I’m LikeA bird…

Now, did you notice I keep wearing Callie Cline’s jeans? Had no idea why, apart from the fact that I like the textures. Still I could use a change, once in a while. So, off I went to find different jeans, jeans that have a little extra… I would call it spice, but that doesn’t bring up any good images, so let’s just say nutmeg (nonsense, is it? Well, nutmeg is a Lspice, and I should know, I’m Portuguese and we robbed all the spices, at one time or  the other). So browsing around the blogs (love to keep an eye on the competition) I found this quiet little store. Have you ever heard of LikeA? Well it is jeans heaven. And I happened to land right at Wind Meads’ feet.

 

Now that almost prevented me from seeing the store at all. We are talking hot avatar here and it was a true effort to drag my eyes away from the owner and into the goodies… denim goodies, I mean (damn he’s good, I also mean).

Eventually I was able to tear my eyes away from Wind and focus on the jeans. Racks and racks of jeans with incredible textures and cute cuffs. One day I’ll make it at SLingo and my laundry line will look just like this:

Till then I will have to make do with what I can afford, so I bought this yummy (no, not Wind) ripped pair and decided I looked so nice I ended up wearing them to the Undercity concert:

And there I looked all nice and happy, while I waited for my date that…guess what? Never showed up. So, believe me, to be really happy you need not only the right jeans, but also a man with a watch.

Hair – *TRUTH* Paris – Burgundy_Dark – Hat tampered with by me

Neck scarf – Based on *Little fish* christmas scarf, texture changed (and probably ruined) by me

Jacket  - sf design winter warmer red Jacket

Shirt – [CoL]- Racerback Cami – Shirt – Black

Jeans – LikeA*Std LIGHT BLUE RD LOWRIZE

Leg Bandana – LikeA* Bandana RED FREE var.2

Boots- sf design Winter Warmer Boot

Glasses – Danielle Black Glasses by INSOLENCE

Skin – []::Tuli::[] Celeste [light/1] ~ dawn

Poses by [LAP] and IZUMIYA

Special Thankings to Wind Meads and Achariya Maktoum

From newbie to not so newbie

Almost forgotten are the days when each one would enter “the metaverse” with the terrible look of a wooden dummy. No skins, horrible clothing, and no chance to pass by without someone noticing…”Hey! There goes a newb”.

Nowadays, Linden Lab has improved things to the point where, when you enter Second Life (copyright, blah, blah, blah, never knew how to make the registered trademark, or copyright sign or whatever in ascii) you have the chance to become a not so bad looking avatar.

Anyway, there are only half a dozen avatars of each gender to choose from, and some of them are…ermmmm…a bit strange to say the least, but on the other hand, not all of us want to be that close to normal in this new life we take upon.

But this is supposed to be a blog about fashion and we are going to talk about “regular” outfitting, so here it goes. There have always existed freebies shops where you can have a makeover and personalize your avatar without spending lindens, or spending very, very few. So to illustrate this I did a little exercise. I created a new avatar and, in less than one hour, and with no more than one linden I did what you are about to witness.

This is Fauno Delicioso as he entered Second Life.

Less than one hour and few teleports after, this is the result. May not be the pretiest avatar in Second Life, but you will have to admit that for an avatar with less than one hour the result is not that bad.

A perfectly good looking avatar, that for someone that is not a “profiler” and not too curious, will pass as someone with some time in SL already, at least for the looks…The rest, my friends, has to do with wits, and about wits is all up to you.

Now the golden tips:
Facelight-Photo Face Lightning Solution V.02 at Tesla
Skin-Male gift at Belleza
Hair-Normal Hair (Golden Brown) at Find Ash
Shape-Fauno by Elora Lungu (SLxstreet)
Shoes-Freebie Painter Shoes at Shiny Things
Jeans-Rebel Jeans-Black Tribal Men´s II By Rebel Hope Designs
Scarf-Invaders Scarf at Gritty Kitty
Shirt-Master Blaster at Gritty Kitty

The shape was made by our own Elora and is not free, but you can edit your shape and build it up to your own taste. All the other items were free except the hair that cost the fabulous amount of 1L.

I chose a beginning for the beginning. Next time it will be more serious stuff, and you will have to expend lindens, so go out and get some.

Cheers.