When browsing dolls, do you gravitate towards ones that look similar you?

I get or I dream to get simply dolls that I like. And at some point l have realised that they do look, no, not like me, but like members of my family. If they catch on it too I will have some explaining to do. Hopefully I can just play dumb and say it’s a coincidence as they are beautiful and the doll is beautiful so they have something in common because of that. Fingers crossed they don’t even notice.

 

I have zero interest in purchasing a doll that looks like me. However, the first thing my sister said on seeing my Maskcat Ronia (she was dressed in an oversize sweater + dress and was wearing a long golden-brown wig parted in the middle) was "That's you in doll form!!"

The resemblance was based on basic features (round face, short nose, large eyes) plus the long hair and sweater (I tend to wear baggy clothes) and I can see it, but I had absolutely never considered it before. And I am not going to make any use of it, because she's her own character and I'm not drawn to "mini me" designs. But it was funny!

 

I've not seen a doll with features like mine, nor would I think I'd be too interested as I like things with as far of a contrast as possible to myself, though as a funny aside, when I told my friend last month I was thinking about dipping into this hobby and showed him the WIP of my first doll, he said he had a big nose like me, lol.

 

I don't really tend to purchase dolls that look like me, especially since I tend to lean more to fantasy dolls, but I definitely dress them in clothes I like! I don't tend to think "oh the doll would look nice in this" when browsing outfits or accessories, I tend to just look at things I personally would wear and enjoy jn real life.

 

Absolutely not lol. I do think I end up with dolls that conform to similar tastes and end up looking similar to each other, but they don't look like me. I mainly collect girl dolls and even the male characters I want to shell as dolls lean more feminine in appearance. I don't really look for realistic dolls either, I prefer stylized semi realism for resin and anime for vinyl, so it would be hard to find a doll in that range that looks like me I think!

The only similar trait I consistently go for is dolls that have a shorter body type, not necessarily short for their scale, but I don't go for dolls that have those long lanky model legs and long torsos. And in real life I am very short!

 

Interestingly, when I had smaller boobs, I tended toward dolls with small to medium sized chests—now I just buy whatever suits the character, and/or whichever is sculpted the prettiest. Some companies’ small busts are very detailed, and show some of the sternum/pectoral muscles/ribs in a way the larger busts obscure, and then I’m usually going to go with small. Still, I have more and more characters who need larger-chested options, now that medication side-effects have endowed me with DD’s (best side effect I’ve ever had!) The two dolls whose characters are the most self-inserty have very opposite proportions—vidania is short, and has a supia ballerina small bust on, which is very small, and Val is ~70cm, on a modded soom supergem with longer legs, and he has a fairly large bust (which might get bigger if I pick up the parts for that mod!). Vidania represents me when I was 21 and struggling, and Val represents my ideal gender/presentation.

Face-wise, I have a fairly young looking face. As I’ve gotten older, my bone structure has come out a little more, but in the right makeup, I could pass for 18 while I’m 26. That’s not the kind of face I prefer. I like really defined faces, without that kind of softness, which is why I’ve taken so many male sculpts to make girls out of. Val is ironically an exception—he has a younger looking sculpt, because I direly wanted a split-tongue for him and that narrowed my options, so his face, under the heavy makeup, is accidentally a little like mine.

 

I dunno, I tend to pick dolls that look similar to people whose features I like. My favorite sculpt of all time is Simply Divine’s Thomas with IOS Anima being a close second. I actually frequently get told a lot of my dolls look like me. I guess it’s because I tend to dress in a very ethereal goth way in real life.
But thruthfully my dolls don’t really share much of my style at all because I can’t find doll clothes that really reflect the style that I like and I don’t really sew all thay much anymore so making them isn’t something I feel up to. I’m also heavily tattooed on both my arms and none of my dolls have any tattoos at all which is quite funny as I see my tattoos as a very important part of me. But in short I wouldn’t say that I pick dolls that look like me but I do tend to pick them based on things I like.

 

I mostly collect SD boys and have a very feminine face so I naturally look for dolls with very different faces from my own. I only have three girls so there's not enough to really identify a pattern there; one has similar features to me but the other two are pretty different. I think my verdict would be I typically avoid features like my own, but it's definitely not an active choice.

I will say, however, that I do have one doll that I'm styling very similarly to myself even if her face is quite different. I like black clothes and tattoos too much not to give them to at least one doll!

 

Nah, not at all!

I'm a woman who only collects male dolls, and they tend to fall into either the anime or semi-realistic-anime categories.

I do have a couple who are currently wearing outfits almost identical to certain outfits I have, though, so that's something I guess ahaha. But that's mostly because I like to dress my guys in cute, comfy, casual sorta clothes, and that's generally my own look as well.
. . . If I still had my super short haircut from my mid–late 20s, I might look a bit like a couple of them!

 

I live in my head so much I am barely aware of the fact I am a living person with a body and not just some floating consciousness. I also can't stand to think of or read any self-insert stories. So no, absolutely not.

But I am content to obsess over fictional characters original or otherwise and their relationships with each other. The characters in my mind have always gravitated towards fantasy live-action so I choose realistic doll sculpts for them. They are tall with vibrant personalities and idealistic proportions whereas I am a plain and petite person.