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

I think its the face-up that gets you in the begining. Because that's what you see at the surface. I then started to really look at the sculpt to see the features that I like. Or to figure out why I liked one doll over another. I found some customizers that I like all their dolls (even found molds I dismissed) and I look for certain features in sculpts. I dislike the large nose, that only sticks out at the end. A roman nose on a good looking guy, I'm all for.
Now I'm looking for different (very Asian features, odd elf, a true mature male sculpt (just not 70cm), a funky kid (a kid, not cute kid). Then I'll send to someone who will paint them the way I want.

 

Definitely the head mold!!!!
i'm all for doing my own faceups!

 

Well, face-ups/nose mold atracks me to a doll faster than the whole head mold XD Though I wish it wasn't so.. I'm probably missing out on a few good dolls that way.

 

both, i honestly can't say that the head mold would attract me more than the face-up because both are equally important in adding to the esthetic quality of the doll. Having said this though everyone is different and will like different things about a bjd for different reasons.

 

I've been giving this some thought lately, and I'd have to say it is the headmold that attracts me more than the face-up. In fact, I sometimes find face-ups distracting when I'm trying to determine whether I really like the head or not.

The thing that made me really reconsider my stance on this was Elfdoll June. I really didn't give her more than a second glance. She didn't do anything for me with her default face-up.

Then I saw the Wysteria doll being offered on Denver Dolls, and I fell in love with it. I thought Elfdoll was offering a brand new head. Once the details were included, and I found out it was a June, I couldn't believe it. She looked completely different. It made me do a little research. When I was able to find pictures of June's headmold with no face-up, I realized how lovely she really is.

 

I think it mostly depends. Because some dolls can look fantastic all the time, which I guess would be because of their molds. It doesn't matter what kind of faceup they have, they will still look attractive. And at the same time, the faceup really tends to make the doll for some other molds. I mean, I fell in love with my ED Lydia the first time I laid eyes on her. I searched around all over the place for more pictures and found that she is always quite beautiful to me, so I guess in her case it's the mold I fell in love with. However, for some other molds I tend to find that I like the faceup much more than the actual mold. Sometimes i think some molds are a little intense looking and need the right kind of face to work.

 

I'm still pretty much a newbie to this hobby, but for me, I guess the mold has to attract me more.There are certain features that I dislike that can't be changed by the face up, like overly large eyes.

Of course, the face up 's still important. Especially because I don't really know how to do my own (nor do I want to try soon). But it just seems like the face up should just enhance the doll's beauty.

 

The head mold, definitely - especially because I do my own faceups. I look at a doll and think, "Man, he would look great with (ex) faceup."

 

Headmold first face up later. The face up can be really good or not but the headmold breaks or makes them for me most of the time.

 

Well, I think it's a combo of the two...right now one I want, no one has him cause only pictures have been released, so I don't know what he looks like blank. However, he won't be losing his faceup for a long while if I do manage to get one. And one I am waiting on, well, his faceup is really nice but the mold drew me to him too.

 

The headmold, definately. I'm much happier with my Sprite since I stripped off the default faceup and did my own, and my Chi and Yo are coming with no faceup so I can do them myself too. I picked those headmolds based on their potential to look how I wanted with a custom faceup added.

 

I can't do face-ups myself, so I do love the face-ups that the artists and companies have to offer... However, it's the head molds that determined which dolls I chose for my pair. There can always be a new face up for the same head, but if you get a head you're not very happy with it's not nearly as easy to fix!

 

Depends. There are a few pieces of headmolds that I dislike -- Huge lips, big chin or a way too pointy nose, things that I personally don't go for. For my personal tastes, a face-up can't make a "bad" mold look attractive to me.

But sometimes Defult face-ups from companies or gorgeous artist face-ups that I could get really influence my liking for a doll mold.

But would I buy a dream mold with a bad face-up? Yes. But I'd fix it. xD;

I suppose it's all about balance and your tastes.

 

I think the true mold beauty test is: Can it be bald, AND beautiful?

I have seen someone's BW CP Moon boy blank and I thought he looked divine, a bit like an ancient roman marble statue. It was an art in itself. Other dolls (such as my volks) look terrible blank, but ever so cute with even just a little obligatory paint here and there.

It all depends on what brand of cheese we are talking about.. some dolls I love bald and blank in all their mold's glory, others just need something to amplify what their momma's (or daddy creators) gave them. xDDD

 

That's a hard one because there are head molds that I can look at with the most beautiful face-ups and I still wouldn't like them; likewise, some really lacking face-ups could affect my way of seeing head molds I really like. But when it boils down to, I think for me it would be head molds.

 

well i usually would look at the head mold
becuse if the faceup is bad in the picture or if the outfit is ridiculous it might make the doll look bad
so i cheak to see how the doll looks like cause it could still be really nice =]

 

i may have my eye drawn at first by the faceup, but after that catches my eye in a similar way as shiny things, i look more closely at the shape of the face and eye sockets and such.

 

I used to be attracted to faceups before i bought a doll.
But now I know how to look at headmolds XP
Normally before i buy a doll i will look into customed versions of it.
Or buy and send to my favorite faceup artist

 

It's a mix of both for me. The faceup is what initially attracts me to the doll, then I examine the head mold, and if I like both, then the doll gets an A+ from me! There have been cases where only one has taken me in, though, although the only one I can think of off the top of my head right now is Luts SSD Flood. His faceup on the site was all right, but ultimately it was the head mold that won me over. (In fact, as it stands right now, Flood is the only doll I would get without a faceup.)

 

The head molds are important, but a good faceup will show how beautiful a specific doll is. So for me. its the faceup combined with the mold.