Quote - From the manga I remembered the stripes under her eyes to be totally black and more evident...

 

You're right, they do often appear black in the manga.  When Kishiro has the opportunity to depict Gally in full color paintings, however, he makes the stripes look like polished chrome. Actually, the stripes are quite different depending upon what sources one views.  In the earliest manga volumes when she encounters her first major opponent within the sewers of the Scrapyard, Alita smudges mud under her eyes like war paint.  In the one shot anime, her opponent literally "dices" a poor dog.  Alita dips her finger into the pooling blood and applies that as war paint.  Back to the manga, once Alita has left Dr. Ido and joined the MotorBall circuit (a deadly roller derby like sport), we discover she sports metallic stripes under her eyes.  Kishiro has maintained that motif ever since.

Here's another recent render which hopefully shows the stripes in greater contrast.  My earlier attempts used only the morphs that came with Aiko.  This new version employs Thorne and Sarsa's "Slyphie" head morph at 0.750 combined with the HeadCaucasian dial at 1.000.  It allows me to better recreate her "pouty", puckered lips.

BTW, thanks for the kind assessments, all of you!

Sincerely,

Bill

Tempt the Hand of Fate and it'll give you the "finger"!