Fashion

[Strawberry Singh Honored Resident]

Do you dress your av the same way? Did you make your av look like you? My av is kind of similar to me, but I think a lot prettier. I do tend to stick with the darkers skins and darker hair like I have in RL. How about you?

[Selina Graycloud]

OMG I wish!!! I do have a few skins and shapes in inventory that are extremely close. But for Modeling purposes and jobs...I went all out with different colors and shapes.  

[Chelsea Malibu Advisor]

My fashion is pretty close but my look is definitely not.  When I first joined I tried to make my avi look like me and what a bizarre mess that was.   I quickly learned that we tend to look at our own features far different than others see us.  I think I have  a big nose but others don't (or are being kind)

So, I had one of my good RL friends who also makes shapes in SL do some "tweaking" and it came out much better.  What I found funny is that she thinks my avi looks like me now and didn't before.

So for now I just go with what I think looks good and wear what I would wear in RL for the most part but I do love getting very extravagant which I am too shy to do in RL.

[JeanneAnne Member]

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Strawberry Singh wrote:

Do you dress your av the same way? Did you make your av look like you? My av is kind of similar to me, but I think a lot prettier. I do tend to stick with the darkers skins and darker hair like I have in RL. How about you?

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I'm about the same SS. I made my Avvie to look like an ideal, more perfect version of me. I gave her green eyes but my rl eyes are brown. That's the main difference, besides being prettier, being able to dance aerobically all evening long, breathe underwater and fly! LoL

[Leah McCullough]

Not really! hahah well in RL I always loved red hair and freckles... and as I dont have either... well in SL I do 

[Alazarin Mondrian Member]

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Strawberry Singh wrote: Is the SL you similar to the RL you in looks?

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Oh Absolutely!

[Felicia Helendale]

No, not really. Though to be honest, when I first created this avatar, it was during a very sick period in my life. I was diagnosed with cancer and was in a lot of pain most of the time. Sitting at the computer was limited at best. So when I did log in, I would have a very short time. I created this avatar to look like a character I played in a tabletop role-playing game back when my husband and I were dating. My plan was to make an avatar that reminded me of a very happy time in my life and allowed me to escape my day, pills, doctors, treatments, etc...  I ended up having very little time to rp at the time so I turned to designing to get me out of my own head space. It worked. I could spend a little time here and there saving and coming back to something when I could. The style of clothing is very much my style and what I like and the personality is all me (when I am not role-playing with her which is super rare) but physically, nope... nothing like me.

[Vaki Zenovka]

The SL me is a lot like the RL me, just more idealized and with one heck of a better wardrobe. But my virtual self wears pretty much the same things I wear, and has the same haircut (um, usually...), and we look similar. The big thing I changed (other than giving myself an awesome physique without having to hit the gym every day) was my nose: I always wanted a really sexy Sarah Bernhardt nose, and RL, mine's boring.

[Ceera Murakami Contributor]

Given that my RL self isn't covered with fur and blessed with one or more tails, I'd have to say no.

Most of my avatar forms are designed quite intentionally to NOT look like the real me. If I want to be "the real me", I'll just walk out of my house into the real world and interact with people there. In SL, where I can be anything I can imagine, making my avvie look just like I do in real life is as boring as going to a fancy 5-star ethnic restaurant and ordering macaroni and cheese, or going to a 151-flavor ice cream shop and getting a plain vanilla cone, or going to the world's best amusement park and paying the fee for the best rides, to sit indoors on a folding metal chair in an office cubicle, doing nothing.

I tried once to make an avatar that loked like the real me, just to see if I could do it. I got a really creepy feeling looking at that avatar, and I virtually never use it.

[Oscar Page]

Yes, I look exactly like my av... :-P