That one turn-off

Too orange/too light tan skin and dolls with open mouth.
I have a few with open mouth but it's usually barely visible or painted in a way you don't see it, but I really hate it when dolls look all ": O" because it makes them look...dumb.
It also looks like they have breathing problems and I hate it when someone breathes loudly for no particular reason (don't ask, it's just a big pet peeve of mine), if I look at such a face I can hear them breathing and snorting in my mind -_-

Also huge swollen lips, especially with teeth visible, that look like they got punched or dolls that make an overall expression that would look ridiculous if you'd tried to copy it and look at yourself in a mirror.

 

One turnoff for me is those holes in the mouth, like on the sides. I get why they are there in some sculpts - to look like the lips are a little bit apart in that spot, but I don't care for them. I think it looks a bit unnatural. Not in all dolls! Some sculpts look great with those "holes" but I prefer the doll without it I also agree about the boobs. I don't really care for too small breastsize either. I think clothes look better with a little something up there ^^ But then again, it totally depends on the dol, what you are going for, the age of the doll etc. Everything is relative. I just tend do go for larger breasts

 

There are some turn offs that are very personally my own, and i do not mean to offend anybody who has a different point of view. I had to say this.
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1) i really dont like cheap doll companies, and i will not name the companies i consider cheap, but i dislike every single doll those companies make, because they just dont look good. (No matter how awesome the makeup is or how awesome the outfit is) (they might not even be cheap price-wise, but they just look off to me)

2) i really hate when knee/elbow joints are bulky, i cant really explain what i mean in detail, but in some doll bodies the joints look good and work well, and in others it looks like they didnt spend even a minute sculpting it (just a huge sausage or something)
Example: fairyland joints are gorgeous. I dont want to name specific companies whose bodies really repel me.

3) this is not for companies, but i dont like it when owners clothe their dolls in cut out socks and draw their makeup with a sharpie or something, especially on very expensive/limited ones. Practice and creativity are awesome, but doing it on something else before doing it on the doll. Honestly i myself have a doll that needs clothes and makeup to be done and organized, but until i do, they she will wait in her box.
Again, i really dont want to offend anybody, and if they do it and like it, its their business into which im not going to intrude. Ill just quietly like other dolls, and take forever to clothe my dolls because im a poor student

 

I bought a Soulkid girl on the double jointed body and hated everything about it. The joints were so ugly and she didn't pose that great, her boobs were massive and round and she had weird legs with a funny edge running down the front of them both. After that I knew never to go for a mature body again.

There are so many pretty girl faces that look young and the doll makers put them on mature bodies... I hate that. I also hate that most of the mature male dolls seem to have androgynous faces.

 

Fairyland's leg joint, the one at the top? http://doll.fairyland.co.kr/doll_image/alacarte/minifee/AL_Girlbody_21.jpg the one under the grove for the leg to sit? I hate that! The legs always spin for me...I guess I need to glue them to stop it.

 

I don't really like white skin, but it's not a turn off... I guess what bothers me the most are BJDs that have theirs noses too thin! It's so weird, specially when you look at their profile (I don't know if profile is the right word, I hope you understand lol).

 

I had the same problem with that joint today on my girl. It drove me mad.

I think my pet peeves have already been mentioned, but anyway... I agree with the comments about false breasts. Case in point being the MNF moe-line body. Great body until you spot the two bald heads poking up from her top. I appreciate that for some people that style works but not for me. Pointy nipples are a bit of a bug bear too.

My other pet peeve is unrealistic hands. I sold a doll once because her hands just really bugged me, they just seemed to big and flat with no real movement to them.

 

Honestly for me, if the nose isn't right, my decision on whether or not to buy a certain doll will change. Some have the perfect face, everything is perfect, but then I'll see a close-up or a side profile and the nose is too big, too small, too different from what I had in mind and it becomes an automatic no.

Also the doll has to have the right faceup. It's awful but sometimes theyre just too light or too dark and I cant. I just can't get a doll when the coloring isn't right for the character I have in mind.

 

I bought a white skin F/22 Kun only a short while ago. And sent her off for a custom face-up by Nomyens: http://www.flickr.com/photos/87418672@N07/12244584884/ When she got home I took her out, and I disliked her immediately. It wasn't the face-up or the skin tone, it was the shape of her head. Before her face-up, I had no issues with the shape of her head. But I don't know... It was just too round, and big for my liking. So I suppose dolls with big heads put me off. And also (I don't know why) but Fairyland Chloe's put me off now too. |:

 

My biggest turn-off/pet peeve are face-ups that look "nude"- when dolls look like they don't even have a face-up. I understand that not all dolls need to have eye shadow and noticeable blushing or makeup, but even contour shading on boys or makeup-less girls is better than just a nude, hardly-changed face.

 

Bad hands. Honestly..i bought my RS Gang because everything was ok about him and I loved his hands. They are my favorite part of him. There was another doll I was looking at awhile ago and the sausage fingers were unbearable.

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It may be strange, but I strongly dislike noses that are abnormally short, pointed, or sloped. Eyes that are semi-closed; the ones where there's a tiny, tiny opening, and also eyes that are too close together.

 

There are a few things that will turn me off a doll
- Dolls that have visible ribs (I don't mind slim dolls, not just showing ribs skinny)
- The swollen/Botox/frost bitten lips.
- Over mature child sculpts, dolls that are supposed to be >13 years old but still have fully developed body's. I know that some of them can pass as early bloomers, but most children/early teens don't have the adult body proportions.

 

I really dislike fake-looking breasts on dolls, which often happens when the breasts are too large. I also dislike when the eyesockets are too big, or spread too far apart. The doll starts to look really alien, which is a turn-off for me unless I'm looking for that kind of thing.

 

I'm not a fan of comically large breasts like many other people, but also the extreme sculpted expressions. I've seen them well done and some can be really cute but I can't imagine owning one of those dolls myself. It just isn't my taste.

 

I am not really a fan of huge or awkward shaped lips or of sculpts with extreme facial expressions.
Same goes for tongues, I am not a fan.

 

A huge [and weird] thing for me is the eyes. I need to be able to see some.... intelligence in them. Some emotion. The vast majority of dolls look kind of.... well... vapid to me. I can't see anything in their eyes other than "pretty doll-face".

I can't really explain it; the closest non-woo explanation I have is that it probably has something to do with subtle sculpting of musculature in the face and sculpt definition.

But it's how I judge all of my potential doll purchases, if we're talking about specifically one thing that will make or break a doll for me.


Other things are more arbitrary.

 

I would have to say overly exaggerated lips or facial expressions. I just... don't like them. :/

 

With bodies, what turns me off would be unaesthetic looking chests and nipples (like unrealistic sculpted breasts and those nipples that look like buttons that were just popped on there!) as well as hands! When they look too simple it usually isn't pretty enough for me... hands have to look right!

Faces hmm... that's more difficult... I love male dolls but some of the too realistic manly looking ones just aren't for me, so very manly features. Other than that it's just ordinary features that make the whole face look off to me that I dislike, for example if the eyes are too far apart or the mouth sits too low.
I like heads that have some character in them, at least to me, so ones that look blank or boring I wouldn't buy either.

 

If I had to pick one, I'd say hands. I can LOVE a whole doll, body and all but if the hands are ugly or plain, and I think it'd be difficult to match with another company, I'll pass. If they're just a little plain and I think I can mod them, maybe.