Second Life™, New Stuff

Keeping it Simple And Sophisticated

The Goods:

Head / CATWA - Catya

Body / Maitreya Mesh Body - Lara

Hair / DOUX - Galvez Hairstyle, Black Friday

Eyes / {S0NG -Miley, Earth Eye

Skin / Mudskin, they all look great

Blush / Izzie's - Catwa - Applier Aegyo Sal 

Snowman Buddy / SEmotion Libellune Cute Snowman #17 gacha found at the Uber Event

Top / Dead Dollz - Mila Sweater - Black, found at the Uber Event

Shorts / Dead Dollz - Mila Shorts - Mustard, found at the Uber Event

Tights - C'est la vie, Inga leggings, Nov 29. 50L$ Friday

Socks / not so bad, RAY socks - Thes socks came with a pair of boots but I decided they worked well with these boots too. Look for the Ranger Boots.

Boots / REIGN, Maizey Shearling Boots

So What do I think of it all?

Head and shape - Gosh I've always thought they were ok until the Genus peer pressure thing set in. I mean, is my baby face too much? In real life, I have a babyface, so I didn't think anything about looking like that in SL. I love listening to Naria Panther's blogs, but she calls it a baby girl look and complains about short people like me 😔. I use Firestorm. Just right-click yourself and click appearance, then click on edit shape...    in the upper right-hand corner, it tells me I'm 5'2" feet or 1.59 meters. 

Skin, Blush, and Eyes - Mudskin is my go-to skin and maybe THAT's what really makes the face so young looking. Izzie's blush is perfect. I have tried this blush on Genus but clearly, I don't have full control of my HUD enough to pull off the genus version of this product. The eyes are one of the best S0ng has put out in a while and I love them.

Top shorts and hair - Sophisticated, preppy, and not a care in the world. The hair is sleek and fits closely. I'm wearing a large because of my round baby girl head (see above). Currently, this is my favorite hair. The top and shorts are beautifully textured and wish I could have gotten the fat packs.

Tights, socks, and boots - I never turn down a set of well-textured tights and this was no exception. There were 5 or 6 in the pack and the pack was on sale for $50L Friday a few weeks back. I felt the black REIGN boots just needed some transition leading up to the tights, so I pulled out my new Ranger boots from not so bad and just put on the socks.

Snowman Buddy - I ran across this simple little snowman Gocha at Uber. When I realized it was animesh, I knew every single little guy in the machine was a winner.... you betcha I pulled, got a common and I think he's adorable.

Second Life™ Items From Belle Epoque, Truth, REIGN, Ingenue, Pink Fuel

Goodies!

Outfit: 

Belle Epoque has Nekane out at Equal10. Such pretty wrinkles in this! The top and skirt are actually one piece. Ten outfits are available and each color has a different message on the top.

Hair: 

Vanish is a newer release from Truth. Have a look at this beautiful, beautiful texture. 

   

Donut:

This tasty looking glazed donut is also available at Equal10 from REIGN.

Shoes:

The Ingenue, Faye Heels bring the outfit a classy look.

Head and Skin:

This is my first time using the Genus Babyface head. The skin was found at Pink Fuel and is called Tomie. The shape is my own.

Second Life™, New Items From Reign,Emery,Tram and Yokai

Emery / Leonia Dress Petrol

The Dress:

This lovely dress from  Emery (Leonia Dress Petrol) is currently located at Collabor88 .

The Good:

• Beautiful crushed velvet style texture
• great fit (I don't have other body shapes, but it works great on Maitreya)
• Nice price today at $188L

The Hair:

Let's tale a closer look at the new hair release from tram, style I1009, found at Collabor88.

The Good:

• The texture is beautiful
• messy in a nice way
• numerous sizes in the box
• The price was fair at $288L
• There are two little hairs up by your ears, use the inner color picker to make changes to that color if you like

The Boots:

REIGN has these very nicely detailed DONNA BOOTIES at Callobor88.

The Good:

• Love the details
• Nice leather textures
• Chunky heels, I love chunky heels!
• For the event, the fat pack is only $388L

Holdable Teddy Deer:

Clearly, it was a good day for me at Collabor88, where I also picked up the Glowing Teddy Deer by  Yokai. 

The Good:

• Each Teddy Deer comes with two color sets on the hud
• OMG! Only $88 at the event!
• Glows

Second Life™ An Honest Review of Items From Mishmish, Pewpew!, 22769, Tentacio, Dust Bunny, Bonobo by Sallie, Izzie's, REIGN and barberyumyum

Reviewing some fall goodies!

My new favorite hair.

The Items:

Thought the table might help break it down.

Details About the Above Items:

The Grandpa Corduroy Pants and Cardi were paired together in the ad seen at Anthem, so I feel they were meant to be paired together. These two items were made by Bonobo by Sallie.

I absolutely love the country Dr. look of the outfit and it is also has a nice androgynous look when women wear it.

The textures are beautiful and the details spot on. I gave the pants a 5 and the cardigan a 3.

Great textures!

*** Oops - a teeny tiny clip at the collar.

*** Oops - When worn together, there is an overlap at the hip (and butt when walking)

What does this mean? It means if you have a bit of OCD, and the overlap bothers you, rethink pairing these two items. 

This little mouse made by Mishmish is worth hanging onto and was found at Kustom9

The handy little bat case is a new release from bonbon --  found at The Epiphany. I promised myself to only play ONCE, and this was my happy result.

*Oops - $175 for only one cup/color!?

I cringed hitting the pay button on this one. Pewpew!, it's so pretty .... and expensive. I bought it at Anthem

Housewares:

This little Autumn memory collection can be found at Tentacio.  It's free for group members! 

I have a dilemma, should free items be reviewed with a score? Let me know what you think. When your item is free, do you look at it carefully? Will the design of THAT individual free item affect how the consummer judges other items in the shop? 

Free items are reviewed in the real world. We review movies, food, make-up samples and all manner of things that may be free. Are SL free items to be reviewed by a different standard?

According to my sliding scale, 4 is a B. ARGGG..... I took off a point because it had so many prims.

Dust Bunny was clearly the winner of my wallet this past week.

The apothecary cabinet comes in at a low 6 prims.  Well worth a 5 point review.

Such detail!

I only found two items I just "had to have" at The Liaison Collaborative this go-round. Izzie's new eye release goodies and this pretty Autumn cage by 22769. Inside the cage is a candle that can be modded. How big a flame do YOU want?

Next, let's see the newest from Dust Bunny:

 It's cider time!

MAN, who do I need to know to get on Dust Bunny's blogger list!? This stuff is gorgeous. Look at the details above. My photos don't do this set justice. In fact, the dook is so detailed you can read the freakin' pages 💗.

Inside the cider pot, you can easily identify all the goodies needed to make cider. This whole set is OUTSTANDING. Head on over to Kustom9 and take a look!

Disclaimer:

The above details can change all the time in SL. For today, the above information is good.

Second Life™ An Honest Review of the Hello Kitty Event and Random Clothing

The Hello Kitty 45th Anniversary Event is Open!

I was so excited to go. I even read the fine print that which suggested attire was red and blue. I had to dig in my inventory for the appropriate colors.

I played the go-cart game, rode the river tubes, got on the Ferris wheel and even went shopping. Goodness, even had a random two-day-old newb begin a conversation with me. BTW, he asked the two most common questions.

1. Where are you from?
2. How old are you?

Guys, guys, guys, stop that crud. It's too early to ask such questions. Really, How OLD am I!? Old enough to be in SL for 13 years!! SERIOUSLY!? You can be any age you want in SL, that's all that matters.

Anyway, I digress, back to the Hello Kitty event. 

The Good:

• The go-cart came felt like an odd version of Candyland. Just don't hit the green start light until everyone is seated and ready to go. Seems to randomly ask Hello Kitty questions which makes me panic in a good way 😄
• The lag wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
• Riding the river tubes was exciting in a good way. The tube was hard for me to control, just like on a REAL river.
• Atmosphere - bright and bold and looks like it was set up by a professional.
• I enjoyed seeing some of the little kid avatars running around.
• Shopping tent!
• Two free gifts to be found, Three if you win the go-cart race.

The Oops:

• Perhaps next time some detours could be on the race track (like in Candyland).
• I like my atmosphere nice and crisp but some textures would rez for a few seconds, then the edges would go all fuzzy 3 seconds later. That can be a pain when taking photos. My graphics are pretty dang decent and that shouldn't have happened so much. Do I need to change my settings?
• I lost the race several times so I didn't get the cotton candy...I wanted that cotton candy. I was pouty for a good minute. 
• A few more hello kitty clothing items to buy would have been really nice. I'd like to see some athletic shoes or boots. Oh! snow boots!! I would have bought those. What would YOU have bought if it was there?

Wearing: 

Hair - Wasabi, Daphne from the Wasabi Autumn & Daphne gatcha machine at Epiphany NEW
Top - HIME*DREAM Ruffled Chiffon Blouse
Pants - Vinyl - Fuel Snowboarding pants
Shoes - Reign, Arianna Sneakers
Camera - travel with me - a group gift from Tentacio (free)
Glasses - MULLOY - Mastero Glasses

Since I've shown most of the items being worn in the first photo before, let's have an honest review of the Wasabi hair, Daphne.

The Good:

• A beautiful mess
• color changing clip, or you could hide the clip
• What you see is what you get - try on the demo.

The Oops:

• I picked it up at a gotcha, so not the blond I was hoping for. It took me three tries to get this one. The first two I got were some mixed odd colors I would never wear. Solar ombre is not my color:(
• When looked at closely, my left side seems to be a bit higher than the other due to a strand of fluff. I know, I know, it's my OCD kicking in. If it was in real life, I would have redone that side. BTW, not talking about the crooked ponytails, those are stinking cute. Talking about the random shear hair bit.

I know, like I said, it's supposed to be messy.

Score:

On a scale of 1 - 5, 5 being the best of the best

Style - 4, (cough) OCD hair strand - Yes, I tried the demo but it was cute and I bought it anyway 😉

Textures and/or Colors - 5, the red IS pretty!

Fit - 3, I did have a few ear adjustment issues

Overall - 4!

Next time, I'll show you the clothing I bought at the event.

!go! Advent

Wearing in Second Life™

Hair / Ayashi - Yoko hair - Fatpack, group gift, group is free to join!

Make-Up / Mudskin

Shape / Mudskin  - YONI Catwa Shape

Sweater / !gO! Fiesta! Baja Hoodie - maitreya lara, Day 1, Free, group is %50L to join.

Shorts / Blueberry - Reignberry - Shorts, new

Boots / REIGN.-  TANA boot and socks, also found at Blueberry

Location in Second Life™

!gO! Mainstore

REIGN

The TANA boot and socks, are a collaboration between Reign and Blueberry. That means it comes with the Riegn color fatpack hud  AND the Blueberry colors are also included in a separate hud.

Loving the details at the backs of the knees!

Second Life™ Bee Designs

Wearing in Second Life™

Hair / Doe: Hirari, from the 11/16/2018 $50L Friday Event

Earings / Ahegao - Gummy Bear Earrings found at the November Girl Power Event

Shape / Mudskin, Irene

Make-Up / Mudskin

Eyes / .euphoric - Celeste  Eyes Applier found at the Sense Event

Sweater Top / VINYL - Georgia Crop - found at Kustom9

Waffle / Tentacio,  apple waffle from the Kustom9 Event

Pants / ISON - nora rock on skinny at Collabor88

Shoes / Reign, TEEKS, 50% off right now!

Second Life™ From Bee Designs:

Bee designs Giovanna Bedroom gacha 6

Bee designs Giovanna Bedroom gacha 4

Bee designs Giovanna Bedroom gacha 2

Bee designs Giovanna Bedroom gacha 1 RARE

Bee designs Giovanna Bedroom gacha 8

Bee designs Giovanna Bedroom gacha 10

Bee designs Giovanna Bedroom gacha 9

Bee designs Giovanna Bedroom gacha 3

Bee designs Giovanna Bedroom gacha 7

Bee Designs 

Giovanna Bedroom gacha found at Bee Designs 

Tentacio

apple waffle, found at Kustom9

Reign

OMG - 50% off sale is going on NOW! (50% off the fat pack) They are having a HUGE 50% off sale right now. Also - Buy a Gift card at 50% off Now to give to friends and Family for Christmas!!