American Girl
The American Girl Company makes dolls designed to look as real as possible to encourage girls to have fun through imaginary play with a pal that looks just like her. American Girl offers pre-made historical dolls that represent girls from America's past, and each comes with a storybook and coordinating accessories. If you want a doll that looks like the girl you are buying for, American Girl has an online tool that lets you build a doll from scratch, offering more than 40 different combinations of hair color and length, eye color and skin tone. All American Girl dolls are 18 inches tall and very soft and life-like.
Reallife Dreamland Babies
Reallife Dreamland Babies are life-like dolls created by artist and designer Joy Joco. All of her babies are completely unique and original. These custom-made baby dolls have been featured on television shows such as CSI New York and shows on The Learning Channel and Discovery Health. There are life-like dolls available in almost every nationality and skin color, along with preemie babies, sleeping babies and awake babies. You can also have a doll made to your specifications, with features including eye color, skin color, gender, weight, softness and age.
Madame Alexander
Madame Alexander Dolls have been around since 1923 - longer than Barbie. Due to the company's longevity and reputation, these dolls are well known and highly collected. The most life-like doll made by the company is the Real Life Baby Doll collection. These dolls have micro-rooted hair made of very fine mohair. They feature life-like eyelashes, fingernails and toenails, along with soft, wrinkled arms and legs made with the company's patented RealTouch skin. The Madame Alexander dolls range from a tiny eight inches to 21 inches when standing and are extremely life-like, soft and huggable.