That one turn-off

I have a lot of turnoffs, but the one currently bugging me is the thigh gap at the crotch of BJD bodies, mainly female bodies but also male ones. Some dolls have ... very wide thigh gaps, to the point I don't know how well they can sit/stand with their thighs closer together. I don't know whether this is a design thing for mobility thigh joints/peanuts or for posing, and I'm sure one can hide this under clothes. And maybe I've grown up with certain female behavioural etiquette drilled into me. But I find a big thigh gap quite unattractive and it turns me off from the rest of the doll.

 

I’m with you on that, specially of the legs are super thin.

 

There aren’t very many sculpting quirks that end up being dealbreakers unless the anatomy is straight up bad.

One that bothers me above all else though?

Necks too big for the head.

I’ve seen a lot of male dolls like this. Sometimes the head and body are both fantastic, but together they look awful. Usually happens when a company is using the same head sculpt on multiple sizes bodies. Heads should not be so small that you can see the rounded top part of the neck below the jawline.

 

To be fair people’s heads have less variety in size than bodies.

 

I like girls in the 70cm range but the stilt legs are getting ridiculous. Tibias longer than the whole upper body.

 

Yes! My Ringdoll Alice is like this. She just cannot sit very 'lady-like'. She's fine if her legs are out straight, and she stands great, but if I put her in a chair her knees open wide. I try crossing her ankles, or sitting her sideways a little off balance. It doesn't help. I always keep shorts as well as undies under her dresses, or she flashes the entire dolly crew.

There is also just the opposite one too. The knees will not open when the doll sits and it causes the sitting to look very awkward. Most people I know have a bit of a leg gap when the sit, they don't press their legs together from upper thigh to knee. It just looks very forced to me for some reason.

What I want is just a bit of a leg gap in sitting position. Not too wide with that 'hey look at me' gap, or not too clenched with the 'need to use the bathroom' pressed together.

 

Among my current Turn-Offs are the weird proportions and the general look of many male SD dolls. Overly long legs, slim waist, muscles, wide shoulders, thick neck, and then a tiny baby-faced head on top.

When it started going into that direction it looked still fine for a while, it had an artistic and appealing touch compared to the older dolls. But then then they overdid it. Bodies are getting bigger, legs are getting longer, shoulders are getting wider, heads are too small. Too much for me. ^^;

 

Like @lutke I love tall girl dolls, but from what my friends have been showing me from weibo, the tall pinhead girl is becoming a thing now

 

Extra un-utilized face space on a sculpt. It’s weird to explain, but some sculpts have this look like their features are just stamped onto a circle and I can’t describe it better than that, really, but it puts me off a sculpt because the doll’s face looks poorly planned. Like the person making the head didn’t scale it properly or something and the dolls end up with extra cheek or forehead space that looks weird to me.

Baby faces on mature bodies is uncanny valley for me sometimes too.

 

I usually like my dolls to have one or two features that I dislike, to add charm and character. If they are too perfect I tend to like them less, so I look for flaws in the dolls I pick. However, there are definitely certain features that are just a hard no from me. Main one is thickness. I'm all for body diversity and I love seeing stylized designs but I've learned I don't like handling dolls that are overall too big. I can do tall and lanky. I can do short and chubby. And anywhere in between is fine as well. But it's a physical thing. I had a doll that was 70cm and a real beef cake and omg was he beautiful but I really disliked handling him and ended up trading him with a friend (for a tall lanky boy xD). Now I know to stick to 70cm and under. I need to be able to hold them around the waist with one hand or it's just too much doll for me.

 

I get white skin so they look lifeless ahaha but I'd never choose it for a character that is meant to be living or in good health. At least not a human. I have my Dream Valley Apocalypse Horseman in White because I have plans to make a god from one of my stories out of his sculpt, but it's no human, that's for sure. I also got Baldwin IV in white skin but with a faceup, and he is also dying of leprosy sooooooo? I guess the lifeless checks out there too.