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Finesmith Designs – Inspiration Sets March/April Part I

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Finally I made it to snap my wonderful inspiration set of the Finesmith Muse 2011 contest. On the 1st of May, Finesmith Designs had a wonderful show, produced by Kabuki Boutique. The show was called “11 Rooms”. Each room had a special scene.

Each model with it’s own inspiration set had a room that was made especially for that set. Taylor Wassip was acting in a bedroom, Luralie Bailey danced in a club scene, Rissa Friller was in a shopping rage at a Jewelry Store, Aliyeh Yifu, the little mermaid  was swimming in an amazing underwater scenerie, Shena Neox was putting together a wonderful style in a dressing room, Vivienne Coppola showcased her awesome set in a cabaret show, Jamee Sandalwood wandered around the forrest, Sy Whitesong hovered through the downtown at night, myself was captured in a dungeon, Melanie Sauterau (for the show replaced by Serene Faith) strolled through an Art Gallery and Rusalka Callisto was turning her body in front of a camera in a photostudio.

During the show always one room was opened and each model has it’s own song to showcase the jewelry with a short choreography of poses. The audience was sitting in the middle of a black room and one room after another opened and a short story was read in a very interesting way not like the usual scripts of fashion shows. For this blog post I for sure wanted to show you the incredible set yula Finesmith made for me and as well I will try to show you all the wonderful sets one by one :). Luckily, I got the script afterwards so I can give you a short impression what was happening there :). At this point a big thank you to Xenobia Foxclaw who did this awesome script 🙂

As I mentioned… my room was a little dungeon. All in red and black with a cage and candles. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/kabukimodels/5679571069/in/photostream) and for sure a text that matched this theme perfectly 😉

“Wicca Merlin was not born into the life of slavery. She entered it willingly with her eyes wide open. She adored her master and did his bidding. From cleaning his house to pleasing him in bed…she did it all without a word of complaint.

She knew he particularly liked to find her in this elaborate cage that hung in the dungeon surrounded by candles. She knew she looked especially pretty in candle light, and she loved the way the metals glinted and the candles set them ablaze on the walls. Tonight she wore his favorite set of jewelry – the Finesmith set that had been made to fit her. They felt warm and sensuous, and they fulfilled the promise he made when she signed the contract that made her his slave. Wicca would only enter such a relationship if the reward were her own set of jewelry from Yula. Wicca was quite sure she had the better end of that bargain.”

(picture by blackliquid Tokyoska)

 

The second set I would like to show you, was made for Melanie Sauterau. For the show Serene Faith our actual MVW replaced Melanie as she was not able to make to the the show.

“Tonight is the opening of a new gallery exhibit. The pieces have been selected with great care to show the best work of this renowned artist. She is so young to be so accomplished in photography, oils, marble, metal, and gems. Her metal work is undoubtedly what she is best known for. I’m so very honored to be part of this exhibit. I’ve heard people say how very life-like I am. Some have even reached out to touch my skin to assure themselves that I am not a living model, or they watch my breast to see if I breath. I don’t understand how I cannot be living though – I have feelings, I love, I cry, I wonder..
I wonder who this person is who I’m named after – Melony Inspiration. Melony is a beautiful name, she must be beautiful to have inspired a work such as I am and the jewelry that I wear. I wonder if she is living still – perhaps a long lost love or a mother remembered fondly. I wonder what the story behind me is…I wonder.”

The last one for today yula made for Vivienne Coppola. A wild and fresh set that totally is a must have for every fashionista!

” Of all of her friends, Vivienne Coppola is the perfect one to appear in a dream cabaret. She has a wonderful collection of vintage flapper clothing. She is also dramatic in her behavior and her movements. She is even known to burst out into song and dance right on the street.
Even her jewelry, from Finesmith Designs, is perfect for her dramatic flair. The pieces seem somehow exuberant just like Vivienne. The band, the music, the dance, the beat of the drum – it all seems so full of life.
Listen, perhaps you can hear her now coming down the hall singing, “Stroke that shiny coat, stroking is the antidote, stroke that it’s a start, only for the wild at heart” – such a sexy song to sing and dance to. Yes, Vivienne is the perfect one to appear in this cabaret.”

All of the March / April inspiration sets are limited to 50 sets each and you can as well purchse them in single parts! As I said there are 10 new inspiration sets and I will show them to you one after another, so stay tuned for all the other lovely piece of arts created for wonderful models by yula Finesmith, owner and genius goddess of Finesmith Designs!

Details

Set 1: Finesmith Designs – “Wicca Inspiration” set

Set 2: Finesmith Designs – “Melanie Inspiration” set

Set 3: Finesmith Designs – “Vivienne Inspiration” set

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

H&S goes Avantgarde!

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Lately I got a very interesting outfit from a store I did not even know before. Nicki Vervain, owner and designer of Hot and Sparkling Fashion Company gave me this wonderful outfit called “Reaching”. I was very curious and went home unpacking it and what I saw just amazed me! A wonderful composition of waving huge prims in silver. The outfit is made of 4 clothing layers and 4 prims to attach. Private parts are covered by the clothing layers 😉 The huge neckpart with the 2 shoulder attachments and a center one, wave dreamy around you with every move, as well as the skirt part does. I have to admit I was definitely surprised and I will have to make my way to the H&S Mainstore to see what else Nicki Vervain created 🙂

Details

Outfit: Hot and Sparkling Fashion Company – “H&S’s Reaching”

Hair: PurpleMoon

Shoes: CheerNo

Poses: Di’s Opera

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Mea Culpa 1 years Anniversary!!! – It gets celebrated with a wonderful dress as a gift and a neat anniversary sale!!!

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Mea Culpa becomes one year old on the 25th of April. There for Tatanka Kaligawa decided something special for Thursday the 21st of April. There will be a 50% refund on all and everything that you buy between 12PM SLT and 3PM SLT. The designer himself will be in the store and make sure you get your 50% back 🙂

DO NOT MISS IT!!!

Who knows if you will ever again have the chance to get a Mea Culpa gown for 50% of the original prize!!! But that is not all… For all that have the Mea Culpa Mainstore in their pics section on their profiles, Tatanka Kaligawa designed a sweet, amazing anniversary dress that he will give a way for free to celebrate his first birthday. You will find that dress at the “Get your shopping card” board including a 10% discount card for another purchase.

But now let’s have a closer look on the dress I stole out of his laboratory to give you a sneak preview…

This dress is such a sweet idea to celebrate the first birthday of Mea Culpa. The short dress is a shows off very sexy the long legs and the texture of the clothing layers have an awesome shine. It is like you can feel the sun reflecting on each part of the dress. The shoulder prims add a light playful touch and the ornament on the chest make a lovely highlight. The neck collar as well is made as an attached prim. For me the hat is a total eye catcher. It looks like a neat umbrella that is directly worn on the head and so the name of the dress that I could see on a little piece of paper totally first for this design. “Sugar Candy” MeaCulpa‘s first anniversary dress is named and I am sure you will not miss it to get your “Sugar Candy” on Thursday the 21st at the Mea Culpa Mainstore!!!

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Finally Released – Mea Culpa’s Contribution for MVW 2011!

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There they are, the official outfits of Miss Egypt 2011. On the 18th of december was the finale of the Miss Virtual World 2011. Mea Culpa made both dresses, country costume and the formal gown for Miss Egypt 2011.

Lets take a look on the country costume first – “Fate of Osiris” that you also can see in the picture above…

A wonderful egypt outfit that reminds of the old egypt princesses. If Cleopatra would have had a chance she would have worn it … I am sure 😉

Wonderful fans move around the body with every step and movement. Another great highlight is the wonderful headpiece…

Perfectly matching to the rest of the outfit this huge headpiece. A huge flower looking part covers the left side of the chest. Typical for egypt are the mixture of gold and different blue tones what was perfectly made for the “Fate of Osiris” Again an amazing creation of TatankaKaligawa , genius designer of Mea Culpa.

The second outfit was made for the formal entry of MVW 2011 also for Miss Egypt of that year.

The amazing “Obscure Elation” let remind of kinda peacock theme but done in the way of Mea Culpa 😉  This wonderful gown will turn heads for sure. The great flexible parts in the back wave around you with every movement and the great highlights are for sure also the jewelry parts like the 2 brooches at the chest and on the hip and the glamorous headpiece.

So make your way to the Mea Culpa Mainstore and see those wonderful new releases and also some more I will soon showcase on my blog as well 🙂

Details

Outfit1: Mea Culpa – “Fate of Osiris”

Outfit2: Mea Culpa – “Obscure Elation”

Skins: Glam Affair – Castalia /dark & light

Poses: Body Talking

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

News from Mea Culpa!

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Again a new release at Mea Culpa. Tatanka Kaligawa again creatied a wonderful new outfit called “Randomly Wild”

“Randomly Wild” is a very unsymetric dress that shows off the amazing skills of designer Tatanka Kaligawa if it comes to wild and couture looking designs. The textures are made with incredble details very cleared and thought of. The short skirt is decorated with huge prims that caress the legs while walking. The great collar that is also part of the outfit underlies the wild style of the dress perfectly and with an alpha layer it is no problem at all to walk and pose with it as well… it will always fit properly 🙂 The hug upper part also has one dominant part on the right hand side, while on the left side the shoulder is covered a little more down with flexible prims that look kinds feathers 😉

For the shoes I chose one of the latest shoe releases also from Mea Culpa, called “Romance”

This great ankle boots are perfect if you search for something special. They are HUD driven and you can choose from 6 premade color for the boots.

The anklepart is decorated with nice leather straps, buckles and neat little spikes that hang down from the ankle part. The textures are not just simple uni ones if you take a look you can see the amazing ornaments that decorate the whole boots.

So make your way to the Mea Culpa Mainstore and you can take a look for yourself and also do not forget the Christmas Special on the first floor as well 🙂

Details

Outfit: Mea Culpa – “Randomly Wild”

Shoes: Mea Culpa – “Romance”

Skin: Glam Affair

Hair: 3636 Design

Earrings & Bangles: Finesmith

Makeup/ Facetattoo: La malvada Mujer

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Next Christmas special at Mea Culpa!

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For a special Christmas offer Mea Culpa will set up two gowns and one pair of shoes for 50% off
They will be changed every wednesday until Christmas ! 🙂

Till next wednesday it will be the Wind of Change for 50%

…and the Bionic Symbiosis for 50%

…the shoes for this week are the Eruption for 50%

The special you will find on the first floor of the MeaCulpa Mainstore as always 🙂

New Skins at Maven Haus and the Maritima Satelite Store!

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Elaera Maven, designer of Maven Haus and Maven Strasse, again designed 2 amazing skins!!! The first one – that you can already in the first pic is called “Au Courant”.

A wonderful porcelain looking skin with a wonderful powder looking effect. Not too much shine and glow but shadows and lights at the right spot 🙂

The yellow-green lips and the ornaments around the left eye give that skin a wonderful avantgardistic touch. This skin is only available at the Maven Haus Satellite Store at the Maritima Mall.

The second skin for today is called “Playful” and the name is program. A very light skin also with amazing shades and shadows with a very light and everyday looking makeup. If you take a closer look you will see the eye for the detail designer Elaera puts in every of his creations. This skin you can find at the Marven Haus Mainstore, where also all the other great designs and skin of Elaera Maven are located 😉

Lately I heard a whisper that a few of the great Maven Haus skins were on a discount…^^ maybe you should take the next free TP and visit the Maven Haus Mainstore 😉

Skin 1: Maven Haus – “Au Courant”

Skin 2: Maven Haus – “Playful”

Model & Photogapher: Wicca Merlin

New Releases and a unbelievable Christmas Special at Mea Culpa!!!

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Yes it is true, Tatanka Kaligawa, designer of Mea Culpa, again created 4 new designs for Mea Culpa. 2 of them I want to show you today. The other 2 left I will for sure blog here also so keep tuned!

The first one I wanna showcase today is the “Bionic Symbiosis” which we can see also in the first picture above 🙂

“Bionic Symbiosis” is a wonderful gown that again shows the incredible skills and ideas of Tatanka Kaligawa if it comes to new ideas of fashion and couture. The dress it self has a very tight dress and skirt beginning that ends in a firework of huge flexible prims the more it goes down to the ground. The color is made in a wide scale of green and black. The layers are not made of a simple plain texture, it is a wonderful combination of different ornaments and colors that make this gown to something special, to a piece of art we know the designs of Mea Culpa for. The wrist sleeves are also decorated with 2 huge wrist prims that repeat the main theme of the dress in a very interesting way. All the attached prims are kinds wavy and for sure the huge and extraordinary hat add another ‘wow’ effect to the whole design.

The second new release is called “Wind of Change” and it really brings in some fresh wind onto the fashion industry 😉

‘This gown is made for a real ladie’s body… very elegant but also extravagant! The awesome combination of pink and black will let every fashionistas heart beat higher 😉


Let’s take a closer look on all that wonderful details… the basic skirt layer is an opaque tight pencil skirt that goes down to the ground. Spikes decorate the creation on the right hand side leg and add a lightly dangerous and goth style. The top under the jacket has a light transparent around the basic laced texture. The jacket reminds me on an old english uniform jacket even if it is made like a modern bolero jacket 😉 A huge, pink neck collar the puffy arm sleeves and the wonderful hat set this design also for a perfect winter outfit! at th belly button you have a nother detailed prim attachment with a huge purple ge in its center. If you take a look from the side or back you will realize how big that flexible black parts in your back are! The hat has a fur seam and the spikes are repeated from a few tentacle looking long and flexible parts that are longer on the right side then on the left of the hat..again a nice non symmetric detail… 😉

If you look at the texture of the jacket you can see that the Mea Culpa designs are really more than just clothing that every single part is made with love to the detail. All filigree black ornaments the shading of colors, the lights and shadows… simply amazing!

As I said that are only 2 of the newest designs of Tatanka Kaligawa…so stay tuned the other 2 I will review soon 😉 If you cannot wait you can also peek at the Mea Culpa Mainstore!

Now for something special… Mea Culpa decided to have a Christmas Special! Every Wednesday there will be 2 gowns set down to 50%!!! Yes you heard right… half prize! Also one pairs of shoes will be 50%. All 2 items are available 7 days before they change again on the next Wednesday till christmas.

For this week you have the “Polarlight” gown…

(Picture provided by Mea Culpa)

… one of the new releases… the “Frozen Countess”

(Picture provided by Mea Culpa)

and the “Feeling” heels…

(Picture provided by Mea Culpa)

…this 3 items you can find on the first floor of the Mea Culpa Mainstore until the 8th of december, then they will be changed to the next Christmas Special 🙂

Details

Outfit1:

Gown: Mea Culpa – “Bionic Symbiosis”

Skin: Glam Affair

Outfit2:

Gown: Mea Culpa – “Wind of Change”

Skin: Glam Affair

Model & Photographer(except the last 3 pictures): Wicca Merlin

Fantastic news from Maven Strasse!!! “Wahnsinnge” meets “Doll”

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(Skin: Maven Strasse – “Wahnsinnige” ,  Model: Wicca Merlin, Photographer: Adien Arun, Infamous Robot Studios)

And I so had known it *grins* As I said in my last Maven Haus blog… I smelled a skin release by Maven Strasse 😉

And here it is ;). Elaera Maven, designer of Maven Haus and it’s subsidiary Maven Strasse, designed 2 new amazing skins.

(Skin: Maven Strasse – “Wahnsinne” ,  Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin)

A totally must have for the avantgarde loving fashionista. If you dare to be different and very edgy you have to take a look at the make up of the “Wahnsinnige” skin. The body has a beautiful firework of lights and shadows without too much glow.

(Skin: Maven Strasse – “Doll” ,  Model: Wicca Merlin, Photographer: Adien Arun, Infamous Robot Studios)

The same great body you will find for the “Doll” skin. This skin is perfectly for the “Angel in Disguise” look.

(Skin: Maven Strasse – “Doll” ,  Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin)

Cute in pink you have wonderful smokey eyes paired with a neat pink blush on the cheeks and wonderful glossed lips. Simply stunning and a real fashion doll skin 😉

These extraordinary skins are available at the Maven Strasse boutique. If visit the Maven Haus store, you will find the Maven Strasse boutique next to the stair case.

Details

Skin1: Maven Strasse – “Wahninnige”

Hair: Baiastice

Earrings: Ticky Tacky

Nails: Mstyle

Pasties: Hugo’s

Skin2: Maven Strasse – “Doll”

Hair: Baiastice

Earrings: Candy Nail

Pasties: Hugo’s

Shoes: Stiletto Moody

Model: Wicca Merlin

Dojo – Papercouture… How sexy paper can be ;)

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(Outfit: dojo – “Primerette”, Model: Wicca Merlin, Photographer: Helenna Baxton)

Again Sanders Beaumont shows how sexy and stylish paper can be.

The outfit is combined of tight pants with the paper optic and a great futuristic looking belly free top. For the top we have a long sleeve layer part and a great prim attachment that carries the huge shoulder parts. If you want you also can wear the chopsticks that are also included as a great hair decoration. Also part of the outfit are the amazing booties that are made in kinda Alexander McQueen style with the big front part that let you walk nearly on the toe tips and the high small heel in the back. Also the shoes are decorated with amazing details and the whole outfit again shows the great skills if it comes to the unique textures.

For the second outfit of this blog post I chose one of the new dresses -“Paulette”

“Paulette”, a short sexy dress all made of paper 😉 The skirt starts very tight and at the bottom it opens like a up-side-down tulip 😉 Matching to the dress Sanders added a huge hat. Hat and dress both are decorated with a filigree black ribbon.

To cover the chest we have a great black prim attachment with an amazing collar at the upper end.

This outfit comes with the same great booties as the “Primerette” I had as my first outfit in this post. This are only 2 of the newer dojo outfit and there is one very special with an amazing effect that I will showcase I my next dojo blog post… so stay tuned 😉

Details

Outfit1: Dojo – “Primerette”

Hair: BooN

Skin: Nuunas’s

Earrings: Ticky Tacky

Nail: Mandala

Outfit2:

dojo – “Paulerette”

Glasses: epoque

Skin: Nuuna’s

All Poses: Body Talking

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin