by Gogo on September 30, 2009
in Fashion
Sweetest Goodbye has just released these GOGO STAR sculpted jackets, and really, I don't know what they're named after but I'll just pretend it's for me. The jackets have such a sexy cleavage and you can pair it with many different styles. I've tried to make 3 different looks centered around the Gogo Star jackets & amazing new ANEXX Leather Rider Boots.
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These ANEXX Leather Rider Boots are AMAAAAAAZING. Each color includes 2 different (top) choices, you can wear it with the top open like above or closed. Don't you just love the leather texture, leather straps and attached feathers? These are my favorite "cowgirl" boots ever!!
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What I'm Wearing:
Look 1:
Blowpop – Infinity (Carmen) raw sienna (Look #2)
Maitreya Moon – Kala Jeera
Sweetest Goodbye – Gogo Star (Brown)
Malt – Autumn Tunic (Vanilla) Skirt only
Shine – Geheimnis necklace
ANEXX – LeatherRiderBoots_Brown(Female)
Look 2:
Blowpop – Inifinity (Carmen) raw sienna (Look #5)
Kin – Kaelyn (Black)
Sweetest Goodbye – Gogo Star (Black)
Truth – Voodoo Dolls Dress Black (modified)
Hucci – Tumaini Jewelry Set
ANEXX – LeatherRiderBoots_Black (Female)
Look 3:
Blowpop – Infinity (Ava) deep honey (Look #5)
Exile – Alecia (Hazelnut)
Sweetest Goodbye – Gogo Star (Khaki)
Sweetest Goodbye – Get on! / One piece/Khaki (skirt only)
Shine – Geheimnis necklace
ANEXX – LeatherRiderBoots_Brown(Female)
by Gogo on September 30, 2009
in Fashion
I bought a bunch of stuff at the Gatcha Gatcha festival but my inventory is a mess and they weren't labelled "Gatcha" so I can't remember what they all were. Here's the stuff that I DO remember!! Katat0nik is practically giving away these adorable Kattypop purses – you pay the lil' Katat0nik machine $15L per play and get a random color. They are no copy/transfer so you can exchange with a friend or give it away, if you get doubles. The purse also includes the 'hold' animation, and works great with your AO.
Don't forget to try the HANAUTA food machine! On my first try I scored the Petit Tart in Strawberry flavor. Whoohoo! It matched the Katat0nik Strawberry Dollie Dress perfectly.
Tp to Gatcha Gatcha
What I'm Wearing:
Laqroki – Phoebe 01 [Fair] Glow Skin
Truth – Mavi (Caramel)
katat0nik – Strawberry Dollie Dress (white)
katat0nik – Bubbly Mary Janes (Red)
katat0nik – Kattypop Purse
Hanauta – Petit Tart (Strawberry)
These new Fresh FX4 (LONDON) skins comes in 6 makeups and also with freckles (not shown). They look like a mixture of hand-drawn and photo-sourced and the result is something totally unique, like a painted portrait. I'm wearing the Fresh FX4 in the lightest skin tone.
What I'm Wearing:
FFX4 – London skins
Exile – Carrie (Chocolate) hair
artilleri – Nyna bikini (Green)
Whoa…… hot! Laqroki has just released 6 new glow skins, one of them is a remake of the original Phoebe skins. I looove it sooo much!! Phoebe (Glow) has 8 makeups & includes a hair base version. This is one of my favorite faces ever, it's so sweet and realistic.
Here are all 8 Phoebe makeups, I'm wearing the Peach skin tone:
Phoebe (Glow) is definitely an upgrade from the original Phoebe. The original skin only came in one skin tone, it was very light and cute but the new Phoebe (Glow) skins comes in 3 skin tones and have more makeups.
( Laqroki – Phoebe [Fair] old & new face )
( Laqroki – Phoebe [Fair] old & new body )
The upgrades are so yum, I think you will find a new favorite amongst the newly released skins. They're
SUCH a great deal at $1,990L per fatpack.
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Blacklisted released some new lingerie sets, I'm wearing the Cornbead, Be Starin' and Lonely Soldier prints above. These lingerie sets includes matching thigh high socks (not shown).
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Black No. 1 has just released the Riley skins in 8 makeups. You won't have to beat the skin fair lag to get these, they're released at the main store, yay! I love the eye shadows on these, and plenty of lip gloss on the lips. Visit Black No. 1 to demo these!
( click the image get a closer look of the makeups in full-size )
Join the Black No. 1 group in-world and check notices to get this free "Kat Von D" makeup in all skin tones.
I'm wearing sexy new Hucci Heart Halter tops. Hucci has finally OPENED!!! Visit Hucci!
What I'm Wearing:
Black No. 1 – Riley skins (Light)
Cake – Papercut II (Currant) hair
Naith Smit – Rock'n'Rolla Chain
Hucci – Heart Halter (all colors)
AddiCt – PYT Leggings Black
ISSIGONIS has just released the Aska skins in 4 skin tones Pale, Cream, Natural, and Honey. I'm wearing the Natural skin tone and 4 of the makeups available:
Each skin comes with light or dark brows:
The new ISSIGONIS Aska skins are only available at Skin&Shape Expo for now. Visit ISSIGONIS @ S/S Expo.
Visit ISSIGONIS @ Juicy Del Mar after the expo.
Redgrave is back!!! I've been seeing teasers of this new Megan skin for months and couldn't wait to try it on. Megan comes in 2 skin tones – pale and tan, and includes a hair base. The brows are only available in Dark Brown, so it may or may not work with lighter color hair (you can try… but I like it with Brunette hair colors). I think the face is pretty sweet, but there's a faint but noticeable line going from the nose tip to the upper lip that I don't like so much. However, these skins are only $2999L for the whole fatpack of 15 makeups! It's a great deal for your money if you love the skins.
I'm wearing Redgrave – Megan in Pale below:
This is the body for Megan, and it's pretty much the same as all the previous releases. I think the Megan face is less shiny than other past releases so it doesn't really suit this body that much, but I'd till wear it.
People ask me all the time what eyes I wear, and I wear a ton of different brands! I do stick to brands who have smaller irises because they fit my eye size better. These newly released Curio "Tragic" eyes includes 3 different sizes (small, meidum, large) and also prim attachments for each size, so you can mix and match and wear 2 different eye colors at once, for an interesting effect.
( click the image to view full size so you can see the eye colors better )
What I'm Wearing:
Redgrave – Pale Skin – Megan
Truth – Madison (Espresso)
Mandala – Pearl Rain Jewelry Set/Rose Pink
SugarCube – Dolly border balloon dress (Peach)
"Hi. I came across this post and thought.. WOW.. fabulous skin. So much
so that I ran to the store to check it out. I tried on the exact tone
and faces, too. They looked nothing like these pictures. I tried them
with and without facelights, different day settings. My av shape is
great, too, so it’s not that. Then I looked at your pictures again and
realized how touched up your images are, that not even your white hair
is pixelated — white hair in sl is notorious for obvious pixelated
edges. While I think it’s nice people supply shopping info for others
who may be interested, I think it is best not to worry about how your
avatar looks in your post but to give an honest rendering of the
material you are propagating to the masses — that way we, the readers,
can see what the skins and so forth actually look like to save us time.
Touched up images don’t sell others products, they waste the buyer’s
time." – SherriI
I saw this comment about my Cupcakes skin reviews on iheartsl.com and it really bothered me because I am not here to deceive people who read my blog. I don't EVER Photoshop photos on my skin reviews to fix flaws or blemishes. What you see is what you get, no post-processing whatsoever except for a simple crop (and I use picnik.com).
Here are reasons why I don't retouch images:
1. There are skin demos, what's the point of trying to fix/hide flaws?
2. I don't have time to spend fixing up images since I blog A LOT.
3. I don't care if a skin designer sells 1 skin or 1000 skins as a result of my blog entry (though I am happy for them if they get sales from being featured).
4. My aim is to show the item as-is, so people keep coming back to my blog because they have a reasonable expectation that what is seen in my photos is what the product REALLY looks like in-world.
5. I'm too lazy to PS every image to death.
There are more reasons why I don't PS, but those are the main ones.
( click the image to view full size )
The image above was taken in-world with absolutely NO post-processing. The light settings are – default noon | my own personal outdoor sunlight setting | my blog photos settting. As you can see, noon is pretty craptastic compared to the blog setting, which removes most shadows & brightens up the image a lot. I don't need to PS, I can't even imagine how I could make the image "better" and I don't know how.
"Then I looked at your pictures again and realized how touched up your
images are, that not even your white hair is pixelated — white hair in
sl is notorious for obvious pixelated edges."
It sounds to me like, your graphics settings for SL needs anti-alias turned on. I can't give the info how, but you should be able to Google the answer for your specific graphics card/computer. Optimizing your graphics settings and playing with Windlight will
produce some pretty fantastic images without needing to touch-up.
"Touched up images don’t sell others products, they waste the buyer’s time."
I totally agree, this is why I keep my photos simple. If I ever edit an image, its because it's more of an artsy photo than a product review.
I hope that clears that up….
I'm wearing the Cupcakes Lovespell (Honey) Golddust skin, since I wore this skin in the original post that this comment was directed at. I've made new Windlight settings for blogging, since I no longer liked the old ones that I've used before (they were too red) ~ so the skin doesn't photograph *exactly* the same as the original post that I've linked to, but it's the same skin and no PS then OR now.
by Gogo on September 25, 2009
in Fashion
Donna Flora is one of my favorite stores on the grid, because I never know what to expect! The designs are so diverse an spans many decades. These four newly released outfits, totally reminds me of vintage dolls. And the hairrrrrr…… Truth's latest Evie hairstyle is perfect for these doll-like vintage looks.
I am wearing (from left to right) the Rina, Nicoleta, Lorenza (white/black) and Lorenza (black/white) outfit. These outfit includes accessories worn above too – bags, hat, and pin.
Classy look.. or…
Cozy look!!!! This scarf (with hair attached) totally cracks me up. You should buy the outfit, it's WORTH IT… just for the scarf/hair thing alone!! This comes in 3 different hair colors – platinum, dirty blonde and black.
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What I'm Wearing:
Gala Phoenix – Petal [Dark] Breeze-Mudslide 2
Truth – Evie (Espresso) hair
Donna Flora – Rina, Nicoletta, Rina, Nicoleta, Lorenza (white/black) and Lorenza (black/white)
Maitreya – Dune Boots (Brown)
Bax Coen – Prestige Boots Black Leather
Juicy – Classic Pumps (Peppercorn, Blackberry)
by Gogo on September 25, 2009
in Fashion
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