Custom Player Skulls

Taking a skull from a webpage like this: http://minecraft-heads.com/database/tags/treasure?start=1%5C= or this http://heads.freshcoal.com/maincollectionlist.php

If you copy the command from that website, it should look like this:

/give @p skull 1 3 {display:{Name:"Salad"},SkullOwner:{Id:"ca21f44a-ab17-43f1-a5e9-f3238e696490",Properties:{textures:[{Value:"eyJ0ZXh0dXJlcyI6eyJTS0lOIjp7InVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly90ZXh0dXJlcy5taW5lY3JhZnQubmV0L3RleHR1cmUvMWZlOTJlMTFhNjdiNTY5MzU0NDZhMjE0Y2FhMzcyM2QyOWU2ZGI1NmM1NWZhOGQ0MzE3OWE4YTMxNzZjNmMxIn19fQ=="}]}}}

Paste this in your text editor of choice (TextEdit/Notepad/Emacs/etc):

What you must do is highlight and copy the encoded string inside of the "Value" tag- in this case, it'd be like

eyJ0ZXh0dXJlcyI6eyJTS0lOIjp7InVybCI6Imh0dHA6Ly90ZXh0dXJlcy5taW5lY3JhZnQubmV0L3RleHR1cmUvNDU1ODdkYTdmZTczMzZlOGFiOWY3OTFlYTVlMmNmYzhhODI3Y2E5NTk1NjdlYjlkNTNhNjQ3YmFiZjk0OGQ1In19fQ==

Paste that string of random characters into a written book. In most cases it should be short enough to fit on one page (if it does not, this won't work!)

Optionally, you can put name/lore on the second page of the book. &-escape codes can be used for colors. This information isn't copied from the pasted command, there isn't enough room on the book:

With the book in hand, use the command "/mitem skull" and the book will transform into the desired player skull.