Bringing out the good stuff in Second Life®: fashion, hot spots, freebies, etc.

You can get a whole pack of 6 fun make-ups in the Cleo line at Dutch Touch for 650L. Brilliant! Oh, and I forgot to mention, now *ordinary design* offers demos for their shoes. Thank youuuuuuuuuu! ❤

Credits. Hair: Junwave (LGM Jun), Skin: Dutch Touch (Iki Ikarus), Eyelashes: [glow] studio (Anemysk Karu), Pearls & Bow in my hair: Clawtooth by Clawtooth (Bubbles Clawtooth), Rose: Essentia (Fiachra Lach), Pearls & Bag: So Many Styles (Irie Campese), Owl necklace: Boing Fromage (elka Lehane), Sweater: Maitreya (Onyx LeShelle), Dress: This is a fawn @ The Black Market (OMGWTF Barbecue), No longer available shrug: Bossa Nova (Georgette Moire), Tights: Ohmai (Anya Ohmai), Blue boots: Tesla (Tesla Miles), Yellow boots: Ordinary Design (shin Mathilde).

Not just me, that is, Valiant too, and I am one happy son of a bitch.

Credits. Hair: Bryce (Bryce Tully), Skin: Belleza (Tricky Boucher), Glasses: gritty Kitty (Noam Sprocket), Shoes: Hoorenbeek (Limer Fredriksson), Everything Else: Valiant (Wavie Haller).

A wonderfully cute initiative from moddish Gossipgirl, you will find at The Black Market a choice of freebies, discounted items and exclusives from everyone’s favourite shops. See here for a list of the participating stores. Items will change every couple of weeks!

Also, I’d been trying for a few weeks to get my hands on this mini-skirt, I love the pockets and the crumpled fabric, and I finally have it! Its maker, the brazillian RahzinhaA Pera, is still very busy working on getting her collection ready in order to reopen [Rahz] come September, so keep an eye out.

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Free skins of the moment!

From top to bottom.

1. Mother Goose has a bunch of free skins either in boxes or in lucky boards, and if you like Mary, you can have her without the band-aid for 300L and there are several make-ups available. There are many other faces to check out, too. None have demos, which bothered me a little, but hey, if you feel adventurous! Besides, you have the freebies if you want to check out the body and what not. Mary was my favourite face, and I thought she was well worth the try.

2. Another Shop released Starlight, a new line of free skins that will be permanently available at the GNUBIE store (where everything is either 0 or 1L). The faces are bare and pure, come in 5 tones, and have freckled or non-freckled options. You can grab the skin templates to customise them via Eloh Eliot’s blog. They are organised so that you can easily create your own make-ups by just using the paint bucket tool and filling in the adequate layers with whatever colours you fancy! You don’t even need to know how to draw or anything. Gotta love that girl! ❤

3. Imagen offers this make-up in 4 tones and freckled or non-freckled options at the UVogue fair and is lovely. It’ll be gone in a few days, but if you miss it and like the version pictured here, there’s a pretty similar one in the lucky chair over at the Imagen mainstore.

Not free. Hair: Tiny Bird (Autumn Hykova), Glasses: SteinWerk (Aveline Stein).

“Kissy kissy” is Tiny Bird’s contribution to the 50L Fridays, and can be grabbed in 3 colours (50L each) at the store and is proving very popular already!

Also, Lucy is a sweet face I found today at Idiosyncrasy. It’s really, really a sweet face with just the right amount of grain, shine and realism (not to mention some spanking eyebrows).

I did notice that the nostril creases aren’t pushed back enough and the eye creasing does weird angles in the inner corner (it does it on the Riley face too that I bought). This tends to happen in photosourced skins, especially early ones from a skin maker, and then I think it gets corrected in later skins. Anybody has a clue why it does that and how to fix that area for a more natural-looking upper eyelid creasing ? Because then Lucy would be near perfect. I’m just a bit annoyed that I had to notice this like almost immediately AFTER buying three packs, so from now on I’ll wear demos for at least an hour before buying any more skins.

There was a new release at Hat Mechanic today and for those of you who don’t know their hats, I thought I’d make a little recap since I last went there for the Maus helmet. There have been other sorts of hats released in between too, like a wolf and a bear head, an octopussy helmet… oh, and leg braces, too.

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Crushed Clarity of ATOMIC launched a new pretty sim yesterday, along with a release of various things, including 3 skins and 5 hairs. I’d already blogged the pre-release of Hope last month, so here are just peeks of Grace and Faith. The hair is a group gift available during the first week of the opening, as well as this limited edition of Grace (lookit here). You have to join the ATOMIC – V.I.P Updates, which has a 250L enrollment fee, and then you can grab them in store. The hairstyle is lush and really quite glorious, I also love this grey and wish the other hairs came in that shade as well!

Mauve was released yesterday at Dutch Touch and I’m loving its smattering of brunette freckles ! I am very taken with those as I don’t think I have seen that type of freckles on too many faces before, they’re kinda in your face and random and quirky which is a total winner with me, though I also love that you can choose to wear the skin without them too for a very smooth, pure face (depending on whether you’re in a dramatic or a sweet mood). Both options have such a drastically different look that it’s almost like two faces to me. This line comes in 14 make-ups and 5 tones (shown here are the two paler ones: Cotton and Cream).

Credits. Hair: Kin (Kin Keiko), Eyelashes: [glow] studio (Anemysk Karu).

More fringed sandals from ANEXX! ❤

Credits. Hair: Junwave (LGM Jun), Skin: D-skin (DynamiteTanaka Payne), Glasses: [glow] studio (Anemysk Karu), Cigarette: Gentleman (Raph Dirval), Grapes: AY.LinE (Anywa Nyoki), Pink cami & Gold chains: Fashionably Dead (Toast Bard), Yellow tank: Ohmai (Anya Ohmai), Bag: Très Blah (Julliette Westerburg), Denim ruffled shorts: sey (risey Arai), Sandals: ANEXX (machang Pichot).

This is Phoenix, a free limited edition skin from Symphony Skins, available in 5 tones at the UVogue Skin Fair until the 19th. I just noticed the weirdness in the upper eyelid area, but the rest is pretty sweet!

Credits. Hair: Fri.day (Parvarti Monday), Eyelashes: [glow] (Anemysk Karu), Shirt: Très Blah (Julliette Westerburg).