What's new at Shapes by Zada

The second batch of Eyefidelity Uniques are now available at Shapes by Zada. Five more stunning and unusual colors, packed with character, detail and deliciousness:
Green Frost, an enchanting pale green with subtle brown inner tone.
Violet gray, a mesmerising mix of cool and warm tones, inspired by Liz Taylor's eyes.
Peacock, bright, vivid and astonishing!
Ultragreen, the deepest, darkest green with subtle blue hints
Solar Flare, brilliant sun yellow with warm orange-brown prominences.

Each color comes in a choice of two sizes (IdealEyes for standard SL size, or RealEyes for a slightly smaller more RL look), and each pack includes three versions to match day, night and indoor lighting. Packs are 100L each, fatpacks of five colors (15 eyes) are 360L.

One color is free and one fatpack half price until the weekend, so hurry over! There's also an eleventh color (Peacock Blue) currently available as a profile picks promotion.

What's new @ Shapes by Zada

There's a new set of the hugely popular Eyefidelity Reflections eyes at Shapes by Zada! The same highly detailed hand drawn Eyefidelity eyes, with the addition of a tiny, but iconic, reflection of an in-world environment that deserves to be seen.

This time around, it's the SL Globe Theater, venue for the SL Shakespeare Company. Not just an amazing virtual reproduction of Shakespeare's theater, but home to some of the most innovative performance art in SL. They are currently running a "Save our Sims" fundraising campaign (see http://campaign.SLShakespeare.com for details) and although the eyes are free, I hope you'll consider making a donation to this important cause.

Those aren't the only new freebies at Shapes by Zada. I've also released a very silly thing which... you'll just have to come and see. I can't explain without spoiling the joke, but it's hilarious, it's straight from the catalog of Acme, and it's free. Come grab one!

What's new @ Shapes by Zada

What's new? Quite a bit, starting with a brand new store at a brand new location! The bigger, better Shapes by Zada (now with shiny floor!) can now be found at Extropia Odyssey (34/140/31) where you can find all the old products and gifts, and a few new ones.

This is the first batch of new eyes in the Eyefidelity "Uniques" range, striking and luminous multi-hued colors that are sure to make you stand out in a crowd! With even more detail than before, these additions to the Eyefidelity range are simply stunning.

As always, they eyes come in two sizes, IdealEyes which are standard SL size, and RealEyes, which have slightly smaller irises for a more RL look. Each pack costs 100L, and comes with three pairs of eyes with different highlighting and pupil dilation to match daytime, nighttime and indoor lighting.

To celebrate the opening of the new store and the release of the new eyes, I've made one pair available as a freebie, but only for a limited time, so hurry! If that's not enough to tempt you, I've halved the price on all my skins, and one of those is down to 1L for the week too. Come on down to Shapes by Zada!

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New from Shapes by Zada, the Victorian Beauty skin pack. This addition to the Historic Beauty collection with historically accurate makeups contains two versions, representing the cosmetic light early Victorian era, and the more glamorous and decadent late Victorian era. Both skins come with dark and light hair options.

The packs (4 skins and a pair of Eyefidelity Belladonna eyes) are 900L, but there's an introductory sale price of 600L for just a few more hours. Demos are available, and while the introductory sale is on, you'll find a set of Eyefidelity Belladonna eyes in the demo pack, so hurry!

Here's one more pic without the funny filter effects so you can get a better look at the skin. It's all available at the Shapes by Zada mainstore at Talisman (84/140/24).

What's New @ Shapes by Zada

Wacawacawaca! The freebie wall at Shapes by Zada has a new avatar! It's a single attachment avatar, cartoon shaded to give that black outline effect, and scripted so that when you move around it makes a wacawacawaca sound and the mouth opens and closes with the iconic eating action. Because you don't get to see the animation too well from the regular over the shoulder camera position, you'll find an easy to use camera locking hud in the box so you can watch yourself running around chasing ghosts! And of course, it's absolutely free at the Shapes by Zada mainstore (Talisman 84/140/24).

Pacvatar isn't the only free avatar from Shapes by Zada this week. In fact, there are six more, available at Botgirl's Identity Circus, a fascinating art exhibition, exploring aspects of identity in Second Life. Based on an idea by Botgirl Questi, Shapes by Zada has made the unique Avatar Transformation Tent. Just step into the tent, follow the instructions, and when you step out again, you'll be random new avatar! There are no clues what you'll be until you see the new you. It can be quite a shock, but it's a lot of fun, and of course you get to keep the avatar after your visit. Pay attention to what you get, there are free shapes, eyes and a skin available. You can read more about Botgirl's Identity Circus on her blog at botgirl.blogspot.com or visit the exhibition at New Caerleon (40/227/22).

What's new at Shapes by Zada

The "Historic Beauty" series of skins with historically accurate make up styles is being added to with a pair of Victorian skins. This will be one "regular" and one "glamor" look, and if you want a taste, head over to the Shapes by Zada mainstore.

Right now, you can pick up a preview of the regular Victorian skin for absolutely free! Hurry, because it won't last long.

This gift release coincides with a sale of 50% off all my skin related products running until midnight 8th September. The full range of Historic Beauty skins (Ancient Egyptian, Celtic, Elizabethan, Rococo, 1920's, & 1980's) are on sale at half price, which means 450L for singles, 600L for packs of two (with extras), or 1200L for the fatpack of all 6 skins. My "Gothic Chic" avatar pack containing five beautiful goth skins, a full mod shape, pre-fitted lashes, custom eyes and several extras is also included in the sale, at a simply silly 600L!

Take the trip to Shapes by Zada for this limited period freebie and some great prices on some truly unique skins.

What's new @ Shapes by Zada

Historic Beauty - The skin collection from Shapes by Zada

Available now in my mainstore, is the Historic Beauty skins collection from Shapes by Zada. This is a collection of 6 gorgeous female skins in styles representing different eras throughout history, Ancient Egypt, Celtic, Elizabethan, Rococo, 1920's and 1980's.



The Historic Beauty series is quite a unique collection of skins. These are unique, high-quality skins designed for high levels of lifelike realism, and are 99% hand drawn. Rather than simply releasing them as yet another skin line, I prefer to do something a little different with them, and this is certainly it. Each of the skins in this series are designed to look great, and at the same time to be historically accurate. They are great for roleplayers, or just for fun, and they are awesome for photographers! I had so much fun taking product shots of these, I've released them as a HUD photobook that is available free from my mainstore.





Skins cost 900L each, or 1200L for a twin pack for each era, Ancient World, Post Renaissance and 20th Century. These are great value at 33% off the price of buying the skins singly, and come with extras not in the singles pack, a henna tattoo on glove layer and celtic Torc neckring for the Ancient World pack, and two pairs of Eyefidelity eyes with belladonna effect in each of the other two. All six skins and all six extras make up a fatpack, at only 2400L, a saving of over 50%.

Demos are available free in store, and for the launch weekend, I've put out a limited edition pair of "Indian Ink" Eyefidelity belladonna eyes not included in the packs, for free. They're stunning, come to my Talisman mainstore to pick them up!

What's new @ Shapes by Zada

More like "what's recent" at Shapes by Zada, as this one's over a week old now, but I haven't yet had time to blog this one, and it's worth blogging! Just to get the basics out of the way: Mod shape, *five* skins, two pairs of eyes, custom facelighting, three wearable accessories, all for just 1200L! And it's all for Relay for Life. Read on!

"Gothic Chic" is a departure for Shapes by Zada. It's a "character avatar", rather than simply another shape. Which means, as well as containing a modifiable body shape, there are other things in the package to match the character of that shape. There are two pairs of Eyefidelity eyes, a darker version of the popular "Midnight sun" color with a reflection of stars in them, made specifically for this package. (The second pair has a glowy hourglass in the pupils). There's also something new to Shapes by Zada - five skins. I've been working on these a long time, and some of you will have seen a few earlier versions of the skin that I've given out as freebies to my group or handed out to Fashion Consolidated Cafe members when the mood struck me, but this is the first commercial release of the skin, in a lovely pale ivory skin tone. Like most new skins recently, this one started off as an Another Skin mod, but the end result is very different, with a detailed surface texture and the shading almost entirely replaced. Being a shape maker first of all, I've worked hard to place the shading as closely in line with the mesh as possible, making this a very "shape neutral" skin, but also I've tried to make this as realistic as I could without relying on photo sourcing except for one or two details (the ears and belly button).

The "character" part of "character avatar" is an extension of what I do when I make a shape anyway. I always try make a shape with a sense of personality, and this is just taking that a stage further. "Gothic Chic" is a sassy, tomboyish and youthful character, but one with a sense of knowingness about her that hints at a timelessness mystique. She has an inner strength and an outward playfulness. I think you'll find her quite compelling. :)

So, the details. Not just a fully modifiable shape ( in fact 8 versions of the shape, providing a wide range of options for better fits), this also comes with two pairs of unique Eyefidelity eyes and five skins all designed to fit the character and personality of this unique avatar. It also comes with three Shapes by Zada "Personal Lighting System" facelights, one unique to this package, three wearable accessories (hat, circlet and necklace, and a pair of pre-fitted prim eyelashes. You can pick up a demo of the shape and skin at my store to try out, and the entire package is available through the Relay for Life vendor. In case you somehow missed it, that means the entire proceeds of every sale goes to the American Cancer Society.
Click pictures for bigger! Photo credits: Skin, shape, eyes, necklace and lights are all part of the Gothic Chic package. Hair is "Do it yourself" style from Nylon Outfitters, top is "Black lace trim tank" from Soda, Jeans are "Sexy ass jeans black" from Drawmachine, and the wonderful boots and scenery are from The Abyss.

What's new at Shapes by Zada

I'll keep this one short because you're all probably getting a little bored of the green, but if you haven't died of St. Patrick's day overdose yet, head over to my main store at Talisman where there are two pots of gold hidden... well, not too well hidden... with a pair of Eyefidelity eyes in Emerald green with Shamrock shaped pupils, and a skin with green hair and makeup. This skin is the first public release of the skin I've been working on for aaaages now. Less silly versions will be available soon. ;) Skin and eyes are dollarbies and won't be out for long, so hurry on over.




Eyes: SbZ Eyefidelity St. Patrick's day dollarbie. Skin: SbZ St Patrick's day dollarbie. Hair: Annerose Yu in green.

You'll find both at the Shapes by Zada mainstore at Talisman (84,140,24) Take a look around the Talisman sim while you're at the store, there are a number of other nice freebies out there at the moment. Notably from the Talisman store itself, which is always generous with the gifts and currently has a gorgeous pair of St. Patrick's day earrings from the talented Hazel Kyrgyz which the fact they are named after me has nothing to do with how wonderful I think they are, and of course the in world HQ of Fabulously Free in SL blog, where many nice freebies can be found!