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The Air Up Here…aka What’s Your Digits – Take 3 Proportions Challenge

26 Wednesday Jun 2013

Posted by Cougar Sangria in Fashion, Memes, Second Life

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Baiastice, Second Life, Truth Hair

Come on up the air is fresher here :)

Come on up the air is fresher here 🙂

 

I have been a tall gal ever since I sat upon the first ballroom pose with a male companion.  It gave a whole new meaning to dancing on air lol. When I took a modeling course a couple of years back I grew even taller.  Depending on the height calculator (every one of them has a different number) I am between 7’3″ – 7’6″, so I am way over the average female according to height, but I don’t mind being heads above the norm.  I gots a clear view 🙂

When I read Strawberry Singh new meme I will admit I did a double take of my arms to see if I had the T-rex thing goin on, and yeah after looking at myself from all angles I had come to the conclusion that I did have that syndrome going on a bit.  I never really paid that much attention but then again all I needed was a slight adjustment.  So to the rack I went after reading many tutorials and many blogs, hence the lateness of this post.

So on to the meme…

Meme instructions: Share your avatar’s digits (if you want to, not necessary) and then copy paste the following questions and answers into your post, remove my answers and input your own. Don’t forget to share your link in the comments of this post and if you decide to share your numbers, the flickr group for the Digits challenge is here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/digits

Proportions Challenge Questions:

  1. Do you try and keep your avatar’s body proportionate and similar to the “average” proportions pictured above? – I obviously didn’t copy the pic but no I don’t.  I love being tall and feel as long as my proportions are in sync with my height I am good.
  2. What do you dislike the most about the SL avatar mesh? – The feet. I have always disliked the feet but now with mesh  I don’t worry about it anymore. My hands well I personally don’t think they are that bad.  I won’t get mesh hands until the update for my skin color comes out cause it is just to frickin hard to match.  I may be waiting a looooooooooooong time lol.
  3. Does it bother you when you see other avatars that are not proportionate at all? – Oh I have my peeves lol, but I say to each his own. I am sure there are those that think I am way to tall but that is their problem, not mine.  This is SL after all and one can look like what ever they want.
  4. Even though this is a virtual world and people can be anything they want to be, do you feel when they are in human form, they should try to keep their proportions close to average? Again, absolutely not.  Have you looked around in 1st life?  I don’t see a whole lot of average lol.

 

Now just for fun, for all the tall peeps out there I have some comeback answers to questions you may encounter about your height.

“Why are you so tall?’

1. My mom fed me Miracle-grow.

2. My parents left me out in the rain.

“Wow, you’re so tall !”

1. My oh my, I never knew that ! Thanks for pointing that out.

2. How long have you had that scalp problem?

3. You have bird poop on your head.

“Just how tall are you?”

1. 5 foot and 24 inches.

2. 7′ and a bit and worth the climb 😛

(Man asking a tall woman) “Do you ever get mistaken for a man?”

1. No, do you?

2. Only when I kick a man’s a@@.

“You should be a model.”

1. Thank you

2. Thank you

3. Thank you

TWMA 🙂

Credits :

Hair : Truth Hair – ‘Haven black’

Dress : Baiastice – ‘Aida Dress blue’

Feet – GOS Boutique – Barefeet arched

Pose :.la petite morte – sweet dreams (I combined 3 pose clouds for this effect)

 

 

 

Who I was Born to Be

01 Saturday Jun 2013

Posted by Cougar Sangria in Second Life

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Second Life, Virtual Reality

Today is the first of June and this month also happens to be my rez month.  Cougar Sangria rezzed in on June 23, 2010 which also happened to be Second Life’s 7th birthday and seven just so happens to be my lucky number.
All this month leading up to my rez day I will try to do a different post every other day..maybe more often than that.  We will see how it goes.  Though usually not one to dwell on the past, it can be a good thing and bittersweet to boot.  I will share my thoughts about being a noob, what I have learned, what I still want to accomplish,  people that have touched my life, the good, the bad, basically my second life these past 3 years.  Oh yeah , I intend to show never seen before photos too.  Never seen before cause they are pretty bad lol.  But it shows how far I have come in 3 years and reminds me I still have a long ways to go.  Always learning, always moving forward. 
So here we go… Click this
When choosing my initial avatar your choices were limited.  They have added a few more avatars but I don’t think any of them are any better lol.  Just sayin :P. I chose the ‘rocker chick’ mainly because vamp or goth did not appeal to me and she was the only one left with fairly dark hair at the time. 
I went to HELP Island today just to take this photo cause I didn’t have sense enough to take one on my first day.  Kicks meself in the butt.  Below is how Cougar looked when she rezzed into SL.  Ain’t she hot 😛 lol. Well at the time I thought she was.
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I think it took me all of one day to realize I needed a new shape and something they called a skin.  At the time MarketPlace was called Xstreet and so there began my search.  It took me a while to learn how to get around that site but I soon got the hang of it and in no time I was even able to grab a TP to the store inworld and have a look.  I found the shape I was wanting and grabbed it.  It even came with a style card for the hair, skin and eyes with landmarks included.  Jackpot! 
So back to Help Island I went and looked around for a place to change. Ummmm?  Say what?  You want me to change out here in the open?  In this thing you call a sandbox?  I was absolutely mortified.  No way Jose, newp, not in a gazillion years am I gonna show meself in my knickers.  Say again?  I can get a house here?  My own Place?  How?  Where? Oh the Lindens you say.  Go to where?  My dashboard?  WTH is that?  Ohhhhhhhhh I see.  Well no, I didn’t see but I knew I could eventually figure it out.
I know that most think the Linden homes aren’t that great but being a premium member has its perks.  You get a house and you have decent ones to pick from.  You get customer service (although I haven’t had to use…yet) and you get a weekly stipend in lindens.  It almost works out to where your house is almost free. Granted the prim amount is almost nill but I just wanted a place I could go in private and dress myself.  A home base.
After picking out my house, naming it and trying to find the dern thing, I started my transformation.  The note card that came with my shape said it was copy/modify.  Whats that mean I wonder…hummmmmm?   Wendz!!!!!!! Oh I can change it lol?  WENDZ!!!!!!!!! How do I do that?  Appearance tab?   WENDZ!!!!! Where is that?  Ahhhhhh, gotcha. 
So to work I went on my Avie.  Ohhhhh this button makes me boobs huge, kinda liking that.   What does this one do I wonder?  Oh no no no , don’t want a butt as big as a mack truck.  Slide that thing back down.  Quick! There, much better.
After working on Cougar for a week off and on I felt I was ready.  I had worked on the face for the most part, changing every slider that was available to me.  Tweaking it a click or two on the sliders this way and that till I was satisfied.  Now for the big reveal…………
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Cougar at 1 week old
Smexy even back then 😛 (dying here in a fit of laughter).
Well it wasn’t bad for my first effort, but lots of room for improvement lol.  Every time I look at this picture I think…man I had a serious case of bed head. 
I was always spending at least one day a week on my refining efforts to Cougar and the following pictures are kind of a timeline for the first 4 months of my Second Life.
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 Cougar less than 2 weeks old ( lol I could barely dress myself in those days,much less take a picture)  I also figured out you could adjust the hair size but this ain’t much better lol.  This is also when I had a major growth spurt and grew a little long in the legs.
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I discovered Updos – 2 1/2 weeks old
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Then I discovered long hair ( this one isn’t much better than the short one lol) – 1 month old 
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Okay, this is not so bad..I am diggin this – 2 months old
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Shakes my head, I can’t believe I even wore this hair.  You could spends days hiding in there  – 3 months old
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4 months old – I discovered EMO-tions and still wear this hair to this day.  BTW, though this pic is not perfect in anyway it is one of my favorites.  For me it speaks the essence of Cougar.
I didn’t do any major changes to Cougar until I was 11 1/2 months old.  I worked mainly on the face and nothing was left untouched.  Cougar also lost a bit of body weight, toned up a bit and grew even taller 🙂
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It’s amazing what a good skin and decent eyes can do for a girl 🙂  Yep this is my Claire skin by Tuli and the only one I wear to this day. 
Present day and I haven’t changed Cougar except for making a mesh shape (I didn’t want to do it, but I got over that right quickly).
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I have discovered mesh hair and although I love my flexi hair , mesh does have its advantages, especially when taking photos. I have improved in that area too.  But still a ways to go.  Always learning, always moving forward.  TWMA:)
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