Welcome to another Previously in Second Life post! Here are some interesting news around the grid you may have missed:
Shop Hair Fair 2023 before it opens! Win early access for you and 2 friends! Enter now.
Second Life is looking for Mentors – a volunteer unpaid position to help new residents. Volunteers should get a free Premium Plus subscription or a free homestead. How about it, Second Life? As the saying goes… you get what you pay for.
Glitzz Hello Summer Hunt ends tomorrow, June 12. Look for ice cream!
To celebrate Pride Month, I’m wearing the new Exile Kara hair in a rainbow texture. The photo has been given an AI Glow Up with Stable Diffusion, so it won’t look exactly the same but similar.
What I’m Wearing: Exile – Kara Tetra – Euphoria Sweater
This event opens on Monday, September 15th at noon SLT. I love the autumn decor this year, and it doesn’t feel like an ‘event’ but more like a small town with lots of cute spots for photos. If you’re into steampunk/diesel/and dark victoriana inspired things, check out this event!
*NOTE* I’m accidentally wearing my skirt in two different prints today LOL (oops….. blame SL). It sort of works?
What I’m Wearing:
Pink Fuel Skin
Truth – Bryn
The Secret Store – Annette Peplum Skirt & Lola Cropped Sweater (Mint)
I left my platform and went to Alicia’s birthday party. In case you didn’t know, all the OG bloggers know each other. We go way back, decades really. If you cross one of us, you cross all of us… just kidding! It’s not like that, but we do keep in touch.
For a long time, most of my Second Life friends were either bloggers or creators, but I’ve since expanded my circle to include people I’ve met around Bellisseria.
I’m always open to meeting new people and making new friends. I accept random friend requests. If someone’s bold enough to send one, I figure I should say yes. I sometimes send random friend requests too, to people I’ve known forever on social media, though we often never end up talking or seeing each other in Second Life. I’ve always been notoriously bad at showing up in Second Life. Crowds and teleports used to make me anxious, but I’m slowly getting better at it.
Since I’m not shopping this month, I have lots of free time and I’m finally ready to accept teleports.
D!FF will be closing its doors in a few short days, so everything is on sale before they’re gone forever. This is your last chance to grab some fantastic goodies that won’t be available to anybody else once the sale is gone. I don’t know about you, but when something has the word “limited” or “gone forever” attached to it, I can’t resist!
D!FF – Isometric Red Dress + Soda – Cherry Red Cardigan
Don’t forget…… GONE FOREVER!!!!! Tp to D!FF @ Juicy.
****** Mega Hair Freebie Alert ******
Mewf Demina, the hair creator for Free Spirit is giving away all her hairs this week, and they are FANTASTIC. This is only available for a limited time, so what are you waiting for? I don’t know when the freebie offer ends, but it’s soon. Don’t forget to thank Mewf for being so generous to all of us freebie hair loving maniacs. I adore the Dee & Lyrlia hair so much, they’re the perfect shade of blonde and super cute. <3
I love a good school uniform in SL, and monso gets it right every time! This uniform includes a HUD to change the blazer color, trim, skirt texture, shirt color, and tie texture & style. I don’t like to wear Brown often, but since it is Autumn, I wanted to put together an outfit with warmer tones.
How adorable is this HUD? I had so much fun putting together different uniform colors! If you’re not into school uniforms, this could also be a work uniform, just a really good-looking outfit.
What I’m Wearing:
Pink Fuel – Kumi (Peach) Pure (bwnbrow/crease)
Truth – Guinevere w/ Roots (Swedish)
Monso – My School Look (Blazer) size2/S
SLink – Relax Boots (Brown)
Mon Tissu –
It’s day 10 of Blackout August and I still haven’t spent a single Linden. Gifts and freebies are fair game though, and yesterday I received an updated copy of the Snow Rabbit (S@R W01X) mesh head. I originally blogged this head over a year and a half ago, and it’s been updated several times since with great improvements to the HUD and features. This 3.0 update adds more volume to the eyelashes, so of course I had to try it.
When I put on my saved S@R outfit, something strange happened to the shape I made last year. Rather than troubleshoot, I decided to start fresh with a brand new shape and pair it with a new skin. The S@R head reminded me how much I love it, especially since it works with EvoX skins. If only the eyes were compatible with the EvoX HUD too, that would be perfect.
While creating the new shape, I noticed the nose is slightly crooked. Some Second Life residents would call that a charming feature, while others like me prefer a smoother profile. It does give the face personality if that’s your thing.
Today I’m wearing the Magnolia skin from Amara Beauty. It’s new at The Arcade, but I didn’t buy it. My friend gifted it to me. Gifts don’t count toward Blackout August, but I’m keeping paid items to a minimum this month and digging into my inventory instead. If you own any Amara Beauty skin, you could pair it with the S@R head and get a similar look.
One thing about the Magnolia skin that surprised me is that the no brows version is only available in the RARE. Annoying. I always wear no brows, so if my friend hadn’t sent me the RARE, I wouldn’t wear this skin at all.
If you’re still thinking about joining Blackout August, you can start anytime. Maybe you want to slow down your shopping, maybe you want to save money. Both are good reasons. I’ve seen people make rude assumptions about participants, as if we’re all struggling with some kind of shopping addiction. LOL. I buy what I want, and sometimes I buy too much, but I’m not running out of Lindens or spending money I don’t have. The only time I run low is when I decide to buy a region or go to an SL auction. For me, this is about showing that shopping isn’t the only thing to do in Second Life. You could be like Philip Linden, never change your clothes, and still enjoy this world.
Check out these three new hairstyles from Exile! It’s so hard to pick a favorite, but I definitely love Heloise cos it’s so different and I like the messy look.
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