My friend Melanie has posted a great tutorial on how to create subtle facial expressions by modifying your shape slightly and playing around with voice lip sync. Read more about it on her website! 🙂
I loooove skins in Second Life. I get a new skin and make it perfect with tattoos. Rinse and repeat. This is how I enjoy playing Second Life. Recently, I tried on the new Coraline skin from Glam Affair, and to my surprise, it’s nearly perfect. Did I still add a bunch of tattoo fixes? Absolutely.
A blog reader asked me to share some skin details that I recommend, so I’ll do my best to explain my process here. I wear different tattoos for different skins, but generally, I either enhance or de-emphasize certain features. Most of my face tattoos are from Izzie’s, as I own nearly everything from the brand. This allows me to fix anything on a skin to make it suit my preferences. As for body tattoos, it depends on the body I’m wearing. Sometimes I don’t change anything; other times, I add details or remove shading, among other adjustments. You can absolutely mix and match skin details from different brands, as long as you can tint the colors to match.
What skin tattoos do I always wear?
FACE
Brows – Find any brow tattoo that you like and wear it if the default brows on the skin do not suit your preference. I typically wear white brows and tint it a very light blonde or brown. Then, I enable the HD brows on the LeLutka head and reduce the opacity.
Nostril Lighteninger/Highlight – I always lighten my nostrils.
Lip concealer – Sometimes the skin doesn’t need it, but most of the time, I feel that it does. I wear a combination of Izzie’s and Cazimi’s Lip Concealer (it’s free) if I want to lighten the area all around.
Blush/Contour Remover – I wear this 90% of the time, though not today. When I do wear it, I apply a layer of blush on top.
Face Highlights – I sometimes add to or remove highlights, depending on the skin. Izzie’s offers a great Highlight Corrector if you want to reduce shine. Recently, I’ve noticed many skins appearing somewhat flat, so I tend to enhance them. I enjoy adding a touch of highlight to the corners of the eyes, the philtrum, the nose, the forehead, and other areas.
Nose Shading Fix – If one side of your nose is heavily shaded, you need this to balance it out. I wear this 90% of the time, but lately, I’ve noticed that skin designers have begun to do this less frequently.
Nostril Changer – I use this 90% of the time because many skins have heavily shaded nostrils, which I find unappealing.
Ear Fix – Sometimes ears are ugly. Izzie’s has a great ear fix that sits on top of your skin’s ears.
Pale lipstick tattoo – I think it makes the HD lipstick look better.
Closed Eyes – You need this if you like taking closed eyes photos.
BODY
Neckfix – For a seamless transition between the head skin and body skin. Your body skin will have this layer available, usually for free. If not, you can get a neckfix layer from any brand and tint it to match.
Add Creases for hands and feet if you want more details.
Butt Crease Changer/Concealer
Inner Thigh Shadow Fix
Today I’m wearing the new Drift hairstyle from Truth. I love a realistic built-in hairline! This looks great in PBR, there’s no opacity issue, and it’s very natural.
Join the Free Speerit group in-world and check the notices to receive this Fiona skin for FREE. This skin was debut at one of the skin fairs awhile back but it will be released soon.
I normally don't wear skin this dark but I hear from friends that it's very very hard to find a nice dark skin. Fiona has a great face and the body looks fantastic.
Psst…… If you like this pose and the standing poses above, visit Glitterati! These are "Breast Cancer Awareness" poses, they're totally free to promote Breast Cancer Awareness.
I'm wearing the Hucci Pole Diva tank & Hucci FurBomb, it's totally divalicious and goes SO well with this whole look <3
New sheer tattoo eyeshadows from cheLLe! cheLLe – Artemis features sheer and soft eyeshadows, great for layering and mixing-and-matching! You can layer any colors in this set to create a new color!
cheLLe – Artemis II is a bolder and brighter color palette. These eyeshadows are only available in our gacha machine at Cosmetic Fair, and it’s only $20L per play! Collect the entire set, or share with your friends! See you at the fair!
I discovered a cool new spot to visit by skimming through my flickr contacts list and Ravenelle had posted a beautiful shot of The World sim.
Here is my set of photos taken at The World in Color and Black and White. They’re the same snapshots, just desaturated in PS for the b/w look. I like it.. Love The World, really really gorgeous textures and architecture there.
I had a lot of fun running around with my glowed prim skirt!! The outfit is from GHOST! – the Korova Mid (there’s still a 50% off sale, so you must go because Triangle Caudron designs lovely frilly gowns).
Other stuff I’m wearing: VIXEN – Alchemy hair (in Platinum Plaything color) | Necklace by Random Caliope
Something interesting about VIXEN hair: I looooooooooove the names that are given to my two favorite hair colors at this store. Platinum Plaything and Bombshell Brown!! Verikai Vargas has a lot of interesting fun styles up, especially if you’re looking for BIG pigtails. <3
Truth has released four new hairstyles and 10 new shades of hair colors. I’m so happy about the Swedish blonde color!! Before this, I wore Mirage and Seaspray a lot, but Swedish is the perfect Platinum blonde shade.
