That one turn-off

Boys with too full lips and curvy feminine shapes. Both things turn me off completely on a doll.

 

Strange proportions on realistic looking dolls. I don't bother if they are art dolls though. I'm very picky with doll bodys- I only like the total natural ones. Even a bit too long legs/ too thin body turn me off.
Or if they have a weird face- I'm usually thinking of the creepy baby doll head I saw in google then (sorry can't find the picture). It's still haunting me! XDD
Further I don't like too small hands and feets.

 

I have a list of things in no particular order:

-Large breasts (Like, C+ cup), breasts that are smushed together, or look as though they were added on as an afterthought
-Overly brown lips on normal/white skinned dolls (I know this can be changed but when viewing a doll, I spend a lot of time looking at company photos. >_>)
-One-expression sculpts (I can think of one in particular but a lot of people have/love them... It's cute and all but not a lot of versatility for images, imo)
-Pouty lower lips (On some sculpts it works but on others it just looks like they have a very bad under bite)
-Small lips in relation to the rest of the face - especially when the eyes are bigger
-Open-mouthed sculpts (The picture was posted a few pages back.. -shudder-)
-Teeth (Fangs are okay.. as long as they're small and not too close together or too far apart)
-'Long' faces - Either the mouth sits too low on the face, the eyes too high, or a combination.. but it makes for a very long cheek - Also, when the distance between the bottom of the nose and the upper lip is too wide or too small.

Not sure if this counts but it annoys me to no end to see a doll photographed in such a way as to produce a shiny upper lip..

 

A three part torso. I can't stand them. I don't know why but they are just not appealing to me. They used to when I first started this hobby. But now...
The only way I would consider it is if I see a discontinued doll on the marketplace that i must have. Other than that I avoid them.

 

Overly white skin and it scares me when the doll is smiling and you can see teeth like I'm terrified of this and have to close the page quickly if I come across it.

 

Well it depends from doll to doll but I generally can't help but being freaked out with 1/3 girls with just to small noses (like almost noseles) as a girl with quite a nose, I actually like (grown up) dolls with some more nose to.
Further more certain joints just freak me out, like the cut off look you see allot.

 

For me, the more realistic the better. I really (now) can't stand dolls that aren't realistic. Like the anime-eye ones? *shutters*

 

Oh don't get me started! The first things I look at are the eyes. I usually like larger, very open eyes, so when I see a doll that's very beautiful but has a dreaming expression or just smaller eyes, I can't even think about getting it, haha!

Then there's a doll's profile. The doll can look perfect, but if I see the profile of the head and the lower lip is pushed too far back or if the nose is very pointy, I immediately lose interest.

 

Agreed, I love abime but and most bjd's are already pretty animish but this fake looking anime eyes just break down the doll. I think bjds in there natural way are a wonderfull cross between anime and real life without pressing to much on anime. (So I do like big eye sockets >.<)

 

Teeth.
Really ripped/muscley male sculpts.
Knock kneed dolls, a lot of Iplehouse dolls have this, their sculpts are so gorgeous but this turns me off everytime.

 

With Iplehouse legs, it actually helps to get the Mobility Joint option. That lets you rotate the knees farther out, in addition to allowing the doll to bend more.

 

Big boobs, and dolls that have alien bodies (All warped) and also Facial hair for most I like the princely and princess type dolls, all handsome/ pretty and sparkling (Not sparkling but so pretty they look sparkly)

 

- Big boobs on female dolls that look to be 14 or younger.
- White skin (Unless it's a vampire of ghost character)
- Huge heads with tiny bodies
- Ill proportions. Head too small, waist too wide, legs too think.
- Expressions.... (smiling, frowning (depends), Dikadoll Paul is a good example)
- Tightly strung that you can barely pose the doll.

I have more, but this is good for now.

 

I have quite a few myself, but one I didn't see mentioned is dolls with really deep nostrils and mouths or ears. I do face-ups for my own dolls and I find these to be really annoying to clean or paint/blush properly.

 

Pin head dolls that remind me of the shrunken headed guy in the movie Beetlejuice, almost as much as alien heads with bulbous foreheads And I 2nd whoever said about misplaced ears and/or other body parts. Even a tall super lanky doll still should have arms in proportion to the body and overall height of the doll, or oversized feet just so the shoes that fit the next size up doll will also bit the next size down down (one of these doll will have either feet that look too big or too small). Even real humans that are tall "tend" to have larger feet, where shorter humans tend to have smaller feet. Proportion. If not in proportion no matter how pretty, anime, or whatever, they still look weird to me.

 

Dis-proportionate dolls.
I get being artistic, it's just not my thing. I don't like the pear-shaped dolls, any of the Doll-Chateau dolls, any doll with sticks for arms and legs, boobs either too big or too small, etc.
I just like my dolls being proportionate.

Bored faces. I see it alot in the HUGE sized dolls, and in some other dolls... they look like they're bored to death. It just takes away from their personality... as if they have no personality. It just bugs the poop out of me

 

Female Dolls with enormous hands (*cough* DiM)

 

Teeth. I think it's the uncanny valley there. It shows a bit too much realism maybe? They creep me out.

Single jointed bodies. I love and need double even if I don't make as much use of them as I could.

No torso joints. I prefer two joints. I can work with one. But if you have no torso joints, I'm not buying.

Small boobs. I'm a girl blessed with naturally big ones. I like my girl dolls to have big boobs too. If the only chest options are flat and degrees of tiny, I'll look elsewhere.

Art style. I dislike the artistically sculpted bodies and faces that are warped reality. Wide fish mouthed dolls, eyes too far apart or too wide, the nose and mouth area in silhouette sticks out like a muzzle on a dog, the tiny torso huge hipped dolls, doll chateau.

Those are all my deal breakers so far.

 

Double-jointed knees and elbows. Honestly - to me, most of them look ugly and I can't stand to have ugly joints when the rest of the doll is beautiful. I don't care much about mobility but I do care about looks.