She's based on me: body (hight and bust), face (Miqos have the most round faces 2nd only to Lalas), hair / skin / eye colour (including shape), ofc as close as possible.
Was tweaking the hair colour around for hours before finding something that looks most similar.
The cat features are nice too because I ♥ cats.

The way I see it, my character is an extension of myself into the game, if I can make her look similar, I'll feel more involved.
At first I also did experiment, to the point of going Lala but even then I tried to make her similar to myself. Sometimes I miss my Lala days. :c