Let’s do cocktails!

Hello sweets, it’s the perfect time to go out and have a lovely cocktail, and what better outfit to wear than this gorgeous cocktail dress?  It’s a FREE gift for members of the teleporthub.com group.

The dress is sized for Lara, Hourglass, and Legacy.  The creator has got the perfect level of materials on this, and it’s not to shiny under lighting.  The brocade is fantastic too, enhanced by the mesh detailing for the buttons.  What a fantastic gift!


Leigh’s

Hello sweets, here’s a super sexy bodysuit for you!  It’s a hunt item at Leigh’s.  Teleport to the store and sit on the sign to be taken to the hunt location, and you’ll find fourteen items if you’re lucky, most priced at L$10 and a couple for FREE.

Umm, I’m a sucker for bodysuits.  You and I know this 🙂  This one is sized for Lara, Freya, Isis, Venus, TMP, Legacy, Hourglass, Physique, and standard avis.  It includes a HUD to choose from either black or red on both the main fabric and the laces.  The HUD also allows you to also select transparency and glow, and I’ve gone for just a touch of see-through.


Sasha

This cute corset and panty set is a group gift for members of teleporthub.com.  The teleporthub.com group is FREE to join.

The corset and panties are separates, and both are sized for Lara only.


Kinetic

You know how I love bodysuits, and this one is a fantastic addition to my collection!  This is the most recent group gift from Kaithleen’s.  And the group is FREE to join.

The suit comes in three colors, this cream one, plus “Plum” and “Bubblegum”.  All three as sized for Lara, eBody Curvy, Freya, Isis, Venus, Physique, Hourglass, and Legacy.  And yes, the fit is tight enough so you can probably fit your favorite jeans over the top.  Mine fit great!


Veronika

 

This cute knotted tee and skirt are part of a past group gift from Kaithleen’s.  Their group is FREE to join!

The tee-shirt and skirt are separates and come in sizes for Lara, eBody Curvy, Hourglass, Physique, Freya, Venus, Isis, and Legacy.

Also included in the gift is a sheer romper, but I’ll have to think carefully about how to photograph that 🙂  Meanwhile, why don’t you run to Kaithleen’s and grab this great gift for yourself (and all the other ones too!)


Lara V5 released!

Ever since Bakes on Mesh went live, Maitreya have been promising a new version of Lara to support it directly.  They released a temporary BoM HUD that let you try it out, but now the new body has been released!  If you missed it, there’s a notice in the Maitreya V.I.P. group (FREE to join) that contains an updater so the store is not swamped by people visiting for updates.

The first thing I did was strip down to Ruth and add the body HUD, and I ran into a problem straight away.  You can imagine that as someone who puts together a new outfit every day, I spend a bit of time on the built-in pose stand in Firestorm.  The collapsed HUD by default attaches to the top left, and is positioned right under the pose stand floater lol.  I tried to edit the HUD to my normal position, but the HUD editing won’t let you move it. Fortunately, it’s easily fixed by attaching the HUD to the top position.

Next, I added the full body alpha and the body.  There are twelve new skins from Glam Affair, now giving you a total of twenty two to chose from.  There are new options on the skin section of the HUD too, that let you change the nipple textures, and options to change the nipple shape to allow you to select original, hard, or puffy styles.  But horror, the four skin save slots are nowhere to be found!  I use these all the time for different cleavage options to save me having to attach my skin HUD, change cleavage, and detach again.

As an alternative to the save slots on the HUD, there is a “save stick” with the new body.  You can rez these and rename them and save skin and other presets to them.  You can read more about them in the manual.

I applied my normal skin from Lumae using their Mairtreya applier without any issues.

And the other immediately noticeable thing about the body is that the hands are feet are attached, and you can’t remove them (although you can alpha them out, whew!)  Also, there are two new foot positions, one between flat and mid and a shape on tiptoes (what Slink call Kitten and Pointe).

And speaking of hands and feet, a few more alpha cuts have been added around the wrists and ankles, which may be useful.  But of course, you know what I did, right?  I alphaed the hands and feet and attached my Slinks 🙂  Happily, they still seamlessly fit with the new body.

When the temporary relay came out, I speculated that Maitreya might do away with layers that support appliers.  Instead, they’ve been very clever and made the layers separately wearable objects!  There are three layers, clothing, underwear, and tattoo to match the standard system layers.  These layers support your existing appliers.  If you’re not using appliers in an outfit, no need to wear the layer, et voila, a marked reduction in avatar complexity!  And you can wear one, two, or all three layers if you wish to use appliers.

And BoM is now supported directly.  Just remove your full body alpha and enable the “Bakes on Mesh” button in the “Skin/Base” tab in the HUD, and wear system layers like you did in the good old days 🙂

I’m not going to take photos of all the HUD changes, you’ll surely see them for yourself soon enough.  I’ll just add a photo with the included lingerie from Erratic, similar to the photos I did all those years ago when I first got Lara.  Little in looks have changed, but lots in functionality has!  Well done to the Maitreya team!


Steampy

This outfit is the other half of Aeon’s wonderful present to me over the holidays!

The shorts and top are sold separately, and are L$250 each.  Both are copy and modify, and come with HUDs containing presets to allow you to color the straps, buckles and fabric individually.  There is also a universal color picker so you can get the colors exactly to your liking.  Unfortunately for modders, there is no development kit.

The shorts are sized for default kemono, and Starbright’s Fitted Torso, and the top is sizes for those as well, with the addition of top sizes for Rei’s Chest and BB/MM Chest type 2, in small, medium and large.

There’s a strange problem with both parts of the outfit though.  If you have a Catseye Feline bento tail like I’m wearing here, if you wear either the Fitted Torso version of the top of shorts, the tail displaces from it’s normal position!  If you take the item of clothing off, the tail jumps back into position.  This doesn’t happen with the default kemono version (I can’t comment on the other chests as I don’t have them).

I’ve sent a notecard to the creator, and I hope they have a fix, because other than the tail issue, this is a very nice outfit!

 


Lingerie for your inner slut

RL is interfering so a very quick post today.  This is another outfit from the Hunt for Your Inner Slut event.  It runs thought the 15th of February, and is FREE!

This lingerie is all one piece, is one color, and comes in sizes for Lara, Freya, Venus, Isis, Legacy, Hourglass, Physique, Curvy, and Fine.  It makes nice use of materials too!  Go hunt it down for FREE!


Yandra

While I was at Un!q the other day, I also picked up this simple dress for members of the Mesh Body Friends group.  This group is FREE to join.

The dress is in sizes for Lara, Freya, Isis, Venus, Physique, Hourglass, and TMP, and is all one piece.


A moment of bliss

Aloha kakahiaka!  Hau’oli Pō‘akahi!  I have a lovely little hunt prize from the Boho Bliss hunt currently going on at Witchwood, the home of Petite Mort and Oubliette.  The hunt has 10 lovely prizes, and this cute little dress is one of my favourites!

The dress comes in fitmesh sizes for Maitreya, SLink, and Belleza bodies.  I paired it with some cute clunky boots from a G. Field gifty a few years back, and accentuated with jewelry from Earthstones and Pixel Box.  There are nine more lovely gifts, at least one of which I’ll share in a future post.  OH!  And there is a 50% off sale going on at both Oubliette and Petite Mort for the duration!  Come on by and find some dark and eclectic treasures for your wardrobe.

A hui hou kākou!

Pictures were taken at Witchwood.

I am wearing:

  • WitchwoodBoho Bliss Dress (2020 Boho Bliss Hunt gift) (Lara/Physique/Hourglass/Freya/Isis/Venus fitmesh)
  • G Field — Death Girl boots (2016 Hallowe’en gift)
  • Pixel BoxMoon and Stone necklace (long)
  • Analog Dog — Annie hair
  • [Stargazer Creations] — Body Shine Materials – Nebula Set
  • Mayfly Luminous Twilight Forest eyes
  • Oceane Body Design — Quinn Perle skin
  • [GA.EG]Barbara mesh face
  • [GA.EG]Glamour Lashes
  • MaitreyaLara mesh body, hands and feet