Addams ~ Raquel Set ~ @ Level

Button Long Sleeve Shirt ~ Distressed Shorts ~ Gem Studded Top & Banded Panty

Tram ~ K0707 hair

PUMEC ~ Mesh ears ~ Romance

:CULT: ~ Heart Rings

Swan ~ Amberly nose chain

Lyrium ~ Fluer static pose

Good morning dear reader. Yesterday I was all in a fruity fancy, today I’m working on my tan. That’s the way SLife rolls; each day is different. If you like my pose set, wait till you see the entire speedboat. Yes, a speedboat! While I’m perched on that wooden pixel glory, I seem to be maintaining my balance rather well. Probably because the Mister isn’t driving and trying to toss me in the water! Enjoy x

Credits:

Skin: Nuve. / Lucy skin – Tan worn (Head: BoM for Lelutka EVO & EVO X; Body: Legacy & Maitreya add ons inc)

Hair: .EscalateD. / Aino – Streaks – Natural Essentials Universal Hud used

Tattoo: Juna Artistic Tattoo / Shay Tattoo – tintable (BoM inc)

Sunglasses: [Z O O M] / Senser Summer Glasses – hud inc

Jewellery (necklace & earrings): LaGyo /Deliciosa Set – Gold/Green

Bikini: …:::Beautiful Dirty Rich:::… / Katina Swimsuit – hud inc (Belleza, Kupra, Legacy, Maitreya, Slink inc)

Pose w/ prop: Something New / Sunbaking (4 poses & boat prop inc) / *hunt prize* available with Around the Grid in 80 Days Hunt 9 until 30th September 2021 – more info HERE

Hey FabFree, I hope your week is starting off with bang or at least a good Monday. My was kinda exasperating… I broke my brand new computer screen. So now the right side of my screen looks like it’s trying to contact the Netherworld. But… I will not worry, things can be fixed and instead of freaking out… I’m heading to the beach!  Besides, I have a brand new super sexy bikini to show off!

This is “Summer Body” from DM Designs and you can add it to your collection for free as part of the Summer Nights Hunt.  It’s so nice to find a completely free Hunt now days, isn’t it? And when you’re getting really amazingly beautiful prizes it’s doubly nice! The build is perfect and the tiny details of the loose weave are really impressive. There’s nothing like a designer who really knows their stuff!  

Sizes Included

• Legacy – Classic, Perky
• Maitreya

The Summer Nights Hunt runs until August 14th so you’ve got lots of time to enjoy all the goodies you can hunt down.

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Juli’s Stylin’

• Mesh Head – LeLutka (Spencer- w/ my own edited shape)
• Mesh Body – Maitreya – Lara
• Ears – Swallow – Crossover
• Eyes – IKON – Hope Eyes in Field and Passion
• Freckles Applier – [pout!] – Freckles and Beauty Marks Set
• Hair – Tableau Vivant – Zephyr 
• Pose W/ Scarf – Foxcity – Bebe

Bikini – DM Designs – Summer Body – FREE/0L – Free prize for the Summer Nights Hunt

Photo Location – Astoria Beach

It’s official – Second Life has banned gachas! I expected under the new regime leadership, this policy and many others will follow to clean up the grid and be in compliance with governmental regulations.

While I occasionally played a gacha machine here and there, I’m mostly a benefactor of the extras from friends. Gacha was fun when it was cheap, but over the years, pull prices have doubled, and the chances of a rare nearly impossible. But I do realize the reason why people play – cos it’s cheap, random, and fun, unless you had terrible luck! If you can score the rare after one or two pulls, you felt like you were winning. I asked my friend Sparkle, aka the Gacha Queen, her thoughts on this policy change.

Here’s what Sparkle had to say on the policy change:

Banning gachas is something that will impact both designers and collectors financially. Designers will need to find a way to replace this income loss with something that is fun and exciting. Weekend sales are great but they are getting saturated. Collectors will be impacted because reselling allowed them to spend more and offset spending a lot on a machine through resale.

It will also impact designers that are at a beginner level of mesh creation; gachas allowed them to create fun cute uncomplicated items, that were not expensive. Many residents liked gachas because it allowed them to check out a new designer they were not familiar with, at a low price point. Lastly, it is a piece of Second Life history that changed Second Life’s design marketing and shopping. We went from crazy fun collecting, running to yard sales to find that one of kind cute item at a good price, to a proliferation of gachas events, that became less fun and overpriced.

I will miss playing and chatting with people about collecting, trading, and bitching about how hard it was to get an item. I think it will hurt not just economically but socially; gachas events were something we talked about, anticipated, and was a shared experience.

Sparkle (Gacha QUEEN)

Banning Cons – It will mean we pay more for novelty and decor items. There will be potentially less of those around, but designers could make that work as a weekend sale item. Cheap decor items may be less abundant.

Banning Pros – Less inventory bloat, you are more likely not to spend impulsively on an item. You’re more likely to be able to get the items you want as copy, if you want to build a fence, for example, you won’t need to play multiple times for the section, less likely to lose an item due to inventory loss.

Many brands have already begun offering sales on previous gacha collections and converting the items into fatpacks or a direct sale model. I’ll miss scoring items cheaply, but I won’t miss the frustrations of not getting a rare and ending up with 20 chairs in my inventory.

Let me know what your thoughts are on this gacha ban in the comments!

Time to say goodbye to one of our fave (or hated) pastimes in SL – the Gacha!  Starting September 1st, all sales made via Gacha Machine will be banned in Second Life, so August 2021 is the time to get your fill before this mode of selling is gone forever.  In our listing, you’ll find all the sales we can find on the grid, and will be updated as more information emerges.

Good Luck, and may the Gachas be ever in your favour!

Check out our listing HERE

Telsiope’s Couture – Added 08/02/21

How to grab your gifts!

To pick up these group gifts, you will need to have your Fabulously Free in SL inworld group tag activated (It’s free to join!).  To join the group, copy and paste the following link into local chat in your SL viewer and click the link in local chat – secondlife:///app/group/020fa7af-444d-f54f-01e2-557ec06315fd/about

>>>  Click the graphic below to find the GIANT FabFree Group Gift Listing!

Details Below

• DRESS – {Valentine} Sumire Dress ~ Black @CrystalHeart
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Crystal%20Heart%20Kingdom/149/127/101
• BLOOD SCARS – ~Little Foxy B.~ Scar Unissex Pack (LeL EvoX)
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cicciottella/42/96/2001
• RED UNDEREYE – .ARISE. Face Highlighter Set
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pegasoi/30/56/2051
• EYELINER – Izzie’s – Eyeliner (LeLutka Evo X)
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Izzies/94/122/32
• EAR TINT – .ARISE. Elf Ears Color Dips
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pegasoi/30/56/2051
• EARRINGS – e.marie // Carmen Earrings – Silvers
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/xoxo/87/128/41
• HORNS – + Pearlescent Devil Horns + {aii}
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Aii%20and%20Ego/126/146/1521
• CHOKER – Kibitz – Ivy’s collar – @Kinky
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Liberty%20City/43/127/32
• WINGS – Luas Heartfilia Bento Wings RARE @CrystalHeart
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Crystal%20Heart%20Kingdom/149/127/101
• HEADBAND – Pushin’ Daisies – Kyra Bow Headband
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cult%20Grounds/135/177/721
• EYES – AG. Glasslike Eyes
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hell%20Fire/182/190/23
• HAIR – Stealthic – Lilium (Ombres) @CrystalHeart
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Crystal%20Heart%20Kingdom/149/127/101
• HEAD – LeLUTKA Avalon Head
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LeLutka/128/128/40
• SKIN – [Heaux] Zoe
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Applesauce/204/168/18
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• POSE – Lyrium. Kika Static Series
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lunar%20and%20Friends/50/28/2

• STAFF – Luas Heartfilia Staff Black @CrystalHeart
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Crystal%20Heart%20Kingdom/149/127/101

• ORB – + Specter Orb Censer (demonic) + {egosumaii}
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Aii%20and%20Ego/126/146/1521

• BACKDROP – .PALETO.Backdrop:.OSK-88
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dark%20Desires/74/189/1001

• HAND POSE/STARS – #LuluB! – Magic: Star Spell – Red.
• http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Enchanted%20Mango/36/66/2442

Can you hear the whispers all across the room?
You feel her eyes all over you like cheap perfume
You’re beautiful, but misunderstood
So why you tryna’ be just like the neighborhood?

I hope you’ll forgive my not having much to say today. I wanted to get a post out because I have something super exciting to announce…

I was looking through old notecards about a month ago, trying to get some semblance of organization to my inventory (ultimately, I failed, like I fail to organize it every time lmao), but I discovered something…

As of today (August 2nd), I’ve been blogging for Truth Hair for the last 5 years. My first “Welcome” notecard for Truth’s blogging team was received August 2nd, 2016. Which is super exciting for me!

I have always been a Truth fan, even before I began blogging for him, and I consider myself fortunate to have been a part of the team for the last 5 years.

I’m also grateful to all of you that have been following my journey of blogging for the last 8 years. Without y’all, I’d just be screaming needlessly into the void. But I’d like to think that sometimes my experiences might help one of you every once in awhile. Even if it’s just one of you, then I feel like I have a purpose.

All of that said, I’m going to do a little bit of a giveaway via my Flickr to make sure I can give back to a few of you.

The instructions are really simple:

• You must be following my Flickr
• You must comment your AVATAR LEGACY NAME on the photo associated with this post. (It’ll be titled the same as this post and will be the same photo.)

The prizes:

• One person will receive L$350 lindens for a group membership to the Truth VIP group AND a L$500 Truth Gift Card.
• Four other people will receive each a L$500 Truth Gift Card.

You CAN choose to have the lindens sent to someone else, if you are already a member of the Truth VIP group. Gift cards are also transferrable, so you can hand them to someone else if you don’t think you’ll use it.

A total of 5 winners, for the 5 years that I’ve been blogging for Truth.

I’ll use a wheel spinner or random picker of some kind to randomize the winners.

*** The deadline for this giveaway is Sunday, August 8th, 2021. Winners will be chosen and announced on Monday, August 9th, 2021 via my Facebook. (The post will be made public so anyone can see the winners’ names, not just friends.)***

Thank you, again, for all of your support, and best of luck in the giveaway!

Shape || Mine
Head || EvoX Briannon Head (v3.0) | Lelutka
Skin || Briana Skin (Shell Tone) | Heaux
Freckles || Tintable Freckles | +FATHER+
* Hair || Trinket Hair (Redhead HUD) | Truth Hair | new!
– In addition to my giveaway, Truth is having a 50% off sale until August 7th, so it’s the perfect time to go and grab those styles you might be missing.
Top || Bardot Cotton Top (White) | Tres Blah
Collar || Eternal Collar | Cae

Pose || Morning Sun 2M | Diversion

Blogging Tune || “So Am I” – Ava Max

TUNES

There’s no one no one to replace you, you’re the one that shines for me.
Gotta go where no one else can go, I’m the one, the one that will follow.
And I see a ray of light, you’re my beacon in the night.
I can feel, feel you coming, gonna kiss the deadly sin.
and I hear, hear you calling; now I’m answering
I still can see you and I’m at your side.
I still can feel you, cause I’m there, on the other side.

Come with me to the other side, follow me to the other side…

[- Beloved Enemy -]

Finally I have summer holidays and now I can focus on catching up blogging properly

The last 2 school weeks with exams, this year the floods and certainly Covid adding up to the last school weeks stress, made it insanely awful – more than usual… I was so exhausted sometimes, that I just sat on my couch when I was done with RL work and fell asleep not even finishing my coffee. Who knows me .. knows as well I would NEVER waste a coffee… so you can go figure how that past weeks felt kinda.

Anyways, now I do have holidays and the fun can begin \o/

And it does begin with great news from Midnight Order and some of my favorite creators

Midnight Order is done by Second Life Syndicate. They do put a lot of love and a hell of  work in their events to have the best designer of the grid creating for their themed events. I love their themes a lot as they are always something out of the box. With the Midnight Order they touch the dark fantasy and mystical souls and certainly that is something for me *winks*

Today I am coming to you with amazing news from cinphul. They created 2 amazing items for the Midnight Order event, the “council of flesh” dress and boots. A perfect set, even if you can purchase both separately. You will get a HUD with 7 different colors for the base texture as well as the freaking awesome claws all over the dress and boots – simply a must have for all those, who love the dark side or life or having fun in being creative for pictures and art!

Certainly I had to pair that incredible outfit with some other designs that just fit in the same mindset *grins wicked* So my tattoos for this special look must come from Nefekalum Tattoos. The  top one called “Archaic” and with its materials, the long sleeves and the amazingly ornamented chest perfectly matches that crazy look while the lower one called “Redemption” gives a nice accent instead of wearing stockings – I hate having ‘naked’ legs so that tattoo just was the perfect fit for me.

Last but not least… for an ‘insane’ look I needed my “Ziekling’s Tongue” from CerberusXing and the “Damned Ears from L’Emporio. I immensely enjoyed to create those pictures and it did remind me that I really should go for the ‘crazy’ looks more often again. For those who care about me – I am ok it just was fun I didn’t drift off to the dark side completely again… yet

Clothing

Outfit: cinphul – “council of flesh [dress]” (Maitreya) – NEW @ Midnight Order // July 2021

Shoes:cinphul – “council of flesh [boots]” (Maitreya) – NEW @ Midnight Order // July 2021

Gloves: Human Glitch – “WTCHVRM” (Maitreya) – NEW @ Midnight Order // July 2021

Accessories

Bindi: Wicca’s Originals – “Carvis Bindi”

Nose Piercing: Wicca’s Originals – “Jadeon Piercing” – NEW @ The Warehouse Sale // July 2021

Septum: -[TWC]- – “Thirst Septum -Silver-“

Nipple Piercing: [CX] – “Mahlat Tongue – Silver” (Maitreya, Gacha, Common)

Collar: Human Glitch – “REPTRX” (Maitreya)

Hair & Makeup

Hair: Action Inkubator – “Liberty”

Eyeshadow: .{PSYCHO:Byts}. – “Drusilla Eyeliners” (LeL. EvoX HD Applier) – NEW @ Midnight Order // July 2021

Face Art 1:  Nefekalum Tattoos – “Hunger #01” (Lel. EvoX BoM, Materials)

Face Wounds: .The Rotting Lab. – “Hard Love” (EvoX BoM) – NEW @ Midnight Order // July 2021

Head, Body & Tattoo

Head: LeLUTKA – “EvoX Avalon 3.0”

Ears: L’Emporio&PL – “*Damned Ears*-Bento-Size1 -Linked”

Teeth: [CX] – “Strigoi’s Fangs”

Tongue: [CX] – “Ziekling’s Tongue (Red) No RLV” (with animation to open the mouth)

Body: Maitreya – “Lara V5.3

Tattoo 1 (upper):  Nefekalum Tattoos – “Archaic (Crimson)” (BoM, Materials)

Tattoo 2 (lower):  Nefekalum Tattoos – “Redemption (Carved)” (BoM, Materials)

Tattoo 3: TF: – “Machinist” (BoM)

Wounds: A! – “Apocalyptic Wounds Legs only Scrapes” (BoM)

Poses, Props & Tools

Poses: Poseidon

Deco 1: cinphul – “azrexok”

Deco 2: [CX] – “Dystopian Junk – Exhaust Pipes (Red)”

Deco 3: [CX] – “Dystopian Junk – Wires”

Model, Stylist & Photographer

Wicca Merlin