No Vacancy

I had a little lol moment to myself earlier today when I was working on this pic, just because it’s such a huge contrast compared to the one I made yesterday. And ok, it’s not my normal style but it’s fun to dress up when something like World Goth Fair hits the grid!

The skin I’m wearing is new Jalwa and can be found at the Goth Fair, along with the eyeshadow layer. It comes in the usual tones but also includes a vamp and goth shade (I’m wearing goth) which are just perfect for that dark look. Also includes hands and feet appliers for the SLink attachments!

The top I’m wearing is new from Baiastice and can be found at The Boutique. It comes in lots of different summery colours as well but of course I’m wearing black for this style. It’s a halter neck with ties at the back and I might have to blog it again at some point to show that off because it’s really very striking. The bangles I’m wearing I picked up at Teefy last week for Fifty Linden Friday, but they’re usually still in store now, just a bit higher in price.

The head piece is something I picked up by Glam Affair at The Dressing Room forever ago, seriously about a year ago, but just hadn’t had a chance to wear yet. I do this a lot, buy things when they’re cheap just in case I need it one day and low and behold, today was that day!

I’m still wearing Ikon’s new Vanity eyes, I absolutely love them! The variety in colours that Ikon provides is easily the best on the grid for me, everything from super realistic to fantasy so you’re never at a loss!

Oh and the hair, it’s an old style from Elikatira which I’ve worn a couple of over the last few weeks and lamented about how sad I was that they were closed, but I recently found out that actually the store is still open with all the hairs at the sale price! I have no idea why or how long that’ll be for but if you missed the sale then now is a great chance to grab those hairs!

Coral

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Hair – Figure – Elikatira

Skin – Jezebel Goth – Jalwa @ World Goth Fair NEW

Eyeshadow – Intense Eyes Purple – Jalwa @ World Goth Fair NEW

Top – Lari Halter Neck Top – Baiastice @ The Boutique NEW

Necklace – Scarf Necklace – Glow Studio

Headpiece – Evita – Glam Affair

Bangles – Colour Blocking Minimalism Bangles – Teefy NEW

Hands – Elegant – SLink

Eyes – Vanity Eyes Daemon – Ikon NEW

Lashes – Vampire – Redgrave

Freckles and Moles – Penchant

Pose – Le Poppycock

Pin Up

There have been so many great new releases the last few days it was hard for me to know where to start. So I mixed a bunch of things up for this post!

First of all these new jeans were released by Tulip. There’s two versions, your regular blue and grey shades as well as coloured versions. I’m wearing the blush shade here and I love them! They’re a great staple item for your SL wardrobe.

The Liason Collaborative started a new round of The Boutique today and I can’t tell you how beyond excited I was to see these Spring Fling sandals from LVLE. They come in several summery shades and are made to fit with the SLink bare mesh feet. I love that more creators are starting to make shoes around them and I hope that it opens up the market to other designers who might have great shoe ideas but don’t want the hassle of making the feet too. Especially now that we have the appliers for the SLink feet, just adding a pair of shoes over them is the perfect solution to all my skin matching woes! Anyway I love these sandals and I’ll defintely be sporting them a lot this spring/summer!

Yesterday Truth released SIX new hair styles for us to spend our Ls on, there are new colour packs available so make sure you grab a demo for those as well! Truth also started a model search competition that will run until the 1st of June. You can read all the rules and info on the prizes here in the competition Flickr group. I love this retro style Sadie hair so I decided to do something of a pin up style entry.

Anyway that’s me for today, hope you’re enjoying your week and good luck to everyone who enters the competition!

Coral

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Hair – Sadie – Truth NEW (temp location)

Skin – Amberly 03 America – Glam Affair

Top – Basic Tank – House of Fox @ FaMESHed

Pants – Madeline Coloured Jeans Blush – Tulip NEW

Shoes – Spring Fling Sandals (add on to SLink mesh bare feet, not included) – LVLE @ The Boutique NEW

Earrings – Zebra Studs – Korundi

Necklace – Garbo Graduated Pumpkin Beads – Maxi Gossamer

Backpack – Tableau Vivant

Eyes – Vanity Eyes Wight – Ikon NEW

Freckles & Moles – Penchant

Cheek piercings and dimples – Sugar Heart

Lip Piercing – The Minimalist (edited) – Hebenon Vial

Stars – Zigana

Pose – Le Poppycock

Location – Templemore City

Isis

I wore part of this jewellery set yesterday in a post but I love it so much that I thought it deserved a close up too!

It’s called the Isis Solar Magic set, by Maxi Gossamer at C88. The set comes with lots of different length necklaces, so you can mix and match combo’s, for this picture I just decided to wear them all! It includes a matching pair of earrings and you get both the gold and silver versions in the set. Like lots of Maxi jewellery the stones are scripted to colour change, the possibilities are endless!

I’m also wearing Truth’s first mesh clothing, this bustier that you can find at FaMESHed. I’m excited that he’s started to make clothing and hopefully we’ll see more in the future! I topped it off with the new Lelutka Adile hair and switched my skin to Jalwa’s Sonam, for a more exotic look.

Finally my last piece of new is the Vanity eyes from Ikon, they’re so dreamy!

Coral

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Hair – Adile – Lelutka NEW

Skin – Sonam Carom – Jalwa

Jewellery – Isis Magic Solar Set – Maxi Gossamer @ C88 NEW

Top – Melody Bustier – Truth @ FaMESHed NEW

Headband – Brighton Beach Headband – LaGyo

Eyes – Vanity Eyes – Ikon NEW

No More (and My 10 SL Firsts Meme)

I know C88 opened today and really it’s an amazing round but I already had this picture planned since Friday when I picked up this sexy little number from Gizza at Limited Bazar, so that’s what I did!

I have no idea when I’m gonna wear this outfit again except for this picture but I absolutely love it. I didn’t take a close up of my backside so you’ll just have to take my word for it that it looks too bootylicious to be true. The hot pants are mesh with the top being a system layer, and the cuffs and shoulder pads are extra attachments so you can wear with or without.

The head embellishment is by Glam Affair for this months FaMESHed which has a few colours to choose from and the skin is only C88 offering for the moment, which is the Glam Affair Margot skin. Usually GA price their skins for C88 at 188Ls, this one is 288 but there are 6 different make ups available instead of the usual 3 and each comes with a clean version which is a great bonus.

Since I made this picture pretty simple and don’t have tons of things that I’m wearing to write about I thought I’d add Berry’s new meme, My 10 SL Firsts too. Quite enjoying seeing these every Monday and then following people’s answers throughout the week! A lot of this happened 6 years or more ago so I might be a bit sketchy on the deets!

1. First SL Friend A girl called Lynn, I can’t remember exactly where we met but I think she was the one who saved me after I’d walked around help island for 3 days shouting in caps, “CAN SOMEONE HELP ME, HOW DO I GET OUT OF HERE!!!” I still have her on my friends list but she hasn’t logged on in years.

2. First SL Kiss Pretty sure this was a guy called Colt who was my neighbour on my mainland 512m plot.

3. First SLex time/partner/place Same guy as above, a few weeks after being in SL, I think it was on a noob nudest beach LOL can’t believe I just admitted that, now I need to go curl up and die somewhere.

4. First SL Partner/Girlfriend/Boyfriend/Wife/Husband Hmm, I’m gonna say a guy called Apollo for this one. We weren’t official “partners” but he was my RP partner and we were basically a couple there and spent anytime outside of RP together as well. I’d say he was the first guy I liked -in that way- This was almost a year after I’d been in SL.

5. First SL Job Dancer at a club, started doing that about a week into SL and only lasted about 3 weeks actually doing it.

6. First SL Creation A wooden beaded bracelet, I don’t have it anymore

7. First Encounter with a Linden I remember seeing them about a lot more in 2006/2007, although I don’t think I ever spoke to one till last year when I IMd her and asked kinda rudely if I could help her since all I saw was someone nooby standing outside my house, then I realised her name was something Linden and apologised profusely since she was just there dealing with a problem on the sim.

8. First Encounter with a SLebrity. I see “known” people around a lot at events and things but generally I’m way too shy and self concious to talk to anyone I’d consider an SLebrity.

9. First SL Sim you you fell in love with. Definitely Botanical, must have been 2007. I basically jumped into RP pretty quickly in SL and didn’t spend much time outside of the badly built Gorean sims, but Botanical really opened my eyes to how beautiful things could be. This was probably when I fell in love with outdoorsy sims.

10. First SL blog post. Ok, this is embarrassing and I cringe when I look back at it but then I look at where I’m at now and how far I’ve come with my picture taking in little over a year. It was on a blog I first started with a friend in February last year. She didn’t stick at it very long so that was when I went ahead and made this one. Anyway, it’s here!

Ok that’s me for Monday so far, I gotta head back over to C88 and buy more things!

Coral
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Hair – SC0O52 with gathered raiser hair base – booN

Outfit – Black Seduction – Gizza @ Limited Bazar NEW

Skin – Margot 04 – Glam Affair @ C88 NEW

Head Embellishment – Morgana Head Embellishment – Glam Affair @ FaMESHed NEW

Eyes – Eternal Eyes – Ikon

Lashes – Corner Pointed – Redgrave

Pose – Le Poppycock

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

Pure (and the seven SL facts meme)

Just a quickie today, but this is my second entry to the Glam Affair Amberly contest so I thought I’d post it, coz it also features this fab new Marisol hair that Truth released today!

Also I wanted to give some credit to Miss Strawberry Singh whose recent tutorial on adding highlights and shadows with adjustment layers was a huge help for these pictures. If you haven’t seen it already I highly recommend it!

Berry also started the Seven SL Facts meme yesterday, so I thought I’d add that for the hell of it.

1. I struggle to keep my inventory neat. It’s still not organised and my accessories folder is the worst, which is why I tend to reuse the same ones for blog posts, coz they’re the only ones I can find!

2. I have had the same SL “mum” for 6 years. Once she talked me into making a kid avie on an alt, I lasted 2 days and she magically grew up overnight. Not getting in each others faces every day has been the key to our longevity!

3. I don’t like going to clubs in SL unless it’s night time in RL for me, it just doesn’t feel right!

4. I originally joined SL back in 2006 because my RL dad kept reading about SL entrepeuners in the media, (think Anshe Chung) so he told me to look into it. My first job was as a stripper – I don’t think that was what he had in mind. I lasted about 3 weeks.

5. Besides Coral who is my main, I have 16 other avies o.O is that a lot? I think most of them look like noobs still, about 3 are updated and the rest are probably wearing LAQ skins from 2008. I never use them, I think I just like making names up.

6. I RP’d in Gor for 5 years, I read 23 of the books for it over that time so that I had a good feel for the genre. I never tried any other RP in SL because I’m nervous around groups of people I don’t know and also some of the genres have such rich backgrounds I just don’t know if I have the patience to research it all again.

7. I’m very self concious so I hate talking in local chat with groups larger than maybe 4 or 5 people, especially if they are people I don’t know.

That’s it for today, don’t forget only a couple of days left to enter the Amberly comp!

Coral
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Hair – Marisol – Truth NEW

Top – Elyse Wrapped Tank – Tee*fy @ C88 NEW

Skin – Amberly 06 America – Glam Affair

Lip Piercing – The Minimalist (edited) – Hebanon Vial

Cheek Piercings and dimples – Sugar Heart

Eyes – Eternal Eyes Silver – Ikon

Lashes – Corner Pointed – Redgrave

Amberly & Maitreya

If you’re a fan of Glam Affair you will no doubt have heard about the photo competition they are currently running for their popular Amberly skin line. There are some great prizes up for grabs which you can find with the rules and how to enter on the Glam Affair blog here. Amberly became my everyday skin as soon as it was released so I couldn’t resist the chance to enter, if nothing else it’s great practice for editing pics!

So while I was tearing my hair out about what to wear for the picture (not literally but can’t lie, I was stressed lol) Maitreya put out some amaaaazebulous (just made that up) pieces. This Dakota dress that I’m wearing also comes in just a top version as well as having lots of different shades and print options. I got a couple of different versions but since I’m loving classic black a lot lately, I went with that.

To accessorize I added the new Isabella earrings which you can find by LaGyo at the March round of Collabor88 that started on Friday and the bracelet from Maxi Gossamer is there too! Both of these pieces are the usual high quality mesh and other matching accessories are available. I finished the look with the Zanzi clutch that House of Fox released for The Arcade Gacha event!

Only a few more days left for the Amberly competition so make sure you get in soon if you haven’t already and good luck to all who enter!

Coral
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Hair – Away – Elikatira (no longer available *crai*)

Skin – Amberly 03 America – Glam Affair

Dress – Dakota Dress – Maitreya NEW

Earrings – Isabella Earrings – LaGyo @ C88 NEW

Bracelet – Copacetic Tallulah – Maxi Gossamer @ C88 NEW

Bag – Zanzi Clutch – House of Fox @ The Arcade Gacha

Eyes – Eternal Eyes – Ikon

Mesh Eyeliner – Birdtale Liner – Inside Lab

Lip Piercing – The Minimalist – Hebanon Vial (edited)

Cheek piercings and dimples – Sugar Heart

TFI Friday!

I don’t think I’m alone when I say, I love Fridays! This one is no different and as always we got a great selection of cheapies from the Fifty Linden Friday event.

My favourite was this Flash skin from Belleza. There are 3 different make up options to choose from (I’m wearing the teal) all for a mere 50Ls each! I do get excited when we’re treated to skins for discount prices in events, mainly coz I’m pretty tight when it comes to spending out a fortune on fatpacks just to get different make up options, so event skins like Belleza for FLF and Glam Affair’s at Collabor88 are always something I snap up. I did have to change my shape a fair bit to get a good look with this skin, but I don’t mind doing that at all.

Here’s to the weekend!

Coral
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Hair – Cece – Truth

Skin – Teal Flash Skin – Belleza for Fifty Linden Friday

Freckles and moles – Izzie’s No Make Up Today and Glam Affair Amberly

Dimples and Cheek Piercings – Sugar Heart

Eyes – Eternal Eyes Storm – Ikon

Lashes – Luscious – Redgrave

Cruella

I don’t often get inspired to dress up like this for a picture, if you read my blog often you’ll probably know that I tend to do more LOTD pics for outfits that I’d wear every day. But as soon as I saw this new jacket from Mimikri at TDR Fusion, I knew I had to do some kind of modern Cruella inspired look. It’s not actually meant to be dalmation print, it’s snow leopard print but hey, it’s white with black spots so I couldn’t resist.

Unfortunately Lelutka’s Salome hair doesn’t come half black and half white, I debated PSing it but then realised that I would probably mess it up some how so I just went with the full white instead. Anyway, this is only inspired by Cruella, not ACTUAL Cruella.

The dress that I’m wearing underneath is another item that I dug up in my inventory (been doing that a lot lately) it was released by CIA Designs a few months ago and I didn’t get round to blogging it, but it was perfect for this look and would be fab for a Christmas party with all it’s red sparklies, very festive!

Before I finish this post I just wanted to let you guys know that this will be my last for a few days now, a week at least but possibly not till after Christmas as I am flying back home soon to be with my family for the holidays. I’m gonna try and get on and maybe blog something in a week though, but if I don’t then don’t think it’s because I dropped off the face of the planet!

Anyway, I hope you like this little look and all have great holidays if I’m not back before to say that again!

Coral
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Hair – Salome – Lelutka (Mesh!)
Skin – Amberly Europa Frostbite 03 – Glam Affair @ C88 NEW
Necklace – Rea Necklace – Glam Affair
Coat – Luxe Fur Jacket – Mimikri @ TDR Fusion (Mesh!) NEW
Dress – Sequin Dress – CIA Designs (Mesh!)
Eyes – Eternal Eyes – Ikon
Eyeliner – Couture Eyeliner 03 – Glam Affair (Mesh!)
Cheek Piercings and Dimples – Sugar Heart (Mesh!)
Lip Piercing – The Minimalist – Hebanon Vial (edited)

Nyx

Just a quickie post and picture today, mostly coz I’m feeling lazy but I really wanted to show you this new Nyx mesh hair that was released by Truth a couple of days ago. So here it is!

I don’t usually wear tattoos so when I decided I wanted one for this pic I had no idea where to go to get a good one, but I did know just the blog to look at. I always see Oakley Foxtrot on Flickr with some amazing tattoos, so after scoping out her blog Thought Classic, I knew exactly where to go.

This is one of the reasons I enjoy blogging, there are so many unique and different styles out there in SL and if I feel like a different look one day but don’t know which stores to go to it doesn’t take me long to find it through someone else’s blog and so I like to think I might be helping people in the same way too.

Coral

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Hair – Nyx – Truth NEW

Skin – Roza Basics – Glam Affair

Bra – Sasha – Whippet & Buck

Tattoo – Believe – Ink’d Up

Earrings – Late Night Hoops – Maxi Gossamer (previous Limited Bazaar release)

Eyes – Eternal Eyes – Ikon

Lip Piercing – The Minimalist – Hebanon Vial (edited)

Cheek Piercings and Dimples – Sugar Heart

Eyeliner – Mesh Eyeliner – Glam Affair

Pose – Glitterati