My friend Sparkle is all about that brunette Gogo look, and I totally get it! Personally, I’m a fan of both blonde and brunette hair colors. I even play around with blue and pink sometimes—my style’s all over the place, but I love it! Each hair color definitely brings out a different vibe.
A couple of days ago, I discovered the most amazing denim jacket in Second Life. I came across the Nothing Jacket from Coco Louis and knew I had to add it to my wardrobe. The best part? It’s generously roomy, which makes it perfect for layering with other mesh items underneath. Seriously, you have to try it out!
I found the jacket at the Belleza event, although it looks like that event has wrapped up now. The tricky part will be finding the right shade of denim pants that fit this jacket perfectly. I’ve dug through my inventory and come close with a few pairs. I can’t wait to put together a whole outfit!
What I’m Wearing: Coco Louis – Nothing Jacket (Slate) Fashionably Dead – Noir Lingerie Stealthic – Lavish Glam Affair – Kristen (Ivory C) LeLutka – Billie Mesh Head
I like pressies, especially if they are items I can wear like SKINS! Winter surprised me this morning with a landmark to a skin shop unknown to me! How is that possible?! The brand is Domestic -V, and has a fantastic collection of Deadly Doll skins in seven sinful flavors! Shown below is the Envy Doll skin (thx Winter!) with tears version.
These Domestic -V skins are priced so affordable at $300L per skin and TRANSFERABLE. That’s right, buy this for yourself, your friends, pass it around to your alt.. whatever, it’s awesome!
I look so pouty..
[ Also wearing: katat0nik – Alice hair | Miam Miam jewelry (all) | sinDecade – dark green eyes ]
TP to Domestic -V to demo all the Dead Doll skins for yourself 🙂
I love plants! I’m a total PALMS freak, so there are palms all over Juicy but I’m tired of looking at JUST Straylight palms so I went to TamaTama Plant Jungle and bought some new ones!
These plants were so cheap! Everything shown here are priced between 38L – 68L and 3 prims each.
Good morning! My outfit is bright, like my mood today. I knew I wanted these Arpora Fisherman’s Pants from Zaara as soon as I saw the print. These pants are available at The Arcade, which is next to impossible to get into, but you can still go to a yard sale! Sure, you won’t get any rares without paying a higher price, but all the commons that your heart desires, THEY’RE ALL THERE. These pants are common, but it’s actually my favorite from this set.
What are you dying to have, from this round of The Arcade? Me? I already have everything that I want. A couple of Tres Blah items, and these pants. LOL.
What I’m Wearing:
Pink Fuel
Monso – My Hair (Choa) Light Blonde
Teefy – Joan Bra Top
Zaara – Arpora Fisherman’s Pants (Acid Trip) @ The Arcade
Izie’s Nidhi Belly Piercing (Aquamarine)
The Annex – Flower Bag (Turq & Pink) @ Chapter Four
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.
It’s Galentine’s Day, and two of my favorite girls in Second Life just released the cutest stuff. The kind of things you gift to yourself and conveniently “accidentally” buy for your friends too.
First up is the Versailles Love Cup from Flair, which is definitely Gogo-approved. I love holdables, and I love them even more when there are options so I can match it to my outfit.
Sparkle Skye also just released the Fiona Collection for Gacha Arcana, so if gacha’s your thing, go play. The best part is you can mix and match all the pieces, which is dangerous for me because I’ll absolutely convince myself I need every variation.
I’m currently obsessed with the Fiona ring, which is a Vault item, but don’t ask me to explain how to play Gacha Arcana because I genuinely don’t know. Sparkle tried to explain it to me, and I nodded like I understood, but I wasn’t retaining any of it. I think it has something to do with getting rewarded for playing a lot. That’s all I’ve got.
After I put together today’s outfit, I realized it was giving equestrian vibe. Which is funny because I don’t plan outfits based on themes. I wear things based on whatever pops up on my radar.
Like this Stella top from Tres Blah, which popped up again because it’s on sale. I already owned it, so I just grabbed a redelivery for LaraX and suddenly it felt like I bought something new without spending money. I love when brands update older items for previous customers. It’s one of the few things in SL that still feels genuinely nice.
This new hat hairstyle is from Wings, and you can customize the logo area with your own text. I made it my name because the template was easy to use with clear instructions. I normally don’t customize anything because I’m lazy, but this one was worth the effort.
While Gacha Arcana from MadPea is fresh on my mind, I want to say something as a resident and customer. I think there are way too many events in Second Life, and I’m saying that as someone whose main hobby in SL is literally shopping.
Even I only go to maybe one or two events a week, and when I go, I mean I teleport in, hit the brands I already know, buy what I came for, and leave. I’m not wandering. I’m not browsing. I’m in and out.
Meanwhile, every month, I watch event companies create even more events, and all it does is spread the same sales thinner and thinner for everyone.
And to be clear, I’m not personally calling out Gacha Arcana here. This applies to pretty much every event company over the past year that has not only created more monthly events on top of their existing ones, but also added marketplace counterparts, weekend sales counterparts, one-off holiday events, and even brought gacha back into the mix. At some point, all of this stops helping creators and starts hurting them.
Recently I heard that some creators participating in Gacha Arcana noticed the low traffic and lack of sales, so they brought it up with the organizer. The organizer blamed it on the real life economy affecting sales in SL. And yes, that’s true. The economy is weird right now. People are cautious. Disposable income is tighter.
But event organizers in SL also need to take some responsibility for the mess they’ve helped create. When you keep stacking events on top of events, you create an economic downward spiral. The user base isn’t big enough to support an endless stream of new events popping up just because organizers want to squeeze even more event fees out of creators for their own benefit.
