If this is either of those things (unless it is cheesy in a good way -- like melted and smothered over tortilla chips), I apologize, and I will make sure my future posts are not like that!
First and foremost, I just want to say that I have read over a year's worth of [regularly updated] posts on Emerald Wynn's blog. I read about three posts on her blog a day! Therefore, I may say some things that sound like her, because naturally when I am on blogger, her "voice" is in my head.
I just want to say if I start to sound like Emerald Wynn in my posts, please shoot me! (Just kidding! -- she is my blogging idol!) Naw, but, it is not intentional, and when I edit the posts, I will make sure to Trademark Ms. Wynn when needed.
OH. EM. GEE.
I haven't even posted a single picture yet! If I do not put a big ass picture of my face in the first line of my first post, there is no way that my blog will be first on anyone's blogroll! (now I feel the need to say "first" again because Emerald Wynn (TM) does that!)
First. First. FIRST! (I love ya, Em!)
So in case you didn't catch the pun in my title (which you won't until you know what the other half of the pun means), my first post is going to include a long, detailed, paragraph form of my biography... SIKE!
*cue Baby Got Back intro girl* (because...*scoff* like, Emerald...she...cues a lot of voices in her posts...*nods*)
"That [a biography] would be like... soooooooo boring!" *scoff*
Anyway, I'm through trying to be just like my blogging idol! Let's get to the punny part. Haha. Punny.
My first post is going to go over my MUST HAVES. Things I would not want to be seen in public (or by myself) on Second Life without.
My shape! So this shape was at Belleza near the skin pack I purchased, and it was created by Sophistishapes. Well, I thought it was cute, so I decided to use it, and tweak it a bit. A bit turned into some, and some became significantly, and then significantly (wow, imagine actually reading this aloud -- *cue Fran Drescher voice* significantly, significantly) ended up being a lot! Like seriously, if I still had the original shape, I'd show ya the differences. But I don't. Oh well, it wasn't that cute anyways...
/me sets the scene...
A loud scream is heard from down the corridor, appearing to have come from Marissa's boudoir. She must have just realized that she forgot to put on hair for her shape pictures...but AHA! The next must have will solve that!
So my must have hair used to be this amazingly versatile and super chic updo-poof-thing from !lamb (is the exclamation point needed when saying the store name? It kinda confuses me... like it gets you all pepped up with a piece of punctuation that makes everything exclamatory... then it "baaaahs" and it's like "Excitement!" *continue reading* -- *cue absolutely stale computer voice* "lamb." Or do you just say it like "lamb!" with excitement and that is just a cue?), called Witch.
Yeah, I'm rambling. Summary: hair must have used to be !lamb - Witch.
Then I received this uber cute updo-poof-thing as a group gift (you can still get it, just smack that subscribo) from LoQ! Not only does it have a brunette tone and a red tone (the colors I have Witch in), but it also has black and blonde. And if you know me, you know that I switch between red and black hair now.
Also the LoQ hair, Tiramisu, features bolder textures and is more sleek.
Bottom line: !lamb - Witch and *FREE* LoQ Tiramisu are both MUST HAVES!
I absolutely freaking hate editing lashes that have two big prims. Prims shaped like athletic cups do not necessarily fit handy dandy to one's eyes! So, there are several places that have these handy dandy things called NO ALPHA LASHES! I used to think these things looked weird, unnatural, sticking out on your face...then I realized...that's what Real Life eyelashes do... (I didn't really realize this, just sorta said that here...)
MY NO ALPHA LASHES CHERRY WAS POPPED!
Talyia Tarber was the woman who turned me on (in more ways than one *big creepy winking face*) to the actual prim lashes. She passed me a pair of her Butterfly lashes, and after I edited them, I realized how amazing these lashes are! They don't eff with your bangs or hair wisps, it's like magic! Someone really should have came up with these sooner...
Anywho, hers are really cute -- you can change the petal color by clicking it, and it also goes transparent. These were her first edition, but the new ones in the store have color-changing tips, so it looks like you dipped your (yeah, it just looks like there is a space in between there) little faerie lashes in paint! XD
Her lashes are a bit too avant-garde for everyday use, so I also invested in the Apparence lashes from je suis, and recently purchased a pair from MIAMAI.
MUST HAVE: NO ALPHA LASHES
Okay, everyone knows how freaking annoying stupid invisi-prims are. Not only do they do away with your ability to wear pants cuffs, but they will not allow you to walk on ANYTHING that has transparency in it without fawking everything up! Or they cut off your leg with certain animations, or glitch with the other shoe... the list goes on.
The remedy to this? The wonderful Alpha Layer! Every shoe designer (especially 2,000L per pair Stiletto Moody -- if they haven't already)* should implement this in their shoes. Let's look at an example of how great this Alpha Layer is with a pair of delicious Mary Jane Shoes!
As you can clearly see, the shoes with invisi-prims look like a hot mess on the translucent floor (and on single-attachment Viewers you can't wear pant cuffs), and the ones with the alpha layer do not have anything wrong with them, at all. This is really good for models if the runway has some sort of transparency on it.
I gotta have the ALPHA LAYER!
My final must have for this post (because it is getting really freaking long) is something that has revolutionized the fashion industry, namely the skin industry. Women who absolutely love a certain skin, but who have made freckles their trademark thing, do not have to sacrifice one for the other. They can sacrifice a virgin to the lag volcano instead! (Just kidding - sorta, that may actually get rid of lag! *starts the incantations*) To add some specks to their face, they can throw on a tattoo. Are you a blonde, but your skin only has a brunette hairbase? Slap on a tattoo. Sick and tired of editing lashes (even the super cool no alpha)? No problem, all you have to do is put on a pair of tattoo layer lashes!
Everyone needs to have TATTOOS!
Thank you for reading my first post, I hope that my blog becomes a must-read for you! :)
~Rissita (Marissa Bruun)
CREDITS, SLURLs, etc.
Face Shot (that is photoshopped, express caution -- try demos!)
/Skin: Glam Affair - MedTan - Eva - Smog (I think this was some type of sale or special)
/Hair: Truth - Bebe - Jupiter (just in case Truth Hawks wants to give me free hair - I like Gingers and Black/Whites! *creepy winking face*)
/Lashes: je suis - Apparence - 001
/Tattoo: Stellar - Everyday Lashes
/Eyes: *YS&YS* RealEyes - DeepBlue
Shape (completely reedited shape at Belleza)
/Swimwear: Aoharu - Spangle Simple Swimsuit - White
/Skin: Glam Affair - MedTan - Eva - Smog
!lamb
/Hair: !lamb - Witch - Sunset
/Lashes: combo of je suis and Stellar (see 'Face Shot')
LoQ
/Hair: LoQ Hairs - Tiramisu - Auburn (comes in four colors and FREE!)
/Lashes: (above)
/Tattoo: LoQ Hairs - Hairbase - Auburn (included with hair and required to look like the picture)
Prim Lashes
/Lashes: Pacadi Body Shop - Shoot!
Lashes Comparison
/Hair: Truth - Roxana - Snow
/Prim Lashes: Pacadi Body Shop - Shoot!
/No Alpha Lashes: je suis - Apparence - 001
/Tattoo: Stellar - Everyday Lashes
Butterfly
/Lashes: Garded Secret - Butterfly Lashes Black w/ Petals (petals color change)
No Alpha Lashes
/Lashes A: je suis - Apparence - 001
/Lashes B: MIAMAI - NoAlpha Lashes_N04
/Tattoo: Stellar - Everyday Lashes
Alpha Layer
/Shoes: Mary Jane Shoes - Alluring - Red
Freckles (I am on Viewer 2.4 -- I can wear multiple layers)
/Tattoo: Stellar - Everyday Lashes
/Tattoo: Stellar - Freckle Face
Hairbases
/Tattoo A: LoQ Hairs - Hairbase - Platinum (comes with Tiramisu from LoQ)
/Tattoo B: LoQ Hairs - Hairbase - Auburn
All photos by Marissa Bruun
My blogging idol AKA Emerald Wynn's blog
*I did not intend any negativity towards Stiletto Moody shoes -- I own several pairs. Just noting that if you pay (whether it be 500L or four times that) for something that you wear everyday (shoes), it needs to use modern features that would make the shoe better.
LOL! You're a lovable dork who gives me waaaay too much credit in your awesome blog. Rock on with this - I'm so glad you're blogging!
ReplyDeleteAny kind of prim lashes make me cry. :)