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August 08, 2008
Golden Graces

Since the opening of the remodelled Adam n Eve store some time ago, sachi Vixen has been a very busy bee when it comes to making skins. She has released two male and three female skins. Ran has already covered the rather edible male skins, David and Nicholas, but I have been a lazy girl who has not gotten around to showing off the gorgeous female skins. So, I am about to remedy that, though in a slightly abbreviated form compared to my usual skin reviews. Partly, I wanted a shot at showing off the three skins next to each other.

A couple of notes before the closer oogling of my naked pixels commences. Ran and I still work for Adam n Eve, so we cannot claim to be unbiased in regards to the skins. However, we wear these skins with regularity, and we’re picky about how our avatars look (he’s especially picky about my avatar’s bottom ;P). Also, I made a little mistake in shooting the picture of Lily (furthest to the right in the pictures). She has mod eyebrows and mod pubic hair, and I modded the eyebrows via the bald cap but forgot to mod the pubic hair via the sliders. So, it is rather too pale in the picture.

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Style Notes

Skin: Jodie t2 Gold Mole, Persephone t4 Gold, Lily t3 Gold by Adam n Eve
Hair: Vivian Auburn by ETD

The free “Three Graces” pose from LAP (it was put out for the opening of the FILOS sim, not sure if it is still available) was perfect for what I wanted to do with these skins. From the left to the right, they are Jodie (tone 2, make up gold), Persephone (tone 4, make up gold) and Lily (tone 3, make up gold). Persephone, a sister-skin to the existing Pandora line, is actually not yet out in the store but should be quite soon.

The three skins all represent a bit of a departure from sachi’s earlier skins. While I think they look very much like Adam n Eve skins, and feature all the excellent attention to details we’ve come to expect (such as virtually no seams, great butts and very nice hands and feet, to name but a few of their strong points), they also feature a stronger shading than previous skins.

Each skin comes in four skintones, but the tones are not the same for each skin. Instead, they are individually tailored to what suits a particular skin best and what suits the photosourced used for that skin.

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The three skins are shown on the same shape, and I am showing the Gold make up for each of them, as I am rather fond of metallic makeups (and this may have something to do with sachi being so kind as to make them for all her latest skins ...). While I think it is clear that all the skins are by the same creator, I think each face has its own, distinct personality (the bodies are also different, in particular when it comes to breast shading, nipples and to some degree bottom shading).

Persephone (in the middle again) exudes sophistication to me, and comes across as a bit more mature than both Jodie and Lily. Jodie has a charming little mole (but when you buy her, you get a skin without the mole too) and looks a little exotic to me. Lily probably looks youngest, and has an air of mischief about her. I expect that I will be wearing them all with some regularity, depending on what sort of look I am after.

As noted, Jodie and Lily are currently available at Adam n Eve, and Persephone should be out fairly soon. Jodie and Lily sell for 1200 per makeup (or 3000 for a pack of four makeups) and each package includes the skin with and without pubic hair (in Jodie’s case, you also get the skin with and without the small mole), matching pedicure and manicure for the makeup and a set of prim lashes.

Posted at 13:31 CET by Linda aka Freyja
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