If you’re looking for inexpensive home decor items, please visit the temporary Group Yard Sale location at Juicy De Costa. I’ve invited some friends to rez items here but if you have some cute stuff in your inventory that you want to unload, go ahead and rez it!
Some quick guidelines…
Don’t sell freebies
Don’t sell your own creations
DO sell no copy/transfer items
DO use a reasonable amount of prims, you can always rez more as things sell
The yard sale will end on Sunday evening. Have fun everyone!!
At Lil’ NoNo’s, it’s always 11:59pm. The cozy bar is set in a gutted warehouse build, overlooking a cityscape. You’re either there because you’re lonely or looking for trouble–there are no other reasons. Either way, there’s jazz, free drinks (and pay-for ones), cigarettes, and nooks and crannies to explore. The music isn’t bad, either.
Take the elevator next to the bar down to the cellar. There’s a long hallway set up with posters and invites. You know what they lead to–other virtual parcels, yet they’re mostly set up to not hinder your experience of what Lil’ NoNo’s imitates. There’s locked doors you can’t enter, and ones that lead to a small coffee shop and a washateria. They’re probably there for private conversations or a change of scenery for regulars, secrets and favorites for the patrons. On the corner is a convenience store with lucky boards, souvenirs, and snacks, and a street scene where there’s either snow or rain, depending on the current season. And behind the stage of the bar itself where you can’t see, a game room, looking out onto another lonely backdrop of large, ominous buildings.
Places like these make visiting Second Life worthwhile, because of the thought and care put into building them. Aside from some rl branding I spotted in the bar and a mesh figure from a video game, I love this place to death. You can often catch me here nursing a drink.
Do avatars have a nighttime routine? I’d like to think that Gogo does. Inspired by the elegant ladies of bygone eras, I decided to ‘dress up’ for bed. Picture-perfect hair, flawless makeup, and a touch of moisturizer to keep everything fresh. For my outfit, I’ve chosen the exquisite Dainty top and skirt set from Blume at Anthology.
With so many events and so little time, I had a blast at the TSS Party and scored an abundance of gifts. However, the real challenge came afterward—I spent two days meticulously opening each gift and sorting through them, deciding what to keep and what to discard. My inventory is getting out of hand, aiming to keep it under 70k.
If you asked me about my top two favorite skin brands on Second Life, they’d definitely be Amara Beauty and Glam Affair. Shout out to these amazing creators for making faces that are both sweet and easy to wear. My favorite brand at any given moment really depends on their latest release. I was a dedicated Glam Affair fan for months earlier this year, but around May, I switched to Amara Beauty. The reason? My favorite tone, Beige, started looking too orange. I suspected that PBR was affecting my tone preferences, so I tried a lighter shade, Flower. Still, it didn’t resonate with me. Given how much skin tones rely on shading and highlights, I made the switch.
I was happily wearing Amara Beauty for a while, but no brand is perfect. I still layered dozens of Izzie’s products on my face to fix the skin. This is why I don’t really do skin reviews anymore—it’s hard for others to replicate the look after I’ve customized it so much.
Anyway, today I’m back in a Glam Affair skin, and it’s not without its challenges. When I tried on the Nicta skin, I saw so much potential. It felt like “me” for a moment, though there were issues. I didn’t like the heavy highlights on the lips or the odd side highlight on the forehead above the brows. What’s going on there? I called my go-to skin doctor, Izzie Button (Izzie’s), and asked her to create a custom fix for the lips so I could wear my favorite lipsticks again and to remove the bizarre forehead highlight. She did it! One thing I appreciate about Izzie is that she’s always willing to create custom fixes for skins. If you need Dr. Izzie, feel free to message her in-world—she says I can tell you that. 🙂
Face Shine 25% Opacity & Face Shine 100% Opacity
Now that we have PBR lighting, I find myself drawn to face highlights, but not the overly baked-on kind. I like options, and Glam Affair included a Face Shine layer at 100%, 50%, and 25% opacity. If you prefer your own face shine, just wear the skin as-is and add on Izzie’s Highlighter Set to your liking.
This Glam Affair Nicta skin isn’t perfect to me, mainly due to the face and lip shine and the freckles on the nose that can’t be removed or fixed with Izzie’s tattoos. The freckles mean I can’t use Izzie’s Nose Shading fix, as it removes freckles only on one side. So you might be wondering, “Gogo, if you have to make so many adjustments, why wear the skin at all?” Just look at it! With Izzie’s help, I managed to fix about 90% of the issues, and now it feels like me. I decided that my new tone from Glam Affair is now Ivory, because it looks the best in PBR lighting and matches my current body tone.
Do you wear a skin without any additional tattoo layer fixes? Let me know in the comments, because I haven’t been able to do that in a very long time. I almost never wear the original brows that come with any skins—I guess I’m just complicated like that.
Meet Evalina, my newest shape for the new Laqroki Essential Saga skin. I saw that a lot of people were excited about this skin, so I made a cute lil’ shape to go with it! If you want a pretty shape to wear with your Saga skin, visit Juicy Shapes!
All Juicy Shapes are copy/mod and includes a style card.
I love the idea of winning anything, so for 23 days straight I made the rounds at SL23B, clicking all five Golden Ticket kiosks every single day in hopes of being one of the 23 people selected for a chance to win L$1,000,000. In the end, I wasn’t chosen, but I still went to the live finale, and I’m really glad I did.
The final drawing turned out to be surprisingly emotional. One by one, more than a dozen contestants clicked their mystery boxes, and none of them contained the million. Then, with only seven or eight boxes left, one resident picked box #19, one of the smallest boxes, and won. I had a feeling the prize would be hiding in one of the tiny boxes because that’s always how these random prize games seem to work. You always pick the little box, even in a virtual world.
What surprised me most was that many of the finalists got on voice before making their choice. I wasn’t expecting that at all, and several of their short speeches were genuinely heartfelt. I even teared up a little when Spike Bloodrose gave a shout-out to his best friend. It was a really sweet moment.
Linden Lab said they received more than 180,000 entries, which made me wonder how they were counting them. I personally submitted 115 entries by clicking all five kiosks every day for 23 days (23 × 5 = 115). If every kiosk click counted as a separate entry, that works out to roughly 1,565 unique participants, assuming everyone entered every day.
As for the event itself, I found the daily clicking pretty tedious. It wasn’t much of a game, and it certainly didn’t encourage me to explore the exhibits. Even though kiosk #5 kept moving every few days, I still never stopped to look around. Next year, I’d rather see a simple one-time entry where everyone has the same odds instead of asking people to repeat the same routine every day.
