Greetings from Feisty & Kenzie

Lifelong doll collector. Back around 2004 I saw a secondhand BJD for sale on a website primarily selling Sasha Doll clothing, and asked the site owner about it, thn looked aorund online and found a little local (UK) based forum where thy explained all th confusing terminolgy to me, and I bought by first BJD (secondhand, from Ebay, as I didn't want to dela with a company in a non-English speaking company in case the language barrier causd problems - plus, I wanted to see photos of the actual doll and faceup I was getting not generic company photo's of that sculpt).

All these years later, a few BJDs have been and gone again (mostly 8 inch dolls, for some reason they don't stay) and I've amassed a resin family of over 50 BJDs on top of the house full of other, off-topic, dolls, bear and stuffies.

The majority of my SD sized BJDs are a family froiup form a big, extended Victorian family, and they're mostly children rather than adults or teens, which can be problematic getting a variety of bodytypes since so few 1/3 BJD's have immature bodies and I'm extremely opposed to going down the creepy route of immature faces on mature/adult bodies with my dolls.

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I seem to have fixated on RML headsculpts early on in my BJD collecting (second doll I ordered) and have severla of their sculpts with multiples of two sculpts in particular. Now they're no longer around I tend to snap up any I see on the secondhand market.

As for eyes, it's all a mater orf personal taste. I find that eyes made for reborn dolls are realistic looking without carrying the OTT pricetags of eyes marketed specifially for BJDs. They're acrylic, which some people look down on, but they look good to me and, honestly I don't see why so many people are so ga-ga over glass eyes, whihc are often less detailed, more expensive and don't look as good. And, from my experince, high-dome eyes tend to make the doll look cross-eyed in photo's and limit the positioning in the eye-socket because of the dome getting in the way.

Teddy

 

Hello and welcome! You character sounds amazing. I hope you'll share your journey with us.

 

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I started this hobby in 2008. My BFF got me interested at first and then I went to a panel at SDCC where I can see a BJD in person and I just knew I was hooked. They gave me a list of doll makers back in the day and a url to this forum. I joined immediately once I got home and research the heck out of the forum and websites. I found Doll In Mind which had the minimee custom services and I had Rufus Shinra from Final Fantasy VII made for me.

Anywho your character sounds interesting. I can't wait to see what doll you get at the end and good luck!