MISS SL EBONY 2008
Miss SL Ebony 2008 is not your usual beauty pageant. Launched in order to promote black culture and cultural diversity in SL, this is the first beauty competition ever planned in the metaverse for avatars concerned by the cultural diversity and who are owning and wearing tan, dark tan, black and ebony skintones. Hosted at Ebony City, the official headquarters of Miss and Mister SL Ebony 2008, the competition will be judged by the powerhouses of the SL Black community.
* JUDGES :
-Vixen Fairplay (Lead officer of Black Men and Women of SL group)
-Shaka Saintlouis (Designer of Shakture)
-Storm Babeli (Designer of Purple Rose Jewelry, Designer of the winner crown)
-Kwamey Pinion (Designer of SOREAL)
-Indyra Seigo (Designer of Indyra Original)
-Patty Cortes (CEO of Ebony Limited and owner of Ebony City)
* SPONSORS : JCNY, Vitamin Ci, Kid Asia, Urban Diva Store, Otto&Floyd, Ramos Design, ADIMU, Indyra Original, SOREAL, Shakture, Purple Rose Jewelry, CCDesignz, FreeSoul Design... Our very generous sponsors are offering over 25,000L$ of gifts to the finalists of Miss SL Ebony 2008.
* OFFICIAL WEBSITE : Miss and Misters SL Ebony 2008
* Websites officially related to the event : Ebony Style (find more links on the official websites)
* SL Groups officially related to the event : Miss SL Ebony 2008, Mister SL Ebony 2008, The Ebony Limited Beauty Pageants, Ebony City, Ebony Style Magazine, Ebony Elite Modeling Agency
AKNOWLEDGEMENT
*SL Groups :
Thank you for the support of the SL groups such as Little Africa (Tura Sirbu), Second Life Africa (Alanagh Recreant), Club Insatiable (Keely Lawson and Nikra Perse), Black Business Owner of SecondLife (Diamond Meness), Africa Unite (Okoba Barbosa) and of course a big thank you to BMW - Black Men and Women of SL (Vixen Fairplay). All these groups have been there since the very beginning for the promotion of the event.
* Special thank you to Rubina Stanwell who started the official blog of Ebony Style Magazine, a very helpful and network diva.
* Miss SL Ebony 2008 sponsors
* Ebony City shoppers and citizens
* Miss SL Ebony 2008 judges
* People who support this event and make of this project a concrete action.
(*) Miss and Mister SL Ebony 2008 is presented by Ebony Limited, a company dedicated to the promotion of black culture and to showcase ebony beauty throughout positive actions and events in the metaverse.
Public Relation : Patty Cortes
Contact : pattycortesinvestments@hotmail.com
Photo Credits:Naturelle Santos, model, Pictures by Cicciuzzo Gausman, design by Loglady Loon
Well another day and another shopping trip.
You know I was looking through my wardrobe the other day and noticed I did not have a lot of pretty undergarments. I buy lots of dresses and shoes but never anything attractive to go underneath. So I have decided to go looking for some Lingerie. Since I am low on linden dollars I will be looking for a bargain. So let’s go to search and look for a store to teleport to. Hmm! This could take a long time. I think I will use a method that I find is quite helpful. I open search, scroll down the list of ads, find a store with a name that catches my eye and bingo we teleport to that store. Let's see, Oh! Here is one called “Sassy’s Secrets” she carries (lingerie, undies, lucky chairs, sexy tintable skins, skin oil) by creator Sandryne Paster –. NineInchNerds/200/56/21. We can teleport there. After a few seconds we land at the front of the store, which has an archway that is covered in beautiful roses. Let’s go take a look.
I like the way the store has been set up. It has nice clean lines, bright colors and vendors that are spaced along the back walls for optimum visual. There are also vendors in the middle of the store that also display Sandryne’s designs. At the back of the store is a raised platform. Here Sandryne Paster has models wearing her lingerie so you can see how it will look on your avi. There are no models here today so we won’t be able to see how the item may look. Looking around at all the displays I feel confident that I will find the lingerie I am looking for.
Let’s go over here to the right and start our shopping. The first displays we come to are of female skins. These skins are a Sandryne Paster creation also. There are great pictures of models showing you the skin in different poses (front, back and side) giving you a clear idea of what the skin will look like. There are 15 different make-ups you can choose to go with your skin. The skin (in my opinion) looks very well crafted and stunning. OOH! Here is the best part. If you are not sure you would like to wear this particular skin, you can buy a DEMO for 1L$. OK! How many of you can say DEMO. Yeah!!! So after you have tried on the skin and decided you like it, you can come back and buy it for 350L$. That is a true bargain. I want to take a moment to mention that if you like the skin, drop Sandryne an IM and tell her how much you like her work. I can tell you that no matter how long a person has been making things in Second Life it is always nice to hear that people appreciate your hard work.
OK! Let’s move on. There are many appealing examples of lingerie to choose from. There are bra and panties combinations. There are bra, panties, garter belts and stockings combinations. There are one piece body corsets (where the corset and garters are all one piece) that comes with stockings. As you look around you will see that there are many more combinations to settle on. All of the different items come in 4 different colors. These colors may vary with each outfit. All in all you have a good collection to select from. I think it was a good idea of Sandryne’s to have the vendors all set up the same way. Each vendor is coded with a green or red square that has a letter in the center of the square and this system lets you know if you can modify, copy, or transfer the lingerie.
Gosh! We have been looking for a while and I think I have come to a decision and I am going to take home two pieces that have intrigued me. The first one is called “Sandy”.
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I bought this one because I thought it was cute and if I am not wrong I believe it is the first piece that Sandryne Paster created. You can see it has a good fit to it. This is a good thing because you can not adjust this outfit. On close inspection you can see that the lace is not a delicate one. But, as I looked at the vendor I know I have several outfits that this would look great with. Once again there is a plus to our shopping. This lovely 4 piece outfit that comes in 4 different colors is only 175L$. Remember I told you I bought two outfits? Well the next one I really like a lot also. It is “Maria”. This is a three piece nightie, which consists of the bra and panties and the lace covering that can be removed. Look at the beautiful pattern of flowers that make up the material that was used to make the nightie. The delicate lace forms a pleasing appearance for the bra which is shaped nicely to fit the breast and panties that are shaped to the hips and the sheer lace covering flows as you walk. I can’t help but think what an added treasure this would be to any new bride’s trousseau. I love the colors that come with “Maria”. I am wearing the black (which is one of my favorite colors) but I have tried on all the other colors and one is just as good looking as the next. This is a truly lovely piece. I know! I was looking for lingerie to go under my clothes. Well! There are just some things you just can’t pass up. “Marie” is a 3 piece outfit in 4 colors for 175L$.
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My next outfit is “Justine”. Like the other lingerie “Justine” is very versatile. You can do a kind of mix-n-match with it. Here I have chosen to wear the color Indian red. This is a one piece corset set that gives the illusion that the garters are connected to the corset and then attach at the stocking. Here you can see how lovely it fits. This is a good example that even though something looks good in the picture you are very lucky when it looks even better on. Take a minute and look at the lovely lace work on the back of “Justine”. I think it has just the right touch to make you feel elegant and sexy all at the same time. “Justine” sells for 180L$ and has 3 pieces and also, like the other sets, comes in 4 different colors.
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With all the lovely things here I know I will be back to buy more. So let’s see, we can find lingerie. We found a great store with plenty of items to choose from. We saw what I would call very pretty skins to not only buy but to DEMO first. There are models that help us see how some of the lingerie will look on us and we also had an opportunity to see if we could win a prize from on of the three lucky chairs that are available at the store. As chance has it I did win a piece of lingerie from one of the lucky chairs. How lucky was that? I think Sandryne Paster has a real success here. Well I am heading home to put my lingerie away and start thinking where we will go shopping next. You all have a great day. HAPPY SHOPPING.
hey, i have to thank everyone for dropping by Behold the other day. it was even nicer to see some of you support the small cadre of designers we have ensconced within our little piece of heaven. i would have liked to have chatted with all of you that came by but since that's relatively impossible since i have to curl up into the bat cave every now and then perhaps i could give you all a guided tour of the highlights here on this channel of communication.
it's really a narrow strip of land only 31 meters wide. the landing point is on the first 512 parcel i ever got. way back when it went for 9000L for a 512 square. those were heady days. this was back in the day when free accounts and the world press started knocking us all down. ah, nostalgia. of course, since then i've expanded my little hole in the ground north and south so that it encompasses a contiguous 4096 square meters. i've got another few parcels i use as sandboxes so my primmage tops at 1992. as it is right now, i have a few (okay a lot) of unfinished projects for the space but there seems to be plenty of ideas that well up. mustn't remain fixed to any particular vision for more than a nanosecond.
 from the landing point, depending on just which direction you fall in from out of the sky, the first saleable piece i have out for viewing is a jewelry set (necklace and earrings) directly East. this is one of the few sets that i have out in all its glorious prim splendour. it's only 5 prims for the necklace and 3 for each of the earrings. i like the opposite rotations for the two pendants (one inside the other). kinda reminds me of the spinning whirling universe. the earrings have two reducing spirals, the larger diameters connected in the center encircling a representation of some ancient monetary unit of exchange.
i'm going to be putting an astrological necklace out next. same principles as this one cept the outermost sphere will have a celestial texture on it. yeah, star stuff baby.
it has a nice little case (click the lid to open and close it). if you wouldn't mind, could you keep it open for those who might not be so inclined to click and explore all manner of interesting finds of the universe within the Behold land? you are a darling.
anywho, i'll have more stuffs to bring to your attention laterz. i'm thinking of just how i might give you all a gift for coming. of course, i don't want you to come, grab, and never come again so i'll put my thinking hat on so you'll just have to come often and stay long. maybe a treasure hunt. i'll let you know what i come up with.
 a lovely young lady wandered through my Behold space today. she had on the loveliest of hair. almost as though she had just come out of the shower, fluffed it up a bit under the blower with her hands, still all tangly, but sufficiently dry to take on the day with the little rug monsters. dreamily she walked about the place, taking in Lilyana Dryke's sexy and colourful new spring fashions, Myllie Writer's classic young stylings. she even had some time to dream of someday owning an EnCore Mayne original framed art piece. of course, there were chores to do, the sitter had to be paid, the van wasn't going to be fixed till Tuesday, etcetera, etcetera. but man did she look good walking that sexy walk round my place.
it's not every day i get to communicate with all my patrons. today, seeing that my camera snapping script needed attending, the only other hint of her essence was her beautifully tossled hair. when my work was done i visited the shop she had purchased it from. on further inspection i noted an unusual manner the designer had chosen to protect their gifts from mean and nefarious types.
if you've ever had to mod a hair, skirt, shoe, or any other attachment for that matter, these designs are modifiable. in permitting that function, these designs are ripe for a scripted "replication". copying scripts (not intrinsically evil, as some might suggest) can circumvent a designer's original intention and produce a full permission linked piece identical to the owner's purchased set. these copying scripts aid the building community and their use is prevalent and of great benefit. of course, some people have abused these scripts to recreate objects for resale.
to allow us consumers to mod designs to suit our shape the design community has released their designs with mod permissions. because of the concerns over an increasing number of quick fix artists reselling duplicated designs there has to be a response from the designers. one way is for a designer to produce no mod designs. doing this will impact the consumer. but, as you'll see, there's quite a clever means that handles the designer and consumer's needs all in one.
so, if we aren't able to mod our prims, how are we going to be able to fit them to our shapes? we have to be able to stretch, size, and move all the various elements. least, if yer like me, you have to pull, poke, and twist your designs ad infinitum till yer happy with them. tell me how we do that if we have to live with NO MOD prims?
as you'll see if you open up the top photo into a detailed view the hair i'm demoing is too small for my head (or my head is too big for the hair, take your pick). usually i'd just edit, stretch, and position the hair. but this hair is no mod. well, as the handy dandy script instructions reveal, just click on the hair and follow the embedded script's menu choices.
 et, voila. this scripted change was the "Scale 10%" button (there are increments up and down of 1%). no more scalp showing. my lovely locks are all perfectly and proportionately positioned (well, i had to move the full prims a bit, there's still the ability to position with the arrows in edit). but, essentially, anything you want to do with the hair that you used to do manually is all scripted through an easy to understand and use menu. what could be simpler?
if you want to edit down to the individual prim (some hairs have hundreds of prims) you can do that too. just choose in the main menu, after selecting the strand you want to edit, and only that piece will fall under the spell of the magical scripter's hand. simple point and click. if you go the wrong way or the piece won't conform to your vision, there is a Revert button that can bring you back to your last edit or the store's original sizing. pretty nifty huh? can you see the future?
i'm not sure how many other people have begun marketing this scripted system but if you need one it seems the peeps at DragonFly Designs have you in mind. just give them a ding and begin to incorporate these scripts into all of your designs. the added work might be a chore, but in the end, we'll all rest easy knowing we have the technology for peace of mind against copyright infringment.
go see their demos at DamselFly Hair Salon
 the hair i described on my visitor is Dakota and here's its exact location. the photo here is Hibiscus, and yes it's flexi. sultry, sexy, and sassy do any better? roar!
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