A woman who is obsessed with looking like a porcelain doll will spare no expense when it comes to her image. Dressed in a frilly pink dress with knee high socks, a furry headband around her platinum blond hair and full eyelashes, 21-year-old Jade Smith wants to look like a real life 'Lolita' doll. Jade, from Wallington, Surrey, estimates she’s spent £10,000 to date on her doll-like outfits, £8,000 on shoes, not to mention the extra money spent on accessories, wigs, key chains and toys. She even has a monthly £20 glitter budget.
Jade wears circle contact lenses to enlarge the appearance of her eyes and admits to getting up at 4am on some occasions so she has time to get ready
Jade said: “I’ve spent around £10,000 just on my clothes.
“I normally get my clothing shipped in from Japan and Korea.
“I have roughly around 40 pairs of shoes and I have around 40 key chains.
“The money has also gone into my toy collection.”
With its Care Bear-lined bed and shelves of dolls, Disney figures, Hello Kitty and My Little Pony figures, Jade’s pink bedroom looks more like that of a seven-year-old’s than an adult’s.
Jade still lives with her parents and younger sisters and the family home’s loft is stuffed with toys and clothes that don’t fit in Jade’s pink oasis.
Jade said: “My family call me a hoarder and they really wish I would downsize and become more minimalistic.
“They wish I would wear something a bit normal but they just accept me for who I am now."
If she had her way, Jade would wear head to toe pink everyday but working as a retail assistant Jade has to make do with sneaking pink accessories into her black work uniform.
She said: “I got in trouble once at work for dressing differently. I have over 20 key chains on my phone and my phone fell out of my pocket during a shift.
“The only casual clothing I own is jeggings, which I wear for work.”
Jade, or Princess Jadette, as she is known on social media, wants to look like a porcelain doll and admits in the future she’d like to have plastic surgery to enhance her doll-like looks.
Jade said: “I would probably consider plastic surgery to make myself look younger when I am slightly older - Botox, a nose job and possibly a face-lift.”
While Jade’s pink look attracts a lot of attention when she is out and about, the retail assistant says she enjoys going out in public in her doll–like outfits because of the (mostly) positive reactions she gets.
Instead of being heckled by passersby, they ask to take selfies with her because she’s so cute-looking.
She said: “Quite a few little girls have called me princess and I have to act like a real princess because they don’t know the difference and I don’t want to ruin their illusion.
“Quite a few people always try to take photos of me sneakily or they do ask for photos sometimes.
“It’s pretty common for me to get things shouted at me. The latest one was when I was called a 'little Barbie.'
“Some other comments are like, “are you on your way to a clown’s funeral?” and “It’s not Halloween , you missed it.'
“I would have to say people who don’t like this fashion that if you haven’t tried it - you won’t understand. It’s a great fashion to wear and it’s really good for making you feel happy. Because you get to just be yourself. And you get to have fun and not have to worry about anything.”
Jade first started to dress like a princess – or as she calls it in Lolita style - age 11, when her mum would dress her up in frilly dresses.
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