Fade Lei of Ugly Duck has a habit of playing with people’s expectations. Sure she can do gorgeous, but she can also do quirky, because there’s a range of motion with those avatar sliders that most of us just don’t use. “Try on Tadpole,” she suggested to me gleefully.

I bought it without even looking at the demo.

“ACHA! What the heck, try on the demo first. You deserve what you just got,” Fade said, more or less.

So I put on Fade’s Tadpole shape and laughed and laughed… But after a while I realized that (a) I like it. It’s got a lot of personality. And (II), the face looks gorgeous in Fade’s Olive skin, with or without the squinty eye. Nice try, Fade. Nice try.

Shape: Ugly Duck Tadpole
Skin: Ugly Duck Olive
Shoes: Schadenfreude Classix Nouveaux New Romantics saddle shoe
Necklace: Bliensen + MaiTai Bouquet necklace for FFL
Shorts: Milk Motion: My wool high waist panty
Tights: Milk Motion: My floral tights
Hair: lamb faster pussycat in my little pony color
Tattoo: Wicked Tattoo Rise Above