Character Customization Guide: How to Change Your Character

Character Creation in Splatoon 3 includes a variety of different skin tones, eye colors, hairstyles, and outfits. Read on to find out how to create your character, change and customize their appearance, as well as their little buddy, Smallfry.

How to Change Your Character's Appearance

Open Player Settings

You can change your character's skin and eye color by accessing the customization options through the menu.

Steps	Description
1	Open the menu by pressing X
2	Press R to go to Options, and select Other
3	Click Player Settings to change up your look!

You Will Not Lose Your Progress

Clicking 'Yeah' after clicking Player Settings will bring you back to the character customization part at the start of the game.

You will not lose your progress by changing your look this way, and will be brought back to Splatsville after customizing your character.

Character Customization Options

Before you officially begin the game, you will need to choose the overall look of your character. There are several ways you can customize your character and you can always change their appearance later on, so you don't need to worry about making a final look.

All Character Customizations
Style	Skin Tone	Eye Color
Hairstyle	Brows	Legwear

Style

The first character option is style, which refers to your character's species and the gender they present themselves as. There are two playable species in Splatoon 3, Inklings and Octolings. Inklings are the original protaginists of the franchise while Octolings were added as playable characters later on.

All Style Options

Inklings		Octolings

List of Characters

Skin Tone

There are nine different skin tone options to choose from in the game, ranging from light to dark. There are unfortunately no unrealistic skin colors among these options.

Eye Color

There are 26 different eye colors you can choose for your character, which includes a variety of different shades and hues. There are even color options that to have different pupl, iris, and outer iris colors.

Hairstyle

There are 16 different hairstyles available for your character of different lengths and designs. Though you can change the style of hair at any time, there is no option to change your hair color in the game since hair color is determined by the color of your team during your most recent match.

All Hairstyle Options

All Hairstyles and How to Change Your Hair Color

Brows

You can choose among four styles of eyebrows. These range from thin to thick brows, and even a style that has an eyebrow slit.

All Eyebrow Options

Legwear

There does not seem to be an option to change your character's top clothing, which makes sense since these will need to purchased in the shop. However, you can still choose among 9 different legwear options, consisting of a variety of pants and shorts.

All Legwear Options

Character Gear and Outfits

Once you start playing the game and unlock the different gear shops, you can continue to customize your character's appearance with different gear and equipment. These gear also grant you with different abilities that give you an edge in battle.

Shop Name and Shopkeeper	Specialty
Naut Couture Gnarly Eddy and Nails	Purchase Headgear such as hats, masks, and glasses.
Man-o'-Wardrobe Jel La Fleur	Purchase Clothing such as tops, t-shirts, and jackets.
Crush Station Mr. Coco	Purchase Shoes such as sneakers, sandals, and leather footwear.

All Gear and Equipment

Smallfry Customization Options

After customizing your character, you are prompted to customize your “little buddy”, Smallfry. He is a small pet Salmonid that accompanies your character on their adventures in Story Mode.

Unfortunately, you can only customize Smallfry's hairstyle and not any other parts of his appearance.

All Smallfry Hairstyles

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Story Mode Walkthrough
Single Player Campaign Guide

Splatoon 3 Related Guides

Tips and Tricks: Beginner's Guide to Splatoon

Weapon and Gear Tier Lists
Weapons Tier List	Specials Tier List
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Character Creation Guide	All Hero Gear Upgrades
Mailbox Guide	Tutorial Guide
All Hairstyles	Splatsville Features
Golden Sheldon Licenses Guide	Best Gameplay Settings
Communication Errors Guide	How to Beat Boss Salmonids
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Recon Mode Guide	Shell-Out Machine Guide
Power Egg Farming Guide	All Hero Mode Rewards and Unlocks
How to Get Upgrade Points	How to Level Up Catalog
Freshest Fits Guide	How to Add and Change Gear Abilities
Test Range Features	Gear Slots Guide
Star Power Guide	How to Get Fish Scales
How to Get Super Sea Snails	Best Deck for Tableturf Battles
All Salmon Run Rewards	All Unlockables and Secret Rewards
How to Increase Salmon Run Rank	Shel-Drone Guide
How to Survey All Sites	When is Big Run?
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All Anarchy Battle Ranks	All QR Codes and How to Scan
Speedrunning Guide	List of Glitches and Bugs
Wandercrust Tour Guide	All Music and Bands
100% Story Mode Completion Guide	All Salmon Run Outfits
How to Make Money Fast	World Map Guide
How to Get Drink Tickets	All Splatfest Events and Themes
All Mystery Box Contents	Disconnect Penalty Guide
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How to Get Food Tickets	How to Save
Where is the Locker Room	How to Cancel Matchmaking
What is Wipeout?	What is Weapon Freshness?
Inkling vs Octoling	When Do Shops Restock?
How to Skip the News Intro	How to Get Conch Shells
How to Get the Harmony Badge	How to Watch and Upload Replays
How to Use and Add Widgets	Is Splatoon 3 Multiplayer?
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Where to Buy Official Merchandise	Who is Judd?
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