Let me, Azaiya Aeon, guide you towards the very best in mermaid items from across the grid.

As a mer, I’m known to be very blue. I’ve never quite understood why so many mers elect to wear human skin when there are so many more interesting choices available. Then again, I’ve never understood why so many people elect to be human in their Second Life when there are so many more interesting choices available. Anyway, as I’ve lived on a mermaid on the grid, I began with my regular human skin, but after a while started using colored skins. Colored skins are fun, exotic, and add another fun dimension to your avatar to play with. Show up to the beach with shimmering aqua skin and scales and you’re sure to turn a few heads.

While I’m no expert on the subject, I’ve always had a hard time finding colored skins. Many just seem appear to be uninteresting tints of existing fleshy skin. Portia Sin has created an excellent set of colored skins which are perfect for mermaids. They’re not just one color, but well-coordinated blends, and each design actually has faint scales if you look closely. Portia recently released a new line of skins and dropped the prices of all her old skins back dramatically. Each color is now L$199, so you have no excuse not to go and buy every single hue! There is a demo pack of all the skins right below the boxes, so find a good match for your fins and turn some heads!

• Price: L$199 per skin (!)
• SLURL: Sin Skins

And what’s an exotic mermaid without some skin decoration? My friend Abby introduced me to Etchd today, which may be my favorite tattoo shop now. Many of the designs are very tribal, with bold, body-covering, interesting shapes, unisex, perfect for a mer, and each is completely re-colorable to any hue you’d like. Prices are very affordable, between L$75 to L$300. Also worth a visit.

• Price: $75 to L$300
• SLURL: Etchd