That one turn-off

- Really crappy joints that don't hold poses whatsoever. I think Sugarble is the only one I can think of off the top of my head. Angel Fantasy too, I guess. Sometimes this is something that you have to handle the doll to figure out, but other times you get a feel for how they look. Some people can make these dolls work, but if I have to wire it to get it to hold a single non-straight pose, then it's not for me.

- Lots of veins. This is pretty much exclusive to male bodies, and I know it's technically realistic, but on a solid resin doll it just looks gross to me.

- Overly sexualized dolls, of any gender. Girls with giant boobs and massive hips and, er, very pleased expressions. Boys with come-hither faces and really detailed genitals. Tongues that are clearly meant for non-food purposes. No shade to anybody who likes these dolls, they're just not my thing.

- Hands or feet that look like boat paddles. If I like the rest of the body enough, I'm willing to change those out, but boy do they bug me. Also, baby hands!! On a childlike YoSD, it's obviously fine, but on any larger size it drives me nuts!

 

Sculpts with the vacuum-sealed muscle look. Eight pack abs, funky adhesions over the scapulae, layer upon layer of serratus. Give that lad a Gatorade he looks /dehydrated/.

Hands that are too large, and their compounding error, arms that are too short.

 

Oh my gosh I havn't laughed that hard in a long time I agree though, thats literally the only thing I dislike about ResinSoul male bodies is that they're super unnessicerly chisled...especially when the girls look just normal like please >>;;

 

I don't care for extra-large breasts on adult dolls. Probably because I have extra-large breasts and know what a pain they are. XD The equivalent of a D-cup looks nice, but once it starts looking out of proportion too much, I just wince in sympathy.

I love looking at horror dolls, but I don't want one myself. I like for my dolls to be friendly and cute. ^.^

I also don't care for "sexy" outfits on a child doll. It creeps me out. No sexualizing the dolly babies, kthx.

 

I'm the same way. I enjoy looking at other people's scarred and otherwise horrific looking dolls but I like the pretty ones. I like looking at other people's goth dolls, but would probably never make one of mine up that way. There is a doll from Doll Chateau (I think) that looks normal except for a skeletal arm coming out of her back that I find especially interesting possibly because she looks normal otherwise. If I would own a horror doll it would be that one.

I have thought of owning a vampire sculpt but I would want a normal version head also since, in most of the vampire fantasies I read, the character's teeth come down and go back up.

 

I like pretty. Horror dolls definitely not my thing!!

 

Skinny dolls, tan skin (it just doesn't look natural, especially on caucasian sculpts), large breasts, overly wide hips, super defined abs, teeny tiny genitals on male dolls. If your gonna sculpt them, at least make them worth having!

 

Teeeettthhh! Any open mouth sculpts just irk me for some reason. There are very few cute sculpts with teeth that I can tolerate but I'm not a fan of open mouthes in general.

 

Dolls without double knee joints. Especially on SD they sometimes lack leg mobility and it's a deal breaker for me.

facial expressions. I don't know why but they annoy me, they just look unnatural. I don't want a constantly screaming or winking doll

weird child like bodies with thick thighs. I love my harucasting girls because they are MSD and proportioned to look like a 22 year old. But kid bodies with big thighs look so weird.

extremely big boobs or extremely defined abs

pure white skin dolls

 

I stumbled on this thread today. Funny, 9 years later and folks are still keeping the discussion going. Sorry, I did not have time to read all 42 pages though...

For me I don't like the macabre. There are dolls with parts missing (designed that way), injuries, and stuff. Not dissing anyone's style, but to me a BJD is a work of Art and I prefer the pretty and happy look. There's enough ugly in this world that a small cute BJD brings a smile to my face.

 

pretty much that i deeply dislike ass boobs, other stuff that i dont like anything that has disproportions

 

I don't like sculpts that have sunken cheeks and Pinocchio noses. I don't remember what brand it was, but I saw a sculpt like that once and it just gave me the heebie jeebies. I also don't like thin, lanky, almost skeletal bodies. My dolls need some meat on their bones.

 

That sounds like you might be describing Doll Chateau's Snowborn maybe?

To keep on-topic: I'm not sure if I've posted this before or not, but—eyes that take up a lot of the face. I used to have a phobia of being stared at, and large, wide-eyed dolls tend to bring back unpleasant memories from that time. I also find it unappealing when other facial features (mouth, nose, overall shape of the face) are smaller by comparison to the eyes. I strangely enjoy anime despite this, but anime characters aren't always going to be facing at me, vacantly staring at me.

I much prefer all the facial features to be in proportion—and smaller eyes don't give me this whole dead-eyed stare.

 

Those sculpts with boobs that have NO weight to them, kinda like they are just....full of silicone and floating in space. Never found a big chested sculpt I really like besides Viola! (Doll nudity warning for Violas link!)

Also, I despise straight legs! I like the curves of legs on a sculpt, it makes it look more graceful and delicate to me.

 

Ah yes, OK, I've got a few Dollmore kid dolls, i do love them, but I don't like their arms. Why, I don't know, they seem too big in the elbow?? So much about them is adorable though. But when I fell in love with the mature fashion dolls, many years ago, I just couldn't get past those elbows or their big boobs - but that's a common issue, LOL (I suffered from big boobs until I had them removed) So.... until I realized that I could put a fashion doll head on a different MSD body because someone had done that, I kept looking but not buying any fashion dolls (16") Now I have two heads on the way, and I have 2 sets of bodies (ones I really hope will work and another set I'm pretty sure will work) But now that I broke down, I'm actually considering giving the original bodies a go, if I order more of these dolls. We'll see I really like the boys as they are and hope to get some of them soon.

Also, I'm into realistic sculpts or cute, but super anime doesn't work for me. I do like FL dolls, they're super cute, but Volks are not my thing unfortunately.

 

I have a new one: less stylized supermodel-thin dolls. Popovy Sisters, Pasha Pasha, Stacya Dolls, etc. Seems to happen most with Eastern European artists. Some of them have pretty faces, but it’s just not enough to get me past those bony bodies. And if the faces are also very thin/angular, they look like zombies. Huge boobs used to be my biggest turn-off, but I’d take anime flotation devices over 0% body fat any day.

 

I'm mostly interested in MSD males so for me, it would probably have to be when you can see the rib cage on the body. That's just too thin for my tastes.

 

I hear you on this--I used to own dc y-06 which was a body based off that aesthetic, but having lost an unsafe amount of weight being sick, I see them now and I'm like, someone get that doll my meds asap. I've come around to liking the sculpting on some of the larger chests when it's a little more realistic--like I bet the twigling D bust looks great dressed, but it looks pretty good as it is too, and I love their larger proportions, even if their hips have destroyed 3 sets of pants...

 

omg I just got back into the hobby and there are moooore

- Those wiggly eyebrow minifee faceups that give the perpetual look of having just walked in on your grandma using the bathroom
- Megamind heads like from Migidoll. I have a smaller forehead myself so large foreheads look incredibly strange
- Round youthful faces on long thin bodies, like OK I get that's an Asian ideal and some people are thin with round faces, but with the dolls it's taken to comical heights.
- All the ultra stylized kpop male faces. Even when I liked kpop I was most into the guys who looked real and unique.
- "fat cheek baby lips" where like... the weight of your cheeks pulls down the corners of the mouth into a frown or pout.

 

Incredibly disproportionate bodies!! Especially with the really long, thin arms and skeletal torsos and hips. I want a nice human, not a wendigo...