How should I describe my characters personality?

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Question:

I am making a character sketch of one of my characters and I want to describe her personality but I don't know how I should!.

This is what I have so far on her character sketch:

Name: Alicia Beth Bronson
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: April 12, 1991
Birth Place: Dayton, Ohio
Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio
Age: 17
Height: 5’6
Weight: 120
Mother’s Name: Adrienne Renee` Bronson
Father’s Name: Jared Henry Parker
Grandparent’s Name: Samuel & Anna Bronson
Siblings: None
Education: High School
Best Friend: Savanna Long
Other Friends: Brooklyn Brown, Isabella Johnson, and Eric Mattson
Pets: None

Description:
She has long, red wavy hair with some strawberry blonde streaks in it!. Her crystal blue eyes and perfect arched eyebrows completed the look of her slender body!. Her face is an oval shaped, which is smooth and pale and balancing it!. She was 5’6 and the tallest out of her friends!. The way she speaks always makes you feel relaxed; with her voice being so soft and soothing!. She has dark red lips and a little petite nose that went perfectly with her hair and eyes!.

Favorite Things:
Food: Cheese Pizza
Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio
Actress: Hayden Panettiere
Movie: Titanic
Show: Heroes
Store: Old Navy
Color: Sea Blue
Band: Linkin Park
Singer: Taylor Swift
Song: Hero/Heroine by Boys like Girls
Book: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

You can do minor additons throughout the story of her likes and dislikes, etc!. Maybe have a scene where Alicia and Jane are having breakfast and Jane asks Alicia about some of her favorites!. This could be a way to get some of that info across!. You've already got some physical description in there, so that's good!. You can also maybe have a shopping trip she goes on where she hears her fave song or goes out for her fave dinner!. Something!. Maybe some info can be disclosed when she becomes friends with the Brook and Clark siblings!. There are ways to add it in without it being an overload of info!. :-)Www@QuestionHome@Com

How to describe a character's personality!? Of course, you should always do that through the words of your story, but to make a character "chart", if you will, you should find one of those "character development questions" that you can find easily through google and answer them as if you're your character!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Do that thoughout the first half of the book!. Honestly, all that is TOO much details!. The reader wants to read on the changes in the characters life not all the its and bits she loved before that SOMETHING happened and changed it all!.

edit: I mean if you add all this to your story then its too much, but yes a character sketch maybe!. and you're gal is WAY too modern!. <3Www@QuestionHome@Com

I think you should add the details all throughout the book, but very subtly!. That way the person reading can get a mental picture of whats happening!. Example in a sentence about her hair from, say, her best friends point of view(just an example, I have no idea of what the story is like)!. **I looked over my shoulder at Alicia's beautiful hair!. I would love to have that girl's hair!. The way the sun glimmers of of the streaks of strawberry blonde amidst all the red was so!.!.!.pretty!.**Www@QuestionHome@Com