I had to go out of town this weekend but I am so glad I snagged a set of Zaara’s Kanti Lingerie set!! It was sold 50% off for the SLDailyDeals promotion (only 1000 copies available) in Frost color. SLDailyDeals.com is interesting, I don’t always buy everything but I love the idea snagging goodies at a discount. If you desperately need this particular set in Frost, you can send a message to Zaara Kohime and purchase it at full price.
I’m wearing Curio’s “Happy Holidays” group gift skin! The gift includes all 5 skin tones in Light and Dark. I have a weakness for dark lipstick so I’m totally thrilled about this makeup. Join the Gala & Rita Design Announcements group in-world to get this before it’s gone! This makeup is not sold in store.
I’m feeling artsy today so I wrote HELP in the background, but one of me is covering the letter P so it looks like it could be HELL. I promise I’m almost done featuring all of the Digital Knickers outfit, but they’re too cute to resist snapping all in a row. Below are the Sabrina Swashbuckler and General Perversion outfits from Digital Knickers. These outfits come with shoes and hats (not photographed) and are so darling!!
Thanks everyone for your suggestions!! I have tons of Barnesworth’s prefabs for my shops so I decided to go with a different builder this time. I am keeping my eye out on his latest unfinished villa though, it looks nice! The home I chose for my beachy parcel is the Fallingbridge Villa by Tya Fallingbridge of Pixel Mode. I bought this home is because the textures are neutral, it goes well on my beach and the bedroom set looks exactly like my parents bedroom set!! It’s kind of cool and creepy at the same time 😛
[ porch view ]
This home was pretty easy to rez, but I had some issues with the doors constantly closing on me, so I replaced all the doors with a script that would open and close the door on touch only. The script that came with the house automatically closed doors but I’m too lazy to open the doors so I changed all the scripts.
New Exile hair texture – Stefani (with roots) | Stefani (no roots)
OMIGOSH YOU GUYS! New Exile hair textures are so fantastic! As you know, my favorite Platinum Blonde from Exile was previously the Harlow color, but that color is gone from the new pack, and replaced with an even better, more vibrante Blonde color — Stefani!
I lifted this image from Kavar’s Flickr account to show you guys all the new colors and color packs available. I’m loving these!
Exile – Alyssa | Danika | Annalise
Exile – Opal | Caitrin | Lida
There are two male hair released as well, so there’s something for the boys but I don’t wear boy hair so you’ll have to go check it out yourself!
Are you tired of me starting every post with Blackout August? Well, it’s day 22. The original creator of this challenge, Imogen Aurelia, deleted her link on Flickr and kept part of it on Facebook. I’m not even sure she’s still doing the challenge herself, but I’m pushing through. I’m determined and almost at the finish line. What this challenge has shown me is that I’ve been selective for a long time, so while it started out kind of painful not being able to instantly grab that new hair I wanted, it also revealed that I don’t actually love everything made in SL, and I don’t need to have it right away.
For today’s look I dug deep into my inventory and remembered how much I used to love a brand called M.Birdie. I don’t think it’s open anymore, since the store’s Flickr is gone and the SLurl in the designer’s profile leads nowhere. I liked this store so much, but most of my items from them came through gacha events. Everything I have is made for Maitreya, but I managed to wear it with LaraX because this top is roomy and I used the alpha layers. If you still want this top, even though it’s at least seven years old, you can still find it on the Marketplace. If you know what happened to the M.Birdie store, let me know in the comments.
When my friends heard I was doing this challenge, they gave me tips on how to cope with not shopping. One of them said, “You could go spend store credit.” Which is true, I could, if I even remembered where I had store credit. The truth is I don’t want loopholes, I want to go without. I’m still blogging for a few brands and new items are hitting my inventory often, so I don’t feel completely deprived. I decided to sit out on promoting much of it this month, but that doesn’t mean I can’t promote it later. The great thing about Second Life is that when brands create items, they can keep selling them for years as long as the quality is good and people still want them. There’s this constant push to buy new and wear new, but I think that actually does brands a disservice. A dollar earned from a new item or an older one is still a dollar.
If you like the idea of Blackout August, you can start any time. Wearing items you already own shouldn’t ever feel like a betrayal, and it won’t make your favorite brands think less of you. They probably won’t even notice.
The new Yu-IV and Cordelia skins from Mother Goose has a sweet and young look to them. I prefer younger faces, but these may be better suited for teen or even older kid avatars.
The Yu-IV skin includes 6 makeups (with teeth option), 3 blush tattoo, 2 b rows, and one eyeliner& lashes tattoo.
The Cordelia skin includes 5 makeups (with teeth option), and 2 brows tattoo. You can wear the Yu-IV blush & eyeliner& lashes tattoo with this skin, like I have in the picture above.
I’ve always liked Mother Goose cos the skins are inexpensive, and the faces are unique and fresh. One of the things that I think they can improve on is to offer more skin tones!!! I’m usually not too pale or too tan, so sometimes their skin doesn’t work for me.
What I’m Wearing:
Exile – Loveshack (BabyDoll) @ My Attic
Atomic – Endearing Earrings (Platinum)
Monso – My Warmer Muffler (White)
Drift – Flirtini Dress (S) Lace
Maubray – Marijen Wedge w/ Sock
I haven’t made a new shape in a few months, so I thought I would do one for this new Laqroki skin. I loved the way the face on this shape turned out; it’s really adorable and curvy in all the right places. I almost didn’t sell this shape after I made it, cos I wanted to keep her for myself! If you’re looking for a new look, check out the Melinda Shape from Juicy — style card is included!
