/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9446632
>byojaku rarely translates well to real life unless you already have a young-looking babyface imo
I think it's mostly just hard to get it to have the right cute-but-sickly effect. At one extreme you can end up looking looking genuinely sick and tired in a bad way, or, more commonly, the high-blush look ends up looking like you're flushed from orgasm rather than flushed from sickness. My family and friends sometimes see jfash stuff over my shoulder and I've had comments about looks like pic related (which is a fairly tasteful example) seeming slutty/nympet. High blush is associated with feeling hot with arousal/embarrassment as well as youth, so it gives off weird slutty child vibes to normies (like a schoolgirl Halloween costume or something) which get worse when you mix it with a cutesy fashion like lolita.

Not trying to inflame arguments on this board with people who go that it's totes innocent and I'm reading stuff into it that isn't intended, but this is my experience of how normies react to blush-heavy looks that stray out of porcelain doll territory. Extreme example, but I just showed my bf >>9446514 and he said it looked like a blow-up doll.