MillyWH

I missed that part because I skimmed through at work and was trying to distract myself in a short amount of time. Sorry!

It's also important to remember that people have odd proportions in real life so avatars don't have to be proportionate . For example my ex SIL had a very pear shaped body and a tiny waist. She wore a S/M top but L/XL pants and skirts to accommodate her hips and thighs. I had a friend who was 5'4" but wore a size 10 shoe and had hands that matched her feet. A cousin has a really long torso but short legs. He is taller than me but his legs are shorter than mine. So there are variations but stating with something proportionate and then playing around can help with making realistic shapes.

I used to wear wings every day. I owned pretty much all of Seven's Selections wings. I also wore only purple skin (my original avatar) and did this for about 2-3 years. I coordinated my wings with my outfits instead of doing jewelry (attachment points were very limited too so had to make due). I migrated from wings and purple skin but stayed with mainly fantasy color skins and more fantastical looks or fantasy skins and normal looking clothes. Except for the past few years when I've suddenly embraced being a regular looking human.

Ok I feel like if this had been toward the beginning of this thread it would have cut to the issue instead of kind of dancing around it and having people get off on to tangents.

I've been reading a bunch of stuff and it seems that there are people who are unhappy with Bello in general and LL's focus on it and (or also) have issues with BBB and the people who belong to it/the relationship with LL. It also seems like a lot of these issues aren't really unique to SL but stuff that plays out in real life communities. My hometown has had drama because there are groups that had closer relationships with city council etc that seemed to get favored treatment when it came certain events or an organization that had a stranglehold on certain types of events and didn't seem open to everyone. So it feels to me a big issue is just people being people and the only way to change it is to change people over all .

I want to be clear-- she found a body skin that she loves that is a tattoo layer? Wren's Nest (as far as I know) doesn't make skins only shapes and some tattoos. A tattoo shouldn't change the tone of the skin. I'm not that familiar with WOW skins but I think they do a lot of all in one skins (so the skin and face are 1 either tattoo layer or a body layer) and if she is trying to wear a WOW head with a different body skin then that might not match and she'd need to get compatible head and body tattoos. A lot of places make their own faces but use Velour skins (and some use The Skinnery skins) but those usually include notecards that explain where to get the skins.

Your link isn't really a link, if you were trying to link to actually link to a Youtube video.

I don't think it's accurate to say that few top quality creators join weekend sales. What I consider to be the Big 3 (Fifty Linden Friday, The Saturday Sale, and Happy Weekend) all have very good quality creators and they often have new items up. A lot of the smaller ones as well have good creators. I've also seen a lot of creators use the weekend sales as a way to update for new bodies (either allowing for redelivery for people who've already purchased the items or having new textures so people aren't buying the same things) . I've been branching out with weekend sales and picking up a few things at new to me stores

Fantasy Faire can be overwhelming and some builds more than others. I have a system now where I go and look at the galleries of things I like and hit those and then kind of look around to neighboring stores and then later pop in and look around sims for a little bit. I think the FF galleries usually have direct SLURLs to the stores which is really helpful.

only mesh can be derendered so if you are wearing BOM clothing or modesty covers then those can't be derendered. I do sometimes derender things on avatars if they are causing lag or if someone is wearing something that is taking up too much room on my screen (although then I tend to just derender the person....for example last weekend Iw as trying to buy something and kept clicking on an avatar because their facelight was taking up so much space in front of the vendor)

I demo'd the Genus morph head and I kind of liked some of it but I still wasn't able to achieve my idea perfect look and since I'm on a budget I skipped it. Especially since I don't know how many skins are going to be available for it. Alaskametro has a skin for Genus, and it's the one face I really like and want from the new releases so that is kind of frustrating. I demo'd the weathered skin it is really cool but it is a universal tattoo (at least the demo was) for the entire look including the eyes so if you want different eyes you'll have to use an applier, mesh eyes, or universal tattoo eyes. If you turn fingernails off there are nails on the skin. I ended up buying 2 skins and that was pretty much it. I may get the weathered skin , I'm still not sure. I'm more holding out for Fantasy Faire and seeing what is there, although I haven't been doing too many fantasy looks lately.

At Tres Chic Neve has Tomboy pants and Stone jacket on sale for 99L and updated with LaraX. If you already own them and do redelivery then you can get the LaraX (also updated with Legacy and Reborn)

Not really sure what I'm doing right now.. but this is all LaraX -the Friday jeans from last weeks' FLF. [SHIFUKU] sweater/cami combo that was at ...C88 I think (you can adjust the transparency of the cardigan) and Shoes from amiable that are free at Shop and Hop. I hadn't adjust this shape to LaraX

So LAQ Era2 is open for group members. And there are some really cool features like animated blush, tears and sweat in the hud. You can adjust eye position, eye brows, mouth positions, there are a bunch of animations. Instead of getting a head that you switch from Standard to EvoX to Supreme there are different heads. Also the head is everything except the eyes. The skin has the texturing that people didn't like not the head itself. There's a men's head. I did notice on the EVO X and Standard heads the bottom lips didn't seem to line up right and it was kind of blurry. The first image is t the EVO X head with Glam Affair Wolfie skin and some addons (like the brows and freckles) (hair base is part of the head) The 2nd is the Supreme UHD head with the skin I played around some with editing the shape and I don't think tihs particular head is going to be able to end up with the shape I prefer so I may wait until I see what else is released.