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That one turn-off

Aug 2, 2012

    1. I am not a huge fan of the big anime eyes/faces. Do not get me wrong, I do not hate those faces at all -and I do like looking at the ones that other people have. I just like my dolls to look more real and less cartoonish and would never buy one for myself.
       
    2. The things that turn me off is nose and lips. Sometimes there some sculpt that making a really unnatural mouth or lips that I feel is too much. Even in the sims game, I tend to tweak the nose and lips to make my favorite character :lol:
       
    3. Hmm. Some very interesting opinions here.

      I don't like set expressions. A neutral face is nice and it can say lots of different things from lots of different angles. But smiles and frowns and tongues poking out just get way too much.
      Anime heads and eyes. You've got quite a realistic body. Then it's really jarring with the anime face on top. It looks weird in real life anyway. I'm even a bit weird about action figures.
      Big noses that spread out on the face.
      Childish bodies with mature faces. I often find a really cute sculpt, but then I see their bodies....
      Fantasy parts. I know these are really popular. But I'm not a fan at all.
      Small boons and massive hips.
      Skinny bodies with large heads.
      Tinies that look more like troll dolls.
      Slitty eyed heads.
      Bazoonga boobs.
      Tiny tiny waists that feel like they're going to snap.

      I'm a bit picky. ;)
       
    4. Too small noses drive me nuts, not just on dolls but in art and when people do plastic surgery. It just looks odd to me. =P

      Where have you seen too big noses? I'm not sure I've seen a doll with one!
       
    5. I love all kinds of stylizations, so none in particular are turn-offs to me, but I need the dolls to look like they belong on the same doll and are positioned proportionate to one another.

      Actual qualifiable turn-offs:

      What I like to call "melty face". Where the face is alright, and all of the features are positioned at aesthetically pleasing distances from one another... And the face is just too low on the head, eating the jaw and leaving a massive noggin. Sometimes it IS intentionally done that way, with the big animu babby forehead, and that's fine, because the rest of the sculpt was created to work with the big forehead and the itsy chin. But sometimes it's just like... WHAT are you doing?

      Bad profiles. Some dolls have the most adorable faces until you see them in profile. This is particularly true of the more stylized dolls. Some of them almost have a snout. :C

      Girl dolls with tiny waists. If her waist is as almost as thin as her head and you DON'T know what you're doing, back off. There are a number of sculptors that have executed exaggerated proportions with masterful precision, and it looks good, because, again, the rest of the doll was sculpted WITH the knowledge that the waist is going to be crazy, unnaturally thin. So the other features correspond to that significant distortion of human anatomy. But I look at some of the other dolls and all I can think of is yikes, she has no organs.

      Boy dolls that have no hips. This actually carries over from my real life preferences in real men. Curvature at the waist is beautiful and graceful. I'm not expecting much, but their hips gotta be bigger than their waist or I don't want them. Too blocky and awkward-looking. (It's even worse because I like muscular, broad men and male dolls and they almost always have teensy tinsy little itsy bitsy pelvic girdles and I just get all sad-face. Can I have all this, but with more butt, please?).

      Boy dolls with muscles sculpted like they've roided out, starved and dehydrated themselves to dry out their skin, then drank copious amounts of glucose water to make their muscles flare. If the boy doll looks like he's getting ready to go on a stage for body-building competition (regardless of the size of his muscles, by the way), I get grossed out. Normal people have fat under their skin that softens the look of the muscle and gives them a natural and beautiful body shape.

      In general, lack of anatomical knowledge on the part of the sculptor, though this is more of a "turn on" when a sculptor demonstrates their knowledge of anatomical detail. I LOVE it when sculptors get female abdomen right - with hip-bones and a bit of a curve sloping down to the crotch.
       
    6. Ew ew ew! Agreed, just thinking about that gives me the willies.
       
    7. Dolls that have baby lips.... The only dolls I can think of at the moment that seem to do that a lot are littlefee/pukifee/pukipuki. I really love Fairyland but dem baby lips make me turn away*_*
       
    8. Not enough articulation. I like jointed torsos, and hip articulation at least.
       
    9. My biggest turn off is too adult-looklike bodies... big and fake breast look dosen't attract me.
      Also yellow skin and long neck..I don't like them also.
       
    10. Broad shoulders and small head. I can see pictures of a doll's face and think it's beautiful, but then when a picture shows the head relative to the shoulders and the doll looks pin-headed, I completely lose interest. I like things with proportionally large heads...curse you Pullips for twisting my views of reality. (I collected Pullips before BJDs.)
       
    11. Giant heads. :/

      Giant heads make me sad. I wanted a PlanetDoll Roseanne until I realized their heads are bigger than a JID's. So she would look odd with my other MSDs... WHY


      Also TINY BELLYBUTTONS, GRRRRRRR.



      Oh, and... single jointed knees. Why do those even still exist? I have seen plenty of double jointed ones that look just as good if not better in some cases, so it isn't really an aesthetic compromise... I don't know.
       
    12. To small eyes >.< Sometimes I see a sculpt I like with small eyes but not to add in my collection.
      Also jointed necks give me the chill.
      to small boobs that look like grapes on a body, I actually like big breasted female body's.
       
    13. It's always the body... If the male/female body doesn't look like I want it to then I just have a little sad fest and then move on. That and hands, if they are too chubby I might not like the doll as much as I would. I love elegant hands, long and slender.
       
    14. I have two. There are some conditions though!

      1. Big, "fake" breasts on female BJDs. I don't like it when they look unrealistic. It makes me feel awkward when I see a doll that looks like it's undergone plastic surgery. But this really only happens when the doll is nude, so for the most part, it's not so bad. And I can't honestly say I'm "turned off" by this, I'm just not a fan.

      2. Really unique expressions. Now, I LOVE different expressions, like open mouth grins, expressions that show off teeth, winking faces, and so on...but I just wouldn't want a very specialized face sculpt, in regards to expression. I prefer expressions that will be more versatile, so that they always look their best, and so I don't have to worry about them when taking photos. For example, I absolutely love Granado's Hansel. He's absolutely stunning, and I would love to have him. But--I would worry that I'd be quite limited as far as photos went, and he wouldn't look...ideal, at all times. I'd rather have dolls that have more "neutral" faces, or perhaps...just less "extreme." If that makes sense.
       
    15. I don't really have too many hang-ups. My doll brood is pretty varied and there really isn't one attribute across the board I could pinpoint and say, "Nope, I hate that." That having been said...

      1. The old-style Soulkid girl body had some really weird boobs. I mean, really weird. I've always meant to have mine sanded off and I will someday, because they basically look like afterthoughts and are positioned oddly and are too large for the childlike body.

      2. I have a problem posing double-jointed bodies. I don't hate them or anything, I just find them more challenging to work with and prefer single-jointed.
       
    16. Head shape; I don't care how 'normal' their head shape looks when they have a wig on, but if it appears like an alien head or cone head when bald, I'm instantly turned off.
       
    17. Mine is tiny little boy penises on very muscular men. I've seen men with baby faces but please try to sculpt the penis more? It not that I'm a perv, it's just that a super realistic and defined male body with a lump oval for the penis really bothers me. It looks so fake, and no balls?! At that point can I even call them men? Tiny penises are fine, I'd just like a little attention to detail.


      Other than that vampire teeth. Because it always looks unrealistic or inbred.
       
    18. Going to sound weird since these are ball-jointed dolls, but I really don't like the joints showing. I will go out of my way to cover them up.
       
    19. Pale or very "white" skin. If the sculpt is great but the doll is "fair" - I won't get it.
      Just not my thing in dolls :sorry
       
    20. The quirk that has kept me from buying certain dolls is an awkward neck joint. Either too long, or a pronounced gap between the neck and the edges of the mating socket on the head. Once I notice it, I can't unsee it.