Aloha kakahiaka! Hau’oli Pō‘akahi! I have a lovely little hunt prize from the Boho Bliss hunt currently going on at Witchwood, the home of Petite Mort and Oubliette. The hunt has 10 lovely prizes, and this cute little dress is one of my favourites!
The dress comes in fitmesh sizes for Maitreya, SLink, and Belleza bodies. I paired it with some cute clunky boots from a G. Field gifty a few years back, and accentuated with jewelry from Earthstones and Pixel Box. There are nine more lovely gifts, at least one of which I’ll share in a future post. OH! And there is a 50% off sale going on at both Oubliette and Petite Mort for the duration! Come on by and find some dark and eclectic treasures for your wardrobe.
Hau’oli lā Heleuī kākou! Happy Hallowe’en, my wonderful friends! I hope you won’t mind me sharing a new twist on an old outfit with you today. This Death Girl dress and hood from G Field is one of my favourites, and I really need to wear it more often. But when I saw the new emerald Pure skin from Fallen Gods, I knew it was just perfect for a little Elphaba-like twist. And if you don’t know, yes, Elphaba is the name given to The Wicked Witch of the West in the Wicked books by Gregory Maguire.
Let me please apologise to you all, and especially to Blue for being so absent the past two months. The semester has been beating me up something fierce, but I hope to be a little more active, at least! I have a couple of goodies waiting for pics, so hopefully I won’t keep making Blue do all the work!
The cool clammy taste of the foggy night, the pool of hazy golden light about the gas lamp at the street corner. Every nerve is alive, every sound sends a little shiver up your back. Best not go out alone….
Silvan Moon Designs — Mercy Maxwell Gown and Jacket set, exclusive at We Love Role Play (Maitreya/Physique/Hourglass/Classic fitmesh) (6 colour choices)
Bee and Solas have a remarkable partnership, and keep producing the most wonderful role-play pieces. Mercy Maxwell is right at home on a Victorian city street or at a steampunk event. It’s available at We Love Role Play through the month of April. Stop by and pick up a demo!
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!
November is drawing to a close, but We Love Role Play yet has nearly a week left. Silvan Moon Designs offers A Murder of Crows this month, a beautiful bustled gown that might be just as at home in Victorian England or in a frontier town in the American Wild West.
Blueberry is one of my fave clothing makers – the quality and fit are really some of the best in Second Life. Recently they released a new pair of jeans that not only look good but are nicely versatile too, featuring both flare and skinny jeans versions.
The jeans feature a string detail in front and the fabric has richly detailed creases and folds.
The jeans are for Maitreya Lara, and come as a fat pack with 29 single colors, as well as various pattern options and ombre colors. It also includes two sets of options with the belt or without.
The skinny version features a lower cut over the tummy, and string detailing at the back of the ankles.
It’s time for a little Enchantment, and Solas and Bee at Silvan Moon Designs bring you Iracebeth of Crims, a beautiful new fitmesh gown modeled after the Red Queen in celebration of Enchantment‘s theme — Through the Looking Glass. Yes, yes, you can get it in red – but look at the other pretty colours first!
Silvan Moon Designs — Iracebeth of Crims Gown and Jacket set, exclusive at Enchantment (Maitreya/Physique/Hourglass/Classic fitmesh) (6 colour choices)
The gown and jacket can be worn separately, but work so very well together that I have a hard time imagining wearing them independently. As always, Solas’ fitmesh is perfect, and Bee’s texturing is just exquisite.
I’m not sure where I found this amazing gothic styled dress. I usually categorize unopened things in folders so I know where they came from, but this was loose in my main objects folder!
Wherever it came from, the texturing is amazing! You are sure to turn heads wearing this. Sizing is only standard rigged mesh, but as you can see, it works beautifully on Lara.
A shout out to Nephilim for the skin I’m wearing too. If you find yourself in need of a fantasy skin in various colors, you can’t go wrong here. They have 12 fantasy skins for both male and female avatars, and they are L$1 each! They even include appliers for Belleza, EVE, Slink, Lara, and Omega, as well as head appliers for Catwa, LAQ, Slink, Omega, and EVE. What a bargain!
Everything needs a good underpinnings, a strong foundation… what’s holding you up? Melora and Oubliette have some lovely Slick Leggings for you at Suicide Dollz right now!
Oubliette — Slick Leggings, (10 colours, sold separately plus fatpack) (Maitreya/Physique/Hourglass/Venus/Isis/Freya/TMP) for Suicide Dollz
Oubliette‘s beautiful fitmesh leggings have some amazing texture to them — these aren’t appliers, you can see the little wrinkles and ridges to them! They’ve also got a nice glossy sheen that comes out very nicely in the photos. Slick Leggings come in your choice of 10 wonderfully dark textures, as well as a fatpack featuring a bonus texture.
JHC‘s Faunwest boots are cute little ankle boots, but they’re a bit disappointing. I know, it’s dark enough that you can hardly see them here, and that’s not entirely an accident. The ad claims that they work with a variety of mesh bodies, but they are NOT fitmesh rigged, they appear to simply be several different copies that have been size-adjusted to be ‘close’ to right. That’s not bad, but it took a bit more adjustment to get it just right for my own body size/shape.
These are some really lovely leggings, and in enough different textures that you’re sure to find one or two or ten that are just perfect for your sense of the darke. Stop by Suicide Dollz and take a look!
The Santa Rosa fire caused devastation, taking the homes and properties of so many. Kerryth at Spyralle turned the tragedy of the destruction of the Coffey Park neighbourhood to art in Ignis, a beautiful gown for the Trick or Treat Lane event, in memory of all the joys that lived there. You can find it at Trick or Treat Lane, but only for a limited time!
