These Whippet&Buck Frilly Little Bra & Knickers are so adorable!! Guys, if you’re thinking of what the perfect Valentine’s Day gift, might I suggest buying a fatpack of these for your crush!
I’m teasing you guys with Gala’s soon-to-be released Cupid skins, but I’m showing the body first because I’ve just realized today that I’m changing my skin tone preference for Gala skins. Usually I wear Petal [Dark] but since I’m into the nicer sunkissed glow, I’ve been wearing Sundust [Light] a lot. It’s my tone of choice now! Has that ever happened to anyone? I wore Petal forever, but I think either my Windlight settings changed, or my new monitor is different.
Gala fans, you know the drill. Cupid comes in 6 makeups (2 versions each), light/dark skin tone and GORGEOUS brown brows.
I think I like this skin just as much as I like Elf (maybe even a little bit more), the nose is adorable and the lips are adorable!!
Hello from Byrd Island! There are lots of birds here….
Isn’t this hairstyle from Exile just gorgeous? This is the Liaison hairstyle released at Collabor88’s birthday round. I absolutely love the color-changing beads that comes with it (necklace not worn). I was playing around with the different hair colored HUDs when I noticed that the unicorn hair colors are part of Exile’s hair packs! I don’t know what the official name for this hair texture is, but let’s just call it unicorn. Let’s pretend I noticed this before, cos I just asked Kavar when this became official and he told me AGES AGO, and instantly unfriended me for not noticing. JK.
When you’re feeling cheerful, or need some extra cheer, wear every hair color at once! This is the Fantasy 2 color HUD.
What I’m Wearing:
Exile – Liaison (w/ Pearl hair add on)
The Secret Store – Sonia T-Shirt Dress (Lines)
Ingenue – Luzy Heels (Silver)
Pink Fuel – YUM Bubblegum!
These new SLink Cassandra Heels are beautiful! I’m a big fan of SLink’s gorgeous and realistic prim feet, and also the very fast and easy to use OmniHUD to further customize each pair of shoes.
You can use the OmniHUD to change skin tone, choose skin presets and save your own, resize, change nail colors, change metals, turn invisiprim on and off, and also turn socks on and off.
SLink – Cassandra Heels (in 11 colors)
Here’s two more close-ups of the shoes (in Mushroom color); my favorite <3
These photos have not been edited, they are raw images from SL with shadows enabled. If you see some extra shadows casted on the shoes or my leg, it’s from SL. Try a demo and fall in love with these yummy heels!
This whole thing is going to go down as Gaeta Gate in Second Life history, the time Linden Lab tried to remove a small, unfinished continent, only to completely reverse course a few months later. I waited forever to be relocated from Gaeta 1 to New Zindra, but it never happened, so I eventually started selling off the land I’d bought there piece by piece because I’d already acquired quite a bit of snow land and figured I was simply going to move on.
Then on Monday I received an email from Linden Lab basically saying, “We’re giving you some money for your pain and suffering, and by the way, Gaeta 1 isn’t closing anymore.” Suddenly the whole situation changed. You can stay if you want to. You can still move if you’d rather have a parcel in New Zindra and keep Gaeta 1 too. If you’ve already moved, you cay stay or come back to Gaeta 1! I have to admit I’m pretty happy with the outcome, even if this has been one of the biggest rollercoasters I’ve watched Linden Lab put residents through. From the original announcement until now, it’s been one surprise after another, and I still don’t think the ride is completely over.
If you look around Gaeta 1 today, a huge amount of land is marked “On Hold,” which most of us assume means former residents are deciding whether to return. I’ve already noticed some of the larger land barons making their way back, but it does raise an interesting question about whether people will end up keeping both their new land or coming back to their original Gaeta 1 land. After all, the original reason Linden Lab gave for closing Gaeta 1 was the massive amount of abandoned land, and that problem isn’t automatically solved just because some previous owners decide to move back.
I think Linden Lab knows they need to move quickly, and the August 17 deadline they gave everyone in the email makes that pretty obvious. I didn’t wait around because I’m easy. I replied immediately and told them I was staying, mainly because I have absolutely no interest in moving to New Zindra. I was originally interested, but have you seen the horrendous new grass texture? No thank you! My guess is they want to wrap this entire situation up as quickly as possible so Gaeta Gate becomes nothing more than a strange chapter in Second Life history, after which they can start selling and auctioning parcels in both Gaeta 1 and New Zindra again. I could even see them experimenting with more double-prim parcels if it helps encourage people to buy mainland, although I don’t expect they’ll spend time finishing the unfinished west coast of Gaeta 1 when they already have so much abandoned mainland elsewhere on the grid.
I love land, so after all of this, I decided to officially move into my little Gaeta 1 parcel instead of letting it go. My friend Malayaa decorated the cozy 1,500 sqm oceanfront property for me, and it’s exactly the right size. As long as my neighbors don’t move back in tomorrow and completely ruin my view, I think I’m going to be pretty happy here.
What I’m Wearing: Exile – Prisma The Kiwi Co – peaches Set (Top, Shorts, FlipFlops) Sparkle Skye – Emily Pearl Headband Glam Affair – Gwen (L003) LeLutka – Ubon Mesh Head
Blowpop will be releasing these N2 Elizabeth skins on June 23rd, along with Ava, Carmen, and Maya (not shown here). The N2 Elizabeth skins will have 4 skin tones, each makeup includes 2 different makeup versions and a separate underwear layer for public hair (because the skins are bare down here). The Elizabeth face is so sweet, and the N2 blows me away. I love fresh pouty young girl look, and the variety of lipsticks & generous lip gloss!
Overall, the Elizabeth skin is really lovely and these are my favorite Blowpop skins ever. I think the face is so very sweet and perfectly
done light skin tone will be a favorite for many people.
[ Blowpop – N2 Elizabeth – Tone B ]
If you're dying for a pre-release preview, join the Blowpop Update Group, there are are 4 exclusive group gifts for members (one makeup for each face in all skin tones). This sweet 'barbie pink' makeup is the preview gift for Elizabeth. SO YUMMY!
This may be my last (or second to last) post of 2010, so I want to make it happy and Sunshine-y! I am trying on a couple of new looks… starting with dark hair and a tan! It’s rare that I like a skin enough to wear several different tones, but I am madly in love with the new Vilda skin from Laqroki. I’m wearing the darker Peach tone here, along with the Dark brows option.
Lots of SL’ers have fawned over The Secret Store, but I tend to shy away from new brands until they’ve released more items. Although I’m incredible hard to shop for (nobody knows what I already have in my inventory), I didn’t have anything from The Secret Store! A friend sent me this Pretty Poppy dress as a belated Christmas gift, and it’s very pretty. I think the sculpting and texturing is just awesome, but the seams could use a little work, though.
I went to The Secret Store later and a lot of the casual are inexpensive ($70-$150L range) but a couple of the dresses and coats are pricier ($400L+).
When Bakes on Mesh went live six months ago, I thought it would change the way we wore skins and phase out appliers completely. This did not happen. In fact, I recently learned that with BoM (just a fancy name for system layers that we’ve had since the beginning of SL), it’s not possible to have high-resolution appliers. LeLutka responded by launching a new BoM-ready mesh head with brand new HD applier zones, thus continuing your dependency on appliers forever. Genus followed by delivering a BoM script to customers and encouraging the continued use of appliers. Did BoM make things easier for anyone? No.
I see lots of SL residents and friends saying that they won’t use BoM, or they don’t understand BoM. Even though the concept is simple, the way mesh head brands have merged appliers with BoM created chaos. I think it would be easier if brands broke their mesh heads out into 3 products: Mesh Head w/ Appliers Only (what we had), Mesh Head with Just BoM (one mesh, removing all the “onion layers”), and Mesh Head with a Combination of BoM & Appliers (the direction we’re headed in). Something for everyone. Does this create more work for designers? Absolutely.
I said I would only go BoM when my skin was available, and that day came with the latest Pink Fuel Gaia release. I had to give up my EEP Viewer to use the latest official SL viewer. The new Gaia and Maia skins from Pink Fuel are system layers, so if you don’t currently have a BoM-activated Genus mesh head, you can’t wear this skin. This skin is made for Genus, and will not fit any other brands. Of course, you can try, but the result would not be pretty.
From left to right: The basic Pink Fuel Gaia system skin in Peach tone | w/ added eyeshadow & lip gloss system layers (included with skin package) | with Applier eyeliner, and applier HD lipgloss | Vampy System tattoo makeups w/ applier HD lipgloss
I’ve played around with a combination of wearing only system layers makeups, only appliers makeups, and a combination of both. BoM is still new and kind of confusing, but once you get it and use it correctly, your customization options are endless. I’m having fun incorporating bits of my old makeup brand, cheLLe, into my current look.
Are you ready to try BoM? Get this Limited Edition Be Mine 2020 (Genus BoM skin) from Pink Fuel for just $50L!
Are you using BoM? Do you find it easy or challenging? Let me know in the comments!
OMGGGGGGGG I LOVE CRUSH MAKEUP
I love Curio skins! They are are so beautiful.
I can’t help feel that the brows on this skin make the avatar look angry :S
Thanks for this review, I just grabbed the fatpack, yay! And you look super adorable in these skins! <333
Too cute! I agree also about this tone, perfect for coming into spring/summer and makes the makeups appear more vibrant too.