Cosmopolitan‘s 6th anniversary is on at the moment. There are a ton of free gifts for everyone. You just need to wear the group’s FREE tag to snag them all! The event runs though until the 26th of July, so there is plenty of time to go and check it out.
This cute bikini comes in sizes for Lara, Freya, Isis, Venus, Hourglass, and Physique.
The tie details and the sides and back are great touches!
That would be Magika hair, one of my happy hair places! Today I’d like to show you a selection of their offerings, both long and short, including one of my favorite hair pieces (which you will have seen in some of my previous postings).
Magika used to have a somewhat spread-out and confusing store but this year they moved to new quarters where all the products are in one easier to navigate space. In addition, all of the hair pieces have been combined into fat packs with all of the colors, 120 to be exact, in four included HUDs.
Let’s start with my happy hair, HoneyWhiskey, a nice almost Marilyn Monroe-esque casual style:
This sexy little chemise and pantie set is a group gift from Queenz. Their group if FREE to join, and there are a few previous group gifts available.
The top and panties are separates and come in sizes for Lara, Freya, Isis, Venus, Hourglass, and Physique. There are also three versions, this white, and red one with black lace, and a black version.
The white lace is whiter than it looks in my photos due to my lighting. You can see the same effect on the lace curtains behind me. I don’t know how to correct this unless you use a really white windlight. Perhaps a more experienced SL photographer can chime in and let me know?
Waves to my sweet friends as today I give you something different! I am very fond of Asian fashions, both the demure and the more flamboyant. Today’s offering is very much more in the latter category!
So when we talk about out-there Asian style we of course have to start with Bare Rose, a Second Life staple for many years. Anyone who has been to the Bare Rose store, with its giant 20 story walls of outfits, knows that the selection ranges from fantasy to fantastic to… truly out there!
This one. Celestial Taipei, is by no means extravagant in terms of Bare Rose… but still pretty flashy. It is a full mesh outfit in a single size, with flexi in the back. Many of the Bare Rose outfits are system layer, but the newer offerings come in mesh (some say fit mesh but… not so much). The good thing is that the outfits are also relatively cheap, so one can afford to experiment as the ones that do work are often spectacular.
A more recent find of mine has been irrISIStible shop. They have a range of fantasy outfits, all very nice done and some with incredible detailing, like the China Dragon shown here.
It clearly competes with the Bare Rose outfit in the “problem getting through doorways” department… but is sure to impress even when standing still! It comes in five mesh sizes as well as Maitreya, Belleza, and Slink, in four colors with a texture HUD, and some of the parts are resizable and detachable.
Now for slightly less flamboyant, we can go with Luas and their sexy shorty kimono style Akira outfit which comes in four bright colors. Akira is part of a gacha set but the gacha is in-world at the Luas store. Also, the parts shown here are not the rares, and are available on Marketplace from resellers at reasonable prices.
Did I say something about flamboyant? You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet! ShengLong by W-Zero is a gacha outfit too but worth trying to get, as I guarantee you everyone will know you are in the room with this one. In fact it needs more than a picture to show you, so check out this video clip:
This spectacular outfit includes the cloud particle effects surrounding you, as well as the animated dragon swirling around your body. AND were that not enough…
… it includes an animated bento dragon tail in back! So when you are ready to be appropriately revered as an ancient goddess… now you know what to wear!
Island Style Designs — Hula Girl mesh hula outfit (Maitreya/Physique fitmesh/standard 5 rigged mesh sizes) (includes mesh ti skirt, white top, hibiscus haku lei with ferns, kukui necklace, plumeria lei, and hibiscus flowers for your ear — all of the items that you see here except for the kupe’e and kakau, the anklets/bracelets and tattoo!)
Also, that lovely traditional canoe behind me? It’s a wa’a kaukahi, a single-hulled canoe with an outrigger. This lovely one came from Tiki Tattoo, purveyor of lovely island decor. This is a really lovely piece, and was a gift to me from a dear friend.
As I mentioned, Blueberry gave away L$500 store credit at SLB15! This is the other outfit I purchased with mine. I must have been in the mood for things in cream that day 🙂
I’m a bit of a sucker for one piece swimsuits, I think they can be even more sexy than bikinis. Sometimes it’s not so much what you reveal, but more about what you conceal.
This laced swimsuit comes in sizes for Lara, Physique, Hourglass, Isis, Venus, Freya. It has a 25 color HUD for for the straps and laces. Each base color is L$199, and there a lots of colors to choose from.
As usual with Blueberry items, the fit and detailing is superb. Look at the inbuilt wrinkles in the fabric and such. If you zoom in close enough, you will even notice stitching on all the seams. Fantastic realism in clothing, yay!
While watching SLF&O group chat the other day, I saw this dress announced on an MM board that only required 14 slaps! I ran to have a look and was really surprised to see such a lovely little dress on a board only requiring so few entrants!
Needless to say, we managed to lock the board down easily. The dress is for Lara only though, so if it’s still available on the MM board or for sale in store, keep that in mind.
The dress also comes with a HUD with eight colors for the ribbons. I’m showing it here in white to match my fur 🙂 I thought this would look really nice on my DSD bunny, but as the bunny is only for system bods, this wasn’t going to work. If you’ve heard about Bakes on Mesh, this will fix that problem shortly! Strawberry Singh has a great video about Bakes on Mesh here.
