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Everyone likes Cake!
By Celebrity Trollop | January 23, 2007
Maybe it’s a sign of how much one misses when one doesn’t follow the New Products forum religiously, but I hadn’t heard about Cake until one of my friends sent me there to pick up a set of cool 80s style jelly bracelets — this to complete my Totally Rad 80s look, complete with 80s glam metal icon: video vixen long crimped hair. (I may not write about it, I’ve probably gushed enough about Calico Creations lately.) While I was browsing the store, I noticed that designer Stumbelina Ophelia had created a set of skins, and being the skin collector that I am, I asked her for some review copies.
One thing that was confusing to me was the naming scheme of the skins. Her first skin series, Sugar has a numeric component - 00 - and I wasn’t sure if Sugar was the name of the skin tone or if 00 was supposed to indicate skin tone or something else. Turns out that it was just the first in a planned set of skin tones. Stumbelina’s second generation set of skins are named SunKissed, with individual makeups named for a person (or avatar perhaps). In this review I decided to focus on the SunKissed skins because I felt like they marked several improvements over the first generation Sugar skins.
I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed modeling this skin. There are no visible seams, even on a bald head, nice ear and nostril definition and a gentle hint of highlighting on the abs. Stumbelina even has drawn in nice teeth for those moments when you need to dazzle with the pearly whites in your mouth. (Make sure you smile when you try on a demo skin!)
SunKissed skins are also modifiable, in that you can adjust the pigmentation from the default lightly tanned 50 to a lighter peachier skin tone to a more defined tanned look as you desire. Although early in my SL I bought a lot of darker very tanned skin tones, these days I mostly stay closer to light or medium skin tones and this range of tones suited my personal preferences quite well.
The makeups that I had for review were Winter, a glossy nude with dark lined eyes, Heather, a vivid fuschia lipstick coated with a glossy kissable sheen mated with a muted neutral eye makeup, and finally Vamp with dark red come-hither lips and smoky eyeshadow. I really liked all of these combinations, and I thought that the way the skin fit the contours of my facial mesh gave my avatar a sultry old-Hollywood starlet vibe.
Moving on to the bits, I thought that the cleavage shading on these skins was good, although I didn’t love the shape and color of the auerole and nips. I prefer a more defined darker color. The neatly trimmed kitty was quite good, in my opinion, with a natural look to it. (I say this only because some skins I’ve seen in world and in demos have more of, umm, an overly excited pink coloration with bizarre lip shaping) Since, aside from skin reviews, I don’t normally show off my nips and kitty in world these things aren’t as important to me as the overall skin and makeup options presented — if these things are more important to you then you may not like this skin as much as I do.
Overall, I really liked wearing the Cake skins with something as skimpy as a silk all the way to clothing with way more pixels like Tete a Pied’s recent Janvier release. They look good on and under all sorts of outfits and are in line with normal market pricing at around L$1,000 per makeup. (With savings if you buy a set, as usual.) I have some forthcoming posts where I’ve worn these skins in the outfit pictures so you can judge how they look in clothing for yourself.
Seen in world: Yes
Review copies: Yes
Friends list: No
In these photos: hair: Party Girl III (sand dollar) by Lost Thereian, Naughty, shoes: Hope (white/silver) by Sylfie Minogue, Sylfie’s Prim Seduction; skins: SunKissed by Stumbelina Ophelia, Cake; poses by Luth Brodie
(There are some additional probably NSFW pictures below the fold.)
Topics: Skins |
Just loved the look on this skin and with the Ginslinger ( ooops Gunslinger - freudian slip there) !
where does a gal get a bod like your though Celebrity. The shape and face Holy Grail is still eluding me. Your shape is the closest to my ideal - any tips for getting there myself , pleeese ?
sandy
Posted by: sandy on January 25th, 2007 at 11:15 pmxox
If only my shape could talk. LOL. Reaching this point in my avatar’s shape has been a long, long, long road.
I started with a pre-made shape by Torrid Midnight. (Tall 3 I believe) Then as I got more comfortable with how the appearance sliders worked, I built my own shape that was roughly similar to Torrid’s. Then I spent hours tweaking the facial parameters until I was happy.
In the last six weeks Haver Cole did a rhinoplasty on my nose and made some minor tweaks to my eyeshape (so they would be more almond shaped) which I further modified on my own.
Anyway, both Haver (find them at Tete a Pied) and Torrid (find them at Torridwear) sell pre-made shapes, and Haver will actually create a custom shape just for you — and her prices are extremely reasonable.
Buying a shape to start out with in SL is not a bad option in my opinion.
Posted by: Celebrity Trollop on January 26th, 2007 at 9:03 am