Hair

Five days ago I posted a teaser of the LeLutka Ava skins; I’m happy to announce that the LeLutka sim has a brand new build and the skin is out! There’s new skins and new hair, so many gorgeous styles you’ll love.

If you missed it, Truth also released three gorgeous new styles this week. They are Rayvn, Kelsey, and Maya (includes color-changing hair flowers), and they’re just so cute! I especially like the sleek and low side ponytail on the Rayvn hairstyle.

Looking for something short and classy? Elate has just released this adorable Mei dress that includes a sculpted waist bow and prim skirt attachment.

I’m pairing my dress with these stunning new Kookie Vo Pumps. These shoes include regular and no-invisiprims version to wear with alpha layer.

What I’m Wearing:

Truth – All hair shown
LeLutka – AVA/Light (Lipstick) Gleam
LeLutka – AVA (Light) Makeup5 (L Brows)
Donna Flora – BELLA bracelet & ring
Elate – Mei Dress
Kookie – Vo Pumps

Elikapeka Tiramisu needs no introduction, especially amongst older SL residents. Elikatira is the new brand and you can find the hairstyles exclusively on SL Marketplace for now.

Welcome back Elika!

Ok, this is where I should stop typing, but I’ll type it anyways. Elika is back, but was she ever gone? Many people (myself included) speculated that she was Parvarti Monday, one of the talented creators behind Fri.day brand. Having been a fan of ETD, Fri.day, and now Elikatira too; I will say that I think they have the same “feel” — so I think speculation may be true but this is neither confirmed or denied when I asked Elika about it. Of course, this is not important but it’s still interesting if you want to know why Fri.day is phasing out hair releases, according to their blog.

Enough of my rambling, I’m sure you want to see the new hairs, so here they are:

elikatira – Rumor| Rumor 2 | Fresh (in Blonde 05)

The Rumor style includes two different bangs versions and the Fresh style has color-changeable hair ties! So cute!

What I’m Wearing:

elikatira – Rumor 2 (Blonde 05)
deviousMind – 50sPinUp (Cherry)
Laqroki – Pearl 07 (Fair) Glow Skin

Seven new styles from Exile! Four are new releases and two were previously released at The Dressing Room; now you can get them in all colors. It’s also Exile’s 3rd birthday, so all new hairstyles are 50% off during the celebration.

I am wearing… Serana, Annie, Erinn, Esti, Avril, Bronwyn, and Bianca in Chestnut.

I’m loving this new Curve Zipper Dress from Hucci. It has a really cute futuristic look, so I’m pairing it with the Alphabet Changer Belt Choker from Yabusaka. Normally I don’t really wear chokers, but this one is special!! I really like that I can customize it with GOGO or any combination of 4 letters that I want 😛

What I’m Wearing:

Exile – Esti (Chestnut)
Hucci – Curve Zipper Dress
Yabusaka – Alphabet Belt Choker
Kookie – Vo Pumps (Noir)

I’m feeling Brunette today, so I went with the Cocoa hair color from Truth. These 3 newly released hairstyles are so adorable and easy to wear.Some of them include Streaked versions and the hair accessories are scripted to change colors.

Truth – Gigi | Diana includes Streaked (Cocoa)

Truth – Sabrina includes Streaked | & Plain version (Cocoa)

Visit Truth

A friend of mine asked me about my tattoo this morning. I’m normally not a tattoo person, but I really like this one because I can’t read it so it just looks cute to me. I’ve only worn a word tattoo maybe once in the past, because it was small and delicate. If this was in English, I probably would think it cheesy. But since it’s in Korean characters (letters?), I find it adorable.

And to clear up any confusion about my lash tutorial, I am wearing alpha prim lashes (they are two prims, with an alpha lash texture) not the sculpted individual prim lashes. They look hot!

What I’m Wearing:

Laqroki – Isabel 02 (Fair) Glow Skin
Djinn & Tonic (Lingerie ) Leopard Floral Bra (Red)
Skream! – “Saranghaeyo” Tatt
Decoy – Dana 76 Jeans (Black Skinny)

Truth – Lanie | Georgia | Lila |Lanie 2 (in Swedish)

These new hairstyles from Truth are so cute I want to hoard them all to myself, but they’re out at both Truth Hair sims and also on the new SL Marketplace.

I’ve noticed that with shadows enabled, some alpha hair prims are losing detail 🙁 I think my graphics card can’t really handle it, even though I can enable shadows, it’s not perfect. So, if you see anything ‘off’ with the hairstyles in my shadow pics, please just assume that it’s my PC being crap.

Everyone should buy an advertisement from me so I can upgrade to a new graphics card and challenge myself with better pictures. 😛

What I’m Wearing:

Laqroki – Pearl 07 (Fair) Glow Skin
Surf Co – Slouchy Thread Sweater (Blue Fl.)
Swansong – Timeless Jeans (Midnight)

SLink – Kiera, Genevief, Leona II (True Red)

I am pretty obsessed with Red hair shades today, thankfully, these three new SLink styles are fantastic in any color.  Genevief is my favorite style, and it happens to be the donation style as well, so this is a bonus!

Visit SLink at Hair Fair

My friends are laughing at me for being obsessed with cheap skins but I am totally obsessed with Mother Goose this week. This Bini skin is just $50L for a set of 4! I read this hot tip on Banana Vella’s blog, so ty Banana! I ran to Mother Goose to pick this up because I didn’t see it when I was purchasing Josephine a few days ago.

Mother Goose – Bini (makeup 1-4)

I love my outfit today, it’s so sassy! I do however have a gripe. This necklace I’m wearing is from MANDALA.  For some reason it is full-bright only and of course, the necklace is no mod 🙁 I’ve tried to contact the owner via notecard to get a non full-bright version and they’re not responding to me. Screw you MANDALA! I’ve always thought their jewelry was perfect (the other necklace I have isn’t full-bright) so this is highly disappointing.

What I’m Wearing:

Kyoot – Beneath My Bones (Stumblebum Exclusive)
Decoy – Dana 76 Jeans (Black)
MANDANA – Soul2 Necklace & Bracelet

LoQ Hairs – Cafe Misto | Turkish Coffee (Fiery Red)

These two styles are my favorite from LoQ Hairs. This is actually the first time I’ve ever featured LoQ Hairs here, I think they are a fairly new but what they’ve released so far is promising. I am feeling very Red today cos Autumn is just around the corner! 🙂

I’ve noticed that LoQ hair is full-bright by default, and that is awful! Thankfully the hair is mod, so I can simply uncheck the full-bright option, but I really don’t understand designers who leaves this on by default. It looks awful in Windlight and the hair texture is totally misrepresented.

Here’s my plea to hair designers: If for some reason you must have full-bright hair, please include both versions in your demo. I have to see what the hair texture looks like with full-bright off otherwise I won’t purchase it. I think that full-bright should be abandoned already, it makes you look like a newbie hair designer.

Visit LoQ Hairs at Hair Fair

What I’m Wearing:

Armidi – Sheer Ribbed Tank (White)
anuenue – Salopette Denim
Mother Goose – Bini Skin

Dernier Cri – Taylor | Camelia (freebie fatpack)

Dernier Cri has an amazing new hair collection out at Hair Fair. I’m really impressed with these styles, they’re so kawaii and I’m just in-love with the light pinkish texture.

Dernier Cri – Saddie | Kira

Dernier Cri – Dove | Aya

I really like that Dernier Cri hairstyles comes with a HUD to change the hair colors. This reduces inventory clutter and also makes it super easy to mod a style once and just recolor vs. having to modify several hairs to fit. However, I think in laggy sims, the re-color process can take awhile and I’ve noticed that sometimes I have to do it several times before the script recolors all the prims properly (again… probably lag, not really an issue with the hair).

Dernier Cri has only released hair once this year (I think I bought most of them) but I really hope that Asuka Martin does more!! These are probably some of my favorites from Hair Fair this year.

Also, as much as I adore Dernier Cri hair, I really wished that the creator’s head shape is more like my own. When I resize the hairstyles, I’ve noticed that the back is always an issue for me. I prefer to just stretch rather than having to move prims around because I don’t like messing with the hairstyle or risk the textures not lining up properly. My head is round and I have a long head profile. I realize that not everyone has a bobble head line mine, but I am that much happier when I can just stretch hair to fit and not have to move prims around.

Are there some brands in SL that fits you perfectly, and others that are either much too small or too large?

Visit Dernier Cri @ Hair Fair; don’t forget to pick up the gift!

Also, I found the best $300L skin yesterday at Mother Goose. I’m normally not really a fan of skins that are more hand-drawn like this but I just *love* this little face!! Love love love <3 I picked up makeup 3 for $300L but the fatpack is just $1200L. If you’re on a budget, there’s a 1L Josephine skin, this landmark will take you to the freebie area. The lipstick is different on the freebie skin, but still adorable.

See? I share!! It doesn’t bother me at all that people think I am a “horrible” blogger, or my little fashionista soul needs saving cos it’s so evil and dark and and and and.. yeah.

What I’m Wearing:

Mother Goose (by milok Hermit) – Josephine Skin (make up 3)
5th&Oxford – Jori Blouse & Jori Skirt (Egg Blue)
Donna Flora – Nahua black earrings

Truth – Aloha

Lots of new Truth hair this week and they’re so adorable! Visit the Project Donate sim to buy this Aloha style fatpack for $500L. This is a limited edition hair that will not be sold after September 19th.

Truth – Cindy (includes Streaked) | Janelle | Jersey (includes Streaked) | Miranda

Truth – Orchid (includes Plain) | Raquel

These 6 new hairstyles are available at Truth Hair and Truth Hair II sim. It’s so hard to pick a favorite but I really love Miranda and Orchid.

The t-shirt I’m wearing today is a recent  group gift from The Loft (via subscribo). It says “Screw Prim Limits This Shit Looks Good!” LOL, I couldn’t have agreed more.