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Miss Pennywise 2023

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Clothing

Outfit & Balloons: S&P – “Miss Penny” (Maitreya) – NEW @ Satan Inc. // October 2023
Shoes: Wicca’s Originals – “Alannah Boots (Bloody” (Maitreya)

Accessories

Earrings: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Earring Mads all linked” (LeLUTKA EvoX female/human)
Ear Lobes: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Inazuma Plug” (LeLUTKA EvoX female/human)
Piercing (Nose): Wicca’s Originals – “Jadeon Piercing” + “Tegan Piercing Set” (unrigged)
Piercing (Mouth): LittleFish – “EziliV2” (Lel. EvoX, Avalon)

Hair & Makeup

Hair: [RA] – “Alice Hair”
Faceart: BeSpoke – “Clown Makeup” (LeL.EvoX BoM) – NEW @ The Dark Style Fair // October 2023

Head, Body & Tattoo

Head: LeLUTKA – “EvoX Avalon 3.1”
Face Tattoo: BodyArts – “Faceband Wicca” (LeL EvoX BoM, custom made – take a look at the “Vere Flores” or the “Fantasia Face Tattoo”)
Teeth: [CX] – “Strigoi’s Fangs – Silver Type.1 ( Size E / Wider )”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara V5.3”

Poses, Props & Tools

Backdrop: K&S – “Last Hope Harbor”

Model, Stylist & Photographer

Wicca Merlin

Engine Room March 2023 – Part III

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Clothing

Jacket: ::Static:: – Lace Bolero” (Maitreya) – NEW @ Engine Room // March/April 2023
Top: Wicca’s Originals – “Siora Top” (Maitreya, Petite)
Feet: [CX] – “Ankle Bellets – White/Gold” (Maitreya, color modded)

Accessories

Headpiece: Zibska – “Eilian Headpiece” – NEW @ Engine Room // March/April 2023
Earrings: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Earring Mads all linked” (LeLUTKA EvoX female/human)
Ear Lobes: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Inazuma Plug” (LeLUTKA EvoX female/human)
Piercing (Nose): Wicca’s Originals – “Jadeon Piercing” + “Tegan Piercing Set” (unrigged)
Piercing (Mouth): LittleFish – “EziliV2” (Lel. EvoX, Avalon)
Nails: FORMANAILS – “Amelie” (Maitreya, Bento)
Left Leg: Tentacio – “Ernestine Strap Leg” – NEW @ Engine Room // March/April 2023

Hair & Makeup

Hair: Exile – “Lysa”
Cheeks: [Cubic Cherry] – “{Scarred}” (LeL. EvoX BoM & Materials) – NEW @ Engine Room // March/April 2023

Head, Body & Tattoo

Head: LeLUTKA – “EvoX Avalon 3.1”
Teeth: [CX] – “Strigoi’s Fangs – Silver Type.1 ( Size E / Wider )”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara V5.3” + “Add-On Petite V1.1”
Body Modification: S&P – “Cyberdoll” (Maitreya, Petite) – NEW @ WLRP // April 2023

Poses, Props & Tools

Pose: shi.s. poses – “BENTO ground sit #3”
Backdrop: MINIMAL – “April Group Gift -2021”
Ladder: Stockholm&Lima: – “This Is Not A Ladder (Bound)”
Deco 1: {anc} – “mannequin. vintage 4Li” (Gacha, Common)
Deco 2: {anc} – “mannequin. MermaidPrincess(Adult)6Li” (Gacha, Rare)

Model, Stylist & Photographer

Wicca Merlin

Gruesome Ghoul

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The gruesome ghoul, the grisly ghoul,
without the slightest noise
waits patiently beside the school
to feast on girls and boys.
He lunges fiercely through the air
as they come out to play,
then grabs a couple by the hair
and drags them far away.
He cracks their bones and snaps their backs
and squeezes out their lungs,
he chews their thumbs like candy snacks
and pulls apart their tongues.
He slices their stomachs and bites their hearts
and tears their flesh to shreds,
he swallows their toes like toasted tarts
and gobbles down their heads.
Fingers, elbows, hands and knees
and arms and legs and feet –
he eats them with delight and ease,
for every part’s a treat.
And when the gruesome, grisly ghoul
has nothing left to chew,
he hurries to another school
and waits… perhaps for you…

[- Nightmares: Poems to Disturb your Sleep – Jack Prelutsky -]
Clothing

Top: Storybook – “Dystopia – Bloody Brown” (Maitreya)
Pants: S&P – “Zombie Pants black” (Maitreya, Gacha)

Accessories

Necklace: S&P – “Zombie Necklace brown/patina” (Gacha)
Arm(l): ..:Gorgasm:.. – “Arm Bandage Dirty & Bloody” (Maitreya)
Fingers: L’Emporio – “Kick It” (Maitreya, Bento)
Legs: [CX] – “Leg Bandage – Bloody” (Maitreya Flat)

Head Body & Tattoo

Head: BeSpoke – “Ghoul Necrotic”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara V5.3”
Arm (r): .{PSYCHO:Byts}. – “Nekbet Mummy Arms” (Maitreya)
Belly Wound: S&P – “Zombie Bellywound” (Maitreya, Gacha, Reward)

Poses, Props & Tools

Surrounding: DRD – “The Cemetary”
Rats: JIAN – “Classic Rats”

Location

Bartertown

Model, Stylist & Photographer

Wicca Merlin

“Lost in Time, and lost in Space… and Meaning.”

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“And crawling on the planet’s face,
some insects called the human race.
Lost in time, and lost in space.
And meaning.”

[- Richard O’Brien, The Rocky Horror Show -]

Again I am coming to you with a wonderful memory of an amazing evening. A few days ago my sweet sister Vivien offered me to be part of one of her amazing, creative art shots. She asked me if I would have the new doll modifications from Salt & Pepper – certainly I do! She had built a wonderful set and had planned the shot for 5 people. It looked amazing and on her Flickr (HERE) you can see her amazing artwork of that picture. I tried to grab a shot too but it was one of those days where nothing wanted to razz and the more people you have the harder it goes. So I asked her if she would be ok with having  another shoot when she was done with just us 2 and lightly different poses. She said yes and did let me use the set she built too – Thank you for that Sis ♥♥♥.

It is so much fun to just do what you feel not running after deadlines only and it always feels like a little holiday for me when we work on some pictures together.

The whole theme looked very fragile and sweet and that is really easy for me as I am usually the dark and deep color lover, but it felt like a cool challenge and something new 😉

Thank you for another wonderful evening and a great time Sis ♥♥♥. If you want to know about her style.. just poke her 😉

Above you can see the try of my version… new but interesting, I hope you like it nevertheless!

Clothing

Outfit: [CX] x Insomnia Angel – “Luvshuka w/Skirt [White]” (Maitreya)
Panty: Kaithleen’s – “Universal Thing

Accessories

Piercing (Nose): Wicca’s Originals – “Jadeon Piercing” + “Tegan Piercing Set” (unrigged)
Piercing (Mouth): LittleFish – “EziliV2” (Lel. EvoX, Avalon)
Nails: FORMANAILS – “Claws XXL” (Maitreya, Bento)

Hair & Makeup

Hair: Exile – “Ember”
Lashes: Immortuos – “Aranea Lashes” (LeL. Applier)

Head, Body & Tattoo

Head: LeLUTKA – “EvoX Avalon 3.1”
Eyes: IKON – “Ascension Redux Eyes – Divine & Damned” (LeL. Applier)
Teeth: [CX] – “Strigoi’s Fangs – Silver Type.1 ( Size E / Wider )”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara V5.3”
Face Skin: :Dernier: – “Dolla Skin (Grey Alien) N/E” (LeL. EvoX BoM)
Body Skin: VELOUR – “Ipanema Body for Maitreya – Skinny (Grey Alien)” (BoM)
Doll Mods: Salt & Pepper (S&P) – “Doll” (Maitreya)

Poses, Props & Tools

Poses: Vivien De’Lancoure
Set:
MINIMAL – “Noble Skybox”
{anc} – “miniature/H. mary {light}” (Gacha)
{anc} – “miniature/H. mannequin {M} flower (Gacha)
{anc} – “miniature/H. mannequin {S} flower” (Gacha)
{anc} – “camellia branches (gray)”
{anc} – “Hatsuyume / white peacock”
Nutmeg. – “Grandma’s Messy Armchair”
Nutmeg. -“Grandma’s Wood Stove”
CryBunBun – “My Usagi, My Kuma – Music Box – White”
DRD – “MM1 – Hanging Frame – 3”
BCp – “* String pose 3 right wrist (wear)”

Model, Stylist & Photographer

Wicca Merlin

Pleasure…

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TUNES

Before her surrender she had no life
Now she’s a slave, not a wife
Her only sorrow is for women who live with lies
She’s taken off her disguise

[- Manowar -]
Outfit

Top: Avec Toi – “Jade Halter Top” (Maitreya Petite)
Corset: [CX] – “Seer Corsets – Black” (Maitreya)
Bottom; [CX] – “Seer Skirt – Black // Corset Fit” (Maitreya)
Stockings: .:Avanti:. – “Vini Stockings – Black” (BoM)
Shoes: UTOPIA@Design – “Xila” (Maitreya)

Accessories

Earrings: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Uzumaki Female Human” (LeL EvoX Human Ears)
Piercing (Nose): Wicca’s Originals – “Jadeon Piercing” + “Tegan Piercing Set” (unrigged)
Piercing (Mouth): LittleFish – “EziliV2” (Lel. EvoX, Avalon)
Collar: Aurica – Darleen Collar” (Maitreya)
Nails: L’Emporio – “Short Claws” (Maitreya, Bento)
Cuffs (upper arm): Salt & Pepper – “Bondage Deluxe” (Maitreya)

Hair & Makeup

Hair: Exile – “Sela (A)”

Head, Body & Tattoo

Head: LeLUTKA – “EvoX Avalon 3.1”
Teeth: [CX] – “Strigoi’s Fangs – Silver Type.1 ( Size E / Wider )”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara V5.3” + “Add-On Petite V1.1”
Tattoo: .:Vegas:. – “Tattoo Luna ( Dark )” (BoM)

Poses, Props & Tattoos

Pose: Hexed Poses – “C15” (Bento)
Sofa: 22769 ~ [bauwerk] – “Decadence Leather Sofa Black (PG)”
Cross: .:Short Leash:. – “Devotion Bondage Cross”
Mannequin: BackBone – “Kinky Mannequin – Black”

Models & Stylists

Skye Nefekalum & Wicca Merlin (for Sir Skye’s styling, please poke him… he loves that *grins*)

Photographer

Wicca Merlin

There is an answer to the darkest times…

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Finally I am able to post something again. Life is really crazy and kinda turned upside down lately for various reasons. They will calm down again that I know, but it is very tiring and exhausting if life takes so much energy and power at once.

I like to say making pictures is holidays for my brain and it is relaxing. 99% of the time that is true as well, if you do not commit to picture assignments, not knowing that your real life hacks in so bad. But I was able to fulfill all those commitments and now I was able to do my own pictures again.

I am not very talkative at the moment and I hope you do not mind, I will be back with stories and short peeks into my life again soon, as soon as my real life gets more straight and calm again.

Today my styles are filled with a lot of AsteroidBox and Eclipse Art Studio designs. I love those designs and after all the stress I wanted to fool around with things I like out of my own comfort zone *winks* Certainly I have credited all designs below my second picture as always and if you need a location just click the bands names for a SURL to their main stores. If the items out at an event, you just need to click on the event behind the item and you will get your direct TP to that one.

I will get back to work and use the time for more pictures and ideas I have stuck in my mind for the past 2 weeks and hope I can realize a few more over the weekend…

See you soon

♥Wicca♥

Clothing

Top: AsteroidBox – “Alina Shirt” (Maitreya)
Pants: AsteroidBox – “Iris Shorts” (Maitreya)
Tights: Izzie’s – “Tights black” (BoM)
Shoes: AsteroidBox – “Nico Boots” (Maitreya) – NEW @ Equal10 // March 2022

Accessories

Earrings: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Earring Mads all linked” (LeLUTKA EvoX female/human)
Ear Lobes: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Inazuma Plug” (LeLUTKA EvoX female/human)
Blindfold: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Abel Blindfold Female”
Piercing (Nose): Wicca’s Originals – “Jadeon Piercing” + “Tegan Piercing Set” (unrigged)
Piercing (Mouth): LittleFish – “EziliV2” (Lel. EvoX, Avalon)
Collar: [CX] – “Spellbound Collar” – NEW @
Bracers: Blindfold: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Jordi Forearm” (Maitreya)
Rings & Nails: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Infernal Claw” (Maitreya, Bento)
Belt: Salt & Pepper (S&P) – “Bondage POSH belt” (Maitreya)
Knees: duckie – “Leg Bands black” (Maitreya)

Hair & Makeup

Hair: Exile – “Abby 1”
Branding: Nefekalum Tattoos – “Lucky (Both/Red)” (LeL. EvoX BoM)

Head, Body & Tattoo

Head: LeLUTKA – “EvoX Avalon 3.1”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara V5.3”
Tattoo:  .:Vegas:. – “Tattoo No Remorse ( Dark )” (LeL. EvoX BoM)

Poses, Props & Tools

Pose (incl. Book): Diversion – “Book Lover – 1M” (Bento)
Backdrop: .PALETO. – “Backdrop: SEWER”

Model, Stylist & Photographer

Wicca Merlin

Fashionable White but Edgy ;)

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It has been a while, that I was doing a “fashion” shoot. My focus kinda shifted from clean fashion only to more artistic and emotion filled pictures and I do not regret it at all. But sometimes the little fashionista breaks through again and I see no reason why I should cut her off completely from that 😉 I just might not be as smooth and pretty as I use to in the past *grins*

The reason of this pictures, was a show for Rubedo, done by Cheyenne Sadee under the roof of Madd Modelz. I loved the idea, that we all were asked to dress in white to make the makeup poppy out. It was called for an avant garden look – I decided for a clean and straight one, to not drag the attention from the makeup since that was the purpose and the center of this show. I even put my arms into the pockets of my jacket. That allowed me to keep my posing as minimal as well to really keep the face in the focus. I cannot remember when I thought so much about a styling, but since that was such a special show for such a wonderful and sweet designer, I really wanted all to be perfect. It was one of the coolest shows I was allowed to walk in a while. I was allowed to be me – none told me to change my eyes or take off my scars that I do wear for years now – Thank you for that Chey ♥ It felt great to walk as Wicca and represent a brand that I do blog for as well. I wish sometimes, that we would have more shows like that. Diversity is the key and while a model should be focused to showcase the design instead of the own avatar, facial and body specific features should not be changed too much. We live in 2022 and not in th past, where we use to look all the same sweet and pretty only and SL did develop as well and gives us way more possibilities for personal little trademarks *winks*

I really had fun to dive into a fashion picture again, I hope it won’t be the last time 🙂

Clothing

Outfit: Salt&Pepper – “Cyberized Body Suit” (Maitreya, Gacha, Rare)
Jacket: TETRA – Tokyo Puffer Jacket” (Maitreya)
Harness: < IDEALIA > – “SAKURA Lingerie” (Maitreya)

Accessories

Collar: .:Avanti:. – “Nayomi Collar”
Earrings: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Earring Mads all linked” (LeLUTKA EvoX female/human)
Ear Lobes: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Inazuma Plug” (LeLUTKA EvoX female/human)
Piercing (Nose): Wicca’s Originals – “Jadeon Piercing” + “Tegan Piercing Set” (unrigged)
Piercing (Mouth): LittleFish – “EziliV2” (Lel. EvoX, Avalon)
Belly Chain: NaaNaa’s – “Mazikeen Belly Chain” (Maitreya)

Hair & Makeup

Hair & Haibase: Tabelau Vivant – “Hang me Up” & “LeLutka EvoX Hairbase 07 – 10”
Eyeshadow: Rubedo – “ludovica 08” (LeL. EvoX BoM)

Head, Body & Tattoo

Head: LeLUTKA – “EvoX Avalon 3.1”
Teeth: [CX] – “Strigoi’s Fangs – Silver Type.1 ( Size E / Wider )”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara V5.3”
Tattoo:  .:Vegas:. – “Tattoo Haunted ( Medium)” (LeL. EvoX BoM)

Poses, Props & Tools

Pose: myself
Backdrop: Paparazzi – “SKYBOX – Tagged Warehouse 3”
Lamps: [Dope+Mercy] – “Light Bulb Hanger_Silver”

Model, Stylist & Photographer

Wicca Merlin

“I’m gonna make you a Psycho”

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TUNES

Love, it will get you nowhere
You are on your own
Lost in the wild
So come to me now
I could use someone like you
Someone who’ll kill on my command
And asks no questions

I’m gonna make you
I’m gonna break you
I’m gonna make you
A fucking psycho
Your ass belongs to me now

[- Muse -]

So much news again! Let’s see what it will be today *winks*

CerberusXing released a freaking, awesome harness at Sultry. The Harness comes in black, blue, green, orange, pink, purple and white, so you have a great variety to choose from what suits you best.

The amazing scenery around me was made by DRD. With the “Killer’s Cabin” they created another amazing, cool set for all kind of dark fantasy pictures. The cabin can be bought as a full fatpack with the house, as well as all the amazing inner decor (listed below).

Clothing

Harness: [CX] – “Ophanim Harness – Black” (Maitreya) – NEW @ Sultry // November 2020

Pasties: .ARISE. – “Spiked Pasties / Black_Silver” (Maitreya)

Accessories

Piercing: [CX] – “Deepforge Chains (Silver) – L” (Group Gift)

Nails & Rings: [CX] – “Essential Dirty Claws (Original)” (Maitreya, Bento)

Cuffs: Salt & Pepper (S&P) – “Bondage Deluxe Set” (Maitreya)

Upper Legs: Gemini – “Sis Leg Bangles – Up” (Maitreya)

Lower Legs: [CX] – “Spiked Gladiator – Black (Silver)” (Maitreya)

Hair & Makeup

Hair: no.match – “No_Karma” – NEW @ Cosmopolitan // November 2020

Eyeliner: CAZIMI – “Basic B Eyeliners Winged” (LeLUTKA Evo. HD Applier)

Lashes: CAZIMI – “Tidy Lashes” (LeLUTKA Evo. Applier)

Head, Body & Tattoo

Head: LeLUTKA – “Fleur 2.5”

Ears: [CX] – “Ostium Impaler”

Body: Maitreya – “Lara V5.3”

Tattoo: .:Vegas:. – “Tattoo ( Dark ) Sacred Focus” (BoM) – NEW @ Shiny Shabby // November 2020

Poses, Props & Tools

Poses & Knife: Foxcity – “Cute but Psycho”

Set:

DRD – “Killer’s Cabin – Cage”

DRD – “Killer’s Cabin – Info Wall”

DRD – “Killer’s Cabin – Tools”

DRD – “Killer’s Cabin – Table and stool (with gore)”

DRD – “Killer’s Cabin – Shackles”

DRD – “Killer’s Cabin – Chains”

[CX] – “Rusty Chains – Set.1”

[CX] – “Rusty Chains – Set.2”

[CX] – “Rusty Chains – Set.7 ( Ground )”

Model, Stylist & Photographer

Wicca Merlin

“We can change the world if we change ourselves…”

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“We can change the world if we change ourselves. We just need to get hold of the old patterns of thinking and dealing with things and start listening to our inner voices and trusting our own superpowers.”

[- Nina Hagen -]

So many new releases I just had to do another post today!

I would like to highlight some really exciting news. Lets start with the extraordinary eyes and glasses of my more casual looking styling – at least for me that would be casual :p

The glasses and the eyes are made by Madame Noir. Known for her incredible and extraordinary eye designs she started  – for quite some time now – to make amazing fierce accessories. For example the “Aniquilation Glasses” – on the first view you just see those awesome shaped glasses with the huge side parts and if you take a closer look you see those nasty little claws that point right into your eye. Paired with the new “Spectro” eyes, it gives you a totally wicked look.

Since we are already looking at the closeup picture – LeLUTKA has again updated their new Evolution line heads! Now they are all boundless… what does that mean… they now have unrestricted bones! Yu can even customize your heads more than ever and if you absolutely don’t like it you still get the option with the ‘dated’ heads as  well included in the new update pack. The great HUD git an update too and was polished even more. Omega was removed for skin and lashes layers, a second HD eyeshadow has been added, we got a new HD brow layer and a tear line has been added. While we already had so many awesome moods for our heads, we now even get more – 64 moods in total! The face expressions got reworked too and even there we got more now \o/.

What I totally love is, that you now do not have to wear all piercings single anymore. Now we have 3 different sets: Ears, lip and nose and an extra HUD. With that HUD you can hide/show the piercings way easier and detailed.

The super cute and to the same time mega cool shoes, are made by DRD. The “Girlie Stompers” You get a rigged and un-rigged version so you can make the best fit even with pants, which usually require a wider shape. With the color HUD you get different options and colors for laces, bow, shoe base, shoe tip and the platforms. Since  am a DRD addicted, I could not resits to use the cool “Gypsy Claws” as my hand accessories and all the amazing decoration of my set you can see, is made by DRD too (I credited them all detailed below).  To finish my look I used one of the lates releases from Vegas Tattoo – the “Dark Body and Soul” tatoo available at the current round of UBER.

I could not resist to put that little, cute kitty from JIAN into my pictures, as I loved the little distraction to the whole scenery, which that little boy brought to the set 😉

I hope I did not scare yo with all the little pictures and details, but I felt they needed to be shown for the new 2.5 update of LeLUTKA, which I immensely enjoy 😉

Clothing

Outfit: Salt & Pepper (S&P) – “Roxy” (Maitreya)

Stockings: .:Avanti:. – “Ripped Nylons – V1” (BoM)

Shoes: DRD – “Girlie Stompers – Colors Rigged” (Maitreya)

Accessories

Glasses: Madame Noir – “Aniquilation Glasses” – NEW @ Salon 52 // October 2020

Hand Accessories: DRD – “Gypsy Claws – Colors” (Maitreya, Bento)

Hair & Makeup

Hair: Action Inkubator – “Neo”

Eyeshadow: CAZIMI – “Vamp HD Makeup” (LeLUTKA Evo.HD Applier)

Lipstick: -SU!- – “Cyber Necromancer Lips Gloss” (LeLUTKA Evo.HD Applier) – NEW @ Necrotize // October 2020

Nose Tattoo: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Sigurd – Scar Nose Plaster ( LeLEvo )” (BoM, Gacha, Common)

Cheek Tattoo: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Sigurd – Scar Cheekbone Psycho ( LeLEvo )” (BoM, Gacha, Common)

Head, Body & Tattoo

Head: LeLUTKA – “Lake 2.5” – NEW Update 2.5 – Boundless

Eyes: Madame Noir – “Spectro HD Eyes” (LeLUTKA Evo.HD Applier) – NEW @ The Darkness // November 2020

Ears: .:E.A.Studio:. – “Kanji Ears” (Gacha, Rare)

Body: Maitreya – “Lara V5.3”

Tattoo: .:Vegas:. – “Tattoo Dark Body and Soul vBlack” (BoM) – NEW @ UBER // October 2020

Poses, Props & Tools

Poses: Foxity

Cat: JIAN Curious Kitties :: Companion Tuxedo

Set:

DRD – “San Mora – City Trash – Pile – B”

DRD – “PA – Constructed Outlook – Tire Pile”

DRD – “Scrappy Scooter – Rusted Black”

DRD – “Beer Stand – Crates and Kegs”

DRD – “Beer Stand – Crate Pile”

DRD – “Beer Stand – Crate Stack”

DRD – “post apoc camp sitting crates 1”

DRD – “post apoc camp sitting crates 2”

DRD – “post apoc camp sitting crates 3”

DRD – “GFYH – Fund Cup – Buy DRD”

Backdrop: .PALETO. – “Backdrop:. Detroit Streets”

Model, Stylist & Photographer

Wicca Merlin

Ballet – Classic versus Contemporary

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Eclipse Magazine, August 2020: https://issuu.com/eclipsemagazinesl/docs/eclipse_magazine_august_2020

For this issue of the Eclipse Magazine I was thinking a long time what I could do. I wanted a challenge for myself and I wanted to show that I can do different genres, not just the scary and crazy stuff 😉

When I thought about what would be the most opposite thing for me to do, I came across ballet. Something graceful and beautiful. While I was doing some research about it, I came across contemporary ballet as well. That really caught my attention, because I found some very impressing as well as emotional pictures and videos. That formed an idea of having 2 different pictures for the magazine – classic and contemporary. In the classic ballet I found very strict rules for the look and even for the hairstyles, while contemporary ballet gives you more freedom in that.

I felt like I was entering a new world, even if ballet wasn’t completely new for me – as a kid I had to go through that kids ballet classes like so many of us. It didn’t last long as I had more fun with gymnastics, riding, swimming and playing volleyball and so those ballet classes stopped after at most a year I think. Being a punk and later a gothic girl in my teens and twens, ballet wasn’t a thing or an option at all *giggles*

Seeing all those pictures and videos, inspired me a lot and the idea for this month genre was made. While I was thinking, where I could find the clothing and accessories for my new idea, Salt & Pepper must have read my mind. She released a huge set of ballet collection at Equal 10 with her “Ballet Dancer Set”. That was the perfect outfit for my classic ballet dancer. I couldn’t even use all parts for my first picture, that means I will have to do another post to show the whole beauty and contents of that set.

For my second picture, I did remember a set, which I already showcased on my blog in the light version. Since I wanted the classic ballet to be in a light muted color, the contemporary ballet was meant to be darker and more ‘me’ and my personal thought of it and so the “Skye Dancer” gacha in black was the perfect choice for what I had in mind. I am really a lover of mix and match but sometimes, if you go for a certain look or genre, mixing too many things and overload the avatar can be contra-productive. That is why I nearly have no accessories or anything that could disturb from the essence of the picture, the emotions and the mood.

A huge thank you goes out to my sister Daffodil Crimson, who helped me with the amazing description for the magazine. English is not my native language, so I often hit her IM box, if it comes to “official” texts for magazines and such. Usually I do collect facts and free sources or try to  write somethings on my own, if I am familiar with the theme. For the ballet one I only had a brief idea what I wanted to be written and that time Daffi jumped in and wrote everything on her own. When she came it to me to read it, I just was blown away! It was so very well written and had exactly in it what I was desiring for, but in words that described it so much better than anything I could have come up with. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for again saving my SL life like so often sis!!!

I hope you enjoyed my little ballet adventure – for the next issue of Eclipse Magazine I will have another “unusual” genre for me, which gives me quite a challenge but I am looking forward to the final frames 😉

Eclipse Magazine, August 2020: https://issuu.com/eclipsemagazinesl/docs/eclipse_magazine_august_2020

Style 1 (classic)

Clothing

Outfit & Shoes: Salt & Pepper (S&P) – “Ballet Dancer” (Maitreya)

Hair & Makeup

Hair: Ade – “Beatrix”

Head, Body & Tattoo

Face Skin: [Glam Affair] – “Ryn Layer [LeLutka] 002 D” (BoM)

Body: Maitreya – “Lara 5.2”

Body Skin: [Glam Affair] – “Body – Normal [ Maitreya ] 002” (BoM)

Poses, Props & Tools

Pose: Poseidon – “Ballet 6” (Bento)

Piano: Alouette – “Evelyn Piano – Word White Wood”

Backdrop: Foxcity – “Dance Hall”

Posetool: Anypose – “BVH HUD v1.82”

Face Expression Tool: LELUTKA – “Axis HUD Face 1.1”

Model & Stylist

Wicca Merlin

Style 2 (contemporary)

Clothing

Outfit & Shoes: Enfant Terrible (.ET.) – “Skye Dancer” (Maitreya)

Hair & Makeup

Hair: .Shi – “Gavri’ela”

Head, Body & Tattoo

Head: LeLUTKA – “Erin 2.0”

Ears: [CX] – “Ostium Impaler Ears”

Body: Maitreya – “Lara v5.2”

Poses, Props & Tools

Pose: Seline Fleury – “Ballet Trunk Pose” (Bento)

Petals 1: Foxcity – “Diagonal Flutter Petals (Black)” (from the Sweet Bento Pose Set)

Petals 2: Foxcity – “Trail Flutter Petals (Black)” (from the Sweet Bento Pose Set)

Backdrop: Foxcity – “Flutter (B&W)”

Posetool: Anypose – “BVH HUD v1.82”

Face Expression Tool: LELUTKA – “Axis HUD Face 1.1”

Model & Stylist

Wicca Merlin