Summer Style on a Budget in Second Life

My last couple of posts featured outfits that ended up being pretty expensive, mostly due to being made up of a mix of items I've bought over the past few months, so I thought I'd highlight some nice cheap deals I've found recently at Navan Designs and Dark Creations.

Up top: The 99 Linden Ripped Jeans outfit. Perfect for your white trash role-play, hanging out in dark alleys, hunting hogs in the the swamp or even for dressing up as hot man-wolf Alcide from True Blood! The 99 Linden sets are a fantastic value, as they come complete with boots/shoes, hats, sunglasses and other accessories that can expand your wardrobe without spending a lot of lindens. Many of them are available in a variety of colour choices, so you're sure to find something you just have to add to your wardrobe! Photo Location: The Wash

This is the 99 Linden Mr DJ outfit in black. Again, an awesome deal at 99L, with boots, wristwatch, cap, glasses, and two sets of headphones to wear on your head or neck - or both like I did for the photo!  Photo Location: Aqua Lounge

The 99L Summertime Outfit in purple denim. Cut little jean hot-pants that I'd never wear in real life, but which look kinda hot my avatar. With a very nice tank top, cap, glasses, belt, sandals and dog-tags, in a variety of colour options for the tank. European summer-style! Photo Location: Haulover Nude Gay Beach

Also at The Wash - there's a fantastic cart sale happening with some amazing finds all for only 10L each! Some great steals here, including home furnishing, fashion, gadgets and more. You can check out the most-excellent SL Freebie Hunters blog for comprehensive look at the items for sale.

The Wash is a fun sim, with a Rockabilly theme - a great place to go to listen to awesome spirt-lifting Rockabilly music while you shop. It's home to one of my favourite shops - Hell Bop clothing - the perfect place to get some blue-collar work clothes and fashionable retro '50s outfits.

It's also home to the Fab Free Headquarters - a fantastic place for new avatars to get all kinds of free goodies from top Second Life designers. I always recommend this place to all new Second Life residents!

I got a bit distracted in my shopping by this awesome place - The Carnival of Chaos! I'm a huge comic-book nerd, so there was no way I was going to miss a Joker-themed circus! (I luv the no-bats sign out front. lol!)

I didn't stick around to ride any of the rides as I was on a cart-shopping mission, but I did check out the main tent - where you can buy some Bat-Villain avatars and Bat-Merchandise.

Of course, no Joker circus would be complete without some hungry hyenas.

The Joker doesn't seem to be a fan of other clowns muscling in on his territory!

Life's a Beach

Wow, it's been ages since I've been around here - entirely due to computer problems keeping me from logging-on to Second Life.


I've been using a one-year-old Windows laptop for playing in SL and it started to go kablooey on me - no matter what program I'd use to access SL it would crash after about 20 minutes - and eventually they just stop loading completely - they'd crash right on start-up - so I just got incredibly frustrated and stopped using this (stupid Windoze) computer at all, went back to peaceful and much-less-aggravating Mac-land and found other things to occupy my free time.


Then we had another of our cold grey 'summer' weekends here in Cloud-City a couple of weeks ago, so I looked at this laptop sitting on the desk mocking me and thought I'd try to connect again. I deleted every single Second Life viewer off my system, ran a bunch of system optimizing programs that claimed to be sprucing things up in the background, and then downloaded the newest version of Emerald viewer and the new Second Life viewer version 2.0 and three hours later - and I'm back in business baby!! WHOO!


This new Second Life viewer is pretty damn awesome. Stuff seems to load much faster, the docked windows are a HUGE and much needed improvement, and most importantly it's much more stable on my leotarded system.


So after all that work I needed to find a sunny place to relax - I hit the new search function to find a happy gay beach and this is where I ended up: Paradise Gay Beach.


This is a beautifully-designed clothing optional gay beach with lots of relaxing places to hang out and lounge and watch all the cute guy avatars walking around in various states of undress. It was the perfect place to hang out in my new, short blond-guy shape.

I'm a bit too shy to do the naked sun-tanning thing in RL very often, so its a bit of a kick to be able to do it in SL. If you ever want to check out the nekkid gay scene in Second Life Paradise Gay Beach is most-definitely worth checking out!