Strawberry Singh may be a Linden these days, but she still can do separate posts — just not plug stuff. She put up a challenge on the Community Forum a few days ago. Below is my contribution to the thread.
The photo on the left is from my November 2010 article, “Sweater Weather.” The one on the right I just took yesterday. Skins were improving by November 2010, although makeup tattoos (what we think of more as Bakes On Mesh these days) were still a few months away. This is probably the best photo I took in 2010; many of the others I’m embarrassed to confess to these days (grin).
You have to say, as does Daniel, that these new default avatars look a whole lot classier than what I entered Second Life with in October 2007. It almost makes me want to start up a new “walking” alt and see what folks have to say. To demonstrate:
Singing Radiohead at the top of our lungs With the boom box blaring as we’re falling in love Got a bottle of whatever, but it’s getting us drunk Singing here’s to never growing up
— Avril Lavigne
For Berry Singh’s new Monday Meme — the Yearbook Photo Challenge. No, this is not how I looked back in the day; my parents would have utterly destroyed me, no matter how much they loved me. (Anyway, I graduated in 1976, and we were very red, white and blue that year.) But I haven’t seen the punk rebel in the challenge yet, so I figured someone needed to do it!
There was only one real choice for Z, wasn’t there? Zibska is one of the avant-garde leaders on the Grid right now, with dresses, hair and makeups that stretch the bounds — sometimes to the breaking point. Take this sea-urchin-like confection, called Natralia, and the matching hair (Octavia). Anybody who gets too close to me here will definitely get the point!
Accessorizing this was tricky, as I chose to wear the collar along with the dress. I settled for a pair of gloves from Miamai, and rings and earrings from EarthStones.
The eye makeup is from Zibska as well, to finish the theme here.
“Okay, what the heck begins with Y in my Inventory?”
(Sounds of clawing through the barely organized pile of sh– uh, crap)
“Pile of Yuck…? No.” (Tossing over shoulder with a splat) “An inflatable Boris Yeltsin…?” (Smacking her face) “Why the hell did I buy that thing??” (POP!) “A yellow sign? Hmmm….” (She turns pensive and stares strangely, wildly, off into the distance at a place no human was meant to see.) “Is it fated for me to be Queen in lost Carcosa beside the dead lake of Hali, the consort of the dread King in Yellow?– Wait a minute…. THAT’S IT!!!”
I’m pretty sure I’ve worn this before, but it fits the theme: Baiastice’s Kasia top of studded straps, with the matching shorts below. This outfit would be even more spectacular if it was in latex or vinyl, to go with the BAX boots I’m wearing on my feet and legs! (The listing calls the boots patent leather; but we all know better, don’t we…?)
And who is Xacuti? No, it’s not a “who,” but a “what” — specifically this halter-top and “knickers” combo from Zaara that I’ve retrieved from inventory for Vanessa Blaylock’s challenge. Zaara never goes out of style, whether vintage or new.
(Photographed in the Caddo region on Samsara mainland — it takes persistence to find a nice spot for photography on the Mainland, especially with a lot of it abandoned these days, but you can do it. Just be prepared to narrow your view to a smaller panorama than full-sim.)
Interesting combination, you say? Perchance. All I can say is that I finally found a few matches for W in Vanessa Blaylock’s alphabetical inventory challenge. I dug out the green wax bangles that I have on my wrist here with some luck; they came from Yak & Yeti several years ago. And the “war” is this hairstyle from Vanity, Love After War. You can’t see all the pileup or the tail in back due to my position and the brick walls at the Blarney Stone, but it’s a big updo that works quite nicely.
Wouldn’t you feel like a vixen, too, in a nice snug catsuit? One of my favorites is this old suit named Vixen from SLink, before the days when they became obsessed with prim hands and feet (grin). It’s complete with gloves and shoes, and fits — just right….
I thought I was gonna have a hard time with U for Vanessa Blaylock’s alphabetical inventory challenge — but I ran across these glasses/sunshades from Urizaska. They’re menu-driven, and my current preferred glasses when I go walking in the sunshine.
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