My final project was the creation of two second life avatars, one to represent me and one to be whatever I want. These pictures come from that project.

I still havent managed to get any Lindens, but here is my face with skin mask on and the hair I made. This was the first face I made for myself, and I thought it came out pretty good. But then when I made my next character, no face, I completely distorted the features and I hadnt figured out the saving yet so I had to redo all the shaping and stuff. Here's my fixed face and final body.

as you can see the face does not look quite so much like me. I was never quite able to determine what the problem was.

For my second character I decided to recreate No Face from spirited away. 

here's a picture of the original in case you dont know the character:

here's a shot of me working on the head and body piece I added to get that faded ghost body

I used the same shape for both but edited the particulars, and coated them in a texture I created and messed with the alpha values on to get the transparent bottom half. When I tried adding that same texture to his legs, where the alpha layer should have made him transparent he instead developed skintone, which was problematic.

edit: I went back and played with facial features some more and finally settled on these features.