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Zoe skins from Naughty
By Celebrity Trollop | May 21, 2007
In a comment on my previous post, Amarys asks,
wow, that photo that is published with this topic. From where does this skin comes???
I’m so glad you asked.
File this entry under “better late than never.” (Sorry it took so long to post Amby.) This skin is Zoe — the most recent skin release by Naughty designer Ambyance2 Anubis.
In the photo to the left I’m wearing “Glaze” makeup in “original” skin tone. It also comes in “light,” “golden,” and “chocolate” tones. Zoe has been the skin I’ve been wearing in world for about the last month. When I wear a skin that much you can rest assured that it’s one of my favorites. I’ve long been a fan of all of Amby’s recent skins: Haley, Paris and now Zoe. Zoe is a mod skin, meaning that you can adjust the skin tone slider in Appearance to make it darker or lighter. In the photos for this post, I’ve set the Original tone skins to the 0 position. Demos are available for all of the different skin tones so you can see if the mapping to your avatar’s shape is a flattering one.
The body detailing on Zoe is predictably gorgeous — Ambyance has been making skins in Second Life for a long time, and spends a lot of time working with and enhancing photographic sources to create these skins. As with my other skin reviews, I put the potentially NSFW photos behind a cut below.
My favorite feature about the Zoe skins are the makeup choices and the “new face” that she’s used. Although I didn’t stack up a Paris skin side by side behind the cut, the differences between the two skin families are nonetheless striking. The most immediately noticable change is in the brows between the two skins. Zoe has a very finely arched brow, while Paris has a broader and more pronounced line to it.
The makeup choices in Zoe are bountiful. There’s some new options too, which are very welcome including the aforementioned Glaze. But don’t miss the Mocha and Peach makeup sets either. I think, actually, that the “Glaze” and “Peach” makeup sets might be the best looking natural and peach makeups available on a skin in Second Life. But fans of the more familiar makeup choices from earlier skins like Paris Athletic such as “Copper” and “Berry” return in Zoe as well.
Comparing Zoe to some of the more recent Paris skins like athletic, it’s easy to see that Ambyance decided to “ease up” a little on the tummy here. Zoe has a toned physique but she’s not a 24/7 gym rat. Note the beautiful shadows, subtle skintone highlights and detailing on and around the knees and other joints.
Zoe also comes with two public hair options which are trimmed and shaved. The shaved option struck fear into me; I’m not sure that much bits-detail is required for non-gynecologists. I didn’t find the shaved option to be an especially flattering look myself, but as I’ve written a thousand times before in skin reviews those criticisms really aren’t the main focus of my opinion for or against a skin.
Please note that in this full body shot I’m wearing TaP prim nails (oops — I guess I forgot to take them off for this photo.)
Zoe is available now at Naughty Island in the Backstage area of the shopping complex, and demos are also available. Zoe comes in four skin tones and currently has 12 makeup options: light, original (shown), golden (for the “dark tan is the new tan” crowd), and chocolate.
Seen in world: Yes
Review copies: Yes
Friends list: Yes
Topics: Skins |
you look STUNNING in that skin. rawr!
Posted by: antonia marat on May 21st, 2007 at 5:06 pmI have this skin too, but it’s Zoe Gold. I bought two of them - Smokey/Copper and Smokey/Wine. It is the hotness. I only have one small complaint - as you slide it darker, the peachy highlight begins to look odd. I think it could stand to be more golden brown than peach. But it’s still gorgeous.
Posted by: Cristalle Karami on May 21st, 2007 at 6:25 pmThanks a lot! The one I have now is from naughty too (Alina) And I love it, but this one seems to be even more gorgeous so I’m off buying it lol
Naughty D rules!
Posted by: Amarys on May 23rd, 2007 at 10:15 am