Cherry Picker
Customer service is a very important thing to me and those I have worked for…which means I often come from a different mindset when approaching a store for support. When everything just clicks so well with customer service from a brand, I am very happy about it. This was the case with Cherry last week. I had seen this beautiful item on sale, and in such outstanding colours that I tp’d right over to get a few, then roughly a week later I wanted to wear one of the colours and when I put it on it looked nothing like what I demo’d fabric wise. I checked against the demo still in my inventory, it was the same as what I was seeing, so I tpd back to the store, and sure enough in the store there was very different lighting than on my platform, so the now visible at home materials were way shiny, and almost holographic in texture. Not something I would wear/buy, and not mod, so I could not turn them off. I thought on this, because again, I come from a different side of the counter, so I check everything before I IM people. I tried on another size, similar but actually different materials, so I rezzed all the sizes on the ground and sure enough each one had a different normals and specular going on except one, which fortunately was not my size.
Now I say fortunately, because had it been my size, I would not have realised there was an issue, and I would not have been able to let the creator know. I messaged them, with screenshots, showing what I was seeing and the shot of all the sizes and how different they looked. I then copy pasted that to a notecard, I do both, because sometimes seeing in offline what someone is contacting you about is helpful — I have also broken the offlines capping myth years ago, in world they cap, the emails do not. So I sent it off and let it go, but the turnaround was a few hours, the creator not only got back in touch with me, but already had the items fixed and repacked and sent to me. She was so happy that I had let her know so she could fix it and I got to go back to my plans for this item — she calls it a dress, which makes me giggle. I knew all along that I was going to wear it exactly as shown, I just love the idea of a structured wrap around another top, I really want so many more of these looks for Second Life.
As I said the top is structured and just beautiful to wear, the only way it could be better IMO is if the sleeves were hide and show, or even better something I could wear separately, because I want all the things. I wore it over one of my favourite layer until its solid tshirts by Sn@tch (RIP) I am sure that you probably have some fun BOM layers you can find to recreate similar, if wanting to layer, the ‘dress’ can be worn any way you like. Adding some Bakes on Mesh leggings underneath, and slipping into these thigh highs from Cynful that are just perfect for the look. I am feeling fierce!
Equally fierce are these lashes, new by Nuve. They come in 6 different types, with appliers for heads and other 3rd party lashes. They also include the scattering of white lashes as three of the options so that you can tint to any colour you like, but I was just enjoying the all black today. Mixing up the Black and Blue was left to these beautiful earrings by Dark Mouse, now usually you will see me in her hoops, they are my default earrings at this point, but these new statement earrings are just gorgeous, and they are mod, so I tinted a little bit to get a bluer blue for the look, if you give me mod I am going to use it…keep on giving it! All of it coming together with this half updo do by Truth, it is a lovely falling waves of a style and the behind the shoulders makes me super happy. I went with one of the browner blacks today, I do love when greyscale huds give you options to be a bit more creative with hair colour.
Equipment Used
VR Studio and HUD/Library – VR Foundry Marketplace
LeLutka Axis HUD Face – LeLutka
Important: Moles featured on face or body unless otherwise stated are created by me, for me personally. If wearing moles or freckles etc layers by other creators they will always be credited. As my face moles are the same always, it will be clear to know it is mine not part of the skin.
Poses & Props
Body Parts
Body :
Reborn – EBody
Head:
Genus Morph Head – Genus
Straight – NoseMorph
Heavy – Lipmorph
Round – EyeMorph
Triangle – HeadMorph
Appliers:
Ruby Eyelashes Appliers – Nuve @ Level Event
Nail appliers – Flair – Marketplace
Skin Worn:
Mandy Skin (face), Rhea Body Skin – Nuve Mainstore
Head and Body BOM Layers:
Willow Eyebrows – Nuve Mainstore
Peaceful eyes – Insol Mainstore
Hair Worn:
Linger Hair – TRUTH Mainstore
Wearing:
Sarrah Dress – Cherry Mainstore
Twisted Tee – Sn@tch
Tempter Leggings – Flair
Footwear:
Spicey Sporty – Thigh High Boots – Cynful Mainstore
Accessories:
Dreamy Fairy Leaves Earrings – Dark Mouse Mainstore