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Chocolate, yumms!

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Here’s a group gift from a store that I haven’t been to in a while… Glitter.  I’m not sure how long this gift has been available, but as Glitter mostly does past group gifts, you can bet it will be available for a while yet.  Glitter’s group is FREE to join.

The dress is available in sizes to fit Lara, Legacy, Hourglass, Freya, Tonic Curvy and Fine, Alice, and eBody Curvy.  It comes with a HUD that allows you to set the dress to opaque or just the tiny level of sheer I’m showing you here.  I particularly like the idea of the solid neck piece as the support for the dress, it looks really good and fits Lara perfectly!

You’ll also need some form of modesty patch if you’re wearing this out and about too, as it’s cut so high it’s rather revealing!

Miriam

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Hello sweets!  This is a group gift for members of the FabFree group.  The group is FREE to join!

This lingerie dress is sized to fit *takes breath*… Lara, Freya, Venus, Isis, Legacy, Legacy Perky, Physique, Hourglass, Curvy, Fine, eBody, Altamura, Minim, Signature, and Star.

Whew, that’s more rigging than I’d want to do 🙂

Lucky Betty

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This was a win from a lucky chair at Glitter!

It’s only available in the five standard mesh sizes, and normally that would mean I wouldn’t blog it, but the design is really nice, and with some judicious alphas, it can look quite smart!  There is a custom alpha included too if you want to try wearing it with BoM.

Sharon

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I came across a new skin that I wanted to try.  I’ve been a tanned redhead for nearly my entire time in SL, so maybe time to go the paler, freckly version?

This skin is available as a FREE gift to members of the Fabulously Free in Second Life group from 7 Deadly Skins.

It has the the following skin tones, both on system skins if you want to wear BoM, or Omega appliers: Apricot, Butter, Dew (shown), Pineapple, and Sand.  Each of the five tones also have a browless version if (like me) you use your mesh head’s options to supply eyebrows.

It’s surprising how quickly I got used to this tone, but if you put one of these photos up to my usual skin from Lumae, it’s a stark contrast!

Not wanting to show you all my new skin, I found a nice FREE group gift at Glitter.  This dress is sized for Lara, Freya, Venus, Isis, Hourglass, Physique, Curvy, Fine, Ocacin, and also comes in the five standard mesh sizes for classic avatars.  It has a six color HUD with the other colors being blue, purple, green, red, and black, all in very muted tones.

The dress clips on the arms in the below pose (I airbrushed it out) and it’s difficult to deal with because of the arm cutouts, but for walking around, you’ll be just fine!

Monique

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Och aye, Ah hud tae dye mah hair tae sport th’ tartan!

This dress is a FREE group gift from Glitter.  The Glitter group is FREE to join.  The dress comes in sizes for Lara, Hourglass, Physique, Curvy, Fine, Venus, Isis, Freya, and standard sizes for classic avatars.  The puffed shoulders are pretty trendy, don’t you think?

Nicole

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Glitter has a nice group gift out.  Their group is FREE to join.

This great little leather dress is in sizes for Lara, Freya, Venus, Physique, Curvy, Fine, Ocacin, and Volupuous (is that a brand?)  There are some minor clipping issues at the underarms, but no real dramas for walking around in this.  And again, it’s in one of my colors, yay!

 

Chloe 3 in 1

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I have a versatile dress to show you today.  It’s a group gift for Fabulously Free in SL, which as the name implies, is FREE to join 🙂

The dress is in this single bronze color and comes in fitmesh for every major mesh body, plus classic avatars.

Controlled via a HUD, the dress can either be a long, short, or short with a sheer top.  I really like options like this!

  • Dress: Chloe Fitmesh Dress 3 in 1 via HUD – Bronze by Glitter
  • Body and feet: Lara by Maitreya
  • Face: Jennifer by GA.EG
  • Hands: Slink Dynamic
  • Shoes: Rimini Sandals by KC Couture
  • Hair: Chahong by Monso

Arabesque

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This is one of the current group gifts for members of Fab Free at Glitter.

Although it’s only in standard mesh sizing, it fits my shape pretty well.  I’m wearing the small size here but it does show some tiny breakthroughs at the back neckline, so to walk around in it, I’d probably have to wear the medium.

I really like the pattern and the long sleeves!

Adele

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Today I’m showing you a hunt item from Womenstuff.  The hunt is still on until the end of November, so you still have some time to find some wonderful outfits for next to nothing!

This lovely ruffled dress is from Glitter, and is in sizes for Lara, TMP, Physique, Hourglass, Isis, and Venus.

And oh dear, from the above photo, you can see I was retouching my hair in this.  I really love this hairstyle and usually it’s just wonderful.  It also suits the pose in the photo above to a “T”.  And of course it’s only in this pose that it clips lol.  I only noticed I forgot to delete the color swatches after I uploaded the photo, and my choices were brush them out, or re-shoot.  Then I thought, no, I’ll leave them in so you can have a laugh at me 🙂

I generally don’t tell you when I retouch.  Nearly all mesh clothing that I do it for is perfectly fine walking around, and it’s only in modeling poses that it has problems.  But now I’ve been caught red-handed, I might see if I can show you some techniques in a future tutorial…

Dark magic

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Today I was setting up for an event later in the week where the theme is light and dark fairy.  I chose dark as I have a better selection of goth things than happy fairy things, and while you’ve probably seen most of these items before in various posts, this is a new combination.

If I remember correctly, I purchased this wonderful skin from Lumae for a similar event over a year ago.  The skin comes with these fabulous ears in three sizes that match the skin perfectly.

The dress is Lara fitmesh, and there are Slink versions of it as well.  I’ve posted full details in the blog before.  Once I had the dress, I started searching for other bits and pieces to fill out the look.  The lace bottom of the dress is nice, but I sort of wanted something even more tattered looking.  Surprisingly, a tattoo achieved nearly exactly what I had in mind, and when viewed from a distance, the tattoo seems to blend into the dress.

There are a lot of appliers and HUDs going on behind the scenes here!  I thought I’d show you a screenshot with most of them attached so you can see just how complex this outfit is 🙂  There are HUDs for body and head skins, wing control, my Lara and GA.EG control HUDs, the top, bottom, and feet tattoos, nails, lipstick, eye makeup, and Omega relays OMG 🙂  I haven’t bothered showing the HUD for the hairstyle.   All in all, I think there are 15 HUDs involved!  The list below is going to be long!