Across the blogs it’s been ‘Bare Rose Appreciation Week’, with various writers extolling the virtues of June Dion’s clothing line. I’m a fan also so felt like I should stick my beak in and write my two penneth:) I never seem to visit it enough, but the ‘problem’ is Bare Rose is *BIG*. It takes ages to look around properly, and it often takes a long time for items to rez for me there. This, I think, is partly due to the fact that each time I decide to pay Bare Rose a visit it’s busy, and although that’s never a bad sign it’s a complete bugger when you’re in a frenzied shopping mood! I recall my first visit very clearly purely because I hadn’t been in Second Life very long and was whizzing around visiting places that had been recommended to me by the regulars at ‘The Three Lions’. Bare Rose had been mentioned a few times, so I TP’d over and and was overwhelmed by the vast array of styles on display. It was breath taking;it seemed that there was something wonderful to be found on every panel in the huge wall where June displayed her wares. This was my first experience of a truly vast shopping area filled with some seriously amazing clothing for both male and female avatars and I recall being extremely excited and I spent ages there, literally hours at my PC. I started at the bottom of each wall and worked my way up taking a good look at all the ads on my way. I was hovering precariously in front of the advertising panels and every so often being bashed by avatars with a lot more experience than me whizzing past..it was a completely new experience. At some point I got fed up being battered from pillar to post and decided to explore the sim further, and at this point I discovered the beautiful Bare Rose Spa. What a concept- a spa in a virtual world, but boy was it glorious. Lots of new animations for me to try, such as massages and reflexology (Seriously! A tad pants when you’re alone though..I was a relative noob at this point) and I can clearly recall being sat on a rock in the waterfall in meditation pose, with a yellow budgerigar beside me! Bonkers fun, but extremely cool all the same. Then something unexpected happened.I was clicking haphazardly upon something in the waterfall area and found myself in a sky box. As I was a noob this was the first one I’d ever been transported to, and it turned out to be an eye opener in a myriad of ways. Put simply, there were all sorts of ‘interesting’ beds in private rooms which also featured various items of ‘fun’ equipment and hidden walls. I could hear a horse neighing and eventually worked out that there was indeed an equine presence in the skybox, the reason for which I’ll leave for your imagination, but suffice to say the place was a real eye opener! This is my favourite Bare Rose outfit, it’s the GL Mini Kimono and it’s a beauty. The pack also includes a white and pink version..dare I say that the pink variant is actually really nice? Another reason to venture over to Bare Rose, it is amazingly cheap considering teh quality and vast array of styles..any avatar worth their virtual salt has visited this place at least once, and owns a few items created by June’s fair hand. So to celebrate all that is Bare Rose Tokyo, there’s going to be a bit of a party, ‘Dare to BareRose’, on December 11, from 18.30-21.30 SLT. DJ Summerkat will be playing the choons, and there will be cash prizes for the best dressed in Bare Rose clothing…I think that we could potentially all be in with a chance of winning that one then, because you can’t really go wrong in ‘Bare Rose’ fashion can you?