And I don't wanna break a nail

I think it was a note in The Pulse of Inworldz-group that made me visit Artful Designs a shop with sassy and mostly casual outfits. This GTA V outfit is the current groupgift. Though all but one displayed outfits are for women, this groupgift is available for men also. The groupcharter of Artful Designs says "We put our heart in"... and it shows.

The outfit is completed with these mesh high tops. A perfect fit. Both shoes had the same point of attachment. The points of attachment are left and right hand so just change it to the other hand.

These fingernails I did find @ Avene Beaute Creations, a shop for skins and texture templates. The nails come in textures only and this is how you make the nails. These are like a tattoo/ glove layer, not mesh nails.
HOW TO make fingernails from a texture
- Open inventory and click "create" in the top bar
- Choose "New Clothes" and "New Tattoo" from the menu
- Add or wear the "New Tattoo"
- Right click "New Tattoo" in your inventory and choose edit
- Drag the nailtexture from your inventory in Upper Tattoo
- Choose "save as" and name your fingernails
- You'll find your fingernails under the tab clothing in your inventory

To prevent your skull from shining through your hair use a hairbase as shown in the picture.
EMO-tions has a package of 8 different colored hairbases for free.

Styling
Outfit: GTA V outfit (groupgift) - Artful Designs
Nails: Nails layer texture-full perm. - Avene Beaute Creations
Hair: Sara Hair (Iced Latte) (dollarbie! & I dyed it) - London Core
Hairbase: Free Hairbases - EMO-tions

A Ring for Ursula

Does the freebiering ring a bell to you?
The freebiering is an initiative by Wolf Hartnell from Wolf-Tek and a very nice way to attrack people to your store. The website even lists the freebies that are currently available.. just have a look here.
I jumped in the ring and found great quality items and great quality stores I had never been before.

I'm wearing the Bridgette Short Outfit (comes with a swimsuit) from Avien's Tenth Avenue, a nice little shop with lovely outfits for reasonable prices. As I'm wearing sneakers, I made matching socks.
HOW TO MAKE SOCKS * the easy way
-go in appearance
-choose "edit outfit"
-click "clothing"
-click "socks"
-The lower menu will show you all socks you have in your inventory. Right click on any of them and choose "create new socks"
- use the slider for the desired socklength and color them as you like
- save the socks and name them. You'll find them in your inventory under clothes-tab.   

It seemed *TARO* has another free shape and skin Ursula (I already blogged Faye). Both very good looking and even better, the shape is modify so you can tweak her. I don't always like the free shapes but this one has good proportions and an interesting face.

I got the hair from a brown hair package at AMB freebiebasement. The hair is not flexi alas but I do like this bobstyle. The watery blue eyes are from *TARO* again, they came with the Faye groupgift.

Every girl needs some undies for one can loose attachements while teleporting ..;-)  This emerald bra and panties are from Sophia's Fashion. There's five different colors in the package.

Styling
Shape: *TARO*_Ursula_shape - *TARO*
Skin: *TARO*_Ursula_light_ Daily - *TARO*
Eyes: *TARO*_Secrets_Eyes_1 (groupgift) - *TARO*
Hair: AMB Layered Bob -DARK BROWN (box: Free Hair Brown) - AMB Bargain Basement
Clothes: Bridgette - Shorts & T-shirt freebiering - Avien's Tenth Avenue
Undies: Women's Bra and Panty Sets (Emerald) freebiering -  Sophia Fashions
Shoes:  DkDenim  Sneakers (groupgift) - Venus
Socks:  Homemade

I dyed my hair & freebie outfit

I'm wearing ViRTuaL ATTIRE's freebie for the ladies. The shop also has a men's section with at least one free outfit. Black is one of my favourite colors so I like this black jumper and miniskirt. I'm wearing a black top under the jumper as the front is very low. I completed the outfit with ankle boots from Deviant Designs. The boots have cute spikes on the back.

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The skin is another one from CMC 's generous welcome gifts for new residents. The brows are a bit low but you can edit a bald head to get them how you see fit.
How to:
Go in appearance
edit outfit
choose the hair icon (has to be modifiable)
choose eyebrows tab
play with the sliders and see the effect.

Note
On this moment there is a bug that makes it hard to save edits.
Best you can do is go to one of Inworldz sandboxes , edit and save by logging out and back in to the sandbox again.   

The shape is my own and this body is not for sale ;-)
The heavy eye make-up is on the skin but I gave her a peach lipstick I picked up @ Adorable Skiins from Summer Rose. Enlarge the picture to see the nice eye and nose piercing (tattoo layer) also from Adorable Skins. The hair is the current gift from A&A (Alli & Ali). I have the lovely liquid eyes in several colors but I almost forgot these blue ones are for free.

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I dyed my hair !

And this is how I did it.

Copy the (modifiable) hair and rezz the copy you made on the floor. Select the hair by right click and open it's contents. Drag a colour change menu script into the contents. Wear the hair and click it. A menu will pop up to select a colour. Try out different colors, you'll be amazed of the effects that are possibe. Go wild and make it green or pink. Ofcourse this will only work on a light colored hair.
Make sure you rename the hair. Works for prim and mesh hair (unless the mesh hair already has a colorchange menu). The only thing different is I couldn't make the menu work for rigged mesh hair while wearing it.
A free colour change script is available at The Free Script Library .

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Styling
Skin: Magic Gift skin - CMC Creations
Lipstick: Lipstick Peach - Adorable Skins
Piercings: Eye and nose piercing - Adorable Skins
Hair: Raina Hair Rust - Alli & Ali
Eyes:  Liquid Eyes (Midnight) - Deviant Designs
Clothes: My black jumper (including miniskirt) - ViRTual ATTIRE
Shoes: Stefani Tan - Deviant Designs

Everchanging Moon

The many faces of the Moon :) If tired of your looks but you don't have enough money to buy an expensive new skin, try a (much cheaper) make up. These are like tattoo layers, don't use wear but add instead. And uhm.. mixing and matching is rather addictive :)

Top left is a (bare) Kazumi skin from Jill's, top right I put on a lipstick from Cinnamon Girl. Smoke and pink eyeshadows (both Jill) for the lower picks.

 These make ups come from Cinnamon Girl. All appr. 25 izzies a piece.

And if you are still in for another skin, they aren't always that expensive. Just keep looking for them. This is not a make up but another Kazumi skin. Not very clear in the picture but it shows some teeth :D and even has a beautymark. A top skin for a very low price!

Killing the lag monster

Two methods of greatly reducing crashes have been discovered:
Turn on Advanced menu with ctrl-alt-D
Go to debug menu:
Set XferThrottle set to 1500 instead of 15000
Set FSDestroyGLTexturesImmediately set to TRUE
Note that the second option flushes textures 'behind you' every 20 seconds, so can cause texture reloading and some additional lag when turning around. But... is preferable to crashings. : )

Twins

My twin sis and me. You can tell the difference because one of us has a lazy eye.

Thanks to Balpien Hammerer
Get your own @ his shop
and don't forget to tip Balpien for his hard work!