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)
Stunning… Tuli Bella skins will be released Friday, November 6th!
There are 10 makeups available for each skin tone, 3 brows and 3 cleavage choices. I really like the diverse makeups for these skins, I love it when designers use tons of different colors so you feel like you’re getting your money’s worth with a fatpack. The same lipstick color with different eyeshadow is BORING! That’s not worthy of a fatpack purchase – but Tuli’s does them all differently and I really appreciate that. <3
These makeups are stunning, and one of them is called Gogo (top image, middle). All these makeups are named for people in SL, so it was kind of interesting to see how Tuli interprets each one of us through her makeups.
The cleavages!
Showing off one of the Push Up cleavage choices! YAY for a stunning body.
Tuli – Bella (Pale) skins
Truth – Cameron (Coffee)
Adam n Eve – Leopardess Black
Kookie – Twiggy Vest (Razzle Pink)
Sweetest Goodbye – Jeans (White)
Narcotix – Kurvy Pumps (Red)
The Luxuria intimates line is part of 5th & Oxford brand and recently launched this past Sunday. I saw a teaser of the Luxuria brand about a month ago, during 50L Friday, when the adorable petal pink Olaenka set was on sale. As someone who adores panties because one, they’re so cute and two, they fit everyone perfectly minimal adjustments (if any at all).
Also, if you are the creative type, you might want to enter the Luxuria Logo Contest and win free lingerie and money! 🙂
Luxuria needs a new logo and after spending hours and hours designing this new collection, my mind is not in the right space for creating a new logo. I don’t want to settle for something that I will not be happy with long term and decided to take up a suggestion from a blogger – have a logo contest!
The winner will get 2000 lindens and the entire collection of Luxuria lingerie – every color of every design in the opening collection.
I think the name of the brand says a lot about what I want in a logo. It needs to be modern, luxurious, elegant and upscale. I want it to say the brand is cosmopolitan and fresh and that’s what the logo has to portray. Although specific colors are not required, it would be helpful to remember that store colors are black, white and light pink.
So some rules:
1. The Aspect Ratio must be 3:2
2. Your entriy must be submitted to Roslin Petion by 11 PM PDT, October 4, 2010.
3. You must drop a full perm texture as your contest entry, but you must be willing to provide a non-merged PSD file of the logo.
4. The logo must be a graphic desgin that incorporates the store name. No photos or screen shots. No avatar photos.
5. All original content. There can be no images, etc. that you don’t have appropriate licensing for.
I love my new blog theme! I’m using DMS by PageLines, it stands for Design Management System and it’s the best theme/framework/dms that I have ever used. I’m so glad I made the switch, cos my old theme, Thesis 2.0, while it was fantastic for the past 3+ years that I’ve used it, the latest 2.0 update was clunky and confusing.
At first glance, you may not notice much of a difference, cos I’m still using the same layout structure with a larger banner image, two columns, right side bar, etc. The biggest change is on the back-end, where I can Drag & Drop everything on this theme, making it such a breeze to add new content. Also, my site is now responsive!! If you’re reading this on a tablet or a mobile device, please let me know how you like it! 🙂
Do you want to dress like Twiggy? Tasty will be releasing the Twiggy outfits, which includes the dress, gloves, glasses and a matching hat (not worn here). I love the colors!! They're so POP! I feel like a total retro doll.
Tasty will be having a grand opening on Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 at 6:00pm SLT.
A friend asked me recently, “Gogo, why do you ask so many questions about how much designers are making on Facebook?”
Yes, I ask a lot of questions on Facebook. I’m on pretty much all of the social media sites for Second Life, but people are especially chatty on Facebook, and I’m always trying to get a temperature check on the SL economy. Are people still making money? Are they making less than they used to? Is Second Life going to survive long enough for my Lifetime Premium Plus accounts to pay off, or will SL die before I’m profitable? So many questions.
I think about the SL economy probably more than the average resident does. Besides being an SL nerd, I’m also a bit of a finance enthusiast, and I love reading about the economy in RL and apparently analyzing the SL economy too. I think it’s smart to know when something is still worth your time and when it’s time to move on. If you’re no longer making the money you used to make here, there’s nothing wrong with finding somewhere else where your time and talent are worth more.
Another reason I ask these questions is because despite some designers doing very well in Second Life, I often see some saying they’re on the verge of being evicted or facing some other financial emergency nearly every week. There’s always a Second Life GoFundMe, and sometimes it’s from designers I would consider fairly successful from a distance. They’re talented, they have a recognizable brand, they have customers, so why are they still living paycheck to paycheck?
I’ve watched a lot of designers come and go over the years, for all kinds of reasons, and I actually think there’s something admirable about knowing when it’s time to leave. If you used to make good money in Second Life and you’re no longer making what you need, why cling to it until you’re completely broke? Find greener pastures. Maybe that means another virtual platform, maybe it means taking your skills and working for a company in real life, or maybe it means doing something completely different. At some point, if something is no longer working financially, you have to see the writing on the wall and bounce before you’re broke. There’s no prize for hanging on the longest.
Jian Pets announced last week that they’re leaving Second Life, and you can read their farewell message here. I think it’s smarter to move on and explore other opportunities than to cling to something that is no longer serving you. Second Life has been around for more than 20 years, but that doesn’t mean every successful SL business needs to stay here forever.
Speaking of being financially well, I went to the FLF Bday Bash and came home with a bunch of goodies for FREE! Gogo may be loaded in SL, but I still love freebies. I didn’t grab every single gift, but out of the ones I picked up, these are my favorite things:
Movement – Ladies Handbag
ALT3 – Afterparty FX Shine
Exile – Jordan Hair, Birthday Confetti Edition
Glam Affair – Manu Skin (Summer Special L005) – The rain on the face is awesome!
I’ve known Mina Jun for a long time and I know the skins and everything from her shop are original works of art. It makes me sick that characters like Sara Lee and her dozens of alts are allowed to access Second Life and continue to harass legit content creators and steal from them.
Right now Sara Lee may be stealing from Mina directly, but the truth is, she is stealing from all of us. As a shopper, a biz owner, a blogger, a friend.. I’m completely fed up with people who continually abuse and take advantage of others.
Hey! I was wondering, where do you get your makeup??
And I bought the pink fuel skin Harley, but she doesn’t look like you. Did you make your own changes to your face? I love the Harley Peach skin, but I am wanting to change some things.
Thanks! You look great btw, that dress is gorgeous.
-Lari
The main problem with the mesh body is that it makes a lot of my favorite clothes invalid. Even if in the future it works better I have lost a lot of favorite things by using the body. Unless I start a blog I won’t get clothes for free, so it’s expensive at the moment to keep buying things again and again for a game that has a sequel coming in 2 years or less. I think that’s the main problem. Like some of the clothing layer stuff I bought recently, also used slink hands or feet and instead of the creator updating the old stuff with the free applier, they make you buy it all over again. I’ve encountered this at several stores now.
This is adorable!
You look great!
Oh, very nice!
Hey! I was wondering, where do you get your makeup??
And I bought the pink fuel skin Harley, but she doesn’t look like you. Did you make your own changes to your face? I love the Harley Peach skin, but I am wanting to change some things.
Thanks! You look great btw, that dress is gorgeous.
-Lari
i wear her blush that came with the skin + eyeliner
The main problem with the mesh body is that it makes a lot of my favorite clothes invalid. Even if in the future it works better I have lost a lot of favorite things by using the body. Unless I start a blog I won’t get clothes for free, so it’s expensive at the moment to keep buying things again and again for a game that has a sequel coming in 2 years or less. I think that’s the main problem. Like some of the clothing layer stuff I bought recently, also used slink hands or feet and instead of the creator updating the old stuff with the free applier, they make you buy it all over again. I’ve encountered this at several stores now.