Spring Showers

Look at me, two posts in one day! I needed to make up for my absence so I figured why not.

I love days like this, where it’s warm outside but it starts to rain, I call this “sexy rain” when you can umm, sit, outside on your balcony in your summer clothes and just you know….listen to the rain fall.

Anyway, I mixed up a bunch of new releases for this outfit. The top is actually the new dress from Drift, but I decided to wear it as more of a sweater with the new jeans from Tutti Frutti. I love the soft knit texture on the dress, it’s perfect for spring days, and the cloud texture for the jeans is just that little bit different to make them stand out.

I added the new Isis Solar Magic necklace from Maxi Gossamer that was released at Collabor88 today. I’m absolutely in love with it, the design is so unique and it has lots of colour change options as well as coming in both gold and silver. The umbrella I picked up at C88 too, which was one of Yummy’s offerings for this round. The little neck scarf I’m wearing is from Baiastice and you can find it FaMESHed, it’s a great little accessory that you can mix and match with lots of outfits.

Yes, I’m still wearing the new Scarlet hair from Lelutka that was in my post earlier today coz well, I really like it!

Coral
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Hair – Scarlet – Lelutka NEW

Skin – Margot America – Glam Affair

Sweater/Dress – Simple Dress Knit Cottons – Drift NEW

Jeans – Denim Mesh Jeans (Clouds) – Tutti Frutti NEW

Scarf – Karen Scarf – Baiastice @ FaMESHed NEW

Necklace – Isis Solar Magic – Maxi Gossamer @ C88 NEW

Umbrella – Sunbrella – Yummy @ C88 NEW

Bag – Fringe Bag – Milk Motion

Flip Flops – Aussie Things (add on to mesh feet) – SLink

Pose – Slouch

Location – Baiastice

Told You

I’m going to be disappearing off into the magical world of RL for a few days, but I didn’t wanna go before I showed you guys this cute new denim top from Drift! There are several belt options available, I’m wearing the brown here just coz neutrals are my thing the majority of the time. The plunging neckline gives a nice dose of cleavage, but I was trying for a more modest country girl look so I paired it with this lacey top from Nylon Outfitters. I added the new Baiastice necklace from FaMESHed to top it off!

Just a quick note about this picture, I’d say I take about 75-80% of my blog pics at in world locations and sometimes when the mood takes me I’ll take a green screen studio shot and edit in a background. That was my plan for today but as I had almost finished editing my avatar and was thinking about what kind of background to use (honestly, I really had no idea, I tend to make these things up as I go along!) I remembered a place in world that would’ve been perfect, the Post main store. So I kicked myself coz I coulda just taken it there, but I decided to go over there anyway, snap a pic and then edit it in as the background! Obviously I like doing things the long way round but I think I might even start taking some stock background shots in SL and using them for when I’m making this kind of pic.

Oh and! I know it’s kinda naughty of me to wear hair that’s not available anymore, but I love this one and I’m legitimately sad that Elikatira is gone

Coral

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Hair – Sound – Elikatira (no longer available )

Skin – Amberly 03 America – Glam Affair

Top – Texas Tea Top – Drift NEW

Undershirt – Open Back Lace Tee – Nylon Outfitters

Necklace – Cross Jewellery Set – Baiastice @ FaMESHed NEW

Tattoo – Believe – Ink’d Up

Pose – Le Poppycock

Location – Post

Born To Be

We can all be blessed with a smooth, svelte figure in SL if we desire and these new Tini Kini’s from Drift are just perfect for showing them off!

There are so many different prints available that you’re bound to find one you like, including pastels and brights, retro knit, international flags and a wildlife range. Clearly the wildlife collection wins for me!

I didn’t go overboard with my accessories for this coz I’m wearing a bikini and well…less is more right? I was actually looking for a gold belly chain on the marketplace when I came across this one from a little shop called MishMash and for 89Ls I couldn’t pass it up!

Before you think it, yea I know this hair from Exile is a couple of months old now, but it was just way too good of a match not to use it for this pic!

Coral
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Hair – Crazy in Love – Exile

Skin – Amberly 03 America – Glam Affair

Bikini – Tini Kini WildLife Collection – Drift NEW

Glasses – Sunglasses Avenue – Amarelo Manga

Belly Chain – Sacajawea Belly String – MishMash

Headband – Mesh Coin Headband – Mons

Tattoo – Skull Tide Mesh Sleeve Tattoo – B*Fly

Pose – Le Poppycock

Location – Casablanca Bay (part of The Grove)

Cheeky

Who wears short shorts? We wear short shorts!

Just a quick post today coz I wanted to show you these new boy shorts that Drift released this week. They come in 3 different textures, satin, leather and jersey knit with colour change HUDs for multiple options! I love their low slung cheekiness, perfect for a skate along the boardwalk or to slip on over a bikini while you’re sunning it up.

That’s all from me, now this post is as short as my shorts!

Coral
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Shorts – Boy Shorts – Drift NEW

Tank – Hangover Tank – Drift

Socks – Lacey Socks – Kyoot

Skates – The Secret Store (previous Arcade gacha item, although pretty sure they’ll be available in the main store!)

Bracelet – Owl Bracelet – Erratic

Pose – Le Poppycock

Location – It All Starts With A Smile

Is You Big Enough

Just a quickie today but I wanted to share with you how much I looooove this new Emeli hair from Lelutka! It was released this afternoon and I quickly grabbed the fades natural pack and wore it off to go shooting zombies. Not gonna lie, I felt damn sex-ay! It also really reminded me of Rihanna’s hairstyle in her video for Rude Boy, hence the post title (yeah, my grammar is not THAT bad guys)! It’s non rigged mesh so you can edit it if needed and comes with a new short style hairbase (the regular Lelutka hairbases won’t work with it). You can buy the hairbases seperately if you need them, but otherwise you’ll get the colour to match the hair you buy in the pack.

Also I’m wearing the new Cazibe corset from Drift. It’s one of those corsets that reaaaaallllyy cinches you in at the waist, and has some really different leather texturing.

Anyway that’s probably me out for the week now, but looking forward to more shopping and picture taking in a few days

Coral

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Hair – Emeli – Lelutka NEW

Corset – Cazibe Corset – Drift NEW

Earrings – Feather Earrings Gold – Izzie’s (these were from a round of My Perfect Wardrobe months ago, not sure if they’re in her main store? probably should’ve checked but it’s late and I’m tired, sorry!)

Skin – Margot 02 – Glam Affair @ C88 NEW

Eyes – Eternal Eyes – Ikon

Lip Piercing – The Minamilist – Hebanon Vial (edited)

Dimples and cheek piercings – Sugar Heart

Lashes – Corner Pointed – Redgrave

Weekenders

Ok yea, I know it’s only Tuesday but a girl can dream can’t she? After I got so dressed up in not a lot yesterday I wanted to do a more casual look today, which was perfect because Drift just released the weekend tee and capris! I love oversized t shirts and this one with the slipped shoulder reminds me why we’re so much better off with mesh. I remember trying to wear a shirt like that before mesh, system top and prim parts…it just wasn’t happening!

I added the new Minimalist Glasses from Boom that you can find at C88. They’re unisex and come in several different colours. I don’t usually wear glasses but I love these ones and thought they worked with this outfit.

Finally, the little bag on the table is a freebie that you can get on the lucky board at Le Poppycock, I’ve been meaning to use it in a post for a while but hadn’t gotten round to it till today. Anyway it’s cute and modifiable so you can make it bigger or smaller as you like it. Love a freebie!

Coral

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Hair – Chynna – Truth

Top – Weekend Tee – Drift NEW

Pants – Weekenders – Drift NEW

Glasses – Minimalist Glasses – Boom @ C88 NEW

Skin – Margot Clean – Glam Affair @ C88 NEW

Necklace – Alice Necklace – LaGyo

Ring – Coal Ring – Anthem

Bag – London Tote – Le Poppycock (lucky board freebie!)

Skybox and kitchen counter – The Seattle Loft – Scarlet Creative

Stool, picture and fruit bowl – Arizona Kitchen – Bazar (available as part of a set or seperately)

Sideboard – Fairlawn Sideboard – Post

Sunflowers in Jug – Lisp

Magazines – Apple Fall

Letting It Go

Hiiii people, just a quickie post today before I vanish for the weekend, but I wanted to show you a couple of new things.

First this top from Tulip which you can grab today for Fifty Linden Friday, it’s so soft and floaty and perfect for the light spring season. I’m also wearing another new release from Drift which are these capris. I really like that Drift makes regular releases rather than waiting a month or 2 before releasing a small collection. Don’t get me wrong I like that too but yanno, I’m impatient and I like to have stuff right this minute. Also before you think I PS’d the heck out of the pants, I didn’t. They are already heavily shaded, which is great for taking pics because it saves a lot of edit time. Just like Kalli’s recent releases they come with a colour change HUD, so lots of options for a bargain price.

I got this belt a few days ago at Le Poppycock’s 50L spring sale, they have a few belts there that come with 4 different coloured straps for each buckle. Make sure you check out their sale as they have lots of cute little bits and pieces which are great for adding to outfits.

I gotta say too, this hat with the hair is obviously a release from Maitreya last year but I love it so much, I really hope we start to see more similar items from other hair creators as the warmer seasons kick in, there just aren’t enough of these on the grid imo!

That’s me anyway, have a nice weekend

Coral
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Hat and Hair – Siobhan – Maitreya

Top – High Low Tube Top – Tulip for FLF NEW

Pants – Saturday Capri’s – Drift NEW

Bangles – Damask – Maxi Gossamer

Belt – Wild Rose – Le Poppycock (in 50L spring sale!)

Tattoo – Elegance 2 – Para Designs

Skin – Zara 02 America – Glam Affair @ Skin Fair

Pose – Del May

Location – It All Starts With A Smile

Take Three (and the SL Pet Peeves Meme)

It took me three shoots to get a picture I was happy with for this post, I’ve been feeling a bit off for a couple of days, I’m pretty sure it was having time off for Easter, kinda lost the roll I was on. I hope it’s back now anyway.

I’m wearing a few new things in this picture. First this loose ponytail that Truth released over the weekend, I love it’s relaxed, natural style. Perfect for the beach! Also the cute, cute new bandeau top from Drift. There are a couple of different styles available, I’m wearing the plain jersey print version, and both come with a colour change HUD so you can switch them up, even the knot is colour change too! I love that Drift is giving this option lately with their releases, it’s really good value for money that you’re getting so many different colours and/or prints with a single purchase. Now I just need some matching bottoms for this top and I’ve got a perfect little bikini! *wink wink, nudge nudge*

Mon Tissu also released their first collection for 2013 this week and these shorts were my favourite. I love the belt detail and the little slits on the front, it really gives them something extra and makes them just that bit different. There are tons of prints and colours to choose from as well.

Finally, the necklace I’m wearing is from Maxi Gossamer at this months round of FaMESHed. I love her boho pieces and this one is no different, beautiful detailing as always, the stone is texture change and the chain comes in both gold and silver.

So Berry started a new meme the other day, it’s basically some of your SL Pet Peeves. Since I enjoyed her others I thought I’d take part again. Do I need to put a disclaimer that these are only peeves of mine, and not to be taken personally? Well I’m gonna, and that was it.

1. Out of date welcome/orientation areas. Last year I spent a fair bit of time hanging out at this kind of place that’s aimed at new residents, trying to help them and offer advice etc. I think a lot of it fell on deaf ears so I pretty much gave up after a few futile months, but mostly what got me was how bad these places looked and the quality of freebies offered. I wondered if I joined SL today and landed in one of them would I stick around? Back in 2006 it was acceptable, but why are they still stuck in 2006 when the rest of SL has made such vast improvements? I always tell my friends that if I ever could afford my own sim I’d make a really nice welcome area for noobs and I’d beg beg beg some good designers to donate a freebie or two. Seriously though, if anyone reading this has the funds to do it and would like to, let me know because I would loooooooove to help!

2. Weird characters/fonts and numbers in names. Ok this is gonna make me sound judgey and I’m sorry but if you have your dob or your age or something after your username, or your display name is full of strange characters/in a weird font, I just can’t take you seriously. I’m not going to be rude or ignore you or anything, but I’m not gonna make a first move in talking to you, and to be brutally honest I’m gonna struggle to make conversation more than a few sentences because all I’ll see are the numbers or some name I can’t make sense of. I do have a couple of friends on my list that use the fonts (just to prove I’m not totally a bitch lol) but I do tease them about it and I think they’re pretty aware that it’s a peeve of mine.

3. Limited groups/tattoo layers/alpha layers. I think this speaks for itself, and yes I know we’re lucky that they’ve already been increased but I’m a woman dammit and I’m never satisfied, I need more!

4. Bad store layouts. If I go to a store and can’t find the item I just saw on Flickr/plurk/a blog within a minute or two then I’m probably going to give up and not buy it at all. I like new releases to be slapped in my face the moment I walk in, I like the store to be sectioned, jewellery over here, bags and shoes here etc etc. I feel exactly the same in RL.

5. TP fails Ever tried to make a dramatic exit and your tp fails? Ohhhh that’s so awkward!! Say you’re in the middle of an argument and you wanna do the SL equivalent of storming out and slamming the door but instead your screen goes black for a second and then you’re back there, just hovering and they’re looking at you, probably laughing at you and you’re like kdjasxmmkdfasnc SL gimme a break!! Even if I’m at some crowded place and I just said bye to everyone and then can’t leave, ugh, I’ve said before that I’m extremely self concious and sometimes when this has happened I want the virtual ground to open up and swallow me whole.

I’ve really enjoyed reading other people’s peeves and agreed with a lot of them, I could really have gone on a rant about things people do that annoy me but I wanted to make it more about SL rather than people so that it didn’t just descend into a bitch fest, coz that’s what my best friends ear is for

I hope all this wasn’t too much rambling for you!

Coral
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Hair – Elisha – Truth NEW

Skin – Zara America Clean – Glam Affair @ Skin Fair

Top – Bandeau Top – Drift NEW

Shorts – Tulip Shorts – Mon Tissu NEW

Necklace – Crystal Glass Teardrop – Maxi Gossamer @ FaMESHed NEW

Glasses – Karina Glasses – Yummy

Bangles – Athena – Maxi Gossamer

Pose – Beth 11 – Diesel Works @ Pose Fair NEW

Location – The Grove

Spending G’s

As soon as I saw this fab new “Pimpin Hat” (yes that’s really it’s name) from Drift, I couldn’t get this song outta my head. So I thought I’d bring a lil Jay-Z all up in here. My so called bff asked me why I was so hood when I said that to her earlier

Anyway, the hat. It’s definitely a great statement piece and comes with a HUD that has 15 different colours to choose from, so easy to mix and match it to any outfit. Not that I’m wearing much of an outfit!

The collar I picked up at March’s Collabor88 round by Fashionably Dead. I got the white tintable version, for obvious reasons, which meant I could match it perfectly with my hat! The bracelets are by Maxi Gossamer at Limited Bazar, I haven’t been back to check but Maxi usually sells out pretty quick at that event, I wouldn’t panic if you want some and there aren’t any left as they usually go on sale in the main store once the round is over.

That’s me for today!

Coral
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Hat – Pimpin Hat – Drift NEW

Hair – Katie – Laviere

Collar with gold tips – Fashionably Dead @ C88

Bracelets – Ritzy Shimmer Pearls – Maxi Gossamer @ Limited Bazar NEW

Skin – Zara 02 – Glam Affair @ Skin Fair

Pose – oOo Studio

Dare You To Let Me Be

Happy Hump Day people! Hope everyone is enjoying their Wednesday. First of all I was listening to this song by Adele earlier on today which was where the post title came from, I don’t mind admitting I’m a big fan of hers.

Anyway I got so much stuff to talk about in this post so I’ll try to keep each bit brief coz I know I have a tendency to ramble.

I was dressing up quite a lot lately, but as soon as the sun started shining and the seasons changing, I just want to run around the grid barefoot in tanks and shorts all the time. If I only had to buy one tank top this season then this Hangover Tank from Drift would be it. I’ll tell you why. There are 3 options you can buy it in, linen gauze, and a couple of different knitted versions. Each version comes with FIFTEEN different colour options on a very easy to use HUD. Not only that but the ruffles at the bottom of the top are a separate piece so you can wear it with or without and they have their own HUD too, so you can have different colour ruffles to the rest of the top. The combinations are endless and such a bargain for 225Ls.

I’m also wearing the Surfer Rosa hair from Clawtooth that you can find at The Arcade’s Gacha event, which is still going on for a bit. I actually bought this one at a yard sale to make sure I got the colour I wanted, I’m a cheater like that. The belt is the Rockabilly Birds belt by Sweet Leonard and was their item for Lazy Sunday a couple of days, but I’m pretty sure you could still pick it up in their store even though it might be a bit more expensive than the Lazy Sunday price. She also has lots of other matching accessories for it too.

I usually wear eyes that are a lot lighter than the ones in this picture, but since I was doing a different look these seemed to go pretty well. They were the group gift from Ikon for March. Are you a member of Ikon’s group? If not then I recommend it coz you get a free gift at the start of every month and the group is free to join! I love Ikon’s eyes so getting a new set every month is exciting!

I look a lot different in this picture mainly because I finally took the plunge and bought the new Zara skin from Glam Affair. This skin is currently only available exclusively at The Skin Fair on sim 2. Overall it’s really well made, as you’d expect form Glam Affair, and I think it’s a lot different to previous ones they’ve released. There are plenty of different make ups to choose from and some metallic eye shadows which are just amazing, but of course I got a more natural looking version (02) because I knew I’d wear that most. I’m not sure if it will replace Amberly for me, which has been my every day skin since it was released because there are a couple of features that I liked better on Amberly, like the lips and eyebrows. But that’s just personal preference and I’ll probably get used to it the more I wear it. You still get the clean version as well which actually I normally wear more than the ones with make up.

Now I don’t usually wear teeth. I’ve tried. I’ve bought tattoo layers, prim teeth, mesh teeth but they never look right to me because I always feel like too much of my top lip disappears. But today when I was fussing with the skin, adding bits and pieces, tweaking my shape etc, I found the Izzie’s tattoo teeth set I had and they fit this skin perfectly. I like the Izzie’s teeth because it doesn’t show too much. All I want is a hint of teeth, not a great big set of gnashers sticking out. The only thing about them is that I wish they weren’t so gappy. Other than that I think they look good with this skin!

Finally I took this picture at the gorgeous Neva River sim, which Neva Crystall has opened to the public for the next few days. I felt like a bit of a stalker taking a picture outside her house lol, but it’s a really beautiful place and I’ll definitely be returning for more photo ops. Don’t miss your chance to go and have a look round!

Coral

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Hair – Surfer Rosa – Clawtooth @ The Arcade Gacha

Skin – Zara America 02 – Glam Affair @ Skin Fair NEW

Tattoo – Elegance Version 2 – Para Designs

Eyes – Lucid Eyes – IKON March 2013 Group Gift (FREE!)

Tank – Hangover Tank – Drift NEW

Undershirt – Shabby Chic Sweetheart – Nylon Outfitters @ C88 NEWish

Belt – Rockabilly Birds Belt – Sweet Leonard NEW

Necklace – Beaded Necklace – League

Cuff – Gold Cuffs – Erratic

Guitar – u.f.o.

Teeth – Izzie’s Teeth Set

Pose – Le Poppycock

Location – Neva River