Posted in 5th & Oxford, MV-SL-Fashion, skins, tagged beauty, fashion, Fashion Feed of SL, Grazia, Grazia Horwitz, iHeartSL, Look book, MV-SL-Fashion, photo, photogaphy, Second Life, Shopaholicfeed.com, SL, Style, Virtual, Virtual World on July 9, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Cherry Sorbet, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz. Photo edited in PS
This cute, pink cherry bikini is one of the 50 L$ Friday items at 5th & Oxford this week. Sorbet, is a delicious skin based on their Audry skin with an updated Parfait mouth. 5th & Oxford will be offering it on Harajuku Box skin faire, which will take place from July 10 through July 17!
Posted in PXL Creations, skins, tagged /GEEZ/, beauty, fashion, Fashion Feed of SL, Grazia, Grazia Horwitz, iHeartSL, MV-SL-Fashion, Second Life, SecondLife, Shopaholicfeed.com, SL, Style, Virtual, Virtual World on July 2, 2010| 1 Comment »
When months ago I tried on one of the first betas of Candy (back then just named, “beta 1.2 etc”) I was smitten already with the lovely shape of the mouth. Then RL took over, and months past til a couple of weeks ago, Hart Larsson sent me some make up samples… on a totally new and refined body and face for “beta”, now named Candy. Candy comes in 2 skintones for now, Natural (worn) and sunkissed and 27 make ups each. Each make up comes with 3 eyebrow options, and 2 cleavage options (push up on underwear layer and tattoo layer).
I will post a full review later, but for now, I just wanted to show you how pretty Candy is. This photo is basically unedited, except for some cropping and the adding of a border. I have, however been playing with windlight for this shot. You will find the natural skin slightly darker and more saturated with default light.
Other need to knows: Daring arm- and finger wrap by alaMood, tattoo by HUZ-tats (not available), hair Maya (platinum) by I Love Olive.
SLurls are listed here
Posted in Lionskins, skins, tagged beauty, fashion, Fashion Feed of SL, Grazia, Grazia Horwitz, iHeartSL, MV-SL-Fashion, Second Life, SecondLife, Shopaholicfeed.com, SL, Style, Virtual, Virtual World on June 25, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Lionskins has a new skin out, Nova, and while I was absolutely NOT impressed or even amused with her previous skin/collab with Leezu, at first glance this skin looks better again, more like the old Lionskins, like Cana and Zulu. So it was time for an up close and personal with Nova. Nova is available in 4 skintones from ultra pale, to pretty much African dark.
I tried the demos in pale and sun and eventually decided to go get a skin in the sun tone, so I could show you the skin sans demo signs and lines. Oh how I hate them, they emphasize seams that you might not even notice if not for the lines, but once you know where to look for them, even without the demo lines, this skin shows a few subtle seams especially around the ankles and the hips. The template edges on the legs are quite efficiently masked by a skin highlight, but in my opinion it is a bit too harsh.
From a distance this skin looks pretty good, but zooming in on the body, theres is a LOT of noise on the textures, especially on the back. A bit of graininess adds to a realistic look, but too much looks like you have a skin problem. The shading on the lower back and the bum on the contrary is quite delicious. Again, too bad for the noise.
I love the shading of the stomach area, toned, but not muscular. Pretty much the way I wish my own tummy would look like in RL. I really wish there was at least an option for a bellybutton piercingless skin, though. It is almost a dealbreaker for me, and I think this time will be the only time I have worn this skin with a bikini or undies. It’s going to be strictly PG, or high waist swimwear with Nova!
What I also wanted to share are the legs of Nova, but not because I think they are stunning. The knees look kinda old to me, the toes are so tightly placed on the template that it seems a toe is missing and on the back of the knees the shading is so dark that my first impression was varicose vein alert. But on second glance, the shading is just too contrasted.
Oh my, now that I am actually scrutinizing this skin, I see a lot of little things that irk me. I like thicker eyebrows, but hmm… it doesn’t hurt to use tweezers every now and then, and I think it’s ok to use a photo-base… but please… I don’t want pimples on my forehead… or pores on my cheeks… at least, not the huge ones! But… all that taken in consideration, I still like this face enough to spend 1k for this skin. Not in the least for the awesome vinyl lip gloss! Other little (but easy to cover up) issues I have with this skin are the highlights on the breasts, and the vagina, which… well… nuff said… try a demo if you want to see it.
Last but not least, I appreciate it when content creators offer a little extra, like in this case 2 versions of a hair add-on for the hairbase skin, but please, dear creatives of SL… make it matching to your hairbases, or a lot of people will run around the grid with awful hair, and that is NOT good publicity for either the skinner, or the hairmaker.
Sooooooo… yeah, you’ll occasionally see me in this skin, but I surely hope for a more refined and subtle V2 of Nova. As always, try a demo for yourself before buying a skin. My shape is quite a determining factor in how this skin looks on me, and the effect might be totally different on you.
Posted in Exile, skins, tagged beauty, fashion, Fashion Feed of SL, Grazia, Grazia Horwitz, iHeartSL, MV-SL-Fashion, Second Life, SecondLife, Shopaholicfeed.com, SL, Style, Virtual, Virtual World on June 13, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Last week Kavar Cleanslate released his newest skin at Exile, and I am really impressed. Well defined brows -in dark and light version-, a cute nose and kissable lips (not to mention some very alluring make up names!). The body has an overall softness that I also very much like. The breast shading is a wee bit angular, I would prefer them more round, but they do not look like silicone implants, which is an absolute plus.
I love the back and the bum on this skin, for the softness I mentioned before, but compared to that, the hands are pretty detailed, and while in themselves they look fine, they do not match the softness of the rest of the skin. Anyway, that’s just a minor point of criticism, and certainly no dealbreaker! Chloe comes in 5 skintones which are looking pretty fine, though personally I like Chloe best in the lighter skintones.
Before buying any skin, please remind to always try a demo. The way a skin will look on you highly depends on your shape.
Other need to knows: hair Kylie by Exile, bikini by Simone (it was the first one I ever bought, I don’t know if it’s still availale.
Posted in Exodi, skins, tagged beauty, fashion, Fashion Feed of SL, Grazia, Grazia Horwitz, iHeartSL, MV-SL-Fashion, Second Life, SecondLife, Shopaholicfeed.com, SL, Style, Virtual, Virtual World on June 9, 2010| 1 Comment »
Last week, Ryker Beck from Exodi released her latest skin line Dael. I have used this skin already in various looks and love it, but I still had these pics… so here’s a Dael only post.
What’s to love:
What’s to debate:
Yesterday Ryker announced a massive sale on her older skin lines:
Posted in Adam 'n Eve, MV-SL-Fashion, skins, tagged beauty, fashion, Fashion Feed of SL, Grazia, Grazia Horwitz, iHeartSL, MV-SL-Fashion, Second Life, SecondLife, Shopaholicfeed.com, SL, Style, Virtual, Virtual World on June 2, 2010| 3 Comments »
Chrome Byte, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.
Chrome Byte is the name of this new specialty skin from sachi Vixen of Adam ‘n Eve. Honestly, I want that name for an alt!!
This skin is also available as Chrome Natural (without the chip “shining” through) and also in a gold version.
Fun for styling or RP, or just, because sometimes a silver accessory is just not enough.
Hamlet Au picked up on sachi’s new release after reading Bettina Tizzy’s tweet about my blog.
Posted in MV-SL-Fashion, preview, skins, Tuli, tagged fashion, Fashion Feed of SL, Grazia, Grazia Horwitz, iHeartSL, MV-SL-Fashion, Second Life, SecondLife, Shopaholicfeed.com, SL, Style, Virtual, Virtual World on May 27, 2010| 1 Comment »
Tomorrow, Tuli Asturias will launch her new skin, Jade. Jade will be available in 5 skintones and 10 make ups each. You are already used to Tuli making her skins available in 3 eyebrow options, but now she has also 3 cleavages for you to chose from (small chest, medium chest and push up) I love this as I keep my boob sliders way down, and it can look a bit weird sometimes with busty shaded skins, so I’m all for the small chest option!
Visit Tuli
Other need to knows: Hair Valerie by Truth, swim wear by Nyte ‘n Day
Posted in La Sylphide, MV-SL-Fashion, new releases, skins, tagged fashion, Fashion Feed of SL, Grazia, Grazia Horwitz, iHeartSL, MV-SL-Fashion, SecondLife, Shopaholicfeed.com, SL, Virtual, Virtual World on May 17, 2010| Leave a Comment »
It must have been around last summer that Stephanie Misfit was teasing all of her plurk buddies with some images of a skin she was working on, and then… it took until today for Claire to hit the store! Out today at La Sylphide, Claire, a lovely, soft looking skin with luscious, shiny lips and some beautiful eye make ups. I admire Steph for making some of the most elegant faces around. Claire comes in 3 skin tones, I’m showing you the lightest here.
La Sylphide skins are a wonderful solution for skin lovers on a budget. These are not frankensteined, original skins for a totally affordable price of 600 L$ for a single skin, and only 2k L$ for a fatpack of all 8 make ups in a skin tone
visit La Sylphide @ Imogen
Posted in Dutch Touch, MV-SL-Fashion, N-Core, Nuuna's Skins, skins, tagged beauty, fashion, Fashion Feed of SL, Grazia, Grazia Horwitz, iHeartSL, MV-SL-Fashion, Second Life, Shopaholicfeed.com, SL, Style, Virtual, Virtual World on May 11, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Mmmmm…. more gorgeous skins over at Dutch Touch!! I have shown Isis a couple of times as a preview over the past week, but now she’s out and Iki went loose again on some gorgeous make ups! What I admire most about Dutch Touch skins is Iki’s ability to create crisp textures with a lot if definition in both face and body, without ever looking hard. There isn’t a harsh shading to be found in any of her skins. And, like Gogo states in her blog post about Isis, Iki makes some of the nicest cleavages!
Above you see the “Fun”set in cocoa. Below the “Cute” set in cream and the “Smokey” set in olive.
Dutch Touch has an in-world group now and if you join and wear your group tag, you will find 2 skins priced at just 500 each for group members as well as a free skin!!
Other need to knows: frilly undies by Whippet & Buck, hair by Truth
Posted in Adam 'n Eve, MV-SL-Fashion, skins, tagged beauty, fashion, Fashion Feed of SL, Grazia, Grazia Horwitz, iHeartSL, MV-SL-Fashion, Second Life, SecondLife, Shopaholicfeed.com, SL, Style, Virtual, Virtual World on May 10, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Amanda , originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.
Sachi has a bunch of new skins and make ups ou at Adam ‘n Eve… New make ups for Mei Li, a new Drow skin and new make ups for one of my favorite Adam ‘n Eve skins: Amanda. Is that red lipstick not adorable? So sunny and lush!!
The bodywork is, as you may expect, fabulous at Adam ‘n Eve and you should really try a demo if you like good skins, these will change a lot according to the shape they work with. You might be surprised!!
Posted in LeLutka, MV-SL-Fashion, preview, skins, tagged fashion, Fashion Feed of SL, Grazia, Grazia Horwitz, iHeartSL, MV-SL-Fashion, Second Life, SecondLife, Shopaholicfeed.com, SL, SL2.0, Style, Virtual, Virtual World on May 9, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Lola, the upcoming skin from Lelutka is definitely one of my favorite skins ever. It has taken a while before the brand grabbed me, but with Ife, I became a real fan, and Lola… oh dear, Lola is just a stunning skin!
The body has been reworked, the annoying little flaw on the nose has been corrected, and with the introduction of SL2.0 and the tattoo layer, there are more make up options than ever. Every eye make up can now be combined with 11 lipstick tattoos. It’s a real incentive to try the 2.0 viewer! (Not that I wasn’t a fan of that already, it just runs smoother for me than the first generation viewers)
Anyway, I think it’s time for picture overload after the cut. Lola will be released in 5 skin tones and every skin tone has different make ups, so I’m just going to show them all.
Posted in Exile, skins, tagged fashion, Fashion Feed of SL, Grazia, Grazia Horwitz, iHeartSL, MV-SL-Fashion, Second Life, SecondLife, Shopaholicfeed.com, Style, Virtual, Virtual World on April 21, 2010| Leave a Comment »
When I started to unpack all all 8 make ups in 5 skintones and tried the first one of Exile‘s new skins on, my initial thought was… “hmm… I don’t think this skin is for me” . Some of the stronger make ups look a little weird on me, just… not… me… (which may sound weird considering I wear a lot of different skins and have no issue adjusting my shape, but still).
But then, going through the make ups, I noticed that the softer lip colours were actually looking not bad. Not bad at all. Rapture gives my avie a more mature look, without the skin issues that usually go with an aging skin. So I went into appearance and tweaked my shape a little bit (pic of Rapture on my normal shape aside to the tweaked shape for comparison below) and I pretty much like the result.
Rapture is one of those skins that for me look great from a distance, but once you zoom in, the body shading that gives the over all definition, looks a bit harsh. For instance, Kavar added some shadow under the arm, which on the full body pic looks really good and natural, but when you zoom in… it’s really just a dark and somewhat blurred spot in the elbow pit. But since a lot of my fellow skinwhores frequently state that it’s really about the face, I think this will not be a major issue. Also I am not a fan of the knees, which do look a bit like my RL age.
On the other hand, I really love the slightly desaturated skintones. Out with the orange self tan looks!! In with the natural skintones!!
NB portrait image is post processed
Exile's Rapture Body
Left: Rapture on my default shape, right: on tweaked shape
Posted in Dutch Touch, MV-SL-Fashion, skins, tagged fashion, Fashion Feed of SL, Grazia, Grazia Horwitz, iHeartSL, MV-SL-Fashion, Second Life, SecondLife, Shopaholicfeed.com, SL, SL2.0, Style, Virtual, Virtual World on April 19, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Kiki, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz. image post processed
Like when she made Sjors, immediately followed by Gwen (or vice versa, hard to tell) also this week Iki made a second release after putting Keira in the shop. Kiki is Keira’s sister skin, to quote Ms. Ikarus.
It’s a smaller release, “only” 8 make ups in the skintones cream, caramel and olive. Also, no red brows for Kiki, but instead the most subtle light blonde and brown brows (and the browns will fit a vast range of hair colours).
With Kiki you get the Kiki shape for free. It;s the one Iki used in the vendor shots. She’s a little too extreme for me, so I am showing you Kiki on my own shape and I love the soft look that she gives me. Also Iki has put in a bonus of sl2.0 tattoo hair bases, which come in 12 different blondes, blacks, browns and reds!
Go try Kiki for yourself @ Dutch Touch
Posted in Dutch Touch, MV-SL-Fashion, skins, tagged fashion, Fashion Feed of SL, Grazia, Grazia Horwitz, iHeartSL, MV-SL-Fashion, Second Life, SecondLife, Shopaholicfeed.com, SL, Style, Virtual, Virtual World on April 18, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Dutch Touch: Keira, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.
Iki is on a roll again. Today she has released Keira @ Dutch Touch, the latest addition to her ever growing skin collection. Keira comes with a whopping 15 make ups with the freckles and cleavage options.
But this time Iki has made the choice to make separate displays for the blond, the black and yes *drumroll* the red hair skins!!! That means not only there are red eyebrows for Keira, but also red hairbase. And for the die hard hair base lovers, Iki has made some more, for sl2.0 tatoo layer so that you can match your hairbase with your hair texture better than before.
Keira retails for 1000 L$ for a single (all options) skin, and a fatpack of all make ups is a really great deal at 7500 L$.
Al the options in a row:
::kEIra:: Blond
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• Blond Eyebrows
• Blond HairBase
• Freckles/Moles option
• Cleavage option
* Prim Eyelashes
::kEIra:: Black
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• Black Eyebrows
• Black HairBase
• Freckles/Moles option
• Cleavage option
* Prim Eyelashes
::kEIra:: Red
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• Red Eyebrows
• Red HairBase
• Freckles/Moles option
• Cleavage option
* Prim Eyelashes
• Tones:
Cotton, Cream, Caramel and Olive
Bonus:
:: DUTCH TOUCH :: Hairbases – (SL2.0 Tattoo Layer)
Posted in MV-SL-Fashion, preview, skins, Tuli on April 17, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Sayuri, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz. Image post processed
Release date for this stunning Asia inspired skin is set for April 22! Sayuri will be available in 2 skintones with 10 make ups and they come in a dark brow only, but with freckle option and cleavage option.
This picture is heavily photoshopped, because I wanted to achive this ethereal porcelain look, but below you see the various make ups, untouched, on skin tone 1. Skin tone 2 is slightly darker, but just the slightest bit.
I have not adusted a thing in my shape for Sayuri. Tuli has really achieved an Asian look in the skin that needs little to no support from a shape.
I may go Asian for a while. Sayuri and Grazia… it’s love.
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