Roblox’s advanced body color customization in the avatar menu appears to have started rolling out in the platform’s Avatar Editor by May 9, 2024 , when Roblox announced it was expanding the skin tone color picker to the Universal App and allowing developers to use all colors in their avatar editors.

A few related milestones help place it in context:

Timeline

  • Roblox body colors have existed for a long time as part of the BodyColors system.
  • The older avatar body-color palette was limited to preset tones, while later updates expanded skin tone selection.
  • The more flexible, per-body-part customization in the menu was being shown in creator/community videos by late 2025, suggesting the feature had become visible to users by then.

Best answer

If you mean when Roblox added customizable body colors directly in the avatar menu , the clearest official date is May 9, 2024 for the expanded skin tone picker in the Universal App. If you mean individually coloring each body part in the mobile avatar editor , that rollout seems to have become widely noticed later, with public examples appearing in late 2025.

TL;DR

  • Official expanded skin tone picker: May 9, 2024.
  • Per-body-part menu customization becoming widely seen: late 2025, based on public demos.