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I have been out of pocket and I’m sorry for not getting this up sooner. Simone Stern is looking for fresh new models for her line. If the deepest desire of your pretty little virtual heart is to become a Simone! Supermodel - you will need to take the following steps:

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Cosmetics manufacturer L’Oreal Paris is running a contest to select the virtual face of L’Oreal in Second Life. Celebrity has the scoop over at Second Style from last week, so you can get all the information about how to enter over there.

Apparently, there’s a concurrent contest for the French version of Miss L’Oreal Secondlife. Since my French is absolutely dismal, I have no idea what’s going on there, but perhaps you paid more attention in French class than I did.

In one of those interesting moments when real life thoughtlessly intrudes on your idyllic Second Life and smacks you across the teeth with that nasty reality, a commenter over at Second Style noted that she would not be entering the contest because she boycotts L’Oreal, one of the leading animal testing cosmetics manufacturers.

Which begs interesting philisophical questions about how separate our virtual lives are from our real lives. If you oppose animal testing in your real life, would you use Second Life as a platform to boycott or protest animal testing, or would you divorce your virtual self in a virtual contest from the real world issue?