2013 – Window Shopping!

February 6, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

Yesterday I was not in the best mood so I decided to take a “day off” and just went some window shopping.

First I wanted to see the new store of Kyra Camel, owner and designer of Baboom. So I made my way to her new Mainstore. It was closed to the public still, so I had a dreamy time looking through all her stuff without lag and too many people there :p. I already have nearly the whole store, but as I was looking through the 2 floors of amazing designs this wonderful mesh tunic with the matching leggings caught my attention. I never saw them before. The “Legere” outfit you can find in different colors and as I was debating on wich color I should get, I saw it only was 99L$!!! No question, I had to take all of them*giggles*

After that, I went to the Couturier’s Docks to see what news I can find there. And I totally was caught by the “Miss Heart Black” hat from BaObA. This amazing combination of roses, hearts and some petals just did blow me away and I had to get it.

All of a sudden one of the latest releases from [Cliche] came to my mind and I remembered that I got the “Pilar” ankle boots lately with those amazing little studs. Slowly a look was growing in my mind as I saw the wonderful “Dangerous Spikes” jewelry set from A&Ana Fashion at the TDR Fusion.

Last but not least I made my way over to the new Collabor88 sim. They had a lot of amazing stuff as well and I got quite a few things there too but what really touched me was the “Room of Balloons” from Exposeur & The Loft. The whole room is modify able and you can push and pull the balloons around like and change the colors to make it fit to your picture idea. As well it has 12 single and 5 couple poses inbuilt. On top you get a sweet little green balloon as an extra prop you can carry as well.

As I was back home at my photo studio, I tried to figure out a picture. But all that I tried was not really satisfying. Maybe because the “Room of Balloons” was made for being snapped with shadows and I still cannot do pictures with shadows again as I always crash as soon as I enable lightning and shadows in SL. As I was shortly before despairing, my sweet little brother came over and saw the “Room of Balloons” and my styling and he asked me what I was doing. I told Dahriel about my little depression and that I seem not to be able to snap a good picture for what ever reason. He liked the room with all the balloons, so he decided to help me and made the snapshots for me. After he sent them over to me, I could work on them. That really saved my day 😉 Thank you sweet brother for helping me out 😉

I really enjoyed my window shopping and I was not planning on making a special post about it, but after all those amazing things I found, I thought it would be worth it 😉

Details

Outfit: Baboom – “Legere” (mesh)

Hat: BaObA – “Miss Heart Black” – NEW (Couturier’s Docks)

Shoes: [Cliche] – “Pilar Boots” /black studs – NEW

Hair: DeLa – “Julia II” (mesh)

Nails: Love Soul – “Rose Princess”

Jewelry: A&Ana Fashion – “Dangerous Spikes” – NEW (TDR Fusion)

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Makeup: Silken Moon – “SM Eclipse Urban ES Central Park” – NEW, “SM Eclipse Soft Eye Mauve” – NEW & “SM Eclipse Color Eye Silver” – NEW

Lips: Silken Moon – “Wicca Lips Lead” – NEW

Prop & Poses: Exposeur & The Loft – “Room of Balloons” – NEW (Collabor88)

Model & Artwork: Wicca Merlin

Photographer: Dahriel (thank you so much for the snapshots bro!!!)

Future Couture with Mea Culpa – “Chromium Impact”

February 5, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

And again I have the great pleasure to show you one of the newest releases of Mea Culpa. Tatanka Kaligawa, owner and designer of Mea Culpa, really is busy these days and releases so many new and incredible outfits that I really have trouble to decide wich one should go first 😉 .

Again it was my dear little brother Dahriel, that amazed me with a matching male Mea Culpa outfit to the new female “Chromium Impact” outfit. The “Chromium Impact” is a firework of incredible textured prims. The amazing chrome effect for sure is the base for the whole outfit, but all the amazing little details like the tassels at the hips, the awesome shoulder pads, the wrist parts and the huge skirt are perfect arranged to make a high couture creation. To complete my styling I added the “Marceline Horns” from Ezura and some punky hair. The extraordinary skin was made by Malicia Python, owner and designer of Silken Moon. The amazing eye decoration is directly painted on a wonderful gray scaled skin, perfect for black & white pics and for some very special and unique stylings. The cool looking earrings come from [sys] and are called “Aquarius Earrings”.

Dahriel is wearing the amazing “Venecian Millenium” outfit from Mea Culpa and for the details of his awesome and extravagant styling you can take a look at his blog 😉 (http://dahrielfashionsl.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/news-from-mea-culpa-posesion-with-house-of-elliot-eshi-otawara/)

To get your “Chromium Impact” or maybe for a nice Valentine present for your girl you better go to the Mea Culpa Mainstore and take a look 😉

Details

Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Chromium Impact” – NEW

Shoes: Mea Culpa – “Raptor”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Morbida Heavy Metal”

Lips: blackliquid – “Lip Line”

Head Piece: Ezura – “Marceline Horns”

Earrings: [sys] – “Aquarius”

Poses: PosESioN

Models: Dahriel & Wicca

Photographer: Dahriel

My personal favourites of MVW2013 – Formal Gown of Iceland 2013 by Tres Beau & Chop Zuey

February 5, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

Miss Virtual World 2013 – Again BoSL showcased an amazing event on December the 15th 2013, with the finale of the MVW 2013 contest. Many countries were represented by amazing ladies and it was really an exciting event. Designers and models worked together for their 2 final looks. One evening gown and one national costume for each lady. Every year when I saw the MVW finale it was an exciting moment to see the results, that designers and models worked on for so many weeks. Last year I took the challenge to make a full catalogue of all the gowns and costumes. The idea must have inspired some bloggers this year and they started to do that for the MVW 2013 designs. I decided for my own not to do the same again and just would like to showcase my personal favourites. First I thought about to do my personal top 12, but then I figured that I like more than 12 and just thought about doing all the ones that really caught my attention in no particular order

The gown for Miss Virtual Iceland 2013 was made my Kimmera Madison, owner and designer of Tres Beau. I have to admit, as I was sitting there and watching the finale, this was one of those gowns that made me go “WOW”. The wonderful flowers and ruffles go so perfectly together and the color change from the bottom to the top just is made so carefully and with such an amazing feeling for the gradient. The combination of white, teal and the yellow of the flowers are awesome chosen. Again we can see that the long experience of Kimmera and her incredible skills for shapes and colors, let her made this beautiful gown.

The wonderful jewelry for “Miss Zaara123 ” gown are crafted by Belle Roussel, owner and designer of Chop Zuey. The “Eilifu” set with its amazing white pearls is the perfect addition to this stunning gown. The “Eilifu” set contains earrings, collar and bracelet.

The “Miss Zaara123” gown you can purchase at the Tres Beau Mainstore and for the “Eilifu” set you just have to stop by at the Chop Zuey Mainstore 🙂

Details

Gown: Tres Beau – “Miss Zaara123” – NEW

Jewelry: Chop Zuey – “Eilifu” – NEW

Hair: PurpleMoon – “Era”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Lipstick: Silken Moon – “Wicca Lips Teal”

Poses: PosESioN

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Thinking of Skulls & Roses

January 31, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

Today I have the pleasure to announce the reopening of the House of Elliot. Today at 2PM SLT, Zaryna will reopen her store and she already gave me a preview of her new creations. I was so happy as I arrived at the studio and saw that Dahriel had the male version of it and it totally hit me as Dahriel asked to do it together with a pic. He made a special pose for that called “Thinking” and it looks so amazing emotional to me and I was totally in love already, as we snapped the picture.

Lets take a closer look in the “Skulls & Roses” outfit. The whole outfit is mesh made and you can wear it with or without long pants to it. For the pictures I decided to go without the pants since Dahriel was wearing them 😉 The body and the hood are separate mesh prims and you can decide how you wanna style it up. The wonderful texture reminded me on some of the Ed Hardy creations with all the skulls and roses on it and I love that style anyways 🙂 We decided to go with sneakers and make the more cool kinds look with the “Skulls & Roses”, but you can for sure style it elegant as well.

Speaking of the pose that Dahriel made, for that wonderful “Skulls & Roses” couple, he as well has new group gifts for February and I guess he liked the “Skulls & Roses” outfit as much as I do and so he snapped the vendor pics for the February group gifts for PosESioN right away after we did the couple one 😉 – and yes guys there is a male pose as a group gift as well so… do not miss that!

So, to make a long story short… do not forget to join the reopening party of House of Elliot today at the new Mainstore, do not forget to join the PosESioN group for the amazing February group gifts for male and female and when you are already at the PosESioN Mainstore you can take a look at the new “Thinking” couple pose 😉

Details

Outfit: House of Elliot – “Skulls & Roses” – NEW (mesh)

Facetattoo: House of Elliot – “Black Face Tat”

Fishnets: *Thalia* – “Fishnet Pantyhose with Seam”

Shoes: Blueberry – “Knee High Sneaker Boots” (mesh)

Nails: Formanails – “Stiletto”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Ring: (NS) – “Vicious Rose”

Tattoo: v3 Tattoo – “Nothing left but Hate”

Hairbase: Tuty’s – “Limbo”

Couple Pose: PosESioN – “Thinking” – NEW

SinglePose: PosESioN – “February Gift Female” – NEW

Models: Dahriel & Wicca

Photographer: Dahriel

My personal favourites of MVW2013 – Formal Gown of Russia 2013 by Champagne! Sparkling Couture

January 31, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

The wonderful deep red gown with the rich and detailed corset for Miss V Russia 2013, Dolcestella Draconia, was made by Enzo Champagne, owner and designer of Champagne! Sparkling Couture. The “Russian Passion” gown really reflects a style that i can imagine on a russian high society party. The huge red skirt is decorated with some delicate gems while the corsage is made with an amazing texture rich of gold and very filigree, detailed created. The amazing flowers that are going down from the waist over the skirt add a very elegant touch as well. The wonderful headpiece as well is part of the “Russian Passion” . The sheer lace that covers the eyes is hold by amazing 3 flowers that repeat the wonderful flowers of the skirt. The “Russian Passion” you can find at the Champagne! Sparkling Couture Mainstore together with some more amazing new releases.

Details

Gown: Champagne! Sparkling Couture – “Russion Passion” – NEW

Jewelry: Alienbear – “Lorraine”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Makeup: Silken Moon – “SM Eclipse Swallow’s Tail” – NEW & “SM Eclipse Deep Set” – NEW

Poses by PosESioN

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Wicca’s Wardrobe: Conflict of the Elements

January 31, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

(Models: 2 times me 😉 , Photographer & Artwork: Dahriel)

The Fire-Water Conflict:

Fire and Water are the perfect opposites and both are necessary for our internal harmony. Fire is hot, dry, and light and Water is cold, moist, and heavy. Fire rules the future and Water rules the past. Fire is hierarchical and Water is inclusive, familial. Fire is impatient and Water is patient. Fire is intuitive and Water is imaginative. The opposites are almost endless. (Ingrid Naiman, 2008)

As I saw this 2 designs of Bubble Cyberstar, owner and artistic designer of Bubble’s Designs, I immediately was in love with them. I never before saw such strong and elemental themed creations. Each of the dresses, the “Fire” and the “Water” dress have animated water and fire effects. The water runs down the skirt and for the “Fire” you have floating fire textures on the corsage and the skirt as well. All the prims, like the wonderful waterdrops that decorate the arms and the wonderful texture layers make both of that outfits really to art pieces instead of only dresses to wear 😉

And as if MyStiCa Matova, owner and designer of Bizarre Hair, would have smelled it she sent me 2 hair styles from her called “Heaven” & “Hell”. She could not have sent me better ones as they totally hit the nail on the head with their styles according to the “Fire” and “Water” dresses from Bubble’s Designs!

The “Hell” Hair, I modified a but I took the white version and colored it to light blue as I wanted to match the outfit. I always liked the idea of strange and extraordinary hair and really at Bizarre Hair you can find exactly that. The awesome jewelry was made by Maylo Designs for both hairstyles.

The “Hell” hairstyle comes with the amazing little fires hold by the horned demon. The hair as well has a face and body light that makes the super evil demon look 🙂 . Like I said I never saw such kick ass hair that has such a special and unique style with such ideas like Bizarre Hair has 😉

A special thank you goes to Dahriel my sweet little bother. I was trying to realize a fight between “Fire” & “Water” and “Heaven” & “Hell”. I drove me crazy since it never looked like I wanted it to. I was trying for weeks now and then Dahriel came into my life and I was knowing, if someone can do it he can. He made the poses and took the picture. Right in time for my rezzday today he gave me the pic and it was one of my best SL rezzday gift! Thank you little bro <3 !!!

Details

Water/Heaven:

Outfit: Bubble’s Design – “Water”

Hair (incl jewelry): [Bizarre Hair] – “Heaven”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca” – NEW

Makeup: Silken Moon – “SM Eclipse Steam Silver” – NEW & “SM Eclipse Color Eye Sky” – NEW

Shoes: *GF* – “Flower Pumps Eve”

Lashes: [glow] – “Water Drops” & Redgrave – “Silversnow”

Nails: Synthetique – “Medium Fierce Nails”

Fire/Hell:

Outfit: Bubble’s Design – “Fire”

Hair (incl necklace): [Bizarre Hair] – “Hell”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca” – NEW

Makeup: Silken Moon – “SM Eclipse ES Doomsday” – NEW & “SM Eclipse Color Eye Orange” – NEW

Lipstick: Silken Moon – “Silky Lips Orange”

Shoes: [PM] – “Baby T’s Plain”

Lashes: Detours – “Spider”

Earrings: LouLou – “Willow”

Nails: Synthetique – “Medium Fierce Nails”

All Poses by PosESioN

Model & Photographer (except the first pic): Wicca Merlin

Last Chance for the 50% Violator Jewelry Sale!!!

January 31, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

Unbelievable but true… Violator has a 50% discount sale on all the jewelry!!! Anyways if new or older ones you have one day left to run to the Violator Mainstore and get the jewelry, you always desired for half prize!!!

The sale only lasts till end of january, that gives you one more day to take the opportunity of this spectacular offer!!!

Taxi: Violator HQ (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Violator%20HQ/194/181/23)

Details

Jewelry: Violator – “The Punk, the Raff and the Beast”

Headpiece: PurpleMoon – “Creatura Headpiece”

Nails: PurpleMoon – “La Mort Douce Claws”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Morbida Heavy Metal”

Lips: blackliquid – “Lip Line”

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Breathtaking News & Timeless Favourites by Mea Culpa & PosESioN!!! Starring Dahriel & Wicca

January 29, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

(Wicca Merlin: Mea Culpa – Back Mamba & Dahriel: Mea Culpa – Painless Obedience; Pose: PosESioN – Hamlet)

Lately my sweet little brother Dahriel, owner and creator of PosESioN, came across that we both liked a lot what the other did and we talked about to do some pics together. I adore his picture skills for a very long time and I was very happy, when he told me he would love to do some weird stylings and art with me together. All of sudden he IMed me if I could style anything with Mea Culpa and purple, as he wanted to wear the “Illusory Wisdome” outfit from Mea Culpa. I was thinking on one of my long time favourites of Mea Culpa, the “Hopeless Illusion”. It was one of the very first creations of Tatanka Kaligawa, owner and designer of Mea Culpa. For the poses we used some of the latest releases of PosESioN. As Dahriel and me got dressed he rezzed one of his new skyboxes for the picture and I got huge eyes… The whole skybox was in purple and black and had a look like it could have been a location of a Tim Burton movie! Dahriel and me discovered that we both like Tim Burton a lot – another thing we share as so many others, that we discovered before and I felt even more how much I love my little brother 😉

(Wicca Merlin: Mea Culpa – Hopeless Illusion & Dahriel: Mea Culpa – Illusory Wisdome; Poses: PosESioN)

For the next picture we decided to go with one of the latest releases from Mea Culpa, the “X-treme Mirrors”.

(Wicca Merlin & Dahriel: Mea Culpa – X-treme Mirrors; Poses: PosESioN)

The “X-treme Mirrors” is part of the X-treme line of Mea Culpa, a special line, that combines fetish elements with high fashion designs. Again Dahriel rezzed one of his various skyboxes and again it was perfect for the whole scenery… he has the eye for the special detail. More and more I enjoyed our evening that we had together… all the stylings, like for the “X-treme Mirror” I had an idea and he came up with another one, or the other waxy round and we started to mix and match our ideas according to the other… I felt like in heaven. The wonderful mirrors on the “X-treme Mirrors”brought us to the idea to make the picture like there would be a mirror in the middle of the picture. Dahriel mirrored the pose he had for himself and the room as well and with all the amazing details of the “X-treme Mirrors”, the glasses, the wonderful headpiece and the amazing textures the whole picture became art for me.

(Wicca Merlin: Mea Culpa – Oppressive Prophecy & Dahriel: Mea Culpa – El Matador; Pose: PosESioN – Matador)

Dahriel got he wonderful “El Matador” outfit from Mea Culpa and I had immediately the idea, the “Oppressive Prophecy” would make a perfect match for another couple shot with Dahriel. The gold decorations of both outfits are just like made for ech other. Both outfits have a black basic and with all the amazing prims of the “Oppressive Prophecy” I go the idea of if a fashion matador and his fashion victim. Dahriel loved the idea and started immediately to create the perfect pose. As we thought about a location we agreed because of all the black and gold tines we wanted to have sand and rocks with kinda an arena style for the amazing “Matador” pose from PosESioN.

I would like to thank my little brother Dahriel for an amazing afternoon and evening. For a long time I felt the first time that there is a soul that is somehow connected to mine with all the weird stylings and picture ideas. Our minds are so close that sometimes it scares me 😉 , but I could not think of a better little brother than Dahriel! This was a wonderful and amazing time with such incredible pictures and I really hope that this was just a start and we can do many more like this little brother!!!

Details

Picture 1:

Outfit Wicca: Mea Culpa – “Black Mamba”

Outfit Dahriel: Mea Culpa – “Painless Obedience”

Pose: PosESion – “Hamlet” – NEW

Picture 2:

Outfit Dahriel: Mea Culpa – “Illusory Wisdome”

Outfit Wicca: Mea Culpa – “Hopeless Illusion”

Hair: EMO-tions

Poses: PosESioN

Picture 3:

Outfit Wicca & Dahriel: Mea Culpa – “X-treme Mirrors” – NEW

Poses: PosESioN

Picture 4:

Outfit Wicca: Mea Culpa – “Oppressive Prophecy”

Outfit Dahriel: Mea Culpa – “El Matador”

Pose: PosESioN – “Matador” – NEW

Photographer: Dahriel

Models: Dahriel & Wicca

My personal favourites of MVW2013 – Formal Gown of Netherlands 2013 by PurpleMoon & Chop Zuey

January 29, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

The wonderful and elegant formal gown for Miss Netherlands 2013, Linnda Scofield, was mae by Poulet Koenkamp, owner and designer of PurpleMoon. The soft pink and darker shade of rose make a very sophisticated look. With the huge prims that go up and down from the waist, the whole gown gets a light artistic look as well. The wonderful ruffles of the train together with the long wrist prims make the perfect look for the Miss Netherlands 2013 evening gown.

The amazing matching jewelry for the Netherlands 2013 formal gown was made by Belle Roussel, owner and designer of Chop Zuey. The “Tres Fleurs” set is made of many small, tiny and filigree flowers in all shades of pink. For the earrings you have along and short version. For the picture above I used the short ones 🙂

The “Tres Fleurs” set you can get at the Chop Zuey Mainstore and the beautiful “Linnda” gown you will find at the PurpleMoon Mainstore together with all the other incredible new releases 🙂

Details

Gown: PurpleMoon – “Linnda” – NEW

Jewelry: Chop Zuey – “Tres Fleurs” – NEW

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Makeup: Silken Moon – “SM Eclipse Fab ES Tea Room” – NEW & “SM Eclipse Soft Eye Purple” – NEW & “SM Eclipse Color Eye Silver” – NEW

Lipstick: Silken Moon – “Wicca Lips Mauve” – NEW

Hair: EMO-tions – “Tyra”

Poses: PosESioN

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

My personal favourites of MVW2013 – Formal Gown of Italy 2013 by SoliDea FoliEs

January 23, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

The italian community was always very strong represented in many MVW challenges… we had Mimmi Boa 2009 winning the crown, Mavi Beck in 2010 in the top 10, Angels Milena in 2011 in the top 12 and Anna Sapphire as winner of the MVW 2012 crown and again Italy was able to place on the winner stairs with a 1st runner-up in 2013 again!

The wonderful formal gown for Natzuka Millandrovic, Miss Italy 2013, was made by Mila Tatham, genius designer and owner of SoliDea FoliEs. What caught my eyes most of this dress was the incredible skirt. All those ruffles on the first view look like they would have been added totally confused… but if you take a second look you can see the incredible idea of this ruffle attachment. The wonderful bodice is covered with little white, silver and blue gemstones and the blue belt make a wonderful accent on the white gown. The ruffles are brought back above the side of the chest. For me the combination of white and blue with all this ruffles and gems made a perfect formal gown for a MVW runner-up 😉

Details

Gown: SoliDea FoliEs – “MVW 2013 Italy Gown” – NEW (mesh)

Jewelry: Finesmith – “Laetitia!

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca” – NEW

Lipstick: Silken Moon – “Wicca Lips Denim” – NEW

Makeup: Silken Moon – “SM Eclipse Boho ES Starry Night” – NEW & “SM Eclipse Color Eye Silver” – NEW

Nails: Love Soul – “Lady in Love”

Hair: LoQ – “Pure Beauty”

Shoes: Maitreya – “ChiChi”

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

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Wicca’s Wardrobe: LOTD 02/05/2013 – Window Shopping!

Future Couture with Mea Culpa – “Chromium Impact”

My personal favourites of MVW2013 – Formal Gown of Iceland 2013 by Tres Beau & Chop Zuey

Thinking of Skulls & Roses

My personal favourites of MVW2013 – Formal Gown of Russia 2013 by Champagne! Sparkling Couture

Wicca’s Wardrobe: Conflict of the Elements

Last Chance for the 50% Violator Jewelry Sale!!!

Breathtaking News & Timeless Favourites by Mea Culpa & PosESioN!!! Starring Dahriel & Wicca

My personal favourites of MVW2013 – Formal Gown of Netherlands 2013 by PurpleMoon & Chop Zuey

My personal favourites of MVW2013 – Formal Gown of Italy 2013 by SoliDea FoliEs