Mel 2.0

Hi!

 

Yesterday, I showed you all the new character appearance options that are currently available to the beta testers. Today I'd like you to see what I came up with with all these alternatives, which means you also get to meet Mel 2.0! 

 

I'm not gonna lie, although I am positive about the character beta update so far, I am not entirely happy with the updated options that I have used till now. For this reason, when playing on the beta server, I do not really feel that the character I created is "mine", in my style, that it is really new version Melissa. For this reason, my testing is mainly about playing with the creator and both experimenting in a direction that I would not choose on my main account, and looking for alternatives to my old makeup and hairstyle, as these are the main issues for me. I am very pleased with the choices of the face shape and a wide range of eyebrows, the body types are fine too, although I am waiting for more alternatives in the future. 

However my makeup got changed from unique one to an ordinary nude makeup, and we had plenty of those already. My formerly white hair is rather gray in the beta. Thanks to a photo editor I created a character that is more or less what I expect in the finished version in the future!

 

Before

 

After: the photo does not represent the in-game product, it is edited

I hope that with the official update of the character, the range of hair colors will be richer, with real white hair. I also hope that my begging for the return of my iconic lipstick (and the blush attached to it) will work...

★★★

 

Alternatives

In the beta environment, I managed to find non-ideal alternative choices. As for the hairstyle I would rather go for the gray one, but I also found one that I'm posting below, which is not gray, but also not quite white, it falls more into platinum blonde. I also have the impression that this particular model, while nice, makes the character look very young and I immediately begin to understand what everyone means when they say that the characters look more like children.

But I managed to find a better makeup than the renewed one, I would even be willing to use it in case the old one does not come back!

★★★

 

Customization fun

I definitely don't see the character I managed to create above as "mine", so I decided to spend this testing time by playing with different styles! I wanted to play around with the hairstyle that was available to us with the old characters a long time ago, until it finally got removed from the game for some reason and only now comes back to us. I also wanted to see how the customization tools work with characters of different ethnicities. Let's check how I did!

What do you think? I will definitely use this first look quite often!

★★★

Hugs ♥