BelindaN

Reading all this makes me feel like I'm on the bottom rung, or just out of college, and not getting wtf is going on. Does any of this make SL better? Like more fulfilling? I've dabbled with bling, and one pair of wings, but that's me done. None of the rest of it would add anything to my self indulgence. I hate gatchas.....and overpriced FPs. Just saying.

Keep Fighting While Never Quitting (This is my mantra-always) STAND

Gemini Capsule

Children Realise A Newt Exists AMPHI

Twin Peaks

I can't do a time portfolio because I'm less than two years in, but in respect of my first paid for, non mesh avi...which was L$222 from memory, it was as if I slowly slipped into her body at the start. I worked on the sliders and once I got the hair right, we became one. That was my SL genesis.

Really Early Starts Test Stamina ALARM

I had no idea people had alts in the beginning. I was truly shocked by that. What poked me into going that way, was that I suffered a couple of bake fails close together, and had to relog with a system avi…..I wasn't even mesh then, maybe just a Lara body. The bake fail screwed up my face and made me very unhappy, twice. So I figured if I made an alt, I could use her as an emergency way in, and also to experiment with mesh and appliers...….so BelindaSalt, (Salty) was born, just for that purpose. But then I started to immerse into Salty, buy her clothes and before I knew it she was meshed up, and going out in world, making her own friends...……. Over time this got seriously addictive and this is how I ended up with three sisters, and this to me is a huge part of my SL...…….

Yes.....^^^ This.....Daisy has a powerful effect on how I feel, because she is so assured and confident, and the minute she's in world, reactions to her are significantly different to the reactions I get as me. In fact I tease myself about it...….(weird or what!). If we go out together, she gets most of the attention, I'm like the ugly one...…...it's been quite illuminating. I'm about to go in world now, not as me...…..but as Daisy...……………………..

Management Clique

Duck Or Grenade Gets You BANGS

That first face Rhonda is so darned cute! @Rhonda Huntress

I also have my Grandfathers pocket watch. He died suddenly when I was seven so I never really knew him. I have his eyes and hair colour. @Madelaine McMasters

The forums are a significant resource for help and advice. Without a doubt coming here made a huge difference to the pace at which I progressed, although I was fortunate in finding in world mentors at the same time. But most new people are unaware of the forums or just dont regard them as being of any value. That's just the way it is.

Fight Or Run, That's How DODGE

Unemployed Actor

I'm on an evolutionary journey even though it wasn't planned. The RL me who started out will always be the SL me. I won't change my shape, head or skin now because I'm wholly immersed in my avi. However, I'm blonde, and when I take my Agent Smith persona, with short dark hair, this really does affect the way I feel. My third alt, Daisy, I created as a self assured confident brunette who could become WonderWoman at a stroke. When I'm Daisy, I feel absolutely empowered, it's most peculiar, but her look affects the way I feel and behave. My other two alts are a variation on this, and I wont go on about it, other than to say that Salty, my first alt and youngest sister is sweet and innocent, and being her does affect the way I feel and behave. So creating a concept with a life, and an appearance certainly bounces back into how I feel in RL. Quantifying this is hard, but creating a relaxing feeling in RL is a noticeable effect. Its complex for sure.

Annoying Trait (My second toe is longer, so open toes look odd)

Figs Only Open Late Summer CAMPS

Sunday Times

I was adopted into a small family unit early on, and like @janetosilio said, helped keep me in SL. I was given an apartment, and looked after and I'm still part of that informal unit. Later I made my own sisters....haha.

Just drifting slightly, and I've mentioned this before. When I'm out, and time to kill, I surf MP on my phone. I still occasionally buy rubbish by the way..... But anyway, my quick surf method, which works for clothes, and hairs in particular, is to set the value high, the all I get is a few pages of fatpacks, so easy to look at. If anything catches my eye, I dig out the single colour purchase I want. Or sometimes I just go to the vendor tab, but the high value method can still work. Much quicker. But nothing beats walking round stores. I rarely cam.

MP is OK when you get how it works. Mesh heads are a challenge without a doubt. I've demo'd loads and it's time consuming and frustrating to find the right head, the right shape, and then the right skin. But when you do.....

Quite Although five randoms are enough ZILCH>>>> Zoos Inspect Lion Comfort Hourly STRAW

Still Should