For this round of We ♥ RP we have a very special creation, the Maurine wristband made to fit Maitreya and Slink. Maurine is made up of a ruffled wristband bound by leather and stones. The wristband is then connected with delicate chains to a striking ring emblazoned with a large gem. As always we offer a powerful HUD that offers you ten different textures so that you can make Maurine uniquely your own.
Head: LeLutka – “Simone 3.0”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara 4.1”
Face: Izzie’s – “Pores & Blemishes” (LeLutka Applier)
Kawaii is all about cuteness and do we have something cute for you! We have created a one piece dress trimmed with adorable pom poms. Our Natsumi dress comes with a HUD that offers versatility to the straps, dress, pocket, tops and metals. The Natsumi HUD allows you to choose from 10 fabric colors and 6 metal colors. You are sure to come up with your own cute combination of colors to make Natsumi adorable on you! Natsumi is sized to fit Maitreya’s Lara, Slink’s Hourglass, and Belleza’s Freya.
TAXI: Notice Me, Senpai
Back in Black 😉 As much as I experiment with colors, I do love black and it feels the most comfortable to me. Today I do have fantastic news from A&Y and no.match. A&Y is THE brand for everything cyber and futuristic looking and my personal favorite, if it comes to that kind of styles. Today I would like to showcase the very first gacha, that Anabel Crystal made for the Lootbox event. The gacha has 24 commons and 2 rares. The “Lorna Cybergothic Leather” gacha is composed of armwarmers, collar, panties, skirt and corset. “Lorna” comes in 6 different colors – Mono, Light, Dark, Red, Hot Red & Dark Red. While the corsets are the rare items all the others are amazing common items. The panties fit perfectly beneath the skirt but as well can be worn without it.
The cool legwarmers are made as well by A&Y and they got released at the Red Light District event. They come with 5 latex textures, unlimited palette of tint and it is materials enabled as well. Shine and glow options can be chosen, too and you have the choice of an linkset and separate objects for each leg.
The amazing hair, comes from no.match and was released for the UBER event. I completely fell in love with the “No.Arrest” hairstyle. I am anyways addicted to short hair and if they have a slight punky style I just cannot resist anyways 😉 No.match is one of my favorite hair store for along time and I do love their textures and as well the different colors of their hair. Since Wicca does have the ‘no eyebrow’ look as one of her trademarks I do have to have a light hair color. That kinda limits me to a range from blond to light red if I do not use any kind of eyebrows – if I use them they are kinda unusual and the most I do love the penciled ones – no.match has the best shades of those colors for me, that as well match my skintone perfectly.
Since I am talking the whole time about favorite stores I cannot miss Zibska, one of my first stores to go if I am looking for extra ordinary and strong character makeups. I am always jumping up and down if I see new releases especially unusual lipsticks like the “Tista” one. It is just amazing what you can do with makeup and lipsticks apart from the norm and Zib Scaggs seems to have an unlimited sky of creativity for exactly those!
Outfit: A&Y Cybernetics – “Lorna Cybergothic Leather” (Maitreya) – NEW @ Lootbox
Legwarmers: A&Y Cybernetics – “Lexa Latex Legwarmers” (Maitreya) – NEW @ Red Light District
Shoes: PFC – “Forced Heels” (Maitreya)
Gloves & Claws: **RE** – “Livia Glove & Claws” (Maitreya, Gacha)
Hair: no.match – “No.Arrest” – NEW @ ULTRA
Hairbase: Mina – “Myla” (LeLutka Applier)
Makeup: Zibska – “Vargo” (LeLutka Applier)
Lipstick: Zibska – “Tista” (LeLutka Applier)
Head: LeLutka – “Simone 3.0”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara 4.1”
Face: Izzie’s – “Pores & Blemishes” (LeLutka Applier)
Background: House Of Shade – “Bright Lights Backdrop (Black)”
Poses: Poseidon, Nanika & Fairey Poses
… for those who like summer most likely yes *giggles*
Thank god in SL you do not feel any temperature and can enjoy summer quite a little more, without sweating all the time like in RL.
I again found a bikini, which I truly like and again I was facing the question… what else than laying on a beach or hanging out in a pool I could do for a picture. I mean there is nothing against those scenarios, but I do not like to do that in RL plus that would make just another of those kind of summer loving pictures. A&Y always is special to me – I love her designs, I love the way how the textures are and I do love the futuristic character that all her creations have. Because of that, I just do not wanna make an easy picture with it. To me it alway requests something strong and special.
For the “Electra Cyber Bikini” from A&Y you have the option to wear it as a full set (already linked) or you can wear only top or pants single as well. As usual you have the amazing HUD that we all know from A&Y to customize the bikini itself (2 parts), straps and metals. To underline the amazing straps I added an arm harness from L’Emporio.
While I was looking for shoes, I saw the latest release from [Gos] and it felt like the shoes were made for my look! The “Bella Thong Platforms” are part of the actual round of FaMESHed and with the straps all over the feet and around the toe they completely matched the outfit. Like always the shoes come for all the popular mesh bodies and with the Boutique, the Blueberry and the Metalic HUD. What I do like a lot os that [Gos] includes a materials and a non materials version for the shoes. You can decide if you want to take a picture with the ambiance occlusion shown or jut have a clear view on the shoes.
Yesterday I was talking to Falbala Fairey again after a long time. We both were busy with RL and even more I was happy when I saw her in the audience, when I did that interview with Trouble and Kess for SL15B (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=F8lihXKTySk)
After the interview we did a call on Discord and had a nice long chat about what has happened over the time. Many good news and a things were shared and I was in a really good mood when she suddenly asked if she could show me something. Certainly she could :p. A few minutes later I had a folder and very shy sis in my ears when she said “Maybe you can try them and tell me what you think?” I peeked and it was… POSES! I love poses and the more I love them when they come from a person I feel close to 🙂 Little sis makes poses now! Here store is called Fairey Poses and what I instantly felt, when I tried the poses, was that those poses are done by someone that blogs fashion for along time. All the poses I got were strong and well thought poses for fashion photography. It was refreshing to see some edgy poses as well and especially the crouch and lean against the wall poses made their way right into my heart. It is so rare to find really cool and swag poses for fashion photography. The more I was happy to find exactly those 2 kind of poses made by Falbala!
Enough for today… I need to take a look at Fairey Poses now, to see what else Falbala made!
Outfit: A&Y Cybernetics – “Electra Cyber Bikini” (Maitreya) – NEW @ Good Vibes Fair
Shoes: [Gos] – “Bella Thong Platforms” (Maitreya) – NEW @ FaMESHed
Arm (right): L’Emporio – “Harness Arm” (Maitreya)
Legs: [ Sakide ] – “Yleria Leg Straps” (Maitreya)
Collar: Happy Undead – “Charming”
Glasses: .::Nanika::. – “Agnes Sunglasses Silver”
Nails & Rings: [CX] – “Shredder Claws” (Maitreya, bento)
Hair: [NYNE] Hair – “Penny”
Lipstick: Izzie’s – “Fae Lipsgloss” (LeLutka Applier)
Head: LeLutka – “Simone 3.0”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara 4.1”
Face: Izzie’s – “Pores & Blemishes” (LeLutka Applier)
Tattoo: .pichi. – “Pretty Blossom” (Maitreya Applier)
Poses: Fairey Poses – “Crouched 1″ & ” Waiting for you 1″
Seat: .birch. – “Mery Ottoman Black & Silver”
Background: Foxcity – “Photo Booth – Short Circuit” (Gacha, Rare)
I found something very special at the Vintage Fair and this time for the first time, the pictures took me nearly a week, as all I tried did not work out like I wanted it to be.
What I am talking about is the amazing skin from POEMA & AG. They released some amazing aged skins for the Vintage Fair. Since I do love my LeLutka head, I had 3 different skins to try – “Paloma”, “Eva” and “Sarah”. When I tried them, I felt immediately that those are made with phenomenal skills of designing, but as well with a great knowledge of human aging. When I tried the skins I immediately got a feeling, that they are 3 different stages of age. “Paloma” looked the “youngest” and “Sarah” the oldest. When I tried “Eva” I nearly fainted as for what ever reason it looked like an older version of Wicca without changing anything to my shape – even a perfect no-eyebrow version! The first thought was… that will be my skin for the time, when I will retire modeling *snickers*
I saw aged skins before and I never liked them as they looked kinda overdone, comic like or just awful, but the POEMA skins are really well thought and developed and have the most realism to that kind of ages that you can get in my personal view – That made me want to blog about them.
I have to admit, I used my usual “Pores & Blemishes” face ‘pimp’ applier, since the skin felt so ‘Wicca’ to me that I really could see myself in it. But since that only add freckles and some little folds on the forehead, I did not feel that it would ‘destroy’ or change the skin too much, especially because I put it to 50% transparency for this post.
Skins are something, that people are very picky about because it is part of the personality that you would like to show to others and that you have to feel comfortable with yourself. Who likes to look into a face every time time after login, that you do not like… ?
There are many different skins in Second Life and as well many different likings, that people have for their skins. Still you can find weird and awful skins that have no depth, structure or any kind of human traits to them even if they are meant to be human. There you can see that some designers spent hours, days and weeks to develop a skin and some just use free, basic templates – that are meant to be worked on – and just do them in different light and dark shades… no a black skin is not just a white skin pulled down to black with a slider in PS or any other graphic software. Every skin type has a certain ethic type , that it is based on and only then you can develop a character in my view. I am not a skin designer and I would never dare to make skins, as I never looked deeper into what it needs to do skins, but I am a user that tried various skins.. good and bad ones so I developed my very own sense for skins that I do like. I like it when pores and skin structure can be seen, I like it when you see wrinkles and non perfect spots in face or body as a realistic skin is rarely without any errors and usually never symmetric. All those little details make them real and ‘alive’ for me.
The “Evy” Skin from POEMA &AG, has all those things for me. The wrinkles that age the skin are not too blunt, they are very subtle but they are perfect to create a wonderful realistic look. You can see what you loved on your grandmas face if you take a close look onto the face and even the body skin was made in a way that shows that this is not a young woman. Since I am not a huge fan of naked shots and I felt a grandma should not wear a bikini, you have to take a look at yourself, but I can promise you you won’t be disappointed 😉
That was the next issue… I wanted to have a grandma look not only for the face, but as well it should be in the theme of this years Vintage Fair. The sim is Asian, vintage themed like for example Shanghai in it’s 1920s – I guess the last was the one that it was … but since I am always so confused… do not nail me down on that one 😉 You should go and see for yourself, how amazing those 2 sims are decorated!
The dress as well you can find at the vintage Fair, if you make your way to Senzafine. To the long, tight dress was perfect for my classy, elegant and sophisticated idea for my granny. The textures are amazingly crafted and with the nigh neck but the little cut out at the chest I was able to even wear a necklace, which I found as well at the fair. So many amazing items, designs and creations are to find there until the 24th, so make sure to not miss it 😉
I was looking all over SL to find something Asian tea house looking – until I realized I had a wonderful “Tea Ceremony” from 22769 – DOH… sometimes it really helps to look into your inventory before you spend hours teleporting through SL. I did set up the lovely tea house and all it’s parts on our photo parcel right beside the Wicca’s Wardrobe main store.
You will not only find clothing and accessories at the Vintage Fair, but as well amazing decorations and furniture from all kind of different epochs and continents. For example the great room divider and the beautiful pictures on the back wall were made for the fair as well by paper.crowns.
Satisfied now with my look for that amazing skin and as well for the background and set I really had fun doing those pictures… maybe even too much as I did not even take off the skin for a few more days enjoying being called Grandma for that time 😉
Outfit & Accessories
Dress: Senzafine – “Mei-mei – Qipao Palette” (Maitreya) – NEW @ Vintage Fair
Gloves: Wicca’s Wardrobe – “Misaki Short Gloves” (Gacha, SoI)
Shoes: kisetu – “Basic Geta” (Slink Flat Feet)
Jewelry & Cigarette: [Glitzz] – “Tiffany’s Jewelry Set – Gold” – NEW @ Vintage Fair
Glasses: Hatpins – “Kelcey Pince-Nez – Gold”
Hair & Makeup
Hair: :::Sn@tch::: – “Dolores Hair & Sticks” – NEW @ Vintage Fair
Makeup & Lipstick: Izzie’s – “Fae Eyeshadows & Lipstick” (LeLutka Applier)
Body & Tattoo
Head: LeLutka – “Simone 3.0”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara 4.1”
Skin: POEMA & AG – “Eva” (LeLutka & Maitreya Applier) – NEW @ Vintage Fair
Face: Izzie’s – “Pores & Blemishes” (LeLutka Applier)
Poses & Props
Poses: Selfmade with Anypose & FATE Hand Poser
Set: 22769 – “Tea Ceremony” (Gacha)
Pictureframes: paper.crowns – “Split Panel Canvas 1” – NEW @ Vintage Fair
Paravant: paper.crowns – “Ming Divider – 2” – NEW @ Vintage Fair
Location
Wicca’s Wardrobe (parcel to the left of the store – open to public)
Model & Photographer
It MUST be the Vintage Fair, that always puts me in some weird retro and vintage moods 😉
Vintage Fair is one of my ‘must go’ every year.
First of all the event owners always do an incredible job with their sim building and second… all those creations of all kind of past time epochs! It was a hard choice to decide what to wear for a post first…
When I put on the dress from Kyoto Couture, which I found at the Vintage Fair – choice was made :p I do have an addiction for 70s and 80s things … maybe it is because of my age… and that pattern on the dress sold me. Retro is trendy again anyways!
First I had an Austin Powers moment but I did not really find all the part to do what I had in mind and so I changed my vision more towards a retro moment feeling between records and a real record player. All over 30 years will remember those huge vinyl records, that made that special noise when you listened to the music… sometimes I really miss it and pull out my old record player – yes I still have one out of nostalgic feelings – and listen to some old ABBA songs.
Certainly even a retro style has to have my own twist and so I decided to wear the some legstraps from Sakide and the awesome “Electra Cyber Gloves” from A&Y Cybernetics. I know I already blogged them before, but that even more shows how versatile they are!
Talking about Vintage Fair goodies… as well from the Vintage Fair are the incredible booties, the hairstyle, the glasses, the earrings and the cool makeup from Zibska! It is really fun if you set yourself a challenge and see that you put together a look from a certain event only (more or less) – That brought cool looks out for me actually and even some I maybe would not have done without that 😉
I do not wanna talk to much today, as I do have some more amazing Vintage Fair styles to snap… I hope you enjoyed my retro mood as much as I did 😉
Outfit & Accessories
Dress: Kyoko Couture – “No.38[Abby]Blue” (Maitreya) – NEW @ Vintage Fair 2018
Gloves: A&Y Cybernetics – “Electra Cyber Gloves” (Maitreya)
Straps: [ Sakide ] – “Yleria Leg Straps” (Maitreya)
Shoes: (*<*) 1313 – “Go Go Boots” (Maitreya) – NEW @ Vintage Fair 2018
Glasses: Cae – “Catherine” – NEW @ Vintage Fair 2018
Watch: ChiMia:: – “Timemaster 200” – NEW @ Vintage Fair 2018
Earrings: .ZGURSKY . – “Alla” – NEW @ Vintage Fair 2018
Hair & Makeup
Hair: ICONIC – “Betti” – NEW @ Vintage Fair 2018
Makeup & Lipstick: Zibska – “Gina” (LeLutka Applier) – NEW @ Vintage Fair 2018
Body & Tattoo
Head: LeLutka – “Simone 3.0”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara 4.1”
Face: Izzie’s – “Pores & Blemishes” (LeLutka Applier)
Poses & Props
Background: MINIMAL – “Retro Backdrops *8*” (Gacha)
Records: 22769 – “Records in a Box” & Records for Sale 2″ (The Record Shop Gacha)
Rug: 22769 – “Record Rug” (The Record Shop Gacha)
Table: [ht:home] – “Record Table”
Player: Ariskea – “Record 50”
Model & Photrographer:
Wicca’s Wardrobe @ TheVintage Fair 2018 (June 8th – 24th)
Our contribution to the Vintage Fair is Lucile, an ensemble perfect for many time periods, genres and styling tastes. The Lucile outfit is made up of three independent parts: dress, jacket and belt, so it allows for a good deal of freedom when styling. Lucile is designed to fit Belleza’s Freya, Slink’s Hourglass, and Maitreya’s Lara.
Offered in blue, ivory, rose and a dark pack (which comes with a HUD with 10 texture options).
The dark pack HUD offers a lot of customization options including changing the color of the jacket, sleeves, ruffles, corset, and lacing, as well as 6 metals choices.
In addition to Lucile we have the coordinating Lucile Hat (sold separately). The hat HUD includes 10 colors and control over many parts of the hat including the hat itself, the bow, straps and ruffles.
Taxi to the Vintage Fair: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Caldonia/218/105/21
Summer is coming without mercy… I am more of a winter type and the heat in summer just knocks me out usually. What is nice about the fact that you sweat with every movement and cannot even sleep tight and without any breaks because it is just too hit and not even at night it cools down to a ‘proper’ temperature…?
I never got that 😉 So I just suffer every year and shower like 10 times a day until autumn is coming again and rescues me again…
I lately took a look at the Pantone colors for Summer 2018. I love how they name their colors and sometimes it is even a little bit funny. This time I found 2 colors that did touch me somehow and I did not even know why. Especially because they were so bright and kinda pastel looking – Meadowlark and Arcadia. Comparing those 2 I got a strong and intensive vibe. As you know usually I am no the most ‘colorful girl’ but some colors just pull a trigger for some reason. The more I was happy when I saw one of the latest releases of [Gos] having exactly those 2 colors in their amazing huge HUD. The “Bella” crop top and shorts are the actual release of [Gos] at UBER.
What I do like a lot os the way how the top is wrapped or twisted under the chest. It gives the whole look something loose and cool and the wrap looks amazing realistic as well. The pants do have the option to be worn with or without belt and certainly both are made for the most popular mesh bodies.
To complement such a great outfit, you certainly need matching shoes and as well the right makeup and accessories 😉 To match the colors in a perfect way I chose the “Monza Belted Boots” as well made by [Gos]. For the shorts I loved the look of the over-knee boots, and the color perfectly matched to the belt as well.
With pastel and bring colors, I certainly had to find hair, accessories and makeup, that feature that kind of colors even more.
Sintiklia became one of my favorite hair stores lately. I love her hair textures, the possibility of the tint HUD, the way how the hair connects to the head (you sometimes do not even need a hairbase) and the most I do love her styler HUDs. How often you wished your hair strand would come down on the right side and not on the left? How many times you thought about pushing your hair back just for one pose in a picture series? Exactly that you can do most of the times with the Sintiklia styler HUDs!
With the tint HUD (included in the fatpacks or available as single item) you can tint the monochrome hair packs to unusual colors without making them look dirty or just over colored and you can pimp certain hair colors with it as well. To me all those possibilities paired with amazing hair textures are the future for hair styles.
Who else that Zib Scaggs, owner and designer of Zibska could make such cool colored makeup *winks* She again made an amazing combo called “Delia”. You can find “Delia” at the actual round of the Blush event.
It is always exciting to me to experiment with colors since that really is way out o f my personal comfort zone, but I have to admit – each time I do it, I feel like I expand my horizon a little more again 😉
Outfit & Accessories
Top: [Gos] – “Bella Crop Top” (Maitreya) – NEW @ UBER
Pants: [Gos] – “Bella Shorts” (Maitreya) – NEW @ UBER
Boots: [Gos] – “Monza Belted Boots” (Maitreya)
Nails: *PL* – “bento nail #27” (Maitreya)
Necklace: Zibska – “Bellie Necklace”
Hair & Makeup
Hair: Sintiklia – “Mimi”
Makeup: Zibska – “Delia Eyemakeup” (LeLutka Applier) – NEW @ Blush
Lipstick: Zibska – “Delia Lips” (LeLutka Applier) – NEW @ Blush
Body & Tattos
Head: LeLutka – “Simone 3.0”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara 4.1”
Face: Izzie’s – “Pores & Blemishes” (LeLutka Applier)
Poses & Props
Poses:
Pic 1: Belle Poses – “Santa Honey 2” (Bento)
Pic 2: Belle Poses – “LadyCrow 2” (Bento)
Pic 3: Belle Poses – “Mi 3” (Bento)
Pic 4: Body Language – “FineSand 2m” (Bento)
Background: /\/.ɪᴄᴇ – “The Mod Backdrop – Yellow”
Model & Photographer
VERSUS MAGAZINE SPRING/SUMMER 2018 : https://issuu.com/versus.sl.magazine/docs/versus_magazine_spring-summer_2018_
Pastel Goth (not to be confused with creepy cute, nu goth, or soft grunge) is a fashion and aesthetic that originated on tumblr in late 2010. The fashion entails taking the basic elements of dark goth style and mixing it with pastel colors.
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Outfit & Accessories
Top: [89Hz] – “Catty Knit Sweater” (Maitreya)
Pants: Dirty Princess – “Slick Moves Princess” (Maitreya)
Leggings: Dragonfly – “Omu Leggings” (Maitreya)
Shoes: Curio Obscura – “Abomination Bitey Spat Boots”
Tights: Izzie’s – “Sheer Tights Basics” (Maitreya Applier)
Rings: Meva – “Bento Maitreya Rings” (Maitreya)
Glasses: [URIZASK] – “Vintage Silver Bike”
Nails: Slackgirl – “CrossNail”
Hair & Makeup
Hair & Headpiece: Ayashi – “Enya”
Lipstick: Zibska – “Blacktop” (LeLutka Applier)
Body & Tattoo
Head: LeLutka – “Simone 3.0”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara 4.1”
Face: Izzie’s – “Pores & Blemishes” (LeLutka Applier)
Tattoo: White Widow – “Hanabi” (Maitreya Applier)
Poses & Props
Poses & Phone: {.:exposeur:.} – “Pin Up Cell 4”
Backdrop: Vibes – “The Girls Room – Pink”
Model & Photographer
