Celebrity Trollop

Launa Fauna has been working on a new skin line called Lapine (bunny ala francaise) for three months. I’ve always liked Launa’s skin work and she’s one of the first skinners in Second Life, so it’s been pretty cool to see her evolve and keep up with the proverbial Jones over time.

Lapine is a beautiful skin in both tone and body features. The face shading has been really revamped – there is a strongly noticeable improvement in both the nose shading and the lip definition. (The older Chai Nova skin line had really broad lips for my shape, for example.) The body itself has been re-worked too. The shading on the tummy and around the butt have been sculpted a bit more. And although Launa for many skin lines has sold a “cleavage enhancement” pack, this time, she’s gone with the recent trend-of-the-moment for skinners in SL and added amazingly shaded cleavage right on the skin layer itself. (No need to choose between your tats or your… breasts.)

The skin tones are really lovely too. Since I think that dark tones are technically very challenging to create, I was so excited to find that the Lapine line is really well executed. Many darker tones seem to be overly orange or yellow tinted, looking a bit too “fake bake” or “jaundiced” at times. (Hence the title of this post – an off the cuff comment from Launa.)

The first five makeups are solid classics that will coordinate with just about anything. But as Launa laughingly told me, “I don’t do just one makeup.” ‘Tis true; she is a teeny bit obsessed and thrives on getting some good suggestions from her customers. I look forward to seeing some of my old favorites from skin lines past be reborn in the Lapine series (Torrid, Midnight and Diabla come to mind immediately. Is it too self-serving to ask that Celebrity come back? Probably.)

The skin prices are still quite reasonable – L$850 per makeup, or a fatpack of 5 for L$3000, which is below standard market rate for such lovely skins. I don’t know if the card system from Chai will be making a comeback, but it’d be nice to mix and match makeups once Launa releases a few more of them.