Truth – Blake | Annika | Leighton
Yum….yum yum yum yum. I’m taking a brief break from fair coverage to bring you Truth’s latest release this week. They’re all so adorable, and I really like the variety this week. If you’re looking for something long and flowy or a short updo (perfect for gowns!), visit Truth!
Do you know why I’m standing in most of my SL photos? Because poses in SL are terrible when your limbs bend in any way. I want to sit down. When I do sitting poses, my limbs go into each other or the clothes or the furniture. It’s all terrible. SL has advanced so much, but we’re still using the same old poses. When brands label their poses “bento poses” it really doesn’t mean anything. Unless it’s an animation specifically for a bento mesh object (like the mesh heads animations) – static poses are still crazy. They’re made exactly the same way they have always been, and they don’t look right. I’m so tired of editing my photos to look “not crazy” in sitting poses. I’m not great at redrawing an entire limb or sleeve in photoshop, so it will always look off.
Comment on this post if you agree about the poses not fitting, EVER!!!! What can we do, as a community, to make poses work better for all of us?
What I’m Wearing:
Truth – Cheri
Supernatural – My Diamonds Necklace #2, #G
Ricielli – Sweater
Ricielli – Adwoa Shorts
The gap on the SLink mesh hands wrist used to drive me insane, until I read a tip from a fellow SLer that SLink has a new (longer) alpha layer that fixed the problem. This was months ago, and for some reason I had assumed that everyone knew about the fix, until my friend Elle asked me today how to fix the gap. Well, I’m not sure if you’re suppose to get an updated package, but I went to the SLink store and bought a new (free) demo that had the newer alpha layer in it.
Slink Enhancement Hands Alpha <—- Wear this, it’s new.
Slink Mesh Hands Alpha <—- Not this, it’s old.
If the new alpha layer still doesn’t fix your gap, you may have to adjust your body sliders a bit. More info about that, on this post.
I also want to give a shout out to Sandrika Broono for sending me an alpha layer that she made for the hands back in May, before there was a fix. You rock! 🙂
What I’m Wearing:
XOXOmela – KissKiss I mani
I am wearing the Julesa Dress from Hucci that I’ve blogged before, but I really wanted wear it again, to show off this dress in a colorful Blue Print cos it’s so pretty and looks amazing. I’ve also been dying to wear these Edna Pumps from Nardcotix, and finally, I’ve found something with the same shade of Blue!! <3
Truth – Agnes 3 | Agnes | Agnes 2
Truth has 3 new hairstyles, and I must say, these remind me of Barbie’s hair. All of my Barbie dolls growing up have had long Platinum Blonde hair, with perfect style. Agnes 1, 2, and 3, are similar with some differences if you look carefully.
What I’m Wearing:
Hucci – Julesa Dress (Blue Print)
Nardcotix – Edna Platform Pumps (Blue)
Save yourself, don’t go to The Arcade. I normally skip rounds and avoid gacha events, but I saw something I wanted this week. Even though I told my friend I’d play maybe two or three times for these Rift Eyes from Avi Glam, I ended up playing 69 times at L$75 per pull. It’s five times more than I’d normally pay for an Avi Glam eyes fatpack, and honestly, I don’t even think I would’ve paid for a fatpack if it had been sold normally.
The thing with gacha is that it can be very addictive, especially if you want to win a rare and you don’t have a set budget, so you don’t have to stop. You can just keep playing until you win. I gave up on winning the Rare 2 pack on the first day after about forty or fifty pulls and decided to buy it second hand on Marketplace. Then the next day, when I didn’t see anything listed, I played some more. I haven’t played a machine with this much intensity in a long time, so it even surprised me how quickly I lost track of my spending or how fast I was hitting the buy button.
In hindsight, I should’ve stuck to my rule of playing only two or three times per machine, but I ended up going all in on two machines and playing way too many times to collect all the pieces.
Even though I find gacha frustrating, I get the dopamine rush it gives. If you win something you really want right away, it feels amazing. If you find yourself on the losing end, try to remember that you can always buy it later on Marketplace for a fraction of the cost of playing.
Eventually, I did see a few sets listed on Marketplace, but by then, I’d already spent nearly L$6,000 on one machine. Oops.
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Exile – Caprice | Layne | Sunday
Have you seen the three sexy new hairstyles from Exile? Normally I would pick a long style as my favorite, but this week I’m blown away by the Caprice updo. It’s so gorgeous and I love love love the bangs!
Visit Exile
What I’m Wearing:
Laqroki – Pearl 08 [Fair] Glow Skin
Veschi – Flowrishing turqouise top
Truth – Daisy, Marguerite
New Truth hairrrrrrrr! These two hairstyles includes an attached Daisy flower scripted to change 15 colors and an “invisible” option if you want to wear the hair without the flower. I like hair with flowers attached, so I won’t have to waste a precious head attachment point!
Visit Truth
I love when you do skin reviews the best, Gogo! You are so great at them! My faves! And my second faves would be HAIR!
Cute outfit/PJs! Would you share where they are from? Thanks!
Zaara (top & shorts)
I got the Annika style from Truth a few days ago. It’s my favourite style by them now. It’s gorgeous. I got the Larissa style, which is also incredible, but always wanted more length without having to go anywhere but Truth. So I’m glad Hawks has created Annika. It’s perfect.