Now Virtual Surfline is doing a bikini contest, and they needed a template… Hmmm. There is my old one available - with some info on how to use it, ty Kaeli!. And I made a totally new ‘next gen’ free bikini template that has shading - don’t mess with it - and less fabric and more room for nude skin! ;)

As usual, the template is created in Photoshop, but I’m sure it will open in The Gimp too. Also as usual, shading is based on Miss Eloh Eliot’s free skin templates. Rumours go I’ll do basic support - that does not contain ‘I want Photoshop, help me find a crack!’, btw - on the Bikini Template page, so if you have any questions regarding those templates, go there.

You find both templates at Miss Gweneth’s blogpost ‘Surfline’s Create Your Own Bikini Contest‘, a contest in which you can partake and win 1000L$. Hey, if you are going to create a bikini anyway, might as well show it off on the sunny Virtual Surfline beaches! ;) Oh, and let nothing, but really - nothing - stop you from adding a few prim details to your new bikini. For more info regarding the contest, also see the blogpost on rezzable.com.

At your virtual clothing service,
Vint Falken

Of course, you did not think you could get them without at least some effort, right?

First you need to be willing to tell me where your human lives so my human may mail him or her the button. After she’s done that, of course, I’ll delete all your whereabouts information.

Second, you need to answer the question corresponding to the button number correctly here in the comments:

1. Who gave me a squidogram as Valentine gift? (goes to Shockwave Plasma)
2. If I mention ‘RaR said so’, whom am I talking about? What’s my ‘home sim’? (Must be spelled corretly!)
   
3. Which MMORPG did I play intensely previous to Second Life?
4. Who did I promise my Second Life girl-on-girl virginity to? (goes to Smiley Barry)
5. Which SL company am I employed with (marketing department) but has up to now never paid me? (goes to Ganymedes Costagravas)

Only one poseball button/avatar! ;)

If any of the 5 poseball buttons is not taken by the 24th of February, it goes to the person which guessed most closely to the number of ‘absolute unique visitors’ to this blog from January 1 till January 31. So you might want to add a number to your replies too.

If your comment does not appear immediately that is because WordPress settings are put that way that it only allows comments from person I previously approved. Don’t worry, I’ll keep that into account.

You can get the eye textures from Flickr or get the textures and eyes themselves at my shop at Bloedkapel Bruges (correct SLURL this time).

VintLabs offers you 2 free Second Life eye textures:

• Free eye texture which reflects the roses just given to you. (blue eyes)
• Free eye texture with a heart shaped pupil, for endless ’staring in the eyes’. (green eyes)

Rotate head 90° to the CCW to see how these textures will look in Second Life.

Free Female Skins with Full Perms
Fri Dec 28 12:02:50 2007

Artisans these skins are provided as separate textures and can be used to gain knowledge AND to help the new. Double threat :) If you have an interest in skin making or know any broke avies, don’t miss these designs by the great and generous maker Eloh Eliot. Deck the halls with good looking avatars!

Landmark to Another Shop at Libbert was included, needless to say, this whole post is about charing these coordinates with you. Free skins to be found at : Another shop, Lippert (73, 185, 179)

These 12 free skin textures (each skin exists out of a head texture, a lower body texture and an upper body texture) are full perm, which means you can export them back to RL to play with them - and learn from that - in Photoshop. The way to do this:

1. In Second Life, find the texture you want to copy to your hard drive and open the skin texture so that it shows on your screen.
2. Make sure it’s selected: it should be in front and the frame is dark grey, not transparent.
3. Go to the File menu and choose ’save texture as’.
4. … the rest of the process should be familiar. ;)

These kind of notices - always interesting, always surprising, never expensive - is why this is a group I’d _never_ voluntarily leave. Hail to the leader Kilnara Balnarring! ;)

Update:

This just gets better & better. Eloh Eliot has made the original .psd files of the skin textures available:

1. Fe skin texture - pds file
   
2. Le skin texture - pds file
3. Re skin texture - pds file
4. Se skin texture - pds file
5. Lfº skin texture - psd file
6. Cfº skin texture - psd file
7. Lfºy skin texture - psd file (male skin version!)
8. Ffº skin texture - psd file
9. new! Cf1 male skin texture - psd file
10. new! Rfº female skin texture - psd file
11. new! SFº female skin texture - psd file

Keep in mind that Eloh Eliot asks that the ‘derivatives’ of these files, are freely shared too! More information on the BSD license and what restrictions Miss Eliot kindly asks for can be found here.

The whole package is copy, trans and the tat’s are full mod and you can fetch it from SLexchange for free or from somebody who has already gotten it from me in-world (Laetizia, Dandellion, …). There’s one standing at the entrance of my skybox too. Have fun! ;)

Was my Coke costume not sexy enough? Because I won’t believe it wasn’t hilarious enough! ;) Could it be? Is Wrath right and was I not Miss Popular? Or was it me constantly sipping from the bottle of Evian that is to blame for my loss? Anyway, as I’m probably never ever going to wear that outfit again, you can fetch it for free from SLboutique or SLExchange, find it as a freebie at my shop at Mardes, at my skybox at Scheherazade or at Zhivago hospital or use the MetaMart hud!

It includes a Coca-Cola dress (jacket and skirt), a double layered prim skirt, a necklace made from Coke Light bottle caps, a Coke purse/hand bag and a plastic bottle of refreshing Evian drinking water. All items are copy and non-trans.

In the shower with my (this time correct) belgian flag bikini…

… and my favorite scripter /scriptess (told you we’d be friends! ;)) …

… after something really odd happened to me.

If you feel like running around / sunbathing / skydiving / jetskying / whatever in our belgian tricolour, you can pick it up for free at SLBoutique, using the MetaMart HUD (great review of the third gen HUD, btw) at Zhivago hospital or in my skybox.

If you want a copy of my ‘vewwy vewwy vewwy pinkish’ eyes, you can fetch them - for free - at SLboutique, using the MetaMart shopping HUD, at the entrance of Club Paradise Lost or by just IM’ing me in-world.

PS. I am now more shouting out ‘demo skin! demo skin!’ when travelling the grid. Let’s all *cheer* *purrr*! ;)

PPS. What’s the actual difference between ‘pink’ and ‘magenta’? From an English language point of view, please. No CMYK on my grid! :p

So since yesterday, the decorative dagger is replaced with a SOCOM MK23 v1.1. Thank you, Zoe, for helping me pick out such a great gun. Killer laser beam for focussing, silencer, flashlight function for dark and evil places, … and a huge range of ammunition. Skills I’ve already mastered: drawing it, holstering it, modelling it. So just to make sure I don’t harm any innocent Avies, I’ve loaded it with training bullets. :D

Just look at both pictures and compare. Who looks like a pro hitmanwoman and who doesn’t? Now place your bets! ;)

And, ow! Look! I’m even dressed for the occasion! You can get the pink camo top for free on SLboutique. The ‘Girls With Guns’ T-shirt comes in a shirt, jacket and undershirt version.

* Technically speaking he can’t be cheating on me as we are not and never were involved. But we’ll just ignore that fact. *grins*

A small preview of the image (don’t worry, the original does say ‘Paradise Lost’ *slaps herself*) :

Of course, first life photographs of our beautiful Helena in full splendor on your PC or notebook are highly appreciated! ;)

And for all the aspiring models amongst you, sign up for the SecondLife’s Next Top Model contest! Interested parties should contact Jada Hoyer in-world. You can join the SL Next Top Model News group for the latest updates, or join the ~SL Next Top Model group to get started in the competition. Entries will be accepted through March 31st. Amongst the prizes are L$25,000, a modeling contract and a professional photo shoot. It seems this event was originally an idea of Ms. Haight and hi-jacked by Jada Hoyer. Read all about it at the SL Herald’s article ‘Scandal! Sl’s Next Top Model… has a twin?‘. I’m very sorry for supplying wrong information and getting some avie’s hopes up high. SL starts to resemble first life: you just can’t trust the media to do a decent background check on something before they write about it. :P

On the other hand, if you want a professional photo shoot, you can always try to tell me how great I am. That usually helps. And if you’re just not good enough at sucking up to someone, some kindly offered L$ can help to pursay me too. ;)