Avatars

Since today marks the Two Week mark since I have been here on Second Life, I thought it would be a good idea to talk about my evolution as an avatar.

Pictured here, is my first picture as ME on Second Life. It is the default avatar that I started out with. I only changed the T-shirt from the default.

As you have noticed thru the blog so far, I have had many different clothes, and along the way a few different looks.

I have come upon a little older / more mature look for myself. At this point on SL, I find it a little more 'comfortable' to portray myself as what I look like in RL than to be some young guy that doesn't have any connection to myself. I gotta admit, the younger look is a Hottie!! Wish I was half that sexy when I was younger ! LOL But I like the more mature, wise look I have now. But not to worry, if I get the urge to party all night with the boys, I can easily revert back to my younger self !! LOL

Avatars are easily changed to reflect your personality, that inner desire to be someone, something that you cannot express in Real Life, for one reason or another. I have seen Young Guys with muscles on top of muscles, Girls with breasts the size of watermelons! Ninjas, Neko's, a green Merman, vampires and cartoonish charactors.

It took me a while to figure out how to change my looks. There is a difference between SHAPES and SKINS. I didn't understand that at first. A SHAPE, is the shape of your body, or hair. Some of these shapes you can alter in the Editor, some of them have a NO MODIFY lock on them, and then you cannot change anything on them. I have found that a lot of the FREE shapes here cannot be modified. They usually are from designers who are trying to drum up business for their stores. A SKIN, is that which goes over the Shape. They can be of different colors or textures. I have seen Green people, Purple people, Goth people. Sometimes skins and shapes do not mesh well together, and you end up having to change on or the other.... There are some great video tutorials on the SL website. I urge you to check them out !!!

I am looking for a New Hair Style. I don't really have a Mop Top like my Avatar has, so I have found a a couple hair styles that come close to "me". Tell me what you think looks best...

............................ Original hair

Or One of the Following Styles...

......Hair Style ONE.........................

....................Hair Stlye TWO........................................

These are just DEMO hair styles. To KEEP the hair style, I would have to BUY the Shape of hair. I also beleive that I will try a grayer color too. Let me know what you Think !