A costum playerhead which does show its correct texture when in item form or on a player or armor stand, shows just the steve texture when directly placed in the world.
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Unable to reproduce. It works properly for me:
/give @s minecraft:player_head{SkullOwner:"Conem"}
Perhaps you are using a texture pack; check if the issue still persists after deactivating them all.
Also @unknown, to my knowledge there are no more commands that give you a player head in said version other than the one I pasted.
It's possible to use commands specifying an UUID instead of "Owner" as well.
Please provide the exact command that you used.
Which command are you using to generate the head?
Note that the UUID format changed in 1.16