Gorgeous new skins by mina Jun!!!! I love the tan skin tone and colorful eyeshadow paired with nude lips. It’s been a great week for skin lovers. <333
[visit my Flickr set for close-ups of these skins]
Tp to Minajunk on Koreshan to demo these! 🙂
**EDIT!! Sorry guys, I always forget to include hair credits. The top hair is Mirai Style – Alsh and bottom is Magika – Genesis
gone baby gone…
My friends, I did something hardcore. I mean, REALLY crazy…
My whole SL is gone. I have deleted my WHOLE inventory, including everything I had built from start, customs, etc. I only kept the clothes I was wearing at the time, my AIF dogs and a few skins, and of course as many !BF! originals as possible so I can continue to sell them.
BYE BYE INVENTORY
Thousands and thousands of dollars worth… I was like a SL museum, I had everything from 2005. It was so precious and very dear to me.
BUT! I had NEVER cleaned it once, and so I was now over 170K of cluttered items in no particular order. It was dragging me down, slowing my viewer and making me mad each minute.Sometimes starting fresh is scary. But I hope this will maybe revive my SL apetite once and for all, this on and off hiatus of mine feeling awkward, and all the bugs and crashing and blah blah…
I wanted to share that with you all, not so that I have your pity or anything, not to make a shock, I just thought I’d say a word on my process, where I am in my life right now, RL vs SL, what will happen with elka, etc. Just like that.
I recall a conversation I had with elka Lehane years ago, and she said that she had never deleted a single thing from her inventory. My jaw dropped. She kept everything that landed in her inventory, and ended up with 170K of items and clutter.
When I read elka’s message on Flickr about her deleting her entire inventory, at first I was shocked, but at the same time, I really admire her for taking such a drastic step to clean up her inventory and increase her SL performance drastically.
We’ve all heard about how having a large inventory may slow performance, and according to Linden Lab, anything over 10,000 objects is considered extremely large. My inventory hasn’t been 10,000 since my first six months in SL. Can a fashion addict/content creator keep their invy under 10K?
Before elka deleted her inventory, she couldn’t even keep shadows on for very long without crashing. I asked her if her performance is better now, and she said that she can keep shadows on all the time now, without crashing, and even in laggy sims.
I’m so inspired by this, I need to put more efforts into taking my 90K inventory down to below 50K. I’ve been cleaning my inventory since December 2010, and only managed to reduce it from 130K to 90K, but I think I need to move a lil faster, and be a lot more ruthless. I may or may not pull an elka!
Remember when LAQ was known as Laqroki? Almost everyone in Second Life had a signature LAQ complexion at some point—realistic skins with sweet faces and flawless features. To this day, I hold Mallory Cowen’s skin textures in high regard; they are the epitome of perfection. Her craftsmanship in creating enchantingly soft features set the standard for realistic and supple skins in Second Life.
The market for mesh heads within Second Life is undeniably competitive now. Numerous brands are launching their exclusive high-definition UV templates, with some even partnering with LeLutka to create EvoX-compatible options. LAQ’s latest innovation is the Era2 mesh head (Elle), boasting their sophisticated SupremeUHD head that comes bundled with a skin, an EvoX head, and a classic Standard SLUV head—truly enough choices for everyone. From my perspective, to truly capture the SupremeUHD’s detail, skin creators should release skins for SupremeUHD and not create EvoX skins for LAQ, it would never do the head justice.
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I went to a dark and scary place… H220! I love the monotone colors and constant rain here. It is creepy, serene, and lifeless. For some reason I thought this would make a great backdrop for my very non-creepy outfit today cos it stands out more. This lovely hairstyle is called West Coast, it’s from Exile for Summerfest. L-O-V-E it!
What I’m Wearing:
Pink Fuel Skin
Exile – West Coast
Mon Tissu – Prudence Collar (White)
Teefy – Gianna Off Shoulder Top (XS) White
Teefy – Su Pencil Skirt (S) Fiesta
SLink – De Jolies Mains hands v1.1 | Flex | Straight | Curl
Siddean updated her hands cos you guys were overwhelmingly vocal about what you liked and mostly what you didn’t like! Head over to the SLink blog to read all about the updates!
Personally I felt that the texture on the hands before were already nice, but she made it “less realistic” for people who complained that they were too realistic! Uh.. who are you people?! I miss the old textures but I like the newer smaller size.
The new prim patch really helps with making the hand/wrist joint more seamless but it’s still no easy task to match the skin tone perfectly. I played around with this a lot, but NO PS’ing here either.
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I feel like Polly Pocket in this shade of Blonde hair.
This is the newest Cookie style from Hairy Situations, the newly formed brand to replace House of Heart and Bewitched (by Sheltered Heart). I wear a wide range of Blonde hair colors, but this is NOT what I would consider Blonde, unless I was going for that plastic doll look.
Oh, and I don’t mean to be a hater, cos this hair actually looks pretty good in a better texture (see Bitter Chocolate below):
Am I wrong here? Blondies in SL – would you wear this shade of Blonde??? I wouldn’t on a daily basis unless it was part of a costume or a themed outfit requiring LEMON YELLOW hair.
Oh I’m so glad you posted these! I consider Mina’s skins to be true works of art. She’s an rl artist – there are copies of some of her rl artwork in her store – one is only $1.
All of Mina’s skins are completely hand drawn. I don’t know how long her new skins took, but the rest of the skins in her store took her a full 6 months to make.
My very fav skins 🙂
Thank you so much for posting these so people can see this beautiful artwork.
You look exquisite!!
Beanie
Hi! ^.^ I read your blog, and I comment now just to let you know that I linked you on my new blog! If you’d like to link me out I’ll be happy, or maybe just a look around… As you wish. 🙂
Hi,
i always take a look to your blog, and i think the skins that u always shows are just beautiful, with a touch of feminine so lovely.
Now i decide to contact you because i fall in love of the hair that got the first pictures, i will really appreciate if you tell me the name of the creator or lm where you got them.
Thanks a lot and keep doing excellent with your blog.
Regards,
Ake.S.
Where does the hair come from? 😀 The skins look amazing x
Sorry guys, I always forget to include hair credits. The top hair is Mirai Style – Alsh and bottom is Magika – Genesis