Well, Figure there's only a billion brunette vicky skins out there, so I thought I'd shoot for a little variety :) Hmm... although my missus happens to be naturally blonde, I seriously doubt that she'd let me crawl into bed with a digital camera ;) (I could ask to borrow her eyebrows and hair for it, tho') Believe it or not, the base skin texturing didn't come from a scan; I merely tweaked the color-noise ratio in GIMP a little, and carefully smoothed it out a bit here and there. the LCD monitor on this laptop cranks out 119 pixels per linear inch, so I get lots of room to play with faux texturing. Now the colors I used OTOH, was sampled from a photo of my wrist and lightened/darkened as needed. the lighting I use for the test renders is either stark white or some shade of gray... no other colors allowed when I'm tweaking skin :) /P