Sale at Reel Movement

Normally I'm not one to cover sales, but Luth Brodie (IMHO one of the best posemakers in SL), as part of her relaunch of her business as Reel Expression is having a sale at her Lalique Square Reel Movement location starting at 5PM SL time today (the 10th) and lasting through the 18th. Verbatim press release follows:


Hello!

Just dropping you a note that I'm having a sale, changing the name, opening the new store and releasing around 80-100 new poses in the next week and 1/2.

New stuff will include:
Female modeling poses
AOs
Mens modeling poses
Couple's poses
Furniture

Schedule of events:
Friday 10th Aug 5pm SLT - Sale starts with everything at least 25% off.

Friday 17th Aug 5pm SLT - Sale ends and sim closes. A few hours later I will reopen the sim to only my new update group - Reel Expression Udpate.

Saturday 18th Aug 8pm SLT - Opening to the public.

Cheers
Luth



and I just have to have a picture of my favourite Luth pose, Expressions #4 aka the finger horns pose. That's ETD Luth hair, Tete a Pied skin, the new Aout release from Tete a Pied, and the Tete a Pied mary janes.

Second Life Relay for Life 2007

As of this moment the Second Life Relay for Life 2007 event is still going on. This year they are suing 32 sims compared with last years 12. Thats 2097152 square meters! The vent concludes at 2pm SL time today, so there's still time to participate in the actual walk. Though I am not a formal member of any of the RFL teams, I did make some small donations here and there and purchase some RFL items at various vendors throughout the grid. And I did serve in the Caledon RFL Militia, serving as a warm body in machinima. Since the performance of SL on my lappy is not so good I decided to visit the track location late friday night, and Saturday morning so I wouldn't be slowed down by a large number of avatars. I took a lot of screenshots, over 120 in fact.

With that many screenshots I wasn't going to post them here, that would be unwieldy, Thanks to Linux I have relatively easy ways of mass renaming images, mass converting images, and mass uploading them to flickr.

For the conversion I used convert from the ImageMagick tools set:

for x in *.bmp; do convert -quality 95 $x $x.jpg; done

For the renaming I found a perl script that did the job:


#!/usr/bin/perl

my $dir = '/path/to/images/directory';
my $names = '/path/to/file/with/the/wanted/names';
my $files = '/path/to/file/with/the/real/name';

chdir $dir or
die "Could not change dir to $dir: $!\n";

open NAMES, $names or die "Could not open $names: $!\n";

open FILES, $files or die "Could not open $files: $!\n";

my $name = ;
chomp $name;

my $file = ;
chomp $file;

while($name && $file) {
print "renaming $file to $name...\n";
rename $file, $name;
$name = ;
chomp $name;
$file = ;
chomp $file;
}

close NAMES;
close FILES;


Just create a text file with the old names, another with the new ones and point the script at them and the image directory. To create those files I just did an:

ls -1 > current_names.txt
cp current_names.txt wanted_names.txt

and then used the search/replace functions in vim to get the names I wanted fast.

For uploading to Flickr, I used the flickr_upload Perl script. like so:

flickr_upload --tag='"SL RFL"' --description "Screenshot taken at the Second Life Relay for Life 2007" *.jpg


The phots are at CronoCloud Creeggan's flickr photos and have the "SL RFL" tag

Skin Review: Minnu Model Skins

There's a been a plethora of new skin designers showing up in SL, and established designers that I have not heard of releasing new skins. I was dropped a Sample pack of Minnu Model Skins a few days ago. I had not heard of their creator, Minnu Palen before, and gave them a try. Originally I was not planning on doing any kind of a review, because when it comes to skin reviews, my boss Sabrina Doolittle is the best skin reviewer around, in my humble opinion. But she's away from SL, and I thought these skins deserved a review, at least on my own blog.

Lets get the basics out of the way. Minnu Model Skins (which I will abbreviate to MM) are mostly hand drawn with some photosourcing on the body, but not too much photosourcing, because Minnu believes too much can ruin a skin. There are 5 skin shades, Pale, Light, Mid, Tan, Dark. I, of course, am a pale face. Pale is the new tan! This is the Pale skin shade with the Dominate makeup.



First thing I thought when I put them on was: zOMG, I've got the "Aspire" look a la Colleen Desmoulins or Isabella Sampaio. I have to admit that I think the overall look is "generic SL glamour". There are a lot of skins that can give a look like this. However, most of those have much more photosourcing, which in most cases makes them look like crap on my avatar. MM skins keeps it more subtle. The abs are defined but not too over shaded, the knees are nicely done, and it's a very pleasant and easy to look at skin. It does everything reasonably well, even if it's not a "stand out from the crowd" skin.


There's a been a plethora of new skin designers showing up in SL, a

I even like the brows! They only currently come in this brown shade, though Minnu has said that different brow colors have already been requested. The faces themselves have that generic "slightly exotic SL glamour" look on me with the high contoured cheekbones. The lippies seem to be all frosts, which is a downside in my opinion. (I prefer matte, creamy and glossy lippies in RL) The faces worked well with full lips and thin lips as can be seen. I tried them on a bunch of different shapes and the face flattered them all, even the famous Spin Spin Sugar shape. That may be the reason for the "generic SL glamour" look, that look may work on more shapes and faces than other basic looks.

Here's the Light shade in the 40's makeup:



Now the standard MM skins may not be "stand out" skins but the Mia's are. The Mia's are "Asian" skins. Very pretty skins. In fact the Mia's are IMHO the best "Asian" skin in SL that I have seen:



On the left is the Mia Deep on the right is Mia Ice Queen. You can also see the boobehs, which are the standard boobehs on all the MM skins. Yes the nipples are blurry but that could just be my shape, which seems to make ALL nipples blurry. They could also use a bit of highlighting/shading to enhance the cleavage, IMHO.

Now, I am no Sabrina Doolittle but here's a kitty shot:



The kitty is important to some. Now I'm not that familiar with kitty's in SL, but I think this kitty's pubic hair is a bit sparse. As for the bits themselves they aren't scary looking. You can also see the hands, which are very nice with knuckles and prettily manicured nails that don't look like someone dipped them in white paint.

So overall do I recommend these skins? Yes, for those who want the look this kind of skin gives, and for those who want a bit of photosourcing but not too much, and for those who want a reasonably good skin that's very pleasant to look at. Single skins are $L 1100, fatpacks of four are $L 4000, older skins are $L 900, and eyes are $L50.

Minnu Model Skins is located at: JT World VI 211,208,22 The build does NOT suck, and you know how I am about builds. There are also other locations. In addition to skins, MM also sells shapes and eyes.

One other note, the location above has a small fashion runway with seating suitable for a small fashion show. Minnu has said that she wants to support new designers and give them a place to show off their stuff, which I applaud. Contact Minnu Palen for more details.

Sorry for the image problem folks, I had a duplicate of this post saved thanks to a glitch and when I deleted the duplicate it deleted the images too, and I didn't realize it was doing that fast enough.

A new micro-nation, Avendale

I just found out about a new micro-nation in SL, Avendale, founded by Mystical Cookie of Mysti-Tool fame. It sounds very interesting from the Notecard:


Hello, and thank you for your interest in Avendale!

We currently have land available in the following beautiful sims:

Avendale Town Square, Avendale (204, 201, 21)
Nevi Community Public Park, Nevi (142, 192, 22)
Adeo Community Tavern, Adeo (153, 106, 22)
Cila Community Park, Cila (123, 123, 21)


Anyone is welcome to visit and enjoy our wonderful community! We are a real community of friends living in beautifully landscaped island estates. Please do not be afraid to say hello to us, we love to meet new friends!

Are you looking for land? Tired of moving and discovering one week later laggy casinos, shopping malls, strip clubs, etc have come to your mainland sim? We have no such things here. Come and see for yourself. :) Each sim has a different setting and feel, from town settings to countryside forests!

Even if you do not own land in our sims, we would still love to meet new and friendly people to assimil.. um.. integrate into our community! Please be fun, friendly, and pardon our sometimes twisted sense of humor. :)

If you have any questions, please feel free to drop a notecard to Mystical Cookie!

-Mysti


And the Covenant is somewhat similar to Caledon's.

So I think it's worth a look for those looking for a nice place to settle down, build a shop, hang out.

Contest entry and skin comparison

Yeah, I entered the Ginny/Starley Are you the face of style contest, but I had to get a Starley skin first. I only had a Passport and I don't flatter it and it makes me look like Salome. So I tried demos.......lots of demos and figured out right off that I don't like the Vogue/Deviant Nation brows. Can't stand them. Course, that's me being picky on brows. After doing some searching I found the Carrot and Auburn Charmed series and got a Carrot:




My shape flatters it much better than the other Starley skins, I actually look like me and the I can tolerate the brows. I know, I harp on brows, but they're very important, especially to redheads. The shape and color just has to "work". Give me a groomed, shaped, "classic" brow with a nice arch, but not too much arch any day.


For comparison a shot in TaP Sophisticate 1, one of my favorite skins ever:




Yeah, I'm Roslin and CJ's ***** all right.

I'm lip picky too, but that is another story.

Rezday!

Yay, it's my SL rezday! Has it been a year already? Seems like only yesterday that I was a starry eyed newbie Ruth.

Here's an image from my early days, from about July 24th, OPIUM suit and Ruth skin/hair.



And look at me now, well June 25th anyway, suit from Marzipan's Closet:




If I go back and look at my older posts, I start looking like "myself" around the 31st of July, and look pretty much like I do now starting in mid August when TaP Deux came out.

I've really enjoyed SL over the past year. If I'd have been told that in the future:

1. My avatar would sometimes get recognized by avatars I have never met.

2. That I would have contributed to PXP.

3. That I would be a Linden Lifestyles Lackey.

4. That I would be known for dancing on cows.

5. And have over 10000 items in the inventory


I would have not believed it. Among the highlights:

Schoolgirl Antics in Luminosity
Cow Dancing
Meeting Sabrina and Sachi Vixen during the building of Dickens Fair
Meeting Roslin and CJ in the old TaP store.
Meeting Swirly Cyclone in Paper Couture.
Making the Picture Perfect Studio Light Effects
Discovering Caledon
Becoming a Caledon Gun Bunny (We wuv you Guvnah Shang!)
Meeting Salome.
Meeting tons of other Fashionistas.
Voting for Kit, at the Big Brother Habitrail.
And many many more.

I just want to thank everyone who's friended me. It's the people that make SL great, not just the shopping and playing dress up with my avatar.

I've just went back to the first sim I entered. I joined SL through an SLURL for a Geekbrief SL meetup, so it was the old CC. Chapman headquarters in Shatgogae I appeared at, not newbie island, so I was totally and completely lost. My first landmark was:

C.C. Chapman's Podcast & Digital, Shatgogae (243, 196, 50)

My first fashion related LM was:

OPIUM Everyday + SKIN, Alpha Centauri (215, 8) created on July 23rd. Which is still a valid LM for OPIUM. Yay Alaska Metropolitan

I have LM's from Caledon dated July 28th.

Missing my bosses, oh no it's faux Sabrina and Salome again.

Yes, I'm missing Sabrina and Salome's post on Linden Lifestyles very much. No, I don't know when they'll be back. Summer is a very busy time for them, something similar happened last year. But not only am I their Friday Interview Lacky, I am their #1 fan or should be. So when I really mis the "Red Headed Shameless Hussy" or "The Patootie Haired One." I'll dress like them, and then sit in my skybox and say "Pants" and "Squee"

You see, Sabrina and Salome are among my favorite people to hang out with, though I haven't done that a lot, they're very busy ladiee. Theyr'e even funnier and wittier in virtual person than they are in their blog posts.

Sabrina, or as I like to cal her, "The Red Headed Shameless Hussy" is in part the inspiration for my own "Red Headed strangeness".And it is because of her, that I can't spell jewellery and favourite in the US way anymore. This is one of my favorite Sabrina outfits, i'ts a mixture of different pieces Armidi Bombshell hair and a Gala skin. This is my only Gala skin. I've always wanted to know what Gala looked like on me so I finally broke down and got one. I reallylike it...mostly, except for a minor quibble with the brow color, but I'm extremely picky about brow color. I think Gala skin looks better with thinner lips so I tweked them down a bit just for this skin. The outfit itself is a little bit punk, a little bit girly, and a lot sexy. Details are in her original blog post, and of course she looks better in the total ensemble than I do.

the eo/last call/wrong/oi/heart headband outfit post:





Ah Salome, everyone's favorite Patootie wearer and Mistress of Squee. She's my shoe inspiration. These outfits are from Reasonable desires, the purple bodiced gown and the nun set. That's the only Passport skin I own and frankly my shape does not flatter it. I'm also not fond of Starley's default brows but that is just me and my brow pickyness. I've said it once and I'll say it again redheads are hard to please, especially when that redhead is me. Salome is not a redhead though and like her I'm a fan of ETD's browns, especially Chestnut. Salome looks much cuter in the nun's habit than I do.

nun habit and purple bodice dress from reasonable desires review





I have sometimes thought of myself as Sabrina and Salome's strange "love child" because I'm like a combination of them in some ways stylewise. And has been said on Linden Lifestyles, they show their love by telling each other (and me) why they hate what they're wearing. Sabrina is one of the reasons I switched to less intense greens in my eyes. And I am their #1 fan, but not a stalker! Really. I'm not that crazy, Sabrina has sticks! I just like to do "faux Sabrina and Salome" when they go missing, like I said, yeah that's the ticket. But I am too much Roslin and CJ's ***** to look like them all the time. I love my Tete a Pied skins.And I have my whole "CC looks like a 50's housewife / sophisticated businesswoman / ocassional hussy / penguin" thing going on.

But wherever they are and whatever they are doing I wish them a speedy return to blogging, so that we all may read "Pants!" and "Squee!" again.

Voice

I've been using the First Look Voice Beta's since they became available, and I have a few things to say about voice:

Yes, it surprises people when they hear my voice. I think people understand that SL is different than most online "games" and realize that most of the female avatars are actually female, unlike the old joke applied to IRC, World of Warcraft and the like. So that when I speak, there's a disconnect. There are such things as voice morphing software, like MorphVox but since I am honest in the profile, I don't think I'll use them, though I have played with them a bit.

Voice works best in small groups, in large groups it's just too chaotic, and unlike text chat, you can't scroll back to see what you've missed. Also in large groups there always seems to be some disruptive person, either being a misogynist, homophobe, asshole or just simply cursing every other word.

There is also the problem of language, there are tools that can translate text like the Babbler mentioned in the previous post, but translating speech isn't as polished. Even turning speech to text is not all that easy.

Voice actually works well, it' amazingly clear, as good or better than a landline phone voice quality. However I think the voice clients are more resource intensive. They do not seem to play well with other applications running. That could be an issue for those with low-end "SL is a slideshow" machines like mine. (Integrated graphics, 852GM/855GME chipset)

Now I'm not going to say that I will never use voice, but I don't think I will use it too often. I can imagine it might prove very useful to others, so unlike some, I've not been opposed to implementing it. I am surprised that more people don't use the voice enabled first looks. LL needs as many people testing it as they can get. I've not tested the direct voice conversation parts of it, I don't think I have anyone in my friends list who's voice enabled.

Babbler, a translation tool

With the increasing number of international users of SL, there is an increasing need to be able to understand each other. While I took a year os Spanish in High School, it was many years ago and I have forgotten most of it and I don't understand German, French, Italian or Portuguese at all other than recognizing some root words and the like. That's where Babbler comes in, its a HUD by Max Case that uses Yahoo Pipes to translate what you say, or what others say to you. I was gifted with one bya German speaker and it has proved it's worth already. But here's the best part....it's free. Not only that but you can gift it to others by pressing a button on it.

The Linden's ought to add this thing to the Library, it's that useful. You can get more info on it at Max Case's website

You can also find it in world by using Search.

In Search of tutu.

I was hanging with Swirly Cyclone and the discussion got around to ballerinas and tutus. I thought I had seen some somewhere in my journeys and said so, and also checked my inventory. Nothing. So I decided to try the Beta of the Electric Sheep's search.


Try it yourself and see what you get for tutu

One of the results puzzled me. The one for a PixelDolls outfit at neither the Chartreuse or Port Seraphine locations. Now I'm a fan of PixelDolls so I decided to check to see if said item was at Port Seraphine but just not listed. As far as I could tell it wasn't.

the Port Seraphine store is one of those "too large for their own good stores." Meaning that it's larger than it ought to be with too much open space, which slows down the client too much. Not fun to shop in, for me. At least it's somewhat organized, though I'd put the flexi dresses on the same side of the store as the other dresses. As of now they're on opposite sides. The store could also seriously use a directory/map. Yes, I'm extremely picky about store design.

So I decided to check out the location that supposedly had the item: tropics 33, 176, 26. It turns out that sim is some kind of resort sim, and it has a mall. That location is that of a small PixelDolls store, that neither I or Swirly had ever heard about before. (It's not listed in SL search if you search for PixelDolls) Swirly also said to me that none of the PixelDolls locations had everything.

Frankly, in a direct TP enabled SL, having multiple stores is probably not as useful as it was. In fact, IMHO, designers should just stick with one. Unless, the designer uses different stores/branding for different purposes. like having a fetish line at one store and the avatar-next-door clothes at another.


Here's the "Ballerina Practice oufit L$350, it has plenty of outfit options



Skin: Tete a Pied Sophisticate 1, Hair: ETD Graceful in the old Mahogany(from 2006).

Sold right next to it is an awesome Ballerina AO (for L$1000). It's just so pretty. I'm thinking about transferring the fly anims to my standard AO. I'm thinking about buying a second copy so I can keep on as is after I take the anims out of one.

Without the sheep search I'd have not found this on my own. (though somebody on fashion emergency might have known about it. It's not on SLEX/SLB either)

Happy RL Rezday to moi!

Today, or yesterday rather, the 9th was my RL 40th birthday. Yay for moi.

SL 1.15

Well it's not as bad as the 1.13 Release of Satan, but it's not good either. From what I can tell the network issues are still bad, I'm seeing packet loss of at least 5% practically all the time.

Perhaps they'd have caught some of this stuff if they'd had a first look version of 1.15, because I used the first look's constantly until they stopped updating them. As a fashionista the Beta grid is not as useful to me as the first looks were. More first look viewers Linden Labs! That'll give you more thorough testing. and when it comes to SL more testing is "a good thing."

Gender.and SL, a very short and simple post.

When it comes to fashion stuff, the sex/gender of an avatar's RL driver doesn't matter. Anyone can be a fashionista in SL, grandmothers, stay-at-home moms, RL jewelry designers, even people like me, that's one of the reasons I like SL so much.

Snarky comments about someones RL gender are not very nice, no matter who is the target. I am open about my RL gender, but others are not and that is their privilege.

Guns! Lots of Victorian Steampunk guns.

Some readers may have heard about the mock conflict that is happening between Caledon and Neualtenburg. The folks of both regions are doing it for fun, roleplaying opportunities, and to raise money for the Second Life Relay for Life by selling commissions in the militaries, and also to show of the toys that go bang and boom.

My favorite projectile weaponry in SL is made by Madame Ordinal Malaprop of Caledon.


The machine engine rifle, basically a fast firing "spray and pray" chaingun:



The pocket pistol, perfect for a ladies garter.



The .22 target rifle. Accurate and free!



The famous Beehive Launcher. Fires canisters of Killer bees at target, they will continue to damage the target if it moves. Plus, if not fired at target they stick around for a while and will attack anyone that comes near them.



Clockwork blunderbuss, not very accurate, but good for close in work.



The Revolving Flare gun: Shoots luminous multicolored flares for lighting purposes or high explosive projectiles.



the Grid Protection box, cower and hide in it during grid glitches.



Ordinal's Weaponry and other Useful Gadgetry for those of Taste and Discernment is available at her shop in (Caledon 100, 59, 23), or on SL Boutique or SLEX.

The Caledon Militia Uniform is by Mr. Edward Pearse and is on sale in his shoppes in Caledon Victoria City, Steelhead and Babbage.

Ruthed!

One of the most embarassing things that can happen to an SL fashionista is to get "Ruthed" (the default female avatar that is the "mother of us all") in a glitch. Hair Fair did it to me, sob. I'm hideous! :-)




At least I wasn't stuck with the Ruth skin. Tete a Pied can make Ruth look pretty.

Hair Fair 2007

I joined SL last year after Hair Fair so this is my first.

Hair Fair is a great idea and would be fun if I could stand the shopping experience. It's much too laggy, and a bad user experience. It is hard to shop for new hair when displays won't rez. Having 2 sims is better than having the one I read they had last year but they really needed 4. They probably should have gone as minimalistic on the build as they could, one simple stall design for every designer with simple textures, no fancy shmancy decorations or flexi flags or anything.

I went to take a look at the new Elika "Aveda" hair but couldn't buy it at the Fair because the color textures on the displays would not load. I had to bug out for the actual Aveda store, where the Hair Fair styles were not available, but at least I could see the swatches. Then I headed back into the breach. Having hair exclusive to Hair Fair is a not a good idea when the experience is this bad. I know the HF organizers want people to come to Hair Fair rather than going to the stores, but when the experience is this bad, with the HF sims crashing and causing customers to crash, it would be better to let the designers display the new hair at their stores too.

This is the new hair Aveda, yes THE Aveda, will be selling in SL at their store. It's designed by the one, the only Elikapeka Tiramisu, of whom I am her *****. All of it is gorgeous, and I love this Sienna color which is similar to the old ETD Mahogany (which was my favorite ETD color) I want all ETD hair to come in this color. :-) (and the old Mahogany back under a new name, Sorry Elika.)

Long Flip:



Med Curl:



Med End Curl:



Med Wavy:



Short Crop (very very sexy. Rowr! This one reminded me of Celebrity Trollop of Second Style for some reason.):



Short Layered (It's pretty but covers too much of the face)



Regular ETD hair:

This is Maxine, a nice long casual style (in the new Mahogany)






Hairapy Freebies:

Bree in Bleach Blonde:



Couer in Deep Red (reminds me of some of Sabrina Doolittle's favorite HCT styles)



I want to go back to Hair Fair to look around some more, but yet I don't want to go back to Hair Fair if you know what I mean, sigh.

HF organizers: Next year 8 sims, trust me, you'll need them. :-)

Tete a Pied Avril Release

Am I not Roslin Petion's and CJ Carnot's *****? Why yes, yes I am. Which is why when Avril hit the Tete a Pied store displays I went over and bought the fatpack (which is one skin and both dress colors)

This months release is a pretty springy dress and cardi combo and coordinating skin. A very pretty coordinating skin. Skin others have not wanted to take off ever. Not me, of course, I switch it out with other Tete a Pied skins as my whim and current outfit decides

The dress does tend to make certain av's look hippy, it's a system skirt so it makes skinny hipped av moi look hippy too. But that's okay since my av's hips are set with the system skirt in mind. The dress itself reminds me of some of the Casa del Shai strapless dresses which I like, but the skirt is less form fitting. You can probably find a dress like this in your local Ann Taylor, it's sweet, it's pretty, it's dressy but daytime dressy.



from left to right, Hyacinth, Tangerine (group exclusive color) and Peony. ETD Roslin hair in Mahogany, Shiny Things Signature Stilettos in Camel.




The skin is usual TaP Goodness. Subtle shading, well done (and pretty) makeup (sorry that you can't see the awesome eyeshadow on this skin), and the awesome TaP Boobeh shading. Roslin could do my makeup in RL any time she wanted. No, I am not going to talk about the "kitty", that's Sabrina's job. It seems to be the standard TaP2 kitty region from my casual inspection, with the heart shaped pubic hair. You'll notice that this is the redhead version of Avril skin, which comes with freckles. Now I'm not usually a freckle lovin gal, prefer no freckles for a more "polished" look. But these are TaP freckles so it's all ok.




Pretty skin and pretty dresses are available at the pretty Tete a Pied Store in the Nouveau sim While you're there you can buy pretty accessories from Miriel Enfield's and Jackal Ennui's stores, also in Nouveau.

Bling Bewb's with Swirly-tech from Kriss Lehmann

Imagine an attachment that attaches at your chest and blings in the general area of one's boobehs. Also imagine that said device comes with a gadget that quotes Swirly Cyclone of the Fashion Victim blog and that whenever a quote is said, it sends out a particle burst.
Also imagine that said device is only 10$L. Is not this device desirable? Is it not Swirly-icious? Yes.

Also available is the Everglow Beauty Light, which bathes the face in a flattering soft glow, essentially it's like carrying a portable light source with you.

Acquire at the Kriss Lehmann Gallery at secondlife://Solbim/113/17/55

Praise Elika, Patootie has returned to ETD.

It's baaaaaaaaaaaaack. One of my favorite ETD styles has returned to ETD as Patootie II. Patootie wearers across the grid will be pleased. And all the new folks will no longer be deprived of Patootie goodness and its available in Elika's new textures, like the luscious new chestnut.

A shot of me wearing it in front of the display in Elika's new hairstyles section. Oh Patootie, how have I missed you. This is the new mahogany shade. That's Tete a Pied Seductress Scarlet (redhead version) skin, and a Dazzle dress, that I didn't note the name of. But it's not available anymore of course. :-)

And a more close up image, Tete a Pied Rose Dark, Sophisticate 4 skin (redhead version). Lola Fauna "Pale is the New Tan" T-shirt.

So now Patootie afcionados will no longer have to plan to beseige ETD

Acquire Patootie Goodness at the ETD store on ETD Isle.

Such exquisite Insolence.

I just had to see how the new famed Insolence lingerie looked on moi, so I TP'd on over and purchased the "Salome" set in black, ooh, sexay! Especially with my new Analog Dog Pom Curl in Copper hair, which is an extremely full, extremely lush, absolute mane of sex kitten hair that moves so beautifully.

The stockings have back seams and the set is just as lovely from the rear and so is the hair.

The lingerie set is name Salome and I just HAD to do a Salome inspired shot with me wearing ETD Patootie (in Mahogany mind you, not the Chestnut Brown Salome favors)

Since I have a Salome Strangelove inspired shot I really ought to have a Sabrina inspired one too. This one is of the Kaiti Designs Cinnamon dress which is quite delectable. It reminds me a bit of the Casa del Shai animal print dresses except Cinnamon is off the shoulder and not strapless.

Insolence lingerie
Venom (94, 134, 28)

Kaiti Designs
Danpoon (183, 32, 21)

Analog Dog
Pomponio (241, 210, 61)

I'm a Barbie Girl!

One of the reasons I like SL so much is because it's like playing with Barbie. I just wanted to post this picture of some of my Barbies. Yes, I have collected them, though not lately as I have mentioned before.

That's a Happy Holidays Barbie, it was my first, a Birthstone Barbie (may emerald), and Barbie as Sleeping Beauty. And yes that is me in the in the photo in the frame, that's my high school graduation picture from 1985.

Tete a Pied prim nails.

Roslin Petion and CJ Carnot of Tete a Pied have released a new series of prim nails today, these are longer, "glamour" nails inspired by Burlesque Queen Dita Von Teese. These are the "Scarlet" ones. Pretty! Shiny! Glamour They're available at the Tete a Pied boutique in the Nouveau sim.

And thanks to these nails, my inventory has hit 10000 items, which is a badge of honor among fashionistas.

Face of L'Oreal in SL contest

L'Oreal is holding a contest to determine their 2007 face in SL. As described in detail here on Second Style and on the Aspire blog

Here's the gist of it:

Contestants will compete in a beauty pageant March 31, 2007 at NOON SL on ASpiRE! grounds. Contestants will work the L'Oreal Paris runway in 3 looks, classy casual, formal, and bikini in a glamorous theme. After contestants have modeled their 3 looks they will each come back onto the runway to talk about who they are as people, what they contribute to the SL community and why they should be the avvie to represent L'Oreal Paris!

The grand prize winner of the SL face of L'Oreal Paris 2007 will win a FREE year supply of L'Oreal cosmetics as well as have their avvie displayed to the world at http://www.vip.lorealparis.fr. ASpiRE! Modeling Agency will also award the winner with a coveted employment position as an ASpiRE! Model.

Here are the pictures I sent in, the low res versions. The original bmp's were 77MB, converting them to .jpg put them at around 2MB.

Classy casual in Luminosity Irvington sweater and khaki trousers

A pretty face shot, in all pics skin is from Tete a Pied, the hair is the Roslin style from ETD. Pearls from Raven's creations, and of course Lynnix Muse prim eyelashes

In a black swing dress from 1-800-Bettie, suede court shoes from Yuka Itamae

A Glamour Bikini shot in a bikini from Poppy Designs.Endless Summer Collection

In a suit from Pukk Abel's First Impressions/IndustriELLE

A simply pretty dress from Shine, shoes from Shiny Things.

I have met the most important fashionista in SL: Swirly Cyclone!

So I've been checking the Paper Couture store in Tableau to see if they new releases were up, so I popped into Tableau and saw lots of green dots at PC.

my scanner showed me several fashionistas were around there, so I flew over and went upstairs and saw the fashionistas and the new spring items. Those Crazy Lu Bitches had released them without a formal announcement. Roslin Petion was shopping and had on the new Tuli pantsuit.

So I bought want I wanted after I hemmed and hawed for a while.(Crazy Lu Bitches want me in the poorhouse) While there I saw a male av looking for a gift for someone and since he had payment info on file I told him to go marry Swirly Cyclone. Really, I did. Then I left to do my thing. Some time later, I then realized that without a formal announcement that many fans might not know about the releases so I opened up an IM window with the PC fan group and announced it. I then popped over to PC in Tableau and waited for the lemming run just to chat with the other fashionistas.

And SHE showed up! Swirly! with Stephanie Misfit! and shortly later, Ayami Reisman!

Now I was just tickled pink to see Swirly because I'm a big fan of the Fashion Victim blog. I heart Swirly!

I had to take a picture:



Isn't Swirly beautiful. That's the PC Gouet gown I'm wearing. Later on, Swirly bought one of the PC gowns (the one with the big shoulder puffs and the orange ribbon) and looked awesome in it.

Anyway, it just made my day to meet the Fashion Victim folks, especially Swirly. My SL kind of froze up but while it lasted the conversation was fab-u-lous. I told Swirly about the guy I told to marry her and she was pleased. Just before I locked up she friended me, but I wasn't able to hit the button to accept! Me, a friend of Swirly!

I also saw Fashionista academic Anya Ixchel (who was a brunette) and today, Six Kennedy at PC, loved the blonde on the hair Six was wearing. Six bought the gold/bronze gown with the ruffles which complimented her tanned skin and blonde hair quite well.

Anyway, I just had so much fun talking and hanging out, I always like chatting with other fashionistas.