"nekkid but tasteful butt pics"

Blogger Hamlet Au's recent post "The Strength of the SL Blogosphere, As Seen From Behind" (Web) about some "nekkid but tasteful butt pics" inspired me to get naked. Like I need an excuse. So off to Las Arenas Rosadas (SLurl) I went and off went the clothes.

Normally I'm a fan of my bust. Actually, I'm a fan of just about any woman's bust. This exercise, though, gave me new appreciation for my backside. Like everyone inSL® I spend my days staring at my behind so it is not something I often give a lot of thought. Quite the contrast to First Life. How often do you see your own fanny? Not often for me. I'm not one of those women who usually check themselves in mirrors or ask "does this outfit make my butt look big?" In a pinch, my bum always has my back, so to speak, being there when I need to sit or to close the fridge when my hands are full or to keep my pants from sliding right off my hips.

Our bottoms do a lot for us so perhaps this is the time to celebrate our friends with the permanent vertical smiles. Give your fanny a pat (or enlist others to as that is a nice way to meet new folks) and tell it "good work, chum!"

New Skins

When I first met my wife, Angela, a couple years ago she said she'd make a really freckly skin for me. For various reasons that never happened and now my RL freckles are mostly gone, at least from the shoulders down, but I kept shopping for one in Second Life® (SL) and despite the high quality of Angela's work at Dream Images (SLurl). Just the other day I found some great skins at Curio (SLurl). The demos didn't wildly stretch my mouth like many skin tend to, there were some freckles, the shadows and highlights were good, the makeups weren't too severe, and I could get a both a tanned and less tanned skin with the same basic hues. So I dropped a few thousand Linden$ and got the most basic skins (I'm still a butch at heart, if not in SL) and trotted out in my Bare Rose Microkini (Web) to take pix.

Despite the tremendous lag I almost always have there, Las Arenas Rosadas (SLurl) is one of the most beautiful tropical islands in all SL, so it was my first thought when I wanted pix of my new skins. Yes, I tossed on a face light as I had set the Advanced Sky settings to Barcelona and needed the boost. Actually, I tried a number of settings and several hair styles. But this was the best. I might tweak it in post. If I do, I'll post it here, though all the pix will be on my Flickr page eventually.