Bring me back to life

TUNES

Today I was again in a strange mood. As I yesterday started to style the new “Aphrodisia” dress from Fellini Couture, I had something romantic lightly vintage with a huge hat in mind. I have no clue why, but while I was entering SL and staring at the login screen, that always shows you your last picture I came across a totally different vision.

Maybe it had to do as well that I listened to one of my favourite bands the whole day. One song of Evanescence was very close to me for a long time. That’s why I linked “Bring me back to life” in the beginning as it kinda was a huge part of my inspiration for the pictures and look.

But now lets take a look on the wonderful “Aphrodisia” dress from Fellini Couture and the whole look around it. The “Aphrodisia” dress is a white and very romantic dress with lots of amazing and different textures. The mixture of filigree lace, the opaque ornamented parts and the flowers makes this dress to a little piece of art. Joy Fellini again shows why she is on top of the SL fashion scene for such a long time with her genius ideas and incredible skills.

Right beside on top of the fashion heaven, we have yula Finesmith, owner and designer of Finesmith. She released not too long ago a wonderful male collection and the parts I am wearing today I took out of this one. I did not see any reason, if males can wear female jewelry, why the girls cannot wear the male jewelry :p. I just had to resize the “Heartology” necklace for sure as it was way bigger for a males neck :). The “Heartology” wings I took like they are without any changes.

The awesome hat is part of the “Halloween Horror Collection” if hats from Bliss Couture. Amutey DeCuir made a super cool hat collection for Halloween 2011 and I see no reason why we cannot use them during the year if it matches :p.

Maybe if you look at the pics while you hear the song you can get a part of my mood that I had, while I was doing this pictures. The first time I dared to make my own fog and parts of the hair and I am amazed what came out after all this hours between looking at tutorials, reading advises and try & error πŸ™‚ For sure it is not the end of the scale, but a wonderful new start for me to work on even more pictures πŸ™‚

Details

Dress: Fellini Couture – “Aphrodisia” – NEW

Necklace & Wings: Finesmith – “Heartology”

Nails: Finesmith – “French Nails” /nude – NEW

Hat: Bliss Couture – “Tijanna”

Hair: Baiastice – “Anaya”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Rookie”

Poses Picture 1&2: Corpus – “Editorial Series 6”

Pose Picture 3: Wicca Merlin

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Finesmith Muse 2012 – Semi Finale Review

Yesterday, on the 27th of November, the semi finals for the Finesmith Muse 2012 took place. I was allowed to be one of the lucky ones to be part of it . We got a very nice challenge and rules for our styling.

Yula send out a NC with the requests she had for all of the contestants. The theme was fantasy but still being human, so not having fantasy skins… some people told me that this is my theme to go wild with horns and wings and stuff… so I wanted to go completely different and not doing what people expect from me :p. So I took the risk to go for cute and fairytale *grins* rare but there πŸ˜‰

As well I wanted to redo as many jewelry attachments to use them as a different thing as they usually were thought for. So the great “Victorian Secrets” earrings became my dolly ballet shoes, The “Jellyfish” headpiece became the dolly skirt and as well parts of the bracelets. Then a windup dolly needs a wind up key so I just took the “Victorian Secret” necklace, turned it around and made it way bigger before I attached it to my back ;). The collar inspired by Blackliquid went on my head, got turned around and turned into a hat πŸ™‚

To make the fantasy fairytale complete I had the idea of a lonely sad windup dolly locked away in her glass cage and my genius sister Rhonda Pennell helped me with the story and proper english πŸ˜‰ Thank you sissy!

Few of us can resist the magical power of a full moon shining brightly in the otherwise dark hours of the night…for some, it means sleepless wandering, for others, a metamorphosis. But for one single doll, a wind-up doll locked in a glass cage, it means a taste of freedom.

You see, our lovely doll, Wicca Merlin, was betrayed by the young, dashing prince she once loved. The prince was very charming and swept Wicca off her feet from the start, but he soon met another woman who was a beautiful but cunning witch, and he began spending more time with her and less with Wicca.

Poor Wicca! Her sweet, innocent soul unable to withstand the raging waves of jealousy, she became enraged and locked the prince away, letting him out only once every month on a full moon – for it was the most romantic time that Wicca could imagine spending with him. But the young witch found out, and before long, she and the prince schemed against our doll to doom her to the same fate.

Cursed, Wicca must now endure long, lonely hours in her glass cage, its door unlocking only on a moonlit night. But she must return before sunrise when the door once again closes, or she will perish in an instant.

Tonight the door opens once more, and our doll steps out in all of her shining Finesmith beauty. She takes a breath of the fresh, cool air, spreading her arms decorated with “Buckleup Jellyfish” bracelets like wings unfolding, and slowly begins to twirl. Her “Jellyfish”dolly skirt, her “Victorian Secret”ballet shoes, her “Leah”corset and even the hair with the “Blackliquid” hat, all sparkling and glistening under the moonlight, making her feel beautiful – and hopeful that perhaps this time, this very night, at last she might find a true love to rescue her from the confines of the glass cage forever, for only true love can break the curse.

The hours pass by, and lovely Wicca enjoys rare moments of happiness as she runs through the forest, and once even passes by a small pond where frogs croak softly by the edge and fish chase each other below the water, all doused in a silver moonlight glow. Or is the glow coming from our doll herself? She gently dips a finger in the water and giggles, as tiny circles spread from the center and grow larger, momentarily distorting her reflection.

But morning comes quickly, and in growing despair Wicca realises that she must once again return to the glass box. A single tear drops from her eye like a liquid diamond…She turns around once more, then steps inside as the door begins to close. As she prepares to go to sleep for another month, a soft glow remains, emanating from her Finesmith outfit – a glow of hope for eventual salvation.

The End

Details

Hat: Finesmith – “Inspiration Blackliquid Collar”
Eyepiece: Finesmith – “Rissa Delicate Mask”
Earrings: Finesmith – “Inspiration Vivienne”
Collar: Finesmith – “Inspiration Arisia”
Bracelets: Finesmith – “Buckleup” + “Jellyfish” headpiece (resized)
Corset: Finesmith – “Leah Inspiration Corset”
Skirt: Finesmith – “Jellyfish headpiece”
Nails: Finesmith – “Black Onyx”
Windup Key: Finesmith – “In the FlaSh – Victorian secret necklace”
Ballet shoes: Finesmith – “In the FlaSh – Victorian secret earrings”

Suit: LeLutka

Hair: PurpleMoon

Skin: Glam Affair

Model & Photographer:Wicca Merlin

Wicca’s Wardrobe: Today at LeeZu 11/21/2011

Jacket: LeeZu – “La Pequena Chaqueta” /orange

Pants: LeeZu – “Lea Pants” /black

Belt: House of Fox – “Relentless Belt” /black

Hair: MADesign – “Dora” /black IV

Hairpiece: Miamai – “Dharma” /pink&diamond

Jewelry: Finesmith – “Cross my flower and hope to die”

Nails: Finesmith – “Rave Pink”

Lashes: Redgrave – “Candy Doll”

Facetattoo: White Widow – “Marguerite” /pink

Boots: BC332 – “Work Boots Dr. Muders”

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Cuties at Purplemoon

Finally after a long time planning I made it to visit the PurpleMoon Mainstore again :p. I was in a light shopping mood and roamed through the whole store. Many amazing new outfits and gowns are there and 2 of them kinda got a special attention. First of all it was the “Tanya” dress, that you can see above. A wonderful short dress with an amazing skirt. The skirt has a shape that imagines a big tulip in both directions, up and down πŸ˜‰ The top is just held by 2 thin lines, so you have much room for great accessories like the “Casandra” neck corsage, as well from PurpleMoon.

For the second dress I could not make up my mind if I wanted to have the black or the white one and I ended up getting both ‘*grins*. The name of this cute wool dress would be “Mandy”. Above you can see the white version and below soon will come the black one. For sure the eye catcher on this dress would be the huge neckpart with the amazing brooch. The short skirt has awesome ruffles and the black belt brings back the color of the brooch again.

Details

Dress 1: PurpleMoon – “Tanya! /black

Neckpiece: PurpleMoon – “Casandra”

Hair: Son!a – “Lust updo” /onyx

Jewelry: Finesmith – “Demure” earrings & eyemask + “Vivienne” armlet

Boots: CheerNo – “Julia”

Dress 2: PurpleMoon – “Mandy” /white & black

Jewelry: Finesmith – “Core” earrings + “Onyx” nails

Hair: LoQ – “Pure Beauty” /black

Boots: Hoorenbeek – “Siren” /black

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Silver and Golden news from Elan

Details

Gowns: Elan – “Quinn” /silver & gold- NEW

Jewelry: Finesmith Design – “Exist” – NEW

Skin: Glam Affair – “Castalia”

Hair: Purple Moon – “Eka”

Poses: Corpus

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Scorpions…

And again another new release by Finesmith… πŸ™‚

I told you there are many of them right now πŸ˜‰

Again we have wonderful inspiration set named “Sylphia”. 2 scorpions, one is sitting on your chest and the other one decorates your head. You have 2 versions of the set included in the package. One with onyx and one with ruby gems. The long ‘tentacles’ are made of different shades of silver and black. If you are out of the box with your stylings… you need this awesome set ;)!

But for now I am back to snap all those other beautiful new releases of Finesmith Design πŸ˜‰

Deatils

Jewelry: Finesmith Design – “Inspiration Sylphia” – NEW

Nails: Finesmith Design – “Onyx Nails”

Outfit: Leezu – “Sablier” /black

Hair: Miamai – “Krea updo”

Boots: Slink – “Tall Leather Thigh Boots” /black (mesh)

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Finesmith – “Asia”

Yula Finesmith is back from her vacation.. and we have a bunch of amazing new releases at Finesmith!!! For today I have the “Asia” set for you πŸ™‚ A wonderful, elegant and beautiful set, that contains a pair of earrings, a necklace and a ring. The basic shape we can see is kinda flower. The filigree lines at the outsides, that give the imagination of the petals meet in the middle in a fantastic textured pearl. The pearls, in a smaller size,Β  you as well can find at the very end of the silver ‘petals’ as well. Again we can see yula’s amazing skills if it comes to design and details. Her unique creations seem to be an inspiration for other jewelry designers as well, what bigger compliment you can get as a designer… so way to go yula… you rock πŸ™‚

Details

Jewelry: Finesmith Design – “Asia”

Skin: Glam Affair – “Castalia”

Hair: MADesign

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Mesh News by Estelle Parnall

Dress: Estelle ParnallΒ  – “Jasmine”Β  /aqua (mesh) – NEW

Skin: Glam Affair – “Gio” – NEW

Jewelry: Finesmith Design

Hair: Baiastice

Dress: Estelle Parnall – “Paris” /purple (mesh) – NEW

Skin: Glam Affair – “Gio” – NEW

Jewelry: Finesmith Design

Hair: Baiastice

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

News of the latest collection of Glam Affair!

Glam Affair again made a great new line of outfits for every kind of event πŸ˜‰ One blog post will not even be enough to show them all in the right light. So I decided to make a 2 part story out of it πŸ™‚ My first outfit for this post will be “Ginevra”, a wonderful casual pants outfit. Very chic and autumn like it is the perfect dress for the actual season. The light pnats make a wonderful contrast to the black blouse. This black blouse has such wonderful detailed ruffles and folds… really amazing and they add a touch of elegance to the casual overal.”Ginevra” can be found in othecolor combinations as well at the Glam Affair Mainstore.

To bring a little bit of color into the autumn season the “Orchid” top is the right choice. I picked the pink one for this blog post but you can find as well more awesome fall colors at Glam Affair. The lights and shadows are set so perfect to make the blouse look realistic, that you nearly wanna grab one of this buttons if you wanna take off the blouse again πŸ˜‰ The high neck part is a total “in” for this autumn. The huge black belt breaks the basic color in a beautiful way and leads perfect to the black “Linn” pants with the grand ruffles at the left and right upper leg.

Now we leave the casual side a bit and go more into the chick direction with the wonderful “Ibis” outfit that I again combined with the “Linn” pants as I liked the ruffles of the pants so much to the huge side parts of the “Ibis” body.

This totally black shaded combination would be perfect for a night out or even some fashion event πŸ˜‰

“Fiona” is a very sexy outfit of the new Glam Affair collection and an outfit even Lady Gaga would die for maybe :p. Very sexy with the sheer body and very stylish with the short skirt and the huge bow as a dreamy neck collar πŸ™‚ With the Lady Gaga stylings in mind, I could not resist to wear the new mesh SlinkΒ  “Leather Thigh Highs” πŸ˜‰

“Sora” looks close to “Fiona” for the belly and waist part, but the top is way more closed and opaque and the big bow is not worn at the neck… it makes a wonderful eye catcher at the backside! The collar and wrist parts again made of incredible cute and detailed ruffles and folds like we had it for the “Ginevra” outfit. For me “Sora” would be the total “turn heads” on every fashion event :). As I said, that’s just the first post of the new Glam Affair line, as I wanted to give every outfit the right spot and attention it earned πŸ™‚

LOTD 09/29/2011 with Fellini Couture

Yesterday I met Joy Fellini – talented designer and owner of Fellini Couture –Β  on one of her secret shopping tours… nope I will not tell where :p… and she gave me one of her latest releases – “Z”. Such an awesome creation with a lovely zebra print all over the dress. The huge ruffles on the sides are made in a sheer lace fabric and make an awesome contras to the opaque dress it self. What really caught my eyes were the zebra tinted claws that decorate the chest and the huge headpiece that as well has this awesome claws that hold it on the head. The bracelets and the collar are as well part of the outfit. For the earrings I used the “Noir” earrings from Finesmith Design, and the shoes are made by epoque. For me the “Z” dress is definitely a must have for the modern fashionista. If you make your way to the Fellini Couture Mainstore you can take a look by yourself and as well see all the other amazing designs or Joy Fellini πŸ™‚

Details

Dress – Fellini Couture – “Z” – NEW

Skin: Glam Affair – Gio” /light BL 02

Earrings: Finesmith Design – “Noir”

Shoes: epoque – “Mesa Platforms”

Hair: Baiastice – “Rosario”

Nails: Mstyle – “Perfect Hand” /short

Poses: Corpus

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin