I came out as a trans woman to my closest friends under the chosen name “Haley”.
Around this time, I was experimenting with different characters as profile pics and personal aesthetics. I gravitated towards many of the features you now see on Haleydoll: a cute petite ball-jointed doll with pink twintails, heart symbols in eyes. For a while, I used someone else’s drawing of a doll girl in a dress holding a parasol as my profile picture.
RevCat designed and drew this character as a request, which would later become Haleydoll. This was when the outfit was introduced: the turtleneck/sailor-fuku collar, as well as the white and gray duotone coloration on her cheerleader-ish outfit.
I drew and published my first pixel art rendition of her on Dotpict, marking my first effort to make Haleydoll well and truly a part of me.
2019/08/18
I drew the Haleydoll profile pic (and current Dollphone Icon Pack app icon), which became my YouTube profile picture and the base of all face icons in Dollphone.
2022/03/19
This is the date I finished the first “Haleydoll on the phone” header portrait, which looks bug-eyed compared to the latest version. The starting icons of what would later become Dollphone had been finished by then.
This version of Haleydoll lacks the multicolored gloves.
2024/01/30
This is the date of the first recorded commit to the Dollphone Git repository. This was the first step for them to become a proper Android icon pack.
2024/09/15
I mentioned that her name is “Haley Doll / Haruru Doll” on the Dollphone Discord server. It was only later that I would remove the space from “Haley Doll”.
2025/09/17
I updated the feature graphic to the 2nd (and current) version, with more on-model facial proportions.
2025/09/19
I officially confirmed that her name is “Haleydoll” (one word) on the Dollphone Discord server, after having used that name on the 14th.