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Fantasy Faire 2021: The Dark Valkyrie

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She fights against the Unweaver with a passion that only the fallen can wield.


Aeon’s pose is Valkyrie 4 from Poseidon Poses (Fair Store in Valhalla)

Time is running short on Fantasy Faire 2021, but there are still so many things to find, so many sights to see!

I get to show you a few treasures here that I picked up at the Faire. One, I confess, is not available if you don’t already have it: the dark skin I’m wearing is the Hel Draugr skin from Fallen Gods. It’s a special edition, available only for Alia Baroque’s Jail-and-Bail fundraiser last Friday evening.

It made the perfect match to the sleek Valkyrie Spirit bodysuit from *Lurve*. Lurve’s Faire store in Khol Dracys has a number of lovelies for you, and Valkyrie Spirit is definitely my favourite. It includes the unrigged helm and bracers, and both of these have just wonderful materials. The specular reflection is just PERFECT — I look like I’m wearing real steel on my forearms and head.


Aeon’s pose is Valkyrie 6 from Poseidon Poses (Fair Store in Valhalla)

I added a few other bits that are a little harder to see. GERMINAL has some lovely tattoos at the Faire, and you might be able to catch a glimpse of the Lamia foot tattoo on my calves. It’s a lovely black swirly bit, and seemed to fit well on my Valkyrie — a nice subtle bit against the darker limbs of Alia’s draugr skin. I also included the Corrupted eyes from A.D.D. Andel. I have a feeling I’ll be adding these eyes to some of my other exotic skin outfits!


Aeon’s pose is Valkyrie 2 (rev) from Poseidon Poses (Fair Store in Valhalla)

My wings are from Bare Rose, who does not have a booth at the faire, but I wanted to point these out because they’re my favourite bento angel/feathered wings. I have them in white, but they’re modify, so you can go in and adjust colour and specularity. So making some steel-grey metallic wings is easy. I’ve been able to match them to a whole bunch of different outfits.


Aeon’s pose is Valkyrie 5 from Poseidon Poses (Fair Store in Valhalla)

One last quick word.  These marvelous poses are all from Poseidon Poses — appropriately enough, the Valkyrie series.  They’re amazing and perfect.  Poseidon Poses is my go-to for action poses!  You should totally stop by their Faire store in Valhalla.

There’s still a few more things to come from the Faire. Please stop by, spend an hour or two or ten… and help support Relay for Life’s fight against Cancer.
We can hold back the Unweaver!

Aloha! A hui hou kākou!

Pictures were taken at Valhalla at Fantasy Faire 2021
The Digital Legacy extreme windlight was used.

I am wearing:

•*Lurve* — Valkyrie Spirit (coal) bodysuit (Belleza/Curvy/Fine/Hourglass/KUPRA/Maitreya/Physique fitmesh, 5 sizes rigged mesh) (Faire store in Khol Dracys)
•Fallen Gods — Draugr (Hel Scale Pearl) skin (Faire store in Valhalla)
•A.D.D. Andel — Corrupted Eyes (purple) skin (Faire store in A’Dracunas)
•GERMINAL — Lamia Feet Tattoo skin (Faire store in Somniatoris Arx)
•Stargazer — Snakes specular tattoo (Faire store in Tempest Bay)
•Bare Rose — White B-Wings
•*ARGRACE* — Nazuna hair
•[GA.EG] — Barbara mesh face
•[GA.EG] — Glamour Lashes
•Maitreya — Lara mesh body, hands and feet

A Masque for Life

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A mask protects, a mask hides… and a masque tantalises….


Aeon’s pose is Winter Spirit 02 from *Eternal Dream*

Aloha kākou!

I have a wonderful little couple of things to share with you today, a beautiful mask from Kerryth at Spyralle and a beautiful new updo from Magika.

The Masque of Summer is a wonderful mask, perfect for a midsummer’s… masque — for the ball, beautiful gowns swaying under the stars as the orchestra plays. Kerryth’s Masque of Summer is unrigged mesh: it can be resized and positioned for your face, and comes in six different lovely patterns. Each one has a HUD for choosing gem and metal colour to tailor it to your look. You can find it at We Love Role Play this month for another few days!


Aeon’s pose is Summer Breeze 5 (rev) from Stardust

I also get to share this quick pick-up — the Midnight updo from Magika. Magika is coming out with some new hairstyles with some very life-like texturing. I really love this one. I don’t have really close-up shots of it to share: Firestorm on a linux system has a known but that causes some triangular rendering errors in some meshes with alphas. I’ve got it on great authority (my assistant today who held the lights for me) that the triangles that I could see were completely invisible to her on her windows machine. It looks really wonderful, and I’m really excited for new styles from Magika soon!


Aeon’s pose is The Mirror Pose from Shi.S Poses

One last note, my wonderful friends. My friend, the beautiful and talented Kerryth, owner and creative force of Spyralle announced to her group that she is facing some rather serious health issues. Please keep her in your thoughts, your prayers if you have them. She has not shared prognosis, but keep her and her loved ones in your thoughts.

Mahalo nui kākou! A hui hou!

The Hyborian Age – Water E – morning windlight was used.

Pictures were taken in a custom-created skybox at Realm of Light

I am wearing:

•Spyralle – Masque of Summer currently at We Love Role Play
•Magika — Midnight hair
•Paris METRO Couture — Wild Bunch Flower mesh gown
•Luminesse — Mokolea (Lekika) Necklace and earrings set
•Spyralle – Summer Leaf  bracelets
•Barerose — Glass Fairy B-Wings (Green)
•DS’ELLES — Clemence (Ambre) skin
•Mayfly — Luminous Twilight Forest eyes
•[GA.EG] — Barbara mesh face
•[GA.EG] — Glamour Lashes
•Maitreya — Lara mesh body, hands and feet

Mix and Match with Meli

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A long time Second Life staple is Meli Imako, a purveyor of full perm clothing items. Most often their products are used as the base for other creators to produce ensemble outfits, adding and changing textures. While that is still their strong suit, recently Meli has been including some pretty decent textures in some of the models as well, allowing them to be used as-is for those so inclined. A very good example of the latter is the Vixen dress, a wonderfully frilly confection:

Vixen is available in five mesh sizes as well as Fit Mesh for all the major mesh bodies, with the hat available separately. Note the Meli Imako does not have an in-world store so all of their products can be found on the Marketplace.

Another good outfit right out of the box is the High Seas Pirate Corset, which is equally at home as a Gothic style Lolita dress. Here is an example of the dress with one of the three included textures, the black:

To add to the atmosphere on this one, I mixed in a chiffon dress held aloft by ravens, from The Dark Swamp. The Meli corset dress is available in five Fitmesh Sizes plus fits for all major mesh bodies and three included textures. And true to the premise that Meli supplies meshes for other creators to adapt, I know that this dress is available in pre-made sets from at least two other vendors: Sn@ocks in five separate colors; and Adris King Designer in an eleven-color HUD. Both use the same basic pattern that comes with the texture set with a few modifications.

Now just because other vendors mod these items doesn’t mean you can’t as well. Here is the same dress with colors I changed using Photoshop and uploading the texture back into Second Life, this time on the happy side of the Disney aisle as Snow White. I added some mesh bows, one for the front and one in my hair, and found nice boots and stockings to go with.

And finally, to show that sometimes just a little bit of modification can give you just what you are looking for, here is the Women’s Cravat Blouse and Corset skirt. I wanted a librarian sort of outfit but one with a little sexy appeal; so I was able to adjust the transparency on the top and add a lacy bra underneath. The outfit is available in five mesh model sizes (not Fit Mesh).

Ready to do a little custom modifications, my sweet friends? Cheers!

Far Eastern Flair

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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!

  • Outfit: ShengLong by W-Zero
  • Hair: Jacqueline ponytail by DragensVarg (part of the Jacqueline-Steampunk-cap-goggles-hair set, Marketplace link)
  • Pose: crossed hands 1 M by Lumipro

Bows discreetly to all my friends (as much as one may bow in some of these outfits…) Cheers!

Fae of the Fall

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After showing the lovely Queen Frani to you previously, I thought I’d share my own outfit for the Sisters of Eden Autumn Queen Dance.  I’ve blogged the base outfit before, but added a bit to create an angel of autumn?  A fall fae?  Can fae have feathered wings?

So, sometimes you get lucky.  Bare Rose created some beautiful bento wings in their “B-Wings“, sold in black and white colours.  Fortunately, they are mod, so I could change the overlay colour.  Be VERY careful, the wings are NO COPY: do NOT try changing the texture, ONLY change the overcolour.  I played around a little bit until I found what looked just like gold to me.  The texture-enabled wings turned that gold into something shining with a hint of metallic glint.  Just… wow.

Persefona‘s Floating Leaves come in a number of different distributions.  They’re mesh, not particles, so they don’t contribute to the kinds of rendering issues and lag (and annoyance) that particle generators can.  They do attach to the body, so they move somewhat rigidly about you, but depending on your use they look absolutely wonderful.  They worked well for my dances at the party!

It’s always lovely when a creator puts together an amazing outfit… but I really love that feeling of putting together pieces from here and there to create your own individualised look.

Mahalo!  A hui hou!

aurora’s glow

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Sometimes some amazing things come down the pike and you just go wow

Prism offers Aurora, an exclusive for the 68 Main Event going on right now.  This bodysuit is absolutely stunning in its materials and lighting, and simply must be seen to be believed.   It’s materials-enabled, and reflects local lighting beautifully.  Aurora comes with several lighting effects, the principle one is a set of multicoloured invisible lights that circle and rotate about you, causing the bodysuit to shimmer in amazing ways.

The other lighting effect consists of a set of particle generators worn on the hands that shimmer and leave trails as you move.  They’re particularly spectacular when you dance!

The bento wings come with a simple built-in animation script, but they do not flap well: they shift from one static pose to another. THE GOOD NEWS is that a bento wing AO (such as the one that came with my B-Wings from Bare Rose) works amazingly well with Aurora‘s wings!

As much fun as it was to take pics of this bodysuit, my images cannot do it justice.  Fortunately, you can go to 68 Main Event and take a look for yourself: Prism has a demonstration dummy set up for your perusal.  Note that the light motion for the dress seems a bit slower than that on the demo unit at the event (this is a plus by my thinking).

Mahalo!  A hui hou!

 

Sensuous lace

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Light as a sunbeam, soft as a feather, a caress of lace and angel’s wings… Carrie’s Lingerie brings you Sensuous Silks, a beautiful little set of applier lingerie and silks that’s simply angelic.

I added my new favourite feathered wings from Bare Rose.  B-Wings are bento-enabled, and have the most amazing bird-wing like fluttering!  They’re full mesh, so they have proper three-dimensional structure: they’re not flat flexi-prims.  They’re GORGEOUS, and they come with a small flapping AO hud.

Oh, and one other lovely — I just discovered that my favourite hair stylist, Calico, re-released many of their recent (past year or so) hair styles with an improved colour HUD that features their older shades!  I get my light ginger again!  Yay!

Sensuous Silks is available in six lovely pastel shades, and comes with an additional modesty version.  No, I didn’t show that, what, me modest?

Mahalo my friends!  A hui hou!

 

Owl time

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We had a crazy outfit contest in Eden on the weekend.  I was struggling to come up with something original instead of the normal silly hats and stuff, so I was browsing the marketplace and came across this awesome owl/harpy outfit!  For the usual outfits we see at Eden, I thought it would qualify as pretty crazy hehe.

There was no demo for this, so I crossed my fingers and hoped, and wow it turned out nicely!  Firstly, the outfit is really only suitable for a system body as there are no appliers, but for this it hardly matters.  There are modesty patches on system that are tintable, or as you can see here, I’m wearing the feathered texture pants that comes in the package.  The legs and wings are rigged mesh so you can’t resize them (but there are alphas for your legs and arms, or you can chose to wear system layer socks and gloves in the same feather texture as the pants, so it doesn’t really matter).  The chest, pelvis, collar. and tail pieces are all non-rigged mesh, so you can get some adjustment to suit your shape.

The hairpiece comes in both rigged and non-rigged mesh, so again, it should be easy to get a fit.  And all this added up to only 55,000 complexity, even with the materials enabled textures!  Wow.

I think this is a fabulous outfit, and I’ll certainly be looking for an opportunity to show it off again!

Now, how about an action shot? 🙂

Outfit: Owl Harpy Lady by Bare Rose