Diving across the Universe with Finesmith

August 6, 2014 by Wicca Merlin

“Across The Universe”

Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither wildly as they slip away
Across the universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind
Possessing and caressing me

Nothing’s gonna change my world
Nothing’s gonna change my world
Images of broken light which dance before me like a
Million eyes
They call me on and on
Across the universe
Thoughts meander like the restless wind inside a letter box
They tumble blindly as they make their way
Across the universe

Sounds of laughter, shades of life are ringing through my
open ears
Inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love, which shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on and on
Across the universe

[Paul McCartney & John Lennon]

Details

Outfit (incl helmet, watch & goggles): Finesmith – “Diving” – NEW

Leggings: LeeZu – “Cat Tights”

Collar: Elysium – “Soho Shoulderpiece”

Makeup: Madrid Solo – “Wide Birth Blue” & “Vendetta Lips”

Shoes: Wicca’s Wardrobe – “Ripley – District 5” – NEW (Slink high feet required)

Poses: Del May

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Hunger Games Tribute by Lybra

August 6, 2014 by Wicca Merlin

“It’s weird, how much he’s noticed me… And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I imagined, either.”
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Today our journey through the Capitol and the Districts brings us to District 1, wich stands for luxury. How else than Lybra Rage owner and designer of Lybra could have chosen this District 😉 .

District 1 is one of the wealthiest districts of Panem. Parents from district 1 seem to name their children after diamonds or precious gems, items or fabrics, like we have Glimmer and Marvel for the 74th Hunger Games. The children of District seem to be very pride in taking part in the Hunger Games and usually are part of the Careers, who band together to get rid of the weaker ones first.

I would like to start with “Glimmer” a wonderful light golden dress with an amazing golden back piece and a wonderful matching Tiara. The dress itself shows a lot of skin and besides the elegant and classy look that adds a sweet sexy touch as well.

The special for this outfit would be, that it is a limited gown with only 20 copies and there are not much left! So go and get your “Glimmer” dress and with that, a piece of the legendary Hunger Games Tribute Event done by Opium Evolution.

The second outfit of Lybra for the Hunger Games Tribute is the “Absinthe” gown. In contrast to the “Glimmer” gown this one is made of a dark golden fabric with a long back train, wich is decorated at the end with some amazing feather looking prims.

Those feathers are repeated on the marvelous head – piece as well, wich almost looks like a crown and perfectly fits in to District 1.

To get a hand on those amazing designs please visit the Hunger Games Tribute shopping mall 🙂

(http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/PAPAS/175/158/22)

Details

Look 1:

Outfit (incl back-piece & tiara): Lybra – “Glimmer” – NEW (mesh, limited edition, Hunger Games Tribute)

Hair: EMO-tions – “Heavens Gate” (mesh)

Jewelry: Virtual Impressions

Poses: PosESioN

Look 2:

Outfit (incl head-piece): Lybra – “Absinthe” – NEW (mesh, Hunger Games Tribute)

Hair: Baiastice – “French Braid Side”

Jewelry: Virtual Impressions

Poses: Wicca’s Wardrobe

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Hunger Games Tribute by Wicca’s Wardrobe

August 3, 2014 by Wicca Merlin

“Hope, it is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous.”
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

And again I am back with another of my creations for the Hunger Games Tribute event ran by Opium Evolution.

Today I would like to showcase my “Johanna” dress. This dress is made with the idea of Capitol Couture.

The dress is basically a short dress with a long train in the back. The shoulders are free and a huge collar lays round the neck. To connect the dress and the collar I placed one of the popular mockingjaw brooches at the left side of the chest. The dress itself has a basic black texture and the golden brocade corset sets a wonderful accent to the black and gives the whole ensemble a sophisticated touch. To bring back the gold, the long train was overlayed with a golden gitter net looking gaze. The huge black and gold headpiece as well is part of the outfit and comes in a rigged and an unrigged version.

To complete the look I added one armlet in black and one bracelet in gold.

At the moment you can see all my new releases for the Hunger Games Tribute even – female AND male – at the shopping area of the Hunger Games Tribute event sim (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/PAPAS/175/158/22)

Details

Outfit (incl. neck collar, brooch, head-piece, armlet, bracelet): Wicca’s Wardrobe – “Johanna” – NEW (Hunger Games Tribute event)

Hair: EMO-tions – “Shelly”

Shoes: Dirty Princess – “Madame Butterfly” (mesh high feet required)

Poses: Del May

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Styling around a hat?

August 3, 2014 by Wicca Merlin

Lately I had a show wich gave me some nice challenge during the styling.

Usually we get an outfit and have to style around with hair, accessories, shoes and poses. This time we just got hat as a basic and it should kinda be the center of your looks.

I was sitting down first and looked at all those hats and tried to imagine a time frame for them to be in and then slowly looks grew in my head for each one.

The difficulty mainly was, to not loose the hat in the look. The hat as a very little part on your head still had to stay kinda as the main focus.

One of my hats was the “Soleil” hat from Miamai, made for the Art in Hats 2014 event. This wonderful purple hat with the peacock feather decoration on the left side of the hat. The hat has a very young and modern look so I wanted to try to kinda develop a new and modern 80s look for it as the colors called so much for the 80s.

I wanted to kinda pull the purple and green through the whole styling so I decided to wear the cool “Moxie” outfit from PurpleMoon as it gives the basic 80s look for me with the jacked that has those huge shoulder parts and the amazing huge belt that I remember very well for the 80s together with some tight leggings 😉

So the purple part was covered and I just had to set some accents in green to bring the peacock feathers back into the center. That happened with the amazing earrings I found on marketplace and the kick ass “Summer Breeze Flips” shoes from PurpleMoon wich were part of the Le’Accessories event.

The awesome apple-green nail polish I found in the “Bright Set” from Nailed It! and the perfect finish for my look made the “Wicca Lips” in apple from Silken Moon.

Details

Hat: Miamai – “Soleil” /indigo flax (Art in Hats 2014)

Outfit: PurpleMoon – “Moxie” /purple

Shoes: PurpleMoon – “Summer Breeze Flips”

Earrings: Persefona – “Peacock” /green

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca 3”

Lipstick: Silken Moon – “Wicca Lips” /apple

Nail Polish: Nailed It! – “Bright Set”

Poses: PosESioN

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

LOTD 08/02/2014 featuring Faster Pussycat

August 2, 2014 by Wicca Merlin

Sometimes you just wanna clean you inventory and you find things that you already forgot about.

So it happenend when I was sitting on my sky platform and found one of the wonderful creations of Honey Bender, owner and designer of Faster Pussycat. The amazing “Diablo” mesh dress in beige.

With the amazing beige tones it gave a kinda vintage touch to me but with the hat, and the spine it again was very modern. I still decided to try the vintage meets future look in a more vintage looking picture.

The dres sis mesh made with awesome skirt attachments that are moving. The hat as well is part of the outfit and with the cool looking veil, that kinda looks windblown from the front to the back, it totally made it’s way into my heart.

Honey Bender is one of the “oldest” friends I have in SL and I always admired her work and she was and still is always a huge inspiration for me. Her creations are so unique and you can tell by a piece of clothing if she made it. She always gives her designs a very edgy twist even if they look sometimes even casual on the first view 😉

To see all of her amazing creations and as well new releases please take some time and visit her store. Iam sure you will find something that suits you 😉

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Resistance/76/116/22

Outfit: Faster Pussycat – “Diablo” /beige (mesh)

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca 3”

Hands: Slink – “Avatar Enhancement Hands – casual” (mesh)

Poses: PosESioN

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

A Tribute to the Hunger Games by Wicca’s Wardrobe

August 2, 2014 by Wicca Merlin

“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Today is a very special day for me. The first time my own creations will be showcased on a runway. I was asked my Anastacia Markova to be part of the Hunger Games Tribute done my Opium Evolution.

I sat down for 3 weeks to think about what I would like to do for this amazing event. I am addicted to the Hunger Games stories. I saw both movies, read all the books and have 3 parts as audio book, so I can say I am kinda.. obsessed*giggles*

I love the idea of the futuristic and high fashion designs that are worn in the movies as well the various websites about Capitol Couture.

In the past I already released my Claw Boots and the Mathayus Heels, wich as well were made after a website that shows Capitol Couture.

Today I would like to start with my “Enobaria” outfit.

The name Enobaria was taken from one of the tributes that were chosen to be part of the hunger games. She won the 62nd Hunger Games and was known of killing her fellow tributes by ripping their throats with her bare teeth. She was called back for the 75th Hunger Games, the Quarter Quell edition, as the female tribute of district 2 one of the Career alliance districts.

The “Enobaria” outfit is a top and leggings combination, wich as well can be worn single to make your own mix and match. For the Capitol Couture version I chose the color combination teal and black. The top kinda is an ensemble of blouse and corset and with the long arms and all the frills it was perfect in my view.

The leggings are only wearable with the Slink high feet, wich are not included in the package. The one part legging shows a metallic teal top with garter belt and garters wich hold long socks or stockings where the toes peek out. I totally fell in love with those pants and so it was no question that I made them part of my “Enobaria” outfit.

The Mask as well is part of the outfit and comes in a rigged and unrigged version.

I hope you have fun with my little Hunger Games Tribute collection available at the Hunger Games Tribute Shopping Area (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/PAPAS/175/158/22)

Outfit: Wicca’s Wardrobe – “Enobaria” – NEW (mesh, Hunger Games Tribute)

Hair: Zibska – “Kiki”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca 3”

Lipstick: Silken Moon – “Wicca Lips Lead”

Nails Polish: Nailed It! – “Bright set”

Poses: PosESioN

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Play Chess with Rfyre & EMO-tions!

July 31, 2014 by Wicca Merlin

Today I would like to showcase the contribution of Rfyre to the Month of Games event.

The amazing “No Ones Pawn” mesh dress comes with gloves, boots and the awesome detailed head-piece. The dress itself carries a chess textured fabric and with the garters, the longer back and the short front it has a very sexy look. The gloves come with a HUD that lets you chose from different hand positions

When I did the styling and the pics I was all to the Musical Chess listening to all that amazing songs. One is an old-time favourite from mine and I had it in a turnaround quite a few times while I edited the pics, so iI would like to share it with you 😉

The hair style was one of the releases of EMO-tions for the Hairfair 2014. The “Love War” hair actually comes with an amazing headpiece, wich I will showcase in another post soon. I just liked the hair with the one braid in between the loose open hair for that look.

In the musical it’s about a snobby, intellectual chess master who visits Bangkok, capital of Thailand, for a chess championship, but is looking down on everything else that goes on there, the sex tourism and stuff like that. And he has no other interest than the chess, lol. But the devil walking next to him line, might indicate that he also feels tempted while being there. But he needs to stay focussed to win the game.

Bangkok, Oriental setting
And the city don’t know that the city is getting
The creme de la creme of the chess world in a
Show with everything but Yul Brynner

Time flies – doesn’t seem a minute
Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it
All change – don’t you know that when you
Play at this level there’s no ordinary venue

It’s Iceland – or the Philippines – or Hastings – or –
or this place!

One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain’t free
You’ll find a god in every golden cloister
And if you’re lucky then the god’s a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

One town’s very like another
When your head’s down over your pieces, brother

It’s a drag, it’s a bore, it’s really such a pity
To be looking at the board, not looking at the city

Whaddya mean? Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town –

Tea, girls, warm, sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite

Get Thai’d! You’re talking to a tourist
Whose every move’s among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
Can’t be too careful with your company
I can feel the devil walking next to me

Siam’s gonna be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
This grips me more than would a
Muddy old river or reclining Buddha

And thank God I’m only watching the game – controlling it –

I don’t see you guys rating
The kind of mate I’m contemplating
I’d let you watch, I would invite you
But the queens we use would not excite you

So you better go back to your bars, your temples, your massage
parlours –

One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain’t free
You’ll find a god in every golden cloister
A little flesh, a little history
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

One Night In Bangkok by Murray Head

Details

Dress: Rfyre – “No Ones Pawn” – NEW (Month of Games Event/Chess)

Hair: EMO-tions – “Love War” (Hairfair 2014)

Poses: PosESioN

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Hunger Games Tribute by Zibska

July 28, 2014 by Wicca Merlin

“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Today I have the great pleasure to showcase of the fantastic creations of Zibska for the Hunger Games Tribute Event run by Opium Evolution.

Zibska is well-known for amazing designs that have an edgy and out of the box look. The “Loor” outfit again shows that there is always something new in the genius mind of Zib Scaggs, owner and designer of Zibska, The idea with the huge metal helmet and the matching cuffs together with that red and silver top will turn heads everywhere you go. For the pants we have smart and modern striped fabric that perfectly completes the whole ensemble.

There will be more amazing Capitol Couture looking designs and amazing tributes to the Hunger games soon in the upcoming “Hunger Games Tribute” event done by Opium Evolution. So stay tuned, I will have more designs featured soon!

Details

Outfit: Zibska – “Loor” – NEW

Pose: PosESioN

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Hunger Games Tribute by EF Designs

July 27, 2014 by Wicca Merlin

“You’ve got to go through it to get to the end of it.”
Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

EF Designs as well made wonderful contributions to the upcoming Hunger Games Tribute event, presented by Opium Evolution.

The amazing “Orchid Dress” really would be something I can imagine in the movies, worn at the capitol.

The strong colors and the amazing petals that are arranged round your hip and waist just gives the imagination you grow out of the middle of a flower 😉 .

For the hair I chose to use one of the amazing colors from the “Kiki” hair by Zibska.

My fantastic makeup artist was Madrid Solo. She made this wonderful “Checkered Past” eye makeup and the wonderful “Vendetta” lip design.

For my nails I used one of Yula Finesmith’s newest little art pieces. She created several wonderful nail polishes for hands and feet and the one I used for this post is located in the “Summer Set 1”.

Details

Dress: EF Designs – “Orchid” – NEW (Exclusive for the Hunger Games Tribute Event)

Hair: Zibska – “Kiki”

Makeup: Madrid Solo – “Vendetta Lips 3″ & “Checkered Past”

Nail Polish: Finesmith – “Summer Set 1″ – NEW

Cuffs: Wicca’s Wardrobe – “Dark Metal Cuffs” (color modified)

Poses: PosESioN

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Exploring…

July 22, 2014 by Wicca Merlin

Sometimes I am just to lazy to work and then I enjoy to just roam around and explore all the amazing sims in SL. This time my way lead me to the Neva Sky Villi.

This amazing realistic village has so many awesome spots and places, I had to take some snaps 😉

This place was built with so much love to the details, you land at a harbour, kinda as if you would have arrived om a boat and the area those pictures were made just is behind the landing point.

I immediately fell in love with th beige vespa. It looked so cute to my styling that I thought I coul have some pics done for my blog with it.

I am wearing one of the latest releases from GizzA, the “Dakota Dress” The cute dress come in combination with a cool leather jacket in many different colors. For the sim environ ment I changed to the one with a beige or cream looking dress together with a green leather jacket. The dress is made of a kinda cotton fabric and some amazing filigree ornaments decorate it on the left lower side. The delicate lade that is used for the bottom end of the dress gives the whole look a sexy touch 😉 .

The cute bag is a super old-time favourite of mine from a store that sadly is not longer round. The shoes I found at the Cosmopolitan Sale Room, made by 9ty.

And now I will look some more over this amazing sim and see for some more spots to make more pictures 😉 .

Details

Outfit: GizzA – “Dakota Dress” – NEW (mesh)

Shoes: 9ty – “Sun Heels” (mesh, CSR, for slink high feet only)

Bag: Courtisane – “Sacoche Bag” (store not longer existing)

Nail Polish: Nailed It! – “MVW Autumn Set”

Hair: Maitreya – “Siri”

Poses: Wicca’s Wardrobe

Location: Neva, Sky Villi

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

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Category Archives: Fashion

Diving across the Universe with Finesmith

Hunger Games Tribute by Lybra

Hunger Games Tribute by Wicca’s Wardrobe

Styling around a hat?

LOTD 08/02/2014 featuring Faster Pussycat

A Tribute to the Hunger Games by Wicca’s Wardrobe

Play Chess with Rfyre & EMO-tions!

Hunger Games Tribute by Zibska

Hunger Games Tribute by EF Designs

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