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

It used to be face-up. I was lookng at a doll and wanted "exactly like this". But now, I think, I start seeing the mold behind the face-up. I think it's a good thing - I hear stories about people getting disappointed in their dolls because the face-up was not exactly as they expected.

 

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Handsdown, the sculpt. I love seeing what people do with certain sculpts because a faceup can change everything. My El doesn't have a classically pretty-boy look like many of the defaults do...I did his faceup in a smirky-frowny way with really strong eyebrows.

 

I think the sculpt is important to like, though a fantastic faceup can really make me like a scult a lot more than I did previously. Of course, if I really dislike the sculpt, then no matter how fantastic the faceup is, I just won't like it.
The sculpt is like the foundation, while the faceup is the pretty part. No matter how jazzy and great you make a less-than-likeable sculpt, you still won't like it :'D

 

Well..if it is bjd stock photo, and it has faceup, I usually fall for it by the faceup. Dont get me wrong, it is still all around attractive bare...but Im usually attacted by what the faceup makes of the bjd.
In my case, I was attracted to the Gena Sculpt from Soom by the makeup, y'know..the smokey Gena that look like the MangaKa,"NANA"'s Nana character by Yazawa Ai? Yeah...and then i saw what people did what their Gena Bjd on the forum...and during this time, I wanted a boy...so being the freak I am...I now have a Gena Boy, all thanks to DOA people and SOOM's faceup.

 

Am getting a shushu but am getting her blank because I wanted a different faceup, I was mainly attracted to her eye shape/lip shape/head shape

 

For me it's the sculpt. If it's a doll with a special faceup that I see on the marketplace, the faceup can do it (see Devon in my sig!) but if I don't like the sculpt the faceup's not likely to make me want it.

I'm learning to do faceups myself, so I'm ordering my next doll blank - so it has to be the sculpt.

 

I think the face up is *very* important. Some sculpts I thought I hated I absolutely loved with the right face up, and vice versa.

I think a face up can make or break a sculpt aesthetically speaking, so I put more value on a face up.

 

There are certain face-ups which I fall head over heals for like most of LUTS and DoD, they have beautiful face-ups but I think really it is a combination of the mould and the face-up. Like with DZ's MO, I love the face-up but I cannot stand the mould ^-^; most seem to love MO... I fell in love with Hid's mould not so much the face-up, I love that the nose has a little softess to it where as MO just reminds me of a witch with it pointy nose ^-^; sorry I seem to be slagging off MO's >.> I must say though that some are indeed very beautiful!
so for me a combo XD also I tend to favor long haired wigs, so wigs are a big factor for me too (remember I ish a n00b and appearences at the moment mean a lot to me, I have a fear of porcelin dolls and chucky scares me - don't mention son of chucky >.> - so face-ups and moulds make it big for me ^-^
also I agree with zalem ^-^

 

The sculpt, definitely. When looking at a doll I want to buy, I try to ignore whatever it's current face-up is, and substitute how I want it to look in my mind. ^_^ But honestly, there are some face-ups, especially with the wealth of talent here on DoA, that can make any sculpt look FANTASTIC!! Sometimes the work put into a certain face-up can actually show how diverse and amazing a sculpt can be!

 

both, but alot of it is the faceup.
i know i will have it redone later down the road, but it is hard for me to visualize the doll with a stock photo that has a faceup i do not personally care for.

 

I lean more towards the sculpt, but to see a completely blank sculpt doesn't do much for me. I need to see what the head looks like with a wig and eyes.

There are some heads that I'm very attracted to when they're on a body with eyes and a wig, but to see the blank head just laying there doesn't attract them to me as much.

 

I guess its a little of both for me.

There are some head molds that I just don't like, no matter what type of face-up it is. While others I'm not fond of but would totally buy if it had a wonderful face-up.

 

The face-up. Unfortunately I can not really envision much when I see a blank mold.

 

My only real criterion for buying a doll is that I have to wholeheartedly like the sculpt blank. I'm not entirely sure why, but I guess it has to do with the fact that I do my own faceups. Seeing the sculpt helps me in certain instances, but at times it distracts more than it helps. I'd rather not buy a sculpt that really bothered me in some way, because a faceup can't completely hide whatever feature really bothers me.

 

with me it's usually the faceup, but with the littlefee ante i'd say the head mold because i've seen diffrent faceups and i always fall in love with it.

 

Definitely the mold, although a face-up can make certain molds look nicer or worse.

 

The mold is the most important. It determines everything that follows. I realize that there are many ways to do face ups in spite of the head mold. But so many characters are based on the line and angle of the face -- especially BJDs based on anime characters -- that it seems to be the single most important aspect of a doll. Things that draw us to a particular face come from more than just the features. For example, children are visually cute often because their faces are more rounded, with softer lines and angles.
Just my opinion, but yes, it's the mold that really counts.

 

sculpt, i always look for the picture of the blank head.

 

I am trying to look more at sculpts, but face-ups are a big thing for me (probably because I know that, when I do get a doll, there's very little chance that I'll be willing to do my own anytime soon). I think that's why I like owner pics -- they help me see what a sculpt can look like.
(But I do have things that I look for in sculpts. Ex. noses are a make-it-or-break-it thing for me and I am big on lips.)