Your reasons for choosing your first doll?

I will admit, I chose my first doll based on price. I'm only 14 and didn't really get my parents permission (hehe) so I had to spend my own money. Luckily, I liked the sculpt as well! But you shouldn't just get a doll for the price; you have to like the sculpt, too.

 

Dollzone SD Minas will be my first doll to arrive. She is a beautiful Sculpt! She has a lovely face. Another really important factor for me was availability. I wanted a Volks doll but couldn't find a UK or European dealer. It seems almost impossible to buy Volks dolls in Europe!!!

 

My first doll, a doll leaves gabriel, inspired me on first sight! Since them her character has changed drastically, and unfortunately the sculpt no longer fits her, so I'm going to get and angell studio rhea instead (if you look at them side by side they're actually very similar.)
The main reason I chose aspen as my first she'll is I wanted a doll like me (she wasn't my first choice to shell but...) and like me aspen is transgender, and I liked seeing something like a doll, the representation of perfecting in humans, being like me. Probably pretty silly, but it made me happy.

 

While I am still saving for my doll (Hopefully this September! I want that special 18 birthday present we all wish for ) I chose Pidgin due to her delightful body shape and she reminds me of my built *minus the big hips* (lucky girl) I also fell in love with her long limbs and that strong jaw line she held. On top of that the thought of having a doll bigger then 1/6 for me is rather...scary haha. I want to travel with her so 1/6 was the best size! Ontop of that she is mature and and creepy lil child look >_>

 

I was interested in BJDs for about a year before I decided to take the plunge and buy my first. I chose Brinn because she looks almost exactly the way I imagine a character I'm currently writing who I adore. I saw her on eBay and knew right away she was the one I wanted.

 

Heh... I had decided that 'proper' BJDs were too expensive, so I bought an obitsu boy with a cute head that wasn't too anime. If anything, that only made it worse - I played with my obitsu and couldn't keep my eyes of Iplehouse Asa

Until I finally gave in and bought her. Since then, I acquired a few floating heads who needed bodies and so a couple of hybrids joined the family. Aoi, my Asa, is still the most beautiful of them all, and my obitsu elf stands proud (and tall, haha) with them.

 

My first doll was sort of intended (for the most part) to be a "gateway" doll - something that could warm my family up to the hobby. After seeing my friend's Mudoll bebe, I fell in love with how tiny and adorable she was, and so did my mam X3 I waited a while to make a final decision on which bebe set I really wanted and when they released Mint Bonbon Chiuu I just loved how sweet and frilly she was! >w< Needless to say I love her to pieces and she did work well for introducing the rest of the family to bjds ^-^

 

I just wanted to own my first one to see what all bjd's was about. I started out thinking I would never warm to a female bjd of the larger dolls, of course that whole idea went by the wayside and I love all sizes now

 

It was cheap. I had a very old secondhand dollzone. I bought the doll for ~30 USD.

 

I guess even though I have been watching BJD dolls around internet for years the choose of my fist doll was quite easy. First I only needed to see many photos of Fairyland minifees until I was completely sold for that fabulous body, especially their Moe-line body (oh I just love the torso shape ). So choosing the company and body was quite easy but then choosing the face sculpt took me more time : D after all I feel like I bought my first bjd quite extempore

 

I picked out the DreamingDoll Misora because I was intent on getting an MSD as my first doll and I wanted something more mature looking (in the teen+ age range), androgynous, and still mega cute! She met all my preferences and I fell in love with her sample photos - she hasn't arrived yet but I'm hoping she looks perfect irl too.

 

Mystic Kids was having a GREAT sale.

...That's literally it I have nothing else to say for myself...

 

When I first saw the Luts Terra, it just stroke me how me he looked like a character of mine. I wasn't intending at all to get a BJD at that time, but when I decided to get one, I knew it would be this one ! I got lucky and found his head on a forum marketplace for a really reasonable price and in the colour I wanted, so I bought him and ordered a body for him fro Bobobie. In a week, he was home !

 

Twigling has always had some of my favorite dolls, so when she offered the Ingenue sculpt in the MSD size, I knew I had to get one! It worked out great because she's a scuplt that I love at a good size for someone just starting out. Now I'm just waiting to get her

 

My first doll is a Ringdoll Norman Light 2.0 and he just fit all of my criteria! What really got my attention was his face and the company faceup, I liked that his face looked mature but still has fuller cheeks. Ringdoll as a whole has a lot of things I like because of the dark, vintagey, odd style that they have.

 

I haven't purchased my first doll yet but I will be doing so soon. My first girl will be from Leeke World. There are 2 dolls that I'm currently trying to decide between. The first is Chloe, I love the way her eyes look and that little pouty mouth is adorable. The second one I'm eyeing is Ariana. I just love those art bodies, I think they compliment their large heads rather nicely. I really love this style of doll and I'm looking forward to finally getting one.

 

So... Hopefully no one finds me a "brat" but my first doll was a gift from my mother...
So I didn't get to choice him.

He was a gift because I had finally found something that truly made me happy and made me socialize with people. (I have extreme social anxiety)

My second doll was a littlefee ante elf... I bought her because I liked how everyone else made her look.
(Which in the end I hated her)

My next doll was a pukifee Bonnie which I bought for the size and that it was new an in stock...
(Which I ended up hating the over jointed body)

Then after her there was my first "real doll" that I fell in love with, which was a nanuri 2013 event head. I loved her to pieces and should have kept her but ended up needing the money for a hasty move.

 

In a way, mine just kind of found me in a way, even though I wasn't really looking into actually purchasing one. My best friend was showing me a bunch of doll pictures that she liked on tumblr and tagging me in them, so I decided I'd find ones that I liked too and tag her. That's when I found pictures of Corni, and she just really stuck out to me. I was in awe of how pretty and cute she was, and I ended up looking into her more and trying to find out what kind of doll she was and where to get her. She was the first bjd that made that big of an impression on me, and after a couple of years of constantly admiring her pictures, I knew I just had to have this doll and began saving for her.

 

Although I loved the look of BJD, I never bought one because of the expense and I had no idea what I would do with one. I couldn't justify spending so much and then forgetting about it later after the newness wore off.

But Daisy Dayes baby centaurs... well that changed everything.

 

I originally wanted an Iple nYID Oscar but after mulling over it for a time, I decided I wanted an SID instead of an nYID. I ended up going with a Felix because his sculpt reminded me of Oscar's (like they could be brothers!). Maybe one day I'll get an Oscar too ;_;