Aloha! Happy Friday my friends! I have this wonderful little iridescent ‘kini that I picked up earlier this summer from Quirky, and because of RL issues I just never got the chance to share it with you. This is Belle, available in three different holographic/iridescent colours.
Aloha kākou! Hello everyone, I’ve been having a lovely summer, with some nice time spent on the islands and some time spent working on some projects, but I’m back and excited to share some things with you!
This weekend the Sisters of Eden held a flapper party, capturing the spirit of the Roaring ’20s. I’d had this lovely dress from Silvan Moon Designs, Ain’t Misbehavin, that I’d blogged before. But since that time, I’d found a few new jewelry pieces and some much better hair, so I thought I’d share them with you.
The shot above uses the Flux pose set from ecru poses. I picked it up at The Liason Collaborative recently, and they’re just a lot of fun!
The hair is definitely the biggest improvement over the old pics! no.match has some amazing styles, and no.commission suited me best. It felt perfect with the outfit — and with my own style. I replaced the headband that came with Ain’t Misbehavin’ with an improved one, Clara, from Empyrean Forge. It’s a better mesh and texture. Yes, I know, the pic below is a bit dark to show it off, but what can I say, I really like the shot anyway.
The rear view really shows off the Petit Vigne back necklace, framed by the scoop back of Ain’t Misbehavin’. The shot below also shows off the beautiful backseam Nyla stockings from Alaska Metro <3.
Exposeur Props and Poses — February Gift 15-3 pose (Marketplace Link)
The original Ain’t Misbehavin’ post was back in 2016, almost exactly three years ago. I can’t believe it’s three years old, but it does go to show that just because something is a little older doesn’t mean it’s still not fantastic. A little updating and I’m ready to dance!
I got to wander around the latest round of Enchantment: The Iron Throne over the past weekend, and while the theme is Game of Thrones, I found the most wonderful separates that just cried out “boho/gypsy chic” to me. A little mix-and-match and you’ve got a look that is perfect for role play… or for every day. Well, every day for me, anyway!
I don’t know about you, but I find that working with separates can definitely be more challenging — I tend to forget what separates I have in my wardrobe, and finding pieces that go together can be very hit-or-miss. But it’s very exciting when it does, and creates a look that is very unique to the individual.
There is one more week of the magic of Fantasy Faire 2019 remaining, and still so many fun things to go and see. This lovely dark gown is from God Mod, and has a perfect gothicky dark flair!
The shoulder pieces are unrigged mesh, and can be adjusted to your fit. Earthstones‘s Phoenix Rising carried the spikey motif, and the reds seemed to echo the rust highlights in Malika.
There are so many wonderful things at Fantasy Faire, and every one helps contribute to the fight against cancer. With 16 sims, you can always get in somewhere and have a look around. Fantasy Faire 2019 is only here until May 5, and there is SO MUCH to see.
Aloha kākou! Happy Aloha Friday! I want to share a beautiful gown from God Mod! Heart of the Sea is a wonderful iridescent gown in fitmesh for Maitreya, SLink, and Belleza bodies, as well as the five standard rigged mesh sizes, and it’s available at Fantasy Faire through May 5! I already showed the Ethereal wings from Lunaria, but I really loved how they worked with the colours of Heart of the Sea.
There are so many wonderful things at Fantasy Faire, and every one helps contribute to the fight against cancer. With 16 sims, you can always get in somewhere and have a look around. Fantasy Faire 2019 is only here until May 5, and there is SO MUCH to see.
The March edition of We Love Role Play is underway, and Solas and Bee at Silvan Moon Designs present the lovely Pandora gown in two-piece fitmesh. I promise, I’m not here to open up a box of troubles!
The asymmetric sleeve design is definitely something different. I like it, but I also think that it benefits from some not-insignificant arm jewelry. I’m wearing Calliope from EarthStones here — a simple and classy look — but I think that you could get away with a more significant/bold armlet/bracer type of piece.
The leafy flowery detail on Pandora is really just incredible. EarthStones’ Nature’s Splendour jewelry set (necklace and earrings) complements the gown as if it were made for it. I’d love an armlet fashioned as a gold-vined leaf in the same theme as Nature’s Splendour.
Please stop by We Love Role Play and check out Pandora! Mahalo! A hui hou!
I’ve had a bit of a bad habit lately of indulging in some wonderful fantasy skins, perhaps it’s an effort to lose myself from all the cold winter that so many of us find ourselves in!
Alia Baroque at Fallen Gods is feeling our need for Spring, and has four beautiful skins and associated tattoos at the Summoning Spring event that are just perfect to draw you back to life, to growing things!
I have to let the skin and tattoo speak for themselves… remove the lovely Daphne dress from The Muses, and just… be bare. The Fleurs tattoo layer has several different variations for male and female avatars and various stages of… revelation. I chose something slightly more discrete for these pics, but you may choose to bare more.
TheWood Nymph skins come in four varieties. I’m showing the Spring skin, with a light and lively hint of green against the feeling of new bark saplings…. through the season the bark/skin tone grows a bit darker/browner and the green becomes darker, to a mossy autumn skin… finally a winter-grey bark colour. Each is absolutely beautiful.
The Summoning Spring event is a small simple affair, but has a number of nice treasures. The faire is only around until March 13, and I fear winter here may last a bit longer than that! Fortunately, the spirit of life and hope that we carry with us comes from this wonderful place within us.
February can be cold and long, but the Medievel Fantasy Faire is a shining light in the winter months, and Scarlet Fey has a beautiful fitmesh gown for Maitreya Lara to keep you warm and bright.
Scarlet Fey incorporated a surprise in the Elven Aurora gown: the detailing very gently progresses through successive red/orange/yellow shading. If the animation were quick, it would come across as a cheap gimmick, I think, but it’s slow and subtle and quite lovely. You really need to stop by the Scarlet Fey booth at MFF to see the demo there to appreciate the effect!
Merry Solstice and Happy Yule, my wonderful friends! It’s a season of joy and light, and magic surrounding all of us. Kerryth at Spyralle has the most wonderful gown for the season, CoelisNorth Pole at the Mieville North Pole Event!
Another happy little treasure: I fell in love with EarthStones’ Poinsetta ‘n Bells necklace and earrings. They’re just right for the season, and fit the Coelis gown perfectly. Can you hear the soft tinkling of the bells as you dance?
There truly is magic all around, at Mieville North Pole Event and everywhere else. Peace and joy to you all, my wonderful friends! I wish you the very happiest of the season. Hau`oli Lā Hānau!
Lately I have taken an interest in doing clothes texturing, using purchased full perm models that allow one to selectively edit texture faces. While I have pondered selling some of these, which is what most people do who work with the full perm models, so far I have just been tinkering for myself, in order to get unique looks and/or make outfits that reflect ‘me.’ The full perm models are not inexpensive, being in the range of 500L to 1500L typically, as the expectation is that one is selling your new creations and thus eventually recoup your expenditure. However, if the cost does not deter you… follow me on a little path to see what you can do 🙂
For this first installment I will focus on something simple (and very small!). The common component in all of these outfits below is the Angel skirt by Gunshot, which is also a very reasonable 250L. This is a teeny-tiny skirt that really doesn’t cover much at all (which… frankly, was my goal). 😀 Now most people would supplement this with a pair of panties but I chose not to.
The skirt contains three material faces that can each be textured in different ways. They can also be different between front and back but the design of the skirt tends more toward it being the same all the way around front to back. The Gunshot package for the skirt contains models for all of the major mesh bodies as well as four sample textures, a shadow map, and a UV map. All of these latter items can be used in an external graphics program to create your own textures, which can then be uploaded to SL and applied to the mesh model.
In this first outfit, I textured the skirt with an opaque white band around the top, and the two main layers all in lace, to match the lace top and the lace cuffs on the sleeves. This is an example of where I mixed and matched a ton of things, along with the custom pieces, to get just the look I was after, an innocent snowflake faerie (okay, maybe just snowflake faerie…)
For this one I wanted to match the skirt to the top, which is also a full perm model. Before I found the original model, I had purchased a version of it from a vendor who had made her own texture for it. As I liked that shade of blue I wanted to match everything to it, which I did with the Angel skirt and the full perm sleeves from another full perm creator. In this case the top two bands of the skirt are solid, and the small band along the bottom is a lace pattern that matches the lace along the bottom hem of the top.
Top: Kara Top by Vaxer (the full perm model is CBB106 by Cool Big Bird )
Accessories: Good Kitty Collar by The Sugar Garden/tsg; Heart Charm Necklace by Bowtique (Marketplace link); Endear Ladies Key Necklace by EarthStones; Giftwrap Garter and Cuffs by Sweet Thing; Armour Waist Chain and Seacrest Waist Chain by La Sirena (Marketplace store); BoHo Style Hand Jewelry Butterfly by SilveryK
Another vendor who took the Gunshot Baude top and created a nice texture for it is ArisArisB&W, who applied a pretty denim pattern. I created a matching version for the skirt across all three texture bands.
Top: Nicety top by ArisArisB&W (the model is the same Gunshot Baude top as I used in the Snowflake image above)
Accessories: Dragonfly necklace by Pixel Box; Elaine Belt and Garter by Nanika; Armour Waist Chain and Seacrest Waist Chain by La Sirena (Marketplace store);
Arm Harness by L’Emporio
And finally, back to lace, this time with a rose tint and a slightly Victorian look (is not sure the Queen would approve). Here I used the actual Gunshot Baude top with the Angel skirt, modifying the lace pattern from Snowflake to be a little softer in color (as well as a bit more see through… blushes!).
Accessories: Jabot collar by Cog & Fleur; Lolita Lace Cuffs by Sweet Thing; Armour Waist Chain and Seacrest Waist Chain by La Sirena (Marketplace store)
Pose: The Irie Series – Four (m) by an lar (closed)
While these examples of re-texturing have been pretty simple, they’ve been fun in allowing me to make things that are just right for what I want. 🙂 In future installments of Do It Yourself I hope to show you some more complex examples.
Back to Photoshop! More lacy and frilly things await! Cheers!
