Step 5 The option of locating your desired skin should appear now, select the button Choose, and then the file you had copied to C: Program FilesVideoLANVLCskins folder. Step 4 Now, navigate to the Interface tab, and select Use Custom Skin option. Step 3 Start VLC Media Player and navigate to the option Preferences under the Tools menu. ~/.local/share/vlc/skins2 folder( Linux).C:Program FilesVideoLANVLCskins folder( Windows).Step 1 Download the VLC skin file from the VLC’s skin library you also have a lot of VLC skins here to explore.