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Skins are a product made from textures (usally hand drawn) that add -- well a skin, as well as makeup for gals and facial hair for guys to your avatar. You can wear skins over the original legacy body OR you can wear them using APPLIERS on a mesh body.

 

I suggest going to the marketplace and getting some free demos which you can try out and get a feeling how they work. Skins will not always work on every avatar. They work most often on mesh avatars and heads since those are a given and not subject to shape changes that the standard avatar offers. 

You are already wearing a SKIN (you can see it if you lookin the WORN tab of your inventory) as everyone has to have one on at all times. The trick is to find one that feels like "YOU".

 

Happy experiments. 

 

 

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Skins and shapes work together to create the unique look of each avatar.  As Chic said, skins are the textures that give your avatar a skin, whether it's an ethnic look, or various shades of skin tones.  Skins also enhance musculature or not depending on the look you want.  A shape is what shapes your body to make you tall or short, thin or full bodied, muscular or slender etc.  It also determines the underlying bone structure of your face.  Some skin creators also include shapes or sell them as campanion products.  If you want to look like the picture advertising the skin, get the shape demo too.  However to look more unique, try using a different shape too.

The same skin on different shapes can look quite different.  You should try demo's of both together, to find a look that feels like you. Get lots of each that you like, then go home and strip down and try them on.  Start with one shape and try the different skin demo's on with it, then move to the next shape and repeat.  It sometimes takes a while to find the right combination.

Note, don't be alarmed if a shape demo has huge hands and/or feet.  The actual one won't.  The huge hands and feet just prevent people from using the demo rather than buying the product.  You can make also make your own shape using the appearance sliders.  Some people find this easy, others not at all.

Some avatar's wear mesh bodies and heads and you need a special HUD called an applier for that.  However I won't go into detail about that unless you say you are interested in buying a mesh body and/or head.

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