Risque Bathing Suits?

You could always go topless and wear a strap-on ....

What's the use of wearing braces ?
Vests and pants and boots with laces ?
Spats and hats you buy in places
Down the Brompton Road ?
What's the use of shirts of cotton ?
Studs that always get forgotten ?
These affairs are simply rotten,
Better far is woad.
Woad's the stuff to show men.
Woad to scare your foemen.
Boil it to a brilliant hue
And rub it on your back and your abdomen.
Ancient Briton ne'er did hit on
Anything as good as woad to fit on
Neck or knees or where you sit on.
Tailors you be blowed !!

Ya know, somehow it never occured to me to take you for Scadian (silly huh? Heralidic Silver, Erisian jokes, and now Woad... oh yeah, you've been tainted all right)

the funny thing about bathing suits... less really isn't more... if it provides no mystery and doesn't beg you to wonder what else you would see if it only shifted a little this way or that, all without the wearer being the wiser. without an element of discovery and subversion it's just a bit of boring cloth.

cheree I can redo it without the line... if you want me to (I have actually been thinking of doing that, just end up getting caught up in other stuff LOL)

should the line stop at the triangle on both breasts?

Well, I got off the boat in San Francisco and spent a few years in the Berkeley hills... but they don't allow ferrets in California and running around in a human suit all the time... I got so hot, and my fur got so matted...

I think it would work best if you leave a slight little tab there to help align the prim and give me room to bevel/angle the sculptie in.

ah ok, I sent you the no string between the breasts bikini, try that and let me know if it needs the tabs as you mentioned
(best to im me after you try, in world, as I might forget to check back here)

Be sure to buy those cleavage enhancing shadow thingys. I suppose you would need to make sure your bikini can be worn on the shirt layer. Maybe even a jacket layer if you are wearing tattoos too.

That would be Biquini Boutique, in Sistiana. I found her by accident early on and her stuff is fantastic.

You really won't need those if you have a good shape-skin combination. It's a matter of browsing around a bit, but they exist from some of the better shops. Some shape makers have a personal preference for certain skin makers for example, like Tracey Sassoon (Alady) her shapes tend to go exceptionally well with the skins of 2 or 3 skin makers, simply because there's some cohesion between them, and they seem to inspire and use eachothers' work during the developement of new creations.

Forgive the size bit the detail is is what we are discussing

The left image is the base skin. The right image is the skin designer's enhanced shading version. The center is Ayumi's cleavage enhancement worn on the underwear layer.

large version - http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3594/3386404352_506874cd64_o.png

This was one of her first versions in a standard tint; there have been several updates since including the ability to custom tint the shadows.

[ETA]
This is a more recent version.

If I may be blunt, no skin shape combo I know of will give you breasts like that and on a 45 breast slider too.

it totally could if the skin designers wanted to add that kind of shading
(what can be done on an undershirt can so totally be done at skin creation stage)

For me , I prefer the way it is with the skin, and not have to use a clothing layer to enhance my breasts. (then again, I have no reason to enhance the breasts, not a dancer, stripper or doing anything intimate in SL)
I suppose in some ads it might make the clothing look more appealing, but.. meh

Yeah, and I wish they would, or at least add it as a version. Something like a makeup option.

I like the skin maker's enhanced shading the best of the three. But I agree with some others: with the right skin and shape you don't need enhancements. Also sometimes less is more...

I made a very flat-chested shape, but it was in balance - however trying to beef her up one day I lost that balance, so now she's more ordinary (not the Clarissa one I wear, that one's pretty sturdy). But I think sometimes the less boobalicious avs are more attractive. At least, than the Helium Babes.

(The av in your pix is very attractive though. Who made the skin?)

Thank you.
The top set is from LF CHAI (Launa Fauna) and the lower one is from LAQ (Malory Cowen).

Ayumi is actually working on a prototype skin now! She will offer different skins, and include the "push-up" effect baked in.
League just came out with a skin, and I think they had 2 versions, one with cleavage. I agree that it's good not to use up the one layer.
I've used Ayumi's cleavage enchanger, but I think the effect would be best om a bit larger bikinis, that would have enough fabric to actually push together the boobs.