What's more important, the HEAD, BODY, or BOTH?

Head is most important to me. Body is next. Even if the body doesn't quite fit the character idea you dress them up so you see the head more. I still try to get with body up though so it is still important.

 

It has ended up being both for me, in a way. Of course the head sculpt is the first thing I fall in love with most of the time, and often the body it happens to come with is not very important, as long as I like it enough. There are some dolls I love the head and body sculpt of just about equally. Then there are those few body sculpts that I love quite independently of the heads that are available for them. They go on my wishlist as separate items, that I might buy a head I didn't care much about just to get.

 

Both are pretty important to me but I find the head sculpt is usually what sways my choice in the end.
The face is what I focus on most when it comes to a bjd and if the sculpt isn't really what I like in a doll, I find I won't get attached to it at all.

 

To me, of cause the head is much more important, because it's the face attract me exactly. I also care for the body. They don't need to be perfect in every aspect, but at least they have to match the head in proportion. Yes clothing may hide some body flaws, but I don't like too thin or too muscular body.

 

The head is what catches my attention, and the body afterwards. I don't usually do hybrids as I'd prefer to have a doll fully assembled upon arrival. In that case, both are important factors in deciding and finalising my purchase.

 

The head sculpt is most important to me. But I tend to buy whole dolls at a time, I rarely change bodies, so the body is also important. I am investing a lot in the whole doll, so I would prefer to have a head and body that I absolutely love.

 

It's both. I tend to fall in love with the face first, because that's the focus of most photos (be it from owners or they company). But I'll opt out of buying the whole doll if I don't like the body. I'd rather just buy a floating head and then find the body. Honsetly, I'd rather do the work to hybrid and get the result I'm most happy with. So I guess I think of them as separate entities that work together.

 

I was going to say both, but thinking more about it, I think the body is more important to me. No matter how much I like a head, I don't even consider buying a doll if I don't like the body, and I've never considered hybriding (I'm alternately lazy or very busy with other things). Maybe it would be different if I were looking at dolls to shell a particular OC, where the face would be most important, but since I usually buy dolls to look pretty... I want a doll with a body sculpt I like too. Which is ironic, because the body would be wearing clothes all the time anyway!

 

Most of my dolls are hybrids because I’m never satisfied with head+body combinations that companies provide. The head usually comes first, defining the character, then I start searching for a suitable body. I’m very picky, can’t have an ex-soldier with a body of some high schooler or slutty sex bomb. And since my dolls are part of the same story, they also need to look good together, so it’s all just one big headache. XD But I guess it’s part of the game.

 

Historically, I had a tendency to follow this pattern:
1. the head. Do I like it?
2. the body. Do I like the look of it? Great emphasis is put on the look of the joints. If the joints are bad looking, I won't buy the doll.
3. Does the body pose well?
4. Do they do tan? Or a fantasy colour? (this is a recent requirement)
5. Is there a dealer or not? This is not a deal breaker: I'd rather a dealer but if I have to buy through the company website I don't mind as it is usually faster to buy direct.
6. How long is the waiting time?

More recently (since my Venitu), another pattern has emerged:
1. I like the body, I can cope with the look of the joints and it is said to pose well (THREE conditions. If one is bad, I won't buy).
2. Which head do I like best? I NEED to like the head. I usually will go with a nice smiling head or at least a sweet and sensitive one.
3. Do they do tan? Or a fantasy colour? (VERY important to me nowadays).
4. Is there a dealer? Do I have to buy from the company website?
5. How long is the waiting time? For instance, I would probably buy Dollshe's Adonis with his downcast expression if it wasn't for the waiting time. BUT the facts that the sculpt is not a smiling one and the waiting time can easily reach 1year and 2 months, have put this boy out of my wishlist. Which is a real pity. I would probably accept the waiting time if he was a smiling sculpt. Thankfully for my purse, he is not.

 

Both, but the head sculpt is slightly more important to me than the body. I hardly ever do hybrids.

 

I buy both heads and bodies separate whenever possible because I can't stand displaying a head on the "wrong" body for the character. A doll isn't complete or display worthy for me unless it has both the right head and right body.

...I have a lot of hybrids.

 

Head, because the body can wait especially if the sculpt is limited and you dont have enough budget to buy the full doll, just go for the head and worry about the body later. Theres a lot of hybrids out there

 

To me, the head is more important, I can find a body from any company that matches the head

 

The Head is more important for me.

 

It used to be the head, but now I'd say both are important to me. Although the first thing I love about a doll is the face, I realized I couldn't bond with it if it didn't have a body I liked too. Maybe I got pickier or that's because I shell my OCs but I will only buy a doll if I like the body's aesthetic, how it poses,... I already sold a doll because I didn't like its body.

 

Both, absolutely. I tend to start with a vague idea of the kind of character I want to build and the head gets chosen first, but the body also needs to fit the aesthetic I have in mind and pose well enough for photography without always having to lug stands around. I’ve been super spoiled by a couple of my faves and new dolls have to rise to their standard now.

 

It may be the head that attracts me first to a doll, but I care about posability and aesthetics of the body, too. It's not always easy to find heads and bodies from the same company that please me, so I think that's part of what makes hybridizing so addicting. I feel like I can have it all, I guess.

 

The head always comes first for me, because the body is usually covered by clothes anyways. I still prefer some good posing, but man. It's not super necessary, just preferable.

 

I don't know why but body is more important for me than head. I can buy doll with a perfect body and with strange face. Maybe it's opinion from the past when I worked as a stylist. Good makeup can change everything=)