Fashion all over Secondlife ;)
We are excited to have our first ROMP gacha! We have created Neila. This desirable collection is made up of 2 rares and 18 commons. The rares come with a HUD that provides 6 leather and 6 metal textures. Each common item comes with a HUD, but it only offers choices on the details and metals without multiple color choices. The gloves in this appealing collection are Bento enabled. The Neila collection is designed for Maitreya’s Lara.
Inspired by everyone’s favorite medieval fantasy, we have created the Dragonrider Gloves. These striking gloves come in light and dark versions. Each version offering a HUD with 6 different textures options. Our Dragonrider Gloves are Bento enabled and designed for Maitreya’s Lara, Slink’s Hourglass and Belleza’s Freya.
Since it is eBento’s 2nd birthday, we have also created a special gift – the Mary Headpiece. This exclusive headpiece is unisex and comes with a resizer enabling it to fit a variety of mesh heads and head shapes.
I do not know why, but when I tried on the “Roxy” gacha set, I instantly had a Dick Tracy feeling *giggles* Probably it was the cool trench coat of the set 😉
The “Roxy” gacha set is an awesome collaboration between [Gos] and Lybra. While Lybra made the lingerie and the trench coat, [Gos] contributed the cool boots. The lingerie fits amazingly under the trench and for a cool RP, I can see a complete use for that *giggles* I guess I will have to showcase the lingerie some when as well, but for today I just wear it underneath the trench coat and it just pokes out here and there when my pixels move 😉
The super cute hair was my by no.match one of my personal favorite hair stores. The huge wavy hair matched perfect to my little “Dick Tracy” mood. It originally was made for the COSMOPOLITAN event but it should be at the main store by now.
Now you will wonder, why Wicca looks so ‘young today’… that has a special reason 😉
As I stated before I feel so honored to be chosen as a LeLutka blogger and I certainly want to showcase all of their amazing work. Today I am wearing the “Vera” head. Usually I try to look like a middle aged woman between 30 and 40 with my avatar, but the Vera head had such a cute vibe for me, I could not resist to get a young skin for it too. It is incredible how you can change the look of each LeLutka head with different skins and shapes. I did not have that for other bento mesh heads that much, that is probably the reason why I am so addicted about LeLutka heads *snickers* Plus the fact that they are so versatile, they do have an amazing HUD and I never ever had trouble with controlling my head completely. I know that many do have issues with HUD s from other heads, as they are either so many different HUDs, or one way too huge that isn’t that lag resistant. I enjoy the HUDs for the LeLutka heads a lot. They are clearly structured, have several tabs, that let you customize the heads with textures and animations and you even can do backup safeties for your heads if you get updates or if something goes wrong. You do do not have to set up your head from scratch you just can use your back up to restore your settings and safed makeups/skins on a fresh copy. LeLutka update their heads on a regular base with all new features like baked mesh and they are fixing minor issues, which I rarely notice before they get fixed 😉 I soon have to make a post about the great add-ons too. Did you know that LeLutka made several candies that cooperate with their mesh heads? I love chewing their bubble gum inworld on my avatar – but that will be another post soon!
Coat: Lybra – “Roxy Trench” (Maitreya, Gacha) – NEW @ Epiphany
Bra: Lybra – “Roxy Bra” (Maitreya, Gacha) – NEW @ Epiphany
Panties: Lybra – “Roxy Panties” (Maitreya, Gacha) – NEW @ Epiphany
Shoes: [Gos] – “Roxy Boots” (Maitreya, Gacha) – NEW @ Epiphany
Necklace: < IDEALIA > – “Quera Necklace”
Bracelet (left): [ kunst ] – “Conrad Bracelet”
Bracelet (right): [ kunst ] – “Taylor Bracelet”
Nails: FORMANAILS – “Stiletto 1” (Maitreya, Bento)
Hair: no.match – “No.Affair”
Makeup: Izzie’s – “Perfect Liner” (LeLutka Applier)
Lipstick: ALMA – “Fall” (LeLutka Applier)
Head: LeLutka – “Vera 3.3”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara 4.1”
Skin: Glam Affair – “May” (LeLutka Applier)
Poses: Foxcity
Set:
BackBone – “Office Life – Large Locker” (Gacha)
BackBone – “Office Life – Desk” (Gacha)
BackBone – “Office Life – Locker” (Gacha)
BackBone – “Office Life – Wall Basket 2” (Gacha)
BackBone – “Office Life – Frame” (Gacha)
BackBone – “Office Life – Life Wall Sign” (Gacha)
BackBone – “Office Life – Trash Can” (Gacha)
BackBone – “Office Life – Vintage Radiator” (Gacha)
BackBone – “Office Life – Industrial Rug” (Gacha)
BackBone – “Office Life – Stool” (Gacha)
BackBone – “Office Life – Floor Lamp” (Gacha)
BackBone – “Office Life – Desk Lamp Blue” (Gacha)
22769 – “Office Binder” (Gacha)
22769 – “Pencil Sharpener” (Gacha)
22769 – “Vintage Radio” (Gacha)
22769 – “Vintage Typewriter” (Gacha, GG Reward)
Fiasco – “Old Office Lotion and Tissues” (Gacha)
Fiasco – “Old Office Games Gift” (Gacha)
Fiasco – “Old Office Chair” (Gacha)
[La Baguette] – “Box of pizza 3 slice left v2”
[INDO] – “Soda Can”
For this round of We ♥ RP we have created the Adeline Mask. It is a unisex mask that comes with a resizer and 15 texture options (5 colors with 3 different metal options). This mask is perfect for roleplay or simply making a fashion statement. Either way you have a one of a kind creation you can use as you wish!
In honor of We ♥ RP’s birthday we have created a gift – The Black Heart necklace. It’s a steam punk statement piece that will compliment Adeline nicely.
Taxi: We♥RP
Ok, to be fair – The pictures for this post were inspired a lot by “True Blood”. True Blood is an American dark fantasy horror television series produced and created by Alan Ball and based on “The Southern Vampire Mysteries”, a series of novels by Charlaine Harris.
I watched it alredy in the past but I always missed the 7th season and now I finally found it on sky – Hooray \o/!!! Maybe that is, why I was going for an After Dark feeling 😉
So, while I was watching on my second screen I styled up the amazing “Bianca” harness, made by Salt & Pepper. It originally was released for the Fetish Fair this year, but I am sure you will find it at the main store by now. That harness really hides nothing *grins* and shoes off all of your beauty to the one you like to play with *winks* – Red totally liked it, too! With the HUD you get 8 different leather and 5 different metal colors to play with. Certainly went with black as it is my personal favorite color anyways. So even if I try sometimes to not use the black options, I can’t do anything against it, if it nevertheless happens 😉
Mostly I avoid showing my private parts to the public, but I did not want to cover the outfit with another piece of clothing. So when I saw the “No.Help” hairstyle from no.match, it was the perfect solution to my little personal problem. The hair covers the needed bits and still shows the awesome harness – mission achieved!
I was wearing boots for the shoot, but since they are mostly cut off I did do a closeup only for them. The “Kate Thigh High Boots”- made by [Gos] – are so super awesome, that they deserved a special spotlight still 😉 They really go up very high and I do LOVE that height for all short bodysuit or harness outfits. I personally see more sexiness in covered legs than just having them blank. That can be over-knee boots, stockings, socks or tights – anyways what I prefer it over having bare legs, except for swim-wear. The boots are made for all the popular mesh bodies (Maitreya, Slink & Belleza) and you get a lot of color options with 3 different HUD packs and you as well have the choice, if you would like a thin or a thick heel style with each of the HUDs (like you can see on the picture below) I only captured 5 different colors but you will have a total of 21 different colors to chose from.
As I mentioned in a post before, I was selected to be a LeLutka blogger and so you will have always a closeup for each post from now on. I am a LeLutka addicted anyways and I did not wear any other heads on my blog since the LeLutka bento heads came out. My main head I am wearing for my SL Wicca” character is the “Simone” bento head from LeLutka. That is the head I know best for now as I am working with it for a while with shapes and skins, but I will learn to work others as well – I already started practicing *grins* But I want to show as well how versatile one head can be with different shapes and skins too and so here is my close up for today – “Simone” in all her beauty with my main skin from “The Skinnery” and face mods from Izzies for freckles, pores, wrinkles and blemishes!
Harness: Salt & Pepper (S&P) – “Bianca Harness” (Maitreya)
Shoes: [Gos] – “Kate Thigh High Boots” (Maitreya)
Blindfold: Luas – “Hurricane Blindfold”
Cuffs & Collar: [ abrasive ] – “Discipline Vinyl Collar & Cuffs”
Arm Cuffs: Gemini – “Sis Bracelets” (Maitreya)
Septum: -[TWC]- – “Gear Septum Silver”
Hair: no.match – “No.Help”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara 4.1”
Head: LeLutka – “Simone 3.3”
Marks: .:Avanti:. – “Rope Marks Applier” (Maitreya Applier)
Poses: Corpus – “Balcony Series”
Backdrop: CEBO – “BALCONY”
Bed: 22769 – “Love Shack Bed” (Gacha, Common)
We are thrilled to be a part of the first ever Cyberpunk Fair! In honor of this special event we have created a 5 piece ensemble exclusive to the event. Nyx is made up of the bodysuit, boots, arms, and Bento enabled hands. Each item comes with a generous HUD that provides you with 7 different color choices for customization. These components are designed to fit Maitreya’s Lara, Slink’s Hourglass, and Freya’s Belleza. In addition to that, the unisex Specter Eyepatch comes with its own HUD offering 8 colors to choose from, it has glow options and a resizer.
All items will have a special reduced price for the event (even the fatpack), so be sure to come by the event and pick them up before the return to the store at full price!!!
TAXI: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Flair%20for%20Events/195/129/29
Today I do have a premiere on my blog… It is the first post as a LeLutka blogger! For years I felt not confident with applying for LeLutka, I always felt like I am not yet there where I would stand behind myself enough to dare to apply for a blogger position for LeLutka. I do not know how to explain, it was just a feeling. Then I saw a picture of Mavi Beck – I know her a long time already… we met at AVENUE years ago – on Flickr. I adore her art work, she has a very special feeling for shadow and lights in my view. When I looked at her stream again, I remembered that she is a LeLutka CSR and again the blogging desire for LeLutka came up to my mind. In her profile she as well stated she is a LeLutka Blogger Manager and so I went to my flickr, looked over my recent pictures, took a deep breath and dared to ask her what the conditions for blogging would be. As always she was super kind and nice – I do not remember that I saw her mad EVER – and told me, that LeLutka does work with Blogotex now too and that I could always fill in an application at the access point at the main store. Driven by my desire to blog for LeLutka, I TPed to their main store and while I was rezzing and looking for the access point sign, my doubts again fell back on me and I became a chicken again and TPed back home. I have no clue, why I feel that way when it comes to LeLutka, but I remember LeLutka always as one of the top stores of SL. Back when I started modeling, we had no mesh heads or bento or all that stuff and LeLutka was one of the most high class fashion brand with the top notch fashion ideas and not only for casual desires. Even back then I loved their creations already and blogged them a few times, when I was able to afford their designs (https://www.flickr.com/photos/wiccamerlin/4261277578/in/dateposted-public/ or https://www.flickr.com/photos/wiccamerlin/4449981194/in/dateposted-public/) Back I would not even dared to think about being a blogger for LeLutka, because I just started blogging and they only had super models and awesome graphical artists in their blogger group, but it always was a dream of mine…
Ok… back to the present 😉 So I was at home again thinking about, if I would bee good enough to apply for the blogger position at LeLutka. I guess it is the high respect I do have for the designers skills and the fact that LeLutka plays in the designer circle for so long and all of my old idols and icons of the modeling world back then did blog for them, made me judge about myself so hard. But after a few days of thinking about it, I thought that I would have nothing to loose by trying. Either they like my work or they don’t and so I went back to the LeLutka main store, hit the access button and filled the application. They already asked for a certain time period to allow them to review my application and so I forced myself to not look up Blogotex every 15 minutes, because iI was so nervous *blushes*
Even if they already asked for a certain period of time the longer I had to wait the more my doubts had party in my brain again… so when they pop-up in Second Life went up with a notification and the black letters on the blue background with the “Accepted” sentence, I jumped in my chair and started squealing, my partner asked me “If I would not have all the cups in the cupboard anymore” (a German quote – I don’t know if that would make much sense in English. When I put it into the translator I got “to have lost one’s marbles”). I really was uber happy and it was hard to calm down for me. I have no idea, I am not a child anymore, but in that moment I felt like one again. That again shows me, sometimes it is worth waiting until the time is right 🙂
I guess it is a no brainer to mention I had to start instant to work on the pictures for my first blog post. I chose “Korina” to be my first official LeLutka post. “Korina was the latest release for the Skin Fair this year and so I started to work on a shape first and then the hard choice of a skin came up. First I thought I would use the original skin, but the I thought, the original skin already is shown on the vendor and I have to be a little more creative and make ‘my’ Korina. To me “Korina” did not appear like a princess, more like a strong adult female with attitude and so I tried to bring Wicca to “Korina”, but not making her a sister… if that makes sense.
The head comes with the usual great quality standard HUD that LeLutka always provides, but you get something new with “Korina” as well. The HUD has now 2 different hair bases to chose from, based on the default SL UV maps. I will cross my fingers that maybe the older heads will get updated with that too, because I really love that feature 🙂
I will play now a littlemore with my new “Korina” head and who knows.. maybe we have another side of “Korina” here soon *winks*
Top: Meva – “Alexis”
Pants: adorsy – “Rihanna Jeans Shorts” (Maitreya)
Shoes: UTOPIA@Design – “Azaria” (Maitreya)
Earrings: Aurealis – “Statement Earrings”
Rings: Meva – “Maitreya Rings Silver” (Maitreya, Bento)
Hair: no.match – “No.Commitment”
Makeup: Zibska – “Noir Pack 06” (Maitreya Applier)
Lipstick: alaskametro<3 – “London Lipstick” (Maitreya Applier)
Head: LeLutka – “Korina 3.3.1”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara 4.1”
Skin: YS&YS – “Petal Tone 02” (LeLutka & Maitreya Applier)
Tattoo: BODY MOD – “Memories” (OMEGA Applier) Store Closed
Poses: Foxcity
Backdrop: Pseudo “Paul T Scene Backdrop” (Gacha, Rare)
Cyber & Sci-fi time again!
There is so many exciting events running at the moment, it is really hard to resist to not buy everything you see at those events… Especially if it is events like Black Fair, Epiphany, ACCESS or The Fantasy Faire even.
A few things I got nevertheless and they screamed cyberpunk/sci-fi for me 😉 I am still in my dark period with creating styles and pictures and the more I do, the more I enjoy it 🙂 With the dark and fantasy side of SL, I feel so much inspiration lately that I could post something every day if I would have the time to post process all my pictures. But since I wanted to use my easter holidays for learning new tricks in Photoshop, finishing pictures takes some time – even a little more with try and error these days *winks* The desire was to learn more about shading, lights and shadows and how they can be done realistic in Photoshop. I had some basic knowledge about that with a lot of layers, but I wanted to have a different result, something I saw a lot on flickr lately and that was why I forced myself to watch some tutorials and then try them instantly myself. I am not yet done completely with my research, but for today I was pretty satisfied how those new tips and ticks worked out.
The mega, amazing “Aeon Cyber Corset” is one of the latest releases from A&Y. I love the creations of Anabel Crystal, owner and designer of A&Y. She has a very special way for sci-fi and cyberpunk creations and I do love her skills for vinyl and leather clothing. The corset you can find at the actual round of the ACCESS event, while there is a matching top/jacket at the black fair, which I will have to showcase soon too (I saw that after I finished my styling for this post already).
The incredible “Voodoo” ears are as well a brand new release at the Black Fair. I love the ears of Eclipse Art Studio and Shina Shan never stop to amaze me with every new release. She always has another cool idea for the accessories of her ears. This time it was that little voodoo doll, that she added to the earlobes as an earring. The voodoo doll can be purchased as a single earring as well if you do not want to have the long elf ears ;). I love how easy you can tint the ears to match your skin and the possibility of all the tattoos you can add really make those ears so versatile.
For a strong, powerful outfit you need super cool boots and those I found with the “Roxy” boots from [Gos]. The boots are part of a gacha, which is a collaboration of [Gos ] and Lybra. I will have a post for that gacha and all of it’s beauty soon – the boots just matched so awesome with my look, that I could not resist to already use them *blushes* The thigh high boots are super tight and have an amazing laced back. Certainly there are more colors available than just black in the gacha 😉
For the location I was trying first to set up something by myself, but this time I did not wanna come together as I desired it and so I made may way out to see if I could find a cyberpunk sim for my pictures. First I tried Cocoon, which is amazingly built but for non group members you have no rez rights and I wanted to use my pose stand this time. I need to go back another time as they really do have amazing spots for pictures and the sim rules even allow photographers as long as you wear an OOC titler, which you can find at the landing spot.
I did remember, that Insilico had rezzing open at least for rezzing a pose stand top hop on. The auto-return kicks in after a few minutes, but as long as you sit on your stand, you are safe. Just do not get scared when you are done and stand up as the stand will be returned to your lost and found folder.
After I could not decide about a perfect spot and had shot some random snaps, I did remember a few backdrops, that I got as a present from a friend not too long ago. The whole gacha set is amazing and I hope, I can find/win the ones I still miss in my collection. The “Cyberpunk Capsule *7*” was the perfect background for my look.
Corset: A&Y – “Aeon Cyber Corset” (Maitreya – NEW @ ACCESS Event // April 2019
Panties: A&Y – “Loma Leather Panties” (Maitreya, Gacha)
Shoes: [Gos] – “Roxy Boots” (Maitreya, Gacha) – NEW @ Epiphany // April 2019
Gloves: Wicca’s Originals – “Paxton Gloves [Light]” (Maitreya, Bento)
Collar: [CX] – “Hell’s Harbinger” (Maitreya)
Piercing 1: [CX] – “Scarred Bridge”
Piercing 2: [CX] – “Spiked Gloss”
Earring+Chain: [CX] – “Vermin”
Hair: A&Y – “Cyber Ghost Hair”
Makeup & Lipstick: YS&YS – “Ginny Skin Applier” (LeLutka Applier)
Face Art: ALMA – “Rors for L’Homme” (LeLutka Applier, Gift)
Head: LeLutka – “Simone 3.3”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara 4.1”
Ears: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Ears Voodoo” – NEW @ Black Fair // April-May 2019
Eyes: Clemmm – “I’m tired / Black-Regular”
Skin: YS&YS – “Ginny – Tone Zafiro” (LeLutka & Maitreya Applier)
Tattoo: .:AuricA:. – “Saida Tattoo” (Maitreya Applier)
Poses: Poseidon
Backdrop: MINIMAL – “Cyberpunk Capsule *7*” (Gacha)
For this round of The Black Fair, we have created Jane. A military inspired body suit that matches our newly released Michonne Boots at the Dubai Event. Jane is no nonsense up top and sexiness on the bottom with its long sleeves and high cut waist. Jane is a body suit that can serve you in many ways, all of them stylish! Jane comes with a HUD that offers you 10 muted colors for the fabric and 5 metal options. Jane is made to fit Lara, Hourglass, and Freya.
TAXI: Black Fair
