If you are looking for a simple yet straightforward guide on how to create your own Facebook Avatars, you are on the right page. Here, in this article, I’ve shared a step-by-step guide on creating your Facebook avatar in a few minutes of time.
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What Are Facebook Avatars?
Recently, Facebook introduced a new feature named “Avatars” that lets users create digital personas like emojis that represents them. Users can use these Facebook Avatars to share in comments, messages, and other Facebook-owned platforms such as Instagram and WhatsApp. Even, you can put these Facebook Avatars as your profile picture.
This avatar feature allows users to create a cartoonish version of themselves. Users can choose between various face shapes, skin colors, hairstyles, outfits, and other stuff to make that cartoonish characters look like them.
As of now, this feature has been officially rolled in India only. However, you can expect it globally very soon. These Facebook Avatars look very similar to the Bitmoji and Memoji Avatars.
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How To Create Your Own Facebook Avatars?
Since they launched this feature, the whole internet has become mad behind it, and it has become a trending talk. People have started asking questions in groups and forums about how they can create Facebook avatars for themselves?
Therefore, we have decided to help you out with this. In this article, we will share a step by step guide with you that you can use to learn how to create your own Facebook Avatars. So, without any further delay, let’s get started:
The process of creating Facebook avatars is straightforward. You just have to follow these simple steps:
Step-1. First of all, open Facebook mobile app on your Android or iOS device.
* Note: As of now, you can create these emojis using the mobile app only. We don’t know if they are going to roll it for PC based browsers or not. However, after creating the emojis, you can access it through your PC browser as well.
Step-2. Now tap on the hamburger menu button (looking like three horizontal lines) appearing on the top right corner of Android smartphones and the bottom right corner of iOS devices. After that, you have to scroll down the page and tap on the “See More” button.
Step-3. Here you will see a new option named “Avatars“, tap on it.
Step-4. It will take you to a blue-green gradient screen where you can see multiple avatars characters. Here, it will ask you to choose your skin color. Choose the one according to your skin tone and then tap the “Next” button.
Step-5. Now it will take you to a page where you can further customize your avatar, like selecting a hairstyle, face shape, eye color, eyebrows, facial hair, body type, outfits, and a lot of other stuff.
Step-6. After customizing your avatar, you have to tap on the Done option appearing on the top right corner of your screen.
Step-7. It will take you to another screen where you have to hit on the “Next” button to complete customization.
Step-8. After that, you will see a screen where you have to tap on the “Done” button to save your avatar.
Once that’s finished, you will be all set to use these avatars on your Facebook. You can use these Facebook Avatars to set your profile picture, or you can use them as stickers to comment on Facebook posts. You can also edit your Facebook avatar whenever you want.
You may also like to download Facebook Social Toolkit.
The bottom line
So, this was a step by step guide on how to create Facebook Avatars.
Facebook Avatars look cute as you can use them to express a range of emotions with your family and friends. It seems like a unique digital persona representing you, and with emojis, you can manifest your feelings with them. It is a nice feature that Facebook has introduced amidst this Coronavirus pandemic.
With that said, here I am wrapping up this article. I hope it helped you to learn how to create Facebook Avatars. If you have any questions, feel free to shoot them in the comment section below. Our team will try to answer your queries ASAP.
After selecting my skin tone I only get the options for face lines and accessories. No hair styles or anything else.