These avatars are relics from my first decade on Gaia. My avatar has always been a version of myself, so once I was able to save up enough for the curly black hair in 2008-2009 I never really took it off. That's when I started saving my avatar designs to my computer, too, so that's when this archive really starts. This was mostly before I discovered the New Attitudez CI, so I mostly dressed very casually, and pretty similarly to my real life. Towards the end, there's a definite hint of me starting to move towards my late aughts style, with the Graffiti shoes and biohazard goggles, etc.
(Many of my original saved files of these avatars were lost recently but I have some low-quality versions I'm using to recreate them so expect this section to expand as I do that.)
These are my "modern era" avatars. Gaia Online's item style had very much evolved by this point, and my style started to as well. This is when I first started running across the New Attitudez CI items, and all of the satellite punk-esque items that released around that time as well. My style still trends towards fantasy-punk-casual, for the most part. It's now extremely rare to see my avatar without the Joy of an Alleycat (Snakebite Lips) equipped, even though I don't have any piercings IRL. In fact, by this point, she's just about become her own character. An idealized version of myself.
Overlapping a bit with the previous category, this is my most current aesthetic, my "witchy era". I started collecting witchy items - witch hats and halloween items in every color scheme I possibly could - and combining them over and over again. Some of these avatars are a bit similar, but I have tried to include only ones that have significant variation, while giving myself a bit of grace for color schemes that don't have a huge bench of items.