My "Type"

So I've somewhat recently realized that I have a definite type. And I'm not actually talking about dolls, although the discovery of an overlap is what prompted me to bring up the matter in this blog.

I've always liked tall, skinny guys (try Christian Camargo, for example: drool). It's not a stretch to follow that into my love of BJDs, which are often notoriously Clamp-like in their tall, skinny, long-legged proportions. More recently, however, I've noticed that I also have definite preferences in two other areas: hair color, and hand type.

Count my dolls (8). Now subtract those I have no business finding attractive (3). Now count how many of the remaining boys (5) have dark hair (4). Sorry, Hope, I'm just not that into you (not that he cares).

The more I think about it, the less I discover I actually want dolls with light-colored hair. I randomly clicked onto the Luts site today and saw one of their new dolls (Sherard). I wasn't all that impressed at first, but as soon as I saw the sculpt in a brown wig, my opinion of him increased significantly. Even when I try to create new original characters they often wind up with dark hair.

As to the hands, most of my dolls have lovely hands. Theo's hands have always bothered me, but his cute little butt makes up for it. I haven't decided whether to look for replacement hands or try experimenting with boiling to curve them a little more naturally; they're nice hands, they just have very Barbie-like positioning. I like long-fingered, finely-boned hands, often with wide nails and big joints (I think that's adorable). "Pianist hands" I've heard them called.

Oh well. If my future husband has any blond in his genetic history, our kids will at least have a chance at it.