Happy New Years everyone!!!
I made the Wasted Fashionista pose set two years ago when nobody had “wasted” poses to use for some fun post-party pictures. I’ve re-uploaded them with a slower ease so they will look smoother when you play them in-world.
They’re totally FREE at my shop from now until Midnight January 2nd — so come and grab them! 🙂
Thank you everyone for your support and have a fun, happy and save New Year’s!!
I found this darling outfit from Marketplace, and it has a sculpted Leather Bra, which matches perfectly with the new SLink Tall Leather Thigh Boots I’m wearing. With a lil’ bit of adjustments, I was able to get this outfit to fit reasonably well and also, not wear the leather shirt texture layer. This Sonya dress from Crissy Designs is $100L (so cheap!) and is the cutest ‘whore’ outfit I could find that is still cute, not tacky.
Now onto SLink’s newest Tall Leather Thigh Boots! They’re mesh so they bend and work with all poses!
What I found interesting about these particular mesh boots (my very first pair of mesh shoes), is that they come with one single attachment. There’s no Left and Right shoe, the whole thing is just… together. This is how it looks inside my inventory, with the boots worn:
The SLink boots comes with 4 sizes to choose from. To my surprise, my avatar is Curvy! I think Gogo is pretty small, so erm, if your legs have muscle bigger than 50 and your fat sliders are bigger than mine, you’ll prob have to move onto the Plus size, or ask for a custom fitting.
The SLink Tall Leather Thigh Boots comes in 10 colors! I noticed that these boots do not have any ‘options’ like some previous SLink shoes. I wonder if that’s a mesh limitation? There’s no HUD, so there’s no option to change sole color, heel color, or anything like that.
If you’re not on a viewer capable of viewing mesh, I guess you’ll be seeing a whole lot of boxes in SL! These boots are a-m-a-zing. I don’t know if I will purchase “regular” sculpt boots ever again.
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What I’m Wearing:
Pink Fuel – Elly (Honey) Pure (ltbrow)
Pink Fuel – Elly (Honey) Juicy Gloss (Cantaloupe)
LeLutka – MATERIAL hair (Marilyn)
Crissy Designs – Sonya Leather
SLink – Tall Leather Thigh Boots (Curvy Black)
Flowey – be still my heart (tattoo)
Pekka – Ank Piercing (F) modded
Blog readers always ask me for tips on enhancing Second Life photos with AI tools, and honestly I don’t think I’m very good at it. Still, I decided to dive back into Krea.ai and see if I could enhance my avatar with ultra realistic hair and skin texture. I’ve tried a few other AI tools, but I personally think Krea is the easiest.
Have you ever seen a Second Life ad where the face looks almost real and the hair texture is so good that it can’t be Second Life? That is usually AI enhancement. It can be deceiving, even when people say the product is untouched. Once you add AI, your eyes get tricked and the product does look slightly better.
Don’t get me wrong, I think Second Life has come a long way. My avatar has never looked better to me, but I rezzed into system hair and system clothes back in the day, and I think I was even wearing system skin. So maybe my idea of amazing is a little skewed, but I also think Second Life avatars have peaked. Can we even get any better?
I don’t know what process or tools other people are using, but I think the easiest way to add detail is to enhance with an AI tool and then blend the two photos in Photoshop. You don’t have to keep the entire AI generation, just blend enough so it still looks like your avatar.
AI tools are still too expensive. I like to play around with video generation and I can burn through a month of credits in an hour. I paid $10 a month to test different models in Krea, but you can use the free version too.
Even if you don’t love the deception of AI, it’s here to stay. I’m not encouraging anybody to do this, but I wanted to share since so many people have asked me for tips.
Just call me Gogo Everdeen! This Dango Arrow & Bow Set from Teefy is so perfect. I have a large collection of weapons in SL, but none as cute as these! The entire Food War Mania collection from Teefy are must-haves!
The First Snow Hooded Dress/Hair from Exile, also at the Arcade, works well for this Katniss-inspired look too. To complete the look, I am wearing the newly released Arcadius Sandals from ANE.
Have a delicious day!
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What I’m Wearing:
Pink Fuel Skin
Exile – First Snow
ANE – Arcadius Sandals (Umber)
Happy New Year’s Eve!
I haven’t done a skin review in years, mostly cos I felt that SL system skins have peaked around 2013, and there was nothing else to write, that I haven’t written hundreds of times before. I have reviewed 245+ skins in SL from countless brands, some have stagnated and never moved beyond system skins, or they simply retired.
I plan on reviewing more skins in 2017, if I can alternate between more than a handful of brands. I won’t look for seams or point out flaws anymore, because it’s 2017 and I figured that most brands should have that figured out by now. If a skin is not to my liking, you will not see it on my blog. It may have taken me about a decade of SL blogging to figure it out, but it is much more efficient use of my time to focus only on well-made products. Unfortunately, that does mean that a lot of brands with potential will not get the feedback that they desperately need to grow.
This is the Lucrezia skin from Glam Affair. This skin is available at Uber, along with lashes and brows made specifically for the LeLutka Simone Bento head. I like the brows that it comes with, so I didn’t get the extra brows pack that can be worn with any Glam Affair skin/Lelutka Bento head. I also like that I can mix-and-match the makeups from some of the recently released Glam Affair skins to create some different looks. Even though I didn’t wear a lot of Glam Affair over the years, I do appreciate that Aida is a prolific skin maker.
The Lucrezia skin is $899L per skin tone, and comes with 8 brows color, 8 lipsticks, and 8 eye shadows. It is available at Uber at the moment, and will probably be available in store later on.
I have made a shape for this skin! Buy the Emma shape in my store or on Marketplace.
What I’m Wearing:
Glam Affair – Lucrezia LuLetka Applier (America)
Wasabi Pills – Isla Mesh Hair
The Secret Store – Lola Cropped Sweater (Deer) S
Blueberry – Cake Leggings
Ingenue – Woodruff Boots (Saddle)
Mandala – Tensei Earcuffs
Mandala – Necklace Legacy (Kilimanjaro)
Zenith – Autumn Leather Bag (Mix B)
Shag – Length of Love (Brown) | Exile – Agyness (Chestnut)
This whole look is giving me San Junipero 80’s vibes! The Merry Look gacha set from M.birdie is an 80s dream combining pinks and blues together! I am wearing the TopB paired with SkirtB. I wish I could “turn off” the attached hand bag on the top, or even better, if it came with 2 versions.
Haven you seen this dreamy Paradiso skybox & decor gacha from Haikei? I could decorate my entire sim with builds from this brand, but some of them are skyboxes. I prefer real homes with doors and porches, but brands take shortcuts and create skyboxes so they don’t have to build the exterior. There’s no rule in SL that you can’t rez a HOUSE in the sky, I do it all the time. Leave a comment down below if you want real houses!
What I’m Wearing:
Truth Hair – Delaney
M.Birdie – Merry Look (Earring, Shoes, Skirt B2, Top B1)
alaskametro – Spring Fling Nail Art
Pink Fuel – Diamond Shine (Nudes)
Pink Fuel – Sugar Rush (Eyeshadow)
OMG OMG OMG this is brilliant. Did you watch me last New Year???? Talk about déjà vu…pose 2, line 1 and pose 1 line 2 are particularly reminiscent. Oh the shame. Oh and my husband says the first pic rings a bell too.