How to change your appearance in Crimson Desert

You might want to change your appearance in Crimson Desert, since you're able to customize much of your character's look, including hair, facial hair, tattoos, and more. That doesn't mean you can actually create a character from the ground up in Crimson Desert, though – you instead start with a set protagonist you can customize to a certain degree.

Whether you're starting Crimson Desert for the first time, or want to change your appearance after tens or hundreds of hours, here's everything you need to know about how to do it and where to go.

Where to customize and change appearance in Crimson Desert

You can change your appearance in Crimson Desert at camp, specifically using a Barber Shop to alter your face and hair and Dyehouses to alter clothes and armor.

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What you can change at a Barber Shop

Barber Shops are the primary place to change your actual look. Here, you can change:

Hair style
Hair color
Beard style
Beard color
Eyebrow style
Eyebrow color
Face tattoos and markings
Body tattoos and markings

What you can change at a Dyehouse

While you can swap out your gear at Dyehouses, including for anything you've unlocked with Crimson Desert Twitch drops, you can also change the color and appearance of armor and weapons, including that of your horse's caparison and armor, and of the paint on your War Robot.

All player characters

All that being said, there is a limit to what can be customized, with characters' faces, species, and voices being locked in. However, you're not entirely restricted to playing as Kliff MacDuff, as there are two other player characters to unlock along the way. We've got a separate guide on how to unlock all three Crimson Desert characters.

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