Mannequins and dolls

Thinking about dolls and other female forms that depict an ideal physique and appearance i started to think about mannequins and the way in which dolls have interchangeable and disposable limbs.
It's almost as if to say, you can constantly change the length of your dolls legs, give it a new shaped head/face, thinner arms, ECT in a way, this is pretty much the same as cosmetic surgery, increase the size of your boobs, get fuller lips, have the perfect vagina or lose a stone through liposuction, wrinkles can be removed... and so on.

I have been looking at mages of "spare doll parts" people on the internet sell these in bulk - it's like some freaky frankenstein process of building the perfect physique.

I want to think about ways of incorporating this idea of interchangeable parts in to my final image as i think it speaks volumes about the way in which people use cosmetic surgery to "swap" parts of their bodies for more desirable ones.

When searching for images of dolls i came across the one below, it says "doll joints, strangely arousing"
Is it any wonder some women aspire to look like dolls?

I decided to look at "human dolls" and found some visually interesting photographs which illustrate how alien these features become when they are applied to an actual human being.

I like the image below, this idea of perfect symmetry and everything matching... it's a very inhuman appearance, which i find bizarre as it is a common misconception that human faces are intact symmetrical, most people not realising biologically that they are different.

Heidi Montag Obsessed With Plastic Surgery: Nose Lift, Brow Lift, Botox, Breast Augmentation, etc.etc.etc…

I was disgusted by the amount of stories i found online of parents purchasing cosmetic procedures for the children. some of them as young as 7!


Why the 'Human Barbie' is now injecting her own 16-year-old daughter with Botox

'Human Barbie' gives 7-year-old daughter liposuction gift

Barbie Body Image

How toys like Barbie influence our body image

"What impact does this have on young girls that spend hours and hours playing with these dolls? Do they want to become like Barbie and look like her?
We know that the more time we spend with anything, the more influence it has on us. If you spend weeks studying for a test, you'll probably do better than if you just spend a few minutes studying.
I think the same is true with our time. If we spend hours and hours playing with Barbie dolls, they are bound to have an influence on us. Just as if we would spend hours and hours playing video games."

http://www.teen-beauty-tips.com/barbie-body-image.html

What would a real life Barbie look like?

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7920962.stm)

In Robert Palmer's addicted to love video the women are clearly modelled on mannequins and have that artificial inhuman, almost alien look about them.