I have a confession. When I saw this Kylie Jenner skin posted to Flickr, I didn’t demo it cos the ad is morphed, and doesn’t really appeal to me. I’ve already had my fix of celebrity inspired skins (Redgrave, circa 2007). I saw that Alicia tried on the skin and posted about it here, and I couldn’t believe how terrible it looked in-world! I also can’t believe people gave her grief about it, blaming her shape/windlight, etc. YOU KNOW WHAT? If you can make that skin look good, you’re a miracle worker — you should actually perform miracles for a living. Photoshop miracles, that is.
My look today is inspired by one of Kylie Jenner’s teal hair phases. I love it!
“Cake, what’s one of the most exclusive, immersive VR club experiences I can find nowadays?” you ask. I would immediately tell you, it’s Ghost Club.
Ghost Club is a cyberpunk EDM club that opens when the mysterious twitter user @gst_kkgr announces it. You can’t find the map on VRChat during the week, not even if it showed up as a private world on the aggregate map lister VRCW.
At 10pm Tokyo time (9am EST), GST uploads the club map and opens it to anyone who is a friend of someone currently visiting. They then tweet out a link to the instance the party is being held at, so you have to wait at their Twitter page to get the key.
When Second Life gets a bit stressful, it’s time to put down the obligations and do something fun. My suggestion? Get out on the water. Grab a free boat, visit the Blake Sea, and start sailing. Whether you do so with a motorboat like the Magellan, or a sailboat like the Fernseed Keelboat, you’re sure to calm down after listening to the sounds of the pixel ocean for a while. (Don’t forget to grab this free swim HUD too.)
After a while, you might get tired of free boats and want something a bit nicer. If you have the Lindens to spend, take a look at the AnacondaS Wave Dancer.
It’s amazing how spacious the Wave Dancer is inside. You won’t need to adjust your camera unless you prefer driving in mouselook or third-person. It also comes with a full working kitchen, bathroom/shower, cabin/bed, and dining area. There’s a media player just behind the driver’s seat for if you want to play videos while you’re out boating. The dashboard holds a fuel gage, working GPS system, and radar. Even the microwave works, which I found to be charming.
You can seat 14 people on it–great for parties or running a tour around the Blake Sea or other body of SL water. The boat turns a little too fast for my tastes in the water, but that’s because it’s meant for driving primarily in mouselook. If you’re using an Oculus with this boat, however, you’re in for a pretty great time.
The drawbacks of it are small but ultimately decided why I didn’t buy it yet. For everything the Wave Dancer has, the one thing it doesn’t is a multi-sit system. For 2900L, this is something I’m hoping the builder will fix.
You see, when you’re out boating, you need to be able to move around your boat without standing up. If your boat doesn’t have a system where you can click and choose various poses on the craft, you’re going to inevitably have to stand up–which might cause your boat to be returned while you’re in the middle of the sea. Multi-seating systems solve this problem while letting you “live” on your boat. Some boats like the A-T Portal Tug even have a roaming system that lets you walk around the boat without ever getting out of your seat.
I’ve sent a request to the Wave Dancer’s builder to see if they’re interested in implementing a multi-seating system. If they do it, I’m snatching up this boat as soon as I can.
I still highly recommend you trying out the Wave Dancer, though. The demo will let you drive the boat for up to two hours. It only counts the minutes the boat is actually in the water! It’s great for letting boaters decide if they’d like to purchase it or not.
If you know of a boat I should check out, contact me in-grid (Aemeth Lysette). For more destinations, check out the SL Sailing directory. See you on the water!
Fishy Strawberry nailed it with this Denim & Lace dress! It’s short and tight, but still somehow very sweet and not slutty. I LOVE THIS DRESS! I am also wearing the SLink Physique mesh body, and I am trying to make it work with my existing wardrobe by being creative with the alpha HUD & adjusting my body size.
I’m used to this body now, that when I take it off, it no longer feels right. Even though wearing clothes can be challenging (right now), I don’t think it’s any different than people conforming their body size to fit Standard Sizing, so I think designers & consumers will eventually find a way to make mesh bodies work.
Not photoshopped. The legs are so smooth!
What I’m Wearing:
Pink Fuel Skin
Truth Hair – Lovers
Fishy Strawberry – Denim & Lace Dress (S) Light
Donna Flora – Julia Ring (White)
Ingenue – Lola Heels (Sherbert Stripe)
Redgrave is back!!! I’ve been seeing teasers of this new Megan skin for months and couldn’t wait to try it on. Megan comes in 2 skin tones – pale and tan, and includes a hair base. The brows are only available in Dark Brown, so it may or may not work with lighter color hair (you can try… but I like it with Brunette hair colors). I think the face is pretty sweet, but there’s a faint but noticeable line going from the nose tip to the upper lip that I don’t like so much. However, these skins are only $2999L for the whole fatpack of 15 makeups! It’s a great deal for your money if you love the skins.
I’m wearing Redgrave – Megan in Pale below:
This is the body for Megan, and it’s pretty much the same as all the previous releases. I think the Megan face is less shiny than other past releases so it doesn’t really suit this body that much, but I’d till wear it.
People ask me all the time what eyes I wear, and I wear a ton of different brands! I do stick to brands who have smaller irises because they fit my eye size better. These newly released Curio “Tragic” eyes includes 3 different sizes (small, meidum, large) and also prim attachments for each size, so you can mix and match and wear 2 different eye colors at once, for an interesting effect.
( click the image to view full size so you can see the eye colors better )
What I’m Wearing:
Redgrave – Pale Skin – Megan
Truth – Madison (Espresso)
Mandala – Pearl Rain Jewelry Set/Rose Pink
SugarCube – Dolly border balloon dress (Peach)
Love this latest release from Couverture Outfitters by Chocolate Arashi. I’m wearing the Moga Pink dress, it comes with a skirt, prim belt, and a sleeveless and long sleeve option with prim cuffs. Shown above is the sleeveless top cos SL is having problems today and I can’t rez the long sleeve top!
I’m pairing this dress with Siyu Suen’s lovely Lady’s Fur Stole and hair 37 from W&Y. This hair is really cute, I get asked at least once a week where it’s from! At $30L for a 4-color pack, it’s a total deal!!! I love the messy updo. <3
Isn’t this hair amazing? Life in Plastic by Exile is fantastic, baby! There are so many things I want to blog about, but no time to fully research them. For example, Baked on Mesh – someone give me a summary! I am not interested in wearing old skins, or old system anything, but I think with Baked on Mesh, we can wear more layers and not rely on HUDs! I’ll play with this when I have time and blog about it in the future.
Another news that is interesting is the E2V Vendor system is retiring (self-hosted will continue running), so if you have gift cards and store credits, redeem those if they don’t transfer when merchants switch to a new vendor system. I have already received several notices from brands in SL that are able to continue using E2V. I can’t imagine how much panic this is causing on the grid, and merchants have a short time to find a new system.
Earlier this year, I had to switch my rental system to something else, since HippoTech retired. I have used Hippo since I bought my sim nearly a decade ago. I paid a small fee and got my money’s worth out of that system, so no complaints. It was easy enough to switch my rental system to something else since I have only a handful of tenants to set up.
There are so many scripted things that brands (and customers) rely on in SL, if they were to disappear suddenly, it would disrupt the market. I feel like we need to appreciate scripted things more, and pay scripters even more. They’re definitely the people who keep SL running smoothly, right behind the talented creators.
What I’m Wearing:
Exile – Life In Plastic
The Secret Store – Hazel Tank Top (Milk)
The Secret Store – Cora Belted Bottoms (Bloom)
Ingenue – Holl Flats (Cotton)
Thats why I love you Gogo. Because of you I started blogging and love how honest you are. Ive seen on facebook people making drama over that girls post and made me shake my head. The photographer even trying to make fun of the blogger because “she is nobody” – so the photographer said. Like really? The review was about a skin and I agree it sucks. The morph also doesnt help. I would never buy it.
omg you’re gonna get hate for saying that lol D:
Thats why I love you Gogo. Because of you I started blogging and love how honest you are. Ive seen on facebook people making drama over that girls post and made me shake my head. The photographer even trying to make fun of the blogger because “she is nobody” – so the photographer said. Like really? The review was about a skin and I agree it sucks. The morph also doesnt help. I would never buy it.
love the outfit but that hair kinda makes you look like a conehead lol!