To the Top!

Sometimes the best laid plans of bloggers go pffftt when an new item strays across your field of vision. The minute I saw the Kungler Jackie dress I KNEW I wanted to use it in a mash-up with my fave Soft Black Leather Pants from Ibizarre. Then the ICoN BC earrings and bangles were an obvious choice as were the Kitty's Lair Tease peep toes in white. My hair is one of Mouse Mimistrobell's 3 first hair releases at Dark Mouse. They are all lovely, but Katina in Dark Red just seemed right along with the Tuli Meredith Captivating Copper skin in Light.

Hence "To the Top" pushed another ready-to-go image down the pipeline a bit :)

My poses are from AnnaH/StoRin, Luth, Analu, Flowey and [LAP] --thank you ladies for making me look less like a noob :)

Mash Times 2

Sometimes a mashup comes with buying a new item and then creating a "look" around it. Other times it comes from somewhat random wanders in one's inventory. This post contains one result of each method.




One method I use when I don't know what to wear is to search for a specific color and wear the first of each kind of item that comes up. Sometimes a little cheating is necessary, but on the whole interesting outfits emerge. This mashup started because I was wearing Tuli's Group Gift Meredith skin, Silver Shine in Sunkissed. So I searched on "blue."

My sweater is the Blue Cashmere Sweater from Catt's Creations [now closed inworld but available on SLX according to her profile] Underneath I have tucked the Smock Tube Top that comes with a sweater from Tres Blah! My jeans are from Second Wave Apparel in Indigo. Shoes are the bottom part of Maitreya's Dune Boots in Blue. My necklace is Lucas Lameth's redo of my old favorite of his, Louvelle. My hair is SHY48 from booN in Blonde.




My second mashup is organized around one of Decoy's newest items, the Izzy Cardigan in Navy. Because I'm a bit modest I'm wearing Sioxie Legend's Cami T-shirts in Tropical Hibiscus underneath. In order to tie it all together I wandered over to artilleri to get the Nina Highwaist Pants in Green and pulled ETD's Hampton Wedges in Caribbean from my inventory. My necklace is an old favorite, the Wooden Heart in Green from Tuli. Hair is ETD Xaria in Auburn Burnt and my skin is Tuli's Meredith Captivating Copper in Pale.

Doing an inventory search or pulling an outfit together for a new item is a good way to find old friends in you inventory.

My poses are from AnnaH/StoRin, Luth, Analu, Flowey and [LAP] --thank you ladies for making me look less like a noob :)

Nice Newness and Some Not So New

When Estelle Parnell of Lost Dreams drops a new dress on me I've learned to scurry to a safe corner, unpack it and try it on, which is followed, more often than not, by happy sounds. Such was the case with her new Abbey, which I am wearing in Pink. It is a simple design, yet wonderful in movement. The flexi bits move beautifully, despite being an alpha pain in the a** to photograph. Finding a good necklace was hard as many "bumped" the chest prims and/or disappeared into the floaty bits. I finally settled on Alienbear Gupte's Teardrop set in Peach. Even so the teardrop of the necklace has tucked itself under the flutters. Hair is ETD's Tiana in Auburn Burnt, skin is Crurio Sugarplum with freckles in Lumine. Shoes are the new Satin Gladiators from Polina Kaestner, which I had on from the picture below. They worked so they stayed!



I'm wearing some older items from Style Starts Here in order to show off the new scarf and shoes from Polina Kaestner. The shoes are the Satin Gladiators in Beige worn also above. The scarf is one of the nicest I have seen on the grid. It is called Carre de soie and I'm wearing it in orange. It has that Parisian je ne sais quoi of a designer silk scarf that we all hanker after. Hair is Truth's Ivy in Apricot and my skin is Tuli Meredith Captivating Copper 3 in Pale. The SSH items are the Inked Jeans and the White Crossover Knot Top.

My poses are from AnnaH/StoRin, Luth, Analu, Flowey and [LAP] --thank you ladies for making me look less like a noob :)

Worth a Second Look ...

When Elika drops new ETD hair on her staff I always run into a corner to try it on. It is never "bad hair", but sometimes it just doesn't seem to suit me on first wearing, so it gathers dust in my inventory. But then, sometimes, for any number of reasons, it pops back up and WOW it works:) This was my experience with Camille which I am wearing in both pictures in this post. I can't tell you why it didn't "click" the first time, but it's clicking now! The other common elements in both images are the Polished Stone short necklace from Persona in tiger-eye, my custom skin from Soda Design and eyes from Bijou.



The Aoharu sculpted Drapery Dress was one I also dismissed when it was released. I was just sure that the sculpted prims wouldn't move well. But during the recent Aoharu sale the dress just begged to be taken home, so I did and I'm glad. It fits beautifully AND it wears well in motion. Shoes are Maitreya Verve in Brown.



My inner blonde made her appearance. My shoes and jeans are ETD. The shoes are Elika's Heel Strap Platforms that I wear regularly in Sunshine. The jeans are the silver ones. They aren't back out yet though:( I just love the texture on these. The camisole peeking out from under the Charcoal Wrap Sweater from Mojo, is the Simple Shimmer Tank from Cupcakes in Lemon.

Check YOUR inventory often or you'll never know what's worth a second look!

My poses are from AnnaH/StoRin, Luth, Analu, Flowey and [LAP] --thank you ladies for making me look less like a noob :)

Just some bohemian junk

Hi again! I hope the return from the Easter break (for those who had a break, or Easter) hasn't been too rough... I was lucky to be able to go on a short holiday and, although getting back to routine hasn't been easy and the title of this post may suggest that I'm either grumpy or suffering from post-holiday depression, I'm not! The origin of such title (and in fact, for the whole outfit I'm going to show you) resides in a beautiful pair of earrings that I bought at {JUNK} thanks to a hint that Berry Singh gave me. Let me introduce you to...

...the Bohemian Chandelier earrings! For lovers of big, dramatic earrings, these are just the perfect pair.

Later that evening I was wandering around a shopping mall, hoping to spend a few more L$ on clothes, when I came across a little place called BeNoir Designs - which I'd never heard of before. When I saw this fantastically textured top, Sara, I thought: WIN! It's sold in a pack with four different colours; besides, matching skirts are also available, but I decided against buying the full pack to avoid looking excessively uniformed (school trauma still kicks in sometimes...).

Plus, I still remembered that I had been keeping this skirt in the closet too long, the Princess black velvet skirtset from the .2811. line of PixelDolls, which I bought at the recently concluded 50L sale. Nicely matching the earrings in name and the skirt in colour are the shoes, the Urban Bohemian anklewrap flats by Boing Fromage! (I didn't really manage to show them off too well in the pictures, but you can check them out on XStreet). The look called for plenty of accessories, so for good measure and extra blackness I added my good old Leather ring wristband from ETD, the RFL Sakura Pirate bangles from (nova) (a group gift to celebrate the opening of the Clothing Fair) and the ~flirt~Tiffany belly jewel, another treat for their faithful group members.

But that's not all! My hair is the newly released Chel from ETD (a gift from Sam! <3); style="font-weight: bold;">Julia01 (black catliner) by Lazolli, available in a pack for just 1L at their main store and, finally (as usual) the eyes and lashes are from Miriel and the poses from Long Awkward Pose.
Full outfit details on Flickr, slurls here.

**Edit: the slurl to BeNoir isn't on the Wordpress list, so here it is.**

Canimal Carnival

OK, yet again, my outfit started with the shoes...lol. I had seen Canimals Cherry Darlings on one of the feeds a while back and to be honest had been avoiding going over to Canimal. You see, Canimal is one of those shops I class as lethal and as such avoid so that I don't bankrupt myself...lol. I will buy something everytime I visit. Anyway I popped over because those shoes haunted me. They are mule wedges with a pretty cherry pattern and a plain black heel. A must have.

Then I wandered around the shop, like you do...lol...thinking 'I bet there is a dress to go with these somewhere here.' It was then that I discovered the Nox dress in red. It has a black corset with a red and black striped 'bra'. The flexi skirt is the same stripes but had a lace under layer that shows beneath the upper skirt layer. Beautifully designed and textured.

I immediately knew which skin and hair I wanted to wear with it....Fleur Allure Truffle Biba 1 and BP*big bomb hair1. The Biba make up is striking with heavy, smokey lids and red lips...in one of Fleurs paler tones it was the dramatic look I was after. BP's hair finished off the drama to give that side show feel to the whole ensemble. However, there was still something missing.....so I rummaged through my stockings and came out with LBD AmourStockings in red. To top it all off I added Caroline..Low Prim Black Bands Choker...icing on the cake...lol.

Now I had the perfect excuse to go do that shoot at the Carnival of Doom...lol

Styling:

Shape: Custom, FuriousDesigns

Skin: Fleur Allure Truffle Biba 1

Hair: BP*big bomb hair1

Eyes: (Miriel) Eyes - Platinum (Big)

Eyelashes: Cake - Separated Lashes - Tintable*

Dress: Canimal - Nox (red)

Shoes: Canimal - Cherry Darlings

Stockings: LBD AmourStockings red

Jewelry: Caroline..Low Prim Black Bands Choker

Snow Tiger: Zoobys

SALE at SWA!

The talented Sioxie Legend has put some selected summer items on SALE, including her always wonderful capris and those amazing new Ruffled Tops. Look for the SALE signs throughout the store.

I've blogged her capris before, but somehow I had not bought the pink striped ones and look how well they go with the Lilac Ruffled Shirt, which I now own in a few colors, but not enough yet!

Other details: ETD Starley shoes in PINK, The NEW ETD Sarah hair in Copper and the Curio Sugarplum makeup in Lumine.

Here's your limo! http://slurl.com/secondlife/Soigne/132/124/24

My poses are from AnnaH/StoRin, Luth, Analu, Flowey and [LAP] --thank you ladies for making me look less like a noob :)