I was able to sit down with Shinobu for a brief time and talk to her about her experiences in Second Life and how she found herself with a shiny new piece of jewelry and a platform that could really change people’s lives. Shinobu started out her Second Life due to boredom. She is a potter by trade and at night, while the porcelain wares were processing for hours; she looked for something to do. After browsing on the internet for a while, she came across Second Life and the rest is history.
to look for modeling schools, but it became apparent that you had to be able to speak English,” said Shinobu. She almost gave up when someone told her about a Japanese group called SLTV. This group was offering trainings and could help with translations. So she did some interviews and was accepted as a trainee at Dion Fashion Agency, where she met the lovely Kay Fairey who later became her instructor.
That is until one day, while shopping around, Shinobu found herself in the mecca of fashion, AZUL.
Through the many years that Shinobu has been modeling and blogging, pageants have been something that didn’t really pique her interest, until she was persuaded to enter pageant in 2013.
“I saw a picture of a beautiful woman there which I thought was a painting at first. Then my friend told me about fashion models in Second Life. The model in the picture was Sora Tatham. I became obsessed with the idea and started
“I was a [Miss Virtual World] MVW candidate in 2013, but at that time I wasn’t used to such big pageant. I was under huge pressure and couldn’t do as well as I wished I had,” Shinobu said, “I regretted not the result, but my own immaturity.
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