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

I don't, haha. Though I don't think I've ever seen a doll that looks like me... like some others have said, if I did find one, I would probably be a little freaked out.

 

^^ that's awesome! I don't think I would be comfortable with a friend having a doll that looked like me tbh. Having a doll inspired by me would be kinda cool though.

 

Since most of my dolls are male (and I'm not XD) I don't pick dolls based on how similar they are to me. I like fantasy male characters that look strong, dark, mysterious, and magical

 

Since my combination of big nose and small lips is pretty much the opposite of the ideal feminine look, I doubt I could find a doll similar to me if I wanted to. Not that I particularly want to.

 

Not at all. I've never much liked or indeed understood the appeal of characters that are basically self inserts or minimes. I mean, I write and rp for escapism, why would I want to be ME just with like.. magic powers or something? that's not escape enough! lol. I'm ME every dang day of my life, I have to look at this mug every day in a mirror, i'm bored of it. I'd much rather have something different, exciting, new and so on.

And so I gravitate toward dolls I think are either full of character or just flat out beautiful/wierd/inspiring. I don't think any of them look at all like me.
Maybe it's because I just don't have the ego to think i'm worth shelling into mini form or something, I dunno. There is an element of ego to it I think (not that it's a bad thing, you just really have to like yourself you know? and I don't. Much at all tbh)

In terms of my taste, well most of my ocs are male, and so most of my dolls are male (and i'm female). A fair few are non human as well. If I have female ones they'll generally be designed based around the ethnic features of whatever species/race they are.
I tend to design characters based on two factors.
1: Aesthetics. What's fun to draw/colour, which colour combinations look nice together to my eye, what stands out better on paper, what I personally find attractive or fun. (this is why one of my characters has really dark skin and vividly pink hair, it looks COOL)
2: Because i'm either responding to a complaint there's "not enough of x" or i'm taking the micky out of a particular trope or cliche I keep seeing. Alternatively, it's a veeeery subtle joke that only I get. (My character names tend to lean toward this, so many joke references that everyone who isn't me doesn't get hahaha). So say there's a long discussion on a forum about how there's no dark skinned vampires in fiction, well, solution? Make some! There's no really alien aliens in this sci fi game? Oh that's a challenge, that's a gauntlet laid down right there, i'm gonna sit and design some super alien aliens now.
This is how my brain seems to work. I see people lamenting that this is terrible or there's none of this in fiction and I see it as a challenge. I really enjoy taking on those challenges and as a result I end up with really bizarre characters. Like sparkly vampires (hilarious) and plant people and it pretty rapidly spirals out of control, characters get away from me and before I know it, what was just a fun little challenge is now yet another over developed oc to find something to do with. DOH.

But they never look like me. At best you might get one who has similar height, or a similar hair colour but generally, naaah. If I think about all my female characters, not a single one looks anything like me.
Interestingly though, a few of my male characters share physical traits with my husband. He's what I find attractive so I guess my brain is wired up to draw or envision a face like his when I design a guy. More amusingly, my designs for many male characters predate meeting my husband. But he looks rather a lot like ALL the other guys i've dated hahaha. I have such a type omg. So maybe it's more my husband and indeed my male characters tend to look like my dream guy, hahaha. Not always, but if I want a character to be "attractive" i'll subconsciously default to my personal aesthetic.

 

Nope.
I seem to pick out dolls that I find are attractive or just too cute for words. ^-^

 

No, I don't, my dolls look nothing like me other than the fact that we all have brown eyes. I have yet to find a doll that looks anything like me (which I consider a good thing).
I do tend to gravitate towards dolls that looks similar to each other though. Something about big-headed dolls with big eyes speaks to me

 

No. I fall in love with beautiful dolls, who tell me their story instantly by pictures. I only pick those. If I'd buy dolls just to get a lot of dolls, I'd pick the cheap ones or the most different lookin ones. Then it would be the size that would matter the most.

 

I don't know. All of my dolls tend to have overly simplified features. So they could vaguely resemble anyone with the right eyes, wig and face-up. On company photos, dolls sometimes remind me of myself or friends based on the wigs alone. But based on the sculpt alone? I don't think any of my dolls really look like me. Dolls that are that realistic generally don't come home with me.

 

I've never thought of buying dolls that look like me. And I doubt I'd really find interest in the doll that looks like me. I simply like dolls that captivate my attention; ones that are especially unique, those that have a backstory that I want to desperately unfold, etc. And I might be the only person who'd do this, but I like buying dolls that have chemistry with other dolls. I really love history and mythology, so sometimes when I see one doll I can literally see another doll whose story or personality could conflict with one another or there's a dimension of complexity in which both dolls struggle to sort of understand one another (or at least how I'd see from my own perspective).

I only have one doll (and she's on the way!). So I hope to find another doll that would have a lot of chemistry with her. But that won't be for a good long while because my parents would throw a royal fit if I tried to buy another doll (I tend to like the 60cm and above limited edition dolls sadly).

No scratch that, they'd be upset if I spent any more on dolls (how ever little, exclusive, or available they are)...

However! I've definitely seen a small dolly that looks exactly like my little sister did when she was very small. Especially her eyes, smile, and chubby cheeks! So I'll definitely try to buy her in the future, even though limited edition dolls will be a priority haha.

 

Haven't seen any that look like me at all. If there's one that does resemble me at least 70%, nope, I still won't get the sculpt.

Usually, when browsing dolls, I would gravitate to those pretty looking ones. Can be anime style or realistic, as long as they're nice to look at. There's a certain kind of look that appeal to me, but so far I haven't got the funds for her..

 

Hmm looking at all the dolls I've got None look like me!! So probably not

 

Oddly enough I tend to gravitate towards dolls that look different from me. I assume my reasoning for that is because I get to look at my beautiful self in the mirror everyday and I am my own real life doll. I just like to admire the features that I do not have like green eyes and red hair.

 

Let me preface this by saying that I have always collected my dolls with diversity in mind, all of whom are strongly character driven. And after nearly two decades in this hobby, I have a fairly large collection. Only two resemble me in any way. One was pointed out to me by my grown daughter when she remarked that he looked just like me if I was a boy. He’s an angel that I searched over a decade to find the perfect sculpt for his character. I had no clue, but she’s right. And the other was preordered for no other reason than that she looked exactly like me as a teenager. As a little old lady now, I just couldn’t resist the nostalgia! I plan to spoil her with all the clothing styles I’m too old to wear now but love. She’s a Ringdoll SD Jade:

 

No, but my iPhone strangely decided one of my dolls and I were the same person when it categorised images

 

Well I mean, kind of sort of yes and no? I like faces I find relatable on some level but not uh, overly like myself because I truly hate looking at myself and am generally drawn to a different selection of appearance of human person as well as with dolls. But, speaking in very general terms, I have kind of a soft/round/square ish jaw face with full cheeks more than the more lean angular long face, and I have always had almost only dolls with round soft faces. I just like round-square faces all the time for everyone. I also think that there is a certain kind of neutral expression some people find very melancholy which I can gravitate towards in dolls because maybe I just have a resting sad face. In some ways I would absolutely choose dolls who look even less like me if possible (speaking of resin color now) because I am very pale as the moon but I have bought so many bargain used old dolls that my dolls mostly are too. It was out of availability not preference. I have always preferred to be able to have some different colors (and I would probably prefer everyone to be a lovely tan-rosy-golden brown color which is very much not like myself if I were to pick a single resin color) but it has simply not happened much, and then when I have to sell off things, those very dolls are the dolls who sell easiest. It also may be most accurate to say that (having been in the hobby a long time) there was a time when I did choose some dolls who look more like me and now I tend to gravitate away from that appearance.

 

Well. Apparently my dolls look like me. I've had a number of trusted friends and family members who've seen my dolls in person say so, enough for it not to be coincidence or a random compliment. They don't look physically like me (though I suppose one is starting to lean my way), and their sculpts are modestly diverse. But when viewed as a collective, they all share a particular disposition and it's probably quite obvious that they're all owned by one person.

Spoiler: I mean, look at their faces

I was putting together the menu for my Weibo social media account, and was struck at how similar everyone looks. My 'types' are clearly showing...

Whether they look like me in spirit... I suppose they do. I make OCs for my dolls and while none of them are self-inserts (I'd never do that), I put a lot of 'myself' into their character development, moreso than the characters I create for fiction writing and RP. So I guess I'm bound to appear in them somehow.

 

There are no dolls that look like me and if there were, I would not be interested in buying one.

 

Not really. In fact, once I tried to search up a doll who looked like me so I could have a minimee of sorts who I could dress up fancy and such cause I can't really do that in real life and, when the doll's head came home, I didn't feel comfortable with it and put it up for sale almost immediately without even giving it a face-up or anything >.<

 

Kind of, but in a roundabout way.

when I was a kid, my mom was convinced that I was blonde. Like adamantly so. And convinced me of it too. She had me literally arguing with teachers who said, correctly, that my hair was light to medium brown (got darker as I got older – it was blonde when I was a toddler, but not much after that.) I thought that, in Caucasian people, very pale skin and dark hair was the most gorgeous combination. So I started gravitating toward dolls like that.

Turns out I actually sort of had that coloring myself (not the most dramatic variant, but I do have brown hair and very light skin). But since it took me a long time to be able to physically recognize that I looked that way, it's more personal beauty standard that I didn't think I met for a long time then "a doll that looks like me."

 

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.