I finally found all the FREE gifts at the Shop & Hop Winter Event, and of course, I couldn’t get through a huge shopping event like that without splurging on something. And when that something is 50% off, how could I resist!? 🙂
This dress and panty set is available from the Scandalize booth for only L$144 per color. There is a wide selection of colors, and a fatpack is also available.
It comes in sizes for Lara, Freya, Isis, and Venus, and the fit on Lara is perfection! I had to resist buying two colors and blowing my discount lol
The Shop and Hop Winter event is on right now, and there are bargains galore, plus lots of FREE Christmas presents for everyone from most of the marvelous creators participating.
The event is across three sims, and it was pretty full when I was there, so you might have to be a bit patient to get in.
Here’s the first gift I opened.
This lovely little dress is in sizes for Lara, Isis, Freya, Hourglass, and Physique. The mesh detailing is wonderful, and of course, I love the color!
This is an old outfit I did for an event ages ago.
The jacket comes in standard mesh sizes, and it also comes in two versions, this one with white sleeves, and a version with black sleeves. Go! Whatever the animal mascot for Second Life Uni is! Go! lol
Lately I have taken an interest in doing clothes texturing, using purchased full perm models that allow one to selectively edit texture faces. While I have pondered selling some of these, which is what most people do who work with the full perm models, so far I have just been tinkering for myself, in order to get unique looks and/or make outfits that reflect ‘me.’ The full perm models are not inexpensive, being in the range of 500L to 1500L typically, as the expectation is that one is selling your new creations and thus eventually recoup your expenditure. However, if the cost does not deter you… follow me on a little path to see what you can do 🙂
For this first installment I will focus on something simple (and very small!). The common component in all of these outfits below is the Angel skirt by Gunshot, which is also a very reasonable 250L. This is a teeny-tiny skirt that really doesn’t cover much at all (which… frankly, was my goal). 😀 Now most people would supplement this with a pair of panties but I chose not to.
The skirt contains three material faces that can each be textured in different ways. They can also be different between front and back but the design of the skirt tends more toward it being the same all the way around front to back. The Gunshot package for the skirt contains models for all of the major mesh bodies as well as four sample textures, a shadow map, and a UV map. All of these latter items can be used in an external graphics program to create your own textures, which can then be uploaded to SL and applied to the mesh model.
In this first outfit, I textured the skirt with an opaque white band around the top, and the two main layers all in lace, to match the lace top and the lace cuffs on the sleeves. This is an example of where I mixed and matched a ton of things, along with the custom pieces, to get just the look I was after, an innocent snowflake faerie (okay, maybe just snowflake faerie…)
For this one I wanted to match the skirt to the top, which is also a full perm model. Before I found the original model, I had purchased a version of it from a vendor who had made her own texture for it. As I liked that shade of blue I wanted to match everything to it, which I did with the Angel skirt and the full perm sleeves from another full perm creator. In this case the top two bands of the skirt are solid, and the small band along the bottom is a lace pattern that matches the lace along the bottom hem of the top.
Top: Kara Top by Vaxer (the full perm model is CBB106 by Cool Big Bird )
Accessories: Good Kitty Collar by The Sugar Garden/tsg; Heart Charm Necklace by Bowtique (Marketplace link); Endear Ladies Key Necklace by EarthStones; Giftwrap Garter and Cuffs by Sweet Thing; Armour Waist Chain and Seacrest Waist Chain by La Sirena (Marketplace store); BoHo Style Hand Jewelry Butterfly by SilveryK
Another vendor who took the Gunshot Baude top and created a nice texture for it is ArisArisB&W, who applied a pretty denim pattern. I created a matching version for the skirt across all three texture bands.
Top: Nicety top by ArisArisB&W (the model is the same Gunshot Baude top as I used in the Snowflake image above)
Accessories: Dragonfly necklace by Pixel Box; Elaine Belt and Garter by Nanika; Armour Waist Chain and Seacrest Waist Chain by La Sirena (Marketplace store);
Arm Harness by L’Emporio
And finally, back to lace, this time with a rose tint and a slightly Victorian look (is not sure the Queen would approve). Here I used the actual Gunshot Baude top with the Angel skirt, modifying the lace pattern from Snowflake to be a little softer in color (as well as a bit more see through… blushes!).
Accessories: Jabot collar by Cog & Fleur; Lolita Lace Cuffs by Sweet Thing; Armour Waist Chain and Seacrest Waist Chain by La Sirena (Marketplace store)
Pose: The Irie Series – Four (m) by an lar (closed)
While these examples of re-texturing have been pretty simple, they’ve been fun in allowing me to make things that are just right for what I want. 🙂 In future installments of Do It Yourself I hope to show you some more complex examples.
Back to Photoshop! More lacy and frilly things await! Cheers!
Solas and Bee at Silvan Moon Designs have created a lovely new gown for you, exclusive at We Love Role Play . Selenia of Galacia comes in four different icy colours, each just perfect for the Yule Ball!
Selenia has a lovely Icy Pearls accent add-on (available separately) that adds a lovely touch to the gown. I’m just a little bit disappointed in the pearls, however: while the Selenia gown comes in Maitreya, Physique, Hourglass and Classic fitmesh sizes, the pearls are available only in the five rigged mesh sizes, and as such are un-resizable. I am wearing the smallest (xs) in the image below, and as you can see, they ‘hover’ a bit outside the fabric of the gown. That’s not terrible, though, it gives some lovely three-dimensional magic to the outfit, which I actually rather like a lot.
Cats in catsuits?! I got this catsuit for the kemono bod from marketplace with a specific reason in mind, which you’ll see if you keep scrolling!
The suit comes in sizes for default, Rei, and Busty Torso, and a set of full perm textures is included. Also included is a texture HUD that lets you colorize any of the five faces on the suit. As it is, it’s pretty nice, and could be used in a number of scenarios without any mods, including in an SF styled sim for example. The normal and specular textures are really well done.
And here we have why I wanted it. Recently I’ve been playing some capture roleplay in a jungle, and do you think camouflage might help some? I’m betting it will! This photo was taken with just a local texture to get an idea how it would look. I’ll do a custom texture with more careful edge matching for the camo when I get a little spare time. As it is, even without edge matching, it looks pretty good!
Aloha, my fine friends! I like to do something a bit risqué or otherwise fun on the weekends, so let me show you one of my favourites for special occasions. R2 Fashion A/D/E is the place to go to for your transparent latex fashion needs! I know Jaz has shown some to you, and I have shown some in the past as well. This is Baika, and it comes in three separate pieces (jacket, bra & panty set, and boots). There are six different colours, so you can mix and match if you like, or go thematic. I really loved the gold!
R2 Fashion A/D/E — Baika Jacket, Bra & Panty set, and boots (sold as three separate pieces) (Maitreya only) (6 colours
Evelock — Celtic Sheaf Fire Opal Necklace & Earings
I don’t know how R2 does it, but they have gotten the materials down to a science. The gloss on the transparent bits as well as the shine on the metallic ones are exquisite. It’s hard to imagine how they could be improved upon.
The one drawback, perhaps, is that R2 works in Maitreya fitmesh only. If you’re a Maitreya user, then you’re in luck! If not… I fear not so much. As most of R2’s items have significant transparent features, use of alpha zones is not really an option.
It’s winter, so a sweater dress is just the thing! This is in sizes for all major mesh bods. Although this is Lara fitmesh, it does have a clipping problem around the hem with the legs. But as it was a freebie, I can never complain too much!
We had a 70’s soul music thing at Eden yesterday, and this is what I put together to wear to the event!
I’m not going to detail sizes for you today, as I got both the shirt and jeans quite some time ago, but as they are both Lara fitmesh, you can probably guess the other sizes available.
Unlike Jazzy’s outfit yesterday, the jeans clip the shirt in one tiny location on the left hip, but I’d challenge anyone to notice this and call it out, even dancing.
And the hair, OMG! I got this at this year’s Hair Fair and promptly filed it in my “Misc/Weird” hair folder, thinking I’d never have a reason to wear it. But does it work well with a 70’s look? You bet it does 🙂
