User blog:Zakthepower4101/How to write a Description for Cosmetic Items

The following is a guide for creating "Descriptions". These can be added to cosmetic pages for the purpose of describing how the cosmetic looks. These guidelines are not set in stone, and are open to criticism or change.

What are Descriptions?
Descriptions are a way of describing how a cosmetic (mainly outfits) looks like while avoiding adding one's personal opinion.

An example of a good Description
To show you how we want descriptions, I'll add a good example.

Description from the TNTina page
Model: Headhunter Styles: GHOST, SHADOW, Golden Agent: TNTina wears a ripped red shirt, with "KA-BOOM" printed on in big yellow comic book letters. She also wears grey pants and leather boots, with blue eyes, light skin and short brown hair. She has a tattoo of a revolver on her right bicep, and one of a star on her belly. She also wears fingerless gloves and a yellow armband on her left arm.

What kind of pages should have Descriptions?
Descriptions are meant for Cosmetic Items only. For example, we don't need one on the Doom's Domain page, as it is a Location.
 * Outfits
 * Harvesting Tools
 * Back Blings
 * Gliders
 * Wraps

Outfits are generally the best fit for Descriptions, although we can also add Descriptions to Emote pages and Contrail pages, but they don't usually have much to talk about. Emoticons do not need descriptions because they are simply small images.

Description Guidelines (for outfits)
Note: Not all Descriptions need every detail added, for the sake of length, or because they're non-human, etc.

This section will guide you through creating a successful Description. I will say again that these guidelines do not need to be exactly followed, and just give a general idea of how to create descriptions.

Character Model and Styles
Begin with adding the character model and list of styles in bold.

Like so:

Model: Headhunter Styles: GHOST, SHADOW, Golden Agent

Clothing
You can start with their shirt, then any overwear, pants, and shoes. For example, "Midas wears a black tie and vest over a white shirt, with black leather pants and leather shoes."

Features
Describe the outfit's skin color, eye color, hairstyle and color, and possibly any tattoos or other noticeable marks they have. For example: "He has very pale skin, and his hair is styled into a pompadour. A scar is visible across his right eye, and he is heavily tattooed."

Accessories and other details
Lastly, you may add any accessories the outfit has, or possibly any other parts of their outfit, like belts or ties.

Describing Styles
For Outfits with styles, you can describe how each style alters the base outfit's appearance. These should be fairly short descriptions as most styles only change a few things. These should be added in a subsection of the Description, called "Selectable Styles"

Pages with Descriptions
Now that you've read about how to create a description, take a look at some pages that already have descriptions, and consider adding descriptions to more pages.
 * Fade
 * TNTina
 * Midas
 * Brutus
 * Llama Buster
 * Skye