, so it's probably not excessively uniform.

 

For starters, I think the fact I have 14 Fairyland Alans means I'm not afraid of "same face syndrome"

That said, I think my collection is fairly diverse facially. Duplicate sculpts have drastically different face ups, or different wig styles that emphasize different parts of the face. I've tried to buy dolls based on knowing I had a similar one I liked before when I couldn't find the blank sculpt anywhere, and ended up disappointed. I have dolls generally grouped stylistically (MSDs with larger heads and eyes that make them look younger, mature tinies, SDs who are in scale with each other, etc), but there's several groups and they all look different.

 

I would say they all have their special and different features but almost all of them have „sleepy“ eyes. I only have one doll with big round eyes. They may have similarities such as eye shape or elf ears but i think they don‘t really look alike. But i have also have a thing for blonde dolls and i‘m actively trying to get more colour into my collection, so maybe they actually look all the same and i just don’t see it

 

I would say that my dolls aren't super same faced, but nearly all of them do have some facial features in common... the one thing that gets me every time is a specific lip shape, and as a result most of my dolls have pretty similar looking mouths.

 

I'd like to say mine have quite a bit of diversity and I don't really think any of them look much alike. But I guess it really depends on the person. Of my 24 1/3 dolls, 9 of them are from Migidoll. I see diversity in the sculpts, but others might not. Most of my girls have pretty faces with thicker lips and big eyes, even though they are all different companies except for two. All of my 1/3 crew are human sculpts (though my incoming girl will be green, she's still a human sculpt).

But my tinies are kind of all over the place! Huge range of sculpts, companies/artists, colors, species, fantasy/anthro/pets....nobody's looking much alike there!

 

I have an elf army so all must have elf ears of some type. Minus the dolls I allowed in as non-elves. I would say they all look very different (which make me wonder if they look good together) but because I tend to have 2 from any given company, it works!

 

And, I've been looking at a face that's the literal twin of a male sculpt I have. Roughly the same expression, but it's on a female head.

 

I like anime style faces and so that’s 95% of my bjd collection. I prefer to have my dolls look similar, so ‘same face syndrome’ doesn’t bother me. Even with similar anime faces, each doll has their own personality and distinctive look, but look like they belong together as a group.

 

I want to say no, mostly because being in this hobby has demonstrated to me that I have some pretty bad face blindness So I'm naturally drawn to faces that have big stand-out features because it helps me remember them. I think there's probably some sameyness in the fact that I collect multiple sculpts from the same sculptor/studio, so they have sort of a "family resemblance".

My anime style dolls all naturally have very similar face sculpts, though. I'd like to think that my faceups do a lot to distinguish them from one another, but that may just be that I've spent hours looking at them.

 

I pretty early on made the vow to only collect one of each sculpt but I ended up with somnia choyo twins bc the second one had a beautiful faceup and I thought it would suit her. Generally tho, I do really love a good smiley sculpt, or the other extreme, really grumpy. Half lidded eyes are also some of my faves too

 

I have a pair of Unoas so naturally they are more or less the same (and I'd do it again!) I feel like otherwise I'm quite good but when I take a look at my wishlist/dolls I would consider buying I realise they often have a very close resemblance to dolls I already own (Nuoyi's small nose, pouty face - if I put her next to any Peaks Woods, they're gonna be sisters; Michi's pointy nose and big eyes are gonna match a lot of Volks heads I like etc). I find it a bit hard to find new (to me) dolls that don't fall into either stylisation sometimes.

 

I am not afraid of owning same-faced-dolls, as I grew up loving Barbie and still to this day, I still collect Barbie even the basic blonde with blue eyes ones that kind of all look exactly the same (to most of us). Having said that, when I got into these dolls, I didn't want to own too many, and that meant less than ten (for me, more than that number would be too many). Since young, I've never been a fan of giant dolls, so I was afraid I would be stuck with giant dolls, with giant heads as I discovered these types of dolls back in the dark ages, when the aesthetics were all in that similar vein. Luckily, I am very picky when it comes to these types of dolls (not so much mass-produced five-dollar Babies, lucky me! >--->;;.). I seem to own one BJD in each size, mostly mature-ish looking facial sculpts, but also leaning in all kinds of aesthetics and genres. So, not one of them looks too similar to the other and most are not even "in-scale" with each other. I feel like only my first three would seem like they belong in the same universe, let alone look alike.

However, it is not something I planned or avoided at any cost. It just happened that way naturally for me. I would have been completely okay if all my BJD looked like cookie cutter versions of each other. I just happened to fall in love with very different looking BJD faces and aesthetics, when I found the ones that were right for me. (Now, if only that would be the case with OT mass-produced fashion dolls, that would be kind of nice..!) (:

 

I have six of exactly the same sculpt - the RML (Real Missing Link) R-01 or R20J (same sculpt as the R-01 but with optional elf-ears).


I fell in love with it nearly 20 years ago when |RML were still in business, and have been collecting more (and other RML heads, some of which also I have multiples of) as they've come up on thes secondary market in the years following their disappearance from the scene.

Other than the twins, they're all pianted and styled differently and , but since four of them are siblings/cousins, having the same face sculpt works quite well:


Teddy

 

I don’t really concern myself with sameness issues…for me it’s always been all about character, so that sort of naturally lent itself to diversity in sculpts anyway. I set my collection in a fantasy universe, like an ongoing fairytale, where I was free to collect every species and any size to express my individual characters. Of course this meant that after nearly two decades of slowly collecting at the rate of about 3 dolls per year, I’ve amassed a fairly large collection. But it’s been great fun and I love what I’ve accomplished in this hobby. With a larger collection, I feel it’s only natural to come up with some amount of sameness in sculpt styles (although I feel my characters are vastly different from one another for the most part, do to their individual styling.) And occasionally I’ve even deliberately sought out some sameness in groupings. I have two sets of twins in my collection for instance, and a grouping of 4 similar early Volks MSDs in a slumber party setting. I imagine that if you’re concerned about keeping your numbers small however, sculpt sameness might be more of an issue for you.

 

Thanks.

Although I may seem to be obsessed with this one sculpt, they are in fact a small opart of a more diverse range of dolls:


Teddy

 

I own a Dollzone Gray, and am going to purchase a Dream Valley Vine sometime soon. And the one doll on my wishlist is a Doll Chateau Dennis. These all have the same look to them, despite being from different companies. Soulful, is what it's been described as lol. These are the only human sculpts (besides Impldoll's Joshua, in my profile pic) that I'm the least bit interested in, so....yes. I have a type lol. Am I upset about it? No, not at all! I love it for a reason, and if it makes me happy to look at them then there's nothing wrong with having them in my collection.

 

I don't think so, but again, that can be kind of subjective. All my human-looking dolls come from different companies, and I usually purchase dolls to flesh out my characters (not only thinking about liking the doll by itself), so I think that has helped them to be very different from one another. That can sometimes be a curse because you'll have more trouble knowing if they're going to look in scale with each other, but I prefer it that way.