Q&A for How to Make Your Character Look Different in Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Once you've changed your hairstyle (and Shampoodle's equipment is upgraded), wait two weeks and come back to Shampoodle. You'll have the option to either change your hair or eye color.

At the beginning of the game, when you choose your hair, that is the hair you keep. However, a wig or mask can temporarily change your hairstyle, as well as using Shampoodle.

You will have had to be online at least once, and had been playing for at least seven days. After that, you will catch Isabelle sleeping at the Town Hall, when you do, talk to her. She will talk about the Dream Suite, and it will be available as a public works project. It costs 234,000 bells overall to construct.

You are more limited at the start. The only aspect of your character's appearance you can't change at any point of the game is the shape of your eyes, which is determined by your dialogue with Rover at the start. You can reset the game. It's better to restart your game earlier on, rather than when you've made a lot of progress.

You can add a Mii mask and change your eye colour, but if you are referring to changing the shape of facial features, such as eyes, this isn't possible. These features are determined by what you say when you start the game. If this is important to you, then there are guides online which show you what face different dialogue options lead to.

Unless you use a Mii mask, the only way to change skin colour in New Leaf, is to get a tan. You can find out the requirements on the article Get a Tan in Animal Crossing: New Leaf .