I haven’t been to Reale in a long time, but while I was doing the Platinum Hunt yesterday, I went to Reale to grab a gift and noticed this gorgeous new Sweet Strapless dress. I needed a dress to pair with the new Knotted Wedges from Surf Couture, and this was just perfect for the Summer look.
These Knotted Wedges may only be available at Shoe Fair for now, so check there first.
Someone noticed that I’ve been wearing Brunette hair colors a lot lately, so here you go… I am Blonde today.
What I’m Wearing:
Friday – Yelena.2 (Happy Blonde)
Laqroki – Pearl 07 [Fair] Glow Skin
Donna Flora – Vanessa turqouise set
Donna Flora – Vanessa coral set
Reale – Sweet Strapless Dress (Old Rose) & (Light Blue)
Surf Couture – Knotted Wedges (White)
Curio released two skins this weekend, and that was so unexpected and exciting. I’ve been anticipating a new Curio release for quite some time, so I was beyond happy that there’s two new faces to choose from.
The first one is Autumn, which features a classic Curio look that we’ve all come to love. I really like this face and especially the lips. Some changes that you’ll notice with this new release is that there are now two brows options (Blonde and Brown), and only 8 makeups (not 16 like before).
Curio – Autumn
Curio – Autumn Brows
This is the Yum face, which I think of as the “new” face cos it has a different face shading, a totally new nose and a different set of eyebrows. I’m not sure I am a fan of the dark nostrils (I’m picky like that!) and I think the nose looks wiiide on my avatar, so I decreased the width a lot to compensate. However, from what I’ve read on Plurk, people seem to really like this nose, dark nostrils and all, so I may be alone in this opinion, booo.
I do think this skin may work better on darker tones (Sundust and beyond), so give it a try! These lips are flawless and to die for!
Curio – Yum
Curio – Yum Brows
I’m curious to know what people think about the new changes to the fatpacks (two brows vs two different makeups). Do you guys like the changes? Do you like the new nose?
Hello from the Second Life app on my iPhone 14 Pro! Welcome back to the second installment of our miniature video journey. An observant viewer commented about the portrait orientation on my last video, so I took the suggestion and filmed this video in landscape mode!
This time around, I’m wearing the complimentary Ballus Avatar Torley Tribute. Frankly, I was over the whole drab default avatar look but couldn’t muster the enthusiasm to splurge or spend ages customizing a new one.
I’ve gotten heaps of inquiries about the ability to sit on the mobile app. It’s a big deal! Whether it’s dancing with a partner on pose ball, chilling on some digital furniture, cruising in style, or engaging in more…intimate encounters, people just need to sit! So, I teleported to the Isle of View, plopped myself down on a pose ball, and after some trial and error, figured out how to get back on my feet. Slow walking is also in my skill set now, though that navigation wheel is still challenging.
Are you tired of me starting every post with Blackout August? Well, it’s day 22. The original creator of this challenge, Imogen Aurelia, deleted her link on Flickr and kept part of it on Facebook. I’m not even sure she’s still doing the challenge herself, but I’m pushing through. I’m determined and almost at the finish line. What this challenge has shown me is that I’ve been selective for a long time, so while it started out kind of painful not being able to instantly grab that new hair I wanted, it also revealed that I don’t actually love everything made in SL, and I don’t need to have it right away.
For today’s look I dug deep into my inventory and remembered how much I used to love a brand called M.Birdie. I don’t think it’s open anymore, since the store’s Flickr is gone and the SLurl in the designer’s profile leads nowhere. I liked this store so much, but most of my items from them came through gacha events. Everything I have is made for Maitreya, but I managed to wear it with LaraX because this top is roomy and I used the alpha layers. If you still want this top, even though it’s at least seven years old, you can still find it on the Marketplace. If you know what happened to the M.Birdie store, let me know in the comments.
When my friends heard I was doing this challenge, they gave me tips on how to cope with not shopping. One of them said, “You could go spend store credit.” Which is true, I could, if I even remembered where I had store credit. The truth is I don’t want loopholes, I want to go without. I’m still blogging for a few brands and new items are hitting my inventory often, so I don’t feel completely deprived. I decided to sit out on promoting much of it this month, but that doesn’t mean I can’t promote it later. The great thing about Second Life is that when brands create items, they can keep selling them for years as long as the quality is good and people still want them. There’s this constant push to buy new and wear new, but I think that actually does brands a disservice. A dollar earned from a new item or an older one is still a dollar.
If you like the idea of Blackout August, you can start any time. Wearing items you already own shouldn’t ever feel like a betrayal, and it won’t make your favorite brands think less of you. They probably won’t even notice.
Kunglers has released some adorable new tops!! I like tops with a pattern, especially floral patterns because they're so sweet. These tops are really casual but you can totally mix-and-match them with many pieces in your wardrobe to create different looks.
[ Kunglers – Danielle in Green | Hunt | Black ]
[ Kunglers – Cristiana in Floral | Sand | Rose ]
It's getting cold here! I wish I had the Cristiana in Floral in RL ~ the sculpted cuffs, belts & pattern is very pretty and perfect for Autumn.
I’m wearing LeLutka‘s newest release, the Paine mini-skirt. It’s sculpted so a bit of fitting needs to be done to get it to fit properly. As usual, I’ve decided to just shrink my avatar to fit (mostly my ass) since I don’t really like messing with sculpted prims. I’ve paired it with a really old and discontinued MMS (now LeLutka) skin with deep red lipstick… ah, I love this skin so much.
Diesel Works is a pose shop that has been around just for a few months but they already have tons of poses & posing accessories. I’m playing around on the Diesel Works ‘The Debutante Chaise’ which comes with an impressive collection of 25 poses changeable via a menu.
hey i was wondering that necklace u were wearing is from??,,,.. thanks its soo pretty <3 tc
Donna Flora 🙂
Mallu Mayo is really a great designer and I love this dress so much, my fav is olive.