I'm in the same situation as the OP. I've been in SL for years but not very active the last few, feels like the world has moved on. 🙂
I like the original avatar I have, classic, it's me and I have no wish to change it, but I'd like to play around with one of my alts to see what's out there in new clothes and animations. As I understand, I'm looking for a mesh body and a Bento head plus skins for each? The head and the body can be from different creators, but the skins would need to come from the same place for the skin tones to match. I've seen skins that I like but they rarely tell you the head that it's pictured with. I've only tried a couple demos but I cant seem to adjust them to look as I want. Then there's aos for faces that only work with some heads. Seems like there are tons of choices in creators out there but at this point I'm pretty confused. Any hints on how to make this any easier?
I'v been wearing mesh clothes, but am now finding that clothes are gear to certain bodies, adding to my confusion, not to mention eyes and all sorts of other "appliers"