Roaming around in Wicca’s Wardrobe

July 30, 2016 by Wicca Merlin

Sometimes you are in a mood you can’t describe… it is a feeling you will not find any words for – neither good or bad.

One of those days it was when I was just wandering around in one of our latest releases for Wicca’s Wardrobe. It is those days when you do not feel inspired at all and everything you start seems to not work for what ever reason. Luckily I do not have such days too often :p . But when it happens, the best usually is to wander around, try some locations of the SL destination guide or go through my old landmarks and see if they are still there or if I can find some source of inspiration by just roaming around.

Some when my way brought me to Ironwood Hills, one of my favourite sims actually 🙂 . The creators of the sim change it frequently to a new design and look but always in a dark post apocalyptic theme with a horror touch, which I like a lot my self. This time I found a new layout again when I landed and I was very curious what I would find this time.

I landed in a warehouse with all kind of mannequins.. the dark version of those ;). then you make your way our through an abandoned looking town part before you enter a dark carnival fair it seems. You way leads you through a huge clown head… more specific, you have to walk over its tongue through its head. At the place after, you will find all kind of different things and I do not wanna tell too much as you really should see this place by your own and discover all the amazing and as well terrifying things there 😉 What caught my eye though was a huge Ferris Wheel, which reminded me about a thriller movie. There was one similar at Pripyat near Chernobyl, what made the whole trip over the sim even more exciting 😉 At the back side of the sim I found an abandoned Asylum with… no just see for yourself 😉

When I started my trip I was wearing the “Nimue” set, that we made for the still running round for We <3 RP. it was styled in a more medieval way as I was fooling around for vendor pics ni that look and I just had put it back on. But the more I was wandering over the sim the more I wanted to do some pics and so I had to change the attitude of the outfit a little bit to match the scenery. I added the “Nacha Set”. The “Nascha Set” is our actual item for The Secret Affair. I changed the color of the outfit – the leather parts to black and some of the cloth parts to red – and matched the accessories to it. For the shoes I just put the black version of the “Gypsy Boots” instead of the brown 😉

Now I just needed some hair and makeup, which did fit more towards a post apocalyptic themed surrounding. The choice fell on the “Neva” hair, that I got as a special present longer ago and the “Fighter Eyeshadow”from Corvus paired with a red eyeshadow from L.Fauna. For the poses I just went through all kind of modeling poses, but for this special case it just felt wrong to pose as a model and so I started to look through my photo poses and found all kind of different ones, which just had a little bit more “movement” in them even if they were static ;).

Overall I had so much fun and actually found some inspiration to enjoy this trip and all the pictures. The more I tried the more pictures came out and I really had a hard time to choose the few for today. Again some loosely journey around did it to find something to work with without any special intention 😉

I really can just recommend pressure free time and looking around when you feel like I described it in the beginning. For me it always is the solution to not be depressed, that I again wasted a day without being productive in any kind 😉

Details

Outfit: Wicca’s Wardrobe – “Nimue” – NEW @ We <3 RP

Shoes: Wicca’s Wardrobe – “Gypsy Boots”

Accessories: Wicca’s Wardrobe – “Nascha Set” – NEW @ The Secret Affair

Hair: Amacci – “Neva”

Makeup: Corvus – “Fighter Eye Shadow” & L.Fauna – “Basic Shadow [Red]”

Lips: blackliquid – “Lip Line”

Location: Ironwood Hills

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Accessories, Accessories, Accessories…

October 15, 2015 by Wicca Merlin

(Versus Magazine Autumn/Winter 2015: http://issuu.com/versus.sl.magazine/docs/versus_october2015__af-_10october_1)

Details

Headpiece: Wicca’s Wardrobe – “Kandira Headpiece”
Necklace & Earrings: Finesmith – “Wave”
Shoulder Piece: LeLutka Ultra – “Macabre Warrior”
Hand (right): FORMANAILS – “Nikolaj”
Hand (left): Zibska – “Mallt” + FORMANAILS – “Design Punk”
Shoes: Wicca’s Wardrobe – “Doro Booties”
Nail Polish: Nailed It! – “Rock Set”
Bag: 22769 – “Veronica Handbag”
Purse: Swallow – “Apocalypse Clutch”

Pants: LeeZu – “Madison”
Top: Dead Dollz – “Missandei”

Hair: EMO-tions – “Brandy”
Makeup: blackliquid – “Dusted Gunmetal” & Madrid Solo – “Sandra Said”

Pose: Del May

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

LOTD 09/26/2015 – Back in Black with Devilish Poses

September 27, 2015 by Wicca Merlin

Yes, I cannot deny it… I love black…

I was standing on my platform after finishing all my daily work and started to dig into my inventory to sort some stuff and trash some of the older things I never will wear again… like… hair from 2009 and shoes from 2011 with weird bare feet and funny toes*giggles*

Then you sometimes come across boxes… that you never opened, but certainly you had to buy them…

Now the fun starts. Unpacking and again making the inventory looking like a hot mess 😉

But the good thing is you usually find some hidden treasure you do not even remember, that you bought them.

So it was with the “Luminea” headpiece from Black Pearls. I got it at the Fantasy Collective a few month ago and totally forgot about it… like ever so often…

The “Luminea” headpiece is one of those accessories that sneaked right into my heart. The amazing leather straps across the face the sweet chains that hold it together on the top and the huge fins that give the whole piece an abstract and fantasy touch.

Inspired by the headpiece I thought of a basic black look to let the headpiece stick out even more. I kept opening boxes and got one surprise after another…

That will be a few more posts in the future I guess *giggles*

The next part what fell in my hands was the “Biker Chest” from May’s Soul. I just used the collar part and skipped the shoulder pads for this post, that belong to the whole pack. With the long leather fringes it definitely made an interesting accessory.

Now the difficulties began… since I am not a friend of being naked without a reason for styling posts, I had to find pants and a top that fits under that great collar. Pants was realtivly easy as I love my leather leggings from Maitreya. For the shoes I decided to go with the “Bella Heels” from KC for the slink high mesh feet. The shoes come with a HUD, that lets you choose from different colors for the metals and the shoe.

Now I still needed a top or a jacket that does not interfere with the long fringes of the collar. I guess, I tried about 20 before I came across the “Leather Asymetrical Jacket” from ISON.

It matched perfectly to the while look and added a slightly elegant touch to it 🙂

Last but not least I chose something for my hands to break the black. The “Ringblume” hand accessories from FORMANAILS.

Now before I am done for today, I would like to drag your focus on the poses I used today. The poses are all made of Linda Reddevil. She recently opened her store Devilish Poses and makes some amazing runway poses. They are somewhat special and a little bot more out of the box that usual. I like them very much as they totally go along with my feeling for modern and fresh posing 😉

After all the looks is kinda modern, elegant and dark abstract… exactly what I like 😉

Details

Top: ISON – “Leather Asymmetrical Jacket”

Pants: Maitreya – “Leather Skinny Pants”

Shoes: .::KC::. – “Bella”

Collar: May’s Soul – Biker Chest”

Hand Jewelry: FORMANAILS – “Ringblume-2”

Head Piece: Black Pearl – “Luminea”

Hair: Baiastice – “Spagna”

Makeup: Arise – “Scale Facetattoo” & Corvus – “Fighter Eyeshadow”

Lipstick: blackliquid – “Lip Line”

Poses: Devilish Poses

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Sometimes…

August 14, 2015 by Wicca Merlin

You can take away all my love, what do I need it for?
You can take away all these words, there’s no meaning anymore
You can take away everything, leave me lying on the floor
All those sorry’s, we can’t go back to the start
You can’t fix me, I’m torn apart

[Leona Lewis]

Sometimes life feels dark…

Sometimes life feels empty…

Sometimes you feel teared apart…

Sometimes you see no light…

Sometimes you just feel nothing…

Sometimes you do not know what to do…

… But then…

You open your eyes, still full of tears and look up.

You take the hand, someone is reaching out and stand up again.

Details

Top: Wicca’s Wardrobe – “Xena Top”

Pants: Wicca’s Wardobe – “Lavinia Leggings”

Collar: Wicca’s Wardrobe – “Dark Desire Collar”

Head Piece: Wicca’s Wardrobe – “Xeno” – NEW @ On9

Wings: Death Row Designs – “Wings – Desaturated”

Bracelets: Formanails – “Nikolaj”

Makeup: Zibska – “Ltd Noir 20” & “Ltd Noir 24”

Eyelashes: Damned – “Blossom Eyelashes”

Tattoo: White Widow – “Tombstone”

Skin: [sys] – “Eva”

Poses: Silhouette F – “Goa”

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

LOTD 08/11/2015 – Back to the 80s?

August 12, 2015 by Wicca Merlin

I can not deny it… I am a child of the 80 somehow.

Born in 1977 I am basically too young to have experienced the 80s fashion myself a lot, but it was the time when I grew up and I still love the style of that time.

The 80s to me kinda show a fashion rebellion and as well I think that the 80s fashion made the way for what we call fashion nowadays.

When I put on the Emma Dress from Gabriel, I immediately fell in love and back to the 80s*giggles. Even if that dress matches a modern styling as well with the red and black and the shape of the dress I so saw Cyndi Lauper or Whitney Houston wearing it :p

The short dress with a kind of wrapped look, where the red overlays the black fabric, the neat belt, it just screamed 80s at me 😉

The back of the “Emma” dress holds a very sexy secret as well 😉 You have a small gap between top and skirt that gives a very naughty view on your lower back*rawr*

I added the “Khalessi” bracelets from [sys] and some heavy boots from [GOS], tp even more go towards the 80s look.

The amazing hair, which is connected to the hat comes from Ayashi and just was the perfect addition for that look. Certainly I needed a cool tattoo too and what can be better than one of my beloved White Widow tattoos!

Julie did it again and made a wonderful and as well sexy looking tattoo, that goes over the whole body and even down the hands, plus it even has a wonderful painted garter looking ornament at the left leg. The “Music Box” tattoo is available in the 3 different colors and I chose the ‘Dark’ version for this post.

The fabulous nail polish was made by Giela Delpaso for Nailed It!

Details

Dress: Gabriel – “Emma Dress-milano color standart”

Shoes: [GOS] – Triumph Boots”

Bracelets: [sys] – “Khalessi Bracelets”

Tattoo: White Widow – “Music Box”

Makeup: Zibska – “Ltd Noir 22” + “Svenja ~ Scarlet”

Lipstick: blackliquid – “Boisinberry Suck”

Nail Polish – Nailed It! – “Diva Set”

Hair: Ayashi – “Rin”

Poses: Del May

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

News @ Machoire – Back in Black

July 28, 2015 by Wicca Merlin

Today I have the great pleasure to showcase some of the newest releases from Machoire.

The amazing “Veitades Hat” in black and the super edgy “Colde Heels” as well in black, both from Machoire.

The “Colde Heels” are made for the slink high mesh feet. with the huge circle shaped heel and the wonderful triangled front, those shoes are really a statement. Those high fashion and avant garde looking shoes definitely will turn heads everywhere you go and should not miss in a modern fashionistas wardrobe!

The head piece is a very complex and detailed piece of art. With the huge back part that gives the imagination of a light fabric floating in the air and the wonderful mask, I would not dare to just call it mask or hat, as the whole design comes in one piece. The awesome waved silver lines at the sides and the edgy spiked curved part on the top are a perfect match for the cool looking solver mask, which is ornamented with some amazing chains across the eyes. The chains are repeated below the chin and with the shining gems at the forehead it really becomes a little precious in every wardrobe.

Details

Head Piece: Machoire – “Veitades Hat” – NEW

Shoes: Machoire – “Colde Heels” – NEW (for slink high mesh feet)

Outfit: Graves – “G304”

Collar: Wicca’s Wardrobe – “Dark Desire Collar”

Hand Jewelry: FORMANAILS – “Nikolaj”

Nail Polish – Nailed It! – “Monochrome Set”

Makeup: Zibska – “Ltd Noir 20 + 24” (Project Limited)

Lipstick: MUA – “Matte Lipstick White 1” + blackliquid – “Lip Line”

Poses: Del May

Furniture: 22769

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Dead Dollz for the .PENUMBRA. Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014

May 31, 2014 by Wicca Merlin

Style Card 1

Outfit: Dead Dollz – “Inertia” (mesh, .PENUMBRA. S/S FW 2014)

Hair: booN – “SMK876”

Hands: Slink – “Avatar Enhancement Hands – Casual”

Ears: Mandala – “Simple Ears” (mesh)

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca 3”

Makeup: Madrid Solo – “Spotted Owl”

Makeup 2: Nuuna – “Makeup v4.1”

Poses: Del May

Style Card 2

Outfit: Dead Dollz – “1985” (mesh, .PENUMBRA. S/S FW 2014)

Head Piece: SoliDea FoliEs – “Openmind” (part of the outfit)

Hairbase:EMO-tions – “Hairbase 17”

Necklace: Maxi Gossamer (MG) – “Little Tiny Dagger”

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

Nails: Nailed It! – “Goth Set”

Ears: Mandala – “Simple Ears” (mesh)

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca 3”

Makeup: L. Fauna – “Smokey Cat Shadow” & Elysium -“Geometrica Line – Silver”

Poses: *PosESioN*

.PENUMBRA. SPRING/SUMMER FASHION WEEK: 25th of May to the 31st of May 2014

Witness the gathering of SL Fashion’s Bests as they unveil their visions for Spring/Summer 2014.

.PENUMBRA. SPRING/SUMMER FASHION WEEK 2014, a very much anticipated one week event takes the pioneer to display and express varied new styles in Second Life. The fashion fiesta, first and unique of its kind is a contemporary platform envisioned and designed to unite established designers with designers who aspire being “BRANDS” of tomorrow.

.PENUMBRA. SPRING/SUMMER FASHION WEEK 2014, is envisioned tolead and promote designer’s aspirations and motivations to a Global Audience Arena is Second Life

.PENUMBRA. SPRING/SUMMER FASHION WEEK 2014, is motivated to showcase the pinnacle of Second Life’s Fashion showmanship.

Today’s event shedule:

MAY 30TH | FRIDAY

2PM TOTAL ECLIPSE SHOW
LEGAL INSANITY

4PM SL LIVE RADIO

6PM TOTAL ECLIPSE SHOW
LYBRA

Casual Chic… or something like that ;)

May 31, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

Last week I was walking a show, that was dedicated to German designers in SL. Most of them are little stores and brands and for some I did not even know that they are German like me :p.

One of those brands I did never hear of before was F.owl. I got the beautiful “Wonderland – Doll Dress” for the show, something I might not have chosen by myself, but for the show I had to style it. The dress itself is mesh made. The bottom is a solid black fabric and the top has a sweet lace looking texture. I was looking for quite some time at the dress and thought what kind of look I could do with it. Usually if I need some inspiration, I get some music on, or I look through RL fashion magazines. This time I decided to go for music. I was listening to a mixture of Shania Twain, Sheryl Crow and Alanis Morissette, as the idea for my look was growing in my head.

(Picture from the Show by Annough Lykin)

I added the “Glitter Tights” in gold from LeeZu and the “Flutter Boots” by lassitude & ennui. The “Glitter Tights” I loved so much, because they have a black sheer base and some golden highlights around the knees in the front. The “Flutter Boots” I found at the Gothic Fair 2013 and I totally fell in love with them. The are boots with not too high heels but still they are not that kind of heavy and huge as most of the boots you see on the grid. The lines in the front and the flat sole with the heels were just perfect for the casual look I was searching for. Now I still looked kinda usual and nice, but I wanted to give the whole look my little twist. So I added the “Sirah” hairstyle from Burley with that amazing mesh hat and the huge “Twiggy” glasses from LeeZu. For the jewelry I decided to go with a simple high neck collar and ready was the styling 🙂 Even if I might have not bought this dress for my self, it turned out to soemthing I really liked ;). Overall it came out as a casual, but still stylish look that could be worn as an everyday outfit.

Details

Dress: F.owl – “Wunderland – Doll Dress” (mesh)

Hair: Burley – “Sirah” (mesh)

Boots: lassitude & ennui – “Flutter Boots” (mesh)

Makeup: Elysium – “Geometrica Line”

Lipstick: blackliquid – “black gloss”

Glasses: LeeZu – “Twiggy”

Poses: Body Talking

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

News from BaOba

May 6, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

Today I would like to show the amazing contribution of Baoba for the Sightsavers event. The amazing “Calla Green” hat. This amazing creation is the right accessory for the actual spring season. A green/white hat with an amazing Calla orchid at the top. The orchids looks so realistic with the wonderful textured white petals and the long yellow middle parts.. simply amazing!

This fresh and summer colors brought me to the idea to make a full yellow and green spring/summer look. Íf I try to style colors my memory always pulls me towards my LeeZu folder ;). Leezu Baxter made amazing grey, brown and black shaded clothing but as well she did strong colors that I really love.

I started with the “Me Like It Pants” in apple green. As it was totally other green tone I wanted to break the green to not look like a frog in the end 😉 and decided to go with the “Viela” dress top part in yellow. Since green, yellow-green and yellow are analogous colors they usually work very well if you choose the right tones.

To bring the yellow back again I put on the “Piazza Navona” ankle boots one of the latest show releases from LeeZu.For the jewelry I wanted something colorful but more modern and less elegant. I remembered the super cool “Deco” set from Baboom, combined with the “Orbital” collar from blackliquid and it matched the look perfectly, together with the new, mesh version of the “NifNif” gloves from LeeZu.

To finish off the styling I chose to put on some colorful make up, as well in green and yellow tones. My favourite store for that kind of makeups is Nuuna’s. Her crazy ideas and designs really can pimp many stylings in an awesome way 🙂

Details

Hat: BaOba – “Calla Green” – NEW (Sightsavers)

Top: LeeZu – “Viela” (part of the outfit)

Pants: LeeZu – “Me Like It Pants” (mesh)

Gloves: LeeZu – “NifNif” (mesh)

Shoes: LeeZu – “Piazza Navona”

Necklace: Baboom – “Deco”

Collar: blackliquid – “Orbital”

Hair: LeLutka – “Vibrato” (mesh)

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Makeup: Nuuna’s – “Warp” & “AstroGlam”

Lipstick: Silken Moon – “Wicca Lips Apple”

Poses: Wicca’s Wardrobe – Poses – “Casual Jeans”

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

-The Event- Hollywood: [Pure Poison]

April 11, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

Today again I would like to showcase one of the amazing designs of -the event- Hollywood.

The amazing “Giul Haute Couture Dress” from [Pure Poison].

The wonderful gown in black and gold tones has an extravagant look and together with the “Giul Lace Haute Hat” and the “Adore Gold-Onyx Collar”, both as well from [Pure Poison] it made a wonderful elegant and artistic style.

The gown is shoulderfree and the golden tones give amazing highlights to the black base. The head piece totally caught my attention with the lace looking front that repeats the train theme of the gown and the 2 horns that go high up in the air. The collar as well made of gold and black/onyx gems adds some elegance.

As I was searching for a nice location I came across one of the LEA sims. It is named “Rust” and was made by Cica Ghost. I spent a lot of time there, until I could decide where I wanna do my pictures. The amazing sim is so detailed and has so many amazing little places, it was really hard to decide for the spots I wanted to use.

So after you made your way to -the event- Hollywood sim (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/event%20HOLLYWOOD/57/170/66), you should make your way over to LEA 13, where the “Rust” (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LEA13/169/48/22) is located 😉

Details

Gown: [Pure Poison] – “Giul Haute Couture Dress” – NEW (Hollywood)

Headpiece: [Pure Poison] – “Giul Lace Haute Couture Hat” – NEW (Hollywood)

Collar: [Pure Poison] – “Adore Gold-Onyx Collar” – NEW (Hollywood)

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Makeup: Silken Moon – “Conceptual Makeup The Lost”

Eyeshadow: L.Fauna – “Basic Shadow Gold”

Hair: Baiastice – “Spagna”

Bangles: blackliquid – “Orbital”

Location: LEA 13 – “The Rust” by Cica Ghost

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

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Roaming around in Wicca’s Wardrobe

Accessories, Accessories, Accessories…

LOTD 09/26/2015 – Back in Black with Devilish Poses

Sometimes…

LOTD 08/11/2015 – Back to the 80s?

News @ Machoire – Back in Black

Dead Dollz for the .PENUMBRA. Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014

Today’s event shedule:

Casual Chic… or something like that ;)

News from BaOba

-The Event- Hollywood: [Pure Poison]