Sl Optics

Tessa is optically challenged. SERIOUSLY optically challenged. Moles, bats and other notoriously ocular incompetents have been preferred over her as guides, even in broad daylight. She once had sex with a traffic light thinking that it was a man in uniform - Tessa LOVES a man in uniform. It was only the noise of the crowd of spectators and the surprising unresponsiveness of the light (Tess has been known to make a dead man come) that persuaded her to cease and desist. Red, amber, green, back to amber then red again seemed to be just part of the natural rhythm of things at first, but as time went on it became increasingly monotonous until Tess started to wonder if the viagra had worn off.
So you can imagine that her total dependence on artificial optical assistance is such that even in SL she feels totally naked without it.
Fortunately SL is a veritable cornucopia of glasses shops and Tessa rapes them regularly. Let's have a look at a few.
Kalnins' are the kings of SL optics. They were very early in the field of sculpties and were the first to put super quality textures on SL glasses. Kalnins' were the first to use a tubular section for the lenses, as opposed to the rectangular box sections previously used. They do both sunglasses and optical glasses and some which pass for both.
Glasses were amongst the first fashion items to be scripted and Kalnins' are particularly script heavy. HUDs do fitting and sizing, on face vs on head is a popular option and you can set them to superfly when you need to discover who it is who is making unauthorised use of your intimate poseballs in the skybox at 800 metres. But Emerald has made their radar function redundant which is good because their radar can quickly transport you to Lag City.
Tessa's fave from Kalnin's is IxisGlasses Ixis from Kalnins', hair Milli black from Analog Dog
Tess is also very keen on Respect and Faust
Glasses Respect from Kalnins', Hair Lydia copper from Exile
Glasses Faust from Kalnins', hair Jenna auburn from Exile
Another odd optical house is Miel. Miel is unique in SL in that the glasses attach not to the nose but to the ear. This means that the optically challenged can wear prim eyelashes. Yes, I know, you can attach the lashes to your ear, your mouth or even your tits if you're patient enough. But in reality land it just never works and you finish up with lashes hanging off your face in the most disturbing ways. Sex in particular is pretty well totally out of the question. And by now you should all know that patience is very lowly placed on Tessa's list of virtues.
So PUHLEEASE! glasses creators (see, Tessa has got the jargon and will make an IT person yet), take notice of Miel and offer the ear as your default attachment point. Then even we white stickers can flutter our eyelashes.
Another odd thing about Miel. As you can see from the pic below, Miel's Genius Peepers are hi fash items well removed conceptually from the world of the Goth. And yet one of the options is to have them stuck together with tape. Weird! Yes, we're a Goth free zone. The thought of coloring our fingernails with the help of an ill-aimed hammer doesn't appeal so we jumped at the option of removing the tape and marvelled more than somewhat that it had been there in the first place.
Glasses Genius Peepers from Miel, hair Faye (surely SL's single most exquisite hair) from Mirone, another gift from Nippon to the rest of us
Speaking of Nippon, we've already mentioned our minor addiction to Nala. Nala are Japanese (and all that goes with that in terms of technical excellence, great design and low price), sculpted and scripted. The hair resulted from our recent testosterone surge which had us combing the sims for boys' hair. This lot is from Kmadd whose owners are well acquainted with the concept of androgyny. Great hair for girls and if you're a boy you can either wear it yourself or give it as a giftie to your VERY special gentleman friend
Glasses Alicia from Nala, hair Maddesigns Alex espresso from KMadd

Glasses Curio from Nala, hair Maddesigns Alex ferra from KMadd

Finally a word about today's pics. Yes, I know that I'm always carrying on about Tessa's scorn for detail and fine work. No brush is to broad. But a confession. She is obsessive about detail in her piccies and treats each one like a special baby. The problem is that SL has sucked like an emptying blowhole the past couple of days and, even at highest resolution, it's sharp corners everywhere to the extent that it just got impossible to remedy it.
Tessa abases herself before her AFs and swears on a stack of Korans that she'll redo all these when things have calmed down.