Showing posts with label Reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reviews. Show all posts

16 July 2018

A few male mesh bodies and head demos

My mAlt is looking at getting an upgrade. He's not first on the list, so he won't get anything yet (OK, he got a new haircut) -- but I've started looking for mesh bodies and heads.

I'm currently wearing Logo's Ethan head (non-bento) with the good old-fashioned SL body, which is particularly unkind on male avatars. You've seen the dude -- he's pretty much the face of Timetwist by now. Gotta earn his keep.

Anyway! Lots of pics and long text of doom incoming, so it's all behind the cut. I'm shoving it all in the same post so that I can compare everything later more easily.

11 May 2014

Faun




Faun legs: Caverna Obscura - Faun Legs Dark Tones
Antlers: Illusions - Rusa Antlers
Skin: Bite&Claw - Skins Aria - Reindeer (Blk) Tone 3 (gacha)
Tattoo: By Snow - Reindeer spots
Eyes: By Snow - Satyr Eye Mesh Gold
Deer Tail: Bite&Claw - Deer Tail - Brown (gacha)
Hair: Exile - Bad reputation
Mesh panties: Bite&Claw - Reindeer Top & Panties - Plain (gacha)
Top/Skirt: Cellar Door - Fatima

I love the hooves (rigged mesh) and the antlers (also mesh, with about 4000 colour options... okay maybe not that many, but definitely enough to keep me happy). I only wish the faun legs came with a tattoo version to cover the upper-legs area.

By Snow is, as always, great value for money. The tattoo is free, and the mesh eyes are 15L$ or so.
Exile is my new go-to hairmaker.

The Deer Tail by B&C came with Faun legs too -- good looking ones, I may add. They're made of sculpties, however, which I tend to avoid whenever possible. The skin is very cute.

The Cellar Door outfit comes with sculpty horns and mesh bracelets. I'm not wearing the bracelets because although they look good up-close, they lose their shape too quickly for my taste. I also took a risk with Cellar Door: their demos are untextured. I'm not happy with that. The texture can make or break a good mesh. How hard is it to slap the word "demo" on the texture, and include it as part of the demo? Arhumpf. Anyway, I quite like the Fatima outfit for my faun. I'm wearing it with mesh panties because the alpha doesn't cover my bits, and I didn't feel like creating an alpha for it. But I think that's a feature, not a bug :-p .

28 November 2012

Unhinged: Business Woman

I've been playing with various iterations of Geometry's Eku Tank and Eku Crop tops, trying to pair them with mesh items from other designers... and the crop top fits just right with the pencil skirt from Maitreya!

It all goes very well with my new hair and my new shoes, too. :-)

Let's see:





25 November 2012

Unhinged: the Savannah dress

I love the Savannah dress by Geometry. The textures, with little flowers on the main fabric, and a shimmering effect on the coloured accents, are lovely. There are enough colours to suit every taste, too.


I'm wearing:

Skin: Pink Fuel Elly Milk - Baby Doll
Makeup: Pink Fuel Elly Milk - Sheer Balm (Sherbert)
Tattoos: Nomine Cleavage Enhancer, Nomine Tatto beauty mark 2
Eyes: Kosh eyes - Silverrush Laguna 6
Hair: Elikatira [e]Over Blonde 07
Outfit: Geometry Savannah* at Unhinged

Poses: Adorkable
Sim: Creative Fantasy and Garden

*review copies

22 November 2012

Unhinged: To be blue or not to be blue

Still blogging about my favourite event on the grid... The designers there must have conspired to create clothes / outfits that work well together.


Case in point, Bilo's eyes and Pin Me Down's Skully Lashes make-up complements the Monster skins really nicely. I'm not wearing the actual lashes, but that's only because my laptop doesn't render very small items properly -- I wouldn't do them justice.

If you want to see them in all their glory, go and check that post by Sonya Marmurek!

I love the texture on the Morticia velvet dress. All the colours are gorgeous and well-detailed, even the black one (a colour that is hard to get right).

And as for the Skull? It's simply amazing. These skulls are (very existential) pose props. Show that skull around. Lean against it. Look into its oh-so-thoughtless orbs. Oh yay for DRAMA!!! These should get some good use!

What I'm wearing:
Skin: Monster Silver 3C* at Unhinged
Hair:  [e] Over - White 05
Eyes:  Bilo - Najwa Eyes (Mist Blue)* at Unhinged
Makeup:  Pin Me Down: The Skully Lashes #7 at Unhinged
Nails: Pixel Mode Sculpted Nails - Color Change
Dress:  PE Morticia Blue* at Unhinged
Pose: Monster Skull* at Unhinged

Sim: Wizardhat Studios

* Review items

19 November 2012

Pink and Green and Orange, oh my!

I've always been a bit shy with wearing colours. Time to change that. I can paint myself with whatever colour takes my fancy, so why limit myself to grey?

Front shot:





The back: (This is my favourite picture of that series. How weird is that? I like a pic of my back!!!)



Full body - including the boots. I love these boots. I hope you like them too, because I guess it's not the last time you'll see me wearing these!



Close-up of the makeup and eyes:



Credits
top: Geometry Eku Tank - Pink at Unhinged
boots: Lassitude & Ennui - Sugarskull Boots  at Unhinged
jeans: my own, not available anymore (sowwwy!) - but any green, or teal leggings should do! Or maybe leather? Hmm yes that could work. Try Lapointe & Batschild.

skin: Illusory Skin - Love Caramel - Organic (got it a while ago at Collabor88)
tattoos: Nomine Cleavage enhancer, Nomine tintable hairbase
makeup: Beautiful Freak Obake Makeup - Copper at Unhinged
eyes: Bilo - Najwa Eyes (Light Green) at Unhinged
hair: [elikatira] Over - Black 04

poses: Stroll series by aDORKable
sim: Tableau

Caveat emptor: the Unhinged bits are blogger copies. I love so many things from there, I could blog it all, really.

17 November 2012

Unhinged: what to wear on the dance floor

The Unhinged isn't just about shopping -- it's about dancing, too! It's great fun, but the trouble is, everyone there looks stunning. Especially Siggy. So I spent a lot of time putting an outfit together!



On the way I also hit the gatcha for some plants, because I dig plants.
Arctic Greenhouse made a fun skull planter, to give that special welcoming touch to any garden. Arctic's Gacha is extra special, as you get a random chance of getting three items instead of just one... and I struck gold. I'm only showing my favourite one, but I got two others that I like a lot as well: a golden skull with red roses (Rare), and subtle dark purple flowers in a dark skull.

Lassitude & Ennui has been my favourite shoe designer for a long time because of her attention to detail and the quality of the modelling and texturing. The mesh Sugarskulls boots she made for Unhinged are yummy. There's lots of colour - pink, brown, red, blue... I forget... the rare one is black/greyscale. The stitched skull blends perfectly with the main fabric of the boots. The red ones are my favourite.



The Nomine dress can't be found at the Unhinged festival; however it fits the theme just right, as there's a skull on the front of the dress. Which you can't really see in my pictures. I guess I won't be elected fashion blogger of the year quite yet! o.O

It's a mesh dress, with two sizes included. The standard size fits me like a glove. It moves nicely with the body -- good weighting! I like how cheery the cherry pattern is, and that it looks like it has some thickness to it (like a real dress). There's a bit of anti-aliasing going on at the back; it's a minor fault, as you'd really have to zoom right in to see it.

The skull makes this dress edgy and quite versatile, as you can wear it with classy pumps, with worn Docs, or with the most punkish NewRock-like boots you can find on the grid. Or, indeed, with the Sugarskulls boots.



Anyway, 'nuff talking, here's the list of what I'm wearing:

Outfit:
Dress: Nomine Mesh Rockabilly Tank Dress Standard - White Cherry
Boots: Lassitude & Ennui - Sugarskull Boots Red at Unhinged (review item)
Jewellery: Miriel Everyday: Find your Way Necklace / Silver/White (not on the grid anymore)

Skin: Pink Fuel Elly Milk - Scene
Tattoo: Pink Fuel Elly Milk - Juicy Gloss (Strawberry)
Tattoo: Nomine Cleavage enhancer - Light
Eyes: Kosh Eyes - Silverrush Laguna 6 (discount zone, click on the trapdoor)
Nails: Pixel Mode Sculpted Nails - French Manicure (not on the grid anymore)
Hair: Maitreya Lotte - Charcoal

Decor:
Plant: Arctic Greenhouse Skull Planters - n.17 at Unhinged
House by Kismet

16 November 2012

Unhinged: Skulprit avatars

I went in-world a bit today just to unpack a few boxes bought at the Unhinged festival... and ended up playing with that little dude for a good half hour!



It's, quite obviously, a mesh avatar. Cute and quirky. There's three little dudes and one little dudette to chose from.

You can also get two Gacha vehicles for your Skulprit: a hot air balloon, and a hover car. I haven't bought the balloon yet. I will, because if it's just as awesome as the car, then well, I want one!



The reflections on the goggles and on the headlights are splendid. And look at the back of that car: I love the shading!



It's on the Unhinged sim!
Full credits and link to the neat sim where I took the photos to come -- I'm knackered!

ETA: Here we go:

Sim: Spaceport
Avatar: Skulprit Avatar Red by Culprit, at Unhinged
Wearable car: Skulprit Hovercar RedRacer by Culprit, at Unhinged