Almost 3 years ago, when I was fairly newbie, there was a girl who wore the exact same skin, same hairstyle and in the same hair color. It wasn’t her “usual” look, she literally put it on right in front of me. I freaked out a bit, lol.
Thankfully, my friends all have their own ideas about fashion & what they like, so I don’t encounter this much at all now. In fact, most of them don’t even like my skin choices or share my penchant for Platinum Blonde hair.
What about you? Do you care if your friends wear the same skin, or the same skin AND hair, or the same skin AND hair AND eyes AND lashes, on and on and on?
I’ve noticed that so many “bloggers” are not writing anything to accompany their blog posts lately. Most bloggers just post an image or two and then the credits. I think that unless your pictures are so amazing (most aren’t), there should be some accompanying text to let the readers know what they’re looking at, and describe it a lil’ or just tell us why you like it!
Why are people not writing anymore? As a blog reader, what do YOU prefer?
There was an attempt to give George, my male alt, a wardrobe refresh because I realized I haven’t shown him on the blog since… probably last year. I logged in with the simple goal of changing his outfit and taking a few photos, but instead I was greeted with an update for the Signature Gianni body. George was happily wearing Gianni v6.1, and the new release is called Gianni X v7.5. I really should have known that the “X” meant “none of your old clothes are going to fit anymore.”
After trying on a few things and realizing that most of his wardrobe barely worked with the new body, I did what any reasonable person would do and switched him right back to Gianni v6.1. I don’t have time to rebuild an entire closet from scratch, so I’ll either wait for brands like Deadwool to add Gianni X sizes or George will just be living his best life on v6.1 forever. A friend suggested that I switch him over to Belleza Jake because it has better clothing support, but I honestly can’t remember why I picked Signature Gianni when I made him last year. I’m sure I had a good reason at the time. Legacy isn’t even a consideration because… reasons.
So instead of writing the blog post I had planned, I spent the evening wandering from store to store trying to figure out male fashion. I even stopped by Man Cave to grab the latest freebies and didn’t see much for Gianni X there either, which left me wondering how men in Second Life deal with all of this. Women’s bodies are already complicated, but I’ve been shopping for them for years and know exactly which creators I like, which bodies they support, and where to find things. Male clothing feels like learning a completely different game, and I am absolutely a noob who has no idea what she’s doing.
The whole experience reminded me of a funny story from last year when I first made George. I was teleporting around men’s stores and IMing well-dressed avatars to ask where they shopped, and one guy replied, “I don’t have time for this,” before brushing me off. At the time I thought it was unfriendly, but after spending an evening trying to dress a male avatar, I completely understand. I’m not even mad because, honestly, I don’t have time for this either.
Today’s photo brought me to another realization that somehow escaped me until now: couple poses don’t seem to fit anybody. Why can’t we edit multiple avatars with the built-in Second Life poser and actually see those adjustments in-world? Every pose edits fixes only my avatar while my alt just had to make do the pose he was in. By the time finished editing the photo, I realized George’s hands were still locked to the hand pose selected on his body HUD instead of the animation I was using. Oops.
If you have any shopping recommendations for male avatars or some secret trick that makes couple photography less of a headache, please share, because I feel like I’m starting from zero and could use all the help I can get.
Last week I saw a teaser image of the new Linnea skins from Laqroki and I waited patiently all week for it to be released! Finally, she’s here!!! I’m such a huge fan of this new face, the lips are so full and gorgeous, and there are Light and Dark brows included.
Poor Anya Ohmai. Some overly dramatic people accused her of being a “fox murderer” for releasing this adorable PIXEL fox scarf/wrap. The A Lil’ Foxy wrap is available at Collabor88 this month, and comes in Arctic, Black, and Red Fox fur. I think it’s so fabulous!
I changed my dress a dozen times, before settling on this Plisse Dress from Fishy Strawberry. I think the fur wrap will really go with anything you want to wear it with… or by itself!
As the title says, I was a cloud in Second Life for 24 hours and it sucked! I decided to update my viewer on Monday. Unbeknownst to me, some inventory maintenance was also taking place on the grid at the time, so my inventory vanished. I did a quick Google search for missing inventory and tried so many different things to get the inventory back. I deleted my cache. I did a fresh installation of my viewer(s). I visited a water region. On my computer, I replaced this random inventory cache file. Nothing worked! I came across this blog post about Inventory Management and Performance, which advised me to contact support as soon as possible.
Hi everyone! I was super excited to try on this Nicki hairstyle from Truth. I like all of Nicki Minaj’s experiments with bright hair colors. This Nicki hairstyle comes with some special hair colors not usually part of Truth’s colors. You can wear the hair with fun prints or turn the prints off with a HUD.
Today, I’m channeling a different music artist. Can you guess who? When I saw this bright red hair color, I immediately thought of Britney Spears in the “Toxic” music video.
Also, don’t miss out on Anthology this month. My adorable dress is the Lucie dress from Jack Spoon. This dress is PBR, giving it a bit of a nice sheen. I did notice my aerola on one side was visible through the low-cut top, so I added nipple covers. Thankfully, my body skin from The Skinnery includes them.
And since Halloween is just around the corner, I went with a red and black theme today. I’m also baking some sweets in my friend’s sweet retro kitchen! My baking accessories are the Chromaluxe Bakeware set from Waffle, which you can also find at this month’s Anthology event.
Even though I seem to buy a new skin every week, I just couldn’t resist getting another one. This is the Cheryl skin from Amara Beauty, available at Access. I’ve added a lot of makeup tattoo fixes to this skin; if you want a step-by-step guide on that in a future blog post, let me know in the comments!
I chose other because usually…It doesn’t bother me all that much unless they copy me consistently. I had a friend who first bought the same skin I did. I didn’t care because we had different shapes. She had a store bought shape and I had a self made so we didn’t really look the same. After being a blonde since the beginning of her SL experience, she decided to become a brunette and got the same hair styles I did. I of course had always been a brunette. Then she started getting the same outfits that I did. Fine, whatever. But what really sent me over the edge was one day she asked me where I had gotten my AO because she wanted a new one. I took her and she bought the same one I did!!! I was livid. I felt like this chick was trying to become me at that point.
I’d have to say other. I have no problem telling people where I get items from; it all helps the store in the end. Sometimes it’s fun when me and a few friends match on purpose. We have similar styles, but not so alike that you can’t tell who’s who.
But every once in a while, it can get a little freaky when everyone you know is wearing the same skirt for example. This happened once with a skirt from Sweetest Goodbye called Tik Tak. A short skirt with little pockets on the sides looked very good for a post apocalyptic sim, but once every girl in said sim donned a pair…let’s just say I stuck to pants for a bit.
One time a friend’s boyfriend took a liking to something I was wearing, so he had her buy the same outfit and wear the same hairstyle (& shade) as me. That bothers me because I think it has a total eww factor. I voted other because in normal circumstances, my friends and I dressing similarly doesn’t really bother me as we all like the same designers for the most part anyway.
Its pretty often actually that my friends will have the same skin or hair as me. We all have similar tastes. But I mean just having the same skin or hair (or dress, shoes, top, whatever..) doesn’t mean we look alike because we all have our own shapes, different accessories, etc. I think I’d be put out if someone showed with the exact same avatar but that can’t really happen. My shape is my own and even if someone had it I think my taste in accessorizing outfits and how I put things together is unique enough. So obviously I went for option 1. 🙂
I don’t have a ton of girlfriends, but the ones that I do.. wouldn’t do this. If they did, it would be a case of wearing the skin/hair combination for a character of theirs, in roleplay, and they’d -still- be wearing it differently, and presenting that person very differently than me. So, I can honestly say, I wouldn’t mind. -However-! If one of my newer SL girlfriends just.. out and out decided to get the exact same skin and hair combo as me, I might feel a bit weirded out. There’s so much diversity here, and people end up identifying with and investing a lot into their avies. Isn’t it funny how we care so much about a bunch of pixels? But I do, I guess. I feel like it’s so egomaniacal to even consider that anyone would want to look like one of my girls, so I don’t think it’s a possibility. I’m no GoGo, regrettably! =) But, I’m me! All several of me!
Timely as hell, Gogo! I had a (GUY) friend recently make a female avatar. He looked exactly like me!
While imitation is supposedly flattery, there are lines that you can cross when you take imitation too far. Most of us put work into our avatars to make them individual, and someone taking that is 1) creepy and 2) just awkward.
Depends…If its something i really love its annoying if my friends get it too but it also depends what it is…Clothes and hair i dont care about, cause i have plenty of both and i can just change, but skin is worse cause i’m really picky about skins so when i finally find one i love and wear for a while its annoying if my friends get it too. But then again i blog stuff i love with slurls, so its not like i have hard feelings about it 😛
I chose other too. I loooove telling people where I got my stuff from, will give out lm’s and tell how much it cost just in case. But one time a friend of mine dropped in and had the exact same hair, earrings, boots, AO and very similar outfit that I had on at that moment. I only change once in a blue moon so I knew she was copying my look. To put on the same thing in the same fashion now THAT blows me up. I know people say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but it bugs because I look like the copier!!
I chose other because usually…It doesn’t bother me all that much unless they copy me consistently. I had a friend who first bought the same skin I did. I didn’t care because we had different shapes. She had a store bought shape and I had a self made so we didn’t really look the same. After being a blonde since the beginning of her SL experience, she decided to become a brunette and got the same hair styles I did. I of course had always been a brunette. Then she started getting the same outfits that I did. Fine, whatever. But what really sent me over the edge was one day she asked me where I had gotten my AO because she wanted a new one. I took her and she bought the same one I did!!! I was livid. I felt like this chick was trying to become me at that point.
thats kind of scary :O
I’d have to say other. I have no problem telling people where I get items from; it all helps the store in the end. Sometimes it’s fun when me and a few friends match on purpose. We have similar styles, but not so alike that you can’t tell who’s who.
But every once in a while, it can get a little freaky when everyone you know is wearing the same skirt for example. This happened once with a skirt from Sweetest Goodbye called Tik Tak. A short skirt with little pockets on the sides looked very good for a post apocalyptic sim, but once every girl in said sim donned a pair…let’s just say I stuck to pants for a bit.
One time a friend’s boyfriend took a liking to something I was wearing, so he had her buy the same outfit and wear the same hairstyle (& shade) as me. That bothers me because I think it has a total eww factor. I voted other because in normal circumstances, my friends and I dressing similarly doesn’t really bother me as we all like the same designers for the most part anyway.
Its pretty often actually that my friends will have the same skin or hair as me. We all have similar tastes. But I mean just having the same skin or hair (or dress, shoes, top, whatever..) doesn’t mean we look alike because we all have our own shapes, different accessories, etc. I think I’d be put out if someone showed with the exact same avatar but that can’t really happen. My shape is my own and even if someone had it I think my taste in accessorizing outfits and how I put things together is unique enough. So obviously I went for option 1. 🙂
I don’t have a ton of girlfriends, but the ones that I do.. wouldn’t do this. If they did, it would be a case of wearing the skin/hair combination for a character of theirs, in roleplay, and they’d -still- be wearing it differently, and presenting that person very differently than me. So, I can honestly say, I wouldn’t mind. -However-! If one of my newer SL girlfriends just.. out and out decided to get the exact same skin and hair combo as me, I might feel a bit weirded out. There’s so much diversity here, and people end up identifying with and investing a lot into their avies. Isn’t it funny how we care so much about a bunch of pixels? But I do, I guess. I feel like it’s so egomaniacal to even consider that anyone would want to look like one of my girls, so I don’t think it’s a possibility. I’m no GoGo, regrettably! =) But, I’m me! All several of me!
Timely as hell, Gogo! I had a (GUY) friend recently make a female avatar. He looked exactly like me!
While imitation is supposedly flattery, there are lines that you can cross when you take imitation too far. Most of us put work into our avatars to make them individual, and someone taking that is 1) creepy and 2) just awkward.
some of my friends wanted to stop being friends with me because i bought stuff from the same store >:O but we worked it out and we’re sitll friends 😀
Depends…If its something i really love its annoying if my friends get it too but it also depends what it is…Clothes and hair i dont care about, cause i have plenty of both and i can just change, but skin is worse cause i’m really picky about skins so when i finally find one i love and wear for a while its annoying if my friends get it too. But then again i blog stuff i love with slurls, so its not like i have hard feelings about it 😛
..often imitaded, never duplicated..
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I dont mind to give the lm of where i bought my stuff, but I hate looks like everyone…soo Im always looking for new face skin, new hair, etc.
Annoy me the kind of person that whants became me, with same skin, same ao, same outfits…this makes me whant kill the person..lmao.
I chose other too. I loooove telling people where I got my stuff from, will give out lm’s and tell how much it cost just in case. But one time a friend of mine dropped in and had the exact same hair, earrings, boots, AO and very similar outfit that I had on at that moment. I only change once in a blue moon so I knew she was copying my look. To put on the same thing in the same fashion now THAT blows me up. I know people say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but it bugs because I look like the copier!!