Hi guys! What type of shape do you want to see next from Juicy Shapes? I’ve always made slender female shapes, but I wonder if some of you guys out there are waiting for something else! Please take my poll below, it will help me decide what type of shape to release next. Thanks!
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Are you a gacha addict? I’m not, I can’t even remember the last time I paid a gacha machine. The Arcade gacha event has a couple of really cute things, but I won’t play it cos I don’t want to start an obsession. Once I have my heart set on a color, I will go bankrupt acquiring it, so yea, I have tried to avoid gachas unless I can buy the color off someone with multiples. My lovely friends sent me the Cherry colored Ariane flats from Ingenue, and the Momogram Marquee Light in “G” from Commoner, both available at The Arcade.
How much do you spend at gacha events? Do you try to collect a whole set or happily settle on having just one or two favorite colors?
What I’m Wearing:
Pink Fuel – Kumi (Peach) Pure (bwnbrow/crease)
Pink Fuel – Kumi (Lt Tone) Matted Lips (Jet Set)
Exile – Turn the Page (Stefani)
Beetlebones – Semi-Sheer Cropped Lace Tank (S) White
Mon Tissu – Hanalei Shorts (S) Pinstripes
Ingenue – Ariane (Cherry)
LaGyo – Crystals thin headbend Gold
Check out my picture! I've tried to make fake shadows for the first time in Photoshop. Ummmm…… yay…. 🙂 I'm not really sure how shadows are suppose to fall but it looks nice!
I'm wearing new Malt, SLink, and lovely new Tiny Bird hair.
The mask on this Tiny Bird 'Autumn Leaves' hair is scripted to change 10 different colors.
( close-up of my new SLink Jolie Pied Taylor Cutout Boots )
What I'm Wearing:
Gala Phoenix – Petal [Dark] Breeze – Mudslide 2
Tiny Bird – Autumn Leaves (Brownie)
Malt Fashions – Allyn Shirt (Pink Passion)
Cupcakes – Summer Shorts (White)
SLink – Jolie Pied Taylor Cutout Boots (White)
I’m horny! These Glasgow Kiss Horns from Two Cats One Cup are so sparkly and includes a HUD with 15 different colors! I don’t usually wear horns, but they seem really popular with the human-hybrid avatars! I think the avatars on the vendor ad are really cute, you have to check it out.
The HUD!
What I’m Wearing:
Pink Fuel – Harley (Peach)
cheLLe – Mermaid Makeup
Truth – Lyma (Blondes05)
Teefy – Aurelia Summer High-Low Dress (Creme) S
Two Cats One Cup – Glasgow Kiss Horns
[1st image of new sim – “Ruth’s Retreat” default terrain]
The new land store is amazing and awesome and an impulsive buyer’s dream come true!!! The old land store was a clumsy interface and trying to locate your existing island was hell. The new land store includes a search feature!!! If you want to be next to your favorite sim, all you have to do is search the name and see if there are spaces near it.
Even though the new land store is still in beta, I think it works flawlessly!! Delivery time of my new island was 1 MINUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As soon as I confirmed the order, a confirmation letter was sent to my email, along with a “your island has been created” message!
Other items on my wishlist regarding land: waived or minimal island renaming fee and moving fee 🙂
I mostly opted out of gachas years ago, but every now and then something comes along that I really want and I’ll spend a ridiculous amount of money trying to get the rare item. I do that with the understanding that this is the only opportunity to get it. Maybe it’ll never be sold again, maybe it’ll become impossible to find, but that’s always been the appeal of gachas. You’re paying for the exclusivity as much as you’re paying for the item itself. That’s how it’s worked for as long as I can remember. Designers have traditionally kept their gacha collections exclusive instead of retexturing them and selling them at a discount a few weeks later.
That’s why I was surprised to see PurpleMoon release a retextured version of the Claudette Dress and Monique Shoes, which debuted at The Arcade just last month, now in The Saturday Sale for L$75. My friends and I spent quite a bit collecting, trading, and chasing those pieces through the gacha. Had we known that the dress and shoes would be available for L$75 less than a month later, I don’t think any of us would’ve spent nearly as much trying to complete the collection.
For me, it changes how I look at the brand going forward. If something new catches my eye, why buy it immediately if there’s a chance it’ll show up in a weekend sale a few weeks later? I’ve always thought of weekend sales as a place for older releases or brand new items created specifically for the sale. I’ve never expected to see a reworked version of a gacha collection that was still practically brand new. I barely had time to unpack mine before another version appeared for a fraction of what many of us had spent.
This isn’t about telling a designer how to run their business. They can sell their products however they like. I’m simply saying that decisions like this affect customer trust. People remember when they paid full price, especially when that full price came from a gacha system designed around chance. If customers start believing they can get the same item a month later for almost nothing, many of them will simply wait. I also wonder if this is happening because so many creators participate in weekend sales that they eventually run out of older products to discount and start dipping into very recent releases instead.
Today’s outfit is a mix of PurpleMoon’s Claudette accessories from last month’s Arcade gacha with the retextured Claudette Dress from The Saturday Sale. Ironically, I actually prefer this printed version over the original solid dress. For anyone who missed the gacha, it’s an incredible deal. I just think there should be a little more consideration for the people who paid the premium the first time around. Gachas aren’t normal purchases. They’re intentionally designed to encourage people to spend far more than an item is worth in pursuit of the piece they really want, and more often than not, that’s the rare one. When that same design comes back almost immediately at a deep discount, it’s hard not to feel like you wasted a lot of money trying to get it in the first place.
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Fishy Strawberry has just released their first line of Daphne skins. There are 3 skin tones (Latte, Cappuccino, and Mocha) to choose from and 3 brow options (Black, Brown, and Blonde). Shown here is the Cappuccino skin tone and all 11 makeups.
These are very good for a first skin line, and if you look very closely, there are tiny dimples on the cheeks! 🙂
TP to Fishy Strawberry
What I'm Wearing:
Head Mistress – Carlita (Barfly) hair
Fishy Strawberry – Daphne (Cappuccino) Skins
Fishy Strawberry – Summer Garden Blue lingerie
junkDrawer- Coconut Pie high heels (Pink)
I’d love to see you make a male shape BUT the voluptuous female gets my vote, and that’s purely because me and my man love the shapes you make but he’s always telling me to make the boobs and butt a lil bit bigger, hehe.
So yes, VOLUPTUOUS FEMALE!!!!!
A female shape with a more exotic face! All your shapes are lovely, but quite honestly I can’t tell any of them apart. They all look pretty much the same, and they all look like your carbon copies (as in your regular shape that you use for yourself). I’d like to see your wonderful skills at work in creating something not so “vanilla” (i.e. perfect caucasian features). Yes, oval shaped faces are considered perfect; yes, large almond shaped eyes are considered ideal; yes, small noses are most desired, but perfection does not equal beauty. In real life some of the most beautiful people I’ve ever seen have had facial features that were not ideal at all, yet they were gorgeous nonetheless. Adriana Lima is a perfect example. She is considered to be one of the most beautiful women alive, yet none of her facial features fit the typical standards of beauty. Her eyes are relatively small, her nose is on the larger side, her face is round/square shape, her eyebrows are very low and not arched enough, etc.
I’m not telling you to make a shape that looks like Adriana Lima; all I’m saying is that I’d like you to deviate from the norm and get out of your comfort zone by creating something more exotic and not so “perfect”.
Hi 🙂 How about a shape for small chests, like to match with Pink Fuels Small Chest and Dehancer layers?
Thick is in!
I vote for a curvy shape, standard size L, that is also a realistic height, under 6ft.
Definitely agree with Morticia!
A standard size L that isn’t a dwarf or a potato sack shape!
I find there’s -way- too much size difference between the M and L, and way too little between the S and M!
kids shapes?
I guess I got addicted to your shapes. :S
I prefer women shapes BUT PLEASE provide a DEMO!!! Its really hard to decide what shape to buy if we are not able to see what we buy! Please get us a DEMO!!!
Maybe provide all standard size bodies with each face? I know the measurements are posted and your shapes are modify, but pre-made in a shape package might be a good idea now that we have standard sizes.
I’d prefer a shape which doesn’t look like Gogo. I love your facial features (round face, small lips, small nose, youthfull look) but could you create shapes that have those features but don’t look like Gogo exactly? I love your shapes and I have a bunch because I’m an impulsive buyer but I hesitate wearing them. I don’t want to look like someone else.
I know it may not sound logical wanting you to keep the same basic features and make it different than Gogo but please consider if possible. 🙂