If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll know I’m a total sucker for a good system skirt. So when last week I was over at Bijou and saw this pretty from their Ambient outfit, I knew I had to have it. I’m wearing it with the basic white Cambridge Cuffed shirt from Armidi and accesorised with the Kaya set from Zaara. I’ve picked the black Marie shoes from Tesla to wear with this outfit. I love strappy pumps. I’m wearing PXL Creation’s Kim in tan and Adam ‘n Eve’s adorable Cristina hair.
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It’s taken quite some time in between RL work and some projects that went ahead of it, but as of today, Kim in in the shop at PXL Creations. I think it’s Hart’s best skin ever… logically so, maybe because it’s an ongoing work of development, and he strives to grow with every skin he makes. But yes, again, I’m very happy with the result. One of the masive improvements in this skin is the way he handled the eyebrows. They have always been hand drawn, but a lot of people thought it was a weaker feature in the skin. So Hart’s been studying eyebrows in RL and Kim’s brows really look good IMHO. The pale Kim has a red head version, but it didn’t feel good to use it in the darker skintones, so that is a bonus for the fair skinned among you. And the tan has a light brown hair version instead of the blonde.
Also new is the pricing. I’m excited about it! We’ve had some massive discussions about prices over the last couple of months, but I’m so pleased to let you know that all female skins at PXL creations as of now are priced L$ 1000 per single skin (well, single skin… not really… single make up, but still all the eyebrow options and the hair and bald version) and that there are great deals on the fat packs as well.
Also, Sasy needs to show Hart some good lovin’ because finally he’s decided to make his skins shaved and offers various pubes on the underpants layer! She (and many others… so go smother the guy) has been asking for that for ages now!!
This skin was first developed in tan. We were looking for a way to achieve a higher contrast skin than what PXL did so far, but without making her look like she’s been in the tanning studio too much… you know… that orange tan that a lot of tanning studio afficionadas have. So the idea was to work from the tan Kim and then gradually go lighter, and correcting shading and highlights on every skin tone as she went paler, to maintain that very contrast we were aiming for. And then the process started again, which I’ve shared with you guys before… beta v1.2 up to, I think, 6.7. Meticulously balancing the adding of a pixel or two here… and then upping some contrast there or adding some shading on the calves… aaah, I think you get my point. There has been put a lot of work again in this beauty. I would have loved posting a photo of various beta’s next to eachother… but the differences from beta to beta are not really visible on the photo’s. You’ll agree with me that the end result is stunning, though. Nude pics after the cut!! Continue Reading »
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The red head version of Kim made me go back to hair fair to pick up Curio’s gorgeous Paper Tiger in the red shades. and I’ve coloured the colour change white head band to a sunny yellow to match Dela’s yellow Vivian blouse and Digit Darkes’ Dirkshire lilac pants. I’ve accesorized with Icon’s Heart necklace, which comes in 2 parts (spine & chest).
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Going professional today, even though the cute Christy skirt from Skin Flicks is too short to fit the proper definition of office/business attire (which would be knee length, or just above knee). But since I’ve got the legs to pull it off -in SL at least- I picked it anyway to go with the Dietrich shirt from Lelutka and the beige houndstooth Metro jacket from Bijou. I’m wearing the black nylon tights from Sheer and the Pearl and Chain belt from Ume. My glasses are from FNKY and the earrings are Exodi’s Bailey’s pearls.
I’ve picked Cupcakes’ Seduction in Wheat (Girly make up) and Lamb’s Unbirthday chignon in Butterfinger to finish the corporate look.
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Annyka Bekkers just released her 4 N2 lines of scrumptuous skins at Blowpop . They all come in 4 skintones, fitting the character of the skin, a bare version and 5 make ups. Per make up there are two options, one light and demure, and a more outspoken one, for a stonger look. The bodies are all gorgeous, not a flaw in sight and the shading is awesome. I’m really happy with these skins, they combine a drawn look with great detailing.
All of these are shown with the same shape, my default, which I didn’t have to tweak this time to bring out the best in the skins. With L$ 900 for a single skin (2 really, for both make ups) these skins are an incredibly good deal. A fatpack for all 6 (12) skins in one skinetone sells at L$ 3200.
I’ve used Michami’s latest swimwear release for the photo’s: Soraya for Carmen and Maya, Aaliyah for Ava and Yolanda for Elizabeth. Hair by Truth.
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3 styles that are among my purchases at Hair Fair… Argrace’s Mystic Bob has a texture change fedora (which is also available separately) . Kin is indisputably one of the best hair makers around and great on the elven styles, but these cute braids are lovely for not-so-elven me. Plus, with only 100 for a single, there is always room on my L$-balance for more Kin. Siddean Munro from SLink nailed it again with her Pixie hair, which apparently is Sid’s RL hairdo. She has a new system for colouring the hair (similar to what Dernier Cri has) so make sure you read the note card if you’re not familiar with it yet.
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I actually knew that Sparkle also did hair, but I know her more from the elaborate fantasy formal gowns that she has been making for years. But on this hair fair Sparkle has some new styles out. Now you’re likely not to wear them often for your day to day look, but if you want to dress up and are looking for some pretty exceptional updo’s, then you should consider these. My favourite is Helena. The reason why the feathers from Nicky Ree’s Cabaret Star outfit are missing from this pic is that the tiara that comes separately with Helena also attaches to the neck. Just sayin’
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Good morning world! Hopefully big bad SL is going to be a little more friendly today… otherwise I might just have to kill a Linden or two… (not that killing the staff is going to make the grid any better, but you know… revenge just tastes good).
What is oh so very good already, is the new hair from Maitreya. You know I hate Renderosity hair with a passion, but with textures like this, there is no reason why one should even want to use it, at least, not for SL photography. Kudos for Onyx and Beau!!
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I didn’t know that Annette Voight, Decoy’s talented designer had ventured into hair… but this I found at her booth at Hair Fair. Nicole comes with the bangs and no bangs style included. Katie is just THE CUTENESSband Zoey is Annette’s Hair Fair special. The textures are really lovely. Way to go *sighs* yet another shop to follow more closely.
The lovely tank is Ebba, from Michami.
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For the first time since Sachi started to make hair, she has redone all her textures, thrown out the old hair and making a whole new collection of prim wigs. I like it when this woman starts to do rigorous things. Last year she started to show massive improvements in her clothing textures, then earlier this year she felt she needed to raise the bar for her skins, and now she’s back on par with the hair too.
I’m wearing Mara from KA Designs, and yes… Forest, from Dutch Touch!
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Confession… I hardly ever wear non natural hair colours… When I have a fatpack, I usually box the whole pack (for back up) and then from the folder delete the colours I’m not likely to wear anyway. But Truth has this thing with smurfs (and buttsecks, but he never named a hairtexture after that… thank goodness) so this time I decided to pick the smurf and other wild colours to show his hair fair releases. Nuff said… great hair, goofy colours…
Also wearing Forest skin form Dutch Touch, and the candy hearts tee from STUFF
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Aems asked me which colour of her hair I prefer… and it’s the blondes. Apparently that surprised her, but I do! So I’m showing you some of her Hair Fair releases in various shades of fair. Keeva is a cute 2 bun up do held back with a texture shade scrafs. I’m showing the blonde. Lilia, with hat and straight, fashionable cut bangs I’m wearing in Strawberry blonde and the boho-ish Pepper to the right is shown in Honey. All Philotic Energy hair comes with black and white tips… but personally, I’m not too fond of that, so I’m sticking to the plain textures.
So I’ve decided to make Dutch Touch’s Forest my official Hair Fair skin… and I’m also wearing the brown knit detail cardigan from Nylon Outfitters
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I’m just going on… I kinda went bankrupt at Hair Fair earlier, so the least I can do to justify that is blog my purchases :-D. Lamb Bellic has quickly conquered a place among the best loved hair makers in SL. With the chunky prims and smooth textures she creates styles that appeal to many a fashionable resident. I’m a fan of ballerina style buns, but when you find them in SL, it’s often hard to fit them right on the fore head. Unbirthday worked perfectly for me. I’ve seen the teasers for Dog Roses on Lamb’s flickr, and it was on top of my must have list. This blonde version with the blue (colour change) cap, together with Torrid’s repetitive plurks about ABBA reminds me so much of Agnetha. Babys on fire… I just had to buy the carrot cakes pack from because Lamb makes some AWESOME reds. I’m wearing this classy ponytail in the delicious Rotten Carrot colour.
Hair fair is open now… so brave the lag and leave some L$ for Locks of Love. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hair%20Fair%202009/101/188/23
I’m also wearing Très Blah’s white plain & tidy cami and I’m still in Forest, Dutch Touch newest skin.
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Kavar Cleanslate is one of my fave hair makers. His styles may vary from demure and classic to edgy and sharp, but they always appeal to me. His hair fair selection is awesome. Lindsay I love for the wavy bangs, Aphrodite comes with the loveliest texture/colour change flowers (and the flower bikini is complementary in the fat pack). Lolita is just cute and has several hair accessories to attach to the pig tails and Cerise is sassiness in motion, cute and assimetrical.
I just was in hair fair… if you can forsake your AO and eventual mysti/multigadgets etc and cutdown on prims… it’s actually not even THAT bad…. ok.. it is… but worth going nevertheless..
Other than Exile hair I’m wearing Zaara’s Isis shirt and Dutch Touch Forest skin.
Follow the slurl to Hair Fair ’09: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hair%20Fair%202009/128/128/2
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O HAI… 2nd blog entry today… either we’re not writing at all, or can’t stop posting, right?…. hmm.. guess it’s a blog binge day, so many goodies to share. Laydi Bailly was kind enough to send me some samples of her hair fair releases before I had time to visit the fair so I didn’t have to brave the lag, which this week has been pretty awful. It’s been quite a while since I have seennew things at Hairapy, but Elena, Madison and Kylie are a good reason to stop by.
Hair Fair is opening tomorrow: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hair%20Fair%202009/128/128/2
I decided just to stay in Forest, the new skin at DutchTouch and low prim elegance, great for Hair Fair, is found in the Nautical set from Fleur.
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