How important is it to you to have similar styles in face-ups for all your dolls?

This is not a big deal to me, I try to buy what I like . I must admit when I look at my dolls, feels like looking at clothes in my closet. You don't realize you've purchased a bunch of the same style or color

 

It is pretty important to me in general to have a cohesive flow to my collection, though in more recent years I have been branching out a bit in styles of dolls.
For my Delfs and Kid Delfs, I want them all to have that classic old school Luts feel to them. I have go so far as to pay more for a faceup because I found someone willing to do faceups with a similar style.

Personally if I were to do another sibling pair, I would for sure send them to the same artist if at all possible.

 

I honestly don't care about that kind of consistency in the slightest. My collection is a mess of horribly clashing aesthetics and I kind of like that. I have dolls with gorgeous, professional-looking faceup next to dolls with my own sad, amateurish attempts, and it has never bothered me, though I definitely see how it could be a problem for some people.

 

Honestly, I'm kind of on the fence for this one. I don't really care whether or not the aesthetics of my dolls match, but I also DEFINITELY have a type of face up style that I go for, so they might end up unintentionally matching anyway? I'd only be really particular about it if the dolls were supposed to be related in some way I guess.

 

I've never really considered if it's important to me or not, eheheh because I do all my own faceups for my dolls so I pick what style I want... I just do similar styling on dolls in the same little groups.

 

Don't think it would stop me. I can't decide on makeup for my own face. Sure it may look a bit weird in a photo where I may have all of them on display but I don't think that would change my mind. I am keen on just getting company faceups with future purchases for now, as I learn more about the hobby.

 

I always subject the faces of dolls to their character. When I learn to paint faceups, I would like them to have my signature. But I'm not looking for a uniform style. It's enough if my various dolls don't look silly in a photo together.

 

I don't care about the faceup similarities but I do only keep the volks 1/3 girls in the end and only buy volks 1/3 girls now ><

 

I'm one of those people who buy dolls to fit characters and since all of my characters interact with each other I find it the best when my dolls have similar aesthetic both sculpt and faceup-wise. However I see nothing bad when someone has a bunch of dolls in very different styles. Diversity is a wonderful thing. If I could afford many dolls I'd probably experiment more with it as well.

 

I have a mix of my own face ups (varying quality), company, and professional face ups. I don't mind the variety and seeing high quality work encourages me to improve my skills!

I focus more on sculpts that look good together than face ups that match. If I'm planning to photograph my dolls together, they need to be in scale and look vaguely like they could be in the same world, ie not hyper realistic dolls with huge anime eye dolls. But, the face up can be quite different. In real life people have all kinds of make-up and styles, so I would not worry too much if there is differences in style of face up.

However, for dolls that are twins or family members, having the same style of face up (probably from the same artist, but maybe not!) would more important, so that they look related.

For dolls that I don't belong to each other's worlds I don't worry at all. Any aesthetic goes!

 

I like a variety of dolls size wise and I only have company face ups so far. I buy dolls because I like the aesthetic and it’s not important to me that they have the same style of face up. I generally go for realistic SD male sculpts and maybe that particular aesthetic means that those dolls do work together, in a way. I hope to learn to do face ups at some stage but I know I’d work on a blank head rather than wiping a company face up.

 

I seem to be 100% in accord with you on this one; my collection has to be perfectly consistent across all dolls, with similar faceups and sculpts, even clothing style, I just want them to look like they are all from the same family or something! Of course I don’t have any intention to have identical dolls, but sisterly for sure.
I also struggled when starting my collection to find the aesthetic to settle on - eventually I discovered doll makers that all fit together well and work towards maintaining that consistency.
My tip if you are struggling to find your aesthetic is to just experiment; get some dolls, see what you like and don’t like, your family will grow and shrink as you figure it out and that’s okay ^^
When I started in the hobby I had dolls of so many different styles and sizes and it’s what led me to discover my perfect match after about 5 years! Have fun with it

 

I like dolls with a very sweet style, and I always get company face ups, which are usually done in that typical soft, sweet style. So it’s not very difficult for me to get dolls with similar faceup styles.

There are, of course, variations in the colors and tones on my dolls’ face ups (one has lots of warm pinks, the other has more cool pinks), but that’s ok with me.

 

I am not a fan of having similar faceups
I like my dolls to all have sth unique in themselves.

but personally however, I like my dolls looking natural rather than fancy

 

For me, it's less that i want all my dolls to look the same and more that i prefer a certain faceup style, so all/most of my dolls are in that style.

I like bold, stylized faces, so all my dolls are bold and stylized.