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Originally Posted by Arilynn  I thought I should buy a skin, so I went to Redgrave's (?) and was confused. It just shows the faces. How much can you change about the face, hair, skin color, shape, etc? |
Some skins are modifiable, and allow for some
slight adjustments to skintone or lipstick. Many skins don't allow you to make any changes at all. You can change your shape though, it is separate to your skin (the skin is just the texture on top of your shape).
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Originally Posted by Arilynn Can you buy a skin and put it on, but still have your face look basically like the face you already have and just have the rest of the skin look nicer? |
Depends on the skin. I would not choose Redgrave if you want your face to look pretty much the same as it is now - Redgrave will make you look dramatically different. Always try a demo before purchasing to make sure the skin gives you the look you want.
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Originally Posted by Arilynn And any recommendations about places to go? All I have heard about is Redgrave's. It seemed nice, but it didn't seem to have a big selection. |
It really depends on the look you want to achieve. Some people like photorealistic skins, others prefer hand drawn style. I like Fleur skins for variety and value for money, they also don't seem to make your face look dramatically different. So many other good skin designers, check out the Fashion Feed perhaps?
Fashion World of SL You'll see tons of different skins on there.
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Originally Posted by Arilynn Last question: People say to save your look before you try another skin. Is there any easy way to do this - to save everything and then put it in a file or something while you wear the other skin? |
Yes. Go into appearance mode, and at the bottom choose "Make Outfit". You can then choose to have everything you are wearing including your skin and shape saved in a subfolder in the Clothing folder in your inventory. Name the folder to something you'll remember. Watch out if anything you are wearing is no copy though, it will be moved to that new folder.