Race choice

[Niwashi]

There are also a couple types of opportunities to change your appearance around after character creation:

At level 15, you can unlock access to the Aesthetician, which lets you change around things like hairstyle and color, tattoos, and a number of other things, though it doesn't allow complete recustomization like changing races. Use of the Aesthetician's service costs 2,000 gil (except for the first time, which is free), but you can do it as often as you like. (And while 2,000 gil may sound like an outrageous price at level 15 when you first unlock it, once you level up a bit and the money starts rolling in faster, it'll soon be reasonable enough.) It may also allow a few styles not initially available during character creation. For instance, if you do the first quest of the Lightning Strikes event (which will be on from September 1st to 10th) you'll unlock either Lightning's hairstyle (for female characters) or Snow's hairstyle (for male characters), and those will then be accessible through the Aesthetician. (And it's a precedent suggesting there's likely to be more unlockable styles in the future. At least I hope so.)

Then the first time you pay a subscription fee (to extend your sub beyond the 30 days that come with purchase of the game), you'll get a Fantasia potion, that allows complete re-customization of your appearance, even including race and gender. (Though, as Nerael mentioned, it doesn't allow changing your name, so if your name is chosen to suit the particular race and/or gender you start with, it may end up looking out of place if you change those.) You get just one of these Fantasia potions (that's one per character if you play multiple alts) for that first Veteran Reward. You can purchase more through the Mog Station, but those cost real money and still have limitations on how many you can get.

[Minya]

I always pick the fluff race in every game sooo :I