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skins that allow me to keep my eyebrows?

Tasha Carter
Registered User
Join date: 1 Apr 2007
Posts: 29
04-05-2007 21:24
Hi - I'm 'attached' to my eyebrows with my edited original skin :) Is it possible to buy a new skin such as Gala and keep/remake those 'brows or will skins always be non-modifiable overall coverings? (the demos i tried were not editable and i dont want to shell out on a skin if that too is fixed). I havnt seen any skins so far with eyebrows that would be for me. Thnx!
Diana Moonsoo
Registered User
Join date: 14 Dec 2006
Posts: 39
04-05-2007 21:32
I know that Gala has mod lip colors, I wonder if you could get one with custom eybrows to match the ones you like so much. You could always IM and ask I think they may do customs there : ).
Bree Giffen
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Join date: 22 Jun 2006
Posts: 2,715
04-05-2007 21:39
I think Sin Skins has eyebrows that can change color. And you can still play with the shape of eyebrows for any skin by going into appearance->hair->eyebrows.
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Conan Godwin
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Join date: 2 Aug 2006
Posts: 3,676
04-10-2007 09:12
For this to work you need a skin that has a transparent section where the eyebrows would go basically - as a skin in SL is infact an all-over body tattoo. I experimented with female skins that had transparent lips and eyelids, to allow changes to makeup - but I'm afraid I'm not very good at the detail work on the torso. If anyone reading this is a skin-maker they may wish to consider leaving lips etc transparent - or not, maybe, who knows?
Mattie Hansen
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Join date: 19 Feb 2006
Posts: 52
04-10-2007 09:25
Leaving (semi)transparent lips or eyebrows allows a mod skin to change lips/eyebrows color using the SL sliders, BUT:
transparent areas will actually show the under default SL kin in those areas, and lips color and specially eyebrows color would be the SL default ones, that we all know won't look much good specially on a well made skin. You would't like to have the SL default eyebrows in the color you chose ON a 4k skin will you? ;)
The only way to have nice eyebrows that fit a particular skin, is that skin-maker makes different "face tattoos" of same skin tone with different high detailed eyebrows in diffferent colors.
Pratically that means different skins, one for each eyebrow color.
There is no way you can have your eyebrows on a different skin, even if the skin would be mod, unless you ask the skin-maker to make a skin that looks like you want ^^
The reason many skin-makers set their skins to no mod, is not cause they want to limit you, is just that often a skin is a complete tattoo (well 3 tattoos, face, upper body and lower body) and even if it's mod sliders won't do any change on it.
On the other hand, leaving skins semi transparent (specially in some parts like lips) would let you mod color, freckles and other things using the sliders, with the limitation that what you see under the semitransparent area is the DEFAULT SL skin. That will make the original skin lose some of its features (depending on how much transparent the skin is).
So the best skins are NOT transparent, s they need to show the total custom work studied and designed by the skin-maker ^^
And thus the mod rights are useless (and dangerous, cause if you by mistake change the tattoos you'll lose the textures) and that's wy most skins are no mod.
The best thing you can find is that skin-makers do many different skins with different eyebrow colors so you can chose wich one suits you better
Ceera Murakami
Texture Artist / Builder
Join date: 9 Sep 2005
Posts: 7,750
04-10-2007 09:33
Take a look at the offerings from Second Skin Labs. They offer a huge range of very well done eyebrows for their custom skins. The prices are on the high side, but well worth the results. Their work makes anything you could do with the sliders look like Elmer Fudd's cartoon eyebrows, by comparison.

Many other skin makers produde skins that offer a range of makeup options. Some will also do custom work. Shop around...
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