That one turn-off

I don't like dolls with big hands~ I prefer the slender delicate style for fingers and hands.

I, like many others here, also don't like the super huge perky boobs. I get turned off by that really quickly

Finally, I'm only very picky when it comes to brow shelves on dolls. Sometimes they're wonderful and varied and other times you either get a super grumpy or even cave man look! Not my thing

 

Bad quality pictures. On MiroDoll, their doll, Wind? Have you looked at the second picture? She looks like a fetus and it's scary. Then I see owner photos (which I couldn't find any good ones on Google Images) and she looks fine, but then I worry that I'll wind up with a crappy looking doll.
If their eyes are too close together, if their legs look super sickly skinny for no good reason, or if their head is too big or too small.
Resin quality though... probably the most important thing. It can look like anything from Dollar Store plastic to the most beautiful... thing... used to make a doll. If I had a doll meetup, I would definitely keep a checklist of what dolls I'd like and if I found them with an owner, just so I could figure out the quality of resin :P

 

There are a lot of things I'm just not interested in, but the one that's so ubiquitous that I'm having trouble finding what I actually want is TOO MANY MUSCLES. I'm having a really hard time finding a boy body in the height range I want that doesn't have a six-pack.

I also have a hard time finding girl dolls I like because all their noses are just too small for my tastes.

 

For me it's the nose. If the nose is too small and pointy it'll ruin the whole sculpt for me. Though it's a big turn off for me it's the last thing I think of to look at.

But I can tolerate small pointy noses on female dolls. It's cute on them.

 

Pictures of dolls shown smoking - doesn't matter how much I would otherwise like that sculpt If they're shown smoking it puts me right off it.

Another is childlike faces on mature (busty/shapely) bodies - that just creeps me out.

Teddy

 

Ugly hands. I can't handle owning a doll with ugly hands, especially when the fingers look like noodles. Bleh. Noodle limbs are out too.

I hate when vampire dolls' teeth look like they're sticking forward? Like idk how those choppers are supposed to work, buddy, but that looks wonk.

Also really weird pecs and abs make me back away too. I vastly prefer form over function in my dolls, hence my many Iplehouse dolls. They can't pose, but they're pretty.

I used to not dig dolls with distinct expressions on their faces, but then IH Claude happened to me and now I really love them. I want more smiley dolls!! But those dolls with the squinched up crying faces make me really uncomf, and I wouldn't want a doll that looks too pouty or upset.

OH! Also, I hate when they have those REALLY prominent nipples?? Is that really necessary?

 

I agree with the pouty lip thing, and the "baby lips" on anything other than a baby doll... it.. it's just.. sometimes I forget i'm looking at dolls and see one and think "oh gosh did that poor girl try and eat a bee?"

One other thing that....I dunno more suprised me than anything: being anatomically correct in their groin areas. That DID make me wonder what BJDs were used for when I first got into the hobby... also ones that have jointed "tackle" ...do...do you really NEED that? WHY?

 

I really have to like the dolls face and facial expression. That is most important to me.

 

Agree with the original post, giant silicon-looking boobs are a giant turnoff for me...I get that a lot of the pushed-together boobs are supposed to simulate natural cleavage when dressed, but my dolls spend a lot of time naked (gotta admire the craftsmanship!) and if the boobs look ridiculous unclothed I just can't deal.

Another turn-off is straight lines...if a sculpt has straight lines in its sculpting, I can't stand it...there's no straight lines in the natural body, nor should there be in my dolls~!

 

Open mouths--I'm not a fan of them in model pictures of humans, and I don't really like them in dolls either.

 

A massive schnoz. I can't stand noses that are too big, angular, or have weird stylized nostrils. Droopy eyes used to be a deal breaker as well, but I've come around on to them a bit. Grossly exaggerated bodies/sculpts are another turn off, like a lot of others have said. One that is a little weird I suppose is owner pictures or lack thereof. Whenever I find a doll I like I go on a web search for the sculpt to see what others have done with it. If I either can't find any pictures or I don't like what I find then I can't bring myself to get the doll. If the doll doesn't look good without the factory makeup or if it has poor posing/stability then I don't want it.

 

I really dislike dolls with duck lips! They really bother me.

Like cheesedemon88, I also don't like big boobs that are so big that they are squeezed together. I find them too provocative for my liking.

 

The current trend of 60cm and taller boys with 'anorexic' looking bodies.

You know the type that every other doll company (Except Iplehouse just to name a few.) is currently churning out, super skinny stretched long bodies with 'muscle' carved onto them.

I like muscle, but not when they look half starved.
Half of them makes me want to feed them an extra sandwich or something.

 

Big boobs, big feet and big hands and I've never been a fan of tanned dolls either.

 

My biggest turn off with dolls is probably baby face on an adult body, it's just creepy.

 

Too much 'paper-like' face. Hard to explain, but some dolls seems like 2D, Light winding in face... complicated to explain. but yeap, it is.

 

I despise eyes that are like teeny tiny holes like a seed and not at all in proportion with the face same goes for eyes that are too large.

 

I'm pretty picky about dolls as it is. I scrutinize the sculpt more than the body, to be honest. Some sculpts just don't sit well with me. There's something about certain faces that I simply don't like. For example, a face with eyes that are too close to each other will turn me off to the doll. A jaw that is too square isn't something that I'm prone to like. A male face that could pass for a female is a face that I will simply pass over. If the face has a very pointy and long nose, that doll is out of the running, too. Troll-looking dolls are a turn off, as well. I just can't see myself enjoying troll-type dolls. Furthermore, the dolls with the button noses, big eyes, and sad looking expressions are a no-no for me.

 

Usually overly thick lips, and sometimes when I see a doll I might potentially like, then see them without a faceup... the non-faceup version scared me too much for me to look at the doll again.