Otherworldly

Ethnic skins can be hard to find, especially for men, particularly skins that really provide a very ethnic look that goes beyond dark skin or epicanthic folds. So it was with real pleasure that I discovered that The Body Co.—after a series of skins that simply weren’t to my taste (high quality, as always, but just not along the lines of what I liked—had released a new skin that did fit very well into my wheel-house: Lotus, a sort of South Asian skin that really grasped the idea that not everything has to be cookie cutter.

As always, the Body Co. is on the cutting edge when it comes to male skins in SL. I hope it encourages other designers to consider ways that their skins can be created with an eye to encouraging and facilitating the wide range of facial features we can see in the world around us. Aquiline noses, broad noses, heavy cheekbones and broad faces, etc.—there’s as much need for this variety as there is for variety in skin tones and hair colors.