Wicca’s Wardrobe: The Steampunk Crow

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“People once believed that when someone dies, a Crow carries their soul to the land of the dead, but sometimes something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can’t rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the Crow can bring the soul back and put the wrong things right .”

(Sahra – The Crow 1994)

I know that crows are usually black, but as iIwas styling, I wanted to do someting in a brown/nude tone for the HAUTE Magazine (http://hautesl.com/latest-issue/)

The quote out of the movie “The Crow” still was in my mind all the time when I was styling.ย  I like dark fantasy novels and movies and so many of my stylings have some of those in the back, even if I do not always name them or tell about it.

For this styling I started with the “XXX” dress from LWL. I had it for a longer time but never something came to my mind what I could do with it. With the theme of the minimal colors for the HAUTE Magazine the brown tone matched amazing and I paired the crow theme with some steampunk elements like the boots from Grim Bros and the helmet from Diram. The amazing wings were a gift from Reclaw Inshan, former designer of R.A.D. Together with the leggings from LeeZu and the jewelry from Chop Zuey, the fantasy idea came to live. LovelyMiwako7399 Menna too this amazing picture ๐Ÿ™‚

Details

Dress: LWL – “Aviary”

Leggins: LeeZu – “Burleske Tights”

Boots: :Oh!: – “Steampunk”

Jewelry: Chop Zuey – “The Miracle Business”

Helmet: Diram – “Micah”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca Sepia”

Makeup: Nuuna’s – “Makeup v3 7”

Lipstick: blackliquid – “Lip Line”

Photogprapher: LovelyMiwako7399 Menna

Model & Stylist: Wicca Merlin

Wicca’s Wardrobe: Sometimes you just wanna be with the cool kids ;)

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Sometimes you feel casual but still wanna play with the cool kids ๐Ÿ˜‰

It is no secret that my favourite color is black and so I wanted to try a black and cool casual look. The look originally was created for the latest HAUTE Magazine of Leah Mc Cullough (http://hautesl.com/latest-issue/) but I loved the look and the picture so much that I decided to put in on the blog as well ๐Ÿ˜‰ At this point thank you so much LovelyMiwako7399 Menna for such an awesome picture ๐Ÿ˜‰

As I made the styling it still was very cold outside, but since the winter seems coming back in germany… it again matches the weather perfectly.

The pants and the jacket come from DeLa as well as the neck- and arm warmers. For the pullover I decided to wear one of my long time favourites from LeeZu.

The glasses I found at Steinwerk and for the hair I used one of the older styles of LeLutka. What I really like are the mesh ears with the tubes that you can get at Mandala and I use them a lot lately for the casual and grungy stylings ๐Ÿ˜‰ It really is fun if you try to make a casual simple styling and then you find this accessory in your inventory and that glasses and then maybe a bag… and all of a sudden you are far away from any minimal idea :p.

And now I will go out and see if I can find some cool kids to play with ๐Ÿ˜‰

Details

Pants: DeLa – “Uva” /black
Top: LeeZu – “WoolPulli” /black
Jacket: DeLa – “Belinda” /black
Tights: LeeZu – “LaLun Tights” /black semi sheer
Glasses: Steinwerk – “Aviator”
Hair: LeLutka – “Tokyo” /pitch
Boots: TEN”10″ – “Megas”
Bag: [AD] Creations – “Punk Bag”
Nails: Love Soul – “Spirit”
Neckpiece: DeLa – “Neckwarmer Basic” /black
Arm Parts: DeLa – “Armwarmer Basic” /black
Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca”
Makeup: Damned – “Tribal Makeup”
Lips: Silken Moon – “Wicca Lips Lead”

Photographer: LovelyMiwako7399 Menna

Model & Stylist: Wicca Merlin

Wicca’s Wardrobe: Spring Look for HAUTE Magazine

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Yesterday the latest issue of the HAUTE Magazine was launched on the new website (hautesl.com).

Leah McCullough, owner of the amazing HAUTE Magazine, released the second issue of her great magazine and I was asked to make a few stylings, wich were showcased as “WWW” – Wicca’s Weird Wardrobe. Leah gave me the challenge to stay in a black/grey/white or brown/nude color rage and I really had fun doing this looks ๐Ÿ˜‰

I had the great pleasure to work with LovelyMiwako7399 Menna for the whole column and she did amazing pictures ๐Ÿ™‚

For the first look I wanted to go with a fashion chic spring look. For the basic I decided to go with pants from LeLutka and a top from LeeZu. Then the idea of the hat and the bag came to my mind. It looked like a nice casual look and I wanted to pimp it a little bit and added a part of a Mea Culpa gown, glasses from Izzie’s and some gloves.

To see all of them at once you can visite the website and read the whole magazine online at http://hautesl.com/latest-issue/.

A special thanks goes to Leah McCullough and LovelyMiwako7399 Menna for the great oppostunity and the wonderful pictures!

Details

Pants: LeLutka – “Minnutuary” /tru
Top: LeeZu – “Valerie Blouse” /bark
Shoulderparts: Mea Culpa – “Chaos Theory” (part of the dress)
Glasses: Izzie’s – “Oversized Sunglasses”
Hair: Burly – “Zia II”
Hat: O&N – “Feodora Buckle”
Necklace: Yasum – “Flower”
Bag: Yasum – “Traveler Bag”
Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca

Photographer: LovelyMiwako7399 Menna

Model & Stylist: Wicca Merlin

Crazy Connection: Minimal Style with NYU

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“The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but youโ€™ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. Thatโ€™s whatโ€™s really going to make you look like youโ€™re ready to rock the world.”

โ€” Alicia Keys

Sometimes you do not need much to express yourself. Simplicity can be the key as well ๐Ÿ˜‰

Not too long ago, I only knew Dahriel by name, before Raven Pennyfeather, owner and designer of RFyre, brought us together ๐Ÿ˜‰ We started to do pics together and more and more we discovered that we have a lot of things together depending on fashion style and even personality. Sometimes it is just scaring how close alike we think and act. For me it is not something that happened a lot, that you know a person for not too long and already feel you would have known this person for your whole life. I am very grateful that Raven played fate and introduced us to each other ๐Ÿ˜‰

The more we worked on pictures, the more we both discovered that we would like to make more out of our ideas and just post together sometimes. We kind wanted to have a project together.ย  We both are busy bees, Dahriel with his pose store *PosESioN* and me with blogging teaching and modeling but still we wanted to use the little free time to make something together. As we were asked for doing a column for a magazine, the “Crazy Connection” was born.

We both like the non usual and the different view on things, as well we like to have fun and be creative and we both felt kinda connected to each other, so the name was just perfect ๐Ÿ˜‰

Today we wanted to make something special with a minimal style. What could fit better to start with as the wonderful creations of Nyunyu Kimono, owner and designer of NYU – Minimalistic High Fashion Couture. Dahriel picked the “Cropped Jumpsuit” and the “Tux Loafers” from NYU while I decided to go with the “Cotton Dress” with the “Cotton Cuffs” and the “Collared Bow Heels”.

Dahriel had the idea to use one of the cool buildings from Ewan Crumb for the scenery and he made the 2 poses we are using… I am sure that he will soon sell them at *PosESioN* ๐Ÿ˜‰

For the skins we wanted something very pale that goes with the white stylings and Dahriel decided to wear one of his favourite skins from Fruk, while I used one of the new skins by Silken Moon. The blindfold was kinda the perfect finish for the whole look and it felt like a strong symbol for being open-minded and not just to believe what you can see ๐Ÿ™‚

We hope you enjoyed our simple and minimalistic journey.

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Wicca’s Style:

Dress: NYU – “Cotton Dress”

Hands: Slink – “Mesh hands Casual”

Earrings: LeeZu – “Amour Serpent”

Hair: EMO-tions – “Cosma”

Blindfold: Illusion – “Silk Blindfold”

Piercing: [iN] – “Moon Chaser”

Cuffs: NYU – “Cotton Cuffs” – NEW

Shoes: NYU – “Collared Bow Heels” – NEW

Makeup: Silken Moon – “SM Eclipse Eyeliner Deep Set” & “SM Eclipse Color Eye Silver”

Lipstick: Silken Moon – “SM Eclipse Canvas Icecream” – NEW

Dahriel’s Style:

Skin: Fruk Bennett – Thanatos series – Blond/yellow –NEW (at Mens Dep)

Hair: *Birth* Stripe Hair – Platinum

Blindfold: Schรถen [White] Satin Blindfold with charmย – NEW (FFL Gachas)

Piercings: – .HoD. – Bulletproof v3ย  – Frost, – .HoD. – Compassion Piercing Set Prt. 1 Frost, – .HoD. – Sideswept v3 Piercing – Frost

Earings: – .HoD. – Dragon’s Tail Gauge Frost

Lips: Madrid Solo – Pouting Thomas-Silver NEW (at FFL)

Outfit: NYU – Cropped Jumpsuit, Vanilla

Shoes: NYU –ย  Tux Loafers – Cream, Male

Both poses: *PosESioN* (Comming Soon)

Skybox: CONTEMPO (by Ewan Crumb)

Photographer: Dahriel

Models: Wicca Merlin & Dahriel

The Proud Butterfly

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Once, a beautiful, shiny and colourful butterfly was flitting from one flower to another. She saw a baby elephant coming down the path. She flew to him and sat on his ear. The elephant asked, “Who are you? Where are you going?”

The butterfly proudly replied, “I am the most beautiful of all the butterflies. You are ugly and fat. Your body is heavy while I am delicate and light. People are jealous of my colourful wings. I can fly anywhere with these wings.”

The elephant calmly said, “I am glad to meet you.”

The butterfly went on, “There is no comparison between us. You have four legs but I have six. You have a trunk and I have something like that too but I use it to suck nectar from the flowers. You cannot do that.” Just then a strong wind blew and the butterfly could not keep her balance. She cried for help as she was flown away in the wind. But the elephant stood firmly on ground and thought, “I can see how pride has a fall.”

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Details

Head Piece: Chop Zuey – “Butterfly – The Lesser Wanderer” – NEW

Gown: PurpleMoon – “Cao Gown”

Gloves: LeeZu – “Nightingale” (part of the outfit)

Skins: Silken Moon – “Wicca – Fae”

Makeup: Nuuna’s – “Meta Yellow 90%” – NEW & “Zion Yellow”

Makup 2: Silken Moon – “Concept Makeup The Lost” – NEW

Wings: Fancy Fairy – “Tendrill Wings”

Hair: DeLa – “Julia 2”

Poses: PosESioN

Model & Artwork: Wicca Merlin

News by ][PULL][, EMO-tions & PosESioN

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Yesterday I got amazing news from ][PULL][. Melissa46, owner and designer of ][PULL][, made a wonderful limited collection for February and the “Limited Herm Bodysuit” jumped into my eye in the moment I saw the picture of it. I put it on and I fell in love with it. It is not a total crazy outfit but the simplicity and the wonderful lace attachments just caught my heart.

I wanted to create a nice and simple but not boring look for the “Limited Herm Bodysuit” and I just added the “Bubble Glam Tights” from LeeZu. The “Karya” boots from Miamai came to my mind and I liked the way of the simple straps on the plain black boots.

While I was thinking about hair, I remembered a cool and smart-looking short hairstyle from EMO-tions‘ latest releases called “Anna 2”. The black and white theme really started to become fun and while i was looking for a head-piece the “Oda” headpiece from PurpleMoon fell into my hands again.

To complete my black & white look I added the “Westwood Contrast BW” makeup from LovelyMi , combines with 2 different lipsticks of Silken Moon that, I just put over each other and the wonderful “Superior” lashes from Redgrave. The “Aliza” earrings from SoliDea FoliEs in black and white made the perfect finish for this look.

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For the poses I wanted to use something that goes with the simple style but not just casual poses. I remembered a set of PosESioN, that I got a while ago. After trying all of them I could not really decide wich ones I liked the most, so I just snapped all and thought on a little picture with all of them so you can see wich great poses are in the “Aliza” set from PosESioN ๐Ÿ˜‰

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Details

Outfit: ][PULL][ – “Limited Herm Bodysuit” – NEW (mesh)

Leggings: LeeZu – “Bubble Glam Tights”

Boots: Miamai – “Karya” (mesh)

Headpiece: PurpleMoon – “Oda”

Hair: EMO-tions – “Anna 2” – NEW

Earrings: SoliDea FoliEs – “Aliza” – NEW

Lashes: Redgrave – “Superior”

Nails: Mandala – “Female Nails Medium”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Makeup: LovelyMi – “Westwood Contrast BW”

Lips: Silken Moon – “Wicca Lips” & “Lip Stripes”

Poses: PoSEsioN – “Aliza Set”

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Wicca’s Wardrobe: A broken heart is blind

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Little black submarines
Operator please
Put me back on the line
Told my love I’d be back
Operator please
This is wrecking my mind

Oh, can it be
The voices calling me
They get lost and out of time
I should’ve seen it glow
But everybody knows
That a broken heart is blind
That a broken heart is blind

Pick you up, let you down
When I wanna go
To a place I can hide
You know me, I had plans
But they just disappeared
To the back of my mind

Oh, can it be
The voices calling me
They get lost and out of time
I should’ve seen it glow
But everybody knows
That a broken heart is blind
That a broken heart is blind

Treasure maps, falling trees
Operator please
Call me back when it’s time
Stolen friends and disease
Operator please
Patch me back to my mind

Oh, can it be
The voices calling me
They get lost and out of time
I should’ve seen it glow
But everybody knows
That a broken heart is blind
That a broken heart is blind
That a broken heart is blind

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_gU81C5LJ0&w=420&h=315]

Details

Outfit: LeeZu – “Naiidi” (mesh) – NEW

Boots: LeeZu – “Time Square Overknee Boots” (mesh)

Prop & Poses: Tableau Vivant & PosESioN

Model & Artwork: Wicca Merlin

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PosESioN for the Pimp my Valentine Hunt

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PosESioN made a wonderful couple pose for the “Pimp my Valentine Hunt“. “Mon Amour” is a very emotional and sensitive pose and I felt very honored and super happy, that Dahriel asked me to pose with him for this amazing creation. I was working on some new blog pictures as my sweet brother jumped into my IMs and asked me to help him to adjust a new pose and as soon as I saw it, I really loved it. He has such a talent to catch emotions and atmospheres with his couple and group poses… simply amazing. Then a few minutes later he asked me if I would pose with him for the vendor picture and with this … he made a dream come true for me. I asked him if he would have something in mind for a styling he wanted to have and the only thing he said was … “maybe red.. it is for a valentine hunt”… I decided to go for an outfits with less prims as huge large prims would just overdo this amazing post. I remembered that LeeZu had a great collection released sometime ago and with a combination of a few of them it made the perfect look to match the elegant and couture outfit that Dahriel was wearing ๐Ÿ˜‰

Again thank you bro for doing this with me ๐Ÿ˜‰

To get this amazing pose.. you just have to make the effort and search for the “Pimp my Valentine Hunt” gift between the 15th of January and the 15th of February ๐Ÿ˜‰ at the new PosESioN Mainstore (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/lafee%20style/129/57/35)

My Style Details:

Bodysuit & Gloves: LeeZu – “Liquid Latex” /red

Jewelry Layer: LeeZu – “Diamond Addict” /red

Collar: LeeZu – “Covetousness” /red (part of the outfit)

Red Mask: LeeZu – “Moulant” /red (part of the outfit)

Golden Mask: Mea Culpa – “La Dolce Vita” (part of the outfit)

Earrings: Chop Zuey – “Gentle Insanities”

Hair: LoQ – “Ouzo”

Shoes: [GOS] – “Desire Boots”

Skin: Silken Moonย  – “Wicca” /Wicca von Teese – NEW (custom made skin)

Pose: PosESioN – “Mon Amour” – NEW (Pimp my Valentine Hunt Gift)

Models: Dahriel & Wicca

Photographer: Dahriel

Dark in my Imagination

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Usually I hear music while I am doing pics… for this series it were this

TUNES

Miamai released a wonderful new collection and today I would like to show my first styling with this amazing new creations of monica Outlander.

For this post I combined 2 different pieces of the new “Unfold” collection, the “Vaalith” outfit and the “Silente Hood” headpiece. The “Vaalithe” is an outfit without any prims, only with layers. A rare fact as nearly very outfit you can get is made with sculpts, prims and mesh nowadays. For me it was exactly the fact that you only have layers that caught my attention.

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The wonderful black basic with kinda body stocking made of sheer lace and the opaque body that carries the amazing golden ornaments, shows the awesome skills of monica Outlander and her eye and love for the detail. To add some more of the golden tone I decided to add the “Miracle Business” bracelets from Chop Zuey. Belle released a the awesome “Don Quixote”ย  collection with many amazing sets and “The Miracle Business” set was one of them. To see all of them you either can roam through my blog or just go to the Chop Zuey Mainstore ;).

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The incredible hood as well is of the “Unfold” collection of Miamai. The “Silente Hood” is totally mesh made and the horns are part of the hood. The horns are decorated with little butterflies and chains and they give the whole outfit a very special touch.

For this post I only used poses from PosESioN. This new brand of Dahriel is a rising star on the pose heaven. His poses have a wide range from runway modeling poses, photo poses and as well amazing couple poses. He can do simply all from the usual runway pose with a special touch up to the extraordinary and unusual poses. All poses have a very smooth transition and are perfect for every use ๐Ÿ™‚

You really should visit the new PosESioN Mainstore new store side by side with the Mea Culpa Mainstore ๐Ÿ™‚

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Details

Outfit: Miamai – “Vaalith” – NEW

Headpiece: Miamai – “Silente Hood” – NEW (mesh)

Boots: LeeZu – “Times Square Overknee Boots” – NEW (mesh)

Jewelry: Chop Zuey – “The Miracle Buiness”

Nails: *Rebel -X-* – “Werewolf Claws”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca” – NEW (custom made skin)

Lipstick: L.Fauna – “Lipstick Black”

All boses by PosESioN

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Wicca’s Wardrobe: LOTD 12/26/2012 – Asian Touch

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One of LeeZu‘s latest releases is a wonderful mesh combination of a dress and boots and as well the popular “Nif Nif” gloves are now available in mesh.

The new “Kaya Gown” is a wonderful mixture of a long and short dress to the same time. For the left leg you have a huge slit that shows off the whole sexy leg and on the right side the skirt goes down to the ankle.

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The “Kaya Gown” comes in many different colors and I chose the black version for this post, because I liked the combination of black, red and the golden ornaments so much. The super sexy overknee boots repeat the golden ornaments on the leg and as well at the heels!

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The inner of the skit brings back the red color that we see under the chest. Even the upper end of the boots carry the same color and little buckle that we saw on the gown under the chest. The “Nif Nif” gloves make a wonderful shape for the hands. The option to have hands and feet made with mesh adds a lot mor possibilities for the creators and as well makes them so much more realistic ๐Ÿ™‚ To finish my asian touch idea, I chose the “Warrior” hair from epoque with the 2 crossed sticks behind the bun. The huge necklace from Swallowtail I have for a very long time and by searching for an appropriate one it fell into my hands again ๐Ÿ˜‰

To see more of the latest LeeZu releases you can takeย  a look at the LeeZu Mainstore and see for yourself ๐Ÿ˜‰

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Details

Outfit (incl boots) – LeeZu – “Kaya Gown” – NEW (mesh)

Gloves: LeeZu – “NifNif” – NEW (mesh)

Hair: epoque – “Warrior”

Necklace: Swallowtail – “Gloomy Flower”

Earrings: *P* – “Monica”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca” /nude (custom made skin)

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin