Kira Ahn will be releasing the new Charlotte skins tomorrow and it is yummy!! If you’re looking for a change, these are fantastic and have a nice little glow to them, even on the Pale skin tone that I’m wearing below. The Charlotte skins pack will include a shape and eyes (not worn here) and 10 different makeups.
I Loooove the bright frosty eyeshadow on these skins!!
See my Kira Ahn Charlotte Flickr Set for close-ups
Tp to KA Designs
Rita Groshomme, the other half of the fabulous Curio brand, has just released some new 'Rita Eyes' and each eye color includes small, medium, and large versions as well as prim attachments. Prim eyes are great if you want 2 different eye colors at once! Shown above are different shades of blue and green, they're so nice!
[ Curio – Rita Eyes – Ice Blue (my fav!) ]
TP to Curio for Rita Eyes
Mesh eyes have arrived! To my knowledge, these new Mayfly mesh eyes are the first that I’ve seen on the grid, and it is wearable with your regular avatar, just like texture or regular prim eyes. I tried on the mesh eyes, and used the built-in scripted menu to re-size the mesh prim to fit my avatar’s eye and also re-sized the iris smaller.
I rezzed the mesh eye prim to show you what it looks like. As you can see, the mesh sculpt is shaped similar to your avatar’s eyeball, so the fit will be perfect (and not different from your regular texture eye). It’s really easy to wear, and does move naturally with your eye.
These are some of my favorite colors from the Mayfly (Deep Sky Eyes) series. Grab a free wearable pair of demo eyes at the main store if you want to try these eyes!
I noticed right away that the mesh eyes have more texture clarity than the regular texture eyes. Of course I still love some of my favorite texture eyes, but this is new and pretty cool! Also, you can wear two different eye colors, too.
When you’re at the store, be sure to buy the smaller prim that’s labelled “Buy Mesh Prim Version of Above Eye Color” for the mesh version — the top one is just the regular texture eyes!
Visit Mayfly
This is a late post about the Fourth of July, but for me, it marks the start of Summer. In Second Life, I adore sparklers and particle bits. While I’m not always a fan of bikinis, this is the season for them!
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I came across this trend that’s going viral right now with Second Life residents, where you take an SL photo and drop it into ChatGPT with a prompt to generate a realistic image. It’s fun, it’s cute. I saw my friends doing it, so of course I had to try too.
Here’s how you can create your own SL to AI Selfie! Use this AI prompt and upload a photo of your avatar to go with it. You can edit it however you like, add details, change the time of day, whatever you want.
Create an image that looks like a selfie taken with an iPhone. There should be no clear subject or specific composition, just a casual, unintentional snapshot. The image should be clear and lit evenly by daytime. The aspect ratio should be 9:16. It must not look AI-generated, but rather like it was taken by a real person.
While I was doing this, I had a moment where I wondered if any creator reading my blog is going to ban me for running my photo through ChatGPT and then I immediately decided I don’t care if people are going to be witch hunty about it.
Remember that blog post I wrote a while ago about some creators banning customers for using AI editing tools? Yeah, still relevant. Check profiles before you shop, because you don’t want to support anyone who’s going to turn around and blacklist you.
I’m screaming at how cute this new Penelo skin from Glam Affair is. I did fix a couple things on the face with Izzie’s tattoos, mostly the pinkish circles around the eyes, but overall it’s such a pretty skin. My favorite thing is definitely the lips and the lipstick, it’s the best I’ve seen on a skin in a long time.
My outfit today is the Penny dress from GAWK and I’m wearing it with the Starfish pendant necklace from SIGMA. It’s summer, you have to wear a giant starfish. This new hairstyle from WINGS is everything I want in a hair.
Hello SL! I’m at Hogsmeade buying some candy! My hair matches the lollipop, yum.
What I’m Wearing:
Pink Fuel Skin
Exile – After the Rain (Sparkle)
Teefy – Marlene Blouse (Floral/Pink) S
Teefy – Marley Skirt (Pink) S
I’m just a Second Life resident. I’ve been blogging and playing this game, virtual world, whatever you’d like to call it, for decades. I grew up on this platform. I’ve taken thousands of snapshots over the years, raw, unedited, unfiltered. But I’m also the kind of person who leans into new tools, so of course I’m excited about using AI to enhance my photos.
Even when some designers push back loudly with “don’t feed my creations into AI or I’ll ban you from my store,” I can’t help but roll my eyes a little. They can’t ban the entire world. They can’t control what tools residents use in their own creative process. You can ignore the noise and keep using whatever tools you like. What feels insane to me is the hypocrisy. Big brands in Second Life, the ones making a living here, get a huge pass when it comes to AI editing in their ads. They’re showing AI hair, AI clothing, AI bodies, AI environments, all polished up to entice us to buy. That’s fine.
But when a resident retouches a photo with AI, the same residents who are actually spending money and keeping this world going, suddenly we’re untalented pariahs destroying creativity or causing water shortages or whatever the dramatic take is this week. The double standard is wild.
If you like this photo, yes, I edited it with ChatGPT Plus. I pay $20 a month for it. I also pay for Adobe Creative Cloud, Krea, and a bunch of other tools because I genuinely enjoy pressing buttons and seeing what happens. It’s still my photo. It’s still my avatar. I just gave it a glow up.
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Love her new line! Very delicate