My last skin review (Leah, Glam Affair) got a lot of interesting comments, so I will try to do a better review this time, and thanks to all the helpful suggestions, I am even trying a new Windlight setting.
This latest skin from Glam Affair is Giselle, and I think a lot of positive changes were made with this skin. First, I noticed right away that the Blonde brows have a lil’ more color to it, closer to what I would normally wear. I also like that the skin is a bit smoother on the face (with less visible pores), but I noticed that there are a lot more random beauty marks placed on the face, along with freckles. I’m a fan of a random beauty mark now and then, but not when it is permanently on the skin (and not on a tattoo layer that can be removed). One of my biggest turn off with this skin, even though I like the face a lot (it’s adorable), is that the highlight seems to be very strong, making the forehead seem White! Although the face is no longer gray, the body of the skin still is gray (to me anyway, although a lot of you guys commented on my last post and said you don’t see gray).
I also noticed the face/body color mismatch problem is most noticeable when zoomed out, on full body photos. Most of my skin reviews shows torso and up, but one of the comments I received last time from a reader, said she wanted me to do more body photos, so here you go! I’m not naked though, but if you want to see the bits, try it on your avatar so you can zoom in super close and check it all out.
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I love reviewing skins, but when the review is less than glowing, I feel a lil’ uncomfortable. I want to review to make people happy, not mad at me! But if I couldn’t review skins my way, I would not do them at all. This is why I haven’t reviewed many this year, but a lot of friends encouraged me to keep going.
What I like to do is add tattoo layers to my face to add blush or in this case, I used a highlight layer that’s tintable, to make the highlight LESS bright, then added blush. The images are labeled, so you can see the difference that tattoo layers can make! I personally would wear this skin with all the tats on it — cos it looks better.
For this post, I used Strawberry Singh’s StrawberrySinghDotComCloseUps Windlight setting, just to make sure people do not think that my Windlight setting is “bad” or somehow making the skin look worse. You can download Strawberry’s WL setting on her page, along with a couple of others.
Hope you guys enjoy the review, visit Glam Affair to check out Giselle!
If you have any more suggestions, leave me some comments and I will work it into my next post.
What I’m Wearing:
Lamb – Boyfriend (Powder)
Glam Affair – Giselle (Natural BL Clean)
Zaara – Chanchal (Nude)
cheLLe – Everyday Blush 3
I wonder how long it will be before Snowglobe follows suit? I haven’t been to SL.com yet so I am guessing that the only view that has evolved to this is SL’s official viewer.
I’m waiting to see what the Emerald crew does… I’d heard they were already working on more clothing layers for later versions of their SL viewer… So the question becomes how compatible different takes on the idea might be… Emerald still has other advantages that I wont’ give up even for new clothing layers…
does that mean SL skins will become like the sims skins?
An empty face on which you put on makeup on different “clothing layers” for each feature? so you can combine different lips, eyes, brows, etc to combine a makeup of your own, not just wear one complete face per skin you can’t alter?
just think how good it is, to be able to get lips from one creator, eyeshades from another and so on, and have literally endless possibilities to combine them in a makeup, sorta like clothing works now?
I so wish they’ll make it like in sims.
It looks cool, I’m trying now, but I can’t find how to upload textures LOL and where are my picks???
Emerald viewer has had a “what I’m wearing” tab for awhile now. Glad linden labs is finally catching up!!
YES! YES! YES!
This yes-gasm brought to you after 6 years of waiting.
So yeah, I’m faking it just a lil. 😛
Its okay. I have mad beef with the inventory at the moment… you have to wait till it fully loads if you have a hope of actually finding anything because it will snap back to the top over and over and not let you scroll down. Also you can no longer find things by typing in the first few letters of the name. Which sucks alot.
The chat isn’t as frustrating as people are making it to be for me. Though I wish you could add a local chat tab to the window.
The camera controls window makes me sad. They stuck rotate and position on different tabs now which kinda slows things down alot of like me you are reliant on those.
I do however really like the favorites bar, and the alpha channel for avatars. The tattoo layer seems like a good thing, but none of my current tattoos work with it of course so will either have to pester the creators for the new layer, or buy them again .. which kinda sucks.
things do not rez for me, I lost almost all my windlight settings including personal ones which now are gone, my image is jagged and nothing I do changes that and my pictures are one a huge black canvas and take up 1/4 of the bottom right of actual photo .. aghhhh .. it has compeltely screwed up my regular viewer as well.
I finally tried SL 2.0 for a day… While I appreciate the idea of alpha and tattoo layers, the UI frankly sucks… Chat needs alot of work… IM’s are annoying in 2.0… The firefox ripoff that is the upper and lower system bars… The ‘web’ navigation is a joke, it so doesn’t fit SL at all… People nearby and ‘worn’ tabs are nice, but are things emerald has done for ages… and done better there typically…
Snowglobe 2.0 couldn’t even load my AV’s shape… or my clothes… let alone my prims… Though the rest of the world looked fine…
All in all I don’t think the UI changes are good, but fixing some gross errors that have existed for years, but were ignored…