Marianne Little

I have more than one female account, and this is hard work! 😆 I find new group gifts I have missed when I first picked up gifts. I didn't think I wanted the old woman skin, but there are a not so old skin - maybe a skin I will use - in the back of the store. More than one skin, and some makeup, even a beard for men. So tomorrow another avatar start over again, to pick up the group gifts overlooked the first time she made the round. So many skins and makeup.

Red for Christmas

Throwing in an unedited picture just for fun. Only resized smaller.

O gosh yes. I squint at ads so much these days, I fear that my face will end up like that...

Squee! Technofolk has started with LaraX - and they haven't rigged for Lara before. 60 L for a top this weekend. 4 colors, white, black and two grey tones, sold separately. https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Viktel Aria/164/77/2625

I have a ton of Lara clothes, so what I will buy now are LaraX. I have some favorite stores, if they release remakes of clothes, I would buy them again. I do not need redelivery of them. I like what ISON is doing when they rig for new bodies. First a weekend sale, then full price. The May release in Collabor 88 is for sale this weekend, with the LaraX size.

You see the arrow symbol under the drop for tinting? I always set the whole face animation (On top on the page that open when you click the arrow) to "Alive" (Sorry, it is Awake). That is the most neutral. We can select more than one, or just one. Then they play and you can forget about them. Sometimes they turn off when you have been in edit mode many times in a row, but I can go weeks without having to restart. I like Lelutka because I can find such subtle face animations that I prefer over Catwa. It is more than "Awake" that is very neutral, but I forgot the names. I have 3 or 4 on. You should get an idea when you see the names. Idle Subtle Natural

Apparel - I think creators should not drop 5.3 now. They should offer both 5.3 and X at least until spring and watch where it is going. I think that cutting it off now might not be the smartest, let people change to X in their own time. Better to include X size to make people curious, and at the same time, provide all Maitreya users with apparel. Do not make them leave for brands that include 5.3. It can be a mistake. 5.3 is still the most popular body, more than Reborn, many more than LaraX.

I have clicked on the wrench icon, and get up this part with all the layers. I have selected the bottom ear layer. I can now rightclick it and take it off, or I can use the arrow to move it up. I get no arrow down option, since it is the bottom universal layer. The padlock symbol means I can not make any changes, other than take it off or move it. If I will see my attachments or my body parts, I have to select them. (See the two yellow dots near the bottom). I have selected the "Body parts" and here are the four parts that I can not take off. I can edit them if they have a wrench symbol. If they have the padlock symbol, I can only replace them. If you edit the shape, use "Save as" and change the name to so you find it again if you take it off. Something like "My edited shape December 15th" or whatever you will call it.

It is more practical to select Appearance, instear of Inventory, when you will look at what you are wearing. Click on the t-shirt icon (See it next to the yellow dot to the left) You notice multiple tattoo layers, and also 3 universal layers. The universal layers are often used for ears on lelutka heads. You will see that I am wearing 3 of them! (I should take off two) 😆 But it does not affect how my ears look, because it is no transparency in these ear layers. All the layers with makeup are mostly transparent. Only the moles are visible on the moles layer, and so on. We can stack a lot of makeup from different brands. What we call SKIN in Second Life, can be both the skin symbol and the tattoo symbol. What show up as the face skin, is named amara beauty - Raven 20 - MED BROWS. The skin brand is Amara Beauty, the "Raven 20" means that this skin is made to be worn with the Lelutka Raven head, the skin tone is 20 and the skin has drawn on eyebrows in medium color. (If I wanted to wear other brows, I had to look in the skin folder from Amara Beauty and look for NO BROWS. I could then add other eyebrows.) All these layers layers gives me this look: Notica that I wear so much that I have to slide down the side bar to look at the parts that is not showing in the appearance window. (See next to the yellow dot to the right) When you will Edit what you are wearing, click the wrench symbol (top). After you click the wrench symbol, you will first see all the layers. You can right click and take them off, or you can change their place. You will see an arrow up and down, click them to move the layer. This is good when you will wear an eyeliner over eyemakeup. You need the eyeliner layer on top, not under the eyemakeup layer.

The four parts you can not take off, only replace, and some examples of the parts you can add, take off and wear multiple of. What you can not take off, are marked with pink. The names does not matter. Notice that if you select WEAR on any part, you knock off the part you have on and replace it. If you will have on 2 or more tattoos or other parts, ADD them.

Here are the complete list of gifts. See if you like some skins here. https://www.seraphimsl.com/2023/12/09/lelutkas-12-days-of-christmas-has-arrived-first-class/

Yes, the Guylashes. There are a cheaper alternative, I find that these 10L lashes are quite natural. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/MondNatural-LashesFor-Lelutka-evoX/24782383

Maitreya is updating their clothes, the Reve lingerie should be updated next. I have several of the colors, it is lovely.

You have not seen a difficult HUD before you tried to use a Catwa head. Trust me, Lelutka's is nothing compared to it.

Yes, Velour has neck blenders and ear skin - female, male and fantasy in a box on the floor in the body skin section. They are free.

I like this skin! It is the Fuoey skin "Oliver" in ruddy, to match Not Found Ruddy tone. But it is a fatpack, you get 5 different skin versions. You should unpack and use the special ear skin, or else it will look strange. The Not Found ear skins have no imperfections. It is not the skin pictured in the Seraphim post. But here Fuoey has been so kind and set "Oliver" as a gift next to "Yuri", the skin for 12 Days of Christmas. I was not going to get the Fuoey Yuri skin because I thought I would not wear it, but luckily I went there. The Mister Razzor skin did not look exiting, but I saw that it had hairbases included, and so I got there and grabbed the pack. I wear hairbase Blonde 5, but also Lelutkas own hairbase 072 under. I have not tried on the rest, it is things like eyebrows, blush for cheek, nose and ears in addition to skins in 3 tones who match Not Found body Hinti, Medium and Ruddy. The Insol gift eyes are as good as Avi-Glam, maybe even more natural. I wear /2. I unpacked the Lelutka beards, and wear the 012. I use the HD "eyemakeup" verson that gives a bit of eyebags and wrinkles. What's not free: The eyebrows "Thales" from Stray Dog. Edited to add: The eyelashes isn't tinted black, but brown. Small detail.

I dare to double post, since I am sure not all people read all threads. I like to remind people about other group gifts. If you are like me, and can not stay in every group because you are close to the limit, you should get the gifts before you leave the groups. I know Avi-Glam is not free the rest of the year. Avi-Glam and Amara Beauty had to move this years gift to another region due to lag. But in the original Mainstore location, you find the Jonas skin from Avi-Glam male skins and the Raven skin from Amara Beauty. It is also lipsticks for EvoX and a gift skin for Lelutka, not EvoX. Amara Beauty has free body skins. It is several boxes placed among the regular priced skins. Skins for Maitreya, Legacy, Belleza, even Slink, all in the same box. I prefer last years gift skin for men to this year, that goes for both Not Found and Avi-Glam. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hell Fire/215/196/22

In the 12 Days of Christmas thread I have reminded people that it is more group gifts to find. Here are 2 skins that I like. Avi-Glam and Amara Beauty had to move this years gift to another region due to lag. But in the original Mainstore location, you find the Jonas skin from Avi-Glam male skins and the Raven skin from Amara Beauty. It is also lipsticks for EvoX and a gift skin for Lelutka, not EvoX. Amara Beauty has free body skins. It is several boxes placed among the regular priced skins. Skins for Maitreya, Legacy, Belleza, even Slink, all in the same box. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hell Fire/215/196/22

I am sure you know about the big giveaway that Lelutka has: 12 Days of Christmas. https://www.seraphimsl.com/2023/12/09/lelutkas-12-days-of-christmas-has-arrived-first-class/ But if you follow Seraphim, you see only a male skin and a hairbase as gifts. It is added a female skin too. Just so you know the Seraphim page is not updated. I post here in case you are done picking up gifts, and do not follow the thread about 12 Days of Christmas. I posted there first. I personally prefer the gift skins from last year, still available as group gifts. Walk toward the body skin section:

For all girls who has not been spoiled enough: Not Found has added a female skin! This was not there before, so if you have already been there and only saw a hairbase and a male skin, go back for this: And I personally prefer the gift skins from last year, still available as group gifts: Walk toward body skins and you find them.

It is a useful head. I like all the male free heads so far, but I think the eyes on Kris is very good... they can get just the shape I want. Sometimes when I edit inner and outer eye corner, the eye lids stretch so ugly. Not here. Stray Dog Ford skin, Ford eyebrows, Ford beard layers, No.Match beard No_Mission, (only beard part used) Scar on nose in the Extras pack. Hairbase in the head pack. HOLD - Expression Lines EVOX, IKON Legend eyes-Brown, Dotty's secret chin contour, Izzie's - LeL Evo X - 04 Highlight Corrector 30%. Swallow gauged ears, Gabriel chains. 1L beanie by jed888 (Marketplace)

I laughed, but why not? 😁

It isn't possible to make a Roman nose out of a straight tiny nose. I would like to try a head with that, not exaggerated like a hag, but an elegant shaped Roman nose. A nose for a confident lady.

"Kill the competition" by flooding the market with free heads. 😁 Yes, the Lelutka store is never empty, and even if some are there to accompany a friend or partner, and some grab demos and don't buy, I bet there will be many, many who shop too. Some years ago it was Catwa that was "the" brand for heads. I was grumpy because so few made content for my Simone head. Lelutka had only Simone for the longest time. Now they release new heads several times every year. They are not leaving men out either, it is fine that men have options, lots to select from. I have not bought a new head because I have found nothing I want more than Lake, I am perhaps an exception. People buy a head when a new one is released. For me it has been 4 years until this years Black Friday sale, if I could get Lilith's horns as an add-on to Lake I wouldn't need Lilith.