lotd290415 - GTA Special!

I've been playing Grand Theft Auto V for the last few days, as is the craze on Plurk. I played it on PS3 when it first came out, although it's more accurate to say that I assisted my husband. I'm good at the tedious bits. Not so much at the shooty bits. So I'm progressing rather slowly in the story mode, and in Online mode....let's just say I got distracted by the tedious bits. Right now, I've been concentrating on leveling my character's stamina. By cycling around the map a bunch of times on a really expensive yellow bicycle. I know, I'm lame. 

For my look today, I have attempted to recreate to look of my character in the game, and I think I did an okay job. Second Life Nivaya is rather more polished than GTA Nivaya, she also is, um, rather less mannish, shall we say. Because my goodness do female player models in GTA have the broadest shoulders.

The easiest part of my outfit was the glasses, I knew I had some fantastic decorated vintage cateye glasses by Yummy from a few rounds back of Colabor88. Next, the red skinny jeans. I was sure I had something in my inventory, but nothing was quite the right shade. My GTA character's pants are very very red, I've spent enough time looking at them while she's cycling to know how red they are. The ones I eventually bought were from Sakide, whose skinny jeans I'm a big fan of and I know she doesn't wimp out on the bright colours. 

Surprisingly much harder to track down was a black and white striped tank. I would have thought it was a fairly basic item, but I tried all my old standbys for basics and all of them turned up nothing. On my search I found a lovely yellow bike to pose with! Eventually Tee*fy came close enough to what I was looking for, it wasn't full-length or racerback, but I filled the gaps in with an applier tank. Also surprisingly tough to find were just the right kind of skate shoes.

I didn't expect to find exactly the right hair, and I wasn't disappointed. My GTA character's hair is a frizzy disaster, but this hair by Ploom paired with the awesome group gift hairband from Magika I think I've featured here before. It's incredibly versatile, colour-change AND tintable.

The hardest part was the pizza tattoo my GTA character has. Such a thing does not exist in SL as far as I could find. I asked if anyone could quickly make me a custom one with a Slink Physique applier, but nobody was free to do that and then someone reminded me about the Slink Personal HUD, which allows you to make your own tattoos and the like for personal use. After a Google image search and an unspecified amount of time in Photoshop, I dropped my texture into the HUD, and here I am with a completely appropriate pizza tattoo, yay! 

After that, all that was left to do was the makeup, a simple enough task with an inventory like mine (I speculated her polish would be chipped), and a gun, which I know nothing about and the Marketplace furnished me with something that looked more or less correct. And there I was. More or less the same person! Hooray!

Credits:

Hair: Ploom - Samantha

Top: Tee*fy - Basic Tucked Tank - Striped

Undershirt: Arise - Solid Tank - Grey (Slink Physique applier)

Pants: Sakide - Slim Jeans - Red

Shoes: Baiastice - London Sneakers - Canvas Black (gacha)

Glasses: Yummy - Ellery Glasses - Black 

Hairband: Magika - Headband

Gun: Arsenal Inc - 9mm Pistol

Bike: Toro - Racer Bicycle - Mustard (gacha)

Makeup:

Eyes: Wicked Peach - Winter Harvest 6

Lips: Nar Mattaru - Ember Lipstick - Classic Red

Nails: Action - Reckless

Tattoo: self-made for personal use (Slink Physique Applier)

Poses: 

Image 1: Everglow - Afternoon 07

Image 2: Repose - F BLADE 1

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Doll v2 - Vamp

Eyes: Buzzeri - Lillian Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Slink - Physique 2.3

Ears: Ears: Mandala - Steking Ears - Season 5

Hands: Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands - Flat (R) and Casual (L)

Feet: Slink Avatar Enhancement Feet - Med

Hairbase: LeLutka Hairbase - Jessica

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

Lashes: Alaskametro - PrimLashes - Classic

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This is one of those outfits that came together at random and did so really well. See, while I was away, I didn't sort my inventory at all. When you shop as much as I do, that's a pretty major thing, compounded by the fact that I also kinda sorta hadn't sorted anything since September. I threw everything into a folder labeled with that month - which is how I know it's since September - but the whole thing was a mess. So the last few days have been spent trying to force the whole thing into...less chaos. Been trying to avoid shopping, not really succeeding.

Now, as much as I love the series of chain tops Noodles has been releasing of late, I usually don't really get a chance to showcase them here on my blog because I try to keep it PG here - if you really need to see my boobies, follow my Flickr and they're occasionally over there (along with some of the more nudier things Noodles makes, actually!). I was given the perfect opportunity to wear it with a bit of modesty when I tried on this Little Bones hair at N21. The texture-change scarf provides the perfect little bit of cover without it being full-on Lady Godiva hairshroud, and it also fits over my little chest with a minimum of hovering, but still just enough space for a little peek. If that's your bag.

These shorts, these tiny mermaid scale shorts. I love them. Did I mention I met Ariel at Disney World? I totally did. That makes me an honorary mermaid. So I need more scales right? They're by Aphrodisiac at Suicide Dollz, and I picked them up in several colours. They're a great match with the thigh-high boots from Reign I picked up for Fifty Linden Friday a few weeks back. They're so detailed, right down to the structure of the zipper on the back. My wearing them came by happy inventory-sorting coincidence, likewise my fantastic retro grandpa glasses by Soothe, which prevent me from looking like a stripper. Yay!

Credits:

Hair: Little Bones - Grixdale (@ N21)

Top: Noodles - Hanna Body Chain - Black (@ N21)

Shorts: Aphrodisiac - Mermie Shorts - White (Physique applier @ Suicide Dollz)

Boots: Reign - Pointed Toe Boots - Black 

Glasses: Soothe - GranpaGlass

Bracelet: Izzie's - Leather & Beads Watch Bracelet - Plum (Wayward Hunt prize)

Armband: Sax Shepherd Designs - Buccaneer Beads - Barataria Armband (gacha)

Belly ring: The Plastik - Krysis Bellyring - Complex - Sunless Violet

Candles: Aisling - Candles 01/06 - Lilac (@ We <3 Role Play)

Flowers: Penn Euler - Scattered Easter flowers

Makeup:

Eyes: Nova - Cecile Liner - oo6

Lips: Alaskametro - Creme Red Lipstick - Joan

Nails: La Boheme - Native Dreamcatcher

Poses: 

Image 1: Elephante Poses - Follow Me #1 

Image 2: Ma Vie - Porcelain 02

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Doll v2 - Vamp

Eyes: Buzzeri - Lillian Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Slink - Physique 2.3

Ears: Ears: Mandala - Steking Ears - Season 5

Hands: Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands - Flat (R) and Casual (L)

Feet: Slink Avatar Enhancement Feet - Med

Hairbase: LeLutka Hairbase - Jessica

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

Lashes: Alaskametro - PrimLashes - Classic

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Various hunts and things going on right now, in all the excitement over the Wayward Hunt (which is actually officially properly started now, and I eventually finished - I am very easily distracted) I forgot to mention the other hunt that I look forward to quite frequently - the Unknown Hunt. As the name would suggest, it focuses only on stores which have been open for a year or less. The item I'm featuring in this post, the awesome flamingo dresser I'm sitting on, is from a store I know well, not unknown at all, Little Llama, the owner of which, the delightful Percey Garcia, I know from Plurk and am so proud of how her brand;s been growing over the past several months. 

My dress is by Miseria on the Wayward Hunt, and coordinates perfectly with the colours I'd already chosen for the luna moths on my adorable little antlers by silentsparrow at IDK. You can tell they're moths not butterflies because they've got these fuzzy antennae and then they are at rest their wings are out flat like that instead of together and sticking up. That's like - the only thing I know about anything.

Conversely, a store I didn't know about that I'm wearing in this post, I first encountered on the Wayward Hunt, the store "Things", which is very hard to find in any kind of search! My tattoos today are from there, though they are not the hunt prize (that's some awesome henna hand tattoos). Anyway, I just totally adored the various shapes and patterns of these tattoos, they're what I often find myself looking for and the prices are great too. If you can find the place, that is. 

I bought PXL's Sweet Lips mesh mouth several months ago when it was first released, but never really had a chance to play with it until now. Of course there was the perennial issue of a lack of appliers, but recently Mochi Milena updated a her appliers for the Doll skin in Vamp with a massive amount of new options, I can't imagine how much work it was, and now I have a perfect skin match and can overlook any minor flaws and I think it looks really fantastic and I'm happy to add it to my pile of mouths. 

Credits:

Hair: Chemistry - Hera

Dress: Miseria - Orchid Dress - Sherbet (Wayward Hunt prize)

Shoes: Ingenue - Laura heels - Sand 

Bracelets: Atooly - Rosie's Star Bracelets - Mint/Pink, Mint/White

Antlers: silentsparrow - Luna Antlers - Natural (@ IDK)

Dresser: Little Llama - Flamingo Cabinet (2015 Unknown Hunt prize)

Makeup: 

Eyes: Nova - June - oo2

Lips: Pink Fuel Vamp (Sweetlips Applier)

Mesh Mouth: PXL - Sweet Lips 1.4

Nails: Hello Dave - Big Love

Tattoo (top): Things - Mucius Tattoo - Faded (Slink Physique Applier)

Tattoo (legs): Things - Maita Tattoo - Faded (Slink Physique Applier)

Poses:

Image 1: Double Take - Calm Confidence

Image 2: Elephante Poses - Feel the Release #1 (@ Pose Fair)

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Doll v2 - Vamp

Eyes: Buzzeri - Lillian Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Slink - Physique 2.3

Ears: Ears: Mandala - Steking Ears - Season 5

Hands: Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands - Flat (R) and Casual (L)

Feet: Slink Avatar Enhancement Feet - Med

Hairbase: LeLutka Hairbase - Jessica

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

Lashes: Alaskametro - Prim Lashes - Classic

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Busy day today - various things commencing and whatnot. I started my day in SL by starting the exciting new Wayward Hunt, which is a rebranding of the venerable Zombie Popcorn event group, but it turned out I'd jumped the gun, since it didn't actually start until 1pm SLT, and here I was excitedly running around at like, 5am or something. Stupid timezones. So I plan on picking that up again after I've finished this post, since there's some cracking stores along that trail.

Instead of that, I did the also just-started-today TAG Gacha thingy, which combines the hopping from store to store nature of a hunt with the wallet drainingness of a gacha event! Um but I made it sound much less fun than it is. You wear a HUD and it teleports you to each shop and you click the thing there to show you've been there, and then there's a gacha machine you can optionally play and in each machine you have the chance to win a Rare ticket for a special prize at the end! Phew! The theme for this round is circus sideshow and there's plenty of creepy cute greatest show on earth stuff to play for along the way! 

It's where I met my little friend(s) here, Sai-Khwa, the two-headed monster of Thailand! Lassitude & Ennui's machine is packed full of a circus of cute and special cats, all of whom have their own little story, there's more to Sai-Khwa than meets the eye!

My shirt is by Offbeat at Xiasumi School Festival and I liked it because the ink blot looked like Mickey Mouse. I bought it on hyasynth Tiramisu's recommendation and then I bought the pants she recommended too and then was for some reason startled today when I went to see her and we were dressed the same-ish. On the one hand, I should probably be more original, on the other hand, I could have a much worse occasional stylist than her.

My awesome hair is by Olive at The Kawaii Project. I remember a few years ago, just before mesh was a thing, streaked hair was all over the place and I loved it, throwing a blonde streak all up in there. It's rarer now but I always jump on it when it's an option. My eye makeup is gorgeously layered and by Wicked Peach at Black Fashion Fair which also opened today because today is apparently epic. 

Oh, and my poster is by Frogstar at The End, a post-apocalyptic event which didn't open epic-today, but yesterday, which is close enough. The numbers on the poster can be changed. I chose 626 because of reasons, and if you can guess my reasons, you can be my friend! 

Credits:

Hair: Olive - The Steamer (@ Kawaii Project)

Shirt: Offbeat - Working Girl T-shirt 2 (@ Xiasumi School Festival)

Undershirt: Sn@tch - Iggy Jersey Bodysuit (Slink Physique applier)

Pants: Ison - Coated Denim - Grey

Boots: Katat0nik - Toy Boots - Tux 2 (gacha)

Choker: Bubble - Choker - All-in-One (gacha)

Nose piercing: Yummy - Safety Pin Nose Ring - Silver (@ Collabor88)

Ring (right hand): Schadenfreude - Wee Beastie Ring - Rabbit (gacha)

Rings (left hand): Noodles - Dainty Rings - Seven, Eight, Nine

Friend: Lassitude & Ennui - Sai-Khwa - Rare (gacha @ TAG Gacha)

Poster: Frogstar - Apocalypse Survival Counter (@ The End)

Makeup:

Eyes: Wicked Peach - Black Magic 3 (@ Black Fashion Fair)

Lips: Angelica - Rika Lipstick - Pale (dk)

Nails: La Boheme - Abalone
Tattoo: Letis Tattoo - Sancus (slink Physique applier @ Suicide Dollz)

Poses: 

Image 1: Marukin - Soft Grunge Looks - Peach (@ Collabor88)

Image 2: Bounce This Poses - Tiffany 2

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Doll v2 - Vamp

Eyes: Buzzeri - Lillian Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Slink - Physique 2.3

Ears: Ears: Mandala - Steking Ears - Season 5

Hands: Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands - Flat (R) and Casual (L)

Feet: Slink Avatar Enhancement Feet - Med

Hairbase: LeLutka Hairbase - Jessica

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

Lashes: Alaskametro - Prim Lashes - Classic

What's Your Digits? 2015

It's that time of year again! Digits! Actually the accidentally-annual tradition of sharing digits as proposed by Strawberry Singh is happening a couple months early this year. I've actually made surprisingly few changes since my post last year, I've mainly kept the same general proportions. Any alterations I've made are to accommodate the new mesh bodies. Which is the theme of this years thingy! So here we go with the questions!

Do you currently own a mesh body? If so, do you wear it all the time or just once in a while? If not, skip to the fourth question.

Yes. I like to think of myself as somewhat of an enthusiast or something. My first mesh body was the WowMeh, when it was still around, and now I also have the Slink Physique, the Belleza Venus, the Maitreya Lara, and the free version of The Mesh Project body. (I also own the Toddleedoo and Tweeneedoo mesh avatars for kids, but they don't really count for this discussion)

I never take it off. When mesh bodies first came out, there were lots of times when I'd stick with the traditional system avatar, but as time has gone on, there's become a lot more available that I can wear with a mesh body, both in terms of appliers and advances in the amounts and placements of alpha cuts on them. Plus, I'm really kind of lazy, so taking it off and dealing with system layers and alpha layers and all the various lumps of the avatar mesh is like bleh.

What is your preferred mesh body available on the market right now?

Currently I am back in love with the Slink Physique, since version 2 came out a couple of months ago. The twice-as-many alpha cuts is one of the practical reasons that brought me back to it, but also the change in the shape itself, with a lot of the curves being more rounded out. Previously the Slink Physique had been a bit on the lean, athletic side, and sure, you could adapt your shape to bring curve to it, but it didn't tend to look as natural as its competitors. Considering the fact that Slink is what I have most clothing appliers for, and that it has a perfect invisible seam with the new-improved Slink hands and feet, I'm delighted with it. 

In terms of pure aesthetics though, I like the Maitreya Lara best, particularly now that there are appliers available for my preferred skins. It's a little softer and perkier than the Physique, has an fantastic alpha system, and also benefits from the (admittedly occasionally clunky, but very handy) Omega applier system.

Have you changed your shape since you started wearing the body?

Only in quite minor ways. A little more or less muscle hear and there, minor tweaks. Compared to last year, my shape looks pretty similar, just smoother, and a lot of the numbers are the same. I feel like I've gotten a tiny bit taller but according to the numbers that's not the case at all. I've mainly made minor changes to my face, more than my body, over the last few months, because I kind of feel like body's taken care of really. I love my proportions, most clothes fit me one way or another, and I'm not horrible and lumpy, so it's all good!

How do you feel about mesh bodies in general?

I adore them. True, they still have their limitations, particularly when it comes to wearing older clothes (I miss the ability of PROPER layering like I used to do in pre-mesh days) and that the alpha systems still aren't perfect but I feel a lot of clothing designers work around these things to an extent now. For me personally, the more "perfect" aspects of the bodies have been quite liberating. I've found myself doing a bit of (tasteful) nude photography lately without feeling weird about it just because, the mesh bodies look so unawkward. One thing that makes me sad as a general thing about them though is that they've made my alts feel almost unplayable, because I don't want to invest the sort of money in them of the body, and the skin appliers, and maybe the skins if they ones they have now don't have appliers, and clothes with appliers, and it's a whole can of investment worms that you can't really casually enter into anymore.

What is one thing you would request from designers when it comes to mesh bodies?

Gosh, I don't know. Like Berry said in her original, some kind of truly universal applier system would be cool. I'd like interfaces to be a little more streamlined. Something I loved about the Belleza Venus body was the HUD and all the various features it contained - such as changing hands/feet, and the different boob options, and also one of the reasons I never got into The Mesh Project body, because the interface and setup was so much more obscure than it needed to be. I think that's going to be one of the major aspects as time goes on, the design and features of the HUDs, because they're in almost constant use when you're dressing, with mesh bodies. 

Credits:

Hair: Clawtooth - Audrey H

Lingerie: Luxuria - Temptress Bodysuit

Avatar Ruler: Golden Oriole - [OO] Avatar Ruler

Pose: oOo Studio - Legends Bette Freebie

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Doll v2 - Vamp

Eyes: Buzzeri - Lillian Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Slink - Physique 2.3

Ears: Ears: Mandala - Steking Ears - Season 5

Hands: Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands - Flat (R) and Casual (L)

Feet: Slink Avatar Enhancement Feet - Flat

Hairbase: LeLutka Hairbase - Jessica

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

Lashes: Alaskametro - Prim Lashes Diva

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My back hurts from playing too much Just Dance. That is the current full truth of my life. It's sad. 

This outfit contains no elements of what I had intended to wear except for the hair. It's one of those things where I was like "well I'll just change that.....and now this bit looks weird...." and so on. I'm leaning too heavily on yellows and purples lately. It's okay though. I dig yellow.

Okay so, my top is from the SLX outfit "Pawned". Ducknipple's SLX outfits which I have been featuring pieces from lately really are excellent value for money. The outfit currently has a promo price of 100L and for that you get this top (which comes in 5 color change options with a HUD), shorts, boots, and jewelry. 

With it I'm wearing Insanya's Ruffle Tutu, which has become a bit of a staple of my wardrobe. It's absurdly short, which in part is what makes it so versatile along with the wide range of colours and patterns it's available in, but the fact remains it is absurdly short. Luckily, so am I, and I have the good fortune to have tights. I've featured these before on my blog, they're by Schadenfreude, and one of the things I particularly love about them is that there are options about the height of the waistband - a lot of other tights I tried showed over the top of this skirt. 

Also by Schadenfreude in this post is my parasol, from the current round of The Seasons Story, and my bracelet, from this round of Collabor88, because I can never wear too much Schadenfreude. 

On the table next to me is a donation item from Xiasumi School Festival, with the proceeds going towards Save the Children: Japan Tsunami Relief. It's by silent sparrow and is adorable spooky-cute ghost-shaped daifuku mochi, which is a snack I love so very much. There's scripted holdable versions and mouthie versions and the tray gives you them and it's awesome. 

Credits:

Hair: Magika - Forever 

Top: Ducknipple - SLX - Pawned

Skirt: Insanya - Ruffled Tutu - Plain Gold

Tights: Schadenfreude - Miami Fishnet Leggings - Purple (Physique appliers)

Boots: Fri.day - Maggie boots - Buck

Bracelet: Schadenfreude - Pearl More Bracelet - 3 Skulls (@ Collabor88)

Nose ring: Mons - Septum Ring - Style 22 - Rosegold

Ring: Yummy - Bumble Bee - Pink (gacha)

Parasol: Schadenfreude - Kitsune no Yomeiri - Wagasa (@ The Seasons Story)

Table: Digs - Etienne Side Table 

Snacks: silentsparrow - Spooy Daifuku - Tray (@ Xiasumi School Festival)

Makeup:

Eyes: Buzzeri - Pixie Eyeshadow - Bronze

Lips: Kooqla - Malvi Lips 08 (noble)

Nails: Hello Dave - Flowers in Our Hair

Poses:

Image 1: Everglow - Model415

Image 2: Kirin - Sweet Girl Pose 5

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Doll v2 - Vamp

Eyes: Buzzeri -Bewitched Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Slink - Physique 2.3

Ears: Ears: Mandala - Steking Ears - Season 5

Hands: Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands - Flat (R) and Casual (L)

Feet: Slink Avatar Enhancement Feet - Med

Hairbase: LeLutka Hairbase - Jessica

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

Lashes: Alaskametro - Diva prim lashes