Hey guys, this is Jake! I’ve had a whole bunch of people saying that they’ve seen his head on other blogs but nobody’s been linking to it. Well, I’m going to do that here because, let me tell you, this head will take you from creepy to cute in 4 seconds. Not even 4 seconds. But we’ll call it 4 in case you want to change the skin or the effects.

So what about those skins? The Bebe Boy Mesh Head from  Bad Seed comes with 4 built-in skins. The skins apply to the head but also to the whole Toddleedoo body. 

It also has 7 tattoos that you can apply to each of those 4 skins. If 7 aren’t enough for you though, there are a ton more appliers in the Bad Seed store.

Because the mesh head isn’t compatible with your normal eyes*, it includes 13 pretty fantastic eyes in the HUD, but there are more available in the Bad Seed store. 

Guess how many hairbases there are. Guess! FIFTEEN! And they’re awesome. I tried them with about five different hairs and they matched 3 of them almost perfectly (I couldn’t tell the difference, but I don’t like calling things perfect unless it really -is-) and the other two it was only a minute difference.

I haven’t found a reason to use the alphas yet, but there are a lot of options on that front, too. 

Three heads come in your purchase - a basic head, the ‘teeth’ head (first two images here) and a pout head (last image). 

Overall, I wouldn’t consider making a kid avatar without one of these heads. 

This is the male version, but there are several other versions in store and, based on the demo, they all seem to be of the same exceptional quality.

* Okay, it’s technically compatible, but I’ve found it tricky and the end result never looked as good as the built-in ones.

Shape, Skin and Head: Bad Seed - Bebe Boy Mesh Head

Hair: Argrace - Noah

Finally, I get to debut some FATEwear on this blog. I've also found my dream hair, that I spent years looking for on SL. With the hair and the new Edward suit from FATEwear, I had a lot of fun making this post.

Holy sweet sprinkled fuckcakes, its BOTH Your LLBean Boyfriend and Your SL Boyfriend! Jake shielded his eyes

So...this was supposed to be posted on Christmas, but I failed royally!

So have a February Christmas post!

It's Christmas Day, so I'm making this short and wintery. As you've probably figured out, I'm a huge fan of HaVoK!  Each item Guapo puts out is better than the last and so things just keep getting better and better. I also love that his sweater and collar/tie combinations are in separate pieces (the sweater is separate from the collar), so you don't have to wear both at once. I happen to quite like collars and ties (though bowties are a bit too hipster for me!), though when I RP, none of my characters are the type that would wear one. But they DO rock this sweater, and the other HaVoK! cardigans I've blogged this week, because they're well shaped, well textured and incredibly versatile. Also pictured here are the Khaki version of HaVoK!'s Chino Pants, which I blogged a couple of days ago.

Skin - Belleza - Jacob Pale (Group Gift) Hair - Redgrave - Tyler Eyes - Coma - Pigment Sweater - HaVoK! - Polo Sweater w/ Bow Tie (Red)* Pants - HaVoK! - Chino Pants (Khaki)*

Location: Water Reserve 

Just a quickie from me today because I have so much to do to prep for family. Here's the Achtung! Lumberjack jacket from switch, available at Frost, as well as at their mainstore. It's a great jacket and there's a HUD that gives you 5 tee shirt colour options. Well worth the 195L, which isn't much considering what competitors cost.

Twas the night before the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse because the house was a brand new converted warehouse skybox. This post is mostly showing off another Havok cardigan (the Pilot again, but in black this time since I just had to go buy another) and Havok's new chinos, but I'll probably put something together showing off this loft skybox at some point because I really love it.

My pictures don't do these chinos justice. They came out at the same time the new cardigans did, just this week, and come in a wide selection of colours. The fit is great, though they're quite low-riding so be prepared that if you're not wearing a mesh or prim shirt you may be showing some ass cleavage. The shape is fantastic though - they aren't unrealistically skinny, which I find a lot of mesh pants are when you look at them from the side. I like to stick to neutral colours, but there're plenty of more creative colours to choose from.

Skin - Belleza - Jacob Medium (Group Gift) Hair - Entente - Juan Eyes  - Coma - Pigment Sweater, tie and collar - HaVoK - Pilot cardigan (Black) Pants - HaVoK - Chino Pants (Gray)

Furniture, et al.

I hate cardigans. I try to stay as far away from looking like a hipster as possible, no offense to hipsters, but that's just not me. So when I got word of the new cardigans at Havok, I was skeptical, but thought it would be a good thing for the blog, so I bought one, the grey Pilot cardigan. As soon as I got it on, I fell in love with it. My RP character's going to be wearing it for days. The box it came in is actually a wearable skateboard with an amazing pose - I threw it in my animations folder for future use. 

I've been looking for a good mesh jacket for a while, but nothing's really caught my eye so far. Or at least, not until I spotted this one on Entente's marketplace store a few days ago. I had about $3 in my bank account, so I bought some L's and got the jacket because I trust Entente's work (it's all been amazing so far) and the jacket looked perfect for my av (and my RP character). I don't regret a thing (even though I had to skip lunch today). The jacket is perfectly textured and detailed, and the HUD allows you to change the colour of the jacket, the hoody and the tee shirt. It's about 100 jacket combos in one. The jacket moves perfectly with your av, with no obvious stretching or skewing of the textures. 

Skin - Belleza - Jacob Medium (Group Gift) Hair - Entente - Juan Eyes - Coma - Pigment Jacket/hoody/shirt - Entente - Gaston jacket & hoodie Jeans - Kal Rau - Blue Jeans Mesh Shoes - 2Real - Stackz 

Pilot & Exposeur have put together this awesome bench press so that now you can work out in style on SL, if not in RL.... (I haven't been to the gym in too long...)

The poses are easy to adjust and look great. There are different singles poses, but there are also two couples poses, all of which are awesome.

Skin - Belleza - Jacob Medium (Group Gift) Eyes - Coma - Pigment Hair - Entente - Juan Shirt - Kal Rau - Basic T-Shirt Pants - not so bad - Curtis sweatpants

Just a quickie right now to show off these awesome "ankle pants" from Curio Obscura.   They're mesh and, therefore, are able to stretch when your av moves his legs apart, so long as you can accept that the texture stretches too. It didn't bother me at all, but I'm not terribly picky about that sort of thing. I tried to highlight that effect in the pics.

Overall, well worth the Ls.

My family, unlike many others, does not (thankfully) have a tradition of Christmas sweaters, though I do occasionally catch my nokomis (grandmother) in one. She takes them to the dry cleaners so the reindeer don't fall off - heaven forbid. No need to do that with this one though. 

I'm a fan of Nordic sweaters. To me, they spell "Christmas", even if they aren't strictly Christmas-y. So I went hunting for a good one. I have an inventory full of them now, but this one from LogiQue is the best. I've gotten tons of compliments on it. The texture's great, the shape is good and the alpha fits perfectly. It comes in sizes XS-XL. The other LogiQue sweaters look fantastic, too. I wish I could have them all.

Hair - Entente: Juan Skin - Belleza: Jacob Deep Tan Eyes - Coma: Macabre Sweater - LogiQue: Nordic Pullover Pants - TonkTastic: Cargo Pants Shoes - 2Real Footwear: Stackz 

I'm in love with TonkTastic's new mesh cargo pants. I got the big box, so I've got 12 textures to choose from, via a really simple, well laid-out HUD - 6 solid textures and 6 camo textures (including a great US desert camo texture and a great ACU texture). They're rigged and highly detailed, with six standard sizes (XS-XXL), plus six low-rise sizes (again, XS-XXL), perfect alphas and a belt that changes its texture through the same HUD as the pants. The pants can be worn long (for shoes) or short (for boots) and that can easily be changed through the HUD. In addition, you can change the texture of the pants and the texture of the pockets separately. 

As a side note, these boots are also fantastic and one purchase gives you a low option or a full length option.

Skin - Belleza - Ashton Deep Tan (Group Gift) Clown Make-Up - TonkTastic - H2010 Klindershreck Clown Make-Up (no longer available) Blood - Randomocity Pants and Belt - TonkTastic - Cargo Pants Boots - DustyHut - Repairman boots, worn. 

I've spent years looking for a good pair of ACUs in SL. A long time ago, when Tonk Tomcat released his combat pants for TonkTastic, I asked him to make a pair of ACU ones in the future. Recently, he made mesh cargo pants - with an ACU texture option, and they're awesome (I'll undoubtedly be posting them very, very soon). These ACUs from D1&MTG, however, are better if you're looking for something ultra-realistic, and if you're looking for the whole ensemble. D1&MTG's come with a shirt, which can have the sleeves rolled up or full length, the collar open or closed and the bottom tucked in or untucked, pants, which can be tucked in or untucked and boots. They're all mesh and come in a huge selection of sizes. The alphas line up perfectly, which is great, considering I keep running into products which have beautiful mesh items but crappy alphas. 

Highlights:

Great mesh, great textures, highly customizable, easy-to-make web-based name patches, flag patches for the sleeve.

On Adam: