Even once you have applied the texture, you may need to play around with the skin shaders. From within Studio, Click on Windows/surfaces and then make the followinga djutments. They will vary according to lighting but make a good start: Diffuse color: 255,243,237 Gloss: between 45 and 55% Specular: between 20 and 30% Specular Colour: 222,222,230 Refraction 100% Refractive color - either pale blue or pale pink depending on what looks best. IOR 1.38 I have borrowed heavily from Questor's tutorial on Skin tones in Daz|Studio which can be found at the Daz site. Good luck Nic