Today I’m wearing an eye-catching mini dress in a really dark purplish brown. I like this color a lot!
The dress fits all three Belleza sizes, both Slink sizes, and Maitreya. There are no standard sizes. The detailing on the straps is really nice, and although there are a couple of minor breakthrough issues, if you wore a longer hairstyle, they wouldn’t be an problem.
I’ll wear this dancing to Eden. I know the boss will appreciate it as she loves short skirts (but she’ll probably tell me again I need to eat more lol).
This is an experimental fitmesh dress for Maitreya, so unfortunately the rigging isn’t the best, but oh my, I really like it and I hope the creator gets the rigging right!
It comes in sizes for all three Belleza bodies, Hourglass, Physique, and eBody too, and as well as this red version, there is a pink version too. Because it has so much alpha, if you’re wearing applier panties with it, don’t forget to switch on mask mode 🙂
Or be daring and wear it without hehe
Dress: FLETCHA Iris Dress by Anomalies (marketplace link, dress unavailable)
I picked up this great top and skirt combo on the last Women’s Stuff Hunt. You should keep your eye out for this hunt, it’s a good one with plenty of really nice outfits, makeup, skins, and even sometime hairstyles!
This outfit is just in standard sizes, and has Omega and Maitreya appliers for the bustier, but it works nicely on Lara, with only a few tiny breakthroughs, mostly at the end of the sleeves in extreme poses.
My hairstyle was a giftie from this year’s Hair Fair. It has a full range of colors to suit anyone or any outfit. I love the high ponytail 🙂
Outfit: PanDa by CuCu (marketplace link, clothing not available)
This little dress was a gift on Monthly Midnight Madness. If you don’t belong to this group you’re missing out on some wonderful giveaways each month! But really, I wore it to show off the gorgeous new jewelry that my darling Aeon got me for my rezday recently! She spoils me terribly 🙂
The dress is in fitmesh sizes for Lara, Hourglass, and Physique. There was an a texture HUD available for it too, but I didn’t bother buying it.
Aeon gave me a gift card to Chop Zuey for my rezday. She’s so wonderful! Chop Zuey is one of the largest jewelry makers in SL, and their range is awesome. I spent days looking for something that would be suitable for both casual and formal wear, and I had settled on a tennis necklace in diamond and platinum. I went to buy it and the store uses one of the gift card systems where you have to rez out the card, and that transfers the amount to store credit. So I had to go home to rez the card, and as I was coming back, I noticed this set that I’d missed in my days of agonizing. I changed my mind in about 20 seconds 🙂
It’s a really lovely set, again in diamond and platinum, consisting of the choker, left and right bracelets, and earrings. There are two other version available, one in diamond and gold, and one in black diamond and gold. And to top it all off, this was a set designed for Layka Zelin when she was Miss Venezuela Virtual in 2014! Wow!
Here’s a closeup of the bracelet. One minor issue is that the bracelets and the choker are all attached to weird places. Don’t just add these, attach the bracelets to your left and right hands and the choker to your neck. You’ll then need to edit them to place them correctly. The bracelets can be a little tricky figuring out which way is the right way up, so perhaps wear them right out of the box first so you know how they should look.
Also be aware that detailed jewelry like this is very expensive when it comes to avatar rendering complexity. The choker alone is approximately an additional 62,100 rendering cost!
Hi lovelies! Today I’m sporting a cute little layered hanky dress!
I’ve been a little slow getting to some of the new outfits that I have to show you and I can’t remember how I came across this one. I think it was an MM board giftie. It’s for Maitreya Lara only.
I’m also wearing a necklace that I got at the BoHo fair last year (you see how slow I can be?!?) It’s really quite nice although it has a scripting issue and won’t resize in 1% increments. I did manage to get it close though!
And my hairstyle is a gift from this year’s Hair Fair. I hope you managed to get there and found yourself a bunch of new hairstyles!
After my post about my Wacom tablet and mediocre drawing skills, I thought I’d show you two more pics that I did just for my Flickr account. Both of them were intended to teach myself about a wonderful piece of freeware called Darktable. This is a photo processing program for Linux and Mac OS X (and vague Windows support), and it’s a rather marvelous piece of software. You can do all types of interesting post-processing with it. I’ve barely scratched the surface with the possibilities it opens up.
This first photo was taken when I got very interested with what you can do with point lights and the shadows that can be generated in SL with them. Now, of course, I use point lighting all the time in my photos. I even wrote up a very basic tutorial on how to set up lighting for a shoot. I used Darktables to play around with the contrast to get the shadows to pop more and to add even more light coming through the window that I got with the photo I took in SL.
In the second photo, I used Darktable to desaturate the image and add photo grain, and again played around with lighting curves to get the look that I wanted and to darken the shadows. I’m pretty proud of both results, even though they’re so different and similar at the same time (did someone mention “bum”)!
Sometimes I take photos for my Flickr account without any intension of turning them into blog posts. Mostly, I do it when we have huge events in Eden and Nandi wants someone to take pics so we can post them to the club’s Facebook page. But sometimes, I take them just for myself. Or to challenge myself to do something new.
Late last year, I bought myself a Wacom tablet for drawing in Gimp. My main focus was better photo retouching with the pressure sensitivity a tablet brings. But one of the first things I found myself doing with it was drawing hair, as I’d been inspired to give it a go by the work of one of SL’s best post-shoot artists, Angi Manners (warning, NSFW).
Here’s my first ever attempt.
I’m not a great artist, but I’m pretty happy with how this turned out!
“I think you have your dress caught in your garter belt!” Aeon said when she saw this dress 🙂
This is a clever mix of fitmesh and applier clothing, specific to Maitreya Lara. There is not even an Omega applier for the stockings! It was an MM prize at Ko-H, and I expect it will be available again on their board as they tend to cycle through a number of items. Visit the store and have a look!
My hairstyle is by Alice Project, and at the time of writing is still available on their MM board if you want to slap it 🙂 It comes with an essentials HUD with a nice color selection, although the red is not my favorite.
Well done applier lingerie! I’m spoiled with fitmesh lingerie, but sometimes a creator comes out with effective looking lace in appliers, and Lies have managed it in this case!
My perspective editing in Gimp could be better, but it’s better than a blank mirror, don’t you think?
There are system layers for the bra, panties, stockings and garter, and a Maitreya applier for them too.
My hairstyle is a gift at Hair Fair, which goes through until July 16th. You still have a few days to go and grab the gifts and get some new wonderful styles. Don’t forget to grab a bandanna there too to help support Wigs For Kids!
Lingerie: White Lingerie with Maitreya Applier by Lies
