Which do you prefer: Buying heads and bodies separate or complete dolls?

Depends... If there's a rare doll that I want and my funds are low I'll ask for the head only, or if the head only is for sale I'll buy a body later.
I also like hybrids, and making research about skin matches amaze me a lot x)

 

The first two dolls I've bought (a D.O.D Luke v2 and Custom house Iriya Ai) were both full dolls, though I am very tempted to just buy in new heads as Iriya's body is really nicely proportioned. That being said, I'd love to get a FeePle 65 Chloe full set, and a few more full sets from D.O.D just because I'd rather have full dolls everywhere rather than a bunch of heads sharing a body ^^

I think it depends on what you're after. As some people might have already mentioned, buying the doll in component parts can actually sometimes make it easier to acquire a full doll, since you can buy the different parts as and when you can manage it financially. But if finances aren't an issue then I'd say go for a full doll, including the costume and shoes if you can ^^

 

Complete doll.
I'm too much of a newb to try making hybrids.

 

Full doll is easyer I guess. My first doll was a full doll. But my second doll (Doll chateau Bella) I just bought the head as im planning to make her a boy
if you like both the head and body and have enough money then id go for a full doll

 

A lot of it depends on the doll and the face. On more than one occasion, I see a face and go "that's perfect for ___!"... only to see that my beautiful girl is a boy... or that great boy is a actually a girl. While I prefer buying a full doll for consistency, because I am intimidated by resin matching, I have a very successful hybird in Athena (Only Doll Yi Feng head and Fantasy Doll body--btw, Fantasy Doll bodies are awesome!). I plan on doing a second hybrid with Fantasy Doll for my boy Antal, who has a Migidoll Rhy head. Usually tho, I prefer the whole doll.

 

I would buy dolls with head and body together (from same company), if their body were good too. Normally I buy them together but from some negative experiences about "not-so-good" body but nice head sculpt, I also buy head and body separately from different companies and match for a hybrid.

 

I feel like I prefer to buy the whole doll. I would buy a hybrid, if I heard that the resin matched

 

I prefer buying a whole doll cause I made bad experiences about Elfdoll: first I thought their original body is not good. then i ordered an angel of dream body but it was broken. then I put her into her box and almost forgot her. Then I tried to find another body for her and quitted while a friend of mine bought a total elfdoll. I put the head of mine on his dolls body but i am happy now it was not mine
so I would prefer to buy a whole doll to be sure head and body fit together

 

I prefer to buy a complete doll.
I do have a hybrid, but that one was not so hard to combine. I tried to find another head for one of my older dolls, but then there's the whole yellowing aspect to keep in mind. Especially since he's (was ) WS.
It seems a bit like trial and error for me, unless someone else has tried it before. I dont want to end up with parts that don't match, since I'm not really a re-selling type.

 

I usually prefer to buy full dolls but sometimes a head catches my eye and I just have to have it. xD
I eventually want to make a hybrid Unoa/Minifee but I'm having a hard time finding the head I want.
I'm not too concerned about resin matching since I've seen so many people do that kind of hybrid already.
I think the only thing I'm concerned about is the neck joint but I can always figure that out when I get to it. ^-^

 

I prefer to buy complete dolls. That way I don't have to worry about resin matching.

 

Personally I find it so much easier to just get the full doll, but If the head is a limited thing or Im not a huge fan of the body I'll get the head separately.
I find trying to match the resins and everything to be kind of frustrating and time consuming. especially since I am sort of a perfectionist :/

 

I wanted to buy the whole doll. but many heads are sold without body so...)

 

I prefer to buy a complete doll, excluding the situations when it is impossible.

 

I agree with @Letheral , buying a full doll is truly easier. But it's always fun to search for floating heads/bodies you really want if they're not available to purchase buy themselves. Like minifees

 

I prefer to buy a full doll, but in the event I only want the head or the body, well, I wish more companies allowed for buying them separate. I have a few hybrid plans, and most of them means I'll have to find the head or body second hand, or buy a full doll and sell off the parts I don't need/want, and that is.. a bit of a bother. heh.

 

I actually thought about purchasing a body and head separately because I didn't like the body of a certain company, however since this was my first doll, I thought it would be nice to have the doll presented to me full when I first opened it. So yes, I did buy the doll together.

 

I usually prefer complete dolls when I purchase. I enjoy opening the box, seeing the birth certificate and having it right out for me to pose and all that. The only time when I decided to purchase a head and body separately was when. I got Doll-Chateau Debbie head with a Doll-Chateau kids body. In that case I think it's more understandable since I wasn't super feeling the original body that it had where it was joined thus I opted to purchase them separately.

 

It depends. I love being able to open the box and get a complete doll, but lately I've been getting a lot of floating heads and finding the bodies later.

 

I'd prefer complete dolls so that I wouldn't have to worry about resin matching/proportions, and as a beginner I imagine it'd be much easier on me (not to mention fulfilling) to have a complete doll from the get-go. There was a case where the default body of a doll I wanted didn't have enough joints for me, though, so if I ever ended up getting it I would have considered also getting a different body in the same size by the same company that did have enough.