52 Week Colour Challenge…catch up, part 1

Thanks to Luna Jubilee for this wonderful blogger challenge…such fun finding things to wear…woot!

OK, my avatar is having problems in both V2. And Kirsten so, although these shots are taken before my problems the remainder, until further notice, will be from an alt I have made with less finances. I guess it’ll be more of a challenge for me.

My first catch up is for the colours Grey and Blue.

Grey was interesting as I thought I had quite a bit of grey in my inventory. Turns out I do but not a lot to my current liking….fickle? Yes!

Blue was a bit trickier, as it’s one of my favourite colours, but I love what I ended up with.

I’ll let the pictures and style details speak for themselves.

Flickr originals:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/furystapleton/

Styling:

Week 1: Grey

Shape: custom, FuriousDesigns
Skin: -Glam Affair- Castalia Skin - TDR#14
Hair: >TRUTH<>

Eyes: (Miriel) Eyes - Platinum (Big)

Eyelashes: Cake, separated lashes, tintable

Dress: -AZUL- GroupGift01004#1

Shoes: AC Vintish Shoes

Jewellery: Zaara : Raga oyster ring *pearl* (silver)

Wings: Seven Selections, Ragged Fairy Wings, Natural, Tinted

Week 2: Blue

Shape: custom, FuriousDesigns

Skin: [PXL] Candy NAT Orange DEB

Hair: >TRUTH<>

Eyes: (Miriel) Eyes - Snow (Big)

Eyelashes: Cake, separated lashes, tintable

Dress: Evie's Closet Isabella Formal Gown (BlueSilver)

Shoes: Taboo Paris Roses Edition (long)

Pearls, Pearls, Poses & Pearls...

When I saw a couple of blogs featuring this joint venture of *SiSSi* string pearls and Glitterati poses I just knew I had to buy some. I am always on the look out for new, unusual poses, so these caught my eye.

I did go a little mad and buy the fat pack of each, as jewellery and poses are sold separately. Six poses each with their own set of pearls, when combining the two purchases. To accommodate the poses each set of pearls comes in 3 or 4 strings so that you can modify and link them to the size of your avatar. Having an Amazonian avatar, as Sam keeps reminding me, I tweaked a fair bit until I was happy. For this shoot, I even tinted them a dark grey to give a black pearl effect.

Now, yet again…I am going to sing the praises of a creator/designer. Having unpacked all 6 sets and organised them, I successfully tweaked 5 sets of the pearls. The sixth set I found to be ‘no modify’ which was very frustrating. I contacted Sissi String to gain advice. She in turn spent time and energy trying to correct what was, in all accounts, an inworld glitch. I believe 3 times she resent that set of pearls and twice the same outcome. Eventually she succeeded in sending a modify version and I got to play…lol.

Thank you Sissi for you help, time and patience. You are a star and I wish everyone were as kind and considerate as you were in replying to my query. Her customer service was outstanding.

These pearls and their poses are great fun and I just had to share them with you. Go get them now!

PS. Yes, for once I have posted a truly Photoshopped image. More images to come soon on my Flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/furystapleton/3933934094/

Styling:

Shape: custom, FuriousDesigns
Skin: Fleur Allure Truffle Kitten 3
Hair: Cake - Faith - Black - Flexi Hair
Eyes: (Miriel) Eyes - Platinum (Big)
Eyelashes: Cake - Separated Lashes - Tintable*
Underwear : ~Blacklace~ Angelic: Limited Edition White Satin Bra Set
Shoes: Taboo Paris Ribbon Edition set all, white
Jewellery & Poses : *SiSSi* Glitterati Pearls FATPACK

Summer Time

I saw this dress on the fashion feed earlier this week and thought ‘Brilliant for Summer and the beach!*. So I teleported over to *Reale* and found the dress in four gorgeous colours. I stayed true to form and bought the red roses one. The bodice has flowered material over the chest and shoulders with a wide red, cummerbund like, waistband. At the neck is halter with a flexi tie at the back. The flexi skirt falls beautifully from the waist in the red roses material. The textures are shading are stunning. The whole dress gives a floaty, cool Summer feel.

To go with it I am wearing Fleur Kitten 1 skin n cinnamon. Taboo Paris ribbon shoes tinited red, Etd Marisela hair in black and Miriel eyes in platinum.

To round the look off I decided to wear a hair accessory *GF* Rose Hairpin –red-. This gives the outfit a slight Mediterranean feel to it.

Styling:

Shape: custom, Furiousdesigns
Skin: Fleur Allure Cinnamon Kitten 1
Hair: ETD Marisela II – Black
Eyes: (Miriel) Eyes - Platinum (Big)
Eyelashes: Cake - Separated Lashes - Tintable*
Dress: *Reale* Floratta long dress (roses)
Shoes: Taboo Paris Ribbon Edition set all...tinted red
Accessory: *GF* Rose Hairpin -red-

The Taboo Shoe

So..this started with me being in a Summery mood and wanting to wear something white...a nice floaty, white Summer dress in fact. I was going to wear something from my inventory until I saw Nadja Baxter wearing the "anuenue. MaiaDress(White). I tped over there and it was busy...and I admit I grabbed and ran as the lag was killing me. I do plan to go back though. The dress I think is a wonderful border anglais texture with a pretty hemmed flexi skirt. It looks and moves beautifully.

Now....I do not lack shoes but I have been avoiding buying the bare foot, prim toe variety since they first were introduced...although I did buy a pair of J's real toe sandels when they first hit the grid. Yesterday I finally succombed after reading the Vain Inc magazine. In there I spotted a pair from a shop called Taboo and thought I would check them out. I promptly bought the Taboo Paris Ribbon Edition set, all colours. Once back at base I began the frustrating task of matching the feet skin tone to my skins tone. *Sigh*...now I remember why I hadn't gotten any before now. As I was bemoaning this to Samara Barzane I suddenly hit the right shade...sheer accident...lol...and promptly saved it. As you can see, it's not a bad match. The ribbon hides the join between avatar and prim extremely well too. These shoes are going to be favourites I can tell. They come with a hud that allows you to resize, retexture (ribbon, nails and toe rings) and allows you to control the ao and sounds. Very, very clever.

The final piece was the *Muism*summer basket_flower(shoulder) that I purchased last year. It comes with a pose and it works well with my own ao. Its a pretty wicker basket full of flowers...perfect.

Summer feeling sated...lol.

I shot all these pictures on the plot where the Taboo shop sits....it has great textures and is a wonderful meadow for posing in.

Styling:

Shape: Custom, FuriousDesigns

Skin: Fleur Allure Truffle Kitten 1

Hair: Cake - Faith - Black - Flexi Hair

Eyes: (Miriel) Eyes - Platinum (Big)

Eyelashes: Cake - Separated Lashes - Tintable*

Dress: "anuenue. MaiaDress(White)

Shoes: Taboo Paris Ribbon Edition set all

Bag: *Muism*summer basket_flower(shoulder)

Location : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amigo/54/38/349