106261-changing-helmet-appearance

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I recently snagged my first real helmet and rushed to equip it. Lo and behold, it's fugly. Real fugly. My toon looks like a complete knob with it on, sadly. But, it's great AC, so I don't want to NOT wear it.
 
One of my guildies talked about the fact that he "mogs" his helmets to look cooler. 
 
I'm a noob here, but can someone point me in the right direction for how I can do that? I'm assuming he meant costumes? Can I wear a costume and still retain the underlying stats of the real armor? I guess I may not understand all the details of the costume system.
 
Thanks in advance!	
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			The costume system replaces the appearance of an item with another one. You open the interface at the Costume NPC, drag the item you want the look of on top of the correct slot. You need the NPC to edit costumes, but you can switch from one to the other (more slots unlocked as you level) or default look, anywhere.To replace a helmet, you'd need another Head Slot item. Since launch they've given us two of them, plus another if you have 2 factor authentication installed, plus it's pretty easy to get one for leveling your Path. You should have at least one option you'd like, until you can find a look that suits you best.	
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You can visit an appearence modification vendor in the capitol cities, and many quest hubs, to equip items in your costume slots. You can equip and armor regardless of whether your class can wear it (an esper can use medium and heavy armor in costume slots for example), as long as you are the correct level for that piece. Equipping items will overwrite the appearence in that slot while retaining the stats of what you have equipped on your character sheet. You can even dye things in costume slots.
 
Mogging is just referring to WoWs transmogrification system, or transmog, which works quite simliar to how the costume system works. Though the costumes are bit more flexible and you are able to change the colors.
 
Edit: you can also choose to not display a particular item slot. So if you didnt want to ever show a helm, simply click the eyeball thing at the costume vendor.	
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You can equip and armor regardless of whether your class can wear it (an esper can use medium and heavy armor in costume slots for example), as long as you are the correct level for that piece.
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Can I wear a costume and still retain the underlying stats of the real armor? I guess I may not understand all the details of the costume system.
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Usually you need to be of the correct level and able to wear that armour type (which means heavy armour wearers have more choice than light armour wearers). 
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Not true. 
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It's a bug and will be fixed.
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			Thanks everyone! Well, I don't have a huge selection of helmets (yet) that I love. But, I'll definitely change it over to the beret or something in the short term.	
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