Lapointe & Bastchild

SLB19 Shop & Hop

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The Shop and Hop event for SL’s 19th Birthday celebrations is open today!  There are twenty sims and a lot of creators present!  I’ve read that there are about 400 creators attending the event, and most of them are stocking at least one FREE gift for everyone!

I suspect my best plan will be to do some of the sims each day, so I looked at three today, and these two bikinis from different designers where the standout gifts.

The top, bottoms, and sarong of this bikini are separates.  All three pieces are sized to fit Lara, Lara Petite, Legacy, Legacy Perky, Reborn, Kupra, Kupra Kups, Hourglass, Isis, and Freya.  The detailing and fit is excellent as you’d expect from a huge creator like Lepointe and Bastchild.

A nice feature of the delivery HUD is just unpack the outfits for the bodies you want, instead of unpacking it all and then deleting what you don’t need.

And I found this surprisingly similar bikini from Tori’s Stylez, a far smaller operation that L&B, but the attention to detail is just as good!

For this one, the top and bottoms are one piece and the sarong is separate.  There are sizes to fit Lara, Lara Petite, Legacy, Legacy Perky, Kupra, and Freya.   It comes with a HUD with three color choices for the bikini and wrap.

Here’s a list of direct teleports for all creators at SLB19 Shop & Hop, where these gifts can be found.

Fallen

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We have a Best in Wings event today at Eden.  Here’s what I’m wearing.

The most important part of this outfit is the corset.  It’s a FREE LIMITED group gift from Moz that’s only available today!  So hurry over to their store and pick it up by joining their FREE group.

It’s sized for Lara, Hourglass, Physique, Curvy, Fine, Isis, Venus, Freya, and classic avatars.

I was going to grab a new pair of bento devil wings, but you know, these ones from Atomic are still hard to beat, so I’m wearing them 🙂

A Touch of Magika

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That would be Magika hair, one of my happy hair places! Today I’d like to show you a selection of their offerings, both long and short, including one of my favorite hair pieces (which you will have seen in some of my previous postings).

Magika used to have a somewhat spread-out and confusing store but this year they moved to new quarters where all the products are in one easier to navigate space. In addition, all of the hair pieces have been combined into fat packs with all of the colors, 120 to be exact, in four included HUDs.

Let’s start with my happy hair, HoneyWhiskey, a nice almost Marilyn Monroe-esque casual style:

Next is a nice sweeping longer style called Never:

And a little big longer still, but with a bit more ‘wind’ look to it, is the Hush style:

And last, a sweet updo with French braid and curled up bun in the back called Meadow:

Time for a trip to the hair stylist! Cheers!

 

 

A Summer’s Day

Jaz Fashion, Reviews

Hello lovely friends! As promised in a previous entry, I want to share with you some of my favorite items from L & B (Lapointe and Bastchild). All of their offerings feature superb mesh detailing like laces and zippers, and many color options (all of their products are sold as packs only, rather than in single colors).

One of the best of their items is the Aspen Denim Jacket, with an open front and optional knotted t-shirt, with sewn seams, zippers, pockets, buttons and an optional wool collar.

It comes in 10 plain denim colors plus one bonus theme denim choice, 7 inner lining options, 12 wool collar options, 5 jacket hardware choices, and 42 t-shirt options. It is available for fit mesh for Maitreya, Slink & Belleza. Check out the detail in the artwork on this jacket!

One of the areas in which L&B excel is in their leather goods. Here is a wonderfully matched set of the Dita jacket and Keiko pants. I particularly love the pants as you can set different parts of the pants to contrasting or complementary colors. There is also a non-leather version of the pants available too.

The jacket is a cropped length open front that includes sewn seams, zippers, pockets, tassels and buttons, and can be worn with or without the optional wool/fur collar and cuffs. There are 21 Leather options, 4 wool collar options, 6 fur collar options, and 5 jacket hardware choice. It comes as fit mesh for Maitreya, Slink & Belleza.

The pants are finished off with front grommets and lacing (corset style) plus zipper pulls with dangle tassels. The included texture HUD has 22 plain leather colors and 5 zipper metal options. Versions are included for fit mesh for Maitreya, Slink, and Belleza as well as classic avatar fit mesh.

And how could one do a summer piece without a nice pair of shorts? These Dita denim shorts were originally featured at an event and are now available at the in world store. They are finished off with zip tassles and front lacing (corset style). It includes 12 denim textures, 3 theme versions, matching corset lacing, & 5 zipper metal options. It comes as fit mesh for Maitreya, Slink, and Belleza.

The cute hoodie top is cut short to highlight your curves. It may be worn with or without the included Bra Tube Top, which I have omitted here (hey, it’s summer and it’s warm out!) The set comes with 36 plain fabric colors, 6 theme fabric options, 9 hood lining versions, plus 36 Bra Tube Top colors. It comes as fit mesh for Maitreya, Slink, and Belleza.

Let’s go out and play in the sun, dear friends! Cheers!

Happy Birthday, Second Life!

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In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, Second Life turns 15 this month!  Happy Birthday!

I made it into the shopping areas today, and here’s an outfit assembled from some of the FREE gifts various creators have on offer.

Firstly, the simple striped summer mini is from Ison and comes in sizes for Lara, Physique, Hourglass, Freya, and Isis, and includes a three color HUD to let you retexture (the other colors are a solid vivid red, and a pretty green floral pattern).

These sandals are by YS&YS, and there are versions for Lara, Slink, and Belleza feet in the package.  The texturing is really nice!

This charm bracelet is by Lapointe & Bastchild.  It has an amazing HUD with all twelve signs of the Zodiac in gold and silver, along with the twelve classic birthstones.  And if that’s not enough, there are six color selections for the stone beads!

Lastly this dog tag style necklace by Petit Chat comes in male and female versions and also has a HUD to let you select one of four colors for the metal.  What a wonderful selection of freebies by some super generous creators!

Add one more… One more Addams, that is

Jaz Fashion, Reviews

Hello dear ones! Today I’d like to feature a few items from Addams, who are right up there on my list of truly quality clothing designers.

Let’s look first as the Carolina Women’s Wool Dress, available in 22 single colors or a fatpack with HUD. It has lovely detail that really catches the light, and the shape is very flattering. Don’t you just want to snuggle up to someone in that? In the coral color I matched it with some pretty over the knee boots from Mutresse called Kaisia, available in an 18 color HUD fatpack with lots of mix and match color parts.

And black is always nice and slimming. Here I wore the Carolina wool dress with the Chetare boots in ebony from Bella Moda.

Addams is also really good with jackets. Here is a casual denim number, Melissa, that opens up nicely around the chest to show off… whatever nice top you are wearing (insert giggle here!).  However I chose to wear my fave Blueberry tank, the Lola; and rounded it off with a neat pair of jeans called Dita from Lapointe and Bastchild (subject of a future blog!)  The Addams Melissa jacket comes in a substantial 41 single colors, or a fatpack with HUD. It has a flopped down hood in back that you can turn on or off, with 16 colors of its own.

Finally, we have a sharp looking leather jacket with woolly collar from Addams called Lulu, available in 14 single colors or a HUD fatpack. It too opens up nicely around the chest area; in this case there is an option for a bra that can be turned on and off. The bra is not quite to my taste so instead I used another goody from Lapointe & Bastchild, a retro tank top that will be in that future post too!

That’s it for this time, my lovelies! Cheers!