What attracts you more: the head mold or the faceup?

Both head molds and face up are important.

 

I do my own faceups so I tend to want to look beyond the faceup factor in search for a sculpt that I really like--so it's the head mold that attracts me more, ultimately.

 

This is so hard. I guess I go for headmolds first, but the faceup really makes or breaks the doll.

Case in point:
I love love love CP Soony. I think she's just the cutest little thing and when I see a beautiful Soony I just melt. However, I've also seen some that had a faceup that just turned me right off, and even though the mold itself is one I really like, that doll in particular doesn't do anything for me.

 

I'm gonna say both. If a heamold is absolutely fabulous with any face up then, the headmold.
However, i have seen some molds that I LOVED with some faceups, and really didn't like with outher face ups. Migidoll Ryu is one of them. Most of the time, the heamold gets me.
But on some occasions I see Ryu's that are still beautiful, but they don't have that Sparkle to me.
And sometimes I see a headmold that I usually don't like, but with a certain face-up, I'll pretty much go nuts for it. So really both.

 

faceup.

if i see the head for the firstime with a good faceup, I will like it. And usually if i end up buying the head, I'll end up trying to remake/copy the faceup or the emotion of the pic in whihc i fall in love with.

so definitely faceup :3

 

Honestly the make-up (face up) does it for me, I do my own doll(s) make up but I like the look of the other dolls more on the sites and it helps me decide if I want the head/body or not.

 

I totally go for the mould. If I find a mould that I really like then it will look good in almost any faceup!

 

The mold. I have a vision of what I want and look for a mold to fit. Xavier has wide downturned eyes, Jibriel looks surprised, Lucifer sweet. I didn't get to choose the "alien" looking twins and that might be why we aren't bonding.

 

Faceup for me. When Soom Dia first came out I didn't care for her with with dark red lips and Sybarite like faceup. So even though I had the couple making coupon from my Spinel, I hadn't planned on getting her. However, once they did the softer faceup I could see the true beauty of her sculpt and immediately ordered her.

 

I go for the mold.
I bought all my dolls because of their mold. And great face-ups even make them better . A face-up alone just doen't do it for me. They can be great, but some molds just don't appeal to me how amazing the face-up might be.

 

both a good head mold and face up attracts me. primarily I'd say that a head mold is what attracts me first and then the face up. I'm just starting to get into faceup's and I've found that there's a little bit of a correlation with faceup's and traditional artwork, a good canvas is the foundation for wonderful artwork.

One thing that really helped me when doing a faceup was to save pictures of any dolls that i considered to have a wonderful faceup as a sort of reference material that i could emulate off of.

 

i think any mold can look great and attractive with a good face up.

on another note... my ophelia is my favorite doll and I hate the mnf shushu mold, but I love her with a good face up. and by good face up I mean unique... i tend to not like companys default faceups at all...

 

The headmold/sculpt, hands down. Doing faceups on my dolls is how I bond with them and find their personality. So for my own dolls I always choose a sculpt I like then find the faceup that brings out their character. I also don't really handle my dolls with kid gloves... I'll touch their face to position the head, and I'll pull clothing on over the face. If it's a faceup I've done, I can just re-do it if it gets rubbed off. If it's someone else's faceup, I don't think I'd have as much fun because I'd have to be more careful.

However, I have seen molds I don't particularly like with beautiful faceups... so a good faceup can truly change the doll. But buying pre-faceupped dolls just doesn't usually work for me.

 

Depends on the doll!

 

I would say both. If I don't like the mold no face-up can make though. But if I like the mold and not the face-up I always think the face-up can be changed.


The first doll I ordered was DZ Feilian and I don't like her default face-up. It's way way too pink so I ordered her without and I'm going to try to make one myself when I get her.

But when I really really love a doll it's both the face-up and the mold. I bought a Lati Censya on an older body and I just love her. She's SO beautiful. (Even though she's still waiting for her right eyes and hair that will make her even more beautiful.)

I think my Feilian will be beautiful too eventually. I might take a few tries to get her face-up the way I want but I'll just keep at it till I get it right.

So a truely beautiful doll have a mould I like, face-up I like, eyes I like and a wig I like.


Dustbunnie

 

I, personally, would rather look at the blank mold first. Best to look at it and get a good idea of how it'll turn out later with the face up. The mold is important if only because you need to have the right mold for the right look. Then the face up adds to it, of course.

 

Hm... well, me, I like to be able to see the blank sculpt, because I've been fooled by pretty faceups combined with stock photo angles before, only to, after seeing the actual doll, realize that they look different than I expected, and if I'd wanted to do a custom job, I sometimes see that they might not work, because the default faceup makes the cheeks look more this or the photos made the nose look more this, when really it's slightly different in reality. (Ex: my Dollndoll Raam, Xelloss, has a very pointy chin and slightly pointy ears, and he doesn't really look that way on the website. I still think he works for his character, thankfully, but if I'd seen a blank head I might have thought harder about getting him instead of just jumping at him when he came back in stock.)

Generally, it's the actual shape of the face that matters to me, but if a faceup is also perfect for the doll as I want them to be, that is great, then I just get the default one on the doll, cause my painting skills are blah and I can be nervous about sending my heads off. Some dolls, if they don't have blank shots, I try hard to imagine them without the makeup because I want something different on there. But I admit, sometimes the faceup sells the doll, for me. I really try hard to see beyond it, but I'm not always completely successful.

 

the face up in the doll photographs are important to me to see, but the mold is what i will ulitmately make my desicion on since i plan on doing my own face ups (still don't own a doll yet)

 

Both are important for me. I definitely love several particular molds, but I need them to be in proper face-ups. I think molds give dolls the basic looking, which make them different from others, while face-ups give them the soul. Blank heads for me are something dead. So I can never afford purchasing a blank head.*sweat*

 

Face-up is usually the first thing that attracts me. I will however check out more dolls of the same sculpt and then I can pretty much asses if I like the sculpt or just that particular face-up. Blank heads don't tell me much. I need to see what I can make of it to like it.