Recently a new male skin store launched, and I’m totally smitten with the skins even though I can’t wear it on my female shape! I made a brand new boy shape to try it out and I really like it!
The skin I am wearing is from Sacred, and it is a free gift. All you have to do is click on one of the yellow bin things and answer a question, and it’s yours 🙂
I’m test-driving this for awhile to see if I like it enough to purchase it for my boy av. I’m pretty excited about this, since the last skin I purchased was a male Redgrave one.
Making a boy is A LOT harder than it looooooks! Big props to all the nice looking male avatars out there. I am so used to adjusting my sliders for Gogo, that any av I make, male or female, tends to look like just another version of me. Wups.
Thank you to my friends for all the tips though, hopefully my boy av will start shaping up nicely and not look like Gogo’s brother, lmao. For now, I am raiding my own closet until I purchase real boy clothes!
When I purchased this Britney outfit from DIRAM, I could not find a hairstyle similar to the one on the inspiration picture. I asked Truth Hawks if he could whip up one like Britney’s and I’m very happy with the result. Truth’s Britney inspiration style has similar bangs, but more hair falling towards the front.
I like my version of Britney in SL, for now 😛
What celebrity looks have you tried to make in SL? Did you come close?
What I’m Wearing:
LeLutka – IFEsunKissed-base (L Brows)
DIRAM – Britney (Perogative)
Truth – Brit (Champagne) *not released yet*
I’m really liking my the new Halle Mesh Head from LeLutka. I’ve probably edited my face a dozen times since my last blog post. A little tweak here and there, and finally it’s looking like Gogo. We’re now in my favorite month of the year, and I can’t wait to indulge in the festivities.
Fashion in SL ROCKED in 2008! It would be hard to say what my favorites were since I can’t even remember them right now, but I leave you with some images pulled from my FLICKR of things that I liked from this past year:
Hello from Ethereal City! I had a lot of fun here, and the whole region is a great backdrop for my photos today. I’ve noticed that I only have two styles these days: very casual (cardigans, sweaters, etc.) or “Sugar Baby Chic,” where I go all out and wear something sexy but still cute.
This “currently crashing out” print on the Honey Cropped Tank from The Kiwi Co. feels a little too relatable right now, because mainland has been testing me lately.
When I first went Premium back in 2019 to get a Linden Home, it was also the first time I could finally own mainland. I eventually bought a snowy parcel that I absolutely loved and kept it from 2022 onward. It was extremely landlocked and surrounded on three sides by massive ugly ice walls from neighboring parcels, but somehow I still made it work because I liked the region.
Recently, several abandoned coastal parcels nearby became available after a former neighbor left. I submitted support tickets hoping to expand naturally into the coastline, but instead the parcels were sent individually to auction. I managed to buy some of them, but after getting outbid on the final piece, I realized I was done fighting with the region. The walls finally won.
I still wanted snow land though, so I moved a couple regions over and spent a pretty significant amount acquiring new coastal land through auctions and direct purchase from a land baron. In total, it probably cost around $500 USD worth of Lindens, but I was excited to finally own a beautiful coastal snow parcel.
Then I discovered a 32m micro parcel sitting directly in the middle of my new land.
The owner had no other land in the region and was asking L$32,000 for it.
That isn’t normal land use. It’s extortion.
I submitted another support ticket hoping Linden Lab would step in, especially since Second Life already has a policy against land cutting practices. Unfortunately, my request was denied, and no discretion was used to resolve what is very obviously a bad-faith micro parcel situation. That part is what disappoints me the most.
As someone still relatively new to mainland ownership, I’m starting to understand why so many residents say mainland can be incredibly frustrating. One bad neighbor or one strategically placed micro parcel can completely ruin an otherwise beautiful area.
And if anyone is wondering how my planned move from Gaeta 1 to New Zindra is going, it isn’t. I bought Gaeta 1 land back on April 15, but after realizing I’d likely be at the very end of the migration queue, I decided to put everything up for sale instead. At this point, I’d rather just settle into my snow land and enjoy it in peace.
Let’s go for a ride! I meant to tell you guys about the Culprit Hovery Craft (visit the mainstore) last week cos of the limited time sale, but I’ve been too busy riding, flying, and sailing it ALL over Bellisseria. It’s truly the best little classic car ever. I can give one friend a ride with it, and I’ve been driving all of them home in my little car. I say this should be the official ride for Bellisseria, cos it’s good on land, sea, and air.
Beep! Beep!
Driving can be a bit challenging on Bellisseria, especially with land orbs ejecting people too quickly. 15 seconds is not enough time to reverse and get out of a parcel when you’ve accidentally driven off the road. Please, dear neighbors, stop using land orbs. For as long as I have been on Bellisseria (since April 15th), no one has ever wandered onto my land uninvited. It doesn’t happen as much as people would like to think.
The Culprit Hovery Craft also includes a rezzer, so you can rez it on your land for friends and neighbors to use. So awesome, and so cheap for everything that it comes with, and all of the joy it brings.
I love the Culprit Hovery Craft so much that I built a carport to store it! Well, I didn’t actually build it, Blush Bravin did, but I rezzed it on my land and built a drive way for it. I avoid mega add-ons cos I enjoy my sparsely decorated beach. This carport and porch add-on is not too big, and suits the tiny Adams house very well.
What I’m Wearing:
Exile – Elle
The Secret Store – Flora Lace Top, Aster Garter Shorts
Guy avs are pretty tough to make, yeah. Most of the hunt stuff I get is for girls, the skins, the clothes, the shoes – there’s not as many (nice) freebies for guys just starting out, either. I’d say out of the 22K+ items in my inventory, probably only 1K are dedicated guy things. While I can wear a lot of my guy stuff, including hair, as a girl, there’s very little that can cross over when I’m wearing my male shape. Also, guy shapes are a bit difficult, they tend to all look like they have heads that are too small no matter what you do.
I don’t know if it would be bad to have him look like Gogo’s brother. It’s way too many guys with shoulders 100 and head 35 out there already, with free “biker” hair and some low quality leather outfit! Is that sexy? Not at all.
I am sure you will give boy alt a more lean shape, and never humiliate him with “biker” hair…. Ewwww!!!!
Guy avs are pretty tough to make, yeah. Most of the hunt stuff I get is for girls, the skins, the clothes, the shoes – there’s not as many (nice) freebies for guys just starting out, either. I’d say out of the 22K+ items in my inventory, probably only 1K are dedicated guy things. While I can wear a lot of my guy stuff, including hair, as a girl, there’s very little that can cross over when I’m wearing my male shape. Also, guy shapes are a bit difficult, they tend to all look like they have heads that are too small no matter what you do.
I don’t know if it would be bad to have him look like Gogo’s brother. It’s way too many guys with shoulders 100 and head 35 out there already, with free “biker” hair and some low quality leather outfit! Is that sexy? Not at all.
I am sure you will give boy alt a more lean shape, and never humiliate him with “biker” hair…. Ewwww!!!!
Tiny heads with huge shoulders make me cry a little, every time.
In non-crying news, much thanks for linking to this store. I liked the free skin so much I ended up buying another.
Amen to that.