best skin store?

my first purchased skin ever came from Curio. wore that for 2 years. i still love it. i just recently went for a whole new look from Redgrave. still. in the trial period.

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I like Second Skin Labs, IC Skins and Lurvebite(miasnow).

Sin Skins, Symphony, Nomine, sdRII, Frick (very affordable - good fantasy skins), Another skins (free!), RealSKIN....

Those are the ones that come to mind quickly. I know I have others, but I'm not logged in right now to check them. I am currently wearing RealSKIN, but I have a few others I switch to as the situation warrants. I am trying an experiment and instead of picking a different skin for every outfit, I am trying to wear the RealSKIN 'Eva' exclusively for consistency (it is available in 4 makeups; I bought all four). I have a friend who has worn a RealSKIN exclusively for over two years now, and she has a very distinctive and recognizable look as a result. They are expensive, but worth the cost, I believe. And they have a sale room where you can pick up some skins for less.

Skins can be such a personal thing. Be sure you have a shape you really like, pick up lots of demo skins, then go home and strip naked, and start trying them on!

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And what are you basing this on?

Sin is having a 10l skin sale I wear, Starley skins and Redgrave mostly, but have Nomine and Ravenswear [death fairy] too.

Most of my female alts use LeLutka, Tuli, Lara Skins and Celestial Studios

gala phoenix aka Curio...have worn hers almost exclusively since the day after i rezzed in 2007...have a laqroki one also...thats also pretty.

o nly Laqroki for me

I find Laqroki's a bit flat and paint-like. What do others like about it?

the details, the glow, the realism ( i use the glow line)
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flat?

Tuli and Redgrave.

Checking my inventory to weed out some skins, and see that I forgot to mention Fleur. I have some skins from Fleur that are very nice, and definite "keepers!"

For those short on Lindens, I recommend SinSkins. Right now, she is having a retirement sale, all of her 2.0 models are $10 each. For that price you get 1 makeup in a plain and freckled version, a set of prim eyelashes, a scripted patch for "down there", the skins are anatomically correct but bare, you get a manicure and pedicure in either a matching shade or tintable, and a set of tintable eyebrows.

I took a quick prowl through Sorcha's inventory. She's got a lot of Tuli skins, and they're lovely, though the mouth is a little big for my taste.

The one she wears almost all of the time is from Splashing Doll, by Kryptonia Paperdoll. It was a prize in the gridwide ghost hunt, I think. I'm going to have to get a few more makeups, because the skin style really suits Sorcha's shape.

For fantasy skins, I like Colorskins by B-BD.

I like Robin Sojourner's "Yummy" skins.

I've not been shopping for skins for some time, but I have Laqroki and Tulli. I also found some inexpensive ones at Midsummer Night Creations, which suited me well.

I used the Nightclub Female one from the Library for a long time - that one was made by the Celestial Studios artist.

(Make sure you try the skin demos with the shape you intend to use.)

i wear a custom one-off RaC.
its the only skin i have used since dropping the cs malibu 'freebie' maybe a month after being rezzed.

This thread just made me take a good look at the skin I'm using... "Asian A1 M12 by Nany Merlin"... a Soul skin, I believe. Pricey things at L$1490 per facial style, but among the best asian skins I've found!

My other favorite is ISSIGONIS. They're $L1400 for a basic skin package, but each package contains four skins (same eyeshadow, but different lipstick and eyelash colors) AND the accompanying shape and eyebrows!

Awwww....I still have the CS Passport Malibu - for a freebie, it's a great skin! I still pull it out for fun and nostalgia and wear it every now and then, when I'm wearing a bikini.

Malibu IS a really good skin. I had forgotten about that one.

I think my favourite skins at the moment are Aja Sinister's Jadzia Skins. I wear the "Noxious" ones a lot, and both I and others really like them. They aren't cheap, by any means, but worth it. I think you can now only get them from her vendor in Body Doubles.

PixelPaws

- But they're neko skins.

I'm a Redgrave girl, lol. Nothing else looks nearly as good on me. That's the key thing, look around and see what looks good on you. Take a day or two and just try on demo's from the places mentioned here.

Thanks, JeanGenie.