Bare Rose Style

Another favorite new outfit for my Crystal Fae Avatar from Fallen Gods - this one from the AMAZING Bare Rose: ::: B@R ::: Petite Battle Axe! This awesome warrior uniform comes in four different colour variations, with the giant-ass battle-axe that can be worn on your back or in you hand.

I paired it with these incredible FREE Drangonhunter Horns from XOPH. These are a free gift as part of the Twisted Fall Hunt 2012. They're incredibly detailed and beautifully sculpted and go so well with the Battle Axe outfit. They're colour changeable with a menu driven script, and come with some amazing devilish particle special effects and sound effects.

It takes awhile to find the gift at XOPH - you have to play a mini-hunt clicking on idols and gathering keywords that you then say in a phrase in local chat to a prize-giving dude-God-bot, but it's sooooo worth it.

I added some beautiful new eyes to my sexy-elf avatar. I wanted something more magical and higher-contrast than the more subdued eyes that come with the Fallen Gods Crystal Fae avatar. These -{The Attic}- Mesh Color Changeable Eyes - Petite Edition (Wicked Male) Eyes are exactly what I was looking for! They're colour changeable with the included hud and you can save colours as favourites for different avatars. Luckily the standard aqua suits my little green guy perfectly, so I didn't have to adjust a thing. There are also two different option - with glow or without - of course I chose to wear the glowing version.

• Outfit: ::: B@R ::: Petite Battle Axe by Bare Rose Petites
• Horns: FREE Drangonhunter Horns from XOPH
• Eyes: -{The Attic}- Mesh Color Changeable Eyes - Petite Edition (Wicked Male) Eyes by The Attic

MENstuff Hunt

I'm back after another looooong blogging absence. I hadn't been in Second Life for awhile, but when I logged-in recently I found a fantastic new hunt for the guys: The MENstuff Hunt. There's still a few more days left - it runs until Feb 28.

The hunt organizers Ivy Maverick of the fantabulous Maverick Design and Rob Moonites are running a competition for the most stylish dude in the hunt, where we had to put together an avatar look using only the gorgeous gifts available in the hunt, with the winner taking home 30 000 lindens. (whoo!)

I initially entered the contest with a shape and skin of my own, but it was rejected as I didn't realize I had to use a skin/shape combo from the hunt. I hate wearing other people's shapes - creating my own shapes are the only thing I think I've mastered so far - so it always feels weird to me to put on a shape created by somebody else, unless it's an elaborate fantasy avatar of some sort.

So anyway, here's my original contest entry, with me wearing my Ahmed shape and a bunch of goodies from the hunt:

You can see the actual contest entry at the MENstuff hunt blog along with a whole bunch of other sweet Man-Candy. :) I took the photo at Ivy's Maverick Design store, where she has some amazing full-room displays of stylish furniture.

I think I may start selling my shapes on the SL Marketplace so that I can actually afford to a home that I can furnish with some of the gorgeous room sets from Maverick Designs.


Items in MENstuff Hunt ~
Eyes: MADesigns EYES_NATURE ~ Nature Run
Hair Base: [Sekuella] -  Jhow Hair Cap //  Base Hair
Shirt: { Gentleman Store } - Diamond Pullover
Jeans: { Gentleman Store } - Harlow_Jeans Black
Sunglasses: { Gentleman Store } - Mirage Sunglasses
Watch: Culture Fine Jewelry - Bravado II - Black Chrome Watch
Necklace: **mischievous cat**Main Shop - *MC*Krone
Pose: Pics n Poses - Pics n Poses-M-MyTreat

Location: Maverick Design - Mandarin Living Room Set

Not from the hunt ~
Skin: Lelutka - MMS-sexy-MED-hair-liner-shaved

More MHOH Goodies

Some more fun FREE stuff from the Make Him Over Hunt 4:

From my favourite underwear shop - #25 Vitamen - comes this fun set of tan-lines, available as clothing layers as well as the new alpha tattoo layers for a nice reminder of the long days of summer that are drawing to a close.


I can definitely see myself wearing these during the upcoming long, dreary winter months of perpetual rain to lift my spirits and remind me of warmer days!


In the photo above I'm also wearing  this month's monthly freebie from Vitamen - the Japanese Thong - just find the poster and click to receive, no group subscription required. I love the fine quality of Vitamen's styles - they're always so beautifully made.

Next some stylish new glasses from shop #26 Kumaki Glasses Style. These are great cat's-eye inspired frames accented with a small, subtle rhinestone and a fantastic animation that allows you to wear them pushed up on your forehead. Very cool.


At first I was worried they wouldn't fit on my big fat head, but they are editable so I was able to easily and quickly stretch them to fit.

And finally, a really beautiful vine and leaves jungle-themed outfit from #7 Rising Animations - The Rising Tribal Gaius Outfit.  The level of detail on this fun little bit-of-nothing is quite incredible, considering how few prims the designer Miro must have been working with to create this sexy look. The vines and leaves are surprisingly realistic with leaves that shift and sway when you move, and the generous leaf-covered prim pouch is beautifully textured.


It's such a fantastic little outfit - I can't believe it's free! I can't wait to wear it to a jungle-themed dance-party so I can play Tarzan. lol! 


So far I've just been blogging teeny tiny items from the MHOH4, I'll try to take some shots of actual clothes today.  I had tried to do the hunt in order from the starting point but the lag was so bad that I started jumping to stores out-of-order. Now I'm going to start doing them consecutively now that the traffic has died down a couple of days after the hunt started.

Make Him Over Hunt is Back! (and so am I :) )

I'm back in Second Life after an absence caused by lots of work and Second Life's latest Viewer 2 update, which just wouldn't play well with my system and kept me from playing completely - but I recently discovered the awesome new Phoenix viewer and I'm able to connect again. Yay!

I returned just in-time for my favourite hunt - The Make Him Over Hunt 4! This is the best hunt for guys in Second Life, with tonnes of fantastic designers creating all kinds of great gifts for us hunters - there's163 shops in this amazing hunt. I still haven't unpacked all the great loot from the last one!

I figure if I take pictures of all the prizes maybe it'll force me to get organized and tackle my out-of-control inventory so I'm going to share some of the photos I take here on Muliversal.

First up, some fun undies from #26 - Concrete Flowers.

I'm a total freak for fun underwear so these are right up my alley. I'm never going to wear pants again! :)

I'll blog some more goodies later this week...

I'm Back and Hunting in the Make Him Over Hunt 2!

I'm back exploring the worlds of Second Life finally! I was out of action due to the fact that my computer just wouldn't work properly with Second Life. Textures stopped loading, lag increased to the point that it was impossible to move around, and it just became a pain trying to explore at all. So I figured the gods of the Internet were just telling me to get my ass off the computer and go out and enjoy the summer - which I did!

The beautiful sunny day have now turned to our usual grey dreary winter norm, so I tried to figure out what the issue was with Second Life, and it appear to have been a firewall conflict with my router. I unplugged my wireless router and just tethered my laptop to my cable connection - and everything got spry and lovely again. Whoo!

I also started using the open-source Emerald Viewer on the advice of helpful residents in-world, and it's made a huge difference. It works so well with my laptop, and I love the ability to adjust graphic settings in a handy-dandy pop-up window at the bottom right of the screen. Its great for quickly cutting down lag-inducing anoyances like particles and other avatars when I'm hunting - which has been my latest obsession this past month in Second Life - hunts like the Make Him Over Hunt 2

I've picked up some awesome swag from this hunt - with 174 talented designers handing out great gifts there's something for everyone! I love the free SL Balance sneakers from hoorenbeek, the spiffy MHO jeans from *FIR* and the cute plaid Dylan shirt from DYN in this outfit - all available on the hunt!


The MHOH 2 hunt runs until Nov 15th, so there's still plenty of time to pick up the prizes, and there will be a end-of-hunt party on the 15th where all us intrepid hunters will be able to dance and show-off all our new loot.