Envy and Jealousy are incurable diseases…

May 6, 2018 by Wicca Merlin

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

[Johannes Brahms]

It never stops to make me sad to see how some people try to make others life miserable for no reason. Not that I would not know it does exist but that does not mean I do understand it. The world is so huge and there is place for each and everyone. Some humans seem to believe, they do have to try to make others look bad and it does not want to get into my brain why. Do they feel better as others? Does it give them a “I am the better one” feeling? Does it give them any kind of satisfaction? Do they get up in the morning and the first thought is who they could trash today? If it would not be such a bad thing I would say I feel pity for those who cannot just enjoy their life by using all energy to make something out of themselves. But since it always involves that others get hurt by that, I can’t feel pity at all. I always try to figure out what kind of people that are. It cannot be successful ones as those would not need to put a bad light on others. They cannot be very self esteemed, as they probably suck all their power from others pain and sadness. They cannot be very creative as then they would use their energy to do something. They always try to justify their doing with the try to convince someone that they do it for law and order, while they are just doing it to feed their sick addiction of enjoying the sadness and pain they cause for others. There is even no way you could tell such people that they are wrong as they are so deeply caught in their addiction – like drug addicts, they never would admit they are addicted until they have serious physical problems.

Since we cannot do anything against it, the big question is how we deal with it… I guess there is no general way how to deal with it and everyone has to decide personally about how to handle it. First of all you have to find a way to not let to close to you. That is probably the hardest part as we are all humans and if we get attacked, it hurts. But that is exactly what those folks want and what we should not give them. It is only human nature that you instantly think you have to justify yourself, but you do not – especially if you did nothing wrong! It seriously is senseless to respond to such tries, as you never will get down a point against those trolls – they simply cannot see it (remember… addicts!) They will twist every word you say into something that works for them and against you. Anyways how you react or what you will do – it is just pointless.

The best is just to ignore and forget about them… in the end you must have done something right or spectacular, otherwise those people would not have tried to come after you.

After venting, I would love now to get a closer view on my todays look 😉

Today I do not have one special item to focus on, it again was one of those lucky days where different things all of a sudden resulted in a whole.

[Gos] released an amazing combination of leather pants and funky ankle boots for the current round of UBER & FaMESHed. The “Liz” ankle boots (UBER) and leather pants (FaMESHed)!

Again Gospel Voom amazed me with his design and texture skills on both creations. The leather pants have a perfect shine if you use the materials version and the booties fit perfect with the leather pants. It is always hard to find matching shoes for long pants without getting any mesh clipping problems. I chose black for both “Liz” creations, because they reflected the light so amazingly.

Shoes often do not ge the spotlight they deserve and that is why I included a close up with different colors, just in case the dark green swallows too much of the shoes 😉 The shoes again come in all popular body sizes and with the 3 amazing HUD options that lately are standard for [Gos]. The Boutique, the Blueberry and the Metallic HUD. AS well you have the choice for a materials enabled version and one without.

First I thought, To wear some gloves but then I found the amazing “Rallen” set that has makeup, lipstick and that amazing arms applier. That worked so much better than any gloves I found 😉

The cool and funky necklace was made by Zib Scaggs as well. I really do love her crazy and funky designs as they always ad a extravagant touch to every style.

The amazing veil, was made by a very dear friend of mine. She does create for quite some time now and it is amazing to see what fierce ideas she comes up with. Anyways if makeup, headpieces or accessories, she has that little ‘something’ that make her creations very special. The “Shell Veil” comes with a huge HUD for the veil itself and the ruffled flowers on the top of the head. You get all kind of color and texture options with that 🙂

I hope after my little venting at the top, I could do satisfaction to all those creations 😉

Thanks a lot for reading and maybe you have your own experiences and ways, how you deal with trolls and all those who try to make others look bad and want to share that in the comments 😉 Have a wonderful time and enjoy the happy side of life!

Outfit & Accessories:

Top: .:PULSE:. – “Proclivity Top” (Maitreya)

Staps: ::GB:: – “Body Belt” (Maitreya, Gacha)

Pants: [Gos] – “Liz Leather Pants” (Maitreya) – NEW @ FaMESHed

Shoes: [Gos] – “Liz Ankle Boots” (Maitreya) – NEW @ UBER

Rings: Meva – “Victorian Bento Rings” (Maitreya)

Headpiece: Spartin Parx – “Shell Veil”

Necklace: Zibska – “Syra”

Hair & Makeup:

Hair: Opale – “Yunjin”

Makeup 1: .AiShA. – “Be Dramatic Eyeshadow 3” (LeLutka Applier)

Makeup 2: Zibska – “Rallen Makeup” (LeLutka Applier)

Lipstick: Zibska – “Rallen Lips” (LeLutka Applier)

Body & Tattoo:

Head: LeLutka – “Simone 3.0”

Body: Maitreya – “Lara 4.1”

Arms: Zibska – “Rallen” (Maitreya Applier)

Poses & Props:

Poses: Poseidon

Signs: *paper moon* – “City Ord. Signs”

Model & Photographer:

Wicca Merlin

Holidays are over – Back to School with GizzA

January 17, 2015 by Wicca Merlin

The Christmas Holidays were so nice and as always way too short. This week was my first week at work again… Back to school for a new year.

2015 started very nice and I thought it was kinda funny that GizzA released the “‘Emily Dress” right in time for my first day at school again. Even if I am on the “other side” as a teacher… when I put on the “Emily Dress” I got a schoolgirl feeling 😉

The amazing dress comes in several colors of the amazing tartan. The white neck collar and the white wrists you have for all of them.

As it is still very cold I did not wanna go with bare legs and so I pulled out my “LaLun” Tights from Leezu. The sheer version just was perfect 😉

The shoes I chose because of the white socks that come together with the pants and just even more gave this school girl vive for me.

What can not be missing for a cute schoolgirl? Exactly the geek glasses :p. Mine are from Haysuriza. I chose the black frame and lenses of the 3 colors for each that are available on the HUD.

The earrings and the amazing long necklace was made by Mandala and my hair stylist for today was Tabata Jewell from Vanity Hair.

Details

Dress: GizzA – “Emily” – NEW

Shoes: Pixel Mode – “Baby T’s”

Hair: Vanity Hair – “The Meadow”

Glasses: Haysuriza – “Retro Cats”

Jewelry: Mandala – “Kyara”

Skin: [sys] – “Eva”

Poses: EverGlow

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Wicca’s Wardrobe: Lady in Red No.1

June 1, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

A few days ago I met again a person, that was very important in my life for quite some time. It was in the beginning times of my SL. He was always there for me and helped me a lot when my RL was not that shiny as it should have been. We had a wonderful time together, that I will never forget…

A few days ago when I was looking through my friendlist, I still saw his name and even when he was offline I felt I had to leave him a few lines just .. just because I felt I had to 😉 As I logged in the other day again, he wrote me and answer and after sending offliners back and forward we made it to be online to the same time even if it sadly only was a few minutes. We met at his home ant it was a great feeling to see each other after such a long time. I still heard the ducks that I remember so well… the time we could spend was way too short but before he had to log we danced to our song once again and that really brought up the old memories in a very emotional way. It is a song that is very special to us because of many reasons, which I would like to keep as a secret but I will not hide the song itself 😉 The song is called Lady in Red from Chris de Burgh. Sadly due German music rights, I found no good quality file on youtube to share but I would like to share the lyrics:

Lady in Red

I’ve never seen you looking so lovely as you did tonight
I’ve never seen you shine so bright

I’ve never seen so many men ask you if you wanted to dance
Looking for a little romance
Given half a chance
I have never seen that dress you’re wearing
Or the highlights in your hair that catch your eyes
I have been blind
The lady in red
Is dancing with me
Cheek to cheek
There’s nobody here

It’s just you and me
It’s where I want to be
And I hardly know
there’s beauty by my side
I’ll never forget
the way you look tonight

I’ve never seen you looking so gorgeous as you did tonight
I’ve never seen you shine so bright
You were amazing
I’ve never seen so many people want to be there by your side
And when you turned to me and smiled,
It took my breath away
I have never had such a feeling
Such a feeling of complete and utter love
as I do tonight
The lady in red
Is dancing with me
Cheek to cheek
There’s nobody here

It’s just you and me
It’s where I want to be
And I hardly know
there’s beauty by my side
I’ll never forget
the way you look tonight
I never will forget
the way you look tonight

The lady in red
The lady in red
The lady in red
My lady in red

I love you

(Chris de Burgh)

As I wanted to dedicate that post to Ryyan, I wanted to bring back the lady in red kinda 😉 Miamai had a wonderful red dress in their latest releases. The “Esther” dress. It had a wonderful red version and so I decided to take that as the base for my Lady in Red No.1 😉 I have some more in mind at the moment so I call it my Lady in Red No. 1 😉

The wonderful floppy hat is a special version made for me by Baboom and for the jewelry I decided to go for the “Shameless” necklace and bracelet from Finesmith and some earrings where I do not even remember the label anymore as I have them in forever 😉 Since the Lady in Red always had something mystical for me I wanted to cover her eyes with some glasses that kinda hide them and I chose the “Cubism Shades” from epoque.

There is things in the past what never will be the same again, but still the memories noone can take from you.

I hope you enjoyed my memories and my Lady in Red No. 1 😉

Dedicated to Ryyan Susenko

Details

Dress: Miamai – “Esther” – NEW (part mesh)

Necklace & Bracelet: Finesmith – “Shameless”

Hat: Baboom – “Summer Floppy Hat” – NEW (custom made)

Shoes: [PM] – “Baby T’s Plain”

Glasses: epoque – “Cubism Shades”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Lipstick: Silken Moon – “Wicca Lips Cardinal”

Poses: PosESioN

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

-The Event- Hollywood: Violator & EMO-tions

April 1, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

Details

Gown: Violator – “Fame Ruby” – NEW (Hollywood)

Jewelry: Violator – “Outrageous Red” – NEW (Hollywood)

Hair: EMO-tions – “Audrey” – NEW (Hollywood)

Shoes: [PM] – “Baby T’s Plain Blood”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Makeup: Silken Moon – “SM Eclipse ES Doomsday” – NEW & L.Fauna – “Smokey Cat Shadow Red”

Lipstick: Silken Moon – “Wicca Lips Blood”

Bracelets: Mandala – “Milky Way 2”

Poses: Corpus

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Wicca’s Wardrobe: LOTD 03/23/2013

March 24, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

Today I would like to showcase a few things, that I had for some time already, but never had the idea how to put them together and how to make a cool pic. Yesterday it worked all of a sudden and so I am very happy to share it today 😉

The outfit comes from E-Clipse and is called “Black Carnival” it was originally made for the AVENUE Cinque event. The “Black Canival” caught my attention. I really love the amazing flexible parts of the legs and the wrists. They make a great contrast to the solid upper body that is covered by an amazing texture together with the beautiful lace part it really becomes to a little piece of art. The huge belt underlines the artistic part even more 🙂

The incredible headpiece comes from SoliDea FoliEs and it is called “Love is Blindness”. It has a huge buckle in the back, that holds it in place, while front has lots of amazing gems and an amazing little red heart.

Details

Outfit: E-Clipse – “Black Carnival” (mesh)

Head Piece: SoliDea FoliEs – “Love is Blindness”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca”

Lipstick: Silken Moon – “Wicca Lips Lead” & “Lipstripes Silver”

Shoes: [PM] – “Baby T – Plain”

Poses: PosESioN (Mainstore moved!!! New LM: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/New/34/60/22)

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin

Wicca’s Wardrobe: Conflict of the Elements

January 31, 2013 by Wicca Merlin

(Models: 2 times me 😉 , Photographer & Artwork: Dahriel)

The Fire-Water Conflict:

Fire and Water are the perfect opposites and both are necessary for our internal harmony. Fire is hot, dry, and light and Water is cold, moist, and heavy. Fire rules the future and Water rules the past. Fire is hierarchical and Water is inclusive, familial. Fire is impatient and Water is patient. Fire is intuitive and Water is imaginative. The opposites are almost endless. (Ingrid Naiman, 2008)

As I saw this 2 designs of Bubble Cyberstar, owner and artistic designer of Bubble’s Designs, I immediately was in love with them. I never before saw such strong and elemental themed creations. Each of the dresses, the “Fire” and the “Water” dress have animated water and fire effects. The water runs down the skirt and for the “Fire” you have floating fire textures on the corsage and the skirt as well. All the prims, like the wonderful waterdrops that decorate the arms and the wonderful texture layers make both of that outfits really to art pieces instead of only dresses to wear 😉

And as if MyStiCa Matova, owner and designer of Bizarre Hair, would have smelled it she sent me 2 hair styles from her called “Heaven” & “Hell”. She could not have sent me better ones as they totally hit the nail on the head with their styles according to the “Fire” and “Water” dresses from Bubble’s Designs!

The “Hell” Hair, I modified a but I took the white version and colored it to light blue as I wanted to match the outfit. I always liked the idea of strange and extraordinary hair and really at Bizarre Hair you can find exactly that. The awesome jewelry was made by Maylo Designs for both hairstyles.

The “Hell” hairstyle comes with the amazing little fires hold by the horned demon. The hair as well has a face and body light that makes the super evil demon look 🙂 . Like I said I never saw such kick ass hair that has such a special and unique style with such ideas like Bizarre Hair has 😉

A special thank you goes to Dahriel my sweet little bother. I was trying to realize a fight between “Fire” & “Water” and “Heaven” & “Hell”. I drove me crazy since it never looked like I wanted it to. I was trying for weeks now and then Dahriel came into my life and I was knowing, if someone can do it he can. He made the poses and took the picture. Right in time for my rezzday today he gave me the pic and it was one of my best SL rezzday gift! Thank you little bro <3 !!!

Details

Water/Heaven:

Outfit: Bubble’s Design – “Water”

Hair (incl jewelry): [Bizarre Hair] – “Heaven”

Skin: Silken Moon – “Wicca” – NEW

Makeup: Silken Moon – “SM Eclipse Steam Silver” – NEW & “SM Eclipse Color Eye Sky” – NEW

Shoes: *GF* – “Flower Pumps Eve”

Lashes: [glow] – “Water Drops” & Redgrave – “Silversnow”

Nails: Synthetique – “Medium Fierce Nails”

Fire/Hell:

Outfit: Bubble’s Design – “Fire”

Hair (incl necklace): [Bizarre Hair] – “Hell”