Heh, sleepykat, you make much sense to this gal! While I loved my Dawn dolls, Barbie always bored me. If my mom had tried to do my room all in pink, I KNOW I woulda rebelled. I always considered myself kind of a tomboy, but in the geekish sense, not the athletic (if that makes sense). As embarrassing as it is to admit it, I learned how to do makeup from copying makeup that GUYS were wearing (Hey, I grew up in the Eighties, don't judge). Even now, I tend to take more lessons from drag queens than from YouTube "gurus". I'm not averse to cute, it just isn't generally me.
With that said, I'm gonna cuddle up with Zappa, my stuffed weasel. (Oh, how I adore IKEA)