Achieving Harmony

There is an affliction striking innocent avies all over Second Life.  It causes small heads and tiny hands.  But have no fear, there is a cure.

Now I know many in SL love to be tall, giant sized even.  I'm not here to rag on your desire to fee-fi-fo-fum all over Second Life.  Keep that height, work it and enjoy it.  But what I'm here to point out is that sometimes, other av features get left out of all that hormonal growth.  Namely the head and the hands.  When these are too small on your av, it is working against you not for you.

See that av next to me?  She likes being a sexy Las Vegas showgirl type.  But like many she has not resized her head, arms and hands to fit her height.  It makes her general shape look off kilter.   There are quick easy fixes to these problems.

I'm not going to go into the details artists use in figure drawing.  Although to get a better shape in-world, I would urge everyone to google it up.  The next few tips are just quick and nasty fixes.

Right click on your av and choose appearance menu.

Go to the Torso menu, scroll down until you see the arm length option.  Look in magazines, study yourself in a mirror and watch people on TV or the street, you will notice that arm length usually ends around hip/upper thigh level.  Lengthen your arms to the appropriate length so that you av's wrists hang by his/her hips.

Now go to the hands option just below arm length.  In your studies, you will notice that hands will extend from the wrists at the hips and end just above mid thigh level.  Granted some people will have longer arms  and larger hands.  But the wrists at hip level and hands at mid-thigh will take care of most people's tiny hands problem in SL.  If you like really long legs, as does the avatar in the picture, you will probably have to exaggerate arm and hand length just a bit to look proportional.

Now go to the head option in appearance menu.  I've found that the approximate good proportion between height and head size is about 20 points.  So if you are height level 70 in SL, then your head size should be around...you guessed it...90.

Now I know people hate modding hair and most hair is created for a head size of 50.  But if you don't want to look like a microcephalic, you will need to make sacrifices.  So size up your head and size up your hair wigs to fit it.  If you want to keep head size 50, then size down your body to about 30.  You won't be tall but you won't look sickly either.

So make those quick changes and enjoy your gorgeous and proportionate looking av.