Truth – Pepper, Nyssa, Tatum (Swedish)
Truth has 3 new hairstyles, they’re so fabulous. Tatum is definitely a fav this time around, cos I just love a well-fitted beret!
Oh yeah.. I bought a belly piercing! I can’t recall the last time I wore/bought one, but I really wanted something small and cute, and I found this on Marketplace for $45L! It’s the envi – Belly Cupcake in Pink. I modded this to lower the “glow” setting from .05 to .01, so it shows better in pictures and is less glow-y.
Just when I thought I’ve found my new favorite Laqroki skin (see: Nellie), Mallory Cowen releases yet another beautiful face with a gorgeous set of makeup.
I’ve been a big fan of the Phoebe skin ever since it was released years ago. I have the original Phoebe, and the Phoebe Glow skins released a year ago. These new Phoebe 2 is an updated version of the Glow Skin and is a nice upgrade. I love the new smooth texture on the skin tone and the new nose.
Laqroki – Phoebe 2 (Fair tone)
All ten makeups also includes a hair base version.
This skin is a gorgeous Brunette, but I could easily wear this as a Blonde if I wear the Laqroki tattoo brows over it. I think the skin tone is so nice and rosy, it’ll work for most hair colors (just be sure to wear the brows tat!).
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I’ve been wearing this Acira Short Dress from Zaara all week but didn’t get a chance to snap a proper photo until today. This dress is shimmery and so pretty! It’s available at Call for Couture, which is still going on! Be sure to visit.
I first stumbled upon Al Vulo last year, when I saw their skins on the SL Marketplace, but it didn’t impress me enough to want to blog them. Recently, I gave Al Vulo another try, and I’m blown away by the progress, and the adorable face. Here’s a secret for SL skin designers – as a customer, if I’m in love with your skin’s face, I will buy it. Having both a fantastic body and a gorgeous face is a winning combination, but many SL residents will simply “love” a skin for its face.
With DoF | Without DoF
I photographed this skin with Depth of Field turned on, but I made sure to focus on the face so you guys can see it nice and clear. As you can see from the image above, the difference is very subtle and the only area that is blurred is the hair, and some of the neck area.
I confess, I’m addicted to DoF now, so if there’s any ‘blur’ it’s probably due to my using DoF and not the skin itself.
I’m wearing the Elena skin, in Sunkissed tone. I tried both Pale and Sunkissed, and decided that Sunkissed was much warmer and better for photographing. I thought the Pale tone was too pale, though it is lovely, I am not usually that pale in SL, so I went for the darker Sunkissed tone instead. I do think this skin needs a “Light” tone option, something that’s between Pale and Sunkissed, cos that’s typically “my” tone of choice as it works with both light and dark hair colors.
Like I said at the beginning of my post, a gorgeous face sells. This skin is gorgeous, the body could use some improvements — but it’s not bad! Each skin pack comes with 6 makeups (2 versions of each, so really, 12 total), hair base, natural and cleavage versions too.
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What I’m Wearing:
Not much!
LeLutka – Amanda 3 hair (Bournville)
Kungler’s Extra – Perolas (Golden & Abalone)
As the title says, trying to keep up with blogging is hard! I have so much to photograph, so much to say – but not enough time in the day to do it. Damn that RL of mine!
Read More “My Attempts to Keep Up with Blogging…”
Want to know a secret?
Only two people in SL can get me to try or blog new things, one of them is Mochi, and the other one is Kavar. So if you ever want something blogged here, bribe those two to wear it on their vendor ads, cos they make everything look good!
For months, I have resisted buying a mesh mouth, cos I simply didn’t need it. I still don’t, but I couldn’t resist buying the Nyam Nyam mouth cos Pink Fuel released the best appliers for them, along with the new Doll v2 skin. This skin only comes in one skin tone, but it’s great for that porcelain doll look.
I thought the Nyam Nyam mouth was just ‘okay’ — the mouth is rather frowny, too wide, and hard to fit. I photoshopped the seams out of these pictures, but that’s an issue with any add-on mesh attachment, not just with the mouth. I still think it’s cute enough for pictures only, and hope that an updated version will include more shape options (neutral lips please!).
Do you wear a mesh mouth? What’s your favorite? Let me know in the comments!
What I’m Wearing:
Pink Fuel – Doll v2
Wasabi Pills – Lily (Rye)
Cathode Ray – Nyam Nyam mouth
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
Room For Improvement?
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.
You can teleport here to check out SLink Physique Male for yourself.
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!
I can’t remember the last time I logged on my boy av — it was maybe over a year and a half ago? Yea, he’s pretty old 😛
I have been getting lots of feedback from my guy friends, so this is Boy av version 20!!!! Thanks you guys for making me feel TINY. I passed my shape to Davo, and he said it was too small, it made him feel like a teenage boy. So I promised I would beef my av up. When Fricker let me try on his shape, I realized that my boy av was definitely not the “average Sl male” desired size.
Sooooo this is Boy Gogo version 20 (hi, I tweak a lot!).
Also a big huge thanks to Bronson Twine, for keeping a man blog. I was able to go shop pretty quickly for boy things. I found a lot of cheap stuff at Ronsem and a great tank top at T.Whore.
P.S. Did I mention how much I love SACRED SKINS? LOVE LOVE LOVE!
What I’m Wearing:
Truth – Jason (Cocoa)
Sacred – smoother Ethan Tone 3 shaved hair 1
T.Whore – Tank Top Boy Dirty White
Ronsem – Military Belt
Ronsem – Boxer Briefs (Gray)
Ronsem – Skinny (Olive Drab)
Ronsem – Slip-on
Yes I went a little crazy at Ronsem!
on Gogo:
Analog Dog – Dive (Cafe)
Laqroki – Pearl [Fair] Skin
Laqroki Black Brows (tattoo)
Edelweiss – Cecilia Dress
Yaaaaay, TY for sharing the piercing! I looked around for one and wasn’t happy with anything I saw. That one is adorable~
Hehe, that is so you! <3
I absolutely love Truth hair!! He is most definitely one of my favorite designers in Second Life. His hair has such a real texture and quality to it.
I actually added your blog to my blogroll quite a while ago since I love your blog and follow it almost daily. Your photography is amazing!! Like you, I don’t do Photoshop well either; so, all of my photos are only cropped with a border added. Today was the first time I saw your little ‘Link to Me’ statement at the bottom. Haha!
http://lashaekarsin.blogspot.com/
Wow, that belly button ring looks much cuter here than it does on the Marketplace. Why do creators insist on nuclear glow levels and then compound the issue by taking low quality product pictures?
What a shame the belly button ring was cute on your post.
God, I thought I was psycho, but no modifying a copy mod object? PFFT. Yet another one sitting somewhere rocking back and forth thinking of complications they can cause I guess?
Lol… shame though. Cute cupcake.
What the ….! o.O Your photo looks way better than the ad image. If I had come across it in the marketplace as it was I would have passed right over it because of the glow, but your pic made me want to buy it. Until I saw their email that is. lol
Second this. What the hell…. the Marketplace ad scares the shit out of me.
Simple blogger rules:
1. Criticise if you feel like as long as you are respectful to readers and designers
2. Try to be as non-biased and honest as possible but still keep your individuality in the process
3. Do not offend, do not butcher pieces. Constructive criticism is welcome.
4. Take criticism yourself lightly, as lightly as you want others to take yours.
Blogger rights:
1. Individual taste and expression
2. MODING AN ITEM THAT IS MODIFIABLE ! Duh?!?!? 😀
3. Posting pictures (edited or non edited) in the way they well please
4. Not even required to give credit to where it’s due. This is a personal blog. You might owe your fans and readers the hints but not usually to designers. They aren’t paying you to tell us where you got something from so they have no claim to it.
5. Throw a small fit (although some of your “fits” aren’t small hehe) when a designer is BLINDED by how much better their item is portrayed in your blog
Point made….
Or points for that matter…
now i wonder if Point is TAKEN too…
Toby… Merry Xmas.. you sad touchy feely man you
I had to laugh at this “It doesnt reflect the quality that I put into all my creations. To be honest, thats what my items look like to people who have low-grade, old graphics cards.” Was the quality he was referring to? The weird glow, or the horribly pixelated, low quality photo that is supposed to promote the item? You would think any content creator would be happy when they’re getting positive publicity for free on a popular blog. The belly ring looked adorable in your pic, and like freebie noob accessories in the Marketplace photo. He should really rethink how he portrays his product, and how he interacts with customers, especially the bloggers. Oh yeah, and get over yourself. If you don’t want your product fiddled with, don’t make it mod. I hope some people will enjoy his fine “quality” but I won’t, and from the looks of things, many won’t either.
It most likely is Toby having a change of heart- look at the backlash he/she’s getting.
Anyway, in my opinion- you did make it look a million times better Gogo- but glow or no glow this still looks like a low quality freebie…
Interesting… so the “real” Toby claims that a “false” Toby sent you the email? LOL, never a boring moment. /me hugs Gogo.
Did you let a black cat cross your path this week Gogo? If not, get one. I have one and she does it all the time and I think I have become immune.