Galactikat

Dark Chocolate

Second Life photography in which someone has tried to Photoshop a realistic face or body part onto their avatar. Second Life avatars themselves are nowhere near close to realistic, they still look extremely uncanny valley and its made 100x times worse when people shop realistic body parts onto them.

Because looking depressed and sullen is cool and smiling isn't, to people in SL. Lol. But also, I think that most players feel that their avatars look sort of creepy when they smile. At least, I do.

If trans people have been using the bathrooms they want to for years already, as they say they have, I really don't even see the point in unisex bathrooms. There is virtually no point whatsoever to them. Yes "transphobes" might curl their noses up at the thought of them using the bathrooms they want to but there is absolutely nothing they can do to stop from doing so. I don't have an issue with it. Never have never will. Never even thought of it as an issue until now, apparently it's being made into an issue when really, it's a non issue. What is an issue though is the concept of men's and women's personal spaces being taken away from them. I suffer with massive social anxiety and use toilets as an "escape" at times, away from people. Being stuck in a women's toilet with a trans woman doesn't disturb me whatsoever- being stuck in there with a MAN does though. And if you're non-binary you technically shouldn't have issue using either men or women's toilets. So, I think unisex bathrooms are completely pointless, socially speaking. There's a current weird obsession with making things gender neutral and this one of them.

This game has child sims that are full of pedophiles and this is what you find creepy about SL?

Everyone in this thread being all nostalgic and I'm just sitting over here having an existential crisis over the fact I have now been in SL for over 10 years...

I wasn't around for the heydays of Second Life, so it seemed unrealistic to me to be able to make a 6 figure income just from selling clothing. I've heard of SL millionaires but those are mostly real estate agents. And heh I don't expect to be able to quit my RL job selling cosmetics in SL. I recently discovered a make up store named Adored and it just inspired me to try making my own and possibly selling them.

Tired and foggy as hell.

So I've been considering starting up a small business in SL, selling cosmetics and possibly skins in the future when I've improved my skills, and been contemplating whether it is going to be worth it or not. I imagine the biggest money makers are obviously land owners and people that create sex beds/toys/animations etc. I saw a person within SL say yesterday that they used to make six figures just from selling clothing and cosmetics which I thought was rubbish. I can't imagine even the top clothing makers in the market making anything over 50k a year even back in SL's heyday. I do know people used to make quite a lot of money in SL, but six figures, really? Enlighten me people. x'D

I'm thinking of giving this make up away as a freebie. I also need to start testing everything on Genus now since it is becoming more popular.

made some eyeliners

Just made this one and I couldn't be happier with how it came out... wanted to make an oil slick look to practise working with multi hues.

Thanks guys, and thank you for all the helpful info Alyona. I will definitely make BOM versions and now that I have a few decent things to put on the market I'm looking more seriously into selling them. Just need to come up with a good store name, logo, branding designs and such.

some more.

Some more. btw i like critiques.

And the make up I've made, excluding eyelashes which are CatWa but the ones in the other pics are my own.

Hi everyone. I just (nearly) finished making my own skin and thought I would post it here. It is not fantastic and looks a bit basic but I'm happy with it since it was my first attempt. I just noticed when taking pictures that the face is brighter than the body... lol, so I'm gonna have to fix that. I've also made some make up. I was consider selling them but don't know how to make my own applier HUDs since I know nothing at all about scripting.

Yeah I figured it out after a bit, thank you. Is there any benefit for using PNGs instead of TGA?

Lol I figured it out I should've been saving as PNG instead. Ignore my dumb ass lol.

Sorry to ask a question that's already been asked probably 598 times but I'm stupid. I drew my lashes using Catwa UV in Photoshop CS 6, made an alpha channel but it doesn't show as transparent in SL no matter what I do. My channels look like this. I save as .tga and make sure alpha channels is checked but I must be doing something wrong. Do I have to save with only the alpha channel visible? Or do all the channels have to be visible?

I hate the hypersexualization of fashion in Second Life too. It's why I prefer Japanese fashion designers/creators. They tend to value quality, creativity and uniqueness over sex appeal which is overrated to me. And I wish more designers did focus less on it, but sex sells and sheeple will be sheeple and buy it. My favourite stores have always been Amitomo and Zenith.

Haha I tried the super long ones for a laugh once and got fed up within a few hours.