What originally got you into BJDs?

Ten years ago, a friend of mine showed me a pic of one doll from Dream of doll, god, I was in shock. "this is the most gerogeus doll I ever seen" I thought. And now, I still searching for this doll

 

I got into it just by seeing dolls around different cons. They were so different looking and I've never seen anything like them, so I would ask around and find out more. Years later and here we are lol

 

Exaclty hahaha oh god, I still remenber that feeling when I saw her the first time, what memories

 

Basically, I was displeased at the fact that weren't any transgender dolls and decided to created on with a Ken doll. One day well exploring the explore thing on instagram I saw bjds. At first I didn't really get into them because of the prices, but I just kept coming back to them. Eventually I really got into them and here I am now.

 

I've always loved playing with dolls since I was young, all those Barbie days...then I stepped into teenage and stopped playing Barbie. But I did buy a collection of porcelain dolls in my teenage years. Then I came across a doll shop where they sell Pullips and BJDs...that's when I started browsing about BJDs and I was so amazed by the beauty of BJD.

 

I read some of Rozen Maiden back in the day, and when mentioning this to someone I was involved with at the time, I learned their sister collected them. She actually had a DoA account but that was ages ago and I've completely forgotten who it was. I saw pictures of her dolls though, and always sort of kept them in the back of my mind.

When I met my current girlfriend, she had a doll and wanted to get another, so I put in an order at the same time, because why not.

 

Deviantart. I was browsing and just so happened to come across Saaya-Chan's photos of her boys. I learned the basics from her FAQ and went from there. At first, I was reserved because of the prices (Luts was the first company I looked at when their SDFs were 450 USD), but once I decided I wanted to learn more, I came here to DoA.

 

I have been an anime fan for years and have loved anime figures. It was only a matter of time before I ran across a dollfie dream online. To be honest I though bjds were a little creepy at first! But as I looked into them more I fell in love

 

My first encounter with a bjd was at a burn (camping event look up burning man as a reference to what I am talking about) a hippie boy had one and it was bizzare but, I liked it. He had a very strong connection with his doll. I admired that. I have a very strong connection with a stuffed animal of mine so when he gave me a doll after becoming my partner I was pretty enamored. I may have went crazy and started doll adopting. I'm stopping at 6 but, the love is real.

 

I'm not sure anymore, it was so long ago, but I think it's because I watched Rozen Maiden. I liked the opening song and realized I liked ALI PROJECT, and I remember seeing the music video for the anime opening where the singer had a BJD lookalike. It was really fascinating to me, and then I found out about Volks dolls. I think that's how it all started..

 

I learned about bjds from a friend of my cousin 10 years ago, I believe. Really wanted one but couldn't "afford" at the time.

 

I learned about the hobby and the community through a very good friend of mine, and she was just so excited by the whole thing, I've been meaning to try and get into the hobby for a few years but the price and just anxiety about buying/selling/meeting new people online put it on the back burner, but I just decided this year, why not? Might as well give it a go I need a new hobby to put some focus on! So here I am! And i'm very glad I found out about it because it's definitely nice to have something else to me passionate about.

 

I've always been into dolls ever since I was a little kid. And then when I got older I discovered the world of art dolls and never looked back.

 

ngl I watched Rozen Maiden, loved it, then looked online if anybody had made dolly versions of them. After finding Pullips, I found Volks' versions! I thought they super great! Gotta admit though, I totally bought a Pullip lol.

 

I have no idea ...but it was probably some stream of consciousness internet surfing that lead me to BJDs. I want to say that it was because I stumbled across a box opening video once. No turning back now.

 

Until this day I still don't remember what I was searching for on DA but I stumbled across a Pullip doll. I did a google search on Pullips which lead me too a boat load of photos on Flickr. Going through all of those photos lead me to BJDs but I didn't get into them right away because I didn't understand why they were so expensive. 6 years later I bought my first BJD.

 

One year I was looking for a wig for my halloween costume as Poison Ivy, and I was searching all over the internet for wigs. I stumbled onto Etsy, because I love Etsy, and when I was looking at wigs I kept seeing doll wigs. I was really confused at first, but then I kept looking at the pictures and saw them modeled on some of the dolls and thought to myself "what kind of dolls are these?" so I looked up dolls next. After much searching I found BJD's, and the first ones I really fell in love with were the Minifee's from Fairyland. I just couldn't believe how a doll could be so beautiful. Then I honestly kind of pushed it to the back of my mind for a few years, because they were expensive and it just wasn't a commitment I was ready to make. But about a year ago I randomly saw one on Instagram on the browsing page. It was a commissioned face from Culur, and I started browsing again. I found tons of face artists and I was so intrigued. I knew this time I needed to save up and get my own. So thats exactly what I did!

 

this is a fate~
my first doll is DOD SHA
nine years ago,i saw his picture in the signature of the post in other forum
after 2 weeks,i bought him^^

 

I was surfing the internet about 8-10 years ago and stumbled upon Dream of Doll pictures of Kirill&Ivan and Shal, later found E-an. They were so beautiful I imidiately wanted one. I started searching for them. but back then I was a university student without an income, so I started exploring the crafting side of BJDs first. And only now am I thinking about buying

 

i saw some on deviantart a long time ago and wanted one ever since then but i thought they were supposed be like $1000 so i never got one it's only been recently that i googled cheap bjds and found DoA (and found out bjds were much cheaper )