This will be a quick post because it’s late and I’m tired.

Recently my friend Delora of Haven Designs dropped her new gown on me, Rhapsody, in this gorgeous blue colour.  Blue is my favourite colour, and this is a gorgeous gown with lots of beautiful details.  Check out Haven Designs for these gowns and more beautiful clothes!

Read below the cut for more, and also nudity!

Rockberry released freckled versions of some of their most popular skins an embarrassingly long time ago, and I’ve been slacking in a major way.  Uma is my favourite, and I think the freckles are done really well, extending down to the chest.  If you don’t like freckles, you can still get the originals, but the freckles add character!  Or so my mom told me when I was growing up and hated them, always trying to scrub them off!   Now, I love them and wear them all the time in SL, whenever possible really, and Rockberry has some of the best I’ve seen around lately.

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Estelle is absolutely gorgeous and well deserving of the heaps and heaps of praise I see every day in-world, on the various feeds and on plurk, which I try to avoid but it’s like the crack, man.  Just like this skin.  Except, it’s good for you.  And to try it is free (1L is free, in my humble opinion).  See?  They’ll reel you in every time.

Read more after the cut.

We’re going to go from the fairest of them all to the darkest.  According to LeLutka manager Aradia Dielli, the darkest tone for Estelle is Suntan.  Which sorta sucks, actually, because even though I’m a pale white chick in real life (much like the tone above), I like to be black in Second Life sometimes, and LeLutka makes some really beautiful black skins.

I’m showing you my favourite four makeups for each tone, but there are approximately eight or so for each, including the base.  As with the last release, there are hairbases, light and dark brows, photoshoot lashes, the ponytail which is all over the feeds, and pubic hair clothing layers.  You can buy push-em-up cleavage clothing layers in the store separately.  Unfortunately, no freckles with these new skins either.

Pale might be more my shade, actually.  It’s hard to decide just how pale I like to be in SL when I am in a pale mood.  This one has some of my favourite makeups, like the one shown on the top right.

Each skin is only 1190L, and fatpacks are 5250L.  Because there are no freckle versions, each skin is less expensive.

The light tone has the most makeups, with twelve plus the base makeup! Because there are so many, the fatpack is 7550L for this tone.  I absolutely love the random freckles placed on the cheek, the little details like that make me squee!

Above are the Sunkissed makeups with a hairbase, and you can see in the photo that they are very natural looking.  If you’re going to a laggy Sim, then this is the perfect skin to wear, as you can take off your prim hair but not be bald!  I went to the Fri.day sale yesterday and OMG I definitely recommend wearing no hair or prims, or scripts, of any kind!

The darkest tone is Suntanned, and it reminds me of how certain people might look after they return from their amazing, jealousy-causing trip to Brazil!

The details on the body are great too.  I found nary a seam, and that is fairly rare amongst even the greats.  The nipples are…chewable!, and the back is amazing.  Makes me want to go backless in all my clothes!

Sorry this post is such a quickie, but I don’t have much time these days, as I’ve been spending most of my time on the Shoe Fair.  If you haven’t gone yet, then what are you waiting for?  It’s for such a good cause and there are so many amazing pairs of shoes there, it’s like an orgy of shopping for the shoe lover!

So, what are you waiting for?  Everyone looks amazing in this skin, seriously.  Go get it!

That damn Iki!  Why does she have to be so freakin’ talented?  She’s seriously working overtime to bring us amazing skins, sure, but also killing my Linden balance.

The latest skin to roll out of her factory (well it feels like it, since she’s so prolific) is the lovely and beautiful Jolie skin.  I think of the last three releases, all of which I adored, this is the best.  I’ve been wearing it non-stop for the past few days, which, let me tell you, is something special since I have so many skins.

First, let’s break down the choices:

• Four different fatpacks, including the Pip (the one with the crazy-looking lips).

• Five tones altogether (though not all packs include all tones).

• Fatpacks range in price from L$2000 – L$4000, depending on the pack (all have a different number of makeups).

• Included options are: eyelashes, brow shapes, three different brow colours, pubic hair clothing layers, freckly skins and mondo-cleavage skins.

The Colours fatpack is my favourite, and not least of it is because there are brand new makeups in there!  I love having different ones to choose from, even if I choose to go completely casual most of the time.  Shown in the above eight headshots are all the makeups included in the Colours set.

I also adore the freckles options.  I have freckles in real life, so I am always interested when skins have freckles here.  And these ones aren’t too overwhelming, which is important, and I absolutely LOVE the random tiny moles placed over the face.  They add a lot of character to a face, I think.

The Basics pack is another classic.  It includes smokey eyes, no makeup (a definite beauty when you were the freckles version) and a light eyemakeup version.  And that’s only L$2k for 3 skins, a definite bargain when you consider that each skin on its own is L$1000.

Okay, so if you tried either the Cleo or River sets, and they just weren’t you, though you did like them, try these instead.  It’s like she took the best features of both and then added a bit more Awesome, and this is the result.  Now I just need to save my Lindens to get the Liners pack (and all the other skin tones )

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