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And the Award goes to…! – The winners of the BOSL Award 2011

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———-BOSL AWARDS 2011 WINNERS————-

BEST SHOW DESIGNER + Onyx LeShelle (Maitreya)

BEST SL ARCHITECT + DB Bailey

BEST JEWELRY DESIGNER + Squinternet Larnia (Donna Floa)

BEST SKIN DESIGNER + Tricky Boucher (Belleza)

BEST HOME FURNISHINGS + Colleen Desmoulins (The Loft)

BEST POSES + July Raymaker (Manifeste)

BEST ANIMATIONS + Vista Barnes (Vista Animations)

BEST HAIR DESIGNER + Truth Hawks (Truth)

BEST PHOTOGRAPHER + Skip Staheli

BEST ORIGINAL ARTIST + Bryn Oh

BEST ORIGINAL PROJECT + Robustus Hax for Metaverse TV

BEST LIVE ENTERTAINER + Skye Galaxy

BEST NEW MODEL + Rissa Friller

BEST MALE TOP MODEL + RicoRacer Flux

BEST FEMALE TOP MODEL + Miaa Rebane

BEST OVERALL SIM + Skills Hax for Insilico

BEST FASHION ACCESSORIES + Gyorgyna Larnia (LG-Concept)

BEST NEW FASHION DESINGER + Giz Seorn (GizzA)

BEST MALE FASHION DESIGNER + Ansor Hoorenbeek (Hoorenbeek)

BEST FEMALE FASHION DESIGNER + Mami Jewell (Azul)

AVATAR OF THE YEAR + Jessica Lyon (Pheonix & Firestorm Viewer Founder)

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BOSL AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO SL

+ Mankind Tracer
+ June Dion
+ Maddox Dupont
+ Nicky Ree
+ Patch Thibaud
+ Raven Pennyfeather

BOSL AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOSL & CO

+ Editorial Clarity
+ Persia Bravin
+ BlackBarbie Bravin
+ Umberto Giano
+ Patch Thibaud
+ Giela Delpaso
+ Filipa Thespian

“Leaves of Life”- Latest News by Mea Culpa!

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Yes, Mea Culpa is now one year on the grid and still Tatanka Kaligawa surprises us with new and incredible awesome designs 😉 On of the latest releases is called “Leaves of Life”. A wonderful elegant outfit hat comes with the gorgeous hat with that long tentacles on top 🙂 The gown itself, is a firework of textures. The skirt falls down in 2 parts and give an interesting and stunning view from the back. The 2 back attachments that really love like big petals or leafs add a  very interesting and for sure head turning touch. The prim parts are so amazingly textured, what again shows the wonderful skills of Tatanka Kaligawa, if it comes to texturing and designing 🙂 The layers match perfectly to the prims and some stunning “holes” let peek through very sexy a bit of skin 😉 The mixture of all the blue, green, teal and gold makes this gown as well to a perfect design for the actual season 😉

If you make your way to the Mea Culpa Mainstore do not forget to add the place to your pics section of your profile to get the beautiful anniversary gown “Sugar Candy”, that Tatanka Kaligawa made for the first birthday of Mea Culpa as a gift and thank you for all his customers 🙂

Details

Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Leaves of Life”

Skin: Glam Affair – “Castalia”

Jewelry: Finesmith Designs

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Finesmith Designs – “Style That” – Week 4

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As the last “Style That” challenge was going on at Finesmith Designs I had the luck to to work RL to that time and I thought it could be great fun to take part. so I made my way to the store where the week 4 item was given out and started fooling  around with and that was the result that you can see in the picture above 😉

For the “Style That” contest itself I would like you the official text, so you maybe can try next time as well it is really worth it ;):

“Do you love to style? Do you love a challenge? Most of all, Do you love incredible Jewelry for free???

If yes,then I have a contest for you!

This Styling challenge is open to anyone and everyone who loves fashion and expressing themselves. You don’t have to be a model or know how to walk a catwalk for this.

Rissa Friller and Markski Glom will hold  styling challenges powered by Finesmith Designs. There will be an item handed out by Finesmith at 9am that you will have to style. Here is the catch, You will only have 2 hours to put your look together. Then you will meet back at the runway at 11am to present your final look and explain how you came up with it. Depending on the number of contestants participating, we may only ask a few at random to explain what you are wearing. We will only be judging on style and creativity, the overall look. We will not judge you on poses or your ability to walk a runway. If you win, you will receive a 1000 Gift card to Finesmith, a Professional Photo, and you will move on to the final round which will be held on May 31st where the finalists will compete for a 2000L Finesmith Gift Certificate and a Modeling Course at Outrageous Glamour Agency.

Rules of Entry:

Must be a member of Finesmith. All notices and dates of the contest will be announced in group.

You are not required to wear more jewelry other then what you get for the challenge, but if you do want to use any it must be Finesmith.

On the date of the challenge, You will meet at Finesmith to pick up your item at 9am. you have until 9:20 to pick it up. You MUST then be back at the runway by 11am. Anyone later then 11am will not be able to participate.

Join our Moolto contest group http://moolto.ning.com/group/stylethatchallenge. All the photos from the weekly Style That Challenges will be on the site and the group will eventually hold a round of public voting for the final Contestants where it will count as 50% of  their Score.

You may enter the styling challenges as many times as you wish unless you have won. If you have won, you will automatically move to the final styling challenge that will be held On May 31st.

Let your imagination run wild and your creativity soar. Most of all, have fun!”

Details

Jewelry:

Finesmith Designs – “Style That” week 4

Finesmith Designs – “Ocean Wind”

Finesmith Designs – “The Shpitz”

Finesmith Designs – “Saleena Inspiration”

Finesmith Designs – “Finesmith Nails – Grass Green”

Pose: Del May

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

“Street Style” news at *X*plosion!!!

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Yesterday I got the amazing new releases of *X*plosion. Kaliha Noel, a very old time friend of mine again showed her skills if it comes to casual urban street wear. I rarely saw such great and detailed complete outfits that are so sexy and amazing. Everything seems to be right from head to toe! The “Street Style” outfit can be purchased in different color combinations and I decided for this post to go with brown and black. The bra comes in black or white with each color combination as far as I saw and you have the possibility to wear it as shirt or under shirt layer. For the shirt itself you have all 3 layers to choose from. The gloves layer is decorated with 2 prims each arm what gives an awesome realistic look for the wool fabric. For the jeans you have 3 versions each pack with different looks as well as the 2 pants sleeve prims.

As I said perfectly styled from head to toe… the “Street Style” shoes are perfectly matching with the whole outfit. for this post I used the brown version but also other colors are available if you take a look at the *X*plosion Mainstore. The shoes pack contains a lot of different options and styles as well… for the brown ones you can decide between brown/black, brown/blue, or brown/brown and as well you can wear it with socks, without and with the option that has the jeans prims added as well! That’s why you will find 4 different alpha layers in the whole package.

For me the “Street Style” outfit with its shoes is a definitely everyday wearable outfit! If you wanna see all the different color versions make your way to the *X*plosion Mainstore and I am sure that you find yours 😉 and if you are already there you can take a look at all the other awesome outfits also… even the males 😉 Because this awesome outfit has, like so many others from *X*plosion, a male version as well 🙂

Details

Outfit: *X*plosion – “Street Style” /brown (with black jeans of the black/red version)

Shoes: *X*plosion – “Street Style” shoes /brown

Hair: *X*plosion – “Malea Flower”  /soil (yes I removed the flower this time 😉 )

Skin: Glam Affair – “Castalia” /light 03

Nails: Mstyle – “Perfect Hand – short style”

Poses: Corpus

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Walk like an Egyptian with Finesmith Designs!

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One set of Finesmith Designs caught me for longer and I had something in mind about styling that I did not find all the time. I wanted to do something special for the “Egyptian” set and lately I came across something I really liked 😉

The “Egyption” set it self contains The fabulous headpiece, the skirt with the long train, nipple shields, necklace, earrings and the incredible eye ornament. With all this parts the “Egyptians set is not only a jewelry set, it is a full outfit where you just have to add hair and shoes and a skin of your likings, for sure you can wear this with your usual skin as well I just was tempted with this golden one I found in a sale at VUI. The hair comes from Purplemoon including the hair base and it is called “Cat” in golden wheat. I chose some golden boots for it that anyways not show in this pics, so anyways :p. The “Egyptian” for me is the total proove of how creative and genius yula Finesmith is. Her endless heart and soul of creativity never will be empty and I am sure she writes history in the SL fashion world with her amazing creations… I saw my new Inspiration set a week ago even longer, it is just a secret till the official release… but I can tell you I never ever before saw jewelry thats so me! Yula puts in so much time, soul, love and effort in this inspiration sets and the turn out so amazing and unique! You really should try the Finesmith Inspirations Muse castings and if it is only to work close with one of the most amazing people in Second Life – yulaFinesmith ! For the perfect posing of the “Egyptian” set I used poses from Body Talking made by Arisia Ashmoot out of the “Mr Egypt” set that you as well can use for females 🙂

Details

Jewelry: Finesmith Designs – “Egyptian”

Fingernails: Finesmith Designs – “Finesmith Nails Golden”

Skin: VUI. – “Gold Shimmer Skin”

Hair: Purplemoon – “Cat” /golden wheat

Lashes: Redgrave – “Candy Doll”

Poses: Body Talking – “Mr. Egypt” set

Model & Fotographer: Wicca Merlin

Mea Culpa 1 years Anniversary!!! – It gets celebrated with a wonderful dress as a gift and a neat anniversary sale!!!

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Mea Culpa becomes one year old on the 25th of April. There for Tatanka Kaligawa decided something special for Thursday the 21st of April. There will be a 50% refund on all and everything that you buy between 12PM SLT and 3PM SLT. The designer himself will be in the store and make sure you get your 50% back 🙂

DO NOT MISS IT!!!

Who knows if you will ever again have the chance to get a Mea Culpa gown for 50% of the original prize!!! But that is not all… For all that have the Mea Culpa Mainstore in their pics section on their profiles, Tatanka Kaligawa designed a sweet, amazing anniversary dress that he will give a way for free to celebrate his first birthday. You will find that dress at the “Get your shopping card” board including a 10% discount card for another purchase.

But now let’s have a closer look on the dress I stole out of his laboratory to give you a sneak preview…

This dress is such a sweet idea to celebrate the first birthday of Mea Culpa. The short dress is a shows off very sexy the long legs and the texture of the clothing layers have an awesome shine. It is like you can feel the sun reflecting on each part of the dress. The shoulder prims add a light playful touch and the ornament on the chest make a lovely highlight. The neck collar as well is made as an attached prim. For me the hat is a total eye catcher. It looks like a neat umbrella that is directly worn on the head and so the name of the dress that I could see on a little piece of paper totally first for this design. “Sugar Candy” MeaCulpa‘s first anniversary dress is named and I am sure you will not miss it to get your “Sugar Candy” on Thursday the 21st at the Mea Culpa Mainstore!!!

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Thetra Blackheart for “Claim the Fame” – Week 2 – Formal

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For the first week of Claim the Fame the designers had to create a formal attire for male and female and make a description that was read during the TV Show on Metaverse TV. (http://metaversetv.com/blog/2011/04/claim-the-fame-2/)

All designs of the Claim the Fame Shows are available at the KULT District (for surl please click here)

Thetra Blackheart:”RavenNoire  is created for the sensual, classic, and mysterious woman.  The bodice was designed so that it  entices the eye to wonder and explore every  curve and dimension of her being.  The elegance and movement of the dress show great detail its unique design and allow for a trace of mystery and wonder to the woman wearing it.  Shoes are magically matched to the gown  and the hair and accessories make for an elegant outfit that gives the ‘wow’ factor to anyone  who experiences it.”

Details

Outfit (including hair and shoes): E-clipse Design by Thetra Blackheart

Skin: Glam Affair

Jewelry: Finesmith Designs

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Mayden Ushimawa for “Claim the Fame” – Week 2 – Formal

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For the first week of Claim the Fame the designers had to create a formal attire for male and female and make a description that was read during the TV Show on Metaverse TV. (http://metaversetv.com/blog/2011/04/claim-the-fame-2/)

All designs of the Claim the Fame Shows are available at the KULT District (for surl please click here)

Mayden Ushimawa:”To make the “Monica” dress I was inspired by a memorable evening of spring. The dominant color is white, this is a pure color and different from the usual formal dress. Lace makes the dress most elegant. The collar with plumes and the flexi skirt gives movement to the dress.

For the “Brian” outfit I took inspiration from the very beautiful RL models, with a perfect body and a face to be kissed all over. For this reason I created this outfit. It gives the impression of a man who has just escaped from a crowd of girls, a bit messy and not even having the time to wear his jacket.”

Details

Outfits: Mayden Couture by Mayden Ushimawa

Female Hair: Mirone

Female Skin: Glam Affair

Female Jewelry: Finesmith Designs

Models & Photographer: Harsch Sharktooth & Wicca Merlin

Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Misha Flanagan for “Claim the Fame” – Week 2 – Formal

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For the first week of Claim the Fame the designers had to create a formal attire for male and female and make a description that was read during the TV Show on Metaverse TV. (http://metaversetv.com/blog/2011/04/claim-the-fame-2/)

All designs of the Claim the Fame Shows are available at the KULT District (for surl please click here)

Misha Flanagan:”This sleeveless formal “Timeless” gown is perfect for any special occasion.  It’s slim blue form has subtle highlights of light in special places to give it some added light effects.  The bodice is formed to fit snuggly around the bust and leads to a layered flaired tail skirt.  This dress is finished off with a lace and brocade bow placed perfectly on the tip of the corset.  Ladies this dress is a dream to have.

The “Jackyll” suit is Neiva Kumasi Coutures debut piece of the Men’s line.   Its first suit for men is made of its own unique herringbone fabric that is suited specifically for the men.  This suit consist of a light weight cream collard shirt with a unique brocade designed vest with silk lining,  its jacket is finished off with blue silk collar and lapels that gives it a beautiful shine. and the pants are designed to fit well at any height.”

Details

Outfits: NK Couture by Misha Flanagan

Female Skin: Glam Affair

Female Hair: Tukinowaguma

Female Jewelry: Finesmith Designs

Models: Harsch Sharktooth & Wicca Merlin

Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Marita Overland for “Claim the Fame” – Week 2 – Formal

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For the first week of Claim the Fame the designers had to create a formal attire for male and female and make a description that was read during the TV Show on Metaverse TV. (http://metaversetv.com/blog/2011/04/claim-the-fame-2/)

All designs of the Claim the Fame Shows are available at the KULT District (for surl please click here)

Marita Overland:”Wicca wears a lovely white gown consisting of a scuplted top and half skirt.  You can’t help but notice the stylish silver armor on the shoulders and waist along with a structured bow in the back.  As if the skirt wasn’t elegant enough, it glitters even more with a second layer of fabric.  The shoes are also included in this romantic, yet edgy, ensemble.

Harsch is wearing the “Romeo” version of the formal wear. A miliary style jacket and pants, in white and gray, are a wonderful compliment to his “Juliet”.  The jacket is adorned with a high collar, cuffs, armored shoulders and belt.  The boots are also included with the outfit you see here.  Seemingly for seeing his own fate, the belt includes the poison he will take his own life with and the dagger Juliet will use to perish herself. True love never looked so stylish.”

Details Outfits: Runway Couture by Marita Overland

Female Skin: Glam Affair

Female Jewelry: Finesmith Designs

Models: Harsch Sharktooth & Wicca Merlin

Photographer: Wicca Merlin