Maniera Casting: YAY! I made it :)

Last Week I had the pleasure to b allowed to come to the live casting of Maniera. Maniera was a dream for me for a long time and I was very happy, that I made it through the first round and was invited to the live castings.

Maniera always stood for some extraordinary for me. The magazine they do, always was made in high quality and the models who are working there are all wonderful girls and guys with a great sense of fashion and style.

The live casting had a very cool theme and it was told in a little story so that I would like to just steal the words off the NC I got from Katherine Comet (Yes, I asked her and I may use them she said. Thanks for that Kat πŸ˜‰ )

“Theme:

Your talent agent has gotten you an audition to be a supporting role in a Jungle Safari Thriller movie as the sidekick assistant to the leading actor who is a Detective trying to solve the case of a missing person.Β  You’ve been told you would be carrying all of the detective’s paraphernalia but you have to look good doing it.Β  You really want to knock their socks off with your knowledge and incredible ability to look like you’ve β€œbeen there, done that.”  Your audition will take place on location, IN THE JUNGLE, so you have to be prepared.

You know you have to be practical; the bugs and animals are out in full force but have been told you may not use any prim material which covers your face!Β  You MUST get this job as your career depends on it.

How would you dress and be prepared for the perils of jungle life, but still look the part of the supporting role in this major movie production? Β 
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You’ve been given the storyline and requirements; now roll with it, have fun and good luck!”

The challenge it self was great fun for me. I tried to slip into that role and thought about it very seriously.. about not having high heels walking through a jungle and carry stuff around, about all the bugs and little animals that would eat me up if my clothing would be too short and show too much skin… all that stuff. And while I was searching through my inventory all that old movies like Indiana Jones, Crocodile Dundee, The Mummy and many more came into my mind and slowly a look was born. Thanks to all of the judges that made one of my dreams come true and took me to Maniera as a proud Maniera Model πŸ™‚

Details

Pants: Jessi Windstorm – “Expedition” /Khaki

Top: ::ZD:: Glamour – “Hera Belted Jacket” /brown

Boots: Miel – “Timber Boots”

Scarf: Miel – “Lia Scarf”

Belt: Dirty Rat – “Explorer Belt for Girls”

Gloves: 1st Act – “Devil’s Fingers”

Lashes: Detour – “Spider”

Earrings: League – “Wanderer”

Hair: Wasabi Pills – “Annettte2” (mesh)

Skin: Silken Moon – “Rookie” (special custom makeup)

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

[AD] Creations & Urban Lutz for The Ashraya Project

I am very happy that I can show you 2 more designs that will be part of the Ashraya Project.Β  Aliza Karu, owner and designer of [AD] Creations, created a wonderful black and white dress with some cute glasses. The “Andrew female” outfit really is something special. The skirt is made with the new mesh technique, the rest of the prims, like the belt, the glasses, the lace and the jacket collar, you can edit like usual prims or sculpties. The ribbons and the lace part beneath the skirt, give the whole outfit a playful dolly touch. The cool unsymmetrical gloves again show the genius ideas of Aliza Karu, who always for me was one of the designers that created outfits and items out of the box and beside the usual mainstream πŸ˜‰

The hair as well is a contribution to the Ashraya Project. It comes off the house of Urban Lutz.Β  Tayler Wassep made this amazing “India” hair as her part for the great charity event of Anna Sapphire. The hair has some wonderful decorations with the little golden and red golden parts on the forehead and the whole style looks like a ponytail in the back.

The LM for the Ashraya Project will be posted as soon as I can get a hand on it πŸ™‚ But I really like it to show you some of the great items before hand so you can maybe make your own personal shopping list already πŸ˜‰

Details

Dress (incl. glasses): [AD] Creations – “Andrew female” – NEW (Ashraya Project Item) (mesh)

Hair: Urban Lutz – “India” – NEW (Ashraya Project Item)

Makeup: Lovely Mi – “Avant Garde 01”

Boots: Ten”10 – “Megas Boots” (mesh)

Pose: Corpus

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

News at [sys]

Details

Jacket: [sys] – “Vega” – NEW

Pants: [sys] – “Atlas” – NEW (mesh)

Bracelets: [sys] – “Altais” – NEW

Body: [sys] – “Altais” – NEW

Earrings: Finesmith – “Rehanna”

Hair: Urban Lutz – “Cleopatra”

Booties: Kookie – “Athena”

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Les Petits Details for the Ashraya Project

Today I have the great pleasure to show one of the first designs for the Ashraya Project (http://wiccamerlin.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/the-ashraya-project/)

The beautiful “Summer Breeze” dress with the matching hat… both made of wonderful shaped and textured sculpties .

The “Summer Breeze” ensamble will be available in 3 differnt colors. For my post today I picked the blue version. The dress is made in a wonderful aerial way so that you nearly can fell the light summer breeze that waves trhough the skirt. The huge ribbon is a wonderful detail, that adds a lightly playfully girl touch.

The “Summer Breeze” ensable will be the charity item from Les Petits Details for the Ashraya Project and such a sweet dress that matches the actual season in such an awesome way AND helps a good cause should not be missed in every fashionistas wardrobe πŸ™‚

The LM for this fabulous charity event will be given out soon and be added as soon as I got it πŸ™‚

For the jewelry of the look I chose one of the latest releases from Finesmith – the “Folieole” set in mapel. The wnderful colors and the unusual shape made the perfect finsh for my today’s look πŸ™‚

Details

Dress & Hat: Les Petits Details – “Summer Breeze” – NEW (Ashraya Project Charity Item)

Jewelry: Finesmith – “Folieole” – NEW

Shoes: Maitreya – “ChiChi”

Nails: ::GB:: – “Cute Pearl Ring”

Hair: Wasabi Pills – “Taleen”

Poses: agapee

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Wicca’s Wardrobe: LOTD 04/24/2012

Pants: NYU – “Debut – Hi-Waist Pants” /black – NEW (mesh)

Top: LeeZu – “Miss Tre’s” /red

Gloves: LeeZu – “Nightingale” /part of the outfit (mesh)

Hat: SoliDea FoliEs – “April”

Hair: booN – “KGL848” /black

Earrings: Finesmith – “Folieole” /sunflower – NEW

Skin: Silken Moon – “Rookie” /Childhater (special custom makeup)

Makeup: Lovely Mi – “Red Cry [Eyes Only]”

Poses: Del May

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Medieval Moods

(Models: Falbala Fairey & Wicca Merlin; Picture: Falbala Fairey)

TWA – The White Armory... we all know the creations of Bee Dumpling. She made wonderful creations wh let every medieval heart beat higher. Many roleplayers are basically have a second home in her store πŸ™‚

For the wonderful first picture of this blog I would like to thank my little sister Falbala Fairey. I admire the style she does her pictures in and so I asked her, if she would pose with me for a medieval picture and if she would even do the picture :). The styling card of Falbala’s outfit you can find at Β http://falbalafaireyfashionblog.wordpress.com/

Now lets take a closer look on my outfit, the wonderful “Dance of the Maiden Gown – Lady Annette”. The whole dress carries pink, white and black as colors. The textures and fabrics are amazing and detailed made.. you really can see how much love and time Bee puts in her creations. The beautiful white blouse with the long and flexible arm sleeves, the incredible corset vest with the awesome arm parts… simply a dream. Every little detail is captured so intensive and real I rarely saw such a great and filigree eye for the details as Bee Dumpling puts it on her designs. The “Dance of the Maiden” dress you will find in more colors than the one I just showed… for that you better take a look for yourself at the TWA Mainstore.

Dress: TWA/The White Armory – “Dance of the Maiden Gown- Lady Annette” – NEW

Hair: Tukinowaguma – “Selma”

Jewelry: Alienbear – “Yuriko”

Nails: ::GB:: – “Cute Pearl Ring”

Lashes: Panjen – “Dramatic Lashes”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Rookie” /fair lila

Pumps: *GF* – “Eve” Flower Pumps”

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

[LeeZu!] Color Me This Contest

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[LeeZu!] is having an extended contest for you to show off your styling skills, MEN are strongly encouraged to participate.

β™₯ What is it?

Every Sunday for 5 weeks we will announce a different color in which you style a [LeeZu!] outfit. We will choose a weekly winner and at the end of the contest for one last challenge, all the collective winners will style a final themed outfit for a Grand Prize of 10,000 Lindens and 5 Fat Packs of LeeZu’s newer releases.

β™₯ When is it?

Once a week on Sunday (by 6AM SLT) we will announce the color of the week. The idea is to be creative and make a FABULOUS outfit mixing and matching any [LeeZu!] Collection item that is in the store to come up with something unique and wild. We would love to see some MEN come in and style something killer…hint, hint!
All photos are due by the following Friday no later than Midnight SLT and the winner of that week will be announced.

β™₯ Who wins it?

One winner per week for 5 weeks; he/she will receive 3 Fat Packs and a spot in the final challenge. The Grand Prize winner will receive 5 Fat Packs and 10,000L$.

The only limit to this contest is your creativity and imagination. Use as much [LeeZu!] as you want and don’t forget we have a HUGE furniture section.

Get your fash-on and we’ll see you in the store!

β™₯ THIS WEEKS COLOR:: GREEN

THE RULES::

1. Use any [LeeZu!] piece you like with a minimum of 2 items, the more [LeeZu!] the better!

2. You must stay within the color hue of the week. A pop of a different color is acceptable but the base outfit must be the color of the week.

3. A professional photo is not necessary but snapshot with a good view of the created outfit is needed, however all professionally edited photos are welcomed.

4. You must add a styling card, this is a Notecard stating what you are wearing and the color. See example below.

5. Please use a Notecard titled ” [LeeZu!] Color Me This Contest- AV Name ” , add your photo and styling card and return it to TraLove Pinazzo directly. She will confirm she has received it, if you do not get a confirmation IM within 24 hours, then please resend it.

6. Photos are due by Midnight Friday SLT,Β  and the new color will be announced by 6AM SLT on Sunday morning. The [LeeZu!] Team has the right to disqualify any entrant at their discretion.

7. Be creative, push yourself, style outside of the box. We just ask to keep the nudity down.

The JUDGING CRITERIA::

1. How creative are you?

2. Did you PUSH your styling to the next level?

3. Did you stay within the color hue for the week?

4. The clothing item must be available in the store! Discontinued or items no longer available to the public are not allowed.

5. Very important, did you follow the rules?

Good Luck and most of all have FUN!!

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Bring me back to life

TUNES

Today I was again in a strange mood. As I yesterday started to style the new “Aphrodisia” dress from Fellini Couture, I had something romantic lightly vintage with a huge hat in mind. I have no clue why, but while I was entering SL and staring at the login screen, that always shows you your last picture I came across a totally different vision.

Maybe it had to do as well that I listened to one of my favourite bands the whole day. One song of Evanescence was very close to me for a long time. That’s why I linked “Bring me back to life” in the beginning as it kinda was a huge part of my inspiration for the pictures and look.

But now lets take a look on the wonderful “Aphrodisia” dress from Fellini Couture and the whole look around it. The “Aphrodisia” dress is a white and very romantic dress with lots of amazing and different textures. The mixture of filigree lace, the opaque ornamented parts and the flowers makes this dress to a little piece of art. Joy Fellini again shows why she is on top of the SL fashion scene for such a long time with her genius ideas and incredible skills.

Right beside on top of the fashion heaven, we have yula Finesmith, owner and designer of Finesmith. She released not too long ago a wonderful male collection and the parts I am wearing today I took out of this one. I did not see any reason, if males can wear female jewelry, why the girls cannot wear the male jewelry :p. I just had to resize the “Heartology” necklace for sure as it was way bigger for a males neck :). The “Heartology” wings I took like they are without any changes.

The awesome hat is part of the “Halloween Horror Collection” if hats from Bliss Couture. Amutey DeCuir made a super cool hat collection for Halloween 2011 and I see no reason why we cannot use them during the year if it matches :p.

Maybe if you look at the pics while you hear the song you can get a part of my mood that I had, while I was doing this pictures. The first time I dared to make my own fog and parts of the hair and I am amazed what came out after all this hours between looking at tutorials, reading advises and try & error πŸ™‚ For sure it is not the end of the scale, but a wonderful new start for me to work on even more pictures πŸ™‚

Details

Dress: Fellini Couture – “Aphrodisia” – NEW

Necklace & Wings: Finesmith – “Heartology”

Nails: Finesmith – “French Nails” /nude – NEW

Hat: Bliss Couture – “Tijanna”

Hair: Baiastice – “Anaya”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Rookie”

Poses Picture 1&2: Corpus – “Editorial Series 6”

Pose Picture 3: Wicca Merlin

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Wonderful New Groupgift at Styles by Danielle!

APRIL GROUP GIFT!!!

For this month of April, a new group gift is a strapless short dress from a cotton fabric adorned with turquoise sequins. To complete the look there is a new jewelry set “Collana” you can purchase separately.
This set is the combination of gold and wood. The colors are matching our new group gift for the April, perfectly.

COLLANA JEWELRY
You can purchase only the necklace, or a set that includes the majestic necklace (with 8 front gems colors) and two pairs of earrings (one more elegant style, and another for stronger look).
Jewelry is transferable for gifting, and discounted for group members.

Summer Time with Prism

Outfit (incl glasses & shoes): PRISM – “Sequoia” /Waikiki – NEW (mesh)

Jewelry: artilleri – “Double Cherry”

Nails: Love Soul – “Retro Girl”

Skin: Silken Moon – “RookieFFL” (FFL item)

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin