2008 Round Up

What a launch year it has been, I cannot believe that Indulgence is nearly a year old!

Firstly I would like to thank everyone for all their support over 2008 - from the Indulgence Design Team to all our loyal and fantastic customers. Its you that makes Indulgence the great unique brand and place that it is!

We have lived through many Linden Lab induced events during 2008! Not withstanding the technical problems, tier doubling on open sims and disbanding of popular places / new search functions.

Well we came out the other side and will continue to build new products and grow Indulgence over the next 12 months.

So I would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year and I look forward to speaking to everyone over the coming months.......

Indulgence Shapes by Alexxis Laszlo

Hey everyone :) As Kira mentioned, we've been working together for some time now and it seems like a match made in SL heaven. We both have high standards when it comes to the quality of work we do and we like to pass on that quality to our wonderful and supportive customers. It's true that anyone can move some sliders around but not everyone can do it with the same care and precision that we do. When you try one of our shapes, you're sure to notice the difference.

Before I met Kira, I worked alone and I have to say that being a part of a team that includes her as well as some other amazingly talented people is a thousand times better and I don't think I want to work alone ever again. To steal a quote from her "It's all in who you know." and I know that I have been blessed to know some of the greatest people in Second Life. We all bring something unique to the table and have learned, and will continue to learn, a lot from each other.

Not long after Kira and I started working together, she introduced me to the woman behind Indulgence, Miss Rebecca Vacano. It didn't take long for me to see why I would want to work with someone like her, not only is she a brilliant business woman but she is also a visionary. I am proud of the work we've all put into this and can't wait to share it with all of you.

Below are the latest members of the Indulgence family, be sure to stop in and have a look. You're sure to find something that's just right for your Second Life.

Carmen - Simply smokin

Foxxy - Enough said

Yuko - Cute and Sassy

Chaos - Face it, everyone needs a little Chaos in their life

Aries - Sexy enough to be the milkman, handyman, gardener or any other fantasy fulfiller

Indulgence Shapes by Kira

Hello everyone and welcome to my first blog post ever! I hope that you will come here on a regular basis to see what all of us designers at Indulgence have to share with you. I know that we are all excited to be a part of a team that is just jam packed with some of the most talented people in SL. One thing is for sure........if you are looking for a variety of products that are extremely high quality for a reasonable price, Indulgence is the place you want to be!

I thought that for my first post, I would tell you a little about myself and what I have to offer to you and to Indulgence. So, here it goes.........

I have been designing shapes in SL since the time I first logged on in November of 2006. I had no previous experience with anything even remotely similar to SL. I had never even chatted with anyone online before SL! In fact, my first shape ever is still being sold as the "Kira" shape. I used to make shapes and then give them out to newbies. However, as time went on, and I started spending money in SL, I knew that I needed to find a way to make some money too. And thus, my business began!

After looking around at what was available at the time, I decided that I wanted to go in the opposite direction of what everyone else seemed to be doing. I didn't want Barbie dolls with perfect bodies or anime shapes with giant eyes or skinny girls with an enormous chest. I wanted realistic shapes. Ones that looked like people you might see on the street or in the park. So, my shapes are not all stick figures with tiny waists. They have real women shapes and are proportional. Let's not forget the men, I have some HOT looking male shapes too! I create male shapes that women want to look at. Hey! I am a woman! What do you expect???

I work hard to create faces that are unique and full of character. Almost anyone in SL can create a half decent body shape. But most people (including most shape makers in SL) cannot create a good face. They are difficult to do because of restrictions of SL. I will not release a shape unless I would wear it. And I will not release it unless it looks good wearing at least ten different skins. So be assured that my shapes will look good with almost any skin you choose for them. I also offer my shapes in modifiable versions. This is because clothes fit different shapes in different ways. Also, not every person will love every single thing about my shapes. Some people may prefer a larger chest or bum or larger eyes, bigger muscles, or a different height even. So, my shapes can be modified to suit your needs.

About a half a year ago, another shape maker came to me and asked about working together with me. We have been inseparable ever since. Alexxis Laszlo uses the same high standards to create her shapes as I do mine. It is my pleasure to work with her as a partner. When you come to Indulgence, you will see our work mixed together. We are not competitors. We work together to offer you the widest selection of the best looking shapes that SL has to offer. Alexxis and I have developed some incredible male and female shapes that are sure to make everyone happy. We also both go out of our way to make sure our customers are happy. We are most happy when our customers are happy.

So, I will save some things for the next blog! Hope you will be back to read it. If you ever have any questions about my shapes, please don't hesitate to IM me in world. I always answer everyone....even the rude people. If I am not online, you may want to drop me a note card as my IMs do get capped. Happy shopping everyone!

*kiss*
Kira Paderborn
P.S. Enjoy the smokin' hot photos!

Michael shape (This one makes the ladies swoon!)

Garett shape (Strong and rugged........mmmmmmmm)

Marcus shape (Good boy or VERRRRRY good boy???)

Ellie shape (Sweet but not so pure. :o)

Gabby shape (Fun and friendly.....the kinda girl who helps the helpless.)

Mims shape (Sexy and sultry......she can do anything she wants!)

Willow shape (The girl every man wants to bring home to Mom.)

Male Skins

I'm back. & I bring more skins with me. :)
The male skin range has just had a very large boost, so large in fact that we have had to move them upstairs to get them all in. Take the elevator up from the main entrance to the second floor to find them.

I have increased the skin tone range to 9 different tones


And I have also given each skin tone 15 different choices of facial hair. I have had lots of requests for specific facial hair styles over the last few weeks from various Indulgence group members and wherever possible I have done my best to include them into the collections.


As an extra bonus all these skins come with both bald and with a full head of hair and to top things off, if you really love the look on the vendors, the shapes used in their making are available too.
Enjoy :D

New Male Skins

Take the elevator up to the upper floor and check out all the new Male Skins!

A more detailed post to happen, but we are very proud to announce our new range!

Luxury Manicures by Indulgence!

Indulgence today launched our range of luxury manicures. Available in a complete range of 16 exciting and vibrant colours, these nails are already creating a stir in the SL shopping community!

The manicures are available in the Women's Skin department and as always we look forward to your feedback.

FINALLY! - Male Skins

They are here. A little bit later than advertised (*doofus smiles sheepishly*) but hopefully well worth the wait.
The first of the male skins are now available at Indulgence.

This release contains 4 skin tones each with 6 facial hair styles all available with or without hair on the scalp. There are a lot more skin tones to come, consistent with the large range we have available for women which comprises 18 different tones.

These skins have been made with the same care and attention to detail that was lavished on the female range, again 100% hand painted and made to the same philosophy to make them as versatile as possible. I hope to add some more facial hair styles to the range in the future, but next on my priority list is continuing this range into the full set of skin tones.

Here are a few shots of some of the details on these new skins.
I am sure you will like them, and apologies for the delay. :)

Skins for Men - COMING!

If you are male - make sure you drop by in the evening (PDT) on Friday 23rd May to try our new range of male skins! Crafted and hand drawn by Doofus Mayo our resident skin designer, these men's skins are completely new to Second Life!

Look forward to seeing you there and drop me a line if you would like more information.

Rebecca Vacano x

Indulgence Skins by Doofus Mayo

Hi everyone. I guess its about time I introduce myself. I should have done it earlier but I am busy creating a range of male skins at the moment and a completely new skin range is a very time consuming thing.
My name is Doofus Mayo and I am very proud to be the skin designer here at Indulgence. It is an amazing and very talented group of people and I am honoured to be a part of it.

A little history of me.
My born date is 6/2/2007 which I guess makes me still quite young as a skin designer, but I kind of have a head start over most people. I have been working as a freelance 3d modeller and texture artist for about 6 years now after being a hobby 3d modeller for about 5 years before. Mostly my work is architectural stuff, but the hobby side of 3D has always been making characters and animating them. So becoming a skin designer seemed perfect for me when I arrived in SL.

I use a few tricks of the 3d gaming trade to perfect things like seams which looking around I guess a lot of skin designers don't know about. Most skins you see in SL just kind of fade away at all the areas that might cause the designer trouble like the hips, but I like to paint detail right up to the edges of the texture maps and then go back and fix the seams properly.

I still spend a crazy amount of time in Photoshop though, cause I really believe in hand painted skins over photoedits. Even more so since Windlight came into general circulation.
SL has a great lighting system that casts accurate highlights and shadows, but with a photo skin the highlights and shadows from the original photo too often remain and override the SL lighting. When viewed from the perfect angle and with coinciding lighting these can look really good, but much of the time, the baked in lighting doesn't match the SL world lighting and then things start to look strange. Also you get much more pronounced problems with clones.
In a photo skin, the highlights and shadows are as I said, often too prominent and become 'Shape Information'. Something like the shadow under a nose actually defines the shape of the nose. But in SL the shape should define the shape of the nose, not the skin. That is why people look so similar even when wearing vastly different shapes. So I paint my skins 100% by hand using photos only as reference and I strive to remove anything that will come across as shape information and override the shape that the avatar is wearing. Hopefully this ends in a far more versatile skin and one that allows more control over your look by adjusting your shape.

All in all, in the time I have been in SL I have created over 2,000 skin variations (not counting demos). Most of these have been discontinued over time or reworked and I have come down to a fine collection of high detail, hand painted, realistic skins. One of the things most important to me personally is to have as wide and as realistic a range of skin tones as possible. I am sure we are all familiar with the stories of unfair representation for ethnic minorities and I dare say that was once the case, but as a half English, half Jamaican artist, I am very proud to say that I cover as many skin tones as I can, from the whitest (so white it is almost blue) Willow selection to one of the darkest and most natural looking black skins around, Sauda.

Take a look at my skins. Try on some free demos. (They are actually free. I wont charge you a L$1 to take a look) Indulge yourself!

Here are a couple of my favourites. Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoy the sim. :D

Yukiko

Mariella

Drew

Introducing Jewelry at Indulgence

Hiya! I am Kesseret Steeplechase and I create the jewelry for Indulgence. Many people ask me how I come up with a lot of my designs and how I can handle tiny prims without going crazy and I always say, "A little bit of patience and a lot of beer!". I consider myself proud to be part of the Indulgence team, as this is a very talented group of people!

Some items available at Indulgence (of mine) are:

For the Ladies:




For the Men:





All items metal/gem change with blue dialogue and are very affordable considering they have this feature.

Can't wait to see you at Indulgence!!!!

xoxo,
Kesseret S.

All Eyez On You

Hey there valued Indulgence shoppers there's something new and beautiful waiting for you at Indulgence! 12 sets of realistic, gorgeous, and affordable eyes. Stop in and take a look. New colors on the way and if you have any requests feel free to let me know so that I can add them to the list.

Much Love and Happy Shopping :)

Alexxis Laszlo

Introducing Menswear at Indulgence

It's official!

The new men's clothing store at Indulgence is open!!!

JH has been busy getting a new line of menswear started, and we are proud to be able to offer it to you at Indulgence! For starters, we are offering a selection of casual clothing, but hope to expand the line soon.

Here are some of our new offerings (everything is available as a single item or in packs):

Indulgence Shapes by Alexxis Laszlo

Hey everyone :) As Kira mentioned, we've been working together for some time now and it seems like a match made in SL heaven. We both have high standards when it comes to the quality of work we do and we like to pass on that quality to our wonderful and supportive customers. It's true that anyone can move some sliders around but not everyone can do it with the same care and precision that we do. When you try one of our shapes, you're sure to notice the difference.

Before I met Kira, I worked alone and I have to say that being a part of a team that includes her as well as some other amazingly talented people is a thousand times better and I don't think I want to work alone ever again. To steal a quote from her "It's all in who you know." and I know that I have been blessed to know some of the greatest people in Second Life. We all bring something unique to the table and have learned, and will continue to learn, a lot from each other.

Not long after Kira and I started working together, she introduced me to the woman behind Indulgence, Miss Rebecca Vacano. It didn't take long for me to see why I would want to work with someone like her, not only is she a brilliant business woman but she is also a visionary. I am proud of the work we've all put into this and can't wait to share it with all of you.

Below are the latest members of the Indulgence family, be sure to stop in and have a look. You're sure to find something that's just right for your Second Life.

Carmen - Simply smokin

Foxxy - Enough said

Yuko - Cute and Sassy

Chaos - Face it, everyone needs a little Chaos in their life

Aries - Sexy enough to be the milkman, handyman, gardener or any other fantasy fulfiller

Indulgence Group Formed

To access in world customer updates, join the new group called
* Indulgence *

To join:

1. Go to Edit
2. Go to Search
3. Go to Groups
4. Type in Indulgence and pick * Indulgence *
5. JOIN

Thanks for all your support.

Rebecca x

Indulgence Opens its Doors!

Indulgence - the new Second Life fashion brand has opened its doors to the public !

Hailed as the new shopping experience for Second Life dwellers - the format and design of Indulgence has been put together to offer shoppers more range and choice whilst maintaining the up most quality of designs !

Here are some screenshots of the new shop!


Entrance Hall





Shape Department





Hair Salon




I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome the new team !

Skin Designer - Doofus Mayo
Shape Designers - Alexxis Laszlo & Kira Paderborn
Clothes Designers - JH Gervasi & Jessie Gervasi
Hair Designer - Mya Heaney
Shoes Designer - Saya Sakai
Jewelery Designer - Kesseret Steeplechase

All of which are leaders in each of their respective fields.

Feel free to reach out to them individually to discuss their involvement with the brand and we all look forward to your support and custom over the coming months!

Rebecca Vacano
Founder and Owner