Your favorite doll characteristics?

Interesting faces [the sort that almost don't need a faceup theyre that detailed]. Wider mouths, larger noses, sloping eyes, eye bags, gentle expressions. For male sculpts I prefer them to have a defined waist rather than the waist just going straight into the legs. Generally for dolls I like them to be elegant, oddly skinny or a bit more solidly built. I'm not opposed to some very broad shoulders.

 

I love wistful, big eyes and velvetey lips! I also really love slender, downcast eyes like you see in volks romantic glance a lot.

 

With very rare exceptions my taste in dolls runs to more adult looking dolls. I have a few minifees I was given that are leaning cute but overall my BJDs look more like older fashion model dolls rather than like cute kid/teen dolls. I like handsome mature faces, unusual faces. I am partial sometimes to flipping a gender and using a slightly femme boy head for a girl head because it often gives me a girl who's not quite so much cute as beautiful or striking. Most of the dolls I've owned that I've really liked have been real stand out sculpts, not your usual old school BJD faces...

 

I'm a sucker for dolls that have elf ears regardless of size. My favorite trait on a doll aside from that would probably be large eyes with nice waterlines

 

smaller eyes with a bigger gap between them seem to be my niche!! i loooove vampires so subtle vampire teeth and round mouths with plush lips are my favorite

 

I really appreciate long, high-heeled legs - almost all of my girls have them! I'm also very picky about hands, and I love lots of option hands. Volks and SQLabs/Sadol have the prettiest hands for girls, IMO.

 

My favorite characteristics are usually strong noses, heavy lidded eyes that give off a 'cold' vibe, and small mouths. I like stoic-looking dolls in general.

 

I adore lidded/half closed eyes, pursed lips, monster-ish elements (ie: spiked teeth, really long elf ears, horns) and HANDS! Man I adore hands and how much expression they add to a doll. I also tend to lean towards sculpts that can look a bit mischievous

 

I am only drawn to anime sculpts, but when it comes to them I like droopy or sort of sharp and narrow eyes.
Faceups that have very bold and creative eyeliner/lashes, generous blushing around the eyes and cheeks.
On the topic of blushing, body blushing in general. It adds so much life to a doll imo.
I love hands, pretty and dainty and expressive, I need a lot of option hands, blushing and some clear gloss on the nails are a must.
Mature boy bodies that don't have very defined muscles, but are also not too thin. A bit of healthy curves (the Vings 68cm body is one of my most favourites ever).
I also like pear shaped bodies, big hips/butts and thighs are cute, or in the case of mature sclupts pretty attractive.

 

Knees, lips and well-designed bodies. Of course, heads are very important, but I like good knees, especially on female bodies.