Deep Sea…

TUNES

Deep sea dive
Got down, but you stayed alive
It’s only you down there
You and the bends
Lose your mind
Lose track of breathing and time
It’s only you down there
Sleep with the tides

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Clothing

Bodysuit: AsteroidBox – “Mya Bodysuit” (Maitreya)

Accessories

Tentacles (Eyes & Ears): -[TWC]- -“Sea Witch -Tentacles”

Hair & Makeup

Hair: no.match – “No_Waste”

Face Art 1: Nefekalum Tattoos – “Hunger” (BoM, Materials enabled)

Face Art 2 (incl. Tentacles Mouth): G.I.N – “Habiti” (BoM)

Face Scars: . The Rotting Lab . – “Waster – Scar – Pale” (BoM)

Head, Body & Tattoo

Head: LeLUTKA – “Erin 2.5”

Ears: Ears: .:BoD:. – “Kraken Bom & Tint Ears”

Body: Maitreya – “Lara V5.3”

Arms/Hands: ANTINATURAL[+] – “Post-Human / Monsterhand BLACK” (Gacha, Common)

Tattoo (Chest): .:Vegas:. – “Tattoo ( Dark ) Akkorokamui” (BoM) – NEW @ NEO Japan // March 2021

Tattoo (Arms): Nefekalum Tattoos – “Descend (Black)” (BoM, Materials)

Poses, Props & Tools

Pose: Selfmade

Prop: WLS – “Lovecraft Throne”

Model, Stylist & Photographer

Wicca Merlin

Sirens – The Dark Side of the Mermaid Family

Ok, if someone would have told me, that I would do a mermaid post… I would have broken down laughing. I always faced mermaids as the sweet and cute pink, purple or pastel colored girly sweethearts… until I came across a TV show called Sirens last year. I read about the dark side in some mermaid stories but I never saw them so dark before that show. I love the events from Flair for Events and when this year the sign up for the Mermaid Cove came out, I could not resist to apply as a designer, thinking we could do something that works for those dark sirens.

We did –  we made the “Amatheia” claws. A combination of bracelet and claws, connected by chains and decorated with some shells. When we set up our booth, I saw the super awesome cool release from The White Crow right beside us. It must have been fate, that we were assigned right beside each other, both enjoying the darker side of the theme :p

-[TWC]- made those amazing tentacles, which come out of your nose and mouth together with a cool matching makeup/lips combo. I so loved the “Sea Witch” I had to make a dark and scary siren using  that one 🙂

There were so many other cool items, so the look came together really fast. Arise made those neat face scales in 3 different styles and the super cool “Sea Ghoul Eyes” with a matching makeup were made by BLAXIUM. I realized, that I discovered BLAXIUM for me lately as they to kick ass cool designs and piercings, that are not mainstream focused only.

First I tried to set up an underwater scene but, since SL water doesn’t really do much from below the water surface, I decided to go for a little dark cave, only lighted by a few moon beams, that come through the ceiling of it. When I had placed my siren on the awesome rocks (I really love their materials!) with the cool poses, that WetCat released at the Mermaid Cove event, I missed something in the back. Just open sea looked kinda boring and I decided to put a ship, that hit a rock because of the siren singing in front of the cave aka into my back.

To get a feeling of a rough sea, I had to cheat in Photoshop as I could not find waves and foam in SL that did what I wanted it to do. With most of the stuff I found, I ended up with weird pixelated white “something” in my back.

First I thought I do have to wear any kind of clothing to cover my chest, but the combination of the “Sandra” hair from MINA and the “Body Scales” from Cynefin did hide everything needed.

I had so much fun doing those pictures… I can’t promise that I won’t come up with another dark mermaid look and pictures in the future 😉

Accessories

Horns: [Eternus] – “Kirin Horns” NEW @ Mermaid Cove

Collar: .Quirky. – “Scales Collar” NEW @ Mermaid Cove

Hand Tentacles: .Drastic. – “Tentacle Jewelry” (Maitreya)

Handaccessoriess with Claws: Wicca’s Originals – “Amatheia Claws” (Maitreya, Bento) NEW @ Mermaid Cove

Face Tentacles: -[TWC]- – “Sea Witch / Dark Green” NEW @ Mermaid Cove

Bellypiercing: PUNCH – “Navel Piercing / Diamond Pearl” (Maitreya) NEW @ Mermaid Cove

Hair & Makeup

Hair: MINA Hair – “Sandra”

Facetattoo 1: -[TWC]- – “Sea Witch Ink -Full-” (Omega Applier) NEW @ Mermaid Cove

Facetattoo 2: ARISE – “Face Scales Style 2” (Omega Applier) NEW @ Mermaid Cove

Eyes & Eyeshadow: BLAXIUM – “Sea Ghoul Eyes” NEW @ Mermaid Cove

Body & Tattoo

Head: LeLutka – “Simone 3.3”

Body: Maitreya – “Lara 4.1”

Skin: Lumae – “Eirtae – Storm” (LeLutka/Maitreya Applier)

Body Scales: ~Cynefin ~ – “Body Scales (Shades)” (Maitreya Applier)

 Tail: ~ Cynefin ~ – “Lorelei Bento Mermaid Tail (Shades)” (Maitreya, Bento)

Poses & Props

Poses: ::WetCat:: “‘Part Of Your World’ Mermaid Prop” (Bento, arms lightly edited with anypose) NEW @ Mermaid Cove

Rocks: [FOURTH WALL] – “Mossy Rocks Pack”

Ship: MUSHILU – “JonJamesV – Caravel”

Skull taken of the La Catrina pose set from Poseidon

Model & Photographer

Wicca Merlin

Exotic Orchid

Usually I am not too much of a gown person, but the “Talissah”gown from Azul really caught my eyes. With all those huge attachments and the unusual shapes of them, it really did touch me inside.

When it comes to Azul, I always admired Mami’s texturing skills. She used to always have so amazing details on her gowns and designs, that you never saw them all on the first view. Every time when you look at them you will find another amazing detail, like the delicate, asian looking brocade on the “Talissah” gown. The huge ruffles, together with the long metal parts reminded me of exotic orchids. The head piece as well has this huge ruffles and some metal parts and it comes with a wonderful tiara looking jewelry as well. Wit the flexi parts at the gown and as well attached to the bracelets, it got a very dreamy touch for me, too.

The dress was made for Talissah Xenga, one of the MVW candidates this year.

The amazing makeup – which I am using on my new “Simone” bento head from LeLutka – was made by Zibska.

The “Sirra” applier for mesh heads comes for LeLutka, TMP and as well for Omega compatible heads. Even the standard avatar heads can wear the tattoo version of it. The soft and spring looking colors with the darker, outer eye corner, just looked fantastic to the colors of the gown and still give kind of a nude look, that does not overlay the whole styling too much.

For the set I chose something more simple but as well something that made an impressive point to my look. I used the “Aerial Screw Parasol” because of with its top, it matched amazingly the asian touch of the gown. To enhance the dreamy feeling i got from the gown, I added the “Dancing Petals Dystopia” as well from e.V.E Studio.

Details

Gown:  – Azul – “Talissah!

Shoes: [CX] – “Implant Revived”

Hair: enVOGUE – “Inna”

Makeup: Zibska – “Sirra”

Basics:

Head: LeLutka – “Simone 2.2”

Body: Maitreya – “Lara V3.5”

Set:

E.V.E Studio – “Aerial Screw Parasol” & “Dancing Petals Dystopia”

Shakesburton – This is Halloween!

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Boys and girls of every age
Wouldn’t you like to see something strange?
Come with us and you will see
This, our town of Halloween

This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It’s our town, everybody scream
In this town of Halloween

[A Nightmare before Christmas]

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Taylor Wassep, founder and creative head behind the THEMA Magazine had a brilliant idea, which I totally fell in love with.

(Click HERE to find the latest issue of THEMA magzine)

For his latest issue of THEMA, he had the idea to use one of  Shakespeare’s works and then interpretate it in a Tim Burton inspired way.

You can imagine how straight that went to my heart with my Tim Burton addiction…

So for my pictures I chose Hamlet. Since I wanted to bring the head of Jack Skellington into my pics, becasue I totally love that character, it seemed the perfect match 😉

Even more happy I was when Taylor asked me if I would like to be the cover girl for this special issue and if I could style another look. Together with Tempest Rosca who took the picture, we decided to give a try on Lady McBeth 😉 The outcome you can see on the very last picture of this post.

I hope you can see the fun I had with those special pictures and how dear they became to me.

Thank you again Taylor for such an amazing theme for the THEMA Magazine and that I again was allwed to be part <3

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The mastermind behind some of the most iconic art styling and modern filmmaking – Tim Burton, magically crafts story line thought the guise of whimsical fantasy mixed with overtones of dark elements. The result being a masterful experience that only Tim Burton can create. Likewise, William Shakespeare is thought of to be the greatest English writer in all of history. He too, created works of art that cast it’s character in to dark turmoil and suffering. For the enjoyment of it’s audience and unknowing the modern world. Combining these two creative geniuses pays homage to their brilliance in both writing and style. Please enjoy, Shakesburton

[Taylor Wassep]

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Details

Outfit (incl. mask & stockings): Wicca’s Wardrobe – “Sally”

Shoes: Wicca’s Wardrobe – “Dewey Boots” (Burton Inspired)

Hat, Necklace& Shoulderparts: Enfant Terrible – “Showstopper” (Gacha)

Set: DRD – “Burtonesque Skybox” (edited)

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Coverstyle:

Outfit Wicca’s Wardrobe – “Gladys Blouse & Elison Skirt”

Hair: EMO-tions – “Antionette”

Bloody Hands: Clemmm – “Bloody Hands & Nails”

Model & Stylist: Wicca Merlin

Photographer: Tempest Rosca

FEROSH Fashion Weekend Summer 2016 – Ladies who Lunch

The time has come again for another outstanding Ferosh Fashion Weekend! We’re ready to reset the bar for what it means to bring virtual fashion to Second Life® and beyond. We hope that you will join us for a jam packed weekend of HIGH fashion with our amazing Ferosh Designers, Photographers, Supermodels, and models. Come dress to impress! Let’s create something beautiful together. Let’s become Ferosh!

THE RETAIL AREA WILL BE OPEN UNTIL JULY THE 14TH!!!

HERE IS YOUR PERSONAL LIMO!!!

Details

Outfit: Ladies who Lunch [LWL] – “Ursula” – NEW @ Ferosh Fashion Weekend

Shoes: Ladies who Lunch [LWL] – “Basta Platform” – NEW @ Ferosh Fashion Weekend

Headpiece: Death Row Designs – “Dead Religion Headdress”

Hair: epoque – “Warrior”

Poses: Devilish Poses

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

In a Tim Burton Mood with FrEgo & [AD] Creations

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A few days ago I got a call from 2 dear old friends if I would have time to pose for his new top… what a question! Certainly I have time for those I call friends no matter what.

Plus… I know what amazing things they can do and so I was really excited and curious 😉 .

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FrEgo has no inworld store and you only can find it on Marketplace (https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/117990)

Since yesterday you can find the amazing “Sleeveless Summer Wrap” top there as well in 4 awesome summer colors.

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But not only the top comes from FrEgo… The cool “Cutoff Jeans”  and the kick ass “Combat Boots” with all those sweet little details and in different colors, you will find as well at the FrEgo Marketplace store together with some more super awesome designs.

The huge and stunning hat was made by Aliza Karu, owner and designer of [AD] Creations. The “My head mesh hat” comes with a HUD, wich lets you change the headband, the upper, lower and inner hat texture.

Together with the arm warmers from .shi I felt dressed right and had this Tim Burton mood already because of the colors and the huge hat. So I added some ripped socks and a small necklace to not drag the attention to far away from the clothing and the hat.

For the scenery I wanted to use something Tim Burton like and I remembered a skybox I got longer time ago from DRD and together with the poses from Del May I had a lot of fun going against the casual idea I had in the beginning for that look*snickers*. Sometimes the first idea of a look changes with every detail you add to it or even with everything you remove 😉

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Details

Top: FrEgo – “Sleeveles Summer Wrap” – NEW (mesh)

Pants: FrEgo – “Cutoff Jeans” (mesh)

Shoes: FrEgo – “Combat Boots” (mesh)

Armparts (with hands & rings): .shi – “Fingerless Glove” (mesh)

Socks: “Blue & Black Striped Overknee Socks” (selfmade) & :::insanya::: – “3 Socks B n.4”

Hat: [AD] Creations – “My head mesh hat” (mesh)

Tattoo: White Widow – “Oblivion”

Ears: Mandala – “Tunnel Stretched Ears Omimi” (mesh)

Poses: Del May

Deco: Dead Row Designs (DRD)

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Dragon Dreams with Ezura

I know it is a bit late but again SL ate some of the things, that I got sent for blogging. As I lately talked to Ezura Xue, owner and highly skilled designer of Ezura, she asked me if I would not have liked her items for the Fantasy Faire… and I thought she was kidding me… Ezura items PLUS fantasy… that would be me 😉

The “Dragoness” outfit really let my heart beat higher… I love dragons 🙂 The idea to have dragon heads on arms and o the head totally catched my interest and I started fooling around with stylings. After trying different ideas I remembered the “Shinobu” set from Finesmith, hat as well has dragon heads as its focus. the colors black and red are my personal favourite colors anyways so I just tried to find more of my fantasy styling accessories… The hooves might be not dragon like but for fantasy all is allowed
😉 The Fantasy Faire will close this weekend as far as I know, so if you wanna grab one of that fantastic outfits hurry over 😉

Details

Outfit: Ezura – “Dragoness” – NEW (Fantasy Faire)

Jewelry: Finesmith – “Shinobu”

Hooves: VS – “Kali Hooves”

Hair: Baiastice – “Fiamma”

Tattoo: Wicket Tattoos – “Live for Today”

Poses: Del May

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

House of Elliot – New Store – New Collection!

Lately Virlay, owner and designer of House of Elliot approached me, telling me she created a new clothing line. I know Virlay as a model but I was not aware of that she makes her own clothing line and I was very curious. She told me that she has a new store at the BeStyle district and sent me an LM. Not even a second later I was standing right behind her in her store and looked around with my mouth open after what I saw. One dress immediately jumped into my view and I told Virlay about. She directly answered that she thought that I might like that one and asked me if I would blog it… for sure I would 😉 The outfit is called “Medusa” and contains the huge tentacle collar with the lion door knocker on the front, the dress itself and then Virlay gave me one of her cool masks as an addition for this cool dress. To see the whole new collection you better take a look at your self at the House of Elliot Store at the BeStyle district (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/BEST%20OF%20ITALIAN/29/116/23)

Details

Dress: House of Elliot – “Medusa” – NEW

Mask: House of Elliot – “Medusa Mask” – NEW

Hair: Loovus Dzevavor – “Capped” – NEW

Nails: [V] Couture – “Death Nails”

Skin: Nuuna – “White Skin”

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Solo Evane presents: The Star Wars Show – Sneak Preview

Outfit: SoliDea FoliEs – “Justice”

Skin: [sys] – “Inuyt”

Lippiercing: Finesmith – “Aphrodite”

Hair: Wasabi Pills – “Antiope”

Nails: Miamai – “Myda”

Lashes: Detour – “Spider”

Poses: Body Talking

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Festival of Sin with Glam Affair and Tableau Vivant

Horns: Glam Affair – “Fashion Cornus” – NEW

Collar: Glam Affair – “Collar B” – NEW

Skin: Glam Affair – “Vanity” – NEW

Lipstick: Glam Affair – “Vanity Lips 10” – NEW

Lip/Nose Piercing: Finesmith – “Externalized” – NEW (group gift)

Makeup: Nuuna – “Astro Glam”

Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Black Mamba”

Shoes: Mea Culpa – “Raptor”

Nails: [V] Couture – “Death Nails”

Lashes: Detour – “Spider”

Stage & Poses: Tableau Vivant – “7 Sins ~Wrath” – NEW

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin