The Runway Perfect Hunt #4 – Part 1

May 3, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

The Runway Perfect Hunt goes in it’s 4th round :). Morgane Batista again made it, to get amazing designers to participate in one of the most famous hunts on the grid. Even if the title says “The hunt with models in mind” does not mean this hunt is limited to models only. All the amazing and versatile designs are amazing additions to everybody’s wardrobe, even the males will find some amazing hunt prizes in some locations 😉 This year the hunt is not a total freebie hunt, each hunt item costs $5 Linden. With a total of 50 shops you reach a maximum of $250 Linden, what is a great amount for so many amazing quality designs!

For today I would like to spotlight the first 4 stores with a mix & match styling.

First store would be *PosESioN*, store #19. Dahriel made a little set of 5 poses called “Andromeda”, made for females only. Maybe the brave guys wanna give it a try as well 😉

The outfit comes from location #28, Svart. Angexx Quandry created one male and one female outfit. Certainly I used the female one called “Ren”. Shorts and top are mesh made and come in various sizes to make sure that it fits all kind of avatars.

The super cool hat comes from Xen’s Hats. A blue Feodora style looking hat with an amazing texture, that really gives the hat a realistic fabric.

The amazing lips gloss was provided by [mock]. The “Mariellis Lip Shine” comes in 3 different colors and each has 3 different versions.

To complete my styling I added the “Cubism” glasses from epoque because they underlined the retro feeling, that came with the outfit and the hat, in such an amazing way. The jewelry is one of my long times favourites from Mandala called “Sinra”.

The Runway Perfect Hunt will last until the 30th of May so do not hesitate too long to grab your hunt prizes 😉

Details

Outfit: Svart – “Ren” – NEW (mesh, TRPH #4)

Hat: Xen’s Hats – “Autry Blue” – NEW (mesh, TRPH #4)

Lipstick: [mock] – “Mariellis Lip Shine” /Lip 2 Firebrick – NEW (mesh, TRPH #4)

Jewelry: Mandala – “Sinra”

Shoes: Miamai – “Karya” (mesh)

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Glasses: (epoque) – “Cubism”

Poses: *PosESioN* – “Adromeda” – NEW (TRPH #4)

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Wicca’s Wardrobe: Skater Girl

May 2, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

He was a boy she was a girl
can I make it anymore obvious?

He was a punk, she did ballet
What more can I say?

He wanted her,she’d never tell
secretly she wanted him as well
but all of her friends, stuck up their nose
they had a problem with his baggy clothes.

He was a skater boy,
she said see you later boy
he wasn’t good enough for her
she had a pretty face
but her head was up in a space
she needed to come back down to earth

Five years from now, she sits at home
Feeding the baby she’s all alone

She turns on T.V., guess who she sees
Skater boy rocking up MTV

She calls up her friends, they already know
And they’ve all got tickets to see his show

she tags along, and stands in the crowd
Looks up at the man that she turned down

He was a skater boy
She said see ya later boy
He wasn’t good enough for her
Now he’s a superstar
Slammin on his guitar
Does your pretty face see what he’s worth?
He was a skater boy
She said see ya later boy
He wasn’t good enough for her
Now he’s a superstar
Slammin on his guitar
Does your pretty face see what he’s worth?

Sorry girl, but you missed out
Well tough luck that boy’s mine now

We are more than just good friends
This is how the story ends

Too bad that you couldn’t see
See the man that boy could be

There is more than meets the eye
I see the soul that is inside

He’s just a boy and I’m just a girl
can I make it anymore obvious?

We are in love, haven’t you heard?
How we rock each others world!

I’m with the skaterboy
I said see ya later boy
I’ll be backstage after the show
I’ll be at the studio
Singing the song we wrote
About a girl you used to know.

(Avril Lavigne)

Details

Outfit: Inga Wind Clothing – “Linda” – NEW (mesh)

Gloves: [M.o.w] – Unisex Armwarmers” (mesh)

Shoes: [M.o.w] – “Urban Sneakers” (mesh)

Glasses: ERD – “Streemline”

Backpack: DECO – “Mesh Sling Pack” (mesh)

Earphones: Liberty – “Notes by Nero”

Tattoo: iNFLiCT – “Eternity”

Nails: Love Soul – “Spirit”

Hair: EMO-tions – “Amandine”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Lipstick: Silken Moon – “Wicca Lips Tarbaby” & “Wicca Lipstripes Silver”

Ears: Mandala – “Omimi” (mesh)

Skateboard & Poses: NSA – “Skater Pro”

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Wicca’s Wardrobe: Winter Goodbye Couture

May 2, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

(http://hautesl.com/latest-issue/)

Details

Pants: LeeZu – “Madison Pants” /snow
Jacket: [LWL] – “Volga Shrug”
Hat: Xen’s Hats – “Danni”
Corset: NV Corsetry – “Verne”
Hair: -dDx- – “Atlas”
Shoes: Kookie – “Pomski Boots”
Nails: Mandala – “Milky Nails”
Choker: Mandala – “Milky Way”
Cape: Tres Beau – “Diana” (part of the outfit)
Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Model & Stylist: Wicca Merlin

Photographer : LovelyMiwako7399 Menna

Sightsavers – Baboom

April 30, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

This is a RL charity that works in some of the worlds poorest countries helping to save men, women and children from blindness.

Specifically, we wish to support their work in battling a disease called trachoma. This is caused by a bacterial infection spread by unwashed hands and certain species of flies. Infection causes scarring of the eyelid, repeated infection causes the eyelid to turn inwards and the eyelashes to scrape against the cornea damaging it.

Years of repeated infections of trachoma cause trichiasis, when the eyelid turns inwards and the eyelashes rub on the eyeball, causing scarring of the cornea, constant irritation and terrible pain. In their desperation, many people pull out the in-turned eyelashes with a pair of tweezers. But the eyelashes always grow back, even stronger than before – bringing worse pain. Until slowly, they go blind.

The additional tragedy is that trachoma is such an easy disease to prevent. Trachoma can be treated in it’s early stages with antibiotics to clear-up the infection. Antibiotic treatment can be provided for less than $1.00 US dollar.

Once people have trichiasis, surgery is needed to turn the eyelashes away from the eye, reducing the pain and preventing the scarring of the cornea. Just $5.00 US dollars can fund a trichiasis operation.

Kim Rongyu, the CEO of this charity event, has lived in some of the countries where this awful disease exists, Through her RL experience, she knows how damaging this is and as a RL scientist, how easy it is to prevent. We are reaching out to the amazing talents of Second Life, creators and designers, to ask if you would like to join us for this cause, to raise funds to be donated to Sightsavers organization.

Today I would like to spotlight the contibution of Baboom for the Sightsavers event in Second Life.

Kyra Camel, owner and designer of Baboom, made a stunning dress in 3 colors to support the Sightsavers event. For today’s post I decided to wear the green version of the “Flora” mesh dress. The dress is a long tight shaped dress with an amazing shoulder free top end. The mesh prim moves smoothly with every animation and the wonderful light ornaments on the light green it is a wonderful spring dream dress. 100% of the “Flora” dress, anyways which of the 3 amazing colors goes to the Sightsavers charity. Thanks a lot Kyra for those amazing designs!

Details

Gown: Baboom – “Flora” – NEW (mesh, Sightsavers)

Jewelry: Finesmith – “Maniko” – NEW

Hair: LeLutka – “Vibrato” (mesh)

Poses: agapee

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Rawk Balla Baby with Faster Pussycat

April 30, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

A few days ago I had the great pleasure to walk a runway show for the Menswear Fashion Week 2013. The show was called “Rawk Balla Baby” and it was the only “Ladies only” show for the MWFW 2013 as far as I know ;). The runway was made by Locked Semaphore and it looked like a huge guitar and some floating keyboards… it was simply amazing.

For this show I got some wonderful outfits to showcase and I wanted to spotlight at least some of them. The first would be a combination of Faster Pussycat designs.

I tweaked my show styling a little bit, to meet my personal taste and style a bit more for the blog 😉 The amazing “Maja” corset in red, is a firework of textures combined on just one corset. Parts of paintings, overlaid by a wonderful structured layer makes the corset very realistic looking. The corset really makes a super shape with the very slim waist part, who ever closed that corset had no mercy with the girl in it :p. The “Mesh Pencil Skirt” in black is the perfect addition for the “Maja” corset as the simple black skirt let s the corset shine even more. I always loved Honey Bender’s ideas and styles and with her label Faster Pussycat, she 95% totally hits the nail on my head and I just adore her creations and designs 😉

The shoes, that I as well got for the show, came from Redgrave. The “Doro” shoes are super cool with the high heel, the peep toes and the little metal decorations. They come with an amazing HUD that lets you change the colors in nearly all possibilities 😉 To underline the cool rocker look I added some strapped gloves from Dark Eden together with the amazing TonkTastic gloves.

The fantastic eyebrow tattoo comes from Silken Moon. As I decided to go without any eyebrows, black hair sometimes let my face look odd. Malicia found the solution and made some very artistic and abstract eyebrows that look like I would have painted me some eyebrows 😉 For this post I decided to go with the “Abstract” eyebrow tattoo.

For the location was looking for some rock club or even Rock’n’Roll club but I did not find some at the places I used to be. I started to look at the search and it brought me to the “13Cherry“. A super tiny but amazing club high up in the sky. It has a lot of amazing detailes and it was just perfect for the idea I had in mind 😉

Deatils

Top: Faster Pussycat – “Maja” (mesh)

Skirt: Faster Pussycat – “Mesh Pencil Skirt” (mesh)

Shoes: Redgrave – “Doro” (mesh)

Jewelry: RH Engel – “Beauvallet”

Collar: .:EC:. – “So Hard”

Hair: +BM+ – “Giz”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Eyebrows: Silken Moon – “Eybrows Abstract” – NEW

Makeup: Silken Moon – “EM Eclipse Urban ES Central Park” & L.Fauna – “Smokey Cat Shadow Blue/Black”

Lipstick: Silken Moon – “Wicca Lips Blood”

Gloves: Dark Eden – “Straps Gloves” & TonkTastic – “Gloves Style B”

Tattoo: v3 Tattoo – “Lady Luck”

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Wicca’s Wardrobe: LOTD 04/26/2013 – Light Colors ;)

April 27, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

Hoooorrraaay, Spring is coming 😉 In Germany we had the first sunny week with genial temperatures. It was great to feel the sun kissing your skin and the mood became better as well. No more cold weather no more dark cloudy days… amazing! Inspired by all the wonderful weather and colors outside, I wanted to make a spring look that would work to just go for some shopping 😉 .

I started with the “LolliPop Dress” top from GizzA, because I loved the strong yellow that reminded me so much of the sun. The cool ruffles gave the whole outfit a light retro touch. A longer time ago I got the “Apasionado” bag from LaGyo. The cute bag looks like a little face with the zipper and the holders and I really fell in love with it. The denim color of the bag brought me to my blue jeans. The wonderful “Skinny Pants” from GizzA are mesh made and so you have an awesome shape and it moves perfect even with weird poses or movements… no more weird knees 😉 .

Now the drama started, as I wanted to have yellow shoes that go with the shirt. I looked through my shoe folder and all yellow tones looked more orange than yellow compared to the top, not to mention that most of my shoes are black or white *chuckles* So the few I had, I could not really use and I thought about a good store for strong colored shoes that matched the look. I started window shopping for nearly over an hour till I arrived at Tara. Bingo! I saw already when I arrived – even if I was still rezzing – that I would find many colored shoes and maybe even the right yellow tone 🙂 .

After trying a few demos, I decided to go for the “Equilibrium” shoes from Tara. With all the silver decorations, studds and ornaments I wanted to go for light accessories so my choice fell on the “Asia” watches and braceletsfrom GizzA and the “Lick ME!” earrings from Ticky Tacky, both in white.

Details

Top: GizzA – “LolliPop Dress” /yellow (part of the outfit)

Pants: GizzA – “Skinny Pants” /denim light blue (mesh)

Shoes: Tara – “Equilibrium” /yellow

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Makeup: MONS – “Eyeshadow Color Dance” /neon (Cosmetics Fair 2013)

Lipstick: Silken Moon – “Wicca Lips Denim”

Bracelets: GizzA – “Asia”

Eyeliner: Action – “Mesh Liner 01” /black – NEW (mesh, Cosmetics Fair 2013)

Hair: LeLutka – “Emeli” – NEW

Ears: Mandala – “Simple Ears” (mesh)

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Fantasy Faire 2013 – Frippery

April 27, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

From the 20th of April until the 28th of April you can find amazing creations various designers made for themes like fantasy, role play, steam-punk and Sci-Fi and all that is content of dreams at the SecondLife Fantasy Faire 2013. Incredible builders created awesome sims for that event where you can make fantastic pictures or just explore and get caught away in your dreams and imagination.

The Fantasy Faire is one of the most huge events that take part in the RFL. RLF – Relay for Life – is a charity organisation that supports the American Cancer Society.

The whole event takes part on 10 sims. The are arranged in a nice way with a path that you can follow to explore all of them. On 8 you will find the creations that were made from all the designers to support the RLF. The last 2 sims are the event sims, where presentations, music events, concerts, auctions and silent auctions take place. To make it more interesting for visitors, a super amazing hunt is taking place where you can find many incredible little items.

Today I have the pleasure to show you a very new creations for the Fantasy Faire. What I have been told, the wonderful “Birthday Roses”jewelry set from Frippery was not yet available at the Fantasy Faire but it will be added today! So if you thought you already saw everything… not yet as this brand new contribution will be available just from today 😉

Elizabeth Tinsley, owner and designer of Frippery made a wonderful jewelry set. The set is available in gold and silver metals so I am sure it will match to every look or styling. The “Birthday Roses” set contains earrings, necklace and bracelets. The wonderful detailed and filigree prim work really caught my attention as I put the set on. The purple/lilac tones of the ornaments together with the silver – I chose the silver version for my post – make the highlight of every styling. If you love the detail so much as I do you will fall in love with that amazing set!

So hurry to the Fashion Faire 2013… you only have a few days left!!!

To see more of the fantastic releases of the Fantasy Faire 2013 you might wanna look by yourself Always think on the fact that with every purchase you help! As well an amazing hunt just started at the Fantasy Faire… so hurry there and release the fantasy you carry inside you (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fairelands%20Junction/128/128/23)

Details

Jewelry: Frippery – “Birthday Roses” – NEW (Fantasy Faire 2013)

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Makeup: Kooqula – “Black Magic Eyeliner” – NEW (Cosmetics Fair 2013)

Lipstick: Silken Moon – “Wicca Lips Lavender”

Hat: Boudior – “Precious Smoke”

Gown: Azul – “Eve”

Hair: Miamai – “Kirge Updo”

Poses: Wicca’s Wardobe – Poses – “Jewelry Set” (coming soon)

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Fantasy Faire 2013 – Rfyre & The Plastik + News from Finesmith

April 26, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

The Fantasy Faire is one of the most huge events that take part in the RFL. RLF – Relay for Life – is a charity organisation that supports the American Cancer Society.

Today I would like to take a closer look on the creations of Rfyre and The Plastik.

Rfyre created two wonderful full outfits for the Fantasy Faire and one I would like to spotlight today. The “Lux Fantasy” outfit is part wise made with mesh. The corset and parts of the arms sleeves are mesh made and the amazing bodice comes as a layer. The full outfit as well contains a long skirt, that’s open in the front, but for the post I just skipped that part, because for the aggressive running look I liked it more without the skirt ;). The amazing, cool looking boots with the detailed texture and the awesome buckles atthe side are part of the outfit.

As always Raven Pennyfeather, owner and designer of Rfyre, points with her amazing textures. She has such an eye for the detail and her creations mirror that. If you take a closer look at the textures you can see how filigree and perfect they are made and so she gives the gothic look a very elegant and high fashion touch. The chest part looks like silver plate decorations and give the whole outfit a very strong amazon looking touch. The wonderful chains that run over the cleavage again show how detailed Raven works for her designs. Her creativity seemd to never come to an end as she always comes with new ideas and combinations, that amaze me. It is always a honor to blog her creations :). The black silver look of this outfit really makes a wonderful base for realizing your own fantasies in many ways 🙂

The wonderful huge jewelry is one of the newest releases from Finesmith. The “Truth” set is available for male and female and it contains the necklace, earrings, shoulder parts and a bracelet. The male version just is a little bit bigger sized. The dark silver metal goes wonderful with the black gems and the long spikes already gave a very demon looking attitude and so it was perfect for this styling ;).

The hair is one of my favourite styles from EMO-tions. The “Solitude” hair has a very special option as you have two hairstyles in one that are to change with a menu. If you click it you are asked if you wanna have ‘Style A’ or ‘Style B’ and with a sweet gesture it changed the look after you made your choice. For the “Solitude” style as well one version has the forehead chain like in the post and the other shows without the chain.

The skin as well is a Fantasy Faire contribution and it comes from The Plastik. The “Arkasia” skin in the ‘Paua” color was the perfect addition to my demon style. As I told before in another post you have several options for each skin and color in the pack and this time I decided to go with the ‘bare’ version, that only has a scale framed face and some scales on the body. The “Bloodless Silver” eyes are as well from The Plastik and I had them in the skin folder as well. Together with the “Dark Shadow”, the “Smudgy Shadow” and the “Lip Stripe” that came together with the “Arkasia” too the demon look was perfect and I just added some wings from Material Squirrel.

To see more of the fantastic releases of the Fantasy Faire 2013 ( you might wanna look by yourself Always think on the fact that with every purchase you help! As well an amazing hunt just started at the Fantasy Faire… so hurry there and release the fantasy you carry inside you (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fairelands%20Junction/128/128/23)

Details

Outfit (incl boots): Rfyre – “Lux Fantasy” – NEW (mesh, Fantasy Faire 2013)

Skin (incl Eyes & Makeup): :[P]: – “Arkasia-Paua” – NEW (Fantasy Fair 2013)

Jewelry: Finesmith – “Truth” – NEW

Hair: EMO-tions – “Solitude”

Wings: Material Squirel – “Jinx Wings”

Nails: Love Soul – “Infinity”

Poses: Wicca’s Wardrobe – Poses (coming soon)

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Fashion Faire 2013 – EMO-tions, Paper Moon & Plastik

April 25, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

The Fantasy Faire is one of the most huge events that take part in the RFL. RLF – Relay for Life – is a charity organisation that supports the American Cancer Society.

Today I would like to lead you down into the ocean with EMO-tions, Paper Moon and Plastik :).

As I saw the items from Paper Moon I thought about, wich fantasy direction I could go. Paper Moon offers a top and a skirt in different shades of purple, pink and beige for the Fantasy Faire. As I was playing again with the fantastic skins from The Plastik, I got the idea of a fantasy mermaid looking girl deep down in the ocean. So I took the “Synjarni Silver Tribal Fusion” top from Paper Moon to the “Arkasia – Kryv” skin made by The Plastik. In the skin pack you find several versions of the skin, as well eyes and different makeup versions. I decided to go with the Atlantic version, because of the style idea I had. The scales round the eyes and over the body are not blanket the skin too much and let the human side still exist in a wonderful way. The mesh “Synjari” top from Paper Moon with it’s amazing texture and the filigree ornaments made a nice base for the styling together with the mermaid tail from FATEbecome. The wonderful “Paradise” hairstyle was made from by EMO-tions as well for the Fantasy Faire 2013. The long hair is available in black , natural, fantasy blue and fantasy turquoise. For this post I chose the natural version. The jewelry part of the forehead and the beautiful feathers are as well part of the hairstyle and make the awesome fantasy look perfect.

To add a a little playful touch I added some feathers from Fancy Fairy and to underline the underwater look with a jewerly piece, I decided to wear the “Kitsch Couture” necklace from Finesmith as it reminded me of those flexible sea anemones.

To see more of the fantastic releases of the Fantasy Faire 2013 ( you might wanna look by yourself 🙂 Always think on the fact that with every purchase you help! As well an amazing hunt just started at the Fantasy Faire… so hurry there and release the fantasy you carry inside you 😉 (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fairelands%20Junction/128/128/23)

Details

Top: Paper Moon – “Synjari” – NEW (mesh, Fantasy Faire 2013)

Hair: EMO-tions – “Paradis” – NEW (Fantsay Faire 2013)

Skin: :[P]: – “Arkasia-Kryv” – NEW (Fantasy Faire 2013)

Mermaid Tail: FATEbecome – “Mermaid Tail – Pure Silver” (mesh, recolored)

Necklace: Finesmith – “Kitsch Couture”

Nails: Finesmith – “Nails v1”

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Male News at Mea Culpa!

April 23, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

After a longer pause Mea Culpa is back with new designs for the males! Tatanka Kaligawa, owner and designer of Mea Culpa, released a new male collection and I am very happy, that I could talk Redclaw Inshan into it to wear it for me, so I can show some of the amazing news 😉

The new “Arctic Storm” coat is my main focus for this post. This amazing coat has wonderful flexible parts that move fantastic with every step you take. The awesome textures give a perfect realistic look. For this post I chose the “Arctic Storm” in black first like you can see above.

For all who prefer the lighter tones, the “Artic Storm” in grey might be the choice ;). You have the same amazing features like for the black version. The long arms make an amaziing contrast to the open front and you do not really need to wear a shirt under it in my opinion *grins*

So even if the colder days get shorter, the new “Arctic Storm” coat from Mea Culpa should not miss in a good sorted males wardrobe 😉

I would like to thank Redclaw Inshan for the time and patience to model the new “Arctic Storm” coat for me.

To see all of the amazing new male creations you better take a look for yourself at the Mea Culpa Mainstore 😉

Details

Coat: Mea Culpa – “Arctic Storm” /black & grey – NEW

Pants: L&B – “Mesh Leather Mens” (mesh)

Shoes: [GOS] – “Desert” (mesh)

Necklace: Divinity – “Raider Silver Chain”

Poses: *PosESioN*

Model: Redclaw Inshan

Photographer: Wicca Merlin

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Tag Archives: Couture

The Runway Perfect Hunt #4 – Part 1

Wicca’s Wardrobe: Skater Girl

Wicca’s Wardrobe: Winter Goodbye Couture

Sightsavers – Baboom

Rawk Balla Baby with Faster Pussycat

Wicca’s Wardrobe: LOTD 04/26/2013 – Light Colors ;)

Fantasy Faire 2013 – Frippery

Fantasy Faire 2013 – Rfyre & The Plastik + News from Finesmith

Fashion Faire 2013 – EMO-tions, Paper Moon & Plastik

Male News at Mea Culpa!