Alright, I have resisted the urge to put Truth puns in the title today. Here's all you need to know: Truth has new hair! Truth is a hair making machine and have spoiled us with weekly releases. There are four new styles this week – 3 for women and 1 for men (or unisex).
[ Truth – Hazel2 (Dawn) | Truth – Hazel (Barley) ]
[ Truth – Luna (Platinum) | Truth – Zach (Driftwood) ]
Raw Second Life screenshot – Same EEP setting for both (mine)
What’s a tone mapper? A tone mapper adjusts the brightness and colors in a game to make it look good on different screens. It helps ensure bright and dark areas are clear and detailed, without being too washed out or too dark.
For ages, we have been using the ACES tone mapper in Second Life, but then suddenly, Second Life introduced the Khronos tone mapper, which I have been told is better for video games. I’ve seen various tone mapper options in the Alchemy viewer before, but I decided to venture back into the latest Firestorm beta viewer to see how everything appeared with Khronos.
First impressions: it’s brighter. I think it’s nice, but if you choose to switch to Khronos, be aware that you may need to adjust some or all of your EEP settings.
I suppose I’m making the switch, so going forward, all of my EEPs will be created for Khronos unless I am using the Alchemy viewer, which has not yet integrated this new tone map.
It’s worth noting that Khronos does not fix the issues with broken Second Life PBR water or skies, but the skies are slightly better. The water still has a long way to go before it’s good.
I picked up this Cloe skin from Glam Affair for LOGO’s Alex mesh head at Collabor88. I like this skin a lot, except that it didn’t come with any makeups, just a bare skin and brow color options. Unfortunately, with mesh heads, makeups from various brands don’t always play well together.
Have you noticed that when skin brands release a skin for mesh heads, they only include a limited choice of makeups and that’s it. I hope that skin designers will offer more add-on products for their skin appliers, such as more makeups so we can keep wearing our favorite “face” instead of always having to buy a new skin!
What I’m Wearing:
LOGO – Alex Mesh Head
LeLutka – Cat hair
Glam Affair – Cloe Appleirs for LOGO (America)
Sweetest Goodbye has just released the Chiki Chiki top and it is the best tie-front crop top I have ever seen in Second Life. THE BEST. Let me tell you why…
This top is *ALL* sculpted. When I looked at the folder, I didn't see a shirt texture so I thought maybe the creator forgot to put it in there, but when I wore all 3 attachments (shirt, and 2 sleeves), this gorgeous crop top appeared on my avatar. It's love at first sight!!! The shirt fit me without any adjustments at all, so that's a plus. My boobs are not small, so when I wear sculpted tops usually I have to do a lot of adjustments but this top has room for even larger boobs!! That's good to know….. I'm constantly thinking of making my avatar's boobs bigger, not smaller.
Since this top is sculpted, it gives off a really nice 3-D effect if you want to cam down my top, or cam up, or look sideways… any way you look, it's a good view.
back-view
The Chiki Chiki top comes in Check, Lined, Striped, and Flower pattern.
Yesterday was my 6th Rez Day! I had forgotten about it, until Miss Ziki Questi wished me a happy rez day. I don’t really do anything to celebrate my rez day, so I thought I would throw a lil’ party of one today — buying myself gifts from The Arcade’s gacha event. I exercised self-control and played the gacha machines just six times, once it didn’t deliver, and I traded a cake for yummy macaroons (thanks Grazia)! Almost all of my purchases are featured here, except the things I couldn’t make “work” with my outfit — some poop (ew!) colored headphones, and a Blue purse.
I wanted some other Pink things, but decided not to keep going after I scored the Grandpa’s Radio Receiver Gold (Rare) from Teefy. Gotta quit while you’re ahead, right?
I’ll wait for the gacha yard sales to try to collect a Christmas village, the Floral purse, and a couple of other items. If you guys know if any yard sales, please leave the SLurl in my comments for myself and other people to visit!
What I’m Wearing:
Pink Fuel – Kumi (Peach) Pure (bwnbrow/crease)
Exile – Release Me (Babydoll)
Beetlebones – Semi-Sheer Cropped Lace Tank (XS) White
Monso – My Leather Skirt (White) Size2/S
Celoe – Snare Ankle Boots (Camelot)
SLink – Mesh Hands
MiaSnow – Lollipop
Hi everyone! I am at the Chinese New Year festival, and it is so festive here! The build is so fabulous, and the event is well organized, so it was super easy to shop while standing in one location. I even braved the crowds and took my blog pictures here, and there was no lag.
Did you know that this is the Year of the Horse?
I felt lucky, so played a few gacha machines and didn’t get anything I wanted LOL!!! Note to self: don’t gamble, ever. I still had fun checking out the event anyway, and dressing up for these pictures. I didn’t find any outfits at the event that was festive enough, so I looked around and found the perfect Cheongsam dress from The Sugar Garden. This dress is slightly sexier than a traditional Cheongsam, but that’s what I like about it. The only thing that I dislike about this dress is the horrible rigging on the mesh skirt and the sizes didn’t fit me right (small was way too small, and medium floated away from my waist). If you want something cute and cheap for CNY, this dress is just $100L — but you do get what you pay for, the quality is just okay. The attached collar was inside my chest when worn, so if you’re my size or bigger, you may have to cam inside to re-position it.
What I’m Wearing:
Pink Fuel Skin
Exile – Quiet Afterthought
The Sugar Garden – Sexy Cheongsam Dress (Red)
Ingenue – Pickford Heels (Cherry)
Tokame – Red Envelopes (open) + CNY
Zaara – Kashiti Bobble Ring (Pearl) Gold
Flair – Nail Hud Add On – Slink Avatar Enhancement – Set 163
I dressed myself backwards today. For some reason, I felt compelled to wear this Untied Tie from BOOM so I had to find clothing pieces that worked with this tie. I didn’t have a dress shirt (not that I can remember) so I paired it with a very old Itimo Leather Vest from Armidi and a Black & White Promise Lace Trim Bra, also from BOOM. Doesn’t this look remind you of a casino dealer?
Elikatira has new hair out at Collabor88 and it’s so very cute! For a long time, after Elika stopped releasing frequently for ETD, I stopped wearing ETD hair (and eventually deleted my entire collection) but now I look forward to every new Elikatira release.
What I’m Wearing:
Pink Fuel – Elly (Honey) Pure/nolash (ltbrow)
Armidi Limited – Itimo Leather Vest (White)
BOOM – I Promise lace trim bra (Black and white)
BOOM – Untie Tie (Coal)
Tres Blah – Juju Jeans (Black)
