Another Stage of History

First, the character as I have so far, in extreme roughness:

Very dark skin, with white facepaint, two circle stickers on the face for eye-spots
Black china braids hair, gold ribbons.
Mini china dress in white (I used Oriental 7 with gold to give it a little extra texture)
Black Long hua gloves (? The ones right below the Succubus gauntlets) with gold trim

Now, the part where I'm stuck. Originally, I had a white corset as the underwear, with a square sticker placed high on the upper body so that it deformed and became roughly triangular up to her throat. It was fine and servicable, but I've been considering switching to the Tiger Lily Stockings or the bustier so that I can mirror the gloves by giving her dark stockings and gold trim, and those items don't cover the body as perfectly as the corset does, meaning I need to use more stickers. And for the life of me I cannot get sticker placement that covers where I want to without it spilling over messily into the rest of the body.

If anyone who's got a better head for sticker wrangling wants to help out, I'd appreciate it.

I'm trying for something like a Pandawa from the Wakfu MMO, basically.
http://e621.net/data/4b/cb/4bcb783f560b721378d9ea95387c511f.jpg
http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/344/4/a/pandawa_by_yhe306-d4iqkic.png
http://fav.me/d5j3kza

Instead of fully replicating, I suggest you take liberty to cover what SC5 lacks, since emulating 100% of that outfit will surely look either plain or weird. How about a combination of that short dress with puffy shoulder with its shorts?

I actually tried the same thing when I was making Esk you can Google for "esk anderson" and see how I manage to emulate her outfit :)

I'm actually fine with the simple china outfit I've got as a base, I don't need to replicate the outfits exactly. I'm just bad at placing stickers so that she has that distinctive black/white coloration on her body if her armor gets broken. I've always tried to have my CS's look somewhat presentable at least when hit with a Soul Crush, some of them like Lawrence and Yuka even have easter eggs of a sort.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqwamNhBwEvvdFhoUFVaN0hIaExCaFVoekhtQ1J3c2c&usp=sharing

Beta 1 of Panda. Tinkered with her a little, considering removing the eyespot stickers and just leaving that up to a 0:0,31 color in the second facepaint slot. It leaves more room for other stickers, particularly a square slid up onto her throat so that the stretching effect turns it triangular and connects the white on her stomach to her face. Some of my friends have said she looks a little plain and could use a gimmick, I've been tinkering with dropping her earrings and using the Pure Ring as a belt along with the Sash Ribbon to make an intersting little belt, with the snake horns piece as a belt-buckle.

I also got "Mei Ren" as a name suggestion. Seems as good as any so far.

I also kind of worry that my attempt to give her chun-li esque legs and thighs might have gone a little cartoonishly overboard here. Might need to tone it down.

Go ahead with your suggestions. I recreated your character and she turned out to look better than she would following the formula but the Snake Horn buckle looks a little big for a Halo-belt. If you want a picture, just feel free to ask. I cannot guarantee it'll be a good quality though. The "thunder thighs" don't look odd at all.

Did you leave the snake buckle at normal size, or shrink it down to minimum? And sure, if you don't mind.

I made it minimum size. Looking at "Mei Ren" a second time though, I'd sacrifice the smallest white marking for a black spot on one of her eyes as without it, she'll look a little bit creepy and more human instead of cute although it looks like poor panda girl will have a black eye. :( As for the Snake Horn-buckle, I shrank it down to minimum and moved horizontally by -1. Here is a picture of how I did her. Excuse the terrible quality:

http://mail.aol.com/37688-111/aol-6/en-us/mail/get-attachment.aspx?uid=30639840&folder=NewMail&partId=1

That link does not work at all…

Here she is:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/843/photoeig.jpg/

Hmm. Do you prefer the larger sticker or smaller facepaint eyes? I don't really like the mismatched look.

It's ultimately your decision but they both have a weakness. The spot on an eye looks like she's been punched in it but without it, she just looks like a plain human.