Well didn’t I just have the most bizarre time zone confusion. I have been excited about an upcoming release by Athor at the Tres Chic event, and I tpd over and was not allowed on the land, and I honestly thought I was banned and for the life of me could not figure out how that would be possible. The event however starts on the 17th which it already is down here, so hence my confusion. I am relieved though, because one I do not want to be banned from anywhere and two I did not want to have to wait a month until the item was in the store. Lucky for me I already took some pics the other day of a gorgeous look, that I was yet to post on so here I am filling in that time.

I had mentioned getting this gorgeous dress from Flirt in a previous post, and it was the perfect dress for these New shoes from Cinnamon & Chai the extreme heels. These are gorgeous and come in either solid leathers pack or an exotic pack that has zebra and tiger prints and these cool crocodile textures that the materials make look amazing. The beauty of the shine on the leather reminded me of those amazing harnesses that .Shi made at this years hair fair, and turning off the headband on this lovely hair by Exile a hairstyle that not only has a head band, but options for duo tones and behind shoulders, left and right or forward, all the things I love in hair, it all came together perfectly…grabbing an old stole and I am off for a night on the town.

There are also a gift version of these shoes for Group and Subscribers to the Cinnamon & Chai store, and the shoes come with a Slink fit included, so whether a Cinnamon & Chai wearer or a Slink feet wearer you are sorted.

Equipment Used:

Photoshop

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

LeLutka Axis HUD

Stockholm Studio Apartment – Varonis

Skin & Body Parts Worn:

Chloe Head – LeLutka

Cinnamon Body – Cinnamon & Chai by Siddean Munro

Slink / Cinnamon & Chai Nail Appliers – set 16 – Flair – Marketplace

System/Bom Layers:

Body/Head

Moles(Personal)

Bom Nose Fixes, Inside Lips Corrector, MonoLid, Red Lipstick – Izzie’s

Brows – Simple Bloom

Cinnamon Skin BOM included – Cinnamon & Chai

Mesh Worn

Drucilla Hair – Exile

Becca Dress – Flirt

Katerina fur stole (Slink fit) – Le Fil Casse

Extreme Heels Croc Red – Cinnamon & Chai by Siddean Munro

Kitty Harness – .Shi

Kalki kada-bangle – Zaara

 

Early on Blaxium created an item with Cinnamon & Chai sizing, and I instantly ran over to grab it, however the prude that I am was not going to be able to see myself in this fabulous leotard with one breast partially exposed. I was unable to get it out of my thoughts though, constantly thinking if only it was not a peek a boo look, if only…then I remembered who I am, I am Sasy, I can make this work. For it to work as needed today I am wearing the Chai version, now full disclosure, with minimal effort on my part I could have made the Cinnamon work also, as I have the resources in my own products that I could convert, but felt that the best thing to do was to show how versatile it is to have two options of body to use. The Chai body uses the SL uv as far as the feet, and so with some help from Sn@tch I ran back to Blaxium and grabbed the fatpack because this leotard is just too gorgeous not to want it in every colour.

Again full info, the wonderful ability to mod when perms allow, made it possible to shorten this tank, wear multiples of it, as it does have a sheer aspect to it, and then with the leggings I shortened them, so that everything worked well with the leotard. Then the pose worked out perfectly because honestly when one has an ample chest and one is working out, one in this very case is prone to potentially slipping out of its possible confinement, and that is why we wear enough options to preserve our modesty in the threat of that happening.

So while the style intention is not my usual cup of cocoa, it adds a realism that very much is, and for that reason alone it had to be shown, so thank you Blaxium for reminding me of who I am, and what delights my inventory holds.

Equipment Used:

Photoshop

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

LeLutka Axis HUD

Aero Step – Winx & Flair

Yoga Studio – The Loft

Stockholm Studio Apartment – Varonis

Skin & Body Parts Worn:

Chloe Head – LeLutka

Chai Body – Cinnamon & Chai by Siddean Munro

Slink / Cinnamon & Chai Nail Appliers – set 21 – Flair – Marketplace

System/Bom Layers:

Body/Head

Moles(Personal)

Bom Nose Fixes, Inside Lips Corrector, MonoLid – Izzie’s

Brows – Simple Bloom

Chai Skin BOM included – Cinnamon & Chai

Butch Sheer Tank V2 (two layers and edited length), Ribbed Tights (Edited length) – Sn@tch

Mesh Worn

Ahegao Leotard (Cinnamon & Chai)- Blaxium

Drew Sneakers (Slink Fit) – Garbaggio

Shanti Hair – Wasabi

I enjoy my inventory, it can be very giving in things that just make me happy in terms of creating looks that just seem to come together without a huge amount of sweat and tears. I was reminded by a friend that I had not yet blogged the camo pants I got at Freda the other week. Funnily enough at the time of said reminder I was standing in a huge warehouse event (so large I had to turn my draw distance way up just to see that there was more) trying on this gorgeous sweater by C’est La Vie that not only included both Slink body options but also Cinnamon & Chai, so I was overjoyed and ran full speed to get it. Not only does it have lovely soft colours to choose from but you get a fantastic hud for the bows so that you can change their colour and the combination for me was just perfection.

The pants are gorgeous not only in colours and there are so many combinations of camo and plain that I really stood there so long deciding, Freda’s store is fabulous and enticing and I found out that she has updated everything for Cinnamon & Chai so I will be running back over there as soon as possible. The shoes are part of the releases at the Cinnamon & Chai store, and because they were made with the feet animations in mind, you can actually make them the heights on the HUD if you like, which makes photography so fun.

I was planning on rezzing some bamboo behind me, ended up with this treehouse instead and some fabulous older bamboo oversized earrings from LaGyo that just made me super happy, and then topping it off a chance to wear the military hat/hair style by Slink.
Wanting a little more flavour I decided to look in my inventory for some face tattoos, and came up with this delight that is an older Pink Fuel face tattoo, it is much fainter than this and tintable, but I stacked about three on top of each other for some depth.
I am enjoying as always mixing older with new, and giving my inventory some much needed airing, we put things away, but occasionally they need to see the light of day.

Equipment Used:

Photoshop

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

LeLutka Axis HUD

Tree Hut – Soy

CnS Poses

Skin & Body Parts Worn:

Chloe Head – LeLutka

Cinnamon – Cinnamon & Chai by Siddean Munro

Slink / Cinnamon & Chai Nail Appliers – set 2 – Flair – Marketplace

System/Bom Layers:

Body/Head

Moles(Personal)

Bom Nose Fixes, Inside Lips Corrector – Izzie’s

Brows – Simple Bloom

Cinnamon Skin BOM included – Cinnamon & Chai

Future Face Tattoo – Pink Fuel

Mesh Worn

Millie Hair – Slink

Casual Flats –  Cinnamon & Chai

Gigi Tops – C’est La Vie @ Warehouse Event

Gabby Cargo Pants – Freda

Eva Bamboo Earrings – LaGyo

Navel Piercing Double Diamond – Punch

Thanks to the incredible creations available, I was able to make my new Cinnamon & Chai look glamorous and then some. This new gown by Baiastice is at the Santa Inc event, I went there specifically for this gown and ended up so enamored by the gown and the colours available that I had to fatpack it, which was lucky for me, as I ended up using a colour that was not even one of the ones that I was finding hard to decide on. There are ten incredible colours extra in the fatpack so this gown will have you set for every occasion.
The Siren heels by Slink have been recently updated to include Cinnamon & Chai sizing so that was a bonus as the gold glitter version look great with this gown. I paired up this stunner hair accessory that I got at this years Hair Fair by Dahlia that is in two pieces so you can use both or just one, depending on the look you are going for, and paired it up with the Smolder Updo by Exile, this updo is fabulous, I have worn it to the beach in a bikini and to a ball in a gown so far, the perfect style to have on your wig stand.

I also stacked some AlaskaMetro shadows, I really like that she has included different percentages in the shadows, so I was able to wear a gold shadow and then use a 60% glitter over the top for a lovely effect, you should play around with those options when as she has gone through the trouble of including them.

My necklace by Kunglers brought it all home for me, such divine pieces they create, I do need some more rings however, but added an older Baiastice clutch instead.

Equipment Used:

Photoshop

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

LeLutka Axis HUD

FoxCity Prop & Poses

Skin & Body Parts Worn:

Chloe Head – LeLutka

Cinnamon – Cinnamon & Chai by Siddean Munro

Slink / Cinnamon & Chai Nail Appliers – set 6 – Flair – Marketplace

System/Bom Layers:

Body/Head

Moles(Personal)

Bom Nose Fixes, Inside Lips Corrector – Izzie’s

Brows – Simple Bloom

Cinnamon Skin BOM included – Cinnamon & Chai

Fierce & Bonfire Eyeshadow, Dark Arts Lipstick – AlaskaMetro

Mesh Worn

Siren Heels – Slink

Raphael Dress – Baiastice @ Santa Inc event

Clutch (modded for size) – Baiastice

Smolder Hair – Exile

Chloe Headpiece – Dahlia

Thania Necklace – Kunglers

I do not think I have ever run all over SL chasing up all the items from one store as I did today. So many items at events, but I wanted to grab as many of the releases by Flirt that are made for Cinnamon & Chai as I could as I really like their recent releases and look forward to more for this body. I also was desperately wanting these hot pants by Exxess who I have always loved for hair but now am becoming a fan of her clothing as well, superb texturing and just beautiful styling.
The Gold buckle from the top lead me to matching up to the leather slides that change heights with the animation of the Cinnamon & Chai feet, which is super great for photos. The shorts also gave me metal options so I was able to gold accent throughout the ensemble and that always makes me super happy, I am a silver lover usually, but the top was with Gold, the rest worked out well.
I really like this top, I do wish though that it had an option for just the bolero on its own, but I will survive, or maybe ask them to consider it, you know me…

Equipment Used:

Photoshop

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

LeLutka Axis HUD

Salon Backdrop – Scotch

Bang! Poses

Skin & Body Parts Worn:

Chloe Head – LeLutka

Cinnamon – Cinnamon & Chai by Siddean Munro

Slink / Cinnamon & Chai Nail Appliers – set 6 – Flair – Marketplace

System/Bom Layers:

Body/Head

Moles(Personal)

Bom Nose Fixes, Inside Lips Corrector – Izzie’s

Brows – Simple Bloom

Cinnamon Skin BOM included – Cinnamon & Chai

Dark Arts Eyeshadow, Paint box Gloss Lipstick – AlaskaMetro

Mesh Worn

Hair : Tokyo – Wasabi

Hotpants No.2 – EXxesS @ Cosmopolitan Event

Ives Top – Flirt

Leather Slides – Sweet Mannequin

Continental Caged Bag – Black Bantam

Glam Greyhound – Jian

I wanted to do a video, showing you all the features of Cinnamon & Chai but I am not ready for that yet, still too soon for me to chatter away. What I did do though was get carried away myself with the amazing Cinnamon UV and how easy it is to create something unique for yourself because of the Asymmetry options available for bakes on mesh layers (all Cinnamon layers have to be made using the tattoo system layer).

What is not well known is that every nail set I make is kept as layers, so something like tartan is usually around 50 layers of lines and so on just to create that one nail, I am a bit mental that way, but because I do all my nails by from scratch ( have used the occasional brush but I usually edit it so much it looks nothing like the original) that gives me the chance to run back and pull from things I have made in the past, such as using this flower to create a tattoo. Then creating chain links as a brush and so on, it was fun, and what is most exciting is not only the Asymmetry option as in no more mirroring of the arms, hands or feet, but also the seamless waist/back. The Cinnamon UV does not join until under the bottom, tops of thighs, so you have all of that clean space to work with. You can see on the Cinnamon & Chai website some of the tutorials that Siddean has created for Skin makers, clothing and tattoo makers to convert their existing work to Cinnamon & Chai, but also the UV and how you can just create for Cinnamon to make use of the non mirroring awesomeness.

As you can see in this picture, I have a waist tattoo and hip, then two different arm tattoos, no mirroring, again not a tattoo creator or artist I just wanted to see what I could do with the available options, and it was really easy and fun.

Here you see the waist has no seam, so you do not have to try and work out how much bigger or smaller the upper and lower parts have to be to create something with this much coverage, to me this will be a creators dream come true. I took my flower and just made it bigger and smaller and moved them around and coloured one in and voila (yay for keeping such good layers of everything).

At this point I am just doing stuff because I could, so I made the back spine tattoo, again no mid section seam to deal with, and the arms you can see are different. So much fun and the amount of effort that tattoo creators in SL put into their work, to finally have a great UV to really explore and create with, is going to be so exciting for many.

Showing off my animated feet by having one in pointe and one in kitten pose, but no additional mesh to do it, because the Cinnamon & Chai feet are animated, not individual feet. With that it means that you can create footwear or accessories that will move with the feet, not have to be made for each height. I also like that it would mean we can do some amazing things with Asymmetry there too, you just have to think it up.

This great bikini is one of the Cinnamon & Chai bikinis available in the Cinnamon & Chai store, and comes in beautiful colours with beads on the side.

Equipment Used:

Photoshop

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

LeLutka Axis HUD

Kiya Beach Hut – Trompe Loleil

Mounted Oars – Apple Fall

Skin & Body Parts Worn:

Chloe Head – LeLutka

Cinnamon – Cinnamon & Chai by Siddean Munro

Slink / Cinnamon & Chai Nail Appliers – set 244 – Flair – Marketplace

System/Bom Layers:

Body/Head

Moles(Personal)

Bom Nose Fixes, Inside Lips Corrector – Izzie’s

Brows – Simple Bloom

Cinnamon Skin BOM included – Cinnamon & Chai

Autumn Mist Eyeshadow, Chill Lipstick – AlaskaMetro

Mesh Worn

Hair : Lover style 2 – Wasabi

Navel Piercing Double Diamond (Cinnamon & Chai) Hoop Earrings – Punch

Mini Bikini – Cinnamon & Chai by Siddean Munro

I always like to try and push the boundaries of what I am working with. Cinnamon & Chai is no exception, I am loving this body so much, wearing Cinnamon is kind of like a big HA to the SL UV Gods. Chai still has the SL UV for all but the feet, but even that is a joy to play with.

Speaking of feet, now as mentioned previously the feet are animated to change heights, so the thought process is that Slink shoes and other shoes will not work, that is not entirely true. It is going to depend on your ingenuity and inventory, or your ability to shop and demo like a demon. What is fun is that I am wearing these Vale Koer runners made for the Slink flat foot, and because they fit over the Cinnamon & Chai feet perfectly I was able to wear them and then use the animation to pointe my right foot and the shoes moved with, where as with the Slink feet they would not have done that unless made for. With the fantastic customising options I was able to get them to match to the Cinnamon & Chai athletic set that I grabbed at the Cinnamon & Chai store. I also found that an older gacha item from Vale Koer fit around my arm well enough in a Slink Hourglass fit, so double wins for me.

I love this set it comes in many different colour combos, and this and the pink and black are my favourites but I only had the arm thing in blue.
I was also able to custom match this fantastic belly piercing for the body by Punch, they came out with Cinnamon & Chai piercings so fast and this set I got in the full pack so I have all the metals all the gemstones options I can think of. It even comes in low, mid and high based on where they sit as piercings to the navel which I thought was so cool, I am wearing the mid.

As I said I am obsessed with the Cinnamon UV and for those that did not know yet, Siddean has made it available to other mesh body creators under a license to use, and that info is here and that is yet again another great thing Siddean has done for the SL community (that list grows and grows). That means that if you are planning a body in future you can use her UV and make sure that content going forward is available for as many products as possible, lightening the load for content creators.

I hit up Wasabi the other day and shopped so much I had to sit on the floor while I demo’d, all the gacha styles are now available to buy in whatever colour pack you love the most, I was so excited.

Equipment Used:

Photoshop

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

Vestige Poses

Yoga items – Unkindness

Beach towel tote – Dust Bunny

Summer Yoga Bag – Zenith

LeLutka Axis HUD

Skin & Body Parts Worn:

Chloe Head – LeLutka

Cinnamon – Cinnamon & Chai by Siddean Munro

Slink / Cinnamon & Chai Nail Appliers – set 244 – Flair – Marketplace

System/Bom Layers:

Body/Head

Moles(Personal)

Bom Nose Fixes, Inside Lips Corrector – Izzie’s

Brows – Simple Bloom

Cinnamon Skin BOM included – Cinnamon & Chai

Earthtones Eyeshadow, My Nudes Lipstick – AlaskaMetro

Mesh Worn

Hair : Lotte – Wasabi

Navel Piercing Double Diamond (Cinnamon & Chai) – Punch

Athletic Set – Cinnamon & Chai by Siddean Munro

Adored Trainers (Slink) , Urban Fitness Player ( Slink HG Gacha) – Vale Koer

Cinnamon & Chai has been a passion project of Siddean Munro for the past year or so, a new brand with new possibilities. Cinnamon & Chai is one mesh body type with two UV’s to choose from.

This system has a few exciting features but an amazing innovation that Siddean has brought to the grid (she is always coming up with new and exciting ways to change our ways of life) are Animated feet! Instead of having multiple feet types hiding and showing through scripting, these are one set of feet that are animated to change to the height needed, this not only helps the grid in a big way, but also means that creators can be as creative as they like, with the ability to create content that can move with the feet…such as toe-rings that will move to each height, nails that will move, shoes that can be various heights for more realistic looks, no more having to build runners that are on tip toe just build them flat and the animation takes care of the rest. I do so love that Siddean is often the one with the firsts, as she always provides so much information on how best to use things.

Cinnamon as shown in my pictures has the brand new unique UV that allows for asymmetry without any scripting tricks or appliers, which is more exciting news for content creators, especially when it comes to tattoos, scars, brandings, wounds, birthmarks, freckles and so on, as you will no longer have mirrored arms, feet or hands. I wanted to show that, so I took one of my nails textures (hand painted by me) from my Aussie collection (Free on Marketplace) and faded it out and erased around the edges and brought it in world added to a tattoo layer and BAM! a left arm only tattoo. I wanted to be more creative with the other hand but I would have been at it all day instead of getting to the point, and the Cinnamon & Chai launch is in less than 2 hours from now 7pm SLT 16th Nov.

So as mentioned I am wearing Cinnamon and as you can see even though it is a unique UV I am skinned, and that is because Siddean has included 19 skins with the release in not only the Cinnamon version but also the Chai. Chai is a hybrid, in the sense that she is SL UV all the way down until the feet, and the feet are the unique UV giving us two feet uvs and also no more horrible ankle stretch. For those wanting to use their own bakes on mesh skins (the bodies are bakes on mesh only) you would use your skin and a blender (also provided in the HUD) to cover the feet and tint to match your own skin, it comes in 19 tones, so you should be able to get very close. In both versions they also include a neck blenders for various heads and the Evox heads have their own all included.

I will go into more detail on the what each version of body Cinnamon and Chai do over the next few days, as there is a lot to take in, but you also have the most extensive website to check out yourself at Become Cinnamon. Not only are there lots of details for customers, but also an amazing amount of tutorials and help in regards to content creation. The kits went out a few weeks ago, and anyone that previously had a Slink kit has been sent an updated Slink and a New Cinnamon & Chai kit, and the ease of use to convert is amazing. I took one of my bustiers in system layer and converted it without doing anything other than following the steps and clicking a bake button in Blender (FREE). I will try and show you me doing that step by step, and skins conversion is amazingly easy as well, no recreating skins or any such thing, just load and click.

Back to the Cinnamon and Unique UVs this means that all system layers need to be unique, not just skins, but any body makeup scars, etc, as well as alphas, some are provided, and the way the kit is the ones provided should definitely be enough. For Chai you would use your regular SL UV ones.

I am planning on being Cinnamon for most of my looks, if a system layer is old and I have to wear it, then I have the option of Chai, the bodies are identical in mesh terms, so whatever works in the moment is an easy grab. The HUDs are specific to each version, and they are individually packed, so no chance of messing up.

I cannot wait to see what people do with the freedom of the new UV, it is very exciting and no waist seam on Cinnamon at all, the connection of torso to limbs is under the bottom and what a bottom it is.

The body has more realistic fleshy parts, the upper thighs, the under arms, the breasts are wow, mine are set to 40 and believe me they get big. There may or may not be some work needed on your shape, mine was just bringing my hips in a little and my breasts down, other than that not much at all, but there are shapes included. The 19 skins come in Caucasian, Black and Asian tones, there are also freckles and pubic hair options included.

I hope to show you more soon, but for now I will leave you with some pictures of the great skin tones , and I hope you get the chance to check out Cinnamon & Chai for yourself. The store will be a separate build from the Slink store, but the same region. The bikini is by Freda, and she updated all her clothing to include Cinnamon & Chai in time, and I look forward to more of her items, this bikini and some great cargo pants I picked up from her store are just the start.

Equipment Used:

Photoshop

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

Adorkable Poses

LeLutka Axis HUD

Skin & Body Parts Worn:

Chloe Head – LeLutka

Cinnamon – Cinnamon & Chai by Siddean Munro

Nail Appliers – set 252 – Flair – Marketplace

System/Bom Layers:

Body/Head

Moles, Nose highlight (Personal)

Cinnamon Skin BOM included – Cinnamon & Chai

Beach Day Freckles – AlaskaMetro

Mesh Worn

Paula Bikini – Freda

Smolder Hair – Exile

I hope you all have a great Bandana Day, this is the last day of Hair Fair 2021 and even though late, I did not want to not be in world with my Bandana on. This one was created by Alaska Metropolitan for Hair Fair 2021 and it is lovely, so I wanted to use her makeup and her bodysuit in my picture as well.

I hope you enjoy my final region feature at this years Hair Fair. More information on the website .
This event helps us help Wigs for Kids, so I hope you can make the time to visit the event.