Life Makeover Shrine

Why I fell in love with this game

First of all, Life Makeover is available on both phones and the PC. The PC version offers 4K screenshots, which is amazing since screenshot taking is probably one of the most important parts of the game for me.

Next... CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION!! Once you make your model when you join the game, you aren't locked into that model forever! In fact, you can keep going to Reshape Look infinitely. Think of it like CAS in The Sims but only for genetics. Not only that, but you get 3 or 4 free slots at the beginning of the game so you can have multiple models at once. There's also a gallery where you can upload your models so if you have extra models you can't use, you can save them in the gallery. Your entries can be public, and thus you can share your models with everyone else and vice versa! There is not a single aspect of character customization that is paywalled, which is an amazing thing. I change my characters really frequently, and I'm always creating new faces, although for the past few months I did settle on having a favourite.

The clothes. This game excells in fantasy-ish, fairy, fake historical clothing, lacemonster chinese lolita styles. It does have modern clothes as well, but it's actually pretty lacking in that department so if you're into irl fashion... this might not be the game for you. I personally love my fairies and elves, so this is perfect for me. Please give me sparkles, wings, dreamy makeup and bare feet wrapped up in flowers, ty.

Sharing your outfits. There's two separate ways to share your outfits ingame. First one, which sadly became underutilized after the second one got introduced, is Fashion Diary. Fashion Diary is convenient because not only do you share your outfit and choose a cover picture which you can edit with games photo editing options, but this basically immortalizes your outfit, so you can come back to it anytime and put it onto your character as sadly outfit slots are limited. Not only will it transfer your outfit, but the dyes as well. And not only can you do that for your own entries, but other peoples entries too! Basically, you can share outfits which is really cute. You can also freely comment and like the Fashion Diary entries. The second feature is called VVANNA Community, VVANNA is just some ingame... fake brand I guess. VVANNA Community is kind of like instagram, and you can upload any type of picture from your PC. Which means pictures can be edited in other apps, so there's a lot more creativity, but it sucks how you can't share the outfits in the same way! You can link the Fashion Diary entry to it if you wish, but I didn't notice a lot of people doing that besides me, because sadly Fashion Diary becomes kind of redundant... Also, VVANNA Community doesn't allow you to comment freely, instead you can only use emojis and premade randomized comments. My favourite premade comment is "Make Dress-up Games Great Again!". Yes that's actually an ingame premade comment that the chinese have blessed us with.

Screenshot taking. This game knows screenshot taking is the best part, and therefore it makes sure you're going to enjoy it. When taking screenshots you can adjust your characters pose, you can also use a different facial pose on top of the body pose, you can adjust the wind direction, you can change the backgrounds, you can adjust the position of your character and the camera, you can choose whichever handheld you have in your wardrobe, you can take pictures with a friend or with any model that you have in your slots and you can edit the screenshot in real time. The editing isn't extremely versatile but I think it's good enough. Contrast, saturation, white balance, bloom, DOF and filters on top of that. Not bad!

The community. Since the 6 months I've been playing, I have only encountered 2 men, indirectly. One was a troll someone posted on the subreddit, and the other is some gay guy that sometimes posts in one of the Facebook groups. There's really no drama, just slightly infuriating players that seem to be playing a game and holding a phone for the first time in their life. But as far as game communities go, LM has a chill one.

Free event sets. All events in LM are free, and some of the best and most versatile hairs and clothes actually come from events, imo. Not only that, but event items are always fully dyeable as you don't need dupes, which makes them extra versatile!