How old were you when you got into the doll hobby?

I was 20 when I first saw BJD online, 33 when I thought of getting my own. I am now 35 and hope to get my first BJD in 2021!

 

Probably in my late teens when I first looked at all the shinies online. 30 when I physically bought a doll for my collection.

 

I was 17 when I started in the BJD hobby in 2005 and I got my first doll the following year after saving everything I could!

 

32.

I was late to the party but hot damn bjds are cool and unique and really interesting to learn about. It's kind of nice getting into something new now. I haven't found anything new to obsess over in yonks.

 

I was 55 when someone at a local doll club gave a talk about BJDs. I joined DoA that very day and never looked back! I just instinctively knew they were the perfect hobby for my creative instincts. This was in 2006, and I’ve never regretted a single day since (nor have I gone a single day without being on Den of Angels.) When it says beneath my avatar “vintage flower child” it’s not just talking about the doll, folks!

 

I was in my teens when I first saw one, 30 when I bought one.

 

I first found BJDs when I was in the later years middle school. I had Pullips, and I just happened to stumble upon BJDs. I waited several years until I had enough money to buy my first doll. I am glad I waited that long because I got to lots of research in that time. I got my first doll five years ago.

 

I first discovered BJDs when I was 14, and playing gaiaonline way back in the day. Someone had posted a picture of a scene-styled Minifee to the forum there, and all everyone could talk about was how expensive and difficult they were to buy. And being a 14-year-old with very little spending money, I put it away in the back of my mind, believing that I’d never be able to buy a BJD.

Then, when I was 19, my mom, who knew I still wanted a BJD, offered to help pay for one as a Christmas gift. And so I got a Luts KDF Ani as my first doll. It’s been almost 10 years since then, and I’m just as into the hobby as I was back then.

 

I think I was around 23-24 when I first discovered BJDs? I'd just graduated from university and got my first job, which was probably a good thing as I was earning money and could indulge in getting my first doll that I got second hand.

 

I think I got into dolls in general around when I was 10, maybe 11? I'd always had dolls before then and liked them, but I never got serious about collecting and customizing them until my early tweens. I started off with fashion dolls like Monster Highs and Ever After Highs, and eventually found Azones, Pullips, etc, which was sort of my segway into discovering BJD. I was really into sewing for dolls and I also dabbled in prop making, though I was really bad at most everything custom-related.

I think I was still in elementary when I saw a BJD for the first time, and I was totally enamoured with how much more beautiful they were to me, than other dolls I had known before. That must have been when I was maybe 13 or 14.
I followed the hobby mostly in spirit, "window shopping" doll after doll, looking for the one doll I would invest my money in (or so my jobless teen self thought).

It wasn't until last year that I actually saved enough money to buy a doll, and by then I had decided to shell an existing character, so the kinds of sculpts I was looking for were different. I just received that very doll a couple months ago! For context, I'll now be 19 in just two week's time, so it was a very long time between my discovery of BJD and the moment I actually got to own one.

I've liked dolls for just about half the time I've been alive, and I definitely don't see myself dropping the hobby anytime soon.

 

I think it was 26, 10 years ago )))
When your salary gives you a chance to begin buying dolls))

 

I first saw BJDs when I was 16/17yrs old and got my first one when I was 18yrs old

 

I remember seeing bjds on livejournal and deviantart back in the mid aughts and I was HOOKED. I must have been 19 when I got my first doll? Most of my "doll time" since then has been with vinyl kids, but I'm now in my 30s and getting back into the resin lifestyle.

 

I got into BJDs when I was 16 and bought my first at 17 after saving money from my part-time job for months. I'm 29 now and have been in-and-out of the hobby for the last 13 years, with a collection that sort of cycles (though I've always kept my first doll!).

 

I think I came across the existence of BJDs in my early 20s and I was always fascinated by them, but at the time, the price seemed too steep for me who did not have a job and was in school. The interest sort of faded away until last year when I started looking at them again because I also began collecting anime figures. Bought my first doll at the beginning of this year and a few after that. Currently I'm 27! While I wish I had gotten into it sooner because I heard the community was much bigger and more active before, I'm glad that I am in a comfortable financial place to indulge in this hobby of mine.

 

When I first started back in 2011 I was 18 and wanted to get a doll of my own after seeing my friend with her pretty doll from Angell Studio. But that interest didn't live too long for me and then went on a looong hiatus until 2019 when my friends brought back my flame for this hobby once again but this time with a flamethrower!

 

I discovered bjds at 30, but I didn't buy my first one until 9 years later.

 

I was 12 when I found an article about BJD in the old Shojo Beat magazine. It was a pretty general article but it had links to the old DOA and I was obsessed from then forward. I waited a painstaking few months to turn 13 and I was on DOA two days after my 13th birthday, which makes it easy to remember! Now I'm 26 almost 27 and still here so I guess some stuff really does stick.

 

I was in my 20's when I got into the hobby and now I'm in my early 30's. I kind of jumped in the hobby really quick, but also had to go on a hiatus for a few years.

 

I was 14 when I first noticed BJDs and made an account here. I was 15 when I had finally saved up enough money from mopping floors to buy my first doll (and a few more after since it was all disposable income).

Do you know which issue this was? I'm curious if I own it! I definitely learned about lolita from Shojo Beat but I can't recall any BJDs.