Leave your Hat on – Styling around a hat Part II

August 10, 2014 by Wicca Merlin

Because I had so much fun with the stylings for the Art in Hats show, I would like to share another of my stylings made around just a hat 😉

This time the hat I started out with came from Miuccia Klaar. The amazing “The Garden in my Head Hat” shows a watering can and some huge flowers in red and pink growing out some grass.

So what to style around… I wanted to keep the hat center, but still have the colors repeated somewhere plus, I wanted to keep the art character of the hat for the whole look.

I remembered black pants from [AD] Creations, wich had 2 huge pink buttons at the belly and a long waist decoration so I jumped into my [AD] folder and tried all pants till I found them. They are part of the “Haw outfit. With the buttons at the belly and the sheer parts on the right leg they were just perfect.

To bring back the sheer part and to kinda make it pop out a bit more I decided to go with the shirt of the “Riga” outfit from SoliDea FoliEs. The amazing sleeves with the attached mesh hands are from [AD] Creations.

For the boots I chose one of my long time favourites, the “Piccadilly Overknee” mesh boots from Leezu.

Details

Hat: Miuccia Klaar – “The Garden in my Head” (Art in Hats 2014)

Pants: [AD] Creations – “Haw” (part of the outfit)

Top: SoliDea FoliEs – “Riga” (part of the outfit)

Sleeeves with Hands: [AD] Creations – “Wristlee” (mesh)

Hair: [taketomi] – “Kurako” (mesh)

Shoes: LeeZu – “Piccadilly Overknee Boots” (mesh)

Collar: Etchaflesh – “Executioner Collared Kalima Neck Corset” (mesh)

Poses: Del May

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

天使 – Blue Angel

January 8, 2014 by Wicca Merlin

Today I have the great pleasure to show you the winning formal gown of MVW 2014. Miss Anjelica Carling had the right thought as she went to Mami Jewell, owner and designer of Azul, for her formal evening gown for the MVW 2014 contest. The “Anjelica” gown is a wonderful example how well it can work if you combine mesh parts with sculpts or flexible prims. The upper body is mesh made and comes in different sizes so you really can be sure you get one that fits your avatars size. The amazing waving prims add a very aerial touch to the whole look. The black base that is decorated so amazing with those sparkling and shimmering textures, makes a beautiful and sophisticated overall look. The gloves are as well part of the gown. For me gloves – and especially simple ones, wich go up over the elbow – always give the whole styling such an amazing lady like touch.

For the accessories I could not resist again to for my personal likings. For sure I could just have added some wonderful jewelry and a simple updo hairstyle but then… I kinda would not have felt like me 😉

I decided to go with one of the amazing mesh jewelry sets from EMO-tions. The “Kaluha” set contains bracelets, earrings and this wonderful high neck collar made of a lot of circles that are added over each other.

The “Dream” hair as well you will find at the EMO-tions Mainstore. I wanted an elegant but still not too simple and smooth up do for the look and the “Dream” hair exactly had this super light ‘messed’ up look to it, that I had in mind.

For the makeup I wanted to use something very special to get this angelic look even more. Silken Moon had a wonderful gift for the POE6, maybe if you hurry Malicia still has it out! The”Ice Angel” makeup with the light blue shimmer over the forehead and the eyes, the dark lined eyes combined with those little 2 wings just was the right addition to make the whole look to mine 😉

Details

Gown: Azul – “Anjelica” – NEW

Jewelry: EMO-tions – “Kaluha”

Hair: EMO-tions – “Dream”

Makeup: Silken Moon – “Ice Angel” (hunt item of the POE6)

Poses: Wicca’s Wardrobe

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

On my Way to a Mad Hatter Party with my new hat from Natzuka

December 30, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

Lately I talked to Natzuka and after some time we came across her store. She usually sells poses and makeups. She made some outfits in the past as well but she told me as well she found her way into nice and cute accessories now too. She showed me her new “Moka Hat” and I totally fell in love.

The cute purple and pink toned hat really comes with such amazing little details that make it an art piece itself. The little cup, the amazing sweets and flowers… you nearly get the imagination you just have to grab it and taste it 😉 The soft feathers that fall down on your face add a lightly elegant touch to that overall playfully and funky looking hat.

What else it needs for a cool Mad Hatter party outfit? A cool and crazy look that goes with that amazing “Moka Hat”.

I decided to go with one of the latest releases from N1CO, the “Zoe” pants. Thos freaking cool mesh hotpants, are really something I love. With the cool leather stripes and all the spikes and studds I so screamed Wicca to me and it was exact the right pants to make a cool contrast to the beautiful and playful hat. The pants are fully customizable with a HUD. This HUD lets you change every part of the pants and as well recolor the studds and spikes to what ever you need.

The collar as well comes from N1CO. The “Queens Collar” comes in a golden and copper looking tone with amazing feather attachments. Made in mesh as well it goes amazing with every move and pose you do and it is the perfect accessory for an outstanding look.

The very elegant boots are out of the “Golden Thread” collection. This collection was the latest addition to the Black Label of Miamai. This overknee boots carry an awesome black and white sequins looking texture. The feet itself are kinda black leather looking so it looks like the black and white fabric overlaps the black leather shoe parts.

Ready for the Mad Hatter Party!

Details

Hat: [Natzuka] – “MokaHat” – NEW

Pants: N1CO – “Zoe Pants” – NEW (mesh)

Neckpiece: N1CO – “Queens Collar” – NEW (mesh)

Top: Wicca’s Wardrobe – “80s LSD Corset” – NEW (coming soon)

Shoes: Miamai – “Silk High Boots Sequin” – NEW (mesh)

Makeup: Madrid Solo – “Siobhan” + “Lying Eyes”

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Wicca’s Weird Wardrobe: Fear of the dark

December 13, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

I am a girl who walks alone
And when I’m walking a dark road
At night or strolling through the park

Have you ever been alone at night
Thought you heard footsteps behind
And turned around and no one’s there?
And as you quicken up your pace
You find it hard to look again
Because you’re sure there’s
Someone there

When I’m walking a dark road
I am a girl who walks alone

When I was styling the today’s look, I was listening to one of my favourite bands called Van Canto. I will attach the song that I liked most during my styling session at the end of this post 😉 With this music on my ears I could not resist to just let it flow and see what comes out 😉

I strted with the amazing “Emi Corset” from N1CO. The corset with the spiked bra are mesh made and coming in different sizes, I am sure you will find one to match your shape ;). As so often for N1CO, the “Emi Corset” comes with a HUD that gives you a hell of a lot of possibilities to customize the colors and textures. You can color the spikes, the corset straps and lines, the buckles and as well the corset itself with different patterns.

The pants i took from the “Tribute to Kattaca” outfit from [AD] Creations. The full outfit is amazing as well and I will make sure to show case it as soon as possible as well, but the pants just were the right addition for my today’s look. Since the pants are quite ‘open’ I added the “Glitter Pants” from LeeZu to cover my private parts 😉 .

The amazing “Saxa” mesh boots from SeVered GarDeN, caught my attention. The boots are mesh made but with 2 parts. The leg part and the foot part so you even could add another pair of shoes if you would like to.

Now i would like you to take a closer look at the bracelets and the necklace. Not too long ago I was asked if I would like to blog a – for me – new brand. I never heard about Enfant Terrible before and I am really surprised how that could happen. Enfant Terrible is the store for all those people who wanna be a little extra ordinary. LesEnfant Terrible, owner and designer of Enfant Terrible, has the special taste and feeling for the non usual and out of the box designing. All she creates has her special twist and tweak what makes all of her creations so unique. The “Chloes” set wich comes with bracelet and collier shows her amazing skills when it comes to texturing and creating. The set is HUD driven and you can exchange the gems and totally match any styling you working on. The filigree “Chloe” collier shows with how much love and time LesEnfant Terrible designs her creations.

Many of you know how addicted I am to little details and accessories. So it was clear for a kinda demon style I cannot just leave my face blank and casual with just some makeup :p .

The amazing “Scara” version of the “Morbida” from SIlken Moon made the right basic for an amazing dark and demon looking face. With the wonderful drawn face parts the “Morbida Scara” totally meets my likings. In the package as well you will find another version wich is just grey. I rarely saw a grey skin with so much details and great made body parts. The “Blackness Face Chain” from Soedara I carry around for quite some time and I never saw it fit to something until today 😉 . The chains look very realistic and with the little red gem at the forehead it was the perfect addition. The cool and scary “Damage – Spiked Eye 001” was part of the Halloween collection fo Finesmith for this year. I just loved the look and the 2 little spiders that seem to crawl up the chain that falls down the cheek.

The hair was a new release of EMO-tions for the last weekend. The “Skip a Beat” hair was made as a tribute to Skip Staheli and it can be worn unisex and in different styles. For the fatpack the hair can be color changed with the new HUD that Mirja Mills started to use for all of her latest releases.

Details

Top: N1CO – “Emi Corset” – NEW (mesh)

Pants: LeeZu – “Glitter Pants”

Pants: [AD] Creations – “Tribute to Kattaca” (mesh, part of the outfit)

Skin: Silken Moon – “Morbida Scara”

Chain Veil: Soedara – “Blackness Face Chain”

Eye Pice: Finesmith – “Damage – Spiked Eye 01”

Wings: DRD – “Darkness”

Hands: DRD – “Demonhands”

Jewelry: Enfant Terrible – “Chloe” – NEW

Hair: EMO-tions – “Skip a Beat” – NEW

Horns: DRD – “Horns n’ Chains”

Boots: SeVered GarDeN – “Saxa” (mesh)

Poses: *PosESioN*

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Wicca’s Wardrobe: Paranoid

February 23, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

Lately I was talking to Natzuka Milandrovic, a very close friend of mine and we came across the new ‘trend’ of combining fetish elements to high fashion, couture and avantgarde. If I remember back, when I started modeling in SL it was not even to think about and nowadays more and more designer and agencies try to do that. After a while she told me about a casting, that as well requested stylings with fetish parts and she showed me the outfit she made by herself for this casting. I totally fell in love with and after I told her that she was so kind and gave it to me with some poses that are made for this cool outfit.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLG5OoB78vU&w=560&h=315]

As I saw the name of the outfit and the poses I had to grin and immediately I had the song “Paranoid” from Back Sabbath (linked above) stuck in my mind. So as I was styling the outfit, I listened to it most of the time and maybe that’s why the styling became a bit… crazy.

The outfit is named “Paranoid” and so is the pose set as well 😉 Nat founded a brand for all her different creations called Flighty Pixels. For this brand she did not set herself any boarders so I definately will keep my eyes on what she will create 😉

The “Paranoid” outfit contains a corset, the panty stripe some lace at the chest and the huge cool head-piece. I only added soe socks, the “Gothic Platforms” from L&B and the “Elle” hair from Zibska. The amazing arm tattoos are made by Talyia Tarber for her new brand The Makeup Artist. The amazing spades that cover the nipples, the front chest and the left eye are part of the “Spades” makeup and tattoo layers from Nuuna’s.

With this interesting and cool outfit from Flighty Pixels Creative and the poses by Flighty Pixel Poses, Nat built a great base for her new brand. She already made quite a few poses besides the “Paranoid” set and I am really curious with what she will come up next 😉

Details

Outfit (incl head-piece): Flighty Pixels Creative – “Paranoid” – NEW (mesh)

Hair: Zibska – “Elle”

Socks: :::insanya::: – “Stockings and Knee Socks n.4”

Boots: .:L&B:. – “Gothic Platforms”

Nails: Mstyle – “Perfect Hand – Short”

Tattoo: The Makeup Artist – “Indian Feather Armband Tattoo”

Pasties: Nuuna’s – “Spades Pasties”

Makeup: Nuuna’s – “Spades”

Poses: Flighty Pixels Poses – “Paranoid” – NEW

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

My personal favourites of MVW2013 – National Costume of Miss Poland 2013 by Vero Modero & Chop Zuey

January 8, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

Miss Virtual World 2013 – Again BoSL showcased an amazing event on December the 15th 2013, with the finale of the MVW 2013 contest. Many countries were represented by amazing ladies and it was really an exciting event. Designers and models worked together for their 2 final looks. One evening gown and one national costume for each lady. Every year when I saw the MVW finale it was an exciting moment to see the results, that designers and models worked on for so many weeks. Last year I took the challenge to make a full catalogue of all the gowns and costumes. The idea must have inspired some bloggers this year and they started to do that for the MVW 2013 designs. I decided for my own not to do the same again and just would like to showcase my personal favourites. First I thought about to do my personal top 12, but then I figured that I like more than 12 and just thought about doing all the ones that really caught my attention in no particular order

The wonderful “Audrey Cresci Gown” was made by Bouquet Babii, owner and designer of Vero Modero. The dress is stunning in its simplicity. The combination of a mesh corset with a ruffled down end and the flexible skirt with the open front add a very playful and as well sexy touch to the whole look. The wonderful red and green ornaments that decorate the skirt and the chest part of the corset show perfectly that sometimes less is more 🙂

Audrey Cresci:

“My National Costume designed by talented designer Bouquet Babii. We were inspired by the costumes of Poland’s famous Polka dancers and modernized the look. We have applied the interrogate embroidery of Polish folkloric handcrafters.
Flower ornaments are the most characteristic expression of Polish art and architecture. As well it takes role in many Polish traditions. Thats why I used flower figure as the main element of my gown and Jewelery.
In Poland more than a thousand years ago single girls wore wreaths of flowers on their heads. They throw to fire their wreaths on the eve of St. John June 22 with the St. John’s fires as an offering to the gods to find their love of life.”

The stunning jewelry was made by Belle Roussel, genius owner and designer of Chop Zuey. As far as I remember the MVW 2013 finale, Belle was the most busy jewelry designer for this years Miss Virtual World contest. The “Pompeii” set made a wonderful addition to the polish look. With the filigree metal parts and the little gems it went perfectly with the amazing ornaments of the dress. You can choose between a set with red gems or black gems 🙂

The “Audrey Cresci Gown” you can buy at the Vero Modero Mainstore and the “Espresso in Pompeii” set you will find at the Chop Zuey Mainstore.

Details

Gown: Vero Modero – “Audrey Cresci Gown” – NEW (mesh)

Jewelry: Chop Zuey – “Espresso in Pompeii” – NEW

Hair: Son!a – “Poise 2”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca” – NEW

Eyeshadow: Silken Moon – “SM Eclipse Urban ES Harbour” – NEW & “SM Eclipse Color Eye Red” – NEW

Lipstick: Silken Moon – “Wicca Lips Blood” – NEW

Nails: Synthesis – “Medium Fierce Nails”

Shoes: N-Core – “Illusion”

Poses by PosESioN

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Etchaflech & Voluptia featured in the Maniera Magazine

December 12, 2012 by Wicca Merlin

For the actual Maniera Magazine December 2012 (http://manierasl.mymaniera.com/) I had the great honor to be featured in a wonderful fashion spread of Lovely Miwako. She made a special corset themed article about how different corsets can look.

We all got sent different corsets from Etchaflesh and Voluptia and Lovely asked us to style them in a vintage non typical lingerie manner. As well she wanted us all to choose one tattoo that we wear through the whole spread.

For the first picture Lovely placed me on the floor besides SterlingZen. The corset I was wearing for this picture came from Voluptia and everyone that knows me… I am a corset addicted even in RL, so to style the corset in a non lingerie way for me was like if you tell me I just won in a lottery *grins*

I love a lot the different vontage stylings from the 50’s to the 80’s ( it still scares me that 80’s are called vintage now too^^) and so I was going for my favourite urban look as well with the heavy boots and the tattoos and some fishnet stockings and torned stockings. The huge glasses and the pinup hair added the perfect finish for the look in my view.

On this picture, I had the great pleaure to be with Katherine Comet a wonderful and classy Lady that shines at my side with a wonderful corset styling that reminded me a lot on the old racing pinups I saw so many times on that collectable retro/vintage, metal signs from coke or even others… not sure how they are called in english, mostly you find them in bars 🙂

For the second look I was given the corset and the sneaker boots from Etchaflech. I added the neck corset as well from Etchaflesh, pantys and garterbelt from Maitreya.

Lovely did an amazing job in putting different ladies, diffrent looks and attitudes together to show a wide range of what corsets can do… weither of elgant, grunge, rocker, lingerie, vintage or burlesque… as different as we ladies are as different corsets can be used for anykind of styling, that you can think of 🙂

Details

Style 1 (left):

Corset/Outfit: Voluptia – “Domina Lust Catsuit”

Hair: Plume – “Retro” /onyx

Earrings: Ticky Tacky – “Lick Me!”

Gloves: LouLou – “Crepsule”

Glasses: artilleri – “Gabriella”

Nails: Formanails – “Stiletto”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca” /Wicca van Teese

Boots: Slink – “Tall Leather Boots” (mesh)

Tattoo: v3 Tattoo – “Nothing but Hate” & “Outlaw”

Style 2 (left):

Corset: Voluptia – “Precious” (mesh)

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca” /Wicca van Teese

Lipstick: Silken Moon – “Wicca” /mauve

Fishnetstockings: Thalia – “Fishnet Pantyhose”

Jewelry: YS&YS – “Afrika”

Boots: [GOS] – “Triumph” (mesh)

Piercing: ni.ju – “Monroe Piercing”

Glasses: LeeZu – “Twiggy” (mesh)

Nails: Love Soul – “Retro Girl”

Stockings: insanya – “Stockings and Kneesocks n.4”

Tattoo: v3 Tattoo – “Nothing but Hate” & “Outlaw”

Panty: Maitreya – “High Waist Pants Low Vintage”

Style 3 (right):

Corset: Etchaflesh – “Sick Bubblegum” (mesh)

Shoes: Etchaflesh – “Midnight Sneaker Boots” (mesh)

Neck Corset: Etchaflesh – “Kalima Neck Corset” (mesh)

Garters & Stockings: Maitreya – “Allure Girdle”

Panty: Maitreya – “High Waist Pants”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca” /Wicca van Teese

Lipstick: Silken Moon – “Wicca” /mauve

Tattoo: v3 Tattoo – “Nothing but Hate” & “Outlaw”

Jewelry: Ticky Tacky – “Hoopty Hoops of Love”

All Pics by Lovely Miwako for Maniera Magazine

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Tag Archives: mesh corset

Leave your Hat on – Styling around a hat Part II

天使 – Blue Angel

On my Way to a Mad Hatter Party with my new hat from Natzuka

Wicca’s Weird Wardrobe: Fear of the dark

Wicca’s Wardrobe: Paranoid

My personal favourites of MVW2013 – National Costume of Miss Poland 2013 by Vero Modero & Chop Zuey

Etchaflech & Voluptia featured in the Maniera Magazine

NV Corsetry meets LovelyMi

Wicca’s Wardrobe: LOTD 10/02/2012

FATAL made a corset outfit named after me!!!