A Lesson In Shapes

 

It came to my attention that people have a lot of difficulty finding nice shapes for their avatars in Second Life. I know all too well how that is since when I finally shed my newbie shape that I ended up spending like L$1000 on my first ever shape. You shouldn't have to spend an astronomical amount of Lindens just to get a shape. The fun part about creating an avatar that is your style is that you get to tweak it a bunch of times until it looks perfect on your screen to you. I found a great shape place about a year ago that they only sell their shapes for L$50 each plus you can try all the demo shapes in one folder. The shape I purchased looked fantastic as is but it took me a few months to get it tweaked to exactly the way I wanted it. If you have already practiced with tweaking shapes then you can make any of the shapes at Cupcakes into skinny, average, full figured, and such. I went for the skinny look with bigger than average breasts and a fairly flat butt. However, my shape is far from a clone of everyone else on Second Life since I added unique touches to it outside of the shape. I used to be taller than everyone I knew but now it seems I have gotten to be shorter than them which my shape is now at 5'8" in height (the same as my real life height measurements). There are times when I still tweak my shape because I think the shoulders look too odd or my face isn't like I would want it to be. My plan when I began tweaking my shape is to have my avatar's face look a lot like mine in real life but it definitely is not as easy as one would think. I still struggle to get it to look like the real me in face only. Let's face it, you are the one who will be staring at your avatar more than anyone else through the years so you may as well tweak it to your liking. I'm not a fan of the shapes that have wide hips and huge lips since I find it looks disgusting with a lot of skins. Of course it is a good shape if you are heavily into like elven roleplay but for everyday I don't think it is a good choice. You are just out for a frustrating journey in shape tweaking when you buy a shape that is like that. Any shape you can widen the hips, add body fat, shorten or heighten, make lips big or small, change the nose to unique or realistic, and so on. Also if you become pregnant on Second Life then you can easily tweak your current shape into a pregnant shape because why would you want to spend extra Lindens on a specially made pregnant shape for like only 9 months. That is just silly if you ask me. Remember the key rule that I learned when I purchased my first shape which is to make one or two copies of the original shape before you even start tweaking. After all, you don't want to go out socializing with your shape in the middle of tweaking so with the copying you are able to just change into the untweaked shape while you go out to socialize. I doubt though that once when you start tweaking the shape for the first time that you will even allow yourself to go out in public until it looks perfect. You will tweak it a lot since from experience I have tweaked my shape about 20 times in the past year. Good luck in your shape tweaking endeavors. Please know that even though I have provided the slurl to where I bought my shape that it doesn't give you permission to copycat my looks. If I see a copycat then I will just find a new shape and tweak it to death. I am unique in every way in both worlds so I would like my shape to remain just as unique.