The Help Thread

[Ivy Mysterious]

With SL becoming increasingly popular and with Mesh kind of becoming necessary, I thought I would put together a list of stores that give out gifts, whether you are just meshed out and looking for items to help get you started or just looking for Beauty and Fashion on a budget, Down below is a list of Clothing, Shoes, Hair, skin and eyes Stores that I found that can really help you out

In my search, however, I could not find makeup stores that gave out gifts so please, if you know of any feel free to list the store name, the group joining fee and the SLurl in the comments of this Thread

 

CLOTHES:
-Safira: Joining fee L$50
This store has a huge wall full of gifts on the second floor of their floor on the right, for various mesh body types Like Maiterya, Belleza and Slink Hourglass
SLurl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Safira Mainstore/182/125/22

-Scandalize: Joining Fee L$100
Scandalize Has a room full of gifts and Lucky boards to hit up. They are, when you first enter the store, go completely to the right, the room is marked by a sign on the floor. They give out gifts pretty often and create for the Mesh bodies Belleza Freya and Isis, Maitreya and Slink Hourglass
SLurl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Safira Mainstore/182/125/22

HAIR:
-Fabia: Joining Fee L$200
Fabia has quite a few free hairs on a wall when you first walk in, varying from single color packs to Fatpacks

-TRUTH: Joining Fee: L$350
TRUTH sends out 12 gifts a year, all fatpacks. They have a wall on the right when you walk past the archway, all past VIP hairs are L$500 each. Each gift that is sent out are in notice for 14 days before they are put up in the store for full price
SLurl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Truth/158/27/34

-Little Bones: Joining fee L$100
Little Bones has quite a few gifts when you first walk into the store, Lucky Boards and a Midnight mania board that gifts out a Fatpack hair if the Board hits the target number
SLurl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Penumbra Republic/133/132/501

SHOES: 
-Empire: Joining Fee L$500
Empire has several pairs of shoes on the wall on the right and sends out gifts quite a bit
SLurl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Crown/128/128/33

-KC Couture: Joining fee L$50
KC Couture has a few pairs of shoes when you first walk in, they are on a shelf on the right, and they also have 2 lucky letter boards
SLurl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ominious/33/154/23

EYES:
-Avi-Glam: Joining fee L$5
Avi glam has 2 eyes gifts out in their store, they are on the left wall as you walk in
SLurl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hell Fire/183/190/23

SKINS:
-Lara Hurley: Joining Fee L$0
Lara Hurley has several group gifts made for Mesh heads such as Catwa, Lelutka, LOGO as well as classic avatar skins:
SLurl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Magic Valley/198/211/23

[AidySL]

If someone needs poses:

-A&R Haven: 

No joining fee

Most are for Bento, but you can still use a lot if you don't use Bento

Most of them are on Lucky Boards, but also many free gifts

https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/ZI Treasure Island/88/232/32

[MrsSeren]

Truth has changed how gifts done recently so that information is inaccurate, can't remember how but maybe fellow member can remember and share that info.

[Ivy Mysterious]

3 hours ago, MrsSeren said:

Truth has changed how gifts done recently so that information is inaccurate, can't remember how but maybe fellow member can remember and share that info.

I can assure you, I have heard Amber say the same a dozen times, The VIP styles are going to be sent in notices, where they will be for 14 days, after they fall off notices Truth will then put them in the store for a full price

[MrsSeren]

14 hours ago, IvyLarae said:

I can assure you, I have heard Amber say the same a dozen times, The VIP styles are going to be sent in notices, where they will be for 14 days, after they fall off notices Truth will then put them in the store for a full price

This what I got in my NC, from the group regarding the gifts as still in notices but I post what it says in NC in a quote as I'm quoting so think we both were right and wrong in different ways.

Quote

VIP Hairstyles: 

Moving forward there are going to be changes in the way VIP Hairstyles are released. As these new hairstyles have custom textures and require more time to complete we have decided to discontinue the exclusivity of VIP hairstyles.

I will be creating my normal store hairstyles, which will be normal pricing. During the month, I will choose one of the styles I make for the store and release a fatpack of it into the VIP Group Notices.

The hair will only be available in the group notices for free, it will not be available in the store for free.  The free fatpack for the VIP Group will be in the group notices for 14 days only, so please pick it up at your earliest convenience and please attempt to check group notices weekly so that you do not miss this offer.

Once the hairstyle fatpack falls out of the notices (14 days) this hairstyle will be available in the store at regular prices and there will not be a VIP discount for it at that time.   

Past VIP hairstyles will remain on the board for sale at 500L. 

Thank you so much for your patience and understanding.  I very much appreciate your support throughout the years and now into this next exciting project.

Truth <3

 

Edited May 23, 2019 by MrsSeren

[AidySL]

Made my first Notecard, how cool is that?? 🙂

First girl I send it to got it, so I just post it here.

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Being a newbie, hope this helps. This is only on Marketplace, but all free.

Female AO (movement)
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/AX-001-Basically-Girl-AO/5605941

Male AO (movement)
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/AX-002-Basically-Boy-AO/5605942

Female Shape 
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/By-Snow-Iffy-Shape/5115158
This shop has more, don't get the demo's, but the real thing ^^

Female hair long
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Alice-Project-Summertime-Sadness-Mini-Medley-Free-Hairstyle/6925877
There is a hud. Press wear to wear the hair, press Add to use the hud to get another color

Female hair cute
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/FREE-GIFT-bonbon-vina-hair-FATPACK/16248924
also use the hud for other colors

Now that you know how Marketplace works, give it a try.
If you want free stuff, let's say a dress, try this using search
dress NOT demo
NOT is caps.
This will remove a lot of demo's. Also a lot are still there, because they use _DEMO_ but that's ok (no, it's not).
Don't forget to change the price to 0. If you do have Lindens (money on SL is called Lindens),
you can change it whatever price you want. 

If you have a Standard-Avatar, all these will work. But there are also other avatars, read the forums
how all this works. 

Have fun and enjoy SL!

Edited May 24, 2019 by AidySL
Making my English teacher proud

[AidySL]

And don't try to find a nice free red dress on there, because you will not find it, even if that means no one takes you serious in the "how does your avatar look today? topic...😂

[AidySL]

Places with Lucky Boards/Chairs/Letters/Freebies

There are many more, and maybe with much better clothes, hair etc, but get bored on SL

and this will really take you days and days^^

All are free, some you have to join the group.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Green Bay/139/31/2909
Sweet E's Designs and A & S Clothier

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Puffetta/93/226/1025
ADN DESIGNS

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Desolate/225/49/31
Petite Mort & Oubliette

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Keraxic/53/185/25
Baby Monkey Mainstore

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bonaire52/177/202/22
Alien Gizmo's & Erotica Mainstore

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Davros/85/117/22
Japan Hiroba

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SABLE/170/100/3800
Colors Hair for man

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Embu/15/23/502
Momokan

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/ZI Treasure Island/31/152/28
Anime-Inn

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wonderland Beach/211/164/34
Alli&Alli

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Davros/9/27/37
Tabidachi-Hiroba

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Paradis/24/191/1204
EE Design

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Miata/75/232/31
Corvus

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Grignano/54/183/29
Sweet Hairs

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Momo Pet Land/239/20/22
HarappaMall

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SleeplessMUSIC/68/207/21
M*Motion

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Midnight Rain/154/148/23
TRS Design

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Chronos/133/121/23
Hilly Haalan

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fanghammer/73/101/22
Tabby Cat

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/hakone/42/19/22
Shop ChiChi's House

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nepessing/58/175/110
*Ran*

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nepessing/71/243/106
Milky-Way

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/COCO DESIGNS/129/175/22
Coco Designs

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Maitreya/26/40/22
Heaven's Gate

[Elinah Iredell]

On 5/22/2019 at 9:14 AM, IvyLarae said:

 

 

-Little Bones: Joining fee L$100
Little Bones has quite a few gifts when you first walk into the store, Lucky Boards and a Midnight mania board that gifts out a Fatpack hair if the Board hits the target number
SLurl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Penumbra Republic/133/132/501

 

 

I just wanted to let people know that as of this writing, 5/28/2020, the Little Bones lucky boards do not function at all. They appear normal but when you click on them they do not work, not for the lucky board itself or for the midnight mania. I joined the group thinking I needed a group tag to access them, but even then with my new group tag on they still do not work. I imed another group member who was at the store and she told me she has the same problem . We have both sent notecards to the creator about it but she so far has not attempted to fix the issue. Anyone joining the group to gain a chance to win the hair featured on the lucky board will be disappointed .