FrouFrou is a mesh lingerie only event we are thrilled to be a part of! This round of FrouFrou the theme is Burlesque. In that spirit we have created our Dita Corset and panties. It comes with a HUD that provides 10 colors and laces as well as 5 metal color options. Dita is designed to fit the Maitreya Lara mesh body.
TAXI: FrouFrou February 2019
It was one of those days again…
It was dark, cold and misty outside and sometimes it mirrors to my inner. I would not say I hate that days, they bring out a certain type of feeling and emotions and they make you think about yourself a lot more and as well different. Life taught me to not stay too long in that moments, but as well not try to skip them either. I need them as a part of me and if they happen, I just let them for a while. I have no idea if that makes sense – I hope it does and those who had those moments too, I thin you know what I am talking about.
If I am in Second Life on such days and try to style up a look, it does something to me and my looks. It takes me longer to finish a style and the thought s and emotions go way deeper than with a usual look. It is hard to explain as 90% about it is feelings and emotions and you know how hard those are to describe 😉
Usually on such days I start off with something I bought longer ago and never had the right mood to work on it.
Today it was the “Black Parade Uniform” from CUREMORE. I fell in love with that outfit ages ago and when CURELESS [+] had their sale I could not longer resist and got the fatpack. I adore the way how CURELESS [+] as well as Moon Amore do obviously cute and frilly outfits, but they all have kinda a morbid feeling to them still. The texture work and the mesh details are amazing. Initially I had something Circus like in mind, but the more I was looking at it, trying several things the vision changed. First I added the awesome “Kate Thigh High Boots” from [Gos], which they released at UBER. I am a high boots addicted so those super cool boots were a no-brainer :p, I could not miss them in my wardrobe.
As usual the boots come in all the popular mesh body sizes and with the 3 amazing HUDs from [Gos] – Boutique, Metallic and Blueberry. You do not only have a wide variety for the colors – Even for metals and sole you get several options. As if that would not be already enough, for the “Kate Thigh High Boots” you get the option to chose from a thick or thin heel as well (like shown in the picture above)!
I do not know why, but while I was staring at my pixels to think about what I could do all of a sudden, the “Black Widow” collar from DRD popped up in my mind. First I thought it wouldn’t fit, because the uniform already had such a high neck… but it turned out, that exactly that made it fit perfectly! Sometimes it is kinda fate I guess.
For the poses and props I immediately had an idea after I added the huge back collar. I had blogged some poses of the “Necromatic” pose gacha with the skeleton, but I as well had some violin poses seen in my folder and I had a feeling, those would fit perfectly. First I used the violin and the bow that the pose had included but with the brown violin I felt a little disturbed from my vision. When I started to look for a black violin on MP I remembered I had a black skull violin from Grollwerk like in forever – I have to admit it is an old prim violin and the store already seems to have closed down, but for a picture it would do it I thought and it did 😉
I wanted to wear such a little, cute hat that makes no sense, but looks good and so I had to find a special hair, which is close to the head and not too high at the top. Certainly I found one at no.match 🙂
I love the textures and the way how no.match does their hair. I rarely have alpha glitches even with longer hair and she has the perfect size as well if hair goes down over my chest. If you followed me for while you will know, that I use no,match hair a lot :p.
Now I only needed a special makeup to satisfy my mood. I recently had the honor of being chosen to do a makeup spread in the Eclipse Magazine for ALMA (HERE). That brought ALMA back to my plate – I have to admit I know them for a while but sometimes you forget about cool stores and the more happy I was when I discovered it again and found so many new cool makeups and face art. If you are looking for something out of the box, vibrant colors or really complete, extraordinary face art, ALMA is your place of desire.
Finally after hours I was happy with my look and it did mirror exactly what I was feeling while doing it. That does not happen too often I have to admit, but I do enjoy that immensely.
Then comes that next challenge… what to use as background or scenery?!? Nothing too colorful, nothing clean but as well nothing too dark and nothing too dirty… initially that always feels like a challenge I never can work out. Sometimes I even get frustrated if I can not find the right location or built the right scenery and then I just delete my whole look as on those special days, where I am in that special mood I do not want to make any compromises as they just feel wrong and take all of the depth from the picture. Thank God there is Ironwood Hills! Ironwood Hills has so many different corners and places, that I usually find what I am looking for if I wasn’t able to built something or get an idea of what I would like to have. This time it was the old, rotten theater from Marcus Inkpen, that they have rezzed out there near the landing spot. I just had to add my music items and some broken furniture and it looked exactly as I imagined it and … the best part… it did match my feelings!!! You really should explore Ironwood Hills and I swear you won’t discover all the little details and corners on one day 😉
Poses (incl. Stool): Le Poppycock – “Necromantic – The Oldest Song” & “Necromatic – Grim Anthem” (Bento, Gacha)
Note Stand: Fancy Decor – “Music Stand”
Notes: Nutmeg – “Old Music Sheets Floor” & “Old Music Sheets Standing”
Furniture 1: [ zerkalo ] – “Last Refuge – Dirty Matress – PG”
Furniture 2: DISORDERLY – “Overgrown Patio – Table & Chairs” + “Burried Treasure”
It’s Monthly Midnight Madness’ 4th birthday! In honor of that we have our Paisley outfit in a special MMM edition. At midnight SLT we will offer the Paisley skirt. At noon SLT we will offer the our Paisley top. In order to get these gifts you have to be in the MMM group and abide by the MMM rules (which you can find here: https://www.xxsaltandpepperxx.com/monthly-midnight-madness/).
PLEASE STAY BELOW 50K complexity. The boards won’t give gifts to avatars above 50K complexity!
We will also be offering add on HUDs for both the Paisley top and skirt. This add on HUD will provide you with additional customization options for the skirt ruffles, pouch, leather and metals. On the top the add on HUD will allow you to change the texture of the shirt, buttons and leather. The add on HUDs will cost you L$50 each as a part of the MMM group. Members of our Wicca’s Wardrobe group will get the add on HUDs for free!
For all who missed the gifts, there is a Last Chance option on Sunday, February 10th. The items will be offered for L$50 except Wicca’s Wardrobe group members who will get the gifts for free.
In celebration of 4 fun filled years of MMM, all participating creators will be offering their MMM creations from the past year at the ULTIMATE LAST CHANCE location. These past gifts will be offered to MMM groups for up to L$99. Our past items will be offered for L$75 each.
As always our latest offering will be available at our mainstore: Wicca’s Wardrobe
Only the past year’s gifts will be offered at an alternate location: ULTIMATE Last Chance
It was the hat!
I wanted to make a post with that cool hat and thought so long about, what I could do with it – Finally I had an idea!
I rarely based a style of a hat only, but this time the hat was too cool and I had to find something that goes with it without loosing the focus 😉 The cap was made by Peculiar Things for the last round of the Eclipse Event, but I am sure you can find it at the main store now. The “Burning Glory Cap” is available in 5 colors plus one limited color! I certainly had to use the black one…
The cap is a masterpiece of materials. It combines the shimmering gemstones with a more muted basic fabric and it reacts amazingly on SL lights!
The cool backdrop I got at Foxcity. I really do adore her poses and backdrops.
Speaking of backdrops… I have to admit I am addicted to backdrops, even if I add some things here and there to make them more “me”, but the much I love them, the more I am sad that you usually just use them once or twice at max, as it feels like you would bore your flickr followers, if you have the same backdrop over and over, even if they are uber cool. I love back drops even more if they have more than one room or different corners. That gives me the option to use them more than just 2 times 🙂
As well most backdrops are cool for editorials, like the Foxcity ones with the amazing lights and materials but if you really want to have a natural looking environment, I guess you need the skills to really built y scene yourself using all those amazing designs, that people make for environment and accessorizing places. I still learn how to make a cool scene and I really be grateful for the ready to shoot backdrops, so I think a good mixture of both will be the goal – at least for me, as I do like both and if I do not have to decide I am happy!
Top & Pants: JF Design – “Dream” (Maitreya)
Shoes: {Livalle} – “Payne – Combat Boots” (Maitreya)
Stockings: .:Avanti:. – “Ripped Nylons” (Maitreya Applier)
Gloves: amias – “Ari black” (Maitreya, Bento)
Cap: Peculiar Things – “Burning Glory Cap”
Collar: .:Avanti:. – “Nayomi Collar”
Earrings: Aurealis Jewellery – “Promesa Earrings” – NEW @ Dubai
Hair: Opale – “Yunjin”
Makeup & Lipstick: Zibska – “Radi” (LeLutka Applier)
Head: LeLutka – “Simone 3.3”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara 4.1”
Tattoo: [White~Widow] – “Replicas” (Maitreya Applier)
Eyebrows: Bossie – “Nyx Eyebrows” (LeLutka Applier)
Poses: FOXCITY – “Lucid” (Bento)
Backdrop: FOXCITY – “Photo Booth – Lit”
“The graveyard is not the final resting place of our dear departed but an ephemeral repository of their remains. The real graveyard, however, is somewhere deep in our heart, where we can always visit them at any time of the day, talk about some unforgettable summers, or cry in solitude as if they were always there for us to stay. And should our twilight come, when we can no longer see the light of the day, some people dear to us will build a graveyard in their hearts. They will let us stay for a while or perhaps longer, as long as they continue to remember, but it does not matter anymore. What is comforting to know, no matter how tragic or tranquil our death may be, somewhere somehow someone will always build a sublime place for us to stay.”
[Danny Castillones Sillada, The Graveyard In Our Heart]
Outfit: CURELESS [+] – “Anatomic Doll” (Gacha)
Collar: DRD – “Black Widow”
Shoes: BAX – “Regency Boots” (Maitreya)
Face Art: C L A Vv. – “Evil Hand”
Wings: Astralia – “Dead Bird Wings” (Gacha, Rare)
Rings: FORMANAILS – “Rings SImple” (Maitreya, Bento)
Nails: FORMANAILS – “Wedding” (Maitreya, Bento)
Hair: KoKoLoReS – “Silence”
Makeup 1: Clemmm – “Grisworld’s Boneface Paint” (OMEGA Applier)
Makeup 2: CURELESS [+] – “Undereye Lines & Eyeliner” (OMEGA Applier)
Head: LeLutka – Simone 3.3″
Body: Maitreya – “Lara 4.1”
Skin: *YS&YS* – “Immortal Skin” (LeLutka/Maitreya Applier)
Eyes: Clemmm – “Ancient Eyes – Regular”
Ears: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Nepthune”
Body Tattoo: Clemmm – “Unkin Body Smear” (Maitreya Applier)
Arm Tattoo: Clemmm – “Malcom’s Arm Wrap” (OMEGA Applier)
Pose: Foxcity
Set:
22769 ~ [bauwerk] – “Graveyard” (Gacha)
22769 ~ [bauwerk] – “Preserved Memories” (Gacha)
DRD – “Gravestones” (Groupgift)
Little Branch – “Snakeweed{4Seasons}”
Little Branch – “Hill{Low Li}”
Moonlight Shadow – “Fallen Autumn Leaves”
I am sure you know what I mean… those “memories” that never leave us even if their clarity fades and they get kinda blurry?
Those things we do not really want to remember, but we can’t completely forget?
I do have those and from time to time they do knock me out for a while. The older I become, the more those memories become emotions and I do forget the exact moment of my life. Sometimes they do feel like faded or blurred echoes. Sometimes they even feel kinda unreal to me, even if I know, that it happened. Exactly that kind of feelings I wanted to bring on my pictures and to me it worked 🙂
I was trying and thinking about that for a longer time, but I never felt like it came out right.
The poses from Le Poppycock, which I found while I was looking for another pose set, gave me the idea, how I could manage to picture my feelings. To bring emotions on pictures, is always a hard challenge for me as I feel it very difficult to bring those on a static picture. Emotions are very personal and everybody will have different impressions and/or expressions of a certain picture.
To me it was the outfit from Enfant Terible, an innocent, sweet dancer outfit with ballet shoes, the dark vibe of the dark vibe of the Asylum from Ex Machina and the morbid skeleton paired with the amazing poses from Le Poppycock, that made the perfect contrast and as well the controversial and mixed feelings I do have with such moments. I did abstain from strong make up to give the whole look a more pure and fragile look. The lightly messy hair from no.match was perfect for the style as well, it underlined the desperation in some way for me with all the wisps and strands of hair.
Sometimes we need a challenge, I guess to make sure we are still able to do some things 😉
So I thought about a sweet casual winter post in my very own style, but still tried to be the “good girl”*snickers* I love the cape that Hotdog had at the last We♥RP event. They had a full version with optional ribbons, which is amazing as well and they had put one version without ribbons but with some snow over the shoulders as a gift.
When I put on the cape the first time, I immediately had the vision of a Victorian look with a great up-do hair style. I loved the idea of having the hands in that cute muff in front of the belly. Certainly that requires to alpha the whole arms and hands, but it still interacts nicely with every kind of animation and pose. Looking at the cape, did more and more bring up the desire inside of me to create a different look than the initial Victorian idea.
I remembered the cool FRWL gacha from Salt & Pepper – that brought me to a new idea for my look. I did trow away the skirt idea and looked for some pants that did fit under the cape. When I found the right pants. I realized, that my upper body blinked through with some poses and so I just used a dark body applier shirt to cover that since I wouldn’t be seen anyways, but it covered the little spots that some movements brought up. The cape has a wonderful and huge golden ornament on the back and some little ones at the front as accents and I am really amazed by the folds and wrinkles that make it so realistic looking.
For the matching makeup I chose the one with some snowflakes on the face to gt a little more into the snow mood I wanted for my picture.
First I thought about a desaturated dead tree environment with lots of snow but not much else. With the beige fur on the cape, the head piece and the warm black tone the blue/black background I imagined, did not work out that great as I thought. That put me on a sim hoping journey and I found a lot of cool places for future posts, but not that what I was looking for. Suddenly I remembered, what Skye told me, when I asked her about a wintery sim. She is the expert for everything beautiful and sweet and she has a long past in Second Life as well 😉 She suggested Nymphai, one of the sims of the Ippos Collective. Duchess and Divine and many others do an incredible job to decorate their sim collective. They change for every season and have different themes on each of their sims. Some of them as well have residentials available and you have to be careful to not violate the Inhabitants’ peace and freedom 😉
Now I have to make some more looks for all the amazing sims I found on my little sim trip 😉 Enjoy the winter, even if it is cold – it has it’s advantages as well if you can get into it 😉
Cape: Hotdog – “Winter Cloak w/o Ribbons . snowy” (Maitreya, WLRP Gift December 2018)
Pants: Glam Affair – “Inti Pants” (Size XS)
Shoes: ::GB:: – “Romanesque Dress Shoes”
Hat: Salt & Pepper (S&P) – “FRWL hat cream” (Gacha, Common)
Hair: *barberyumyum* – “B01”
Lashes: alaskametro<3 – “Slay False Eyelashes” (LeLutka Applier)
Makeup & Lipstick: Izzie’s – “First Snow Makeup Set” (LeLutka Applier)
Eyeshadow: Zibska – “Noir Pack 06” (LeLutka Applier)
Head: LeLutka – “Simone 3.3”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara 4,1”
Poses: Foxcity
Today, just a ‘quicky’ as I had fun doing a picture with this look, but posing the coat drove me nuts…
Do you know that feeling if you are trying to make a picture with some cool poses and then long coats or skirts do not cooperate due game mechanics? It is so frustrating. I do not wanna tilt my picture sideways, just because I do want to have a picture where you can see the full outfit! I realized that it became some kind of a trend to just tilt your pictures 90 degrees, but to be honest… I don’t like that for myself. I always have the desire to tilt my monitor to see those pictures the right way and that can get pretty annoying to me. I love sit, crouch and leaning poses a lot more than just simple standing poses. With my usual blog pictures size, I get more ambiance and landscapes into pictures, than the actual outfit I do want to showcase. I do not know what it is, that I try to get away from simple standing poses… maybe they are not emotional enough to me anymore, because I saw and used them too many times on the runway and on pictures. Especially if you have some details like shoes, hair or rings, you don’t want to do crops only all the time and specific poses or special poses with a little more. Speaking of shoes, the shoes I am wearing for this post are from [Gos]. Those cute ankle boots with the sharp tip, are the perfect addition to the cool nearly vintage/Victorian looking coat from Hotdog. I do like to break the typical style rules and combine different items from different epochs 😉
As usual the amazing 3 HUDs – Boutique, Blueberry and Metallic – are available for the “Hurley Ankle Boots”. The have a quite wide shaft and so you can manage to wear some mesh pants with them.
The cool hair, which usually is way too modern for the coat, but matches the booties so nicely is one of the latest releases from no.match at the Cosmopolitan event. I do have an addiction to short hair 😉
I wanted a winter scenery for my picture, but not the usual shiny, sweet winter wonderland type… I wanted something more dark, desert and lonely looking, BUT I wanted to rez that amazing “Building Remains” structure, that DRD released for the actual round of their Eclipse event. Probably you can imagine if you search for a certain type of location AND would like to rez something, that can drive you nuts and most of the time you will end up building one yourself. I was simply to lazy today to do that :p I finally found a spot on Luanes Winter World sim. I just had to de-rez a few of the sweet things and it worked! I was so happy with that, as I already thought that will take hours to find what I was imagining.
Coat: Hotdog – “Frock Coat . Female . Dark” (Maitreya)
Pants: GizzA – “Josie Pants” (Size XS)
Shoes: [Gos] – “Hurley Ankle Boots” (Maitreya)
Earrings: [Cubic Cherry] – “{Null} key” – NEW @ Eclipse
Eyepatch: Pixel Box – “Patch Woman BAD Left”
Rings: FORMANAILS – “Buffalo” (Maitreya, Bento)
Nail Polish: {ZOZ} – “Time Reds Polish” (Maitreya)
Hair: no.match – “No.Commitment” – NEW @ Cosmopolitan
Head: LeLutka – “Simone 3.3”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara 4.1”
Ears: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Nepthune”
Structure: DRD – “Buidings Remain” – NEW @ Eclipse
Pose: Foxcity – “Me Time – 6m” (Bento)
We are thrilled to be a part of this round of Eclipse! The theme of the round is very well suited to us…”October Never Dies!” All the items are dark…creepy…scary…all that we love about October! We have designed the Aurelia coat…it is a long coat with a well worn look. It has an open belt encircling your waist and a window into your mechanical heart. It comes with a texture HUD that gives you options between 5 dark colors for the body of the coat and 3 metals for all the accents and parts of the mechanical heart. For Maitreya only.
Taxi: Eclipse Event
I rarely dress up to go shopping, clubbing or socializing – Usually I just wear the last outfit I blogged as I had that styled up anyways :p But today I felt not really blogging and I just put on some things I bought lately. With each piece I added I liked the look more – something I really did not feel for a long time and I have to admit… I like it! So this will be an “unscheduled” just the way I am picture series 🙂 This look could be something I could imagine wearing on tour, or on stage with the band as well.
Yesterday I had a blast and it happened out of the blue… Nefertiti Kimagawa IMed me! I did not hear from her in ages and I was totally excited when I saw her IM popping up. We talked a little while about what we had done in the meantime and when I told her, I did open my own store she came over to see it. Certainly I had to TP down and when I landed I saw a tall, awesome demon. It really reminded me of good old times and we indulged in reminiscences about her store and as well about Claim the Fame, a designers contest we did years ago with SL Art Couture. Nefer was one of the contestants. I even still had a vendor picture where she used me as a model for an outfit and helmet called Wicca – I still remember how honored I felt when she named it after me. All of a sudden I saw an orange cloud right beside us – Nefer TPed someone… it was Kalyabreeaa Capelo! The designer of Mad Diva and my personal hero for the first avant garde bikini back in 2011 (https://wiccamerlin.de/can-swimwear-be-avantgarde-or-couture-mad-diva-shows-it/) It felt so crazy, to have 2 old friends in our store now, while I was blogging for them years ago, when I worked as a model *snickers* I tried to convince both of them to design again, as I really miss their awesome, crazy and avant garde ideas!
I never thought it would be so much fun to roll back in time for a few moments and think about all the cool things we did – but it really felt amazing and it put a smile on my face. I hope that it won’t take as long until we meet again 🙂
As if that would not already have been the best evening for ages, Kaly mentioned she would TP another “model granny” over and before I could ask – Latrelly Flux rezzed in! OMG that really became a dinosaur revival :p I did not see all of them in ages, neither we talked, but it felt so good to se them again and while we were talking, it became more and more as we would have never stopped talking. I again felt like the dwarf between those ladies – as always – even if I am now not as high as I used to be as a model… even back then I was the tiniest 😉
I do not wanna roll back the time, but we really had great times back then. Modeling was completely different.. and alive.We did not have as many events and designers really created full collections a few time of the year and not just one new outfit for a monthly event. We had Fashion Weeks or Designer Showcases to release their newest collections and it was really fun. They booked us for vendor shoots and I remember very well how honored and proud we felt, being used as vendor model – It really was a privilege and sometimes we even got paid for it.
I do not want to say, in the past everything was better – things change with time and future not just brings negative things, if you are able to develop and adapt new ways of doing tings. It is hard to release the past, especially if it was a nice one, but even if things change and force you to change it can be something good. Most of the time if you stick too hard to the past, it will hurt you and as well it will stop you from developing forward. I learned that more than once, but if you made your peace with that – it isn’t that painful and more and it happens way faster and easier, as if you fight against it everyday 🙂
I hope I made sense with what I was trying to say… in the end I am no native English speaker, but I try my best 😉
Top: [CX] – “Mucronate Top – Leather” (Maitreya)
Pants: adorsy – “Marilice Pants Jeans Original” (Maitreya)
Shoes: **UTOPIA@Design** – “Rebeca” (Maitreya)
Necklace: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Borg Necklaces (Girl)”
Bracelets (right): [ kunst ] – “Conrad Bracelet / Female” & Taylor Bracelets (F)”
Bracelet (left): amias – “Jasna black”
Rings: FORMANAILS – “Accessories for Maitreya Bento – Rings Simple” (Maitreya, Bento)
Nailpolish: Dark Passsions – “Koffin Nails – Mist Connection” (Maitreya Applier)
Septum: [ kunst ] – “Anuket Septum Ring”
Lips Piercing: [CX] – “Spiked Gloss”
Hair: .shi – “Eirene / Her”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara 4.1”
Head: LeLutka – “Simone 3.3”
Ears: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Ears Gomory”
Tattoo: [White~Widow] – “Replicas” (Maitreya Applier)
Background: Pseudo– “Paul T Scene Backdrop” (Gacha, Rare)
Poses: Foxcity – “Legs for Days” & “Sits Vol1” (Bento)
