“Look at her…” – News from GizzA!

GizzA yesterday won the BOSL Award for the best new designer and I have to agree with that result ๐Ÿ˜‰ A little while ago I had the pleasure to meet Giz Seorn and had the chance to talk to her a bit. She made me curious and I made my way to the GizzA Mainstore and I have to admit I was hell surprised about what I saw… A huge store with so many wonderful creations… I was really amazed. Today I would like to show you 2 more outfits of hers – one a little older but still sexy and stunning and another, newer one that looks so beautiful and perfect for the todays fashionista.

The “Shady Corset”, here shown in black, was one of the first outfits that catched my attention in the past. A friend of mine was wearing it and I was really curious as the quality of this outfit turned my head. The details of the textures and the fresh design, simply amazing! An awesome corset that shaped the ladies upper body perfect, combined with 2 ruffled wrist attachments and a wonderful color with the same look. The sculpted skirt gives more possibilities to wear the outfit then just in the bedroom ๐Ÿ˜‰ For the stockings with the lovely filigree garters you have a closed and the open version you can see on the pic above. The gorgeous ankle boots are as well part of the outfit what makes a perfect overall look ๐Ÿ™‚

The second outfit for today is named “Princely” This design is definitely the perfect style for the actual spring season. You can show off a lot of sexy skin but still look very elegant and classy. The salmon color has a wonderful shine and nearly looks like a delicate shining satin fabric if you wear it… simply breathtaking. The top layers are made off beautiful lace that is repeated in kinda leggings that show under the wide puffy pants. The pants itself are awesome sculpted prims that are attached to the upper legs. On the sweet ribbons that are decorating the knees you again can see the love for the detail that you will find in each and every creation of GizzA designs.

As a perfect jewelry I had to use the still unreleased “Delicate” set that is part of the soon coming “Demure Collection” that yula Finesmith made inspired by the awesome Rissa Friller. The incredible eye ornament totally amazed me and the perfectly shaped and textured bracelets and earrings are just perfect for the todays fashionista. The nails as well are by Finesmith Designs, the “Finesmith Nails Golden” are the perfect matching ones for the “Delicate” set that is fully color changeable over the known menu that all Finesmith jewelry has ๐Ÿ™‚

Details

black:

Outfit incl shoes: GizzA -“Shady Corset” /black

Hair: Vanity Hair

Skin: Glam Affair

Lashes: Redgrave

salmon:

Outfit: GizzA – “Princely” /salmon

Jewelry: Finesmith Designs – “Delicate” set

Nails: Finesmith Designs – “Finesmith Nails Golden”

Hair: Vanity Hair

Skin: Glam Affair

Lashes: Redgrave

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Nefertiti Kimagawa made me feel honored and very happy :)

(Vendor Picture: provided by Nefertiti Kimagawa, modeled by me ๐Ÿ˜‰ )

Lately Nefertiti Kimagawa surprised me with a huge honor… she named on e of her latest creations after me:) For sure I am very glad that I may show it to you on my blog now ๐Ÿ™‚

“Wicca” is a lightly futuristic looking dress with a huge skirt, that ends at the waist in a wide belt with sweet little buttons. The top part is kinda longsleeve shirt with a cute ornament on the left chest side that gives a light officer touch as it look like medals or distinction insignia ๐Ÿ˜‰ What totally caught me was the incredible helmet that is made of so many prims that it even needs 2 attachment points ๐Ÿ˜‰

The veil of the helmet seemed to be made of little chains that still allow a little peek out and inside ๐Ÿ™‚ The lovely feathers in the back and the sharp spikes on top make a wonderful contrast for this helmet. For the males Nefer created a matching outfit called “Seth” ๐Ÿ™‚ But “Wicca” & “Seth” are not the only new release at Nefertiti Kimagawa’s Mainstore so better take a look by yourself !

Deatils

Outfit: Nefertiti Kimagawa – “Wicca”

Skin: Glam Affair – “Castalia” /light

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

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

Yes, Mea Culpa is now one year on the grid and still Tatanka Kaligawa surprises us with new and incredible awesome designs ๐Ÿ˜‰ 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 ๐Ÿ™‚ 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 aย  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 ๐Ÿ™‚ The layers match perfectly to the prims and some stunning “holes” let peek through very sexy a bit of skin ๐Ÿ˜‰ The mixture of all the blue, green, teal and gold makes this gown as well to a perfect design for the actual season ๐Ÿ˜‰

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 ๐Ÿ™‚

Details

Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Leaves of Life”

Skin: Glam Affair – “Castalia”

Jewelry: Finesmith Designs

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Finesmith Designs – “Style That” – Week 4

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 foolingย  around with and that was the result that you can see in the picture above ๐Ÿ˜‰

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 holdย  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% ofย  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!!!

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 ๐Ÿ˜‰ and if you are already there you can take a look at all the other awesome outfits also… even the males ๐Ÿ˜‰ Because this awesome outfit has, like so many others from *X*plosion, a male version as well ๐Ÿ™‚

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”ย  /soil (yes I removed the flower this time ๐Ÿ˜‰ )

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!

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 ๐Ÿ˜‰

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 ๐Ÿ™‚

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!!!

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 ๐Ÿ™‚

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 CandyMeaCulpas 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

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:”RavenNoireย  is created for the sensual, classic, and mysterious woman.ย  The bodice was designed so that itย  entices the eye to wonder and explore everyย  curve and dimension of her being.ย  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.ย  Shoes are magically matched to the gownย  and the hair and accessories make for an elegant outfit that gives the ‘wow’ factor to anyoneย  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

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

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.ย  It’s slim blue form has subtle highlights of light in special places to give it some added light effects.ย  The bodice is formed to fit snuggly around the bust and leads to a layered flaired tail skirt.ย  This dress is finished off with a lace and brocade bow placed perfectly on the tip of the corset.ย  Ladies this dress is a dream to have.

The “Jackyll” suit is Neiva Kumasi Coutures debut piece of the Men’s line.ย ย  Its first suit for men is made of its own unique herringbone fabric that is suited specifically for the men.ย  This suit consist of a light weight cream collard shirt with a unique brocade designed vest with silk lining,ย  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