I’m feeling super Spring-y today, so I put on my floral Giordana necklace from Donna Flora, and a Minty green colored Clark top from ColdLogic. Truth also released this adorable new India hairstyle, with a hair flower (with color-changing petals) attached.
What I’m Wearing:
Truth – India (Treacle)
ColdLogic – Clark Top (Mint)
Mon TIssu – Denim Lou Lou (Light)
Ingenue – Gatsby Heels (Citrine)
Donna Flora – GIORDANA necklace
The I <3 Originals Fair starts tomorrow, February 5th and runs through February 13th. I am blogging to you from inside a lovely new starstruck prefab home that will be available at the fair, for only $350L (special fair price, it will be $500L in-store).
The Hathern home is a two-story modern Victorian style that features a stair case, two fireplaces, and is just the right size for one person (or two!).
There’s plenty of windows to let the sunshine in!
I decorated this home with a couple of pieces from my home decor shops, but quickly ran out of prims on my island (damn you prim limits!). I was able to furnish it pretty well on a limited prim budget, but now I’ll have to delete something from my other house, before I can rez more 😛
Furniture Used:
starstruck – The Hathern
MudHoney – Lawrence Office
MudHoney – Breitman Entrance Set
MudHoney – Seville Mini Bath (suys)
Kyoot Home – Fall Of Pan Ottoman (Shabby)
Kyoot Home – Notes Chandelier
Glam Affair has announced the new Ethereal Essence collection, a collaboration of face skins and body skins with Not Found. This release includes new 2k face skins and body skins. First impressions: the Glam Affair skins are breathtaking. The Not Found body skins are only available for Legacy and Reborn, so Maitreya LaraX wearers like myself will have to wait a while longer to try these.
In my previous post about 2k BoM skins, I truly noticed a difference between 1k and 2k when comparing the same skin. Even the tattoo cosmetics that are 1k benefited from baking with a 2k skin. However, that skin was not designed for 2k, but these skins are, resulting in a noticeable difference in quality.
Of the four new face skins released by Glam Affair, I liked the Siu face best. It’s very pretty, showcasing just enough realistic pores and shine. I am not wearing the brows with this skin, but here it is as-is, without any additional tattoo layers on top. Those who appreciate high-definition and close-up details will undoubtedly love 2k skins! Yes, you can see the pores more, but to me, there’s a balance where it can be done well if the brand doesn’t increase sharpness too much. I am excited about the future of Second Life skins!
It’s interesting to note that Glam Affair has removed Velour tones from their skin line up. Now the skins will come with 20 new Glam Affair tones, so you’ll have to demo all of them to find your new perfect shade. I settled on tone 005, and I found that it’s a good match with some Velour body skins and some The Skinnery body skins.
Will these popular bodies update their tones to support Glam’s new tones? I hope so!
Previously, I also mentioned that I thought skin brands should provide free updates to 2k, but I no longer feel that way. I think that 2k skins are so high definition that the previous methods of shading and texturing may no longer be the best way to showcase it. It is time to look ahead and move forward. I know I will only purchase 2k skins from now on. Does this render my entire skin collection obsolete? Probably! While the difference may not be drastic, it is certainly noticeable, and as you all know, I appreciate details.
What do you think about the new 2k Glam skins? Are you excited about the next chapter of Second Life? We will begin to see higher quality decor and clothing as well.
I want to hug this new Little White Treehouse from elefantu. This is the cutest structure I have seen in awhile, and I just love that the one room house is built around PINK trees!! This treehouse comes furnished with books, a chandelier, and seating areas (with poses).
Isn’t it just darling? If you have 139 prims to spare, this Little White Treehouse is just $300L at elefantu.
Shag hair has just released two new hairstyles – the Party Girl and Chrissy Snow. I am wearing both in Coffee texture.
The Party Girl hairstyle (seen here in Dirty Blonde) also includes 2 hair attachments if you want to get festive! Left is the Formal Affair and right is the New Year 2010 headband.
If you stop by the main store, there’s a group gift waiting for you in the subscribo (it’s hair!).
Visit Shag!
Get this gorgeous Kiyomi skin applier from Pink Fuel at this month’s We Love Roleplay event for 50% off! I’ve worn the Alex mesh head from LOGO for weeks now, and it just gets closer and closer to feeling like ‘me’ as I customize it with my favorite skins and makeups.
Visit Pink Fuel’s booth at We Love RP to get the skin!
What I’m Wearing:
LOGO Alex
Pink Fuel – Kiyomi
Exile – Cozy Winter Nights
I tried out Firestorm Zero so you don’t have to! Unfortunately, you can’t anyway, because Linden Lab sold streaming hours for only half a day before pulling the plug on it. So now they’re just not available. If you purchased some hours, you can still use those, but who knows when they will be back for sale. I reluctantly bought some hours just in case I wanted the option available in the future, and I wanted to try it out and compare it to Second Life Zero.
For those who may not know, Zero is the web browser version to access Second Life. The free version can be accessed through zero.secondlife.com, while the paid version can be found at zero.secondlife.com/fs (a lite version of the Firestorm viewer). I noticed right away that some of the latest Firestorm features were missing, but it is an acceptable version if you need to log in and explore.
I burned 30 minutes of my 20 streaming hours to make this video! I logged in with the goal of taking a photo, adjusting EEP settings, and experimenting with camera smoothing for video purposes. However, I struggled to turn off the UI, as the browser viewer did not respond to the keyboard shortcuts. Update! I found out how to turn off the UI. You can go through the menu and turn it off, or press Alt+Shift+U on your keyboard. But after I turned it off, I could not turn it back on, so I logged off.
Since we cannot save photos to a local drive on the browser viewer, I attempted to email a photo to myself. At high resolutions, it did not work. Finally, I selected the 1024 size photo, and it indicated that it was successful, but I did not receive the photo in my email. The browser experience also seemed quite pixelated to me, which gave me a headache towards the end.
Overall, Zero (and ZeroFS) is acceptable, but logging onto both versions remains a struggle. Linden Lab needs to address these issues if they are serious about offering browser streaming as a way to access Second Life.
Have you tried accessing Second Life through the browser? Let me know your thoughts!
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You look lovely! I love the colorcombination you used for this outfit!
Brunette Gogo ! Love it when she makes her appearances ! I love how the Donna Flora Jewlery can be either dressed up or down. It works with this simple springy look you created.
Such a delicious look, love it!
Beautiful look! and what make up are you wearing?
Combo of a 2 eyeshadow layers, one of them is unreleased cheLLe that I will package up soon 🙂
I need that shirt.
I think I need that shirt too…I’m thinking of getting implants so I can make it work.
Oh, you won’t be able to have very big boobs in this top! I’m wearing size (S)mall and my boobs had to be reduced to 30’s to fit.
/me checks under his jumper. Still gonna need implants.