How Picky Are You As A Collector?

I have realized, in my crash course entitled "getting into BJD as your new hyperfixation!" in which I scoured the likes of many a dealer website trying to find The One. That I am incredibly picky lol. Most of the sculpts I see, while lovely in a sort of default manner, don't really speak to me. Especially the neutral ones. I am somewhat face blind, so very quickly they all sort of looked the same and I could kick them out of consideration.

So I have a few rules at this point.
If it's a human doll, it must have some sort of tastefully sculpted expression. The really exaggerated ones are too uncanny valley to me, so I steer clear of those. I would love to find a tasteful expression that has an aquiline nose at some point, as I have a HUGE soft spot for those.
If it's an anthro, I found that I really don't care for the chibified or simple sculpts. Also, it can't just be an animal head stuck on a human body (whether it has a tail or not). I go for the full anthro dolls with the wonderful peets lol.

I have a human doll that I keep coming back to because I love his soft little face with it's little smile, but he's not a limited sculpt so I'm holding off for now. And honestly, I'm not sure if I'll ever get him despite going back to him all the time. He's not giving me any character vibes, whereas the 4 dolls I have now are already in their own little world and I don't have any idea how he'd fit in to it. I would be entertained that this would happen, cause I got in for human BJD but I only have one (my first) and the sculpts with animal features are the ones that keep drawing me in at this point xD

My wallet is very happy that I don't have the desire to pick up any of the other pretty dolls I see, however lol

 

I can't say I'm all that picky about dolls in general. I'm not a major fan of whiteskin, but I have several whiteskin dolls. I'm a sucker for older dolls that are looking for a home, so I have a fair number of single jointed dolls and can live with that. I have a limited budget, so I hybridize a lot. Proportions these days are a lot more important to me than resin matching, since I've gotten pretty good at blushing to match. What I am picky about is the things I do for my dolls-costuming, faceups and now wigs and eyes. I want to make them as good as I can.

 

Very, but in my opinion it’s good to be picky lol. All my wallet would be crying every time I went online. I have really bad self control so that kinda balances it out.

 

I sometimes feel like I'm insanely picky as my collection is 100% anthro/ animalistic. I got into BJDs through the soom petit gem line, and I feel like my tastes haven't gone far beyond that kind of aesthetic, haha. With space constraints I've also limited myself to YOSD-sized or smaller. All that plus budget constraints means it's a big deal to get a new doll.

 

I'm excruciatingly picky with both my BJDs and like... everything else beautiful in my life. My personal style, my home decor, my writing, my cooking. I don't consider myself a perfectionist, so much as someone keen on excellence who is very happy to try over and over and over again until I achieve an acceptably beautiful result. I researched faceup artists extensively and made tons of comparison collages before I settled on one to use for all of my faceup in order to achieve a consistent style, and I've sold beautiful WL sculpts that I loved because they didn't quite work scale wise with the rest of my group. I'm happy to pour hundreds into a commissioned dress set if that's what the character requires. But to me it's not a stressful process - it's calming and engaging to research and compile and consider all of these details, and I'm always happy with the fruits of my labor.

 

I'm definitely very picky! There are many dolls that are lovely, but something about the sculpt has to be different for me to want it. I don't mean like having something very distinct, but I find that some dolls blur together for me (perhaps because I suffer from facial blindness?). The dolls I desire to have are all dolls that I can distinguish well.

 

I'm really into bjds that have a bit of an edgy gothic style. I find it really hard to find those I like tbh so the one I had is the only one I've seen so far I'd actually be ready to spend this much money on. Also unluckily I really only seem to like those that are super expensive

 

I love almost every sculpt I see. What holds me back the most is how posable the doll is, whether or not I can find clothes for it and if I like it as much as the dolls I already own. I feel like I’ve hit my limit on dolls so even when I love everything about a doll, I have to pass.

 

I wasn't at first but I am now. I don't have a lot of space and I only want to keep what I really love.

 

As a kid I was sooooooo picky when it came to dolls. We were given iPads at my high school, and during class, instead of paying attention, I would browse Alice's Collections and look at every doll in great detail. If I saw a doll that caught my interest, I would find one feature on them that I didn't like and decide that I no longer wanted it. I would analyze faces so closely that it started bleeding into the way I would look at real people, noticing what features on them I think would look really beautiful on dolls, haha. I think I did this because I didn't have much money and would have to really save up in order to afford my BJDs, so I had to make sure that the dolls I would get were absolutely perfect.

As an adult, I'm less picky and also my tastes have changed. Dolls that I thought were prefect before I now find boring, and now I like the more unusual looking sculpts. I'm sure having more money now, too, also helps me be less picky, as purchasing a doll doesn't completely wipe out my bank account anymore.