Second Life Review

Shopping

Realistic Skins

Name: Realistic Skins

slurl:  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Archan/18/85/40

Category: Shopping - Skins

Reviewed by:  Hottie Something

Review:  Realistic Skins is in a mall called Axo Plaza. The mall was fairly large with a lot of different products from different creators. Realistic skins promotes itself as having "photorealistic" skins. They had neat little change rooms for trying on their skins which I thought was cool. The rooms have a sign out saying "busy" or "open" that changes when someone walks through the curtains. The shop was simply laid out, women’s downstairs and men’s upstairs. The skins all came with a shape and a set of eyes.

Some of the female skins were rock bottom prices, the others were average and reasonable for the product. The demos were free which I love. I tried one on and it looked very realistic but, for some reason, every time I turned the camera to the other side of my body, the side facing away from me would de-rez and be blurry and I would need to re-rez when I turned it back around. I wasn’t sure if this was my hamster-powered laptop, the skin or a Second Life glitch. Clearly, if you want to buy these skins you should try the demo on first so as to make sure this doesn’t happen for you! Unfortunately not every skin had a demo. The owner of the plaza told me that the creator did not provide any for the older skins but the newer products did have demos.  There was a lot of variety here: different skin tones and races and lots of both male and female.

I ventured upstairs for a peek at the male skins. I didn’t try any on LOL, but the pictures looked really yummy. I had a glance at the price and almost had a heart attack. The prices were WAY more for the guys. I didn’t see this in any other of the handful of stores I visited this week, so I am not sure if guys are willing to put up with that, but maybe the photorealism is worth it. The racial variety of the skins available was really nice. One thing to watch for is permissions. The female shapes were copy/mod. The male products were transfer but not copy/mod. I am guessing this is so girls can go about buying skins for dressing up their man. Just make sure you know which perms you are getting since they seem to vary. The store also had a great referral program contest with Linden dollars given away weekly for nothing more than listing Realistic Skins in your picks.

Don't buy unless you can try demos first though and make sure you are getting the permissions you think you are getting.

Conclusion: Great variety, product seems really good and at fabulous prices.  

Rating: (4 stars out of 5)