Skins ...who's got the best?

I have a few clothing items (bikini tops and bottoms) that map exactly to my supplied tan lines. I produced them for the skin ads, and they can be seen in those graphic displays. I never intended to release them, but if there is a demand for them, I will.

What I'm really waiting for are those much anticipated "extra" texture layers that can be applied for full body tattoos, tan lines, etc. Everyone tell LL to push this up on their priority list along with a better permissions system.

welp if you need a male model, you know who to call

i kinda wish people would have a website of their stuff so i could browse it at work than buy when i get home..

Create your tattoo as an underwear layer

It looks like most of the posters here are female. There are so many lovely female skins out there, you gals are so lucky. I haven't found a men's skin that I really like, despite searching diligently. I've taken down a list of the products mentioned in this thread, and am going to do some more searching in-world.

But if you know a good spot for men's skins, let me know.

Max

And Men's Clothing is a whole `nuther thread!!

well, what are you looking for, try to be specific, and i'll see if i can hunt it down for you

skins my models and i recommend to my customers - for femmes (practically everyday): celestial, SS, nevermore, pixelskin, canimal's, X2, cmff, ND, Nomine, Gala

Personal favs (+ my partner): ND, Celestial, Cmff, Kru.

Think taste is pretty much relative like many have mentioned - I tend to pick the skin/makeup according to mood/attire.

Regardless, I'm sure there are many good ones out there that I've yet to see and will relish acquiring lol. Actually checking out some places mentioned in here that I have yet to look at. Gotta bury my wallet

Don't you see enough of that in real life carrying a poke of chips and wearing 'trackies'!!? Naughty Design's skins are my favourite.

Ask and you shall receive

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yep but i want tattoo+whips marks+ shirt

Well I just started my shop on MYSLShop so there is just a few items that I have to offer, hopefully soon I will get more added...

Sensual Designs @ MySLShop

Even if you have modify on your skin, you can't "drop in" a tattoo. Skins already have their own tattoos, and if you tried to put a tat in, you would replace one of the tattoos that gives your skin its detail. What you really need is a new tattoo that COMBINES the ink you want to wear with the skin details, and to make that you would have to have the original skin texture files, which skin sellers won't give you -- well, not without paying a VERY large sum, becuase it would amount to giving you a full-permissions skin. You would also have to have a full-permissions copy of the tattoo (probably a bit easier to get than the skin, because tattoos aren't as much work), so you could download it and combine it with the skin texture in your favorite graphics program.

Most of the skins that are modifyable are "semi-transparent" skins. That is, the skin lets some of the underlying color show through, so you can adjust your skin color to a limited degree with the sliders. I've also seen a couple where parts of the face are completely transparent, so the standard Linden makeup sliders can be used. Because the skin is only semi-transparent, you get a limited range of adjustment, but if you've never been QUITE satisfied with the color of off-the-shelf skins, you might find happiness with one.

The other possible use of a modifyable skin is to let you replace the face makeup with third party makeup. It is possible to wear transparent makeup, such as the ones sold by Studio Lis (Lisbeth Cohen), along with an OPAQUE skin; the idea is that you adjust the skin tone sliders to make the head match the body. It's much easier if the skin creator can give you the color specs of your skin, and you'll probably want to do this only with a skin that is copyable as well as modifyable; otherwise, the original head tattoo that came with the skin will be lost and gone forever. This trick won't work well with a semi-transparent skin, because the skin tone slides will affect both the head and body tattoos, but because of the semi-trnasparent overlay in the body, they won't match.

My Gala skin has tan lines *laughs*

For dark elf skins, at least, Nomine.

I've always used the GALA skins, never found anything I liked better.

As has been said several times, you just have to shop around and find the skin that makes you look like YOU! Your shape has a lot to do with what skin looks best. Since I like to make avvy shapes, I have a lot of skins that I play with to help make the avvies look right. I'll go through several different skins until I have the avvy shape looking just so. Then it's "Cut, Print!", and up for sale.

Even high-quality skins won't look right on certain avvies...so you just try some more skin demos, or tweak the avvy. Actually, if you do both, you can wind up with killer looks.

My personal fave is SS, which I've had made over with a personal makeup style and nice tan lines. I also like Nyte'N'Day, Celestial, Pixeldeep, and Govindra's "Le Peaux". Chip's skins are awesome, but not all avvy shapes take well to them, but when you do....Wowsa!

So open up 'Search', type in 'skin', and start trying on demos. They're cheap, it's fun, and who knows? You might find that look you just been aching to have.

Oh, yeah, before I forget. The avvy shapes I sell all have the info on the eyes, skin, and hair that I used to make the sales photo [shameless plug].

rd

The fusion skins from X2 are pretty good detail wise and i like the makeup you get with it but im partial to black lipstick and what not hehe. Its pretty human looking. Some of Chip Midnights skins are very realistic as well. There are a multitude of great skins it just really depends on your preferences.

SS Labs has male skins too. They looked nice, but I so rarely play a male that would have any need of looking that good that I haven't bought them yet.

You want a laugh? I spend 75% or more of my time in furry avatars, but I probably spent as much on the handful of beautiful SS Labs Human skins that I own as I have on my collection of best-quality furry avatars.

For furry adult skins, look for Zoe Llewelyn's Jungle Voodoo line of Neko-girl skins, and for Nepenthes Ixchel's custom furry skins. Both sell on SL Boutique. Nepenthes Ixchel can custom match skins for other maker's avatars.

Lost's Dante skin at Naughty Designs. It's the one I wear, and I love it. Chip Midnight also has good men's skins.

Yes please. If all you lovely skin enthusiasts would start pestering LL about this incessantly, maybe they'll get off their bums and make it so. C'mon LL, pretty please?

Anyone have a suggestion where to find a male skin with a *blond* beard? Or, better yet, prim beards that don't look like icicles?

Munchflower just pointed me towards her V2 skins, but I still haven't solved my beard problem.

Another shoutout to Toast Bard for her skins. If I wore anything else, I just wouldn't look like me.

Thanks for asking this question, Susiee. I have been wanting to go skin shopping, but with so many people making them now I really wasn't sure where to start. So I procrastinate. Now I have a few places that I will be visiting, eventually.