I saw a blog post about Frenzoo today and decided to log into my account!! I can’t believe my Frenzoo account is a year old now, cos I logged in maybe 2-3x and was bored with it. They’ve made a lot of improvements and added TONS of new stuff in the shop. I LOOOVE IT. Oh, and they gave me more gold & silver coins! I HAVE MONEYYYYYYYYYY!
I played around with my avatar’s face some more and made the look above.
While Frenzoo is not as interactive as SL, I actually really like it. It’s kind of relaxing to make a look and let’s face it, shopping is shopping! I had a blast shopping in Frenzoo and it didn’t cost me a thing 😛
It’s BoyCake, back with another review! Hello, lay-deez. ;D
Are you ready for the new male mesh body from SLink? Well, it’s here! As some of you may know, I’ve been searching high and low for a good mesh body for my boy av, and now it looks like I finally have it. Or have I?
Before I start off, I want to give a shoutout to both my close friends who tried this on with me, as well as the Convergence City roleplay group for discussing this with me in their out-of-character chat area. Their thoughts definitely influenced what I’m writing now! I always like to get other people’s opinions and have discussions about things before I give a final verdict.
What did I compare this to in considering the SLink Male Physique for purchase? Mainly, the TMP male body and the Aesthetic by Niramyth. For reference, I snagged the TMP body to try on after my awful experience with the Jomo male body, which turned out to be a suspected rip. I have two male friends who own the Aesthetic, one who came with me to SLink’s store to examine the demo.
Now, one to the review!
Essentials
The SLink Physique Male comes with a mesh body (no hands or feet) for 1250L. If you don’t have feet and hands already, take about 2400L to the store with you so you can pick up everything at once. The mesh body will include underwear, one pair of jeans, and one tank top. If you don’t like the basic skins you start off with for your mesh body, there are neck blenders provided to help with skin-matching.
Technical/Observations
The Physique Male includes a penis. Yes, really! There’s even a foreskin option and pubic hair. The penis doesn’t seem to be able to get erect; I believe it’s there for completion purposes, sort of like most vaginas on skins and mesh bodies are. At first I was weirded out by an SL peen that doesn’t do anything, but after a while, I got used to it.
Your body will seem a little lean when you try it on, but it can bulk up nicely if you edit your shape. Will it get as muscular as the Aesthetic? I’ll talk about that in a moment.
For script maniacs like me, you’ll be happy to know that with the male body, hands, my AO, and the alpha/clothing hud attached, I was only running 32 scripts. That’s awesome. Everyone in SL should always try to wear low-script items so they end up under a total count of 50 for their avatar. It not only improves your SL experience, but helps to decrease sim lag.
Room For Improvement?
This picture has been brightened because my windlight was super dark when I took the pic. I’m dumb. SRY
I, for one, am not crazy about the clothing/alpha HUD design. I know it’s a lot to include to the clothing hud, and Siddean must have realized this because she created two size versions of the HUD (small and large) for those who have trouble seeing everything. But it took me a moment of wtf’ing to understand just what button did what. Afterwards, I figured things out. I just wish the UI were a bit more friendly.
I don’t know about you, but I like my men with some thigh. When I increased BoyCake’s thighs, I noticed some poses caused the underwear to clip (see pic above). I tried to find the correct button to HIDE his thighs in that area, but that took another ten minutes and then I gave up. My point–if you create underwear or clothing for the mesh body, I would include an auto-hide script for it. Kemono has that and so does Maitreya.
Is This The One?
Is Physique Male for you? That’s what you want to know, right? It’s been a long search for that one mesh body you can finally wear, won’t clip your damn clothing, won’t do this or that or make you unhappy or sorry you ever bought it. When I asked my friends about the Physique versus the Aesthetic, we both admitted we liked Aesthetic’s muscly body more, but only on certain avatars. Not everyone looks good with that much bulk, and not everyone looks good with TMP’s skinnier mesh body either.
Physique Male is that sort of happy medium between TMP and Aesthetic. You don’t spend too much for what you get, and you end up getting a lot. For me, that means it’s a body I’m sticking with! For good, hopefully.
Notice: if you create products geared towards men and want me to review it, please send an NC/pack/etc to Aemeth Resident. I can’t make a promise that I’ll review everything, but I understand the struggle of finding men’s products out there so it’s worth helping out!
LeLutka released so many goodies this week — but omg, the most exciting has to be these gorgeous new FAME pumps! They are available in Shiny or Suede textures and also includes plain and striped leg warmers (scripted to color-change). I love a good pair of pumps; they really do go with everything and you can wear it with cute tights!
LeLutka Fame pumps in Shiny
LeLutka Fame pumps in Suede
LeLutka Fame pumps with Plain and Striped leg warmers
Welcome back, Curio! After a long hiatus, Curio is back with three new skins and seven new skin tones! Each skin comes with one standard brows color, and bonus brows colors in the megapack. I’m wearing Nadia, this skin is my favorite from this release, cos the brows are fantastic and the face shading is really fresh and lovely.
Brows — Blonde, Brunette, Ginger, Black
These new skins do not have appliers for the SLink hands and feet! For myself, that is a must have with any skin that I wear since I won’t take off my hands and feet, and I’d like them to match!
Have you tried Nadia, Penelope, and Ember? Which one is your favorite?
I remembered to do Bubblegum Weekends this week! I’m wearing the “Hot Pink” hair color from Truth’s latest hairstyles. I’m not normally a choppy bangs type of girl, but I absolutely love this Marielle 2 hairstyle. These bangs are perfect, and they don’t interfere with my lashes (very important).
The store needed more posters, so I decided to wear my Bare Rose – Streaks outfit with a pair of Juicy Classic Pumps in Peppercorn (black patent leather + beige sole) and Cake – Swoon hair! This is one of my favorite hair from Cake because it’s sooo smooth, it’s perfect.
Ahh, that an account before but as far as I remember I didn’t quite like it, not even the shopping. The good part I remember was the easy way of creating (though limited it felt) and that it didn’t really ever lag 🙂
i had the same feeling like annie… i never played imvu but it reminds me a lot of it – look of the avies. i dont know but for myself it just kept my attention for 5 minutes before it got boring XD. its more for a target group of an age of 10 or so what ^^.. but yea – no lag. the only advantage.
oohhh it’s from the makers of There.com!
Ahh, that an account before but as far as I remember I didn’t quite like it, not even the shopping. The good part I remember was the easy way of creating (though limited it felt) and that it didn’t really ever lag 🙂
so i tried it out and it seems like a rip off of imvu 0.o
hi there,
i had the same feeling like annie… i never played imvu but it reminds me a lot of it – look of the avies. i dont know but for myself it just kept my attention for 5 minutes before it got boring XD. its more for a target group of an age of 10 or so what ^^.. but yea – no lag. the only advantage.