How To Create Beautiful Mesh Avatars For Free

 There is an "Avatar Welcome Pack" in your inventory Library which includes male and female bodies and looks. Open Library -> Avatar Welcome Pack -> Female bodies & looks where you will find Female Body A, B, and C folders. Similarly, the Male bodies & looks folder contains Male Body A, B, and C folders. Each of these Body folders contains a body, shape, eyes, ears, skin and more. You can use these free objects along with the LAQ group gifts to build a beautiful looking avatar.

Start by wearing either the Female mesh body, Meshbody - Legacy (f) Special Edition (Basic) 1.2, or the Male mesh body, Meshbody - Legacy (m) Special Edition (Basic) 1.2. These are the Legacy Basic mesh bodies and they are now included for free in your Avatar Welcome Pack.

Explore the Welcome Packs to find other items you like.

Join the LAQ updates group, secondlife:///app/group/9751fa1e-8550-1b83-d1d9-b689de71b057/about and visit the LAQ Main store at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LAQ/129/112/76

Activate the LAQ updates group tag and get the free Head, HUD, skins, Next Level appliers, and other group gifts. This LAQ group offer has been going on for a while and may not last forever. Get it while you can!

Once you have acquired the LAQ group gifts and identified items in your Avatar Welcome Pack you wish to use, build your new beautiful avatar using these components. Here are the specifications for male and female avatars I created for free.

 Female Specs

BODY
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Meshbody - Legacy (f) Special Edition (Basic) 1.2

HEAD
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.HEAD by LAQ. Era2 Elle 1. SupremeUHD 1.2

SHAPE
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.SHAPE. Elle by LAQ.

SKIN
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SKIN. SupremeUHD Elle/Bare by LAQ 2.5

EYES
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.EYES by LAQ Era2 Subtlest Animated Eyes 1.2
Eyebrows. Era2 Eyebrow shape

ALPHA MASK
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~Alpha mask (BOM Skin + Applier Eyes)~

BODY APPLIER
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LAQ ~ Next Level body skin ~ Legacy 2.5 (CLV+FRX)

HAIR
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Calico Ingmann Creations - Angie Midnight
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Calico-Ingmann-Creations-Angie-All-Colors/18809979 (L$250)

GENITALS
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The V - Bento by Session & ASA LEGACY PERKY + ORIGINAL V1.54
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Scylla/240/28/391 (L$1,990)

Male Specs

BODY
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Meshbody - Legacy (m) Special Edition (Basic) 1.2

HEAD
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.HEAD by LAQ. Era2 James 1. [SupremeUHD] 1.2

SHAPE
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.SHAPE. Johan by LAQ. (custom)

SKIN
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SKIN. SupremeUHD Johan by LAQ 2.5 Caramel

EYES
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.EYES by LAQ Era2 Subtlest Animated Eyes 1.2
Eyebrows. Era2 James Eyebrow shape

ALPHA MASK
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~Alpha mask (BOM Skin + Applier Eyes)~

BODY APPLIER
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LAQ ~ Next Level body skin ~ Legacy 2.5

HAIR
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Great Men's Hair - Johan

GENITALS
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The P MAX V3.1 - Cock - Drusus Shape
The P - Ball Physics - Gentle - Tight Physics
The P V3.1 - Pubes - Mod & Tintable - Short - Style1
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Scylla/247/33/391 (L$1,980)

NAILS
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Eventyra - Legacy Basic (M) TN - Classique - 4 Nude
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Eventyra-Legacy-Basic-BOM-Nails-Classique-25L-TREAT/27134314 (L$25) 

Isla Tartan Skirt from Mimikri

I came across this cute fun tartan skirt from Mimikri hot couture:

My outfit includes the "Laoris" elegant elven choker from Inca Temple, Takara Silver nails and rings from Mandala,   Dante shoes from Kalnins, and a white dress shirt from Connors. 

Truth & Beauty Lab Answer Board

The latest creation from the Truth & Beauty Lab, the Answer Board, was released yesterday 18-March-2012. The Answer Board is a Pandorabot based rotating sign that provides answers to just about any question or topic one can think of. The board responds to local chat and provides its answers from, first, Wikipedia if it finds a matching article then Wolfram Alpha if no Wikipedia article is found then AI chat from pandorabots.com if no Wolfram Alpha answer is found.

The Answer Board is preconfigured and requires no setup other than rezzing, positioning, and resizing if desired. It uses a shared Wolfram Alpha Application ID which gives the board access to Wolfram Alpha but on a shared basis with a limit of 2000 queries per month. Therefore, it is recommended that the owner of an Answer Board register for their own Wolfram Alpha Application ID at http://products.wolframalpha.com/api/

Although ready to use out-of-the-box, the Answer Board can be extensively customized. A detailed Owners Manual is provided and available in PDF, Office, and OpenOffice formats. Non-owner users who touch the Answer Board receive a User Guide which is also available in PDF, Office, and OpenOffice formats.

The Answer Board can provide information on just about any topic due to the wealth of information available via the combined resources of Wikipedia and Wolfram Alpha. Based on the recently released Pandorabot V7 technology, the Answer Board can automatically detect the user's language and query that language Wikipedia. Language detection is provided for Nihongo, Russkiy, Nederlands, Português, Polski, Italiano, Español, Français, Deutsch or English. It is the smartest scripted agent in Second Life.

In addition, the Answer Board can be enabled as a Greeter to detect and greet new arrivals, deliver notecards and landmarks, and emit a wide variety of particle displays. There is an extensive command set available to the owner and an easy to use dialog menu. The Answer Board is available for L$395 on the Second Life Marketplace at https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Truth-Beauty-Lab-Answer-Board/3304679

Here's what the Answer Board looks like: