Featured Designers: COCO and Analog Dog

COCO and Analog Dog are both very generous designers that have a ton of free gifts available. COCO makes highly detailed mesh clothing and there are several outfits up for grabs as group gifts (I only post free groups). I also wanted to bring Analog Dog to your attention because they don't require you to join a group to get their awesome mesh hair that is sitting in a bunch of free gift balls on the beach.

My first outfit also includes the holiday gift from Ryuukou and a group gift shape from PURE Perfection, called Nikki. The name of her hair is ging paprika. The heels are from Sassy's free Jasmine avatar, called Sexy Black Slingbacks. 

In this shot I'm also wearing a shape from Panda Punx's group gift and a skin from a designer with an odd name--Tir na n'Óg. i looked it up online and it means "Land of Promise" in Irish!

Panda Punx

Panda Punx is a great store that I've mentioned in previous posts. They used to have a few 0L items on the Marketplace, but even though those are 1L now, their group is still free in-world, and they have a ton of group gifts aside from the monthly that you should check out! I'm also sporting Due's freebie and an actually decent sculptie jacket from a freebie dungeon. Due's group has a fee to join, but they have a freebie hair right next to their group gift.  My shoes and jeans are from Blackburns on the Marketplace, and my tank is from Big Boobie Babes' Freebies.

#12

Happy holidays, everybody!

Hair: Truth subscriber gift

(If you don't know how to get it, just go to one of the menu kiosks by the front door. Hit subscribe, then click the "join group" button for the menu, which will drop down in the upper right of your screen.)

Skin: Swallow

Shape: Hush

Lingerie: NOON

Pose: Most of my poses are screenshots of the great free AO from Tuty's on the Marketplace.

#11

Doesn't this outfit just scream "madame"? You know what I'm talking about ;) Anyhow there is a generous gift on the Marketplace that comes with black garters and stockings, which are essential to any woman's wardrobe in SL. My panties and beautiful mesh corset are also from the Marketplace, listed below. 

Hair: Vignette Raquel in Brick

Skin & Shape: Bite and Claw

Corset Dress: Cain on the Marketplace

Garter and Stockings: Enelya's Creations on the Marketplace

Panties: Lali's on the Marketplace (panties modifiable to any color)

Heels: Plausible Body Classic Pumps on the Marketplace

#10

I was searching around on the Marketplace to see if there was anything new, and if you go far back enough past all the regular items you see on there, sometimes you find precious gems like this awesome gift from The Sixx Shop. This entire avatar is available for 0L, along with some great Gorean items and outfits. It's a fabulous place for newbies who have applied to be dancers, a popular job in SL. Happy shopping!

#9

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Hair: Rumina

Hairbase: Tameless

Skin & Shape: HUSH

Lingerie: Sexy Look at the Holiday Fair

#8

Hair: Tameless

Skin: Filthy

Shape: Jstyle

Corset: N0-Limitz on the Marketplace

Stockings, panties, gloves, and pasties: Lali's on the Marketplace

Once again, the Freebie Diva only posts items that are 0L.

Happy shopping!

#7

***UPDATE!***

The group Little Bones is no longer free! It's now at 250L to join :(

However, Tameless and Lamb are both free, and they always have great quality hair so don't worry!

Hot item #7:

Hair: Lamb

Skin & Shape: Jstyle

Awesome Mesh Outfit: Glow Design

Boots: Blackburns on the Marketplace

#6

Need some new lingerie? Tired of the same old stuff on the Marketplace? Then look no further than the Chest treasures Mall's Highlights Room. This bra and panties set also comes with a pair of stockings, but I wanted to wear the bare minimum for this pic so I could show off this incredible skin from Chic. My favorite shape to wear with this skin is the one from Hush's autumn group gift, which is still available. My hair is a la Lelutka, in their happy holidays pack.

Happy shopping!

Hot Item #5

The store Jstyle has a ton of amazing group gifts. They have a bunch of skin and shape options to try from--ones with heavy makeup and ones with a more natural look.

My hair is from Lelutka's holiday gift, and it comes in a variety of colors.

I'm wearing a teddy from Chest Treasures Mall, at the store called Faccia Bella.

My shoes are a free gift from Jetaime on the Marketplace.

Hot Items #'s 3 & 4

Again, I apologize for the blurry appearance of the image. I can't afford a decent graphics card right now :c

I discovered this awesome outfit on the Marketplace while looking for Halloween costumes and thought it would make a great Christmas gift as well, for the comic book fans!

The outfit is called Yes Love Me Harley Quinn from the Marketplace.

My hair is Dura's 30th anniversary gift, and my skin is a regularly available gift from Rockberry in their lucky chair.

UPDATE: The Anna shape I was wearing in the previous posts is now at 1L!!

Fortunately, the skin from Rockberry goes great with a lot of shapes, as shown here.

This shape is called Elena and it's also on the Marketplace.

This is a gorgeous skin and shape combo (the shape of which also works with the Megan skin from Rockberry) by the store JStyle. Jstyle has a TON of group gifts that I highly recommend you go check out because the skins are made with a lot of care and all of them are stunning.

The latex bodysuit is from Plausible Body on the Marketplace. Plausible Body has a lot of great latex and a couple cute dresses for free ("open price") too. 

Blackburns is the holy grail of shoes on the Marketplace. 

The hair is by Analog Dog and it's located in the freeballs on the beach.

*style tip: If you're not shopping for skimpy, this model looks good in pastel colors.

Hot Item #2

Hair: Cheveux Christmas Gift

Skin: Rockberry POE Hunt Gift

Shape: Anna on Marketplace

Outfit: Chest Treasures Shopping Mall Group Join Gift

The Freebie Diva Presents: 12 Days of Hotness!

Because high-quality lingerie and skimpy clothing is hard to find for free in Second Life, I decided that I'd put together a few totally free, hot looks to celebrate the holidays!

Hot Item #1:

Hair: Little Bones (group is FREE; to get the gifts, you go to Notices, scroll down and hit "open attachment" at the very bottom)

Skin: Violet Mafia HQ 

Shape: Anna on the Marketplace

Awesome Lingerie: Blacklace gift, located under the Christmas tree.

Little Bones is an awesome store because they give out a ton of free hair all the time in fun colors! 

Happy holidays!

Icy Wonderland

So I don't normally do hunts, but I saw this Peace on Earth hunt dress on the blog Fabulously Free in SL and was so reminded of Disney's Elsa that I had to put together a little costume. The reason I did POE is because their gift balls are easy to find. I have two hunt items featured in this pic--Rockberry's awesome pack of skins and Ever n' Angel's beautiful princess dress. The hair I'm wearing is from Eater's Coma and the shape is called Anna from the Marketplace. I love the skin from Rockberry because it's high quality and goes with a lot of the freebie shapes you can find at the Marketplace, so hurry and get it while the hunt is still going!! You should also join the group Peace on Earth to get help from other hunters. Happy hunting!

October Gifts part the Second

Here is a cute mesh top from LavandaChic, a sweet store with funky style for those who like kawaii style. I'm also wearing hair from this year's Candy Fair by Nikita Fride. It goes great with pastel-colored clothes and fair skin! I'm wearing my favorite pair of mesh booty shorts by Iffyta from the Marketplace as well.

And guess what? I found an amazing freebie by StarFyre Angels for the winter season! My jaw literally dropped when I saw that someone had posted a high-quality mesh fur coat for free! I immediately took it to go skating--and I found some free skates at the ring too!

Here's a close-up of this gorgeous coat along with the Mother Goose luckyboard skin and a great free hair by Lelutka. I'm also wearing skinny jeans by Tuty's (found in-world at their freebie section) and boots by R E D (Marketplace item).

Please note: to get the coat, click on the Panda hunt sign once you arrive at StarFyre. The box containing the coat is hiding under the table on the other side of the wall behind the front desk.

October Group Gifts

As an SL freebies blogger it is, of course, important that I keep updated on all the latest group gifts, so here are some awesome October freebies from the designers that are amazing enough that they keep their group costs at 0L. I've also included the latest batch of mesh products from the Marketplace.

My first favorite is a sweater I hope they have in real life somewhere--I love it that much. Graffitiwear is an awesome store that offers highly detailed mesh clothing as their group gifts. Also included in the October gift pack is a pair of cute plaid shorts! I'm also wearing a Luckyboard prize skin from Mother Goose's and the shape from Hush's Autumn skin gift. My hair is from D!va, and it comes in a variety of colors as well.

Thirdly is a great Asian skin from Candymetal; the sweater dress that comes with it is clearly meant for a very skinny shape; otherwise the arms poke through (it doesn't come with an alpha :\)! I decided to wear a shape from *By Snow*, a fantastic mesh hoodie by Statement from the Marketplace with skinny jeans and converse hi-tops from Blackburns on the Marketplace. Blackburns offers a lot of great basic clothes that every wardrobe needs.

I'm also wearing a great new AO from Tuty's on the Marketplace called Lucky Girl. I thought it went great with the sporty outfit I chose for this skin!

Happy Halloween month! Stay tuned for more!!

Carrie Almost in Wonderland

This is one example of how you can spruce up an old Marketplace item with new outfits. Right now I am wearing Panda Punx's Cassie skin and shape set, with a great hair piece by Vignette in Second Life. Vignette is a fabulous freebie store with quality everything! The fabulous dress is by Dimbula Rose. The place I took this lovely photo is at Almost Wonderland, an interactive sim that even includes a "Drink Me" potion that really shrinks you!

  

Marketplace Space Case

Just a silly look I threw together from old marketplace stuff plus a freebie hair from Tameless at Freebie Fever (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dreyfus/132/153/1502).

Photo Credits: The Mysterious Wave https://secondlife.com/destination/childhood

Skin & Shape: Panda Punx Myri https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Panda-Punx-Myri-Forever-Sunkissed-Skin-Gift/5214946

Eye Shadow: Natural Beauty on the Marketplace (also inclutes sculpted lashes!) https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Natural-Beauty-GIFT-Eyeshadows-and-6-sculpted-lashes-set/3875736
Lipstick: XCW 1st year anniversary gift https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/XCW-1st-Year-Anniversary-Gift/4660196
Eyes: ::SF:: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/SF-free-ice-blue-eyes/4600739

Featured Designers

If you're into fantasy role play, a great place to get your outfits from is The White Armory. They have fantastic dresses for their free group. The second place to get great stuff from (which is also good for dressing normally too) is the Designer Showcase, which features new and upcoming designers that always give away free gifts. The skin I'm wearing is by Kira, a designer located in the store who has two gorgeous skins for free.

Taxi to the White Armory: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Emerald/79/128/26

Designs by Kira: Designer Showcase http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Flawless/252/154/23

Hair: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/GIFT-Woman-hair-Mandy-coral-FREE-freebie-kostenlos-PROMO-ponytail-Zopf-girl-hair-female-gratis-cheveux-gratuit-girl/1006515

Shape: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Mila-Shape-FREE/3878826

Makeup: Marketplace items

Location: The Lost Forest (find it on the destination guide)

October!!

I'm back!!

It's October, AKA Goth month. If you think it's impossible to find good goth clothes for your Halloween (or every days) that are 100% free, think again! With a little creative tweaking, you can even make yourself a great Halloween outfit, completely from scratch.

My first outfit is just a little ensemble you can wear to any old rocker club. One of my favorite hangout spots in SL is Deranged Rockers Club (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Taravista/160/144/40), a friendly PG-13 club where people love to dress up spooky all year round.

Hair: Tameless hair (Group cost is 0L) http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dreyfus/150/178/1503

Skin: Curves Skins and Shapes October gift http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Vision%20of%20Silence/32/35/907

Shape: Iffy Shape by By Snow on Marketplace https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/By-Snow-Iffy-Shape/5115158

Corset: R E D Corset on Marketplace https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/R-E-D-Corset/4710913

Pants: Mesh Head Angels Jeans on Marketplace https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Mesh-Head-Angels-Chick-Jeans-Tank-All-Sizes/4840293

Shoes: Goth Lolita Avatar Shoes on Marketplace https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Goth-Lolita-Avatar/5297835

Eye Shadow: ROXIZ on Marketplace https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/PROMO-ROXIZMAKEUPZ-Cry-Baby-1All-Colors/3986007

Lipstick: Limited time offer on Marketplace https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Tilly-Free-Limited-Time-Multi-Colored-Lipstick-Basics/5317037

Happy shopping!!! I'll be back with more!

Hit the Beach!

Shape & Skin: Pure Group Gift 

Hair: A&A free on the Marketplace 

Shoes: ROLY-POLY free gift on Marketplace

Bikini: Devicious free gift (there are tons more in a fatpack on the desk!)

Pure has two skin&shape combos as a group gift that are both gorgeous and basic enough that you can add as much stuff as you want to make an original avatar! Those are my favorite types of skins. Up next is a big post of several of my favorite locations that have great quality skins for free and which have free groups as well. 

Fantasy!

Photo credits: Incantre Fantasy Sim

Wearing: 

Blue Moon Lady Rhiannon dress in white (free gift card to group members; group is free too!)

Shine free Lana 2 skin and shape

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/SHINE-Lana-2-skinshape-GIFT/1012646

Hair by Analog Dog in the freebie balls

Taxi: Analog Dog

Yes, even though it sounds too good to be true, Blue Moon is offering a free gift card to this dress in a variety of different colors after you join their group--for free. Happy shopping!

Mesh Dresses!

The Marketplace has a great selection of high-quality, cute and quirky mesh dresses for you to choose from, all at 0L. A relatively new store for great flexi hair has also opened up on the Marketplace, called Alli&Ali. It has a wide variety of nice hair that go really well with formal attire. The look I designed for this shoot is a mix and match of various free items found both in-world and on the Marketplace. My skin is the June group gift from Curves found in-world but the shape is on the Marketplace, called Tansy Tulip by Magic Avi (it's a petite). The hair is from A&A called Yvgenia and the heels are by S@ssy from their complete avatar Jasmine, which you can find in-world. All the dresses I found on the Marketplace.

ALB Maude wearable demo

 https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/ALB-MAUDE-dress-wearable-DEMO-MESH-by-AnaLee-Balut-ALB-DREAM-FASHION/3999695

THAT

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/THAT-Mesh-Dress-C-Free-Gift/4983114

Scandalous

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/S-Rock-Me-customer-giftie/4581168

Uber

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Uber-GIFT-Belle-Dress/4964107

Corvus

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Corvus-Rose-Vines-Dress-Free/5036963

Again, pardon my photography skills. Stick with me and hopefully they'll get better!

Summertime!

Well, summer is here, and although I burn up in the sun in real life, I can enjoy it all I want in-world. As with all my avatars, this one is absolutely, positively free, including the awesome hair I'm wearing! I found this lovely little beach called Euphoria Beach, and thought it would be a great spot to post this great-looking getup I devised. The shape is by Hush for its June group gift and it comes with a big pack of skins! Time is running out for you to go and grab this gift but I absolutely love Hush so I will be posting future gifts as well. The hair is by Amacci and is called Adena and comes in a nice variety of shades. I found a nice little boutique called OYeah! and the current group gift is a bathing suit that comes with shades and the body oil I'm wearing. The sandals I found on the Marketplace.

Taxis

Hush: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/HUSH/85/123/21

Amacci: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Amacci/183/118/23

OYeah!: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ninth%20Rua/221/237/29

Sandals: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/44111

Style ideas: marketplace issue

The Marketplace is great if you actually have Lindens, but unfortunately it is really limited with freebies because nobody ever updates and expects you to go in-world for the group gifts. If you go there to search for anything other than clothes (there happens to be a few places which now have great, high-quality mesh items listed under the tag "wearable demo"), you end up with pages and pages of stuff that are straight from the freebie dungeons, or group gifts from 2012 that everyone has probably seen already. That's where I come in. If you want something other than a freebie barbie look, talk to me! Usually, if you search for free hair or dress or whatever the same, most popular items come up over and over again under different sellers. I am trying my darndest to find the "underground" designers with good stuff that nobody knows about yet, or combine these popular items in original ways.

I'm really proud of this look I made. Tuty's on the Marketplace has several very natural-looking skins, one of which, "Nadia", is very hard to find hair for if you're going with the natural option. The shape is from the store By Snow and the hair is called "Maria", found in Edelstore. The outfit is from American Bazaar and the heels are by Sassy! in-world at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sassy/55/60/33 in the complete avatar kit called Jasmine. 

This look is based off Tuty's skin called "Josie". The shape is called Tigerlilly, the hair is called "Maddy" and the dress is from ALB listed under Wearable Demo.

This scary punk diva look was inspired by the awesome mesh dress I'm wearing by Corvus on the Marketplace. They have several dresses there that are excellent quality and absolutely 0L! The skin is Tuty's Josie in the "Dark" makeup tone (the free pack comes with lots of different kinds of makeup); the shape is Diva from By Snow, the shoes are by Plausible Body (with the best free latex outfits I have ever seen), and the hair is found in-world at BLACK MARIA as a group gift. Again, all groups I post cost nothing to join, because (in my opinion) it's not free if you are paying to get in!

Taxi for BLACK MARIA: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SINNERS%20HEAVEN/223/69/31

That's all for tonight, folks! And forgive my photography skills...I've never actually attempted Second Life photography before now. 

Love,

Carrie

Cosplay Issue #1

I really don't know why there aren't more cosplay posts. I mean cosplay is huge in Second Life! Everyone wants to be a demon or a slutty looking angel or catgirl or bipedal pony or whatever the hell you can't be in real life. If you want to be a unicorn but can't because you're broke like a lot of SL players, I am here to help you be that unicorn. If  you are a fellow Brony (I'm a 24 year old girl IRL so it's ok for me to like the show--if you're THAT judgemental) I'll be putting together pegasi and unicorn/alicorn sets that you can IM me about. By the way, this blog here isn't about judging or hating, it's about free costumes and outfits for people like me who can't stand being just a human barbie in a digital game where possibilities are limitless. So if you've come here to judge, and want to tell me about my taste personally--you WILL be blocked. You have been warned. But for people with universal minds, here's a couple cosplay ideas to start you out.

#1: Hatsune Miku

Hatsune Miku is a Japanese anime character hologram designed to perform concerts with a set of pipes that she uses to sing notes higher than any female singer can reach. Here is an HD performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uOmQmM1mg4 , and here is my original costume idea for your cosplay needs:

If you are a Hatsune Miku enthusiast and have any costume suggestions for me, feel free to IM me inworld (Carynth Resident)! This is just a starter pack, all found on the Marketplace.

Hatsune Miku mesh hair by [MP]

• Alice skin and shape by Heaven's Skin and Shape
• Mesh dress by ShuShu (under wearable demo)
• Curious Kitties' stockings and Mary Janes

#2: Chii-chan from Chobits

Unfortunately there are no free Chii ears on the Marketplace, so I'll have to hunt forever in-world to find them. In the meantime I have substituted her robot ears with a pair of large neko ears that I shrunk down and   rotated to fit over my ears instead of on top of my head. I must say they do look a lot like Persocom ears. 

• Maid outfit from Plausible Body
• Ears called Big Ears by Paws
• Mesh hair from [MP]
• Hovering animation by Su Voir and MrS

Happy shopping!

Gothic Obsession

Goth is a big thing on Second Life, so one of my goals is to provide you with good-looking free goth clothes.  Goth clothes used to be (at least for me) hard to find on the cheap side both in real life and Second Life. There are more freebies now though since everyone's been experimenting with mesh and Second Life is turning 10 (isn't that weird?). The freebie store by Lapointe and Bastchild is a relic nowadays but I have a few dresses from there that don't look too outdated when you pair it with a good-quality skin. I have on here a few mesh items from the marketplace as well, and will be posting more goth/alternative/weird clothes as I go, for I am a fashion monster at heart and want to share all the styles as well as casual/norm.

Pardon the low quality of some of these pics--I am not the best at photography yet. This picture includes:

• Lapointe and Bastchild's "Opera" Dress in Black, located at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Gothic%20Clothing%20Obsession/54/39/31 
• Tuty's Lucine Gothic Skin found on the marketplace
• Sassy! Jasmine shape, shoes and hair (in the Jasmine complete avatar) found at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sassy/55/60/33 

Welcome

This is me, Carrie (Carynth Resident). My good-looking appearance is the result of hours of trying to find the  best freebies in SL. Yes, ALL of this is free, from the shoes to the skin to the hair, eyes, lashes and dress and even the groups they all came from. For that's my goal: to provide a blog where the items I show are not 10L, not 5L, not 1L but 0L, always--and that means everything on the avatar is free. Because free means 0 lindens, not 1! I know there are a lot of so-called freebie blogs that show a great outfit but the dress or hair or whatever is 100 Lindens and the shoes are 1 linden and that probably disappoints newbie avatars who got a free account and have no experience in making any amount of game money, and are probably too impatient to camp it out. That's why I'm here, the Freebie Diva--to show you newbies or even experienced freebie hunters how you can create a totally unique avatar with the right stores.

So, without further ado, here's what I'm wearing!

• The Rockin' Dress from Sassy! http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sassy/55/60/33 
• Jasmine Shape, Shoes and Hair from Sassy! http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sassy/55/60/33
• Tuty's Elite Sexy AO from the Marketplace

And here's a close-up of my skin as well as my eyes, earrings and prim lashes and a nice mesh dress for those Lolas!

• NVious group gift here http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Flawless/77/33/22
• Dress: MoiMoi mesh gift on the Marketplace
• Lashes: TGIS Ultra-Long Eyelashes on the Marketplace
• Eyes: AG shine eyes on the Marketplace
• Earrings: Sn@tch

Here I am sitting on my lovely free loveseat from Pickles on the Marketplace. Pickles has an entire Valentine's day set of furniture for free, with texture changing options!

What I'm wearing:

• Group Gift from Barely Legal Couture http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Twilight%20Desires/227/61/33
• Lingerie free gift from Koko's Closet on the Marketplace