Do face-ups change the way you feel about your doll?

I might be not too valuable with my views, since I'm still waiting for my first ever doll... but I ordered her without the face-up. For plenty of reasons. One was maybe a bit snobby, but I didn't want a "store" face-up, because my dear doll would look like everyone else's, who got her with default one. And I want her to be unique, with a very precisely defined character.

I want to do the face-up myself since I think that over 80% of doll's character comes from her/his look. It's just like with humans - emotion show on your face, your look, smile, eyebrows etc define your humor at a particular moment, you can easly guess someone's character if you're a smart observer. And that's why I can openly say that face-up may be one (even the only) reason for how you feel about your resin child. Even the slightest change may turn everything upside-down.

 

^^ I must have faceups for my bjd's and certain kinds, thats why I thoroughly harass my F.U artiste to get it almost perfect because it reflects my bjd's personality. Who they are. Who they've been and who they shall remain until it has to be done over again. Though I feel it'd be like being re-born...uh...if you get what I mean ^_^; ....♥ Ha.

 

I think that a doll's faceupis really important and expresses the doll's personality. I have one character who is grumpy and angry, but if his faceup was happy that would totally ruin him.

 

I'd like to answer this generally speaking: YES!!! a faceup has everything to do with my attitude/liking toward the doll.

Thank GOD my first faceup was on Johnny Depp minimee and I love the way it turned out and I'm very happy with it.
However, my Soom Spinel head is a much different story. I've just done his faceup for the second time and I'm still not quite capturing the look I want. Even so, I'd like to offer you some advice Leenah, especially if you are using pastels, do your outlines in the pastels (hairlines especially, like eyebrows) it will help you and the pastels are so easy to wipe/wash away if it's not what you wanted. But perhaps you already do this.

I wish you luck!

 

I find faceups deffinitely affect the way I feel towards my doll, I am in the process of redoing them all right now, thankfully. A year ago I gave Corpse a new one, i do it about once a year, but I messed up his lips and did parts of the blush on his scarred arms too dark. He lost his smirk and looks a bit unhappy. I need to redo him and fix this, and I know once I do he will feel sarcastic and affectionate again, rather than brooding and standoffish like he does to me now (we still cuddle occasionally but not as much)

I have had the same thing happen with my girl, I was never quite able to achieve the look I want for her. I finally figured out how to do it though, so when she reaches the US new faceup for her!

Last of all is Cain, my lolipop gothboi. Cain is just...cute..in a scary way, but when I redid his faceup his eyebrows came out just a tiny bit less sarcastic, so I am waiting to see if it needs retouching to make him all crazy and sarcastic again

 

Faceups are so significant to displaying a character. I usually redo them until I'm really happy, but that doesn't mean I won't keep a faceup as-is temporarily (just to see if it will grow on me). Sometimes there are slight imperfections, but if it grows on me then I'll keep the faceup. I try to monitor my faceups closely as I'm doing them to make sure I like the direction they're going in.

 

Oh definatly! I had a Kid Delf Bory with the Cherry Eyebrows. He looked so sad all the time i couldn't bond with him and ended up selling him on to a good friend who loves him so much. If i ever get the money i'd definatly buy a bory again XD but.. without the sad eyebrows.

I actually also really dislike the Puki Puki Sugar mold in the official photos. But.. the face-up this one came with from his last owner just really works for some reason. He looks feisty and his ended up with a mini guitar!

 

I think faceups are slightly more improtant than mould. They can change an entire dolls look.

 

Face-ups are massively important to me for bonding with the doll.So important that (I've said this before but...) I don't even want to see, in person, a doll that will be mine with a face-up by somebody else. If I have to buy a doll with a face-up to get a sculpt I want I'll actually have somebody else open the box and wipe it clean before I'll look at the doll. This is because seeing somebody else's interpretation of that sculpt would influence how I did the face-up and take away from my character.

And when I've done a bad face-up on my boys I've had trouble even looking at them... Gamrut's second face-up was wiped off only a couple hours after I completed it, even though I try give myself at least 24 hours to really look it over and figure out for sure what I did wrong.

I had one face-up I did on Tanal that looked very nice in almost all respects except his lips were too pink, sadly, due to weather he had to wear that one for a while. Once I finally got it fixed he regained his position as the darling of the house.

 

Face up are definitely massive important.

It can inspire me when it is done right.

 

I have to agree with this and add on that wigs really make a difference as well. I have seen some of my favorite molds with custom face ups or different wigs and did not even realize they were the same mold. It took someone listing the mold type. A face up can really change how a mold looks, for good or bad. Which is why I am considering ordering an already done face up with a doll because I certainly wont be good enough to do it on my favorite sculpts

 

Oh god yes. My Kaizer, being a DOD LE, came with the company faceup without me having much of a choice. I left it on for several months, as I was in the middle of school and didn't have time to redo it. I didn't even want to take him out of his box half the time because I just couldn't bond with him with those long, fussy eyelashes and brows. I finally wiped it and redid it and now if he's not next to me at night I don't sleep well.

Faceups DEFINETELY change the way I feel about my dolls. If I haven't done it myself they're not really mine.

 

For me, yeah, it's really really important!!!
My very first doll arrived with a serious faceup damage, so it was horrible for me at first. I couldn't do anything with it for a long time, so i fell in love with her anyway. And when the time came to fix her faceup, i loved her so much even with the damages, i almost didn't want to gave her a new faceup.
Although, the entirely opposite of this, is my Migidoll Ryu. I couldn't bond with him until he get his faceup, couldn't gave his name...

 

yes they can. Hence the reason why i'm ordering my dollie blank (that I don't have the money for a factory faceup). The face conveys the personality and if the face doesn't match that...well it's a disaster. Just like us humans, a dolls face and look can tell alot about them.

 

Sometimes seeing a sculpt with a particular faceup can be very helpful--it will give that sculpt a whole new range of expression and attitude. I would never have bought a B&G Freya head for Cait's character, if the one I found on the marketplace didn't have the faceup she did. The company defaults, made the face look to sweet.

If I'm unhappy with one of my own faceups, it will bug me till I change it.

 

I did a face up on Madison, my kid delf Mill. Afterwards, I noticed the face up did not fit at all. (Not just cause it was awful, it just doesnt work the same) It bothered me to have Madison look like that, and he clearly couldnt be himself with it.

I didnt even want to play with him that much. So I just removed it. Its all good now, we are back to normal. XD

 

For me, a good face-up makes a big difference, yes, but frankly I like to redo my dolls' faces every so often, so think it's just the excitement of seeing them anew, refreshed.

 

Personally with my own dolls their face ups go with their personalites.

However there will be some dolls that i dont like because of their face ups. Their faces ups may look mean to me so I wouldnt want to play with that doll.

 

Oh yes, I can highly relate to this thread since I also had a similar situation regarding one of my boys' face ups.

I purchased my DOC Twin-B with the face up by DOD and the first thing I said when I first saw him was: "too much make up >.<" although, I love to see all different kinds of face ups on any doll (I don't mind whether they're too heavy or not) I prefer subtle face ups for MY boys. Needless to say, I was unhappy with him that even my brother noticed how unhappy and how much I disliked him so he advised me to sell him to someone who might appreciate him more than me. I follow his advice and put him up for sale but then I realized that i really liked the sculpt and that the problem was the face up and not the doll itself. (I had huge plans for this mold but the face up ruined it)

I gave him a second opportunity and sent him to a great face up artist. She did the perfect face up for my Rosiel as soon as he got here with his new Face up, I bond with him extremely fast. I found out his personality and looks and now I can't imagine my life without this wonderful little guy I love him so much, I couldn't be happier.

In sum, the answer to all this is: Yes! the face up matters!!