How did you customize your Shepard's face in MET?

All custom, not based on everything.

For the most part, in particular in regards to Shepard, 100% customized, 100% in game on Xbox.  NONE of them are based off of me or anyone I know.  The one I play as THE Shepard, is this one (whom I made on my first try, and constantly updated over the years to get him just right):









I say for the most part because I have A LOT of playthroughs, and usually use the others outside my main Shepard as "Side Characters" if you will.  Like in ME1 and ME3, as Hackett says backup will come later after you complete the mission (eg. Geth Incursions or all the Multiplayer maps that are also used in Single Player in 3)....well these soldiers are the backups.  Basically it gave me the excuse to try out and max all all the classes lol, and I have a lil headcannon for each.  One of these characters includes the default Male Shepard.   I wasn't the biggest fan of FemSheps default look, including 3 (though funny enough I think it looks great on the remaster...), so I made my own redhead soldier as well based off of her look to an extent (who is basically my second most important "character" because shes the opposite of my Shepard.  He's the War Hero and Savior of Elysium, She's the renegade and Butcher of Torfan).





I also took advantage of ME1's equip any armor cheat, making other characters more diverse and fun, like my Engineer






Now Ryder was a bit more fun in creating, only because I had envisioned what the basics of the character waaaaaayyyyy before the game came out.  My Shepard was always male, so I wanted to make Ryder female (and I generally preferred her voice actor on the trailers, though both are good with the right look).  I was split on color/race, because on one hand I wanted to make the character a different race (Shepard as well as myself are Black lol), yet at the same time I was always mad that there was never a Black female squadmate (and the main relevant ones of the top of my head were Giana Parasini?, Traynor, Jacob's new flame, and Maya Brooks).  Choosing a different race one out because I was adamant about it, and I didn't like the fact that Alec Ryder looks like Al Sharpton all the way down to the perm ( ), so I ended up choosing a Latina/Hispanic Family.  Made this Ryder, Alec, and BroRyder on the first try and only made small corrections here and there since then.


   

I have nothing against default male Shepard, but he's a bit too generic looking to me. How many games are we going to get a burly, Caucasian, bearded guy with buzzed hair before it gets old?

I make my own character and I base it on myself. Obviously, I'll never get a complete likeness, but as close as I can. I was in the military, I like space, and I also nearly died (and have hardware put into me) so I can relate to Shepard. It makes runs feel more personal rather than it happening to some guy I'm playing. Also, my race is barely represented, if at all in gaming. So if I can play as myself, then I'm going to do that.

Lastly, despite my male Shepards not having the same level of detail as default male Shepard, I think one of them turned out pretty well. 

What hardware, if I may ask?