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Dolls of all colors.

Jul 4, 2012

    1. i have been woundering what makes you all choose the color of your dolls. I chose a white for my doll becasue of the back story i have written foe him and the other two dolls i am planning on getting, but what moves you all to choose. and what is your fave to work with. ( just picking brains since i am new and i did not see another thread of this but if thier is sorry)
       
    2. Usually if I pick based on face-up to be honest. Like what would look best with the face-up I like the most. I feel that's the best way to start.
       
    3. My dolls are based on my existing characters, so they'll match their designs. The first two are quite pale, but I'm really looking forward to getting a darker tanned girl. Some of the resin tones are really gorgeous.

      So I guess what prompts me is which characters I decide to adapt into dolls.
       
    4. First doll- Normal, no reason I guess. Just cause it was normal I suppose.

      Second doll - White. Picked due to her character. She is very dainty and has lived indoors for the majority of her life, she is also 'royalty'. That's actually not a good descriptor, she's not royal in a kings & queens sense but if you translate it from her realm to our world, that's the closest thing I can think of. So I picked white.

      Third doll - Since she is a tiny and is a child character, I choose normal. I worried that white would make her look ill or malnourished which she is not. Normal fit her character.

      So basically, it comes down to character. If I had a tan character I'd choose that skintone, for example if the doll spent a vast amount of time outdoors or if their ethnicity called for darker skin, then by all means, that's what I'd pick. I'm not going to discriminate due to color. My thoughts have always been that you should choose what you love and what fits the character/look/style you're going for. If you have a fantasy character, choose that pink or blue or green skin tone.
       
    5. Megumi is "normal" colored (very fair by Western standards). She's the only doll I have not based on a pre-existing character. Ashe is the same skintone because she's part Asian, and very fair-skinned. Belle Fontaine is WHITE, because she's one of those redheads with paper-white skin. Miyae is also fair, but not as fair as Belle even though she's also a redhead. Chaeri has darker skin because of her mixed ethnicity; hers is actually "tan" skin, at least by Asian doll standards.
       
    6. I have a policy of no white dolls, because I just don't like this extreamly pale skin. If for example I was to make a gost, I would choose white, but my dolls character comes with the time they spend with me, I really don't have a prefabricated story for them. So, no white dolls for me. I go by esthetics, and much prefere the natural skin tones.
      (Zhouyu---normal pink; Jean ----luts normal/bbb normal pink; Lucius----Luts normal)
       
    7. Oh, a ghost doll would be so awesome. I'd make a ghost doll. *daydreams*
       
    8. I think of my dolls as a group of friends, all ages and all ethnicities, some with children. This way, I can buy all the dolls I love and work them in with the group.
       
    9. I started out only buying white dolls because I only planned to get Amir and Loki and was going with a goth theme....but...as my crew expanded, it just seemed extremely unrealistic for them all to be WS, so now I also have NS, NS-Y, NS-P, chocolate...and tan on the way. I have over 30 dolls either home or planned, with only one exception, they are all humans in a modern world, so it just seems "normal" to me to have a variety.

      But as far as favorites, I LOVE NS environmental resin. I think I do the most realistic faceups on that type and it has that pretty glow to it. If every single doll I own could be enviro resin, they would be. Though I'd still have a variety of skin tones!
       
    10. I have not had the opportunity to choose a color of my all dolls. There wasn't such option in the sites. But I chose LV Migma (Soom) because it is unusual and misterious like she %)
       
    11. I almost always go with NS because WS will really show yellowing and tan can turn green/have other effects. It's worked well so far since none of my NS dolls look yellow at all. My favorite color aesthetically is tan though, the darker the better <3
       
    12. I choose based on how much I like the colour of the resin. My dolls don't have pre-existing characters and stories to stick to, the colour selection is purely based on aesthetics. I am currently quite fond right now of the pale normal skin tone that seems quite standard across the companies I follow, because it is super easy to pick colours to accentuate the sculpt when doing a faceup. While I'm fond of white skin resin, and of this particular shade of brown-tan, getting colours to show up right in the right intensity is quite difficult for me.
       
    13. I usually pick by character...like, I wouldn't get a paper-white for a character who is out in the sun all day. Some of them, I can't have otherwise (f.e. my crobidoll Choco who only comes in his awsome supercute tan~) so I make their skin color match the character. Some others I just want a certain skin tone and I'll make a character to match it >u<
      I do think the majority of my dolls will be in normal skin tones though, because I'm rather picky about tan and white tones >u<;;
       
    14. With me it depends very much on what I have in mind- that's usually the basis. Usually I prefer white skin, as I really like the pale gothic skin with people as well as with dolls. But it depends on what I'm working with. With my Harry Potter Gothic Story white skin is a must have. Within my other story I'm more flexible, although even there I'm looking on what they are meant to be. I have an ice family- so naturally they have to have white skin, snow blue skin or something that can be related to ice and snow- meaning bluish, whitish, greyish, maybe light green too. Another family in that storyline started with my tan Chalco, who is a nomad king, naturally his family should be tanned in a way too- so that family has skin colours of tan, bronze and tawny skin so far. My underworld setting has colours of light violet, white and grey skin planned.

      Usually I plan characters up front, so I have a pictures of them in mind. Sometimes the image can change, when there is release in another skin colour than planned. If the rest is just perfect, and it's the first character of that setting- then I change the setting image. This happened with my Soom Ender. He had been absolutely perfect for his character, but I didn't wanted him to be normal skin or tan skin. In the end I changed the storyline to a normal skin setting due to him.

      So I'm looking for the whole setting in which the doll should be involved when planning the skin colour of it. The setting and the skin should fit together and the doll itself should fit to his companions within the storyline.
       
    15. I always prefer normal skin (but am considering some tan if I can come up with a character). And it's ususally normal yellow. It just feels a lot more natural for me, and I'm not a huge fantasy color fan.
       
    16. I just get the sculpt I like, for example, with my CP Chiwoo, soom tiny and 3 DOD boys, I didn't have an option for skin color. The same for my pukis. I got Puki Sugar from the marketplace and she's WS so I wanted her 'twin' brother to be the same, and I got Puki piki in WS. The only exception is the IH JID Soa I'm waiting for. I had 4 skin color options to choose from and I chose Peach Gold because it looks more natural^^ and I'm hoping I like the color as it is completely new to me!

      I will choose WS as my favorite since most of dolls came default by that and I like it.
       
    17. I love love love all the tan color dolls :aheartbea, so if a doll is made in tan, that's my choice. I just think that tan/brown looks very nice, there is no other reason. Of course I also have to like the sculp, before I hit the 'buy' button. All my dolls are either normal skin or tan/bronze/ebony (+one rosy brown ;) ) -no whites yet, nor plans to have any.
       
    18. i absolutely adore tan color dolls too. i also like unnatural skintones like gray. that said, when i look at a doll, my priority list goes something like:

      - do i like the face/sculpt? (this is the most important thing)
      - what kind of personality do i imagine the doll would have?
      - what skintone and body type would suit that personality?

      so even though tan is my favorite skintone, i actually only have one tan doll right now. i really hope to acquire more tan dolls in the future as i just adore them. but, the skintone has to be in sync with my 'image' of the doll's character that i have in my head (like i don't really think about an introverted doll who spends a lot of time indoors having a tan complexion...even if, yes, you can be naturally tan even if you avoid the sun).

      mainly it's just frustrating that most companies offer tan or alternative skintone as an 'exception'. i don't know if i'd go so far as to say it is racist, but in Asia having pale skin or white skin is widely considered a beauty ideal, so i think that's reflected in many of the dolls they produce. honestly, when i received my tan skin doll, i was a little shocked because i expected her tan to be much darker than it actually was. so even the 'tan' skintones are pale compared to what they could be.
       
    19. Strictly the character the doll is based on. If I find a random sculpt I like, a story starts building itself in my head and the skin color is just another part of that character! Sometimes I happen upon someone else's doll and like the skin color of theirs, so that's what I aim for, too. XD
       
    20. Character, character, character. If the doll's character is dark-skinned, the doll will be dark-skinned. If they're grey, they'll be grey. If they're paper white or blue or split black/white vertically, that's the colour they'll be! Though I do honestly feel that I could stand to have a bit more racial/colour diversity in my cast of characters, but that's another topic entirely.