What's your type?

There is something that I have noticed in SL that has been a trend even before I got there. The default character test avatars are even proof of it as well.

Avatars in secondlife are MEANT to be amazons.


Yes...it's true. Your surroundings in some sims alone attest to that as well. Buildngs and especially furniture sometimes are made quite large. So my theory is avatars in SL are MEANT to be atleast 6 feet tall...well atleast only the adult avatars.

Yes it's completely absurd but it's--as crazy as this will read--secondlifes "reality." Whatever the 'eff that is, right?


I personally don't like my avi's too tall. My personal avatar shape stands at 6"2 without heels and in heels she stands at 6"7ish. I have my days when I look at her and think "Good gravey you look Amazonian today" and I shrink her down a notch. (Making sure everything is still in proportion, limbs wise)

And of course there's other days that I feel like embracing my inner wannabe model and I let her be at her Amazonian stature.

BUT....I am aware that EVERYONE has a "type". And especially in SL with a lot of the female avatar shapes all walk around with ridiculous frowns (trying to mimic what's suppose to be "sexy duck faces") I don't think I'll ever understand what's "sexy" about an exaggerated frown. And then there's the un-proportionate female avatar shapes with ridiculous measurements in their hip widths especially.....just SUPER wide which is accompanied by an unrealistic and un-natural looking narrow waist. Some of them (more than I'd like to count) have T-rex arms (arm lengths that are WAY to short to be considered a well proportioned avatar mimicking the real life anatomy of a human body) and then there's some with out of this world big asses to go with the ridiculously wide hips and itty bitty almost not even there narrow waist. And then there's the rail thin, no curves to her at all a mile tall "model" females avatars. I'm all for androgyny and high-fashion....but for once can we not follow reality and give fashion in SL a healthier look with our models? All in all it's just all around ridiculous-ness in the shapes department in my humble opinion in SL.

This is no attack on anyone who happens to look like this in SL but more of an observation and analysis on what shapes are popular in SL and why? I know Secondlife is basically a fantasy for most residents and most disregard anything that is similar to "reality" but I've been wondering recently if there's a demographic of SL residents that share even just a FRACTION of my thoughts and opinions on shapes in SL and if they're following a trend or they just happen to have a "type" of shape they like?

I'm just a super curious shapes creator with a fascination with beautiful yet unique aesthetics in shapes in SL.
I'm not necessarily looking in changing EVERY residents look of shape in SL but I'd at least like to have a hand in improving it.

So.......

What's your type?

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[S.J]