Move the chooser off of the top of the avatar is step 1.
Also defaulting to a mask and then hiding the UI for removing it? Makes the first chooser look like it does absolutely nothing. As it stands, it looks like only the first three are actually different.
If the first thing you click on appears to do nothing, user hostility begins already. The first rule of UI is don’t piss the user off, because it’s much harder to interpret feedback from an angry user (it’s possible, but it takes a lot more skill and emotional maturity).
Also defaulting to a mask and then hiding the UI for removing it? Makes the first chooser look like it does absolutely nothing. As it stands, it looks like only the first three are actually different.
If the first thing you click on appears to do nothing, user hostility begins already. The first rule of UI is don’t piss the user off, because it’s much harder to interpret feedback from an angry user (it’s possible, but it takes a lot more skill and emotional maturity).