Sightsavers – Baboom

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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.ย  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 โ€“ 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!

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Details

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

Jewelry: Finesmith – “Maniko” – NEW

Hair: LeLutka – “Vibrato” (mesh)

Poses: agapee

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Mea Culpa – Halloween and Dark News ;) Part I

Tatanka Kaligawa, owner and genius designer of Mea Culpa again created amazing new outfits and I would like to show you both of them ๐Ÿ™‚ for today I will like to start with “Demons Victory”

This gown is really a ‘chameleon’. You can wear it in different combinations. Once you can be the center of a Halloween party or you can wear it as a haute couture outfit. Or you decide just to have a very elegant evening gown with the extraordinary touch. The head part and the bat wings you can add or just wear the “simple version with only the huge neck collar with that amazing long spikes that hang down one on every side. The texture of the basic layers is a mixture of laces and solid textures with amazing ornaments that give the whole gown a very sophisticated touch. The skirt has a fantastic hip part with a neat little piercing ring and the skirt is decorated with a ruffled part on each side.

For the very brave and fierce fashionista there is a skirt version that really will turn heads anyways where you go ๐Ÿ˜‰

I could not resist for this version to add all the great parts. The huge bat wings , the head-piece with the horns and that totally fierce big cage with the flying doves in it! With this gown you have a perfect Halloween outfit but also a wonderful gown to match every event!

So don’t wait too long… Halloween is near… and make your way to the Mea Culpa Mainstore ๐Ÿ™‚

Details

Gown: Mea Culpa – “Demon Victory”

Skin: Redgrave

Poses: Body Talking

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Midnight Butterfly meets Eruption at Mea Culpa :)

Lots of news at the Mea Culpa Mainstore. The latest creation is the “Midnight Butterfly” outfit…

A tight black corset with wonderful ornaments shapes the waist dreamy. The top is connected to the neck collar with a detailed chain in the middle and 2 thin lines on each side of it. Arms and legs are covered by a lovely combination of a lace texture and a leather looking opaque part. Center of this creation definitely is the hat and the hip part that carry huge long sharp spikes that go to the right side and give the whole design a light, awesome non symmetric touch.

Perfect for this outfit are the new “Eruption” heels also made by Mea Culpa. A wonderful ankle heel for the extravagant fashionista. The extraordinary heel shape and the cool design of this shoes really will turn heads and the sweet open toes part adds another sweet touch!

To see all the other new releases especially for the shoes just stay tuned I will soon have more on my blog ๐Ÿ˜‰ If you can’t wait just make your way to the Mea Culpa Mainstore and take a look by yourself ๐Ÿ˜‰

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Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Midnight Butterfly!

Shoes: Mea Culpa – “Eruption”

Skin: Nuuna’s Skins

Poses Body Talking

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Mea Culpa opens the doors!!! Store opening of a new Designer!

(Models from left to right: Arisia Ashmoot, Daffodil Crimson, Wicca Merlin)

At last Mea Culpa opens its doors. ๐Ÿ™‚ I had a few amazing previews on my blog already and I am very happy that I am now allowed and able to tell you yesterday the fabulous store opened and all this amazing designs are now available!

Mea Culpa is a fresh and new brand with haute couture and avantgarde fashion, for everyone that looks for something special!

(Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Trash Treasure, Model: Wicca Merlin)

Mea Culpa designs are not only special they even carry special, creative and extraordinary names ๐Ÿ˜‰ Like the first outfit ” Trash Treasure”. A short dress in black and white with wonderful prim attachments, that make th whole creation to a piece of art. The basic clothing layers are decorated with many different shaped prims that give the whole outfit the special touch, like the round shoulder parts, the fan looking neck part and for sure the amazing short skirt with the amazing detailed belt.

(Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Silver Dragon”, Model: Arisia Ashmoot)

Up next “Silver Dragon” again shows the amazing skills ofย  Tatanka Kaligawa, the genius designer of Mea Culpa. The basic clothing layers show off a lot of skin and make this outfit to a sexy eyecatcher. This outfit comes as a full outfit with head part and boots. Center of this outfit are for me the long steel parts and spikes that give the outfit a light amazon touch… some for the brave strong girls ๐Ÿ˜‰

(Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Dark Desire”, Model: Daffodil Crimson)

“Dark Desire” wakes up dark desires ๐Ÿ˜‰ A long black gown with a beautiful ornamented corsage part. The tight corsage leads over to a big ballgown skirt. The special detail on this incredible gown in the great head pice with the lovely flower and the fantastic spider webs in 2 colors. The black of the gown is broken with the red petals of the flowers and one red spiderweb. The headpiece is also decorated with beautiful lace parts that give the whole part a mystical and elegant touch.

(Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Taste of Lotus”, Model: Wicca Merlin-not available in store, custom design)

“African Lotus” is a very huge gown that definitely will make you the center of every event. It is not a symmetric outfit, the amazing attached prims are take the left side of the outfit. Dreamy flexi made the move with every step you take. The top layer is covered by an amazing wrapped part that goes over the right shoulder.

(Outfit: Mea Culpa – “African Lotus”, Model: Daffodil Crimson)

“African Lotus” is a very huge gown that definitely will make you the center of every event. It is not a symmetric outfit, the amazing attached prims are take the left side of the outfit. Dreamy flexi made the move with every step you take. The top layer is covered by an amazing wrapped part that goes over the right shoulder. (horns not included)

(Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Storm of Passion”, Model: Wicca Merlin)

“Storm of Passion” again is a very sexy and short outfit that shows a lot of a ladies well-shaped body ๐Ÿ˜‰ The whole outfit is made of a glittering and sparkling texture what gives you a very special shine. The head part includes a long flexi ponytail in the back that goes down to the waist.ย  The basic black-silver-grey texture is highlighted with lovely emerald gems at head, chest and belly. And if you look very close you can see a beautiful leopard animal print texture that covers the body that is worn under the glittering prim parts. 2 long flexi attachments go down from the wait to the knee and caress your legs with every movement.

(Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Perfectly Wrapped”, Model: Arisia Ashmoot)

Last outfit for this post is “Perfectly Wrapped” The name shows off the basic idea of this design ๐Ÿ˜‰ The whole body is wrapped in a foil looking texture with amazing edgy spikes that make a great contrast. The great head part is also included and carries a few of the long edgy parts that make this outfit definitely to a haute couture one. The long attachments are again great flexi made and move natural with every step you make.

Mea Culpa has a lot more great designs that I will show you in another post ๐Ÿ˜‰

The store just opened, so if you wanna be one of the first that wears that extraordinary and fantastic designs… hurry to the Mea Culpa Mainstore. The store itself is worth a visit… modern, and extravagant… the right place for a real fashionista to shop ๐Ÿ˜‰

A special thank you goes to Arisia Ashmoot, designer of Body Talking. All the poses that are shown in this post are made of her.

I also would like to thank Daffodil Crimson and Arisia Ashmoot for modeling with me. The shootings really were great fun and we laughed a lot ๐Ÿ˜‰

Last but not least for sure a big big thank you goes to Tatanka Kaligawa, who designed all this lovely outfits and made this post possible… I really enjoy the special creations that turn heads ๐Ÿ™‚

Details

All outfits made by Mea Culpa

All Poses made by Body Talking

Models: Daffodil Crimson, Arisia Ashmoot, Wicca Merlin

All pics made by Wicca Merlin

Mea Culpa – another sneak preview of an incredible design!

Again I have the great honor to show you a prerelease of one of the new “Mea Culpa” designs. The store will be open very soon and I cannot wait to see all the other great designs!

For today we have the outfit “Fantasy” in 3 different colors. The black one is called “Twilight Fantasy”

For this outfit I only added skin and shoes. The rest of that wonderful creation is part of that wonderful outfit, like the great head part that is attached to one of the ears so that you also can wear hair to it if you like. I decided to skip hair cause I liked the look the head-piece gives ๐Ÿ˜‰ Hair just was taking the attention away from it in my view. The great waist attachment is kind of eyecatcher too. It looks like a smart little skirt but it does not cover anything and you can see the great basic body and the amazing laced clothing layers like the stockings or even the long sleeves of the top.

The white version is called “Innocent Fantasy” and it is parted with a nother color for the fantastic orchids that decorate this color too.

It has the same great features a the black version and in this picture you can see that the outfit contains a pair of colors socks according to the outfit color also.

Last but not least I will give you a peek on the red version of that amazing design what is called “Red Light Fantasy”. The red version also has all the same great parts and features like the white and black one ๐Ÿ™‚

Overall I am very excited about the Mea Culpa Mainstore opening that is so close and I nearly can wait for ๐Ÿ˜‰

Details

Outfit1: Mea Culpa – “Twilight Fantasy”

Outfit2: Mea Culpa – “Innocent Fantasy”

Outfit3: Mea Culpa – “Red Light Fantasy”

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Scary Secrets…do you dare?

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In the year 4010 – the human beings are totally under control of the machines. Only a very little goup of humans hide in the underground of the Opium Sim and fight for their lives. Only in the night they can come out and breathe some fresh air… all day long the have to hide themselves in the old sewage system that is very deep under the earth, where the radars of the machines cannot find them.

One night they nachines caught one of their girls and they worked on a plan to free her from the bad creatures…

Then 5 days later the night of the night of the rescue came… They left their hiding place and crawled trough the bad smelling old pipework up to the night. All was planed very good and they made their way trough the city to an old abandoned garden, where the missing girl was last seen 3 nights before by the 2 of them.

They made their way carfully in the shadows not to be seen by the searchlights, or the radars of the machines. Close to the city walls and the desert houses they sneaked until the reached the target.

And old left flat… in the abandoned gardens at the park of the Opium Sim. They tried quietly to reach that old decayed shanty where they saw the girl captured 3 days before. They opened the door and tried with a small flashlight to see the girl… and they were left speechless by what they saw…

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A “thing” half human and half machine… the silhouette the only reminder that this was their missing girl… The creature turned around and only the broken sad green eyes showed the reminents of a human being… she opened her mouth and a bad electronic noise came out. She tried it again and again and as her friends came closer suddenly it came out something that was hard to understand: “No, do not come closer please!” She breathed again with a terrible noise before she continued to try talking “Don’t try to free me… they experimented on me… and on the 4th or 5th….” Suddenly they heard a noise from outside…they did not catch the rest of what she was saying as they were already out the door running for their secret hide-out…

If you wanna know… and if you dare… come again to the Opium Sim on the 4th and 5th of february and see what the girl was talking about!

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Outfit: alpha.tribe – “Natural Things v.2”

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin