The "cross-eyed" look

Andreja (I hope that's how you spell her name) has a doll that is super cute and is cross-eyed. I find it absolutely adorable on some dolls, but really gross looking on other dolls. If it goes along with the face, then yessss, but other than that, definitely a turn-off for me.

 

It is great when intentional and suits the character or photo but not so good when it's just poor positioning. I hate it if I take a pic and realize later that one of my guys eyes are turned in too much.

 

I'm not keen on the cross-eyed look myself, however depending on some eye shapes it's sometimes virtually unavoidable and tricky to get the right eye size without gapping that will lessen this. This can also be said for many anime dolls such as Dollfie Dreams/Smart Dolls but for some peculiar reason it doesn't bother me so much when it's a cartoonish looking doll.

 

To me, the cross-eyed look never looks cute. I cringe every time I see it, and I find it worse on some dolls than on others. I realize some people find it dead cute though, and people can do whatever they want with their own dolls.

 

When it is clearly intentional on a cute cartoonish doll, I'm fine with it. Otherwise it looks like a mistake to me, as I've mistakenly made my doll look cross-eyed myself... And it drives me nuts.

 

I don't particularly mind it! I do worry that my dolls have cross-eyed positioning, since my... everything? seems lopsided. And that everyone who see him is too polite to tell me otherwise or is juuust unpolite enough to talk about it when I'm not looking.

Straight to the point: I do not want my own dolls' eyes to be cross-eyed, haha.

 

Sometimes I can't tell until I take a photo if I installed eyes properly, heh. I don't have any dolls that are intended to be cross-eyed right now, but I think it is kind of cute in less severe-looking sculpts. If I had the right doll I'd do it, but I think that it also usually has to be kind of drastically done to look intentional, otherwise it just looks like a mistake.

 

My Alistair looks a little cross-eyed, which isn't at all dignified for a doll with fangs and pointed ears. I haven't fixed it largely because I'm not in the mood to; his eye putty is very sticky and I hate getting that crap on my fingers. So for now Alistair will just have to look cross-eyed!

 

It can look cute on small children or tiny animals/monsters, on bigger dolls I don't think that it's intentional most of the time. I've never done that myself, it drives me a little crazy when I'm positioning eyes and I don't get them right on the start tbh

 

It may not always be intentional - High dome eyes (like glass "paperweight" eyes) often photograph as cross-eyed even when they aren't when looking at the doll in person.

I avoid buying those types of eyes because of the problem, but it takes a while to find replacement eyes in the right size and colour that I like the look of so some of my gang look cross-eyed in pictures... and lots of people like the "depth" the high dome gives to the eye so use those eyes anyway.

Teddy

 

I'm not really into the crossed-eyed look for my own dolls. If any of my dolls are cross-eyed, it's probably not on purpose. I have trouble looking at such little things and if I don't get the eyes in right the first try, it just ain't gonna happen! lol And as others have mentioned, I also don't notice until after the picture is taken but they look fine in real life. As for other people's dolls, sometimes it looks cute and sometimes it looks really bad (and I assume they're like me when it comes to eyes and just can't tell XD).

 

Oooh they give me spontaneous itches to fix their eyes haha! Not my favorite look, that's for sure.

 

I like it when they're more on the anime side, have huge eyes and are rather childlike. Oh, and a butterfly on their nose helps.

Other than that, I don't mind it either especially if it looks like the owner is having fun. I like seeing people enjoying their dolls.

 

I think that if it is done on the right sculpt, the cross-eyed look can make the doll look even cuter! :3