fashion

Floral denim

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Sometimes you just have to escape the seasons, and SL is perfect for that.  It’s always summer somewhere here!  I was looking through my outfits and I came across this one from FA Creations that I realized I hadn’t worn for quite a while.  Cue beach location!

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One of the other things I love about taking photos for you, gentle reader, is I get to hunt up some awesome locations to take photograph at.  These shots were taken at Lavender Moon 2 which has a lovely atmosphere.  It’s so nice that I didn’t want to fiddle with lighting for these photos, so forgive me if they’re a little dark.

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  • Outfit: Elsie Denim Flowers Shorts and Elsie Denim Top by FAC
  • Bangles: Orange Agate/Silver by Duh!
  • Necklace: My Valentine Heart Necklace Silver by Baby Monkey
  • Feet and hands: Slink
  • Flip flops: Intimate You (marketplace link)
  • Skin: Adore Peach Bare by Lumae
  • Hair: Serafine Fire by Alli & Ali

Rawr!

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Fun roleplay stuff today, this cheetah outfit comes from Catseye, a great place for all your furry fantasies 🙂 The outfit comes with Slink and Omega appliers, and a range of lip and shape options.  Here I’m wearing it with the natural lips and my normal shape.

Aeon keeps promising to do a post about a rainbow tigress skin from Catseye she has.  I hope she does it soon.  Coming up real soon 🙂

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I love the hearts on the “rear” 🙂

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  • Skin, ears, tail : Cheetah Girl by Catseye
  • Eyes: Deep Sky Spring Moss by Mayfly

Kastle Rock Autumn Capri

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I love the colors of fall, all the beauty of the turning leaves.  Here is a wonderful little capri set from Kastle Rock Couture.  The blouse is mesh and comes in the standard five sizes.  The pants are system (unfortunately with no appliers).

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Adding a nice little touch is my autumn moon necklace.  The detail on this is fantastic, as I think you’ll agree!

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Daisey, Daisey…

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It’s November, but unseasonably warm weather makes it comfortable in sandals and bare sleeves.  Comfy clothes for the weather are provided by Rowena’s Designs, surprising us all with Daisey, a mesh overall and knit top combination in five sizes.
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If you’ve been reading this blog, you know I’ve got a bit of a gripe against merchants who sell each individual colour or texture of their product at exorbitant sums.  The Daisey overalls feature Rowena’s norm: a colour/texture change HUD, with six different colours for both top and bottom, each independently selectable for 36 possible combinations.

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What else to add?  Oh, yes – this is a FREE GIFT for members of SL Frees & Offers.  Stop by, pick up a copy, and check out all of the amazing items offered by Rowena!

  • Hair: Amacci Lena Deep Copper
  • Skin : Glam Affair Cleo Europa
  • Body: Slink Physique
  • Hands : Slink Hands Casual
  • Feet: Slink Feet Flat

 

Ghee Asian Style

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This group gift from Ghee has been available in store for some time, and I finally got around to picking it up today.  Another outfit not made for redheads, I again have to wear another color hair.  Never mind, it gives me something else to show you 🙂

Ghee has a L$250 group join fee, but once again, with the quality of clothing, it’s hard to complain.

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The pretty Asian styled dress comes in the standard mesh sizing and includes matching shoes for Slink High feet!

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  • Outfit and shoes: Prussian Asian Garden Dress by Ghee
  • Hair: Elinna by Entwined

One last Halloween

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This was my Halloween outfit for the big night.  A fabulously dark gown called, what else? “Dark Blood Ephiphany” by Glam Dreams!  The gown was a group gift, absolutely FREE to group members.  And it comes with all the accessories you see here, plus a fur collar and neck frill that I chose not to wear.

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The earrings are another hunt item from Bats in the Belfry Hunt from the other day.  Here is a close-up, also showing you another aspect of my usual skin from Lumae.  My normal ginger sure didn’t go with dark blood 🙂  Including my eyebrows.  Fortunately, Lumae includes multiple options with their skins, and I have the choice of four eyebrow tints and a version with no brow in case you need to add that rainbow one you found as a freebie 🙂

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Finally, a close-up of the accessories.  The skeleton hands are some of the best I’ve seen!

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  • Gown, skulls and skeleton hands: Dark Blood Ephiphany by Glam Dreams
  • Hair: Anna by Entwined
  • Makeup: by Ricielli and Face and Tattoo Junky (out of business)
  • Lashes: Wow Skins
  • Eyes: Deep Sky Spring Moss by Mayfly
  • Skin: Adore Peach Bare by Lumae

Tutorial – Making simple stockings

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This is a quick lesson on how to make high stockings with one simple texture upload.

First, let’s create a texture.  I needed black stockings for my outfit so we will create a 256×256 pixel transparent image in The Gimp and bucket fill it with black at 40% opacity:

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Save this as a PNG file and then pay L$10 to upload it into Second Life.

In an appropriately named folder in your Second Life Inventory, create a new set of pants by right clicking in the folder, and selecting “New Clothes” and then “New Pants”.  A system layer pants object will appear which you can rename “Stockings”, and then wear.

Once you are wearing the pants, you need edit them by right clicking them in your inventory and selecting “Edit”, then click on the “Fabric” window, and add the texture we created above, save, and you are done…

Unless you are wearing Slink High feet like me, in which case you can use the same texture in Slink’s Personal Applier HUD to texture your feet correctly.