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

Dec 16, 2005

    1. I think the head mold, but the face-up makes a hugeee difference. It's what seals it.
       
    2. I need to see the faceup. I might, in the future, have some that get sent off to have new faceups then what i get them with originally, but just a blank head is ugly to me. ^^; so i plan on ordering all mine with faceups
       
    3. Truthly, when i first started i was intrested in the doll mode a lot but was paying more attention to the faceup and how it fit on the doll. but now im starting to do my faceups for my dolls and love doing it ( MAKEOVER TIME!! )
       
    4. It's really a combination for me- I don't notice the doll unless it has the whole package to start with, y'know? I can't decide if I like a doll based on a plain molded face without faceup; I have to see how it looks with makeup.
       
    5. Headmold, definitely. Of course a face-up can improve everything, but I will never be head over heels over a doll I usually don't like, simply because it has a decent/gorgeous face-up. I'll like it, but not enough to make me want it.
       
    6. Headmolds :) When I like a headmold, I create a new folder and save in there all pics of it I've managed to find-- lovely face-ups, bad face-ups, gore face-up, blank heads. This way I am can really "see" the doll and decide if I want it. Sometimes I squee over a a doll I don't like but like HERE because of the wonderful face-up, but generally I pay way more attention to headmolds :)
       
    7. I needed certain facial features for my doll, so it was the mold I was looking for.
      And faceup is something I'm going to do myself in the future anyway.
       
    8. Well, it depends... :sweat
      To me both matters, face-up can make a certain headmold very attractive and face-up can also do otherwise. So, headmold for me.
       
    9. For my first doll I really liked the faceup. He was a fullset so it wasn't that hard to get almost the same as on the pictures. Luckily I was given the advise to check owner pics to make sure I liked him.
      When I had him for a few months I screwed up his faceup and needed to wipe it all off, which was rather hard, since I didn't have any materials to do a faceup. For a few weeks he was terribly empty with me and I learned the need of looking behind the faceup.
      Ever since I look for 'empty' heads to make sure I like him.
      My second doll was then ordered whitout faceup (I saw him whitout and fell in love) and now has a faceup I did. It feels a lot better to do it yourself and knowing I wouldn't have bonding problems again when it's wiped off.
       
    10. As for me, it's a mix of both....I love both DOT Shall's faceup an head mold....which kinda balances it out...
      but for the MG Ryu...I am most certainly inlove with his face mold ever since...:D
       
    11. I'd also say both are important.
      A nice head mold can not look good with a bad face-up, so as a good face-up can't improve an ugly head mold.
      See my point? XD
       
    12. For me its a mixture of both. I can't always envision what a head mold will look like once it has a face up. So seeing the head mold with a face up helps me form my opinion even if I plan to get a different face up than whats shown.
       
    13. The sculpt. If I don't love a sculpt without a faceup, I won't buy it. In fact, I tend to immediately look for a blank picture when I discover a doll simply to determine wether I'm in love with the sculpt or the faceup. The faceup can go on any sculpt, there's no point in choosing one doll over another if it's not for the actual sculpt as far as I'm concerned.
      Though, i can look at the blank sculpt and see its potential, so that probably makes a difference.
       
    14. Head mold definitely!
      Face up can be used to enhance a not so good sculpt, but their real features would still be revealed in other angles. you cant really cover up the subtle shadow cast on the face even with with an amazing faceup
       
    15. Mold definitely for me. I feel like the face-up is like the addition to the face. I love analogies and examples so here's my reasoning: Some human face structures just don't go with certain hair-do's, in the same way that you can't change the face structure but can change the hair-do, I feel that the head mold is the constant and the face-up is the variable... as in the face-up follows the mold, not the other way around. But that's just me :)
       
    16. I think it's a combination of both, for me. I agree with gwenithcoy completely.
       
    17. I'd say headmold...
      Actually, though, if I see a doll and think wow, what an awesome doll, and look up more in the sculpt that had different faceups, I often don't like it. For example, there are quite a few Migidoll Mihos around at the moment. I adore that sculpt when it had dark eyes and lots of shading; with natural faceups, I'm not so keen.
      However, I'd say customising the faceup is a big part of BJD, so I'd only want a doll that I really loved the headmould on. Otherwise, I'd own something that I only liked under certain conditions.
       
    18. Faceup. Usually I have a specific look or attitude in mind so I start with the faceup and seek heads that can accommodate and support that look. I can't really picture much with just a head, especially since any head can support any large number of looks with a skilled artist.

      I just have to be clear with how the doll looks like when she's looking at me. That ties in to my preference for eyes set straight-ahead--I'm always thinking "No, no, look at me, this way, dear," if the eyes are set any other way.
       
    19. Mold. My "true love" in the BJD World, the doll I'm saving up for, got me because of her facial features. I was just overcome by this feeling of "Oh wow, she's gorgeous" when I saw her. No matter who did her face up, an Elfdoll Emma will always get that reaction from me. xD

      Oddly enough, I loved Olivia Hussey in Romeo and Juliet. It explained a lot about my liking for Emma, when I saw that the doll had been based on her!

      I quickly realized that all I liked about the BJD I was previously claiming I wanted was the face up she had in her company pics. I love the pinks in DoD's "peach" face up, but... with anything else, I didn't like Shall as much. :/
       
    20. Faceup, usually. Dolls with unusual or more defined sculpts like Dollshe or SOOM, that I can tell what they look like, I can gauge. But in general, I like to see a faceup on a head.

      Mostly just because I'm not one of those people who can envision the final look of a doll when it's blank. I need to see a faceup to get an idea.