That one turn-off

LOL! This is great thread!

Turn-offs
- Too realistic. I found that out when I bought a Sard and he sat in his box under my bed for something like 4 years before I finally decided the bragging rights to owning a Sard did not out weigh the money I could get for selling him...

-Ugly joints. I can't stand an ugly joint. It's something I have a hard time getting past. Especially if it's a joint that shows, like the elbow. The Kid Delf elbows bother the everlovinghell out of me because there is a huge shelf left at the elbow break. It IS possible to make an attractive elbow peanut! No do it! That goes for too many torso joints, or joints that make weird poky bits at the breaks.

-Lazy sculpting. Anytime something looks half finished or undone- be it a body with zero detail and weird boobs, or lazily sculpted hands I want a doll that has some defined anatomy. I don't care if clothes are going over it, I still know what;s under there.

- I will also second everyone who said crappy vampire teeth.

-Ugly face sculpts. I'm sorry- some of the cheaper doll companies just have poor sculpting. Eyes too close together, weird lips, etc... There are plenty of ways of making disproportion attractive.

 

I had been searching for a BJD for years and I've been incredibly picky. There's little things that'll make me say no to a doll right away. I feel bad for saying that but yeah...

- I'm super picky with a doll's mouth. I notice quite a few dolls have these wide mouths...they almost look like frogs! OAO;; worse if its like a wide frown too. I also don't like those open mouths that look like a fishy face. *U3U* yeah i just prefer a simple smile. and...well also, NO TEETH PLEASE. teeth gross me out irl. so i'd prefer not to see them on dolls.

- this may sound weird but... jointed hands. I DO understand how NEAT jointed hands can be, but it looks creepy to me with all those tiny holes in them. ;3;

-...ummm, details on the 'nether regions'. ;u; maybe im a newbie to BJDs still, but I don't really...understand the purpose for that. I don't need them to prove if if my doll's a girl or boy. I hope I wasn't sounding offensive there. ;A;

 

Open-mouthed dolls. I just don't like them I think they are weird looking, even with a good faceup! I prefer shallow lips...

The Soom Monthly Limited Series. There is a doll that I would pay whatever the cost for, and I would offer it to SOOM, but they would probably turn it down because its discontinued doll, even if I beg. /cry

 

My number one turnoff about dolls?
Probably the cost. They are super expensive, but they can be soooo worth it!

My other turnoff is how small the audience is. I never even knew about bjd's until over a year ago.
I live under a rock, but still, I have no idea how I could have missed this!
I feel like more people should know about ball jointed dolls, if not actually owning one.

More none-bjd owners need to get involved. I am trying to get my best friend to help me with crafting xD

 

Mh, the fake-bewbs look on some bodies and too long arms ><

 

Have you tried the Gi Joe or Hot Toys 1/6 clothes on the YOSD boys? A lot of Gi JOe stuff seems to fit my YO boys.

I personally dislike vampire fangs on dolls in general... I have a vampire character on the way who'se gonna be a YOSD... I've never drawn him or imagined him with his fangs sticking outside of his lips... that looks like a dingo to me, not a vampire.. or worse... an orc. Fangs stay insde the mouth, and in my opinion any vampire who flashes their fangs around like a set of diamonds was an idiot person when they were alive, and continues to be an idiot in undeath. Obsessing over fangs by putting them on the outside of the dolls lip is just tacky; showing off that it's a vampire to other people... I can understand if the mouth is totally open and ALL front teeth are visible, but having fangs to 'prove' a character's a vampire is as silly as saying a penis proves it's male. (or proves a person is male for that matter..) This of coarse doesn't count if your idea of fangs literally is that they are so foreward in the mouth that they stick out.

 

My main problem is choosing the best doll to buy. I can get really frustrated with that because I can afford only one at a time.

Also, makeup is like really important. Bad makeup can make me skip the otherwise beautiful doll.

And why so many skinny bjd bodies? Most slim dollies, 1/3 sized at least, look very unnatural to me. Add silicon boobs and voila. I have never even seen a chubby natural body -_- .. Is there even any?

 

- Extremely happy face. Sometimes it scares me.
- Anime-like
- Pointy lips. Not the expression, but the shape. It's hard to explain, when you look from above they look like a "V" - I can't stand it.
- Any limited I'll never have...

 

Single biggest turn-off for me:
-Snotty/stuck-up/"I'm better than everyone" expression

My Soom Obsidius (Romantic, human head w/ Soom face-up) was absolutely gorgeous, except he had the expression I described above. It might be the wig/eyes I had bought for him, because I've seen other Obsidius' that look wonderful. Or maybe I should have tried the OE version instead. I just felt like if he could talk, the first thing that would come out of his mouth would be "I'm too sexy for my shirt..." He just had to go because I couldn't stand his expression!

 

I think I may never get Iple kind of sculpts. Very realistic dolls just don't suit well with my crew. It's not really a turn off, but it's not something I will ever consider getting.

 

-I think my biggest turn off on dolls is when the nose is too pointy, too curved at the bridge, to skinny, or...well...I'm REALLY REALLY particular about noses. Too big, too small, too skinny, to point. I like cute little noses that are natural looking.
-UNREAISTIC JOINTS
-when the eyes are too "fishy" (too far apart)
-When the boobs look way too fake. (looks like they have like invisible ultra push up bras or the way that the chateau's boobs look, it makes me think of like really really old indian or like.. not indian.. but some sort of ancient shaman with doctor type of thing and it literally disgusts me)
-Eyes are too big and un-natural (some exceptions)
-SUPER baby cheeks unless that's what i'm looking for. i absolutely HATED that mnfs have it, but it seems recently they've been reducing the amount of pudgy in the cheeks and since i wanted a MNF that's the main draw that pulled me to Chloe and Mirwen.
-Weird lips
-When faces CAN'T look like they make different expressions no matter how you do the face up. (Mikhaila for example)
-poor proportions

I have too many turn-offs... But at least i do have exceptions..for..some of them. I mostly like things to look realistic, but not TOO realistic, since i do like the doll appeal.

 

Sad faces. I won't even give them a second glance. I just can't stand staring at their sullen expressions for more than a few seconds, there is no way I could look at them regularly.

Dolls with severely exaggerated hips also bother me. I'm not sure what inspired them, but I imagine dressing them is a pain in the arse. I don't mind fantasy dolls with strange proportions, but if it's meant to be humanoid and you've made its backside way too big for the rest of it, I'll pass.

Also, dolls that look like they have broken necks if you turn the head at all. I see owner photos of stuff like this all the time and it would drive me completely batty to not be able to pose my doll's head at all without it looking like their neck was broken in a horrible accident. It just looks so bad to me.

 

I don't like it when dolls have black dots in the corners of their mouths. It's a huge turn off for me but luckily that can be avoided with a custom face up. However, one thing that I can't stand is when a doll has sculpted holes in the corners of their mouth. What the hell are they for?? I really don't get it, and no matter what kind of faceup they have..the damn holes are still there! I can never unsee the hole.

I don't like huge eyes..you know the kind that take up half the face. Nope, can't do it. Such a big turn off. However, I don't mind large expressive eyes when done right.

 

I am incredibly sculpt picky, not just with head sculpts, but more so with body sculpts. A small list of things that will always turn me off to a doll:

- an anime aesthetic (huge eyes, tiny pointed nose, small mouth)
- when the head is too big for the body
- sad or overly expressive faces
- female body sculpts where the bust is wider then the hips
- big boobs
- buff male bodies

 

My major turn off is that there are times when I think that the male dolls look like females without those female properties. The "alien" body sculptures on some dolls that makes me think..."If the doll was a human person how can they function and move?", the twig limbs, some faceups that just frightens me like some of the dolls ebay pictures freaks me out. And my last BIGGEST TURN OFF is finding clothes for my doll because I modded her implants on her chest so the measurements has to be everything before I order.

 

Ah, I also have a tiny list of turn-offs:
- childish bodies - I really dislike any childish dolls whatsoever, and I find the chubby bodies awful.
- straight legs and no waist - to me, if a doll has straight legs, it's ugly. I love the slightly curved, Asian-like legs :3 Also, a doll should have a distinct waist area and wider hips :3
- anime-like faces - small nose, small lips and big eyes? No way. I prefer the more realistic dolls.
- badly shaped boobs - I don't mind it if they look like there's an invisible push-up bra involved (like MNFs or Withdoll girls), as long as the boobs don't look like halves of a melon glued to the chest. I'm also more inclined to like an invisible push-up than saggy little breasts (like DollChateau, even though the body's aesthetic is very interesting).

There might be some other, less important things... But those four are the most likely to make up my mind about not buying a doll.

 

I like dolls that are bordering on semi-realism. I don't like dolls with overly anime features (huge eyes, small pointy nose and small lips).

 

Hmm... I'd have to say some dolls' expressions. :/ The combination of -so so- shaped eyes with those lips... It makes me turn away, sadly... Also, for some of them, the price.
Recently, I've been looking at some very pretty dolls that are at a fair price range for my situation. Looking back, I was really into DoD dolls (Orrl is so cool!) and now that I see them again, I shake my head and run for the hills. XD Comparing Orrl to another doll I was eying, he was the bigger number of the two, and the other doll was a full set!

 

-Disproportionate hands, definitely. I have a 5SD Super on layaway, and the only reason I wasn't put off entirely by the small hands was because I want to get jointed hands for him so that I can pose him for photostories. If I hadn't been so in love with him otherwise, the hands might have given me pause.

-I agree with the dislike of anime aesthetics. While I am an otaku, I want my dolls to look more realistic - so massive eyes and tiny noses/mouths tend to be offputting.

-Massive false-looking breasts, especially since I am trying to shell a couple of female characters who are quite small-chested. I'm not talking near-flat androgyny, but it is so hard to find a nice SD girl who could be slim and athletic, but still have enough bosom to be clearly female. (I hope that makes sense...)

-Pronounced nipples. I have one doll who I absolutely adore, but I am seriously thinking about sanding down his nipples so that they're not obvious through tight-fitting clothing. His character is not supposed to feel cold as acutely as humans, so it's ridiculous for him to have nipples that look like he's been shirtless in the snow! (Similar issue with his privates, actually... he wears tights/fitted breeches, and his peen is *ahem* rather obvious. I wouldn't remove it entirely, but I might make it a bit smaller...)

 

I know this probably sounds unrealistic, but I tend to find something I like in each and every doll that I see. ;x; My partner hates it, specially when I point out dolls I like and they are just like "... really?" XD;

If I had to pick, though...
-Single Joints. I love my double joints way too much.
-Open Mouths. I like some dolls with teeth showing, but not enough to justify me getting any.
-Winking dolls. @_@ I want my doll to be able to see with either both eyes, or no eyes. Not in between.

That is probably it. XD I like some dolls that are "ugly" because they can suit different characters. I like small noses, big noses, etc. I like the fact that a doll can be happy or sad depending on the face. It, to me, is all about the character. If it is what you enjoy, then go for it. I love seeing what people can do with every doll, so why would I get to be picky? XD