First off, L’Oreal  has a new set of free skins and shapes available.  They are four skins with different make-ups and different skin tones.  They are pretty nice, especially for the price.  You can find the skins and shapes in of all places, the Greenies Sim.  You have to wander around a bit to find them, but I’ll give you a clue, look for the women’s handbag…. 

Also, there’s some pretty cool clothing for sale in theme with the sim - in the cupboard.

On a similar note, I’m in an ad for the Greenies clothing as well in Second Style Magazine issue 14….   Thanks to RightasRain for the photo opportunity.

-Veyron

Yup, it’s that time again.  This coming Saturday, from 8pm to 12pm SLT.  To top it off…  Dark Eden is going to have a half price sale.  Everything in the store - half price.   Oh, oh…  You know what that means….

-Veyron

Evian is actually offering something nice that everyone needs - a skin.  Not just any skin a really good skin.  You can get 6 skins, 3 male and 3 female of differing shades - oh and a free bottle of Evian water for L$0.  They are high quality skins from RealSKIN.  They’ve done a good corporate deed, but it’s not so easy to find.  You can find this gem in the Romatica sim.  Just go up to the vendor and give it a push.  Grab yourself a copy, you can never have enough skins, before this cool freebie disappears.

-Veyron

Wrath is being characteristcally stubborn.  I pick out this great outfit, which I even have used, and he won’t even try it on.  In fact, he insists he is a fashion god and does not need any help in that department.  So if you think Wrath needs a little fashion tune up, let him know what you think….

-Veyron

Hmmm…  I think last night Wrath Paine volunteered to get the makeover treatment by Veyron.  And I have the perfect outfit for Wrath.  It fits Wrath vs the World perfectly…..

Wrath!

When are you volunteering to go out shopping?  I know you boys just love to shop….

-Veyron

Vint and I finally did some shopping yesterday and this morning (at least in my timezone). From the Dress Vint project, it turned out to be a lot of fun - at least for me. It did become surprising (and I think sort of intentionally) amusing at several points. The dress was pretty easy at Paper Couture. It’s pretty nice, dark, rather short skirt with an interesting poofy collar to it. That went pretty easy. Next went the shoes.

We did try Dark Eden, but Vint appeared to get cold feet with the place in general, except for an outfit she did buy to surprise someone with in the store across the mall…. (How those pasties will ever come off I’m not sure….)

Anyway, we went to my favorite place for stilettos and bought these really nice pair of shoes. Of course, there was some arguing over the shoe color. I suggested black, as that works with just about any outfit, and of course, she wanted purple (at least it wasn’t the yellow). Which I believe was some form of negotiation tactic. Anyway, we settled on the silver pair. I was really impressed though when she had panty hose to get her legs the right. Then I said - time for hair. Which then I knew the wailing would begin - and it did.

I heard about how Dalien bought the hair “style” she’s wearing and then she tried - in vain - to colorize it to fit the outfit to fend me off. TP’ing into Calico to go shopping for hair, there was a stream of protests about how she didn’t need new hair. Then I pointed out a really nice hair style, with hair put up. Then the wailing really cranked up. Something about - “Not hair put up!” I said, don’t worry, it comes with this veil.

Back and forth it went for some time. Vint would get some demo hair that was wrong, and I’d say no. We did finally settle on some hair I like a lot and I actually have myself. Another one down. Then she mentioned that her ears don’t match. I said, you’re right - loose them. Ooohh… Lots of noise. Then resignation must have set in, as she did put on a human skin, much to my pleasure.

Vint was starting to look pretty killer now. Next stop - Miriel’s. Eyes and Jewelry. Eyes started more moaning, but now the volume was down. She got this nice pair of blue eyes and a nice set of attractive earrings.

We did make a stop at Solange to see if anything else would fit in. I might want to go back there. I think we should also stop in at Insolence for some underthings - just in case…. We both ran out of time this morning, but I’m pretty pleased with the results so far.

I am tempted to get a really nice human skin for Vint. It would be the coup de grace to get a Naughty or at least a X3 skin on her. The skin she has on now, is good, but we could do better. But skins are expensive, and if she’s not going to wear it hardly at all, who knows if it’s worth the investment. Perhaps.

Last thing we need to setup is a photo shoot for our Vint model. We will need a photographer. Maybe Looker is available….

-Veyron

This sounds like one of those cheaply produced reality TV shows, but Veyron is going to be going shopping with Vint and dressing her up as Veyron sees fit, or I think that’s the ground rules of this little game.  So, the rules as I see it so far are:

1. Vint keeps her shape - that’s pretty obvious.
2. Vint keeps her monochromaticly pale skin.  Are the tattoos part of the skin or separate clothing layers?  If they are separate layers that may cause problems….
3. Vint stay Neko which appears to be ears on her head.

Everything else is up for grabs?  Any suggestions from the peanut gallery on what theme Veyron should be going for?

-Veyron

The Ginko Bank insolvency has actually hit someone I know. Saur Holt seems to have taken a real financial hit on the events. She’s upset about it, and alas I’m sure there’s nothing to be done about it. To try to help her financially recover, she is running buy two outfits over 250L and get one FREE of same or close to same price. After you buy two outfit send Saur Holt a notecard with your name and the name of outfit, at the end of the day she will look over her records and send the outfit to you.

Vint Falken took this great picture of me dancing in one of Saur’s really cool dollie outfits. It comes complete with a pull string (but the AO is not completed yet).

So - if you feel the need to expend some Lindens on some cool outfits, head over to Saur’s store at Forsaken Enterprises (148, 223, 501).

-Veyron

Daphne and Tamara have a really good podcast out this week on clothes for the other half out there in Second Life - yeah, the guys - or what the guys need to buy for clothing. As usual, it’s a pretty entertaining podcast. The Traveling Avatar is even on the show. The blog post has a pretty good selection of SLURLs of places for men to shop.

So, let’s see you guys starting to look a bit sharper. And like the girls say at the end of the podcast - you guys can change your clothes more often than once a week….

-Veyron

I confess to liking my X2 Exotica skins, but I like to have an inventory of “different” skins because the X2’s are REALLY expensive - but worth it. That being said, Opium is clearing out their skins until June 3, 2007 at 90% off. They are L$25 each - a bargain, as a set of X2 skins are L$4000.

You can find the skins until then at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Scoopwing/244/125/48. Oh, and try to control yourself girls!

-Veyron

I was chair hopping this morning for fun, and a nice girl, ZigZig Zadoq handed me a few dresses and pieces of clothing. This was pretty nice. She’s been in SL since 8/28/2004, obviously having been around a long time.

Anyway, what was interesting was the clothing… it was from Agent Case, who’s profile says she has left Second Life. So I did some digging and found this out:

When Agent Case left SL, her inventory was released with full perm into the game as freebies. For the last few weeks several shops, including my own, have been giving out these free gowns to everyone. However over the past few days several stores have been discovered selling these gowns for up to $999L a box and stocking their lucky chairs with the gowns. If anyone would like these gowns, please IM me and I will send you on the box which is copy and transferable so you can pass it on to anyone who can use a good gown. These gowns are gorgeous and well made. I haven’t counted but I am pretty sure there are over 50 gowns in the box if not closer to 100. Or come by the shop. The box is on the second floor with all the other freebies at Shape Your Destiny.

Update: The box is now available on the second floor of SYD.

Well, sounds like something to get and something to keep an eye out for and not to spend money on accidentally….

-Veyron

I tend to buy freebies or near freebies pretty often. It is a symptom of being a shopaholic. So over Christmas I was down at Eventide… um, looking around for a present for a friend (yeah that’s it). And Xcite! had these cute little naughty bears to buy for L$1 each. So I bought a few and stuff them into my ever expanding bag of infinite holding (inventory).

After Vint kicked out Bella, I felt her place needed some animal company again. Dalien and Gideon agreed completely with me. And besides, these bears had some cute, loving things to say. Mmmm…. I knew Vint would agree with me.

-Veyron

I was listening to Second Cast this morning on the drive into work. About in the middle of Episode #60, I about drove off the road. It turns out that Steve Coulson is the man of my dreams or at least his Avatar is. He is also the man behind the YesButNoButYes insanity.

::sigh:: Gideon has not returned my email, but I see that I might be able to stalk him Wednesday night at the Coca-Cola event. Oh, and Coke has a contest in which they are giving away L$500,000….

-Veyron

No, but I found something is just too much for a Second Life. The Tantra Total Woman HUD. Here’s what it is advertised to do:

You have lived with it all of your life. It is what makes you a woman. The Tantra Total Woman Hud now allows you to experience being a total woman in SL.

The hud features:

- Realistic Cycles
- Realistic Odds
- Multiple Birth Control Options
- Multiple Modes (Desire Pregnancy / Desire Risk)
- Automatic Pregnancy Determination
- Works with Xcite! Brand Products

99% accurate? What goes wrong? How does it go wrong?

Obviously, the next logical necessary thing to add would be a paternity test kit….

Hmmm…. This seems to be a bit of an overkill, but I suppose if you’re into this sort of thing, it might be just the thing you’re looking for.

I didn’t see a sign for the condom HUD and I am sort of curious as to how it works inside Second Life. Do you give out the HUD to your partner? In fact, I’m getting more curious by the moment as to how the whole things works now…. Multiple modes? What happens if you do get pregnant? Are you required to go buy a prim baby? Adopt a baby avatar? Does this mean you can collect child support from the male avatar? What if they come out smudged?

-Veyron

Since this next party is beginning to sound like a Neko pile, some of you have asked about where to shop for Neko I thought I’d put up some information. The best all around place to shop seems to be Jungle Voodoo in the Temenos Sim. Hybrid Street in the Gnoma Sim is another good place top shop. I bought my ears, eyes and tail from OTCR.

PWND Magazine has almost a complete issue devoted to Neko clothing, equipment and culture.