The new Yu-IV and Cordelia skins from Mother Goose has a sweet and young look to them. I prefer younger faces, but these may be better suited for teen or even older kid avatars.
The Yu-IV skin includes 6 makeups (with teeth option), 3 blush tattoo, 2 b rows, and one eyeliner& lashes tattoo.
The Cordelia skin includes 5 makeups (with teeth option), and 2 brows tattoo. You can wear the Yu-IV blush & eyeliner& lashes tattoo with this skin, like I have in the picture above.
I’ve always liked Mother Goose cos the skins are inexpensive, and the faces are unique and fresh. One of the things that I think they can improve on is to offer more skin tones!!! I’m usually not too pale or too tan, so sometimes their skin doesn’t work for me.
What I’m Wearing:
Exile – Loveshack (BabyDoll) @ My Attic
Atomic – Endearing Earrings (Platinum)
Monso – My Warmer Muffler (White)
Drift – Flirtini Dress (S) Lace
Maubray – Marijen Wedge w/ Sock
LG Pd’A has just released the new Dumah skin in six skin tones and 8 makeups. This skin also includes Light, Dark and Red brows, hair base, a prim hair attachment, and cleavage enhancer.
Shown above is all 8 makeups in the Lumineux skin tone.
Total Betty has just released the Lash Factors Collection (shown above are some of my favorites). They were super easy to fit and there's something for everyone. The lashes are $100L per pair or $900L for the entire fatpack of 12 styles! This will probably be more than enough lashes to keep even the pickiest lash-lovers happy.
Here's what you get in the fatpack:
(click image for full-size)
Tp to the Total Betty @ Juicy (satellite location) for a FREE pair of lashes!! The gift is in a blue gift box on the table.
I'm wearing Kira Ahn's newest Lilly skins in Sunkissed in this post. It's so beautiful but I'll have to show you the makeups in another post. I'm burned out from fitting 12 pairs of lashes in a row!!
What I'm Wearing:
Kira Ahn Skins – Lilly (Sunkissed) Truth – Sophia (Ivory) & Mini (Ivory) Total Betty – Lash Factors Collection Fat Pack Kunglers – Catherine Shirt (palid rose) Dazzle – Innocence Skirt (discontinued) Maitreya – Verve Pumps (Lavender Blush)
I’m at Armenelos, a perfect Greek island with charming homes and stairs leading to scenic places to relax or take pictures.
I didn’t get an invite to preview the Summero f Love fair, but like any good fashionista, I snuck in 😛 It was lag free and awesome. The fair doesn’t officially open til tomorrow so check back later, I’ll post a few other things I bought.
I went in search of some new skins and found this Sophie skin from Lara Skins. It’s not perfect, but hey, it was cheap and the face is lovable. For $600L you get all 5 skin tones, hair base version, and cleavages! I’m pairing it with the Miranda hairstyle from Exile, a fair exclusive, so be sure to get yourself a pack while you’re there. Wavy/Curly hairstyles that doesn’t flicker is so hard to find in SL, but Exile does it so well because this is not flexi, it’s all sculpted.
Here I am picture whoring on a nice Greek patio…
What I’m Wearing:
Exile – Miranda (Dusk)
Lara Skin – Sophie (Pale)
Hucci – Wild Child (Wild Pink)
LeLutka – Pow Pumps (Black)
If you’re not in the [Pink Fuel] group in-world, get in there now! Mochi Milena just sent out the most amazing Harley skin pack to the group which includes a full skin, lip gloss, eyeshadows, and appliers. The skin pack is a group exclusive, so you won’t get it any other way!
What I’m Wearing:
Pink Fuel – Harley – Lid 01 – (bwnbrow – B)
Exile – London Arcade June 2014
Teefy – Laura Unbuttoned Knotted Shirt (S) Country
Unless you’re new to Second Life, you already know that every December LeLutka gives out two free mesh heads. They’ve been doing this for about five years now, so it’s something residents expect and genuinely look forward to. Weeks before December even arrives, I see people in the official LeLutka Discord asking daily when the “12 Days of Christmas” is starting, with the hype steadily building.
I’ve always thought that if they suddenly stopped doing it one year, it would be a bit of a letdown. Yes, it’s a free gift and no one is entitled to anything, but it’s become a tradition. It’s something longtime customers look forward to and it’s also a great way for new residents to dip their toes in and start the new year with a brand new face.
This year, LeLutka is doing things a little differently. The heads are no longer free for everyone, they’re free for previous customers only. There’s also no 12 Days event this year. While there isn’t a collaborative gift giving event, I’m sure brands will still be generous on their own since they enjoy the traffic and publicity.
LeLutka Holiday Announcement
This year, we will not be hosting our traditional 12 Days of Christmas event.
Real life has been particularly hectic for us, and for the first time in five years, our CSR team truly deserves a proper Christmas break rather than working nonstop through the holidays 🙂 At the same time, our focus has been fully on the development of our new line of heads, which requires an enormous amount of time, testing, and attention. Organising a full event like 12 Days of Christmas also means weeks of preparation, coordination with designers, region rentals, promotions, and constant support, and this year we simply did not have the capacity to do both properly.
The holiday season is about giving, and we appreciate the understanding of our community as we take a different approach this year.
That said, we deeply appreciate our customers and the continued support you have shown LeLUTKA over the years. Because of that, we are still giving back.
The free heads have been added to all existing LeLUTKA customers in our database.
Every eligible customer has been gifted two heads:
Vela, our female head
Rune, our male head
You will find them in the Redelivery terminal, under the “Gifted to You” tab.
Please keep in mind that this is Second Life, and there are a lot of you. The server will almost certainly be under heavy load and may struggle or temporarily fail, much like busy regions do during peak events. Your gifts are there and they are yours. If you do not receive them immediately, you will shortly. Please be patient and avoid clicking repeatedly, as that only puts unnecessary strain on the system.
To our customers, and to every hardworking designer and creator in Second Life, we wish you a peaceful and happy Christmas. Thank you for your continued support, loyalty, and understanding over the years. We wish you all the very best for 2026.
Even though LeLutka is a private business and not Linden owned, it’s such a major part of the Second Life economic ecosystem. So many brands rely on LeLutka staying popular and relevant so they can continue selling skins, makeup, and accessories made specifically for their heads. I’ve always thought it made perfect sense for LeLutka to give away heads once a year. It helps them stay dominant and ensures their partners keep creating products that elevate the brand all year long.
Other mesh head brands have followed this same model, often giving away free heads to capture market share. There are even free LeLutka heads available in the Second Life library.
Unfortunately, for new residents or people who have never purchased from LeLutka, there won’t be a free head this year. That said, I imagine at this point nearly everyone owns something from LeLutka, so the number of people missing out is probably pretty small.
To get the mesh head, you’ll need to go to the LeLutka store and touch the Redelivery kiosk on the wall, or use the Redelivery HUD in your inventory. Here are the details I found posted in their Discord:
This year’s gift heads are for existing customers only. Meaning, only folks who have bought/received something from Leltuka in the past. Everyone in the redelivery system as of the announcement had the free heads added to their redelivery.
If you have never gotten anything from Lelutka before, buying something now or in the future will not give access to this year’s gift heads.
The heads themselves are not at the store. They are not anywhere. They are in your redelivery list.
The heads are in the “Gifted to You” tab on the redelivery page.NOT the main page, you must navigate to the tab for gifted items.
You can access redelivery through the redelivery HUD, if you have it. If you do not have one already, you will have to swing by the Lelutka main sim to get one, or use the redelivery link. And yes, the sim will be full for a while. And it will be laggy when you get in. Please be patient. The delivery server cannot handle everyone having the gifts sent at once anyway, so as always, patience is key.
If you are attempting to have the head delivered and it’s not working, you can’t access the website, get an error, etc. please be patient. Thousands of people are doing the same thing. CLICK ONLY ONCE. Clicking more will just bog it down further, not make it work.
Redelivery HUDs will not be sent in groups, put on MP, etc. It would just overload and break if everyone tried to get on the website at once. Again, please be patient. Thousands of people want to get the gifts, it will take time now matter how it is done.
The heads will be in your redelivery page forever, so there is no “deadline” to get them.
ALSO
PLEASE DO NOT USE A REDELIVERY HUD SOMEONE ELSE GIVES YOU, OR REZZES OUT SOMEWHERE. We cannot verify any of these HUDs are legitimate, and they could be sending you to a website that will steal your data or do some other nefarious thing. Please only use the official redelivery HUD you receive from Lelutka.
I decided to give Vela a whirl and spent many hours last night tweaking the face to perfection. I found the eyes a little droopy on me and a bit challenging to work with, but everything else looks amazing. I’m still wearing the Billie mesh head though. Most of you are probably thinking, “This looks exactly like Gogo!” and yeah, I guess it does. I’m wearing the exact same skin and makeup, so the similarities are definitely there.
Let’s be real though. Even though LeLutka has released dozens of mesh heads by now, most of the grid is still wearing Avalon, the very first EvoX head. This phenomenon should honestly be studied. I tend to move on every few months if a head suits me, but a lot of people don’t like change, and that’s totally fine. Avalon is very similar to the newer heads and is actually the smartest choice since so many skin brands still make skins specifically for it. While you can wear an EvoX skin on any LeLutka head, the head it was made for will always have the best fit.
Have you tried the new free LeLutka mesh heads yet? Let me know in the comments!
It’s Christmas in August @ the Juicy Bella sim! The merchants have left pressies under the Christmas tree and inside their shops, so be sure to check both! Freebies galore!! <3
Some stuff I found at the sim…
*katat0nik* Rina Dress
QC Designs Tiara Platinum Pink Diamond!
*Zanzo* Sick pink free outfit (I don’t know why this outfit is called Sick, it’s very CUTE!!!!)
As you can see there’s loads more pressies under the tree………. I haven’t unpacked everything!
Your comment about Mother Goose’s skin being either too pale or too tan brings up an interesting point, which is the change to the base expectations of avatar shape and skin in Second Life.
When I started SL six years ago, which is an eternity in virtual time, skin makers aspired to realistic flesh tones, and shapes ranged from curvy (think “Playboy bunny”) to “generous” (think “Nicki Minaj”).
I recently went shopping for new shapes and skins to see if I could fresh up my look and learned two things:
First, new shapes are considerably slimmer than the old ones on average. I normally wear a medium in mesh; with the new shapes, which were represented as “curvy” by their creators, I was wearing a S or even an XS, depending on the item. I was also quite a bit shorter at the base height.
Second, new skins are also considerably paler, by several tones, than even the “fair” skins I got from Redgrave a couple of years ago.
Wearing both the pale skin and the thinner, shorter shapes together, the result was that I looked like jailbait. And not well-fed jailbait, either.
The new base look in Second Life seems to be informed by anorexia, “heroin chic”, with a dash of paedophilia thrown in. Shapes and skins now skew towards a younger and younger look while the average Real Life age of the Second Life resident is middle-aged at least. I also see a LOT more child avatars in Second Life than when I started, as well as “teen avatars” such as those sold by Danika.
Sorry, I know you’re here to sell things and enjoy Second Life. I won’t blame you one bit if you “moderate” my comment out of existence…but in my humble opinion, skin sellers such as Mother Goose are part of a definite and disturbing trend towards encouraging people in Second Life to look like teens or kids. Some people argue there’s nothing sinister in it; I’m not one of those people.
I’m approaching seven years in SL myself and I have seen the same trends. But those same trends exist in modern fashion, and SL art, imitates life. From the vantage point of making money, designers are going to do whatever the masses want, and vamp teen is very in right now.
That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t raise awareness about avatar psychology and educate others about the complexities of body image though, so I for one applaud your observations.
Like most, I have multiple avies in SL. But my main IS me. I use her for education and networking (I’m a school library media specialist). She has my real name and I do my best to make her look exactly like me.
I’m 33 and I look it. I would love to find tattoos that add fine lines, maybe even some laugh lines round the eyes. And I would love it if designers gave gray hair options as my grays are starting to come in. They actually look really cool and I’d like my avie to share that. But, despite my best efforts, I’m starting to look older than my avie.
The majority of people are going to want to go for young and fashionable, for a variety of reasons. But some of us would love to see more options out there. When you live in a world where everybody is tall, young, gorgeous, and perfectly symmetrical, it can sometimes get a little boring.
“When you live in a world where everybody is tall, young, gorgeous, and perfectly symmetrical, it can sometimes get a little boring.”
I used to have this quote from a Sheryl Crow song in my profile: “We can’t be certain who the villains are, ‘cos everyone’s so pretty.”
I tried to age my avatar as much as I have been able to within the confines of SL. I was barely 18 years old when I started SL and I have managed to take my virtual Veronika from late teens to my current age of 24. I’ve achieved that mainly by dressing more maturely (no more hoodies or sneakers) and wearing more grown-up hairstyles.
Aging the virtual me to reflect the real me would be a problem if I stayed longer in SL, but I’m phasing out my SL life and only log on for an hour a week, and sometimes not at all for two weeks or so. I feel out of place among all the sexualised children and “gangsta teens” and have nothing to say to them, so I guess they are the inheritors of SL. It will be interesting to see what happens to adult-themed clubs (such as nude beaches and the escort places) once SL is populated largely by teen and child avatars. All I can say is, it’s a good thing for Linden Labs that the mainstream media ignore Second Life these days.
I hope some designers will decide that there are people who want a more mature look and will provide a way to do that. I wouldn’t hold my breath if I were you, though. When one of the growing tends in Second Life is 45 year old men who are pretending to be five year old girls with “mommies”, the chances of any designer having the vision and nerve to go in the opposite direction are small, indeed. I would love to see some folks with grey or greying hair and so forth.
I don’t have any alts. I may be the only person in SL who doesn’t. I understand why other people have them, but as with you, Carina, my SL avatar *is* me. I couldn’t be anybody else.
In response to the above comment, I wish to point to the fact that Mother Goose is primarily designed for Asian avatars. Although since they serve a wide audience now, it’s up to the designer to decide if they want to include a wider range of tones or not.
One more thing–if the designer does not offer a wider range of tones or a more mature look, that doesn’t mean it should be read into, or fabricated that the designer is contributing towards that trend. Maybe some people like their avatars to *not* represent themselves, or want them to look dollish. Maybe some of us, don’t want to put too much of ourselves into Second Life.
I am not accusing Mother Goose or any vendor of sinister motives. As Carina Gonzales pointed out: “From the vantage point of making money, designers are going to do whatever the masses want, and vamp teen is very in right now.”
I know a lot of people who LOVE the pale skins, and not just for Asian avatars. My analysis was more about a broader trend in Second Life over the years, not a comment on your particular product. Sorry if there was any misunderstanding or if I gave offence. I intended neither.
The third one all the way to the right looks weird. The middle area around the nose and between the eyes looks either dirty or bruised. I can’t stop staring at it.
For too pale skins there is a good solution may be skin-tone tatoos.
For such a thing like skin tone even a small difference plays a big role, so a tone tatoo that’s transparent and subtle enough would warm the skin up a bit and not cover the shading in any noticable way.
They can ruin the lip gloss shining tho, so it gets orange instead of white. Needs a hole around the mouth so it doesn’t happen.
That is the first skin that I have ever seen on you that doesn’t look like GoGo
Is it the skin or the shape? It just looks odd
Your comment about Mother Goose’s skin being either too pale or too tan brings up an interesting point, which is the change to the base expectations of avatar shape and skin in Second Life.
When I started SL six years ago, which is an eternity in virtual time, skin makers aspired to realistic flesh tones, and shapes ranged from curvy (think “Playboy bunny”) to “generous” (think “Nicki Minaj”).
I recently went shopping for new shapes and skins to see if I could fresh up my look and learned two things:
First, new shapes are considerably slimmer than the old ones on average. I normally wear a medium in mesh; with the new shapes, which were represented as “curvy” by their creators, I was wearing a S or even an XS, depending on the item. I was also quite a bit shorter at the base height.
Second, new skins are also considerably paler, by several tones, than even the “fair” skins I got from Redgrave a couple of years ago.
Wearing both the pale skin and the thinner, shorter shapes together, the result was that I looked like jailbait. And not well-fed jailbait, either.
The new base look in Second Life seems to be informed by anorexia, “heroin chic”, with a dash of paedophilia thrown in. Shapes and skins now skew towards a younger and younger look while the average Real Life age of the Second Life resident is middle-aged at least. I also see a LOT more child avatars in Second Life than when I started, as well as “teen avatars” such as those sold by Danika.
Sorry, I know you’re here to sell things and enjoy Second Life. I won’t blame you one bit if you “moderate” my comment out of existence…but in my humble opinion, skin sellers such as Mother Goose are part of a definite and disturbing trend towards encouraging people in Second Life to look like teens or kids. Some people argue there’s nothing sinister in it; I’m not one of those people.
Hi Veronika,
I’m approaching seven years in SL myself and I have seen the same trends. But those same trends exist in modern fashion, and SL art, imitates life. From the vantage point of making money, designers are going to do whatever the masses want, and vamp teen is very in right now.
That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t raise awareness about avatar psychology and educate others about the complexities of body image though, so I for one applaud your observations.
Like most, I have multiple avies in SL. But my main IS me. I use her for education and networking (I’m a school library media specialist). She has my real name and I do my best to make her look exactly like me.
I’m 33 and I look it. I would love to find tattoos that add fine lines, maybe even some laugh lines round the eyes. And I would love it if designers gave gray hair options as my grays are starting to come in. They actually look really cool and I’d like my avie to share that. But, despite my best efforts, I’m starting to look older than my avie.
The majority of people are going to want to go for young and fashionable, for a variety of reasons. But some of us would love to see more options out there. When you live in a world where everybody is tall, young, gorgeous, and perfectly symmetrical, it can sometimes get a little boring.
“When you live in a world where everybody is tall, young, gorgeous, and perfectly symmetrical, it can sometimes get a little boring.”
I used to have this quote from a Sheryl Crow song in my profile: “We can’t be certain who the villains are, ‘cos everyone’s so pretty.”
I tried to age my avatar as much as I have been able to within the confines of SL. I was barely 18 years old when I started SL and I have managed to take my virtual Veronika from late teens to my current age of 24. I’ve achieved that mainly by dressing more maturely (no more hoodies or sneakers) and wearing more grown-up hairstyles.
Aging the virtual me to reflect the real me would be a problem if I stayed longer in SL, but I’m phasing out my SL life and only log on for an hour a week, and sometimes not at all for two weeks or so. I feel out of place among all the sexualised children and “gangsta teens” and have nothing to say to them, so I guess they are the inheritors of SL. It will be interesting to see what happens to adult-themed clubs (such as nude beaches and the escort places) once SL is populated largely by teen and child avatars. All I can say is, it’s a good thing for Linden Labs that the mainstream media ignore Second Life these days.
I hope some designers will decide that there are people who want a more mature look and will provide a way to do that. I wouldn’t hold my breath if I were you, though. When one of the growing tends in Second Life is 45 year old men who are pretending to be five year old girls with “mommies”, the chances of any designer having the vision and nerve to go in the opposite direction are small, indeed. I would love to see some folks with grey or greying hair and so forth.
I don’t have any alts. I may be the only person in SL who doesn’t. I understand why other people have them, but as with you, Carina, my SL avatar *is* me. I couldn’t be anybody else.
In response to the above comment, I wish to point to the fact that Mother Goose is primarily designed for Asian avatars. Although since they serve a wide audience now, it’s up to the designer to decide if they want to include a wider range of tones or not.
One more thing–if the designer does not offer a wider range of tones or a more mature look, that doesn’t mean it should be read into, or fabricated that the designer is contributing towards that trend. Maybe some people like their avatars to *not* represent themselves, or want them to look dollish. Maybe some of us, don’t want to put too much of ourselves into Second Life.
I am not accusing Mother Goose or any vendor of sinister motives. As Carina Gonzales pointed out: “From the vantage point of making money, designers are going to do whatever the masses want, and vamp teen is very in right now.”
I know a lot of people who LOVE the pale skins, and not just for Asian avatars. My analysis was more about a broader trend in Second Life over the years, not a comment on your particular product. Sorry if there was any misunderstanding or if I gave offence. I intended neither.
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The third one all the way to the right looks weird. The middle area around the nose and between the eyes looks either dirty or bruised. I can’t stop staring at it.
For too pale skins there is a good solution may be skin-tone tatoos.
For such a thing like skin tone even a small difference plays a big role, so a tone tatoo that’s transparent and subtle enough would warm the skin up a bit and not cover the shading in any noticable way.
They can ruin the lip gloss shining tho, so it gets orange instead of white. Needs a hole around the mouth so it doesn’t happen.
Your styling doesn’t suit Mother Goose’s skins at all. It looks weird on your shape.