Buying a new doll: with or without company faceup?

If a decent company face-up is an option, I'll get it. If I'm going to wait months for a doll, I personally want it ready to photograph right out of the box. I'll sometimes add or modify a faceup, but I've only once completely wiped a doll's face off and started over. My preference, where possible, would be to get extra faceplates to do additional faceups, as is an option with the U-noa dolls.

 

I definitely prefer company face-ups. I enjoy taking a 'stock' face-up and moulding my own character around them, and I value the quality that goes into company face-ups. I also appreciate not having to ship my heads to face-up artists and wait for them to finish, and avoiding the hassle of waitlists or potentially having a head stolen.

 

It really depends. If I'm only buying a head and the only faceup option makes it look masculine when I'm planning to make that doll a girl, then I'd buy it blank and commission an artist for a faceup. If I'm buying a full doll and really like the faceup it comes with, then I will get the default company faceup.

 

I'd rather just get the company face up and wait a few extra weeks so I can have it good to go out of the box, instead of getting it and having to send the head off. The only reason I'm getting Parker's face up done by someone is because he has scars and such. But otherwise the company face up is fine. It looks good and I don't have to worry about it.

I do want to learn how to do face ups, but I want to wait until I find a cheap/damaged head to practice on. Then maybe I'll start trying to do them myself.

 

I've been drawing and painting seriously for many years, and while I'm very, very confident in my art skills on paper and canvas, I'm a little nervous about applying them in miniature to a 3-dimensional surface. I haven't ordered my first BJD head yet, but since I do like the company face-up for the head I'm saving for, I'm thinking that I'll get her head with their faceup on and then modify/tweak that faceup to get it exactly how I want, rather than start from scratch first off. I do want to do my own faceups eventually, but since the first doll head I will be buying is my ultimate dream sculpt, I'm afraid to mess her up!

 

For me, it depends on the faceup. If I like the company faceup already, as I did with my first doll, then I will purchase the doll with the company faceup. If I prefer the doll with a different faceup, I'll make the purchase without a faceup. I'm planning to send my blank heads out for faceups eventually, or maybe even attempt the faceup myself.

 

If the company faceup is what I'm looking for in a character and I can afford it, then I get it. Otherwise I commission someone to do it.

A couple of my dolls included a free faceup, or were secondhand and already had a faceup. I kept these as they were, though I'd feel less bad about wiping them away than something I'd paid for.

 

It depends. My first doll has a custom faceup, because I got her second hand without faceup. My second doll was a Soom Sabik, whose default limited faceup perfectly fit the character I wanted him for. So I had to get his company faceup. When I ordered my Souldoll Rye the other day, I love her lips on her promo pictures. When I asked Souldoll if they could make her eyebrows and makeup around her eyes grey instead of brown, they said they could do that. So I guess Rye is getting a sort of custom sort of company face up.

 

I just ordered my first doll with face up from ResinSoul. I also asked specifically about the coloring, so they asked for a reference picture. I sent them an example and they said they would look at it when doing my girl.

 

I've only just started in the hobby. (haven't even gotten my first order. @@) My first will have the company face-up, but no body blushing. I want to try body blushing first. I have two potential vict...um.. subjects. My Partner's doll and my own, when he finally arrives. ^^

 

I bought my first doll with the company face up since I had no clue how to do my own. I pretty much have all the tools I need to do my own face up, so I plan on trying a hand at it one of these days. If I ever buy from a company again rather than second hand, I'll probably save some money by not purchasing it with a face up.

 

Definitely default! At least to start with, there noting stopping me changing it in the future

 

I'm an artist. I do lots of different things in my spare time. So when I bought my first doll, I knew what I was doing. So I didn't need any faceup for her. Plus, I didn't like the company's default for her anyways. (:

 

I always get my dolls blank because its not my thing at all to let someone else decide how they should look no matter how pretty the company make up looks. There are companies where I really adore the look of the doll and the make up the company has given them, but I still order my doll blank. The fun for me is to make sure they look exactly like I want them to so for that reason I only buy dolls if I can get them blank.

 

I need to see dolls with faceups because I have difficulties to perceive blank face. And I can´t do face ups so I will send faces to somebody who can do it.

 

Depends on the doll, the default faceup and the company. My minifee is wearing her default because it fits her character and looks great, plus it matches the sleeping head. My first doll came with a faceup I wiped and my other 2 heads are still blank after almost a year. I haven't worked up the nerve to commission someone or take on the task of doing it myself.

At this point if I bought another doll I would probably opt for the default.

 

I bought a Monster High to practise on.

I don't think I would ever want a company face up, not because they're ugly or anything but because I just prefer doing it myself.

 

I like doing my own faceups.
I have 5 dolls with default faceups - 2 are Limiteds, 2 I had no choice, and 1 was a secondhand sculpt I just had to have and love the default anyway. I will order two more dolls in the near future that will have default faceups because I really like the faceups on them. But mostly I order blank to do my own faces.

 

I only have one doll right now, and I bought her blank and got a faceup artist to paint her. I think that's what I'll do for most, if not all the dolls I get in the future. The faceup artist did a fantastic job with her, and I really like the creativity and freedom of designing my own faceup. Maybe someday I'll learn to do my own faceups, but that's not something I'm focusing on right now. No matter how beautiful a company faceup is, I like my doll to be unique.

 

I always order my dolls blank to be sent away to my favorite artists. I have purchased default face ups and they have been gorgeous but I always want them to be different. I have several artists I adore, but Mingyi has painted the majority of my dolls. I feel like you should do what you want since they are your doll. No one should feel like they need to find an artist to paint their dolls because they feel it is uncool not to. I love being able to create a one of a kind look by custom face ups. But I would never think badly of someone because they have a default. Most of the time you cannot even tell if is a company or artist because companies use artists!