Reviews

Reviews of products we own in SL

Urban lace

blue Fashion, LotD, Reviews

I was clearing out my unopened folder today and came across this lace top with Omega appliers.  I’m not sure where I got it but it’s made by Black Swan, one of the premier lingerie makers in SL.  I paired it with my favourite mesh jeans and thought an urban setting would be suitable.  Enjoy!

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A Shimmer of Emerald

Aeon Fashion, LotD, Reviews

I may have found a new love in bellydance!  Bellydance Goddess ensnared me this week with the new Raks Egyptian line.  Raks features appliers for the arms, top, and leggings, and wonderful prim ruffled skirt pieces.

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Raks comes in 15 beautiful colours, and if you run over to Bellydance Goddess soon, you will find that Aqeelah has left us a gift surprise: one of the colours is free as a gift!  I won’t say which one, but I’ll tell you that it inspired me so that I had to go and get the emerald that I’m showing you here today.

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You may remember when I featured Bellydance Goddess‘ Pure last week that I mentioned that I had to go practice my bellydance.  Unlike normal photo poses, I took these while dancing on bellydances from Abranimations.  The motion capture animations are truly impressive!  You can see a few more images on my flickr page. I had a hard time choosing which ones to feature here.

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I need to add a quick word of thanks to my wonderful friend Jazaar, who graciously let me use her sim for these photos.  You’ll see some more of her lovely gardens in future posts.

A hui hou kākou, my friends!

Entwined Holly

blue Fashion, Reviews

While I’m on hair, here’s a lovely blonde style from Entwined called “Holly”.  While the style I’ve chosen to show you is blonde, the hair has every colour imaginable, from light and dark blondes, reds, browns, blacks, naturals, fairies, and mers!

The hair was a FREE group gift from Entwined back in October.  Entwined is FREE to join!

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Dotty

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Today I’m showing you an old group gift from Wertina.  And another fav hair from Exile 🙂

Wertina is FREE to join, and occasionally comes out with fab group gifts like this dress, which is mesh in the standard sizings.  I would absolutely love it if this was in fitmesh for Lara!

The hair from Exile was available at last year’s Hair Fair as a free event gift.  If you missed the event last year, make sure you make it there next time it’s on!  It’s a “must go” event and is for a worthy cause to boot!

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  • Dress: Eleonor Dotted Green by Wertina
  • Hair: Jill by Exile
  • Skin: Adore Peach Bare light brow (freckles) by Lumae
  • Lipstick: by Ricielli (marketplace link)

Stone Cold Seduction

blue Fashion, Reviews

I thought I’d show off my favourite mesh hair today.  It’s Stone Cold Seduction by Exile, and I just love it!  I originally discovered it when someone posted a portrait of themselves on Flickr wearing it.  I ran and got a demo and was a little conflicted as I really wanted it but it was expensive, at least to me.  I took a picture of myself wearing the demo and cropped the demo box off the top of the pic hehe.  I’ve become a better SL photographer since those days though, so here are two pics of me wearing it.

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And although this is the “Red” version, there are some very light reds, letting you get close to blondes.

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Here’s the HUD:

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  • Hair: Stone Cold Seduction by Exile
  • Body: Lara by Maitreya
  • Skin: Adore Peach Bare by Lumae

Victorian Charm

Aeon Fashion, LotD, Reviews, Sponsored

Well, it’s been a busy few weeks, but I finally managed to get the latest gift from Blue Moon Enterprises!  Lady Charming is a lovely all-mesh skirt and jacket, with independent ruffles at the wrist, a lovely gauzy scarf, and a fine top hat to cap it all off!

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Hats are always tough in SL, but Lady Charming’s top hat is not hard to fit well – although a good choice of hairstyle is important!

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Despite the chill, I thought I’d doff my hat, and tie my hair up in a ribbon.  The ribbon is HUD-driven, and comes with A&A’s Evelyne hairstyle.  I really love this cut, it’s just a bit sassy, and perfect for costumes from Steampunk to Flapper (as you’ve seen here before), or just wearing around the town.
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This gift has been around all January, so time is likely running out!  Stop by Blue Moon, you won’t be disappointed by the steampunk and fantasy apparel!

Aloha, all!

Completely Tenable

Aeon Fashion, LotD, Reviews

Okay, is it me, or is ‘tenable’ one of those words that you just never hear?  It’s like ‘whelmed’.  In any case, I’m all about Tena, a new top/pants combination from Fi’s Creations!

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Tena is a two-piece all-mesh outfit in the standard five sizes.  And WOW, all the colours!

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  • KoiKoi – Purple Bootie Pumps (no longer available?)

I really love when manufacturers include multiple texture choices in one, and Fi continues to exceed expectations on that front!  Tena comes in four varieties, each with six texture choices for both pants and top.

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Each quadrant above is a separate outfit, with Unicolour, Gingham, Stripes, and Retro patterns shown clockwise from the top left.  The green outfit that I’m wearing above is from the unicolour palette, and the purple from the retro.

Stop on by Fi’s Creations, and take a look today!  A hui hou!

Starlight

blue Fashion, LotD, Places, Reviews

A friend of mine posted a fantastic photo on Flickr the other day, and I immediately thought it would be a great location for a fashion photo (then again, I get excited about any good looking spot in SL, thinking “Oh what could I photograph there?”)

The location at a new sim called the Isle of Peace, turned out to be far smaller that Nat’s photo had suggested to me.  So I had to do a little judicious derendering.  And what’s up with sim owners making wonderfully photogenic places and then banning script usage?  Grr I had to fly to 100m and get into a pose and then land back in the place I wanted to take the photo!

After all my trials and tribulations (that I’m sure you didn’t want to hear about anyway lol) here are the results!

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This mesh gown in standard sizing is from Arlene’s Fashions & Designs.  The texturing is materials enabled and glitters as you move.  It’s very eye-catching and you’ll certainly get comments wearing this!

Also including with the gown are white sandals for Slink High, but due to space constraints you aren’t going to see them in these pics 🙂

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Pure Goddess

Aeon Fashion, LotD, Reviews

No, not me!  But Bellydance Goddess offers the lovely Pure as a group gift right now.  And it is divine!

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Pure comes with both a thong and a hip wrap appliers.  The wrap is definitely its own form of sexy!

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Pure comes with Omega appliers for the top, thong and waist wrap, and mesh accoutrements (belt, headpiece, chestpiece, bangles). The mesh belt includes the silks and comes with a resize script, although it can be tricky to fit just right to your hips!  Pure also includes bracelets which are not resizable, unfortunately, and were way too big for this girl.  Fortunately, I had a lovely set of bangles that were perfectly appropriate from the lovely Aditi saree from RaMp, and those together with some anklets from Cazimi rounded out this lovely outfit!

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Now, I really need to go practice my bellydance!  A hui hou kākou, my friends!