One of the things I love most about Second Life is that I can be anything and anybody I want to on any given day. Creators around the grid provide skins, hair, makeups, clothing, costumes, props, etc. I can even change my sky to suit my mood.
I’ve fallen in love with skins for my avatar and am a compulsive collector. I certainly buy enough of them and change them to fit my outfits, hair or mood. If a hunt is on and I get free skins, even better – they all go into my bursting inventory to be sorted and cataloged. I may never get a chance to wear all I have, but I sure as hell am having fun trying.
Occasionally, I will get a heads up from a friend or a notecard from a vendor about a free skin and damned if I don’t stop everything and run to grab it. This week was particularly good. PXL had a free group gift, Beauty Avatar had a free skin, so did Son!a. A friend IM’d and said “OMG you HAVE to get the free skin at Staged!” and sent me the link. I rushed to look and laughed when I saw the name of the skin, Crack Whore. Yeah lol, and it was gorgeous. Smeared make-up, runny mascara, chapped and burnt lips. I knew I was going to have fun with that one so I grabbed it just before running over to Beauty Avatar and discovering the free skin was that of a vampire. Perfect!
The first skin I tried on was the vampire. There was a photo contest going on at Ali Couture (vote for me!) and the skin was perfect for the Halloween theme. I spent some time turning my sim into a spooky, Gothic woods, invited a willing victim, spent some time finding just the right loincloth, a kick-ass friend to take a great snapshot and the photo shoot for the contest was on. I loved the look of the skin so much, I ended up spending all day in it and my Sinister latex dress from Ali’s. Nothing like roaming round shops with blood dripping down your lips.
Today, I was a crack whore. Yeah, I REALLY needed to try that skin on and it was fantastic. I spent some time
debating on what to wear with it. I wanted messy, long hair for sure but what to wear? Hmmm, I tried on a gorgeous leather number from XTC, but it was just too classy and I was sure my crack whore self would have sold it for a quick hit of the pipe.
My friend, also sporting the crack whore skin showed up and mentioned something about her ass showing and then I knew. I’d wear the free ass crack jeans (hey, I didn’t name them!) I’d gotten in a hunt and really whore it up. We then spent some time visiting stores in our crack head skins and then I came home to the sim where I rezzed the slum apartment I’d gotten for free on XStreet (thanks Jordy) and hunted for poses to best showcase my new skin.
She’s a pretty thing, my burnt out whore and sure to make some money for that hit she so desperately needs. I really do hope she doesn’t turn to mainlining heroine, but sadly, that’s the road she’s on.
Maybe tomorrow, I’ll be a Pretentious Cunt (yes, that’s the name of a skin) like my friend over here who just got back from a drunken party and fist fight with paparzzi or maybe, just maybe a mermaid. Something about the idea of leading men to their doom with my siren’s song just appeals, ya know?
See ya on the grid. Who or what will you be?
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Mari Malaspina is a writer, an SL junkie, fashionista, SL sculpture lover and finder of cool sims. She is co-publisher of Slinkmag and is known to Tweet a lot under her RL name as well as for Slinkmag. She's always looking for cool and fun things to write about and buys more virtual goods than she should. Watch out asset server! 
