The new Katat0nik ‘Bun Bun’ dress is super adorable, with a bunny pattern along the bottom of the skirt. For some reason, the Lacey Heart Eyepatch from Pink Fuel seems to complete the look so I wore it.
I’ve been taking full advantage of the ISON 40% sale before it ended and indulging in some weekend sales too. One of the treasures I picked up is the gorgeous Alayna Silk Shirt from ISON, and I couldn’t resist getting it in all the colors. It’s simply stunning! I also grabbed these adorable Fluffy Kitty Ears headband from Litterbug at Truth’s store. They add a sweet touch to any outfit.
Lately, I’ve been creating a bunch of bright EEPs (Environment Enhancement Project) for my blog. I like adding shadows, even though most Second Life residents aren’t fans of them on their faces. For me, shadows cast by the sun in studio lighting really make the fabric of the Alayna Silk Shirt stand out, even if it doesn’t feature any PBR textures.
During my visit to Shop & Hop, I picked up an amazing gift from Moon Amore. The Bride’s Dream Gown I found is perfect for fantasy or royal cosplay themes, like something straight out of Bridgerton.
For the past few years, I’ve made it a point to pick up the AO gift from BodyLanguage SLC. There are always a few great poses to mix into my regular AO. This year’s entire AO impressed me; it has all the basics you need to avoid standing like a noob. It’s perfect for your main avatar and great for alts too!
It’s still January, so I can say “new year, new face!” I haven’t switched to a new mesh head, as I still adore Lelutka’s Billie Mesh head. However, I have decided to break away from the skin I’ve been wearing since November (which isn’t a long time) and try another brand. This is the Zoe skin from Avarosa. I think I will wear this skin for a while; it’s very cute with some tattoo enhancements.
Left: Avarosa Skin | Right: with extra face highlight tattoos added
I added plenty of extra face highlights to the skin from Izzie’s and Glam Affair. Glam Affair includes face gloss and face shine layers with some of their skins, which I add when I want some additional highlights.
I demo skins every single week, always open to changing my face if I find something I like better. It frustrates me that most skin brands do not offer a browless version for demo. Dear skin designers, I do not like thick brows. Sometimes I can imagine the skin without the default brows, other times I simply move on without purchasing.
If you want to wear this Avarosa skin and get a good match with Velour body skins, just disregard the skin tone name and judge the tone with your eyes. I am wearing the Velour body skin in Valley tone, while this head skin is in Snow tone. I also wore the Velour neck fix and tinted it to match.
Still feeling the sparkly new year vibes, I decided to don this Holiday Gown from Werx. I rarely find full PBR clothing appealing, but I thought the texture on this dress was exceptionally well done. It shimmers just the way I like it, and the colors are as expected. I’m ready to party in this dress, although it’s not the type of attire I can wear with underwear; we’ll pretend it’s still classy.
Minnu Palen‘s latest Moscow Skins have gorgeous plump lips and a variety of makeups to satisfy all tastes. I was kinda hesitant about these since I love the older MMS skins, but Moscow has totally suckered me back into my MM Skins addiction. These set of MM Skins comes with three different brow options, which makes them versatile for dark hair or platinum. My favorite brows are the "B", worn in all images below:
It’s officially Christmas in Second Life! The LeLutka 12 Days of Christmas event is the most exciting annual event in Second Life. This event always offers two free LeLutka mesh heads—Camila and Camden, one for female and one for male. A total of 90 brands are participating in this gift-giving event this year. You have from now until December 26th to teleport to all participating brands to collect your gifts.
As I usually do, I put on the Camila head and began editing my face. I created a new face shape that I liked, but then I noticed a tweet suggesting that Avalon and Camila looked similar. This gave me an idea. I had updated my Avalon shape a few months ago, so I decided to put it on, and with minimal edits, I was looking like Gogo again.
Avalon is the first LeLutka EvoX mesh head, and now we are on the third C head. These heads are named from A to Z, and I believe the alphabet has completed twice, so we are now on the third C.
I don’t have the stamina to teleport to all 90 stores, so I’m glad that FabFree has a list of all the stores & gifts posted! November and December in Second Life are full of gifts, and I love these two months the most.
My outfit is from Vagrant! I used the L$300 credits at Shop & Hop to purchase it. That is another event you should not miss right now, as it is full of gifts as well.
Good morning SL! I have a lot of things I want to blog about this week, but first I need to get this off my chest. I love mesh, and I don’t mind modifying my shape to fit, but I do mind having to reconstruct my whole body.
For example, I’ve been dying to wear this Breeze Kimono Jacket from Leverocci for a few weeks now. When I put the jacket on (in this case, a Medium), I found the shape bulky, especially around the shoulders. I could have worn a Small size, but it didn’t fit my waist, and parts of the kimono went into my waist. So I went with the next best size, Medium, which has a pretty decent fit — but it gave me broad shoulders, so I modified my shape and made my shoulder-width 10 points less on the slider. Also, my boobs didn’t fit, so I had to decrease that by a lot (to 40 points). Even though this jacket is adorable, you’d have to ‘work’ pretty hard to wear it. I also found that it shifts around a bit (rigged badly) when I change my poses.
I’ve always been very open to modding my shape to fit mesh clothing, but not so much for hair.
When I tried on this Flint hairstyle from Ploom, even with the alpha, it didn’t fit at all. The alpha took out too much around the forehead, and still didn’t fix the sides showing. The picture below actually shows the good side, the other side poked through a lot more! Usually I’ll mod my forehead to fit mesh hair, if my forehead shows through the hair, but I don’t like touching my head shape overall. It required too many sliders tweaking to get a balanced look.
Before | After (with new head shape & new alpha)
After I talked to a couple of friends about not wanting to mod my head shape, two of whom told me that my head is too round, I decided to elongate my face a lil bit, to see if I can “fit into” this hairstyle. My new head shape fits the hair better, but I also still couldn’t use the alpha that came with the ploom hair, so I found something from another brand that took the sides out. I think this new head shape still looks like “me,” only a lil bit longer and less round.
Anyway, I can live with making reasonable modifications to fit mesh items, but I know that many people would not make a single tweak. There are some brands in SL that fits right out of the box, so I tend to stick with them.
How much are you willing to modify your shape, to fit into mesh items?
These pictures put a big smile on my face :O) That eye patch is the kyoootest on you.
Just added you to my blogroll + would be tres honored if you took a peek at mine :O) Love reading your posts!!
xoxo
Tesh
Oh and the URL might help, LOL:
http://slexyfashionista.blogspot.com/
/me gots too much fashionz on da brain, ma
Where are the shoes from? Those are cute.
They look like Kookie maybe
First time commenter, long time lurker. Fabulous look here! How come you don’t post complete details of your outfits anymore? I would be really great.