52 Colours: Russet

Hey, a brown that I didn’t turn into steampunk! Be surprised! Russet as a colour comes from a coarse cloth made of wool and dyed with woad and madder to give it a subdued grey or reddish-brown shade. By the statute of 1363, poor English people were required to wear russet. I wonder if that is where the view of brown as dull, serious, plain colour comes from.

I stayed within respectable, but Miss Russet insisted on going to a piano bar and refused to be plain! The said piano bar is a skybox and a dream scene from Garden of Dreams. 384 prims, 40×40 footprint, animations at the mic, piano, bar stools, chairs and cuddle and more-intense-snuggling couple activities in the couches.

Miss Russet has strapping new wedges by lassitude & ennui, available in L’accessoires. They’re mesh, come with HUD as usual and have both rigged version and unrigged versions that are thus modable for size. The magpie-amount of pearls are also by lassitude & ennui, from If I Were Rich Hunt. They’re mesh and modable, so I tinted some strands brown and black, the original version is all much paler.

The main russet thing, the heart of the look, is of course the mesh pencil skirt. It’s by tulip. from the Vintage Fair that is still going on. Three big sims full of wonderful things and the packed-up-with-people lag should be all gone now. If you haven’t yet visited, now’s a good time!

Scene: Garden of Dreams: The Piano Bar*

Body: Skin: Glam Affair – Roza Natural 03 D | Eyes: The Plastik – Vae Senn | Lashes: Redgrave – 39 – Luscious | Hair: Exile – Late at Night (maple) | Makeup: M.O.C.K. Cosmetics – Glitter Pop Eshadow in Livy & Funsies eyeliner – smoked senna C eyeliner / natural lash

Outfit: Top: Sassy! – Summer mini dress upper squares | Skirt: tulip. – Bandage Skirt (mud) | Shoes: lassitude & ennui – Blossom wedge sandals* | Jewelry: lassitude & ennui – Opulence Pearls | Hat: Bliensen + MaiTai – Paris Pillbox Hat Gold 

Poses: aDORKable Poses – 21 of 25 / LAP – GG1-Linda PR4 / !bang – Stand 136

Odile

Odile is a new mesh release from Geometry Clothing and she’s clearly more of a gothic summer girl or a classy lady than a casual sandal-stomper. The gorgeous lace texture that looks like there’d really be two fabrics on top of each other really impressed me.

After I added Immaculada by Bliensen + MaiTai to it, I knew that I had to find something gothic while still staying summery, so back to World’s End Garden I went. The hair turned the whole look into almost classic Spanish. The updo with the decorations is available in Hair Fair.

The hairpins happened to match this blood thorn set by *Amaranthus*, so I used it to complete the look. Delicate, detailed, polished and classy. The raven approves.

There might be a hint of narcissism in the old-fashioned glamour, but considering that the mirror image peering back from the pond looks like that, who could blame her?

Credits – Body: Skin: League – Sia Fair Bloom | Eyes: IKON – Utopia Eyes Dark Red | Lashes: Redgrave – 39 – Luscious | Makeup: M.O.C.K. Cosmetics – Ginger Chocolate Makeover | Hair: Bliensen + MaiTai – Immaculada Night (Hair Fair) 

Credits – Outfit: Dress:Geometry Clothing – Odile Wine* | Shoes: G Field – Flower Pumps Eve Black | Jewelry: *Amaranthus* – Blood Thorn Zirconium/Blood Set*

Credits – Poses: aDORKable Poses – Love Gun Stand 2 / Glitterati – Zodiac 3 / aDORKable Poses – Dramatic Leo 4

 

 

Summer Sailing

I was tempted to call this post Sailor Cute, but I actually never watched Sailor Moon so my ability to make connections would have ended at the names. Regardless, this bikini by katat0nik is seriously the cutest sailor outfit ever while also being the most standout bikini of this summer. So much love.

My magical familiar companion is played by my meepet Lumi, modelling various funny Hair Fair gifts. The colour-change-scripted sailor hair is by Tameless, also a fair gift. Hair Fair is one of the best events for freebie-hunters, almost every booth has gifts to spoil us. My favourites tend to be the silly ones, it’s like a mini Crazy Hair Hunt.

The shed is a freebie by L2 Studio from the hunt at The Gallery Gift Shop. The decor is a mix from those hunt loots, the temporary closing sale at Concrete Flowers and this delicious drink by Poche from Okinawa Summer Festival.

I think in the end Sailor Cute decided that magical familiars do not need wigs to perform their sidekick duties, but I’d like to remind you that children do. Hair Fair is of course about several sims worth of new hair releases and gifts, but it is also about Wigs for Kids. By now the lag should have calmed down on the sims, so go buy all the things!

Credits – Scene: Building: L2 Studio – Rustic Garden Shed (30 prims + 1 prim flower box) (TGGS Hunt) | Fish bowl purse: *MiuMin* – Kintoto Lovers (TGGS Hunt) | Vase: Concrete Flowers – Dandelion Love Vase | Drink: Poche – Tropical Drink (Okinawa Summer Festival) | Snuggle Birds: Concrete Flowers – Throwable Snuggle Birds

Credits – Sailor Cute: Skin: Pink Fuel – Alena <Sugar> Classic (dkbrow) | Eyes: Amacci – Hair Fair 2 big (HF Gift) | Hair: Tameless – Anita All Colors (HF Gift) | Lashes: Redgrave – 39 – Luscious | Eye makeup: Tableau Vivant: Blue makeup (TGGS Hunt) | Bikini & Hat: katat0nik – Sailor Bikini (blue) | Necklace: Concrete Flowers – Cherry Necklace (freebie) | Poses: WetCat – Modeller 3 /Estetica – Down by the Bay / LAP – TC-Timid Girl PR4 (+ holding pose from bird tray)

Credits: Roo Hairs: 1) Hinako Hair - an&subomi Hair Fair 2012 Mocha | 2) +LALA Moon+ Dachs Hund | 3) Bliensen + MaiTai – Darjeeling Hair (All three Hair Fair gifts.)

 

 

 

Gray Curlique

Wear Gray for a Day event has started, providing awesome stuffs from over 80 designers to benefit American Brain Tumor Association. My absolute favourite from all the charity vendors was this skin by .{Rue}. — appropriately gray, but with wonderful curlique fantasy markings, like power explosions beneath her skin.

I matched this seemingly exploded hairdo by ~{frou-frou}~ from Crazy Hair Hunt to it, since it seemed to go with the theme. After that I had to style everything with curliques – like the dress by The Plastik (a part of their dollarbie in the Wear Gray for a Day event). I love how the dress stretches onto the thigh.

Lookit, even the eyes are all squiggly! (A part of the aforementioned Plastik dollarbie.) The earrings by Bliensen + MaiTai are a part of the hoard of discount shinies they have available in The Black Market. Go raid them all, that’s what I did! I went slightly crazy with make-up layers, there’s three by Nuuna’s Skins in this – I just had to get the theme going on around the eyes as well!

That said — go enjoy shopping for a good cause, Wear Gray for a Day lasts to April 22. Psst, there is also a hunt with 10L prizes and gatchas… did I mention the gatchas yet?

Wear Gray for a Day: Skin: .{Rue}. – Skins/Anima LJ: Neuromancer, NFr.DBr.Clv | Dress: The Plastik – Koahkuma Starkflower | Eyes: The Plastik – Teren Kalah

Crazy Hair Hunt: ~{frou-frou}~ – Mumm/Onyx

The Black Market: Bliensen + MaiTai – Forbidden Fruit

Other Credits: Building: nordari. – ratio fractus | Make-up: Nuuna’s Skins – Makeup v9 3b/14/7 | Pose: !bang – Stand 135

Carpe Diem

Fashion for Life has a sale going on for this Friday only. Selected charity vendors have been set to 55L, all clearly marked. So before I get tangled into attempted witticisms about how it’s time to catch the time, here’s the landmark! Go shop!

Fashion for Life Sale: Dress, hair & hat: EMO-tions – It’s Time | Held pocket watch necklace: Bliensen + MaiTai – Tick-Tock Hans Hase | Lipstick: M.O.C.K. Cosmetics – Falu Red Glace Lipcolor

Twisted Hunt: Skin: Heartsick – Desire Muse The Seeker MC / Brows

Other credits: Eyes: Insufferable Dastard – Colors of Fall Yellow | Tattoo lashes: Miamai – LesMakeups_Lashes | Manicure: The Laughing Academy - brassy | Pose: Astalianda – Rarity 3 

Arcane Frost

It’s December again and you all know what it means: Xmas events and hunts have started. This wintry character began when I received a fat pack of Arcanist shoes from Jackal Ennui of lassitude & ennui. They’re for sale in the ZombiePopcorn Dark Magic Winter, the same sim where I took all of these pictures. There’s plenty of event exclusives from an awesome list of talents, so hop over for your December shopping needs!

The shoes are unisex and mesh, so make sure to try the demo first. They come in a multitude of colours, I just felt very wintry purple now. To go with that theme I grabbed this Charis-dress by Baiastice from the Dressing Room Blue. I added pretty tights by {bilo} to the mix, thanks to Chandra who giftified me earlier in the autumn with them.

Both of the above poses are by aDORKable Poses from Peace on Earth Hunt. Speaking of aDORKable Poses, they have an advent calendar going on: a pose per day. Visit daily to get them all! The skin and eyes by The Plastik are from Very Important Hunters Hunt. I was there to grab another hunt gift, but then bumped into this and it just worked so well with the cold-wintry-slightly-arcane look that I had to use them.

The necklace by Bliensen + MaiTai is also from PoE Hunt, as is the pose by Diesel Works. The ring and the earrings are from my huge and dearly loved gift pile from Coyo and can be purchased from .( bewildebeest ). The hair with hat is an old subscibo-gift by Amacci.

I declare the winter season now officially started, bring on the snowflakes and fur coats!

Summer Sales

My inventory is pretty much whimpering by this point. There’s Hair Fair, Truth District Opening (join the group and head over into the lag for the gifts, you have time until 5th July), closing sale in Sweetest Goodbye (-50% until 31st August) and Peqe’s birthday sale (select items until 8th July) just to name a few.

I bumped into Atelier Yllanys during a hunt, but this pretty little prefab was a freebie in the store, not a hunt prize. The rack prop pose is by Glitterati, one of their four gifts in the Truth District Opening. I took both pictures with this setting.

The outfit is by Sweetest Goodbye and it was just such a mix of cute, anime and official that I had to have it. I can see myself using the skirt and the coat separately depending on the season, but they do go wonderfully together, too. The skin is by .ploom., a part of their Hair Fair gifts. Shoes are by Nardcotix and the hair by Truth, both from the Truth District Opening. The ring is by .( bewildebeest ). and has nothing to do with any of the sales, but the pose demanded an awesome ring and ever since Coyo dropped these Arabesque-rings on me, I’ve pretty much worn one all the time.

I’m sure you all know by now that there’s a Curio-skin in the past notices of the Truth District Group, right? Well, this is it. So very innocent and cute. The hair is by Waka & Yuki, the feather hairdress by PR!TTY, earrings and necklace by Bliensen + Maitai, all of them Hair Fair gifts. I used the same earrings in the first picture, too. I just love this hair, the random one-sided pony-tail, the slightly messed look and near-tribal vibe of it. The skirt and the tights are from the Peqe-sale, but the top is a freebie from 20.FIVE, another random find during a hunt. Why yes, yes it’s the Arabesque-ring in another tone. <3 I have Redgrave lashes and Poetic Colors eyes in both pictures, but these green ones are their latest freebie.

Whew. Now, that should get you all started! Remember to de-prim and much more importantly, de-script before daring the lagfests of Truth District and Hair Fair!

52 Colours: Jade

My inventory failed to present me awesome jade statues and oriental luxury props. Sadness. Jade really sounds like it should be all that: ancient statues, lost cities, exquisitely carved long pipes (I drooled at the ones in Rozoregalia for a bit, but managed to run before I bought it just for this one picture), hairdos and ornaments reaching for heavens and slinky qipaos with a lot of attitude.

This is as close as I got. Miss Jade told me she demanded at least some sort of gigantic green crystals so I ported to the Emerald City in Magic of Oz. Who knows, maybe the yellow brick road leads to everywhere magical, like a counterpart to roads leading to Rome.

I admit that this might have just been an excuse to go and buy another Tukinowaguma hair, but she needed huge hair ornaments! I turned the whole thing green with the included colour-change scripts. The Miamai dress (old group gift) was such a wonderful metallic sheen of jade that it was the first thing I decided on for Miss Jade. I got her new eyes from the Poetic Colors sale (ends on June 12th) and added make-up by The Plastik. Earrings are by Bliensen + MaiTai, skin by League and pose by Poise.

52 Colours: Tangerine

We continue with the nom-theme… I wonder if strawberry will be next? Or mint? As for tangerine, I did an inventory search for ‘orange’ and tried everything I found while keeping an eye on Luna’s sample. This mini-dress by Hyper Culture was pretty much perfect. Not only with the tangerine tone on top, but the rest of the colours it mixed in. Add to that an Elikatira hair with a colour-change band from the sale she had and suddenly I knew exactly who Miss Tangerine was…

Miss Tangerine lives in a debaucherous little Hookah Hangout Skybox by The Sea Hole (Stash Bash Hunt). She loves her snuggly pet snake (LeLutka), noms of all kinds like the orange mousse (Poche) Kärmes is guarding, flowers (Split Pea – Seasons Hunt), music streaming from her Sounds of Nature Earphones (Tweedle), freedom, love and relaxation. You might call her a hippy, you might call her a wiccan, you might call her a gypsy, you might call her a lot of different things, but she’d still share her orange mousse with you~

Miss Tangerine has a skin by The Plastik, eyes by Poetic Colors and lashes by Redgrave. Her earrings are by Bliensen + MaiTai and her necklace by Kosh (from Project Fur Japan). The paint face splatter is by Sanu and the stockings by Vinyl Cafe. The lazy spring bed is by Vespertine (also from Seasons Hunt) and the wall decal is by Cheeky Pea. The glittery balls and pillows under Kärmes are a part of the skybox.

Edit: No, not strawberry or mint, instead we’ll have olive next!

Twisting (N)evermore

Another year, another March, another Twisted Hunt — this time the cubes are red and the theme is Nevermore. This means a lot of squee for red, black and feathers~ As usual, the prizes were full of awesome and too plentiful to fit into one blog post, so I present only some of my favorites in the form of the Raven Sisters.

“Tell us, wise grandmother, how do we free our sister? She’s been lured into a trap by humans; betrayed, caught and caged.”

The Eldest of the Raven Sisters is asking for guidance, hovering in the air in the pose included in the chair by Lemons & Cream. The rug and the plant are also a part of the set. The Hellraiser pedestal with a non-red cube is from Archaic. The skull on the chair (to hide the poseball) is by Tay’s and the red cube & raven are one of the extras from Lemons & Cream. The Nevermore Mansion (the frame is a part of it) is from Malfean Visions.

Look at the frame again. See the shadow of the murdered woman? That’s not a shadow nor a part of the painting, it’s a prim shadow by Likka*House attached to the back of the Eldest. She’s wearing an outfit from Bad Juju, gloves & bracelets by Loulou&Co, hat by Delaney’s, hair corsage by Bliensen + MaiTai and necklace by CoLLisions. The awesome crow feet are by Gilded, skin by ^Re.Birth^, face tattoo by Bubble and hair by Souzou Eien.

“Grandmother said only this, dear sister: ‘No shame in getting caught, only in not getting out. She is a Raven.’”

The middle one of the Raven Sisters brought the word to the youngest. There is no lock to keep a raven in. If you don’t believe me, read this. The crow in a cage is by DV8, a part of the Evil End Game prizes. The crystal ball with a red cube on the mantlepiece is by Lemons & Cream, one of the extra prizes. Everything else in the house, including the house itself, is a part of Raven’s Chamber, a wonderful prize from Michigan’s Shack.

This particular Raven Sister is wearing an outfit by Blue Blood, a raven mask by Souzou Eien, cameo necklace by Sacred Roses, skin by ^Re.Birth^and hair by Bad Juju. The hair wasn’t a hunt prize, but an extra for sale for 10 lindens. I couldn’t resist. The pose is Mela’s.

“And now that I’m out, it’s time for revenge! I’ve memorized their faces, their habits, their addresses, their very souls.”

Here’s the Youngest of the Raven Sisters fleeing her gilded cage. The little garden is built inside the Parliament of Rooks by Curvasive Designs. It consists of the gilded cage by Trident, a bench and curtain by Dolome Designs and extra flowers (there were some with the cage) by Oddment.

The Youngest is wearing… not much, what with recent shapechange to freedom, but there’s a very sharp knife between her lips by Virtual Insanity! Surely that counts? No? Well, there’s also a necklace by DV8 and bracelets by Mia’s Gems. The feather pasties are a part of the skin by b[ELLE]issima, the rest of the scribblings on her skin are a separate tattoo layer from CoLLisions. Her hair is by DV8, wings are by Favole and the circling flock of accompanying ravens of doom are by ImmateriA. She has the same crow feet as the Eldest (by Gilded), although they’re not much visible. Pose is by Niqotine Poses.

What do we learn from all this? Be nice to ravens. You might forget what you did, but they will not. Ever.