Billy Beaverhausen
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Shopping for David – September 2021
Quite often the monthly search to find something new to wear with the NX-Nardcotix David mesh body starts on Marketplace. I enter NX-Nardcotix in the search field, hit the search button and filter on Apparel and Men’s. While there aren’t many new items being made for this body, if any, occasionally I do come across a full perm items that’s been given a nice new texture. As we’re through the first half of September now, I wasn’t surprised to find a sweater with a bunch of textures in autumn colours and halloween patterns.
I downplayed the Halloween theme for now, choosing a simple muted red and gray striped version of the October Sweater by Love Fashion. It goes well with the Lewis denims by Legal Insanity. These fit David in the Signature size (which I’m wearing) or the Enzo size, if you’re willing to play with your shape a bit. The shape editing sliders you need are leg muscle, saddlebags, butt size and belly size. These jeans are torn and sadly you can’t wear them without the patches that come with them, because you need to alpha out your legs. On the bright side, you can get a textures add-on pack for these patches and make them match your outfit. The Ulrich boots and socks by Deadwool look like they’ve seen a lot of action keeping my feet warm on long autumn walks through cities and parks.
Once back home I stripped off that sweater to show of the Dear Devil tattoo by Taox Tattoo and also show that the Lewis denims can be worn shirtless with David, if you are willing to adjust your shape as mentioned before. While I was at it, I continued stripping to show you the back of the tattoo, call it a day and take a nap with the cat.
Credits
- NX-Nardcotix David mesh body
- Lelutka Guy mesh head (an “oldy” but a goodie!),
- Birth Maverick skin in skin tone #7 for Lelutka + their Omega skin applier on the body (you need the Omega relay for the body, available at the NX-Nardcotix store)
- Billy Beaverhausen Troy shape (shaped was edited to work with the Legal Insanity jeans in this blog post, suggested skin in notecard is also different from what I used now)
- Avi-Glam Solstice eyes (applied on the mesh eyes that come with the Lelutka Guy mesh head)
- Modulus Lewis hat and hair
- October Sweater by Love Fashion
- Lewis denims by Legal Insanity
- NX-Nardcotix Darrel briefs (comes with a tank top)
- Ulrich boots (and socks) by Deadwool
- Taox Tattoo Dear Devil (Sometimes you need to click the blend buttons a couple of times to make the tattoo go sharp. You’ll find these buttons in the layers tab of the hud that comes with the body.)
- Jian kitten pillow
Run Forest, Run!
For a brief period in real life I became quite the avid runner. I started gently by taking long walks straight after work. I was still living with my parents back then and had absolutely nothing in my way to prevent me from “stretching my legs” for a couple of hours every day. Then I gradually started building in short burst of jogging into the walk. As soon as I felt I could keep it going, I started driving straight home from work and running in the countryside where my parents still live today. At least four times a week, come rain or shine, I would run 5 or 10 km. I had already started a weight loss journey and the running gave it an extra kick, so it wan’t hard to find the motivation. Sadly, I never really enjoyed it. I enjoyed the after buzz, but not really the running itself. My knees weren’t agreeing with it either so I ended up trading it in for a crosstrainer. At least I could have the tv on while I was spinning away on that contraption every day.
I do envy people who seem to be enjoying themselves while running though. It is quite a popular way to stay fit for lots of people in Stockholm. Year in, year out those bloody joggers are being a nuisance to those of us that just want to enjoy a walk. It’s kinda funny how there’s a nuisance hierarchy in traffic. Walkers are annoyed by runners and bikers, then of course bikers feel threatened by cars and anyone driving a car has large vehicles like busses and trucks looming over them. Anyhoo, at least collisions in Second Life™ don’t come with any physical damage and virtual running doesn’t put any strain on my knees either. You know, I’m really starting to think SL is better than RL.
Credits
- Noche Leon Shorts, available at Equal10 until October 5th, check the main store at a later date
- Noche Hawk crop tee
- Versov Evenov sneakers
- Lelutka Connor EVO X mesh head, freckles and beard used come with the head
- Birth Hendrix skin for Lelutka EVO X mesh head (make sure you click the EVO X button in the head’s hud) & Birth’s body skin for Legacy Meshbody
- Legacy Meshbody
- Stealthic Narcotic hair
- Nar Mattaru Immortalis tattoo
- Billy Beaverhausen Brent shape
Relax, Take It Easy
After a yet another week of everybody at work needing a piece of me, I have to tell myself to relax and take it easy. It doesn’t necessarily need to be a physically lazy weekend, but I mindfully need to tell my brain to slow down. I swear I’ve got an overactive hamster in an exercise wheel in my head and often I’m having a hard time trying to make the little bugger slow the hell down.
Let’s face it, Second Life™ isn’t always the most relaxing environment. Between its learning curve and sometimes insane lag it can easily become a world of frustration. In my little swanky cabin up in the sky however, the lag isn’t too bad and there’s not much of a learning curve when one is just hanging out in one’s pants. Throw in some welcome company and a couple of very cute kittens and you’ve got yourself a bit of virtual relaxation heaven. Not much more to say about that now.
Credits
- Lelutka Connor EVO X mesh head, freckles and beard used come with the head
- Birth Hendrix skin for Lelutka EVO X mesh head (make sure you click the EVO X button in the head’s hud) & Birth’s body skin for Legacy Meshbody
- Legacy Meshbody
- Stealthic Narcotic hair
- Modulus body hair set 1 (it looks like this product was discontinued)
- Nar Mattaru Immortalis tattoo
- Noche Devin briefs and Jack crop vest
- Billy Beaverhausen Brent shape
- Jian kitten from the Kitten Collection and Kitten Pillow
A Brief Encounter
It is no secret at all that I like my virtual underwear. Hell, if this would be a secret it would be the very definition of the world’s worst kept secret. As Second Life™ is a place where a lot of people like to live out fantasies which real life might not let them get around to, much of the undergarments in SL are of the daring kind. I wear the butt floss quite often when upper garments will allow me to show it off and I sure like the buttock-lift of a good jockstrap, but every now and again I like to wear something a bit more, dare I say it, normal. Enter the newest creation by Noche, the Devlin briefs.
It’s rather refreshing to see a pair of well executed y-briefs in SL. It’s the kind of (fresh) underwear youre mother wants you to wear just in case you get hit by a car and they have to undress you in hospital. Oh the shame you would bring upon the family if you were caught wearing something slutty in such a situation! The fatpack of these briefs comes with 26 colour options which can be applied to the main fabric, trim and waistband separately and there are 30 designs for the print on the waistband.
- Noche Devlin briefs
- Lelutka Alain mesh head, brows and beard used come with the mesh head
- Legacy Meshbody
- Clef De Peau Allan skin for Lelutka + their body skin for Legacy (using BOM)
- Billy Beaverhausen Grant shape
- Stealthic Reach hair
- Lisp Bazaar Jasmine bed
- LAQ Decor bathroom cabinet
- Jian curious kitten from the Kitten Collection
- If you want to know that the avatar lying down looks like, check out my previous blog post
Meet Brent
I’ve been playing some more with the look for the Lelutka Connor EVO X mesh head I put together for my previous blog post. The shape was tweaked just slightly and because the eyebrows are much more visible with this hairdo, I also edited the brow shape. Then I dived in the folder with extras for this head and applied the freckles. Last but not least I slapped on the HD beard that belongs to this head and went for one of the scruffier options. The changes are subtle, yet the overall effect is pleasingly different from the previous look. I’m calling this shape & look Brent and it will be in Marketplace some time this week. The real life job has been rather demanding lately so I’m not putting unnecessary stress on myself in Second Life™.
Credits
- Lelutka Connor EVO X mesh head, freckles and beard used come with the head
- Birth Hendrix skin for Lelutka EVO X mesh head (make sure you click the EVO X button in the head’s hud) & Birth’s body skin for Legacy Meshbody
- Legacy Meshbody
- Avi-Glam Erudite eyes, applied to the mesh eyes that come with the Lelutka head. These are currently available at Man Cave until September 11th. Check the AG main store after that.
- Stealthic Narcotic hair
- Modulus body hair set 1 (it looks like this product was discontinued)
- Noche mesh nipples
- The Brent shape will be in Marketplace later this week
Lelutka EVO to EVO X
When it comes to always keeping up with the latest developments in Second Life, I will freely admit that I’m not the best blogger. I’m far from the first to mention that Lelutka have updated their existing “EVO” heads to “EVO X”. How lovely is that! Free updates for all! It had me a little bit worried though. When Lelutka updated the rigging for some of their existing heads a while ago, all the shapes I had made for these heads ended up looking wonky (good word!) and I had to edit them all. So now I wondered if perhaps the suggested skins for these shapes would be all over the place.
Thankfully Lelutka have given us the option to switch between EVO and EVO X with a simple click on the hud, so we can keep using the classic skins or splash out on one of the new EVO X skins, which are popping up all over the place. I won’t have to review my shapes again. Which is a good thing, because in real life when I’m done with a brochure or catalogue in one language, it usually means I have to repeat the darn thing in at least eight other languages. Talk about a glitch in the matrix!
The skin I’m using here is Hendrix by Birth. It’s Birth’s first skin for a male Lelutka EVO X mesh head and while they used the Lelutka Eon head to show it, I went for the Connor head myself. This is one of the mesh heads that was updated from EVO to EVO X and I felt like I haven’t done enough with this head. The skin is very fresh faced and I deliberately left off any extras like facial hair, to show it as it is. I think that when I do the photoshoot for this shape, I might add some extras though. You get quite a lot with the Lelutka EVO X heads, it seems a shame to let it go to waste.
In my opinion this fresh-face male model-ish cocky twunk needed an outfit to match. I realise that visible thong with jeans has become somewhat of a go-to thing, but I think it’s because it’s not a given that you can combine any kind of underwear with any pair of jeans in Second Life™. It’s all a bit of a hit or miss thing and when it works with the Legacy mesh body, you often can’t achieve the same effect with Belleza Jake. It has something to do with the dev kit for these bodies. Underwear designers have to push their items inside the Legacy body ever so slightly while they’re working on it in their 3D software so it becomes a skintight fit in SL. Other clothing doesn’t have to be such a tight fit, which means that there is a bit of room to fit something underneath it. For the Jake body everything is a tighter fit, so there’s no wiggle room for underpants. The strings on the Noche Alan thong cut into the belt on the Legal Insanity Lewis denims, but I’m not too bothered about that. The Wes tank is also by Noche and whyle it’s teasingly lifted now, you can lower it so only a tiny titillating gap is left between the tank and jeans.
Credits
- Lelutka Connor EVO X mesh head
- Birth Hendrix skin for Lelutka EVO X mesh head (make sure you click the EVO X button in the head’s hud) & Birth’s body skin for Legacy Meshbody
- Legacy Meshbody
- Modulus Adrian Hair
- Avi-Glam Erudite eyes, applied to the mesh eyes that come with the Lelutka head. These are currently available at Man Cave until September 11th. Check the AG main store after that.
- Noche mesh nipples and piercing
- Nar Mattaru Immortalis tattoo
- Noche Wes tank and Alan thong
- Legal Insanity Lewis denims
- Versov Beefov sneakers
- Bauhaus Movement Takishima Bracelet (the black and silver one)
- Meva male bracelets (the golden metal ones)
- Gild Loop bracelets (brown leather with golden metal plate)
- RezzRoom European Cat Adult (companion)
- Pose: Coffee break by Cordeaux, interacting with the built-
- Location: Cravone City
- Shape will be added to the list of credits as soon as I’ve put it in Marketplace.
Men only Hunt 2021 – Episode 3
Another day, another look “sponsored” by this year’s Men Only Hunt. There used to be more than one of these a year, but I’d rather have fewer hunts with better quality items than an endless stream of junk I have to trash as soon as I’ve unpacked it, before it contaminates my inventory. Something I haven’t mentioned before is that this hunt comes with a hud that takes you from store to store. You can get it at the Men Only sim, which also hosts the Men Only Monthly event. You need to be in the group to be able to grab the hud. You don’t need to be in the group to be able to grab the hunt items though, so if you see that bird somewhere when you’re out and about, just grab it and put in in your pocket. Of course, that will inevitably mean that at some point someone will ask you if that is a bird in your pocket or if you are just happy to see them. Why can’t it be both?
Today I’m wearing the tucked Damon tank by Fake society, rolled hem jeans by Gabriel, Austin hair by The Mars and the Quon tattoo by Mister Razzor.
General credits (not related to Men Only Hunt)
- Legacy Meshbody
- Catwa HDPRO George mesh head
- Birth Roman skin for Catwa HDPRO and their body skin for Legacy (comes with smooth and several body hair options
- Avi-Glam Solstice eyes
- Ralf shape
- Versov Nardov sneakers (group gift and there’s no joining fee at the moment), no Legacy size included, but the Belleza size seems to work
Men Only Hunt 2021 – Episode 2
While in real life my laundry is going round and round in the washers downstairs in the well equipped laundry room, I felt inspired to put on a lazy Sunday morning outfit in Second Life™ in total contrast with reality. Mind you, in Sweden there’s this tendency to call Wednesdays “lillördag”, which means little Saturday. Yeah. Whatever. I worked all day, quite long too and now I’m doing laundry. So, no Sweden. NO! But in SL on the other hand, I can have a lazy Sunday morning in the middle of the week. Woohoo. And I can do it with some of the items I got from this year’s Men Only Hunt, which runs till the end of August.
Clearly I have slept in the skimpy Cubura Man Hunt undies and put on the Ascend Reed cardigan for a bit of comfort and warmth without being much bothered to actually get dressed, but of course the Volthair Gary hair is on fleek no matter what. My little breakfast was provided for my Mintae Midwest and the glasses by A&D are just for show… That reminds me of being in car with a friend many years ago. She was driving and after about 15 minutes, she says… I really should be wearing my glasses for this. She wasn’t so much bad ass, as more somewhat forgetful. What is bad ass on the other hand, is that “Heavenly Path” tattoo by Addicted to Ink.
General credits (not related to Men Only Hunt)
- Legacy Meshbody
- Catwa HDPRO George mesh head
- Birth Roman skin for Catwa HDPRO and their body skin for Legacy (comes with smooth and several body hair options
- Ralf shape
Men Only Hunt 2021 – Hunting with David
I’ve just finished the Men Only Hunt and as I’m unpacking everything, my first blog post about this hunt will focus on a look with the NX-Nardcotix David mesh body, using some of the hunt items. The backdrop is by K&S, they bike is by 777 Motors and the pose is by Empowered. These three items are all in the Men Only Hunt as well as what I’m wearing in this shot.
Now for the hunt items I’m wearing: The S21 Jeans are by Cheerno. I’m wearing these in the Enzo size and I altered my shape to make them look right on David. The chain necklace is by Amias and rigged for Gianni, but it doesn’t cut into the body much. There is an unrigged version included, but as that doesn’t move with the neck, it tends to cut into the body more. The body chain is by Afterparty and is unrigged so in theory it works with any mesh body. Head over to Vegas Tattoo to find the Apache tattoo. Bom layers as well as appliers are included. You can use the Omega applier for David, but you will need to have the Omega relay for this body for that to work (available at NX-Nardcotix). The KobZache cap goest rather well with this shirtless quasi bad ass look, don’t you think? The simple pair of white sneakers by KC & Native Urban go well under those faded black jeans, though if you look really close you will see a gap were some ankle should be showing (you win some, you lose some). Personally I thought the earrings by Raon Hausen Beauty and bracelets by L’Emporio & PL were the bit of bling needed to finish the look off.
Body, head and skin
- NX-Nardcotix David mesh body
- Lelutka Guy mesh head
- Birth Maverick skin for Lelutka and their Omega body skin applier (you’ll need the omega relay form NX-Nardcotix to be able to apply the skin)
- Billy Beaverhausen Troy Shape for Lelutka Guy & NX-Nardcotix David (used it with a different skin for the Marketplace images + legs and butt were adjusted for the Cheerno jeans)
Putting the “short” in shorts – Episode 3
Yes, it is time again to look for and at shorts that make you wonder if perhaps there was a fabric shortage issue when they made those. If they’d be a skirt, people would make comments such as “nice skirt, but where’s the rest of it?”
I’ve further enriched my collection of short shorts with one of the newer creations by Thirst. The Dylan Dukes are a snug fit, have been made with a great eye for detail and have a built-in underwear waistband. As with most Thirst items, the fat pack is standard, so you can play around with texture combinations of the shorts and underwear. These shorts even come with optional hankies, which you can wear in the left or right back pocket and tint to fit your particular kink, if you are a connoisseur of the hanky code. Personally I wont be using those, because I’ll just end up sending out the wrong message and I’d be like “you want me to do WHAT?! How rude!”
The Diego shorts by Legal Insanity are an old favourite of mine and they can easily stand their ground among today’s creations. These aren’t quite as short as some of the other shorts in this blog series, but they still put a lot of thigh on display and are low riding enough to wear with the Noche James thong (size 0 bulge of course, so it doesn’t poke through the shorts), which is always a plus in my book. It’s a pity that this trick only works with the Legacy body though, but that’s become my body of choice these days anyway.
Credits
- Thirst Dylan Dukes, rigged for Belleza Jake and Legacy Meshbody.
- Legal Insanity Diego shorts, rigged for Davide, Enzo, Gianni, Geralt, Jake, Legacy and Slink.
- Noche Wes tank, with built-in strip off feature and a shit load of texture options and some graphics (you can leave it blank if you want) in the fatpack. Currently at EQUAL10 until September 5th, at Noche’s main store when the event has ended. This tanks is rigged for Legacy Meshbody and Belleza Jake.
- Noche Armani crop tank.
- Noche James thong. Note that you can only wear this thong with the size 0 bulge under the Legal Insanity Diego shorts on the Legacy body. This “trick” doesn’t work for Belleza Jake.
- Zoom Cezein glasses
- Birth Freddie skin & their body skin for Legacy. The facial stubble is part of the skin
- Lelutka Skyler mesh head 3.1
- Legacy Meshbody
- Modulus Bailey hair and Lewis hat and hair
- Avi-Glam Solstice eyes (applied to mesh eyes that come with the head)
- Billy Beaverhausen Fred shape for Lelutka Skyler and Legacy Meshbody
- Noche mesh nipples
- Location: Saphire’s Pearl Dreams
