Drifting

Perhaps there was an accident, perhaps the ship blew up. Perhaps it was taken over by space pirates and she fled through the air lock. Whatever the reason, there she is: drifting in the silence of space.

Slowly maneuvering in the asteroid field, searching for a place to land before her air supply runs out, swimming in slow motion through the dark ocean of stars.

A mysterious space cave on a small moon with atmosphere and air to breathe is perfect. For now. Who knows what the possible inhabitants of the said moon think of the visitor… better make sure the gear is in good order before exploring further.

Just because sometimes one simply needs to adventure in space. When the mood hits, it’s always a bonus when you can look stunning while doing so.

GALLACTIC has recently released space helmets, ray guns and circuit boots to complete the expanding collection of delicious cyber bodysuits. Much rejoicing was had from all the space adventurers across the grid!  The Purple Stripe skin by Pink Fuel is available in a gacha in The Arcade, although I must say I added more stripeness to it with +Nuuna+’s makeups.

Scene: Garden of Dreams – The Space & The Space Cave*

Body: Skin: Pink Fuel – Gacha 01 Purple Stripe | Eyes: Repulse – Mystic Eyes Violet | Hair: Lamb – Whoop Dee Doo Obsidian | Makeup: +Nuuna+ AstroGlam Violet | Tattoo Lashes: Miamai – XGen Makeup_LashNLiner Charme

Outfit: Body Suits: GALLACTIC – Sheer Circuit White & Element Solid Violet* | Boots: GALLACTIC – Circuit Knee Boots Violet/Black* | Helmet: GALLACTIC – Helmet Violet* | Guns: GALLACTIC – Ray Gun Violet*

Poses: PoseMonster – Float 4, Float 7, Stand 59

The Collector

It’s grand being a collector of the arcane. Gathering relics and artifacts from various worlds and planes of existence, painstakingly hunting them down one by one until the collection is finally complete.

One should be careful though for the arcane objects are hardly governed by the same rules as the normal ones and tend to have a mind of their own. A rewarding tea time might turn into puzzlement as there is suddenly a storm in the teacup. Especially since it comes with a tiny house.

At the point when magical critters hijack your miniature hot air balloon and begin floating into the sunset — alright, toward the closest window — it’s time to consider changing your profession.

The Arcade has opened its doors once more, catering to all the collectors and gacha-holists of the grid. HANDverk has two separate gachas at the event, both themed around Oz. The items can be placed in the display case that is one of the prizes, but most of them also come with wearable versions: the silver slippers, golden cap, green spectacles, Woodman’s hat, Dorothy’s basket, wicked witch’s whistle and Woodman’s new heart. The throne comes in both display and furniture size.

The other items won from The Arcade include the skin by Pink Fuel, hair by Curio Obscura, the tako tea cup by Schadenfreude and the little sheep critter by D-LAB. The makeup by Adore&Abhor is from the Lavender Hill Hunt.

Scene: House: Z-Boutique – The Wizard House | Critter in the Balloon: D-LAB – d-lab-Residents Sheep FF | Tea Cup: Schadenfreude – Tako Teacup (Tea) | Display Case & Items: HANDverk – The Relics of Oz: Display Case, Jar of Brains, Lion’s New Courage, The Throne of Oz, The Wizard’s Balloon, Wicked Witch’s Whistle, Woodman’s Hat and Oil, Green Spectacles, Dorothy’s Basket, Golden Cap, Silver Slippers, Wicked Witch’s Umbrella, Woodman’s New Heart*

Body: Skin: Pink Fuel – Gacha 02 Cyber Grey | Eyes: IKON – Sunrise Eyes Deep Violet | Lashes: Redgrave – 39 – Luscious | Makeup: Adore&Abhor – Sparks Dark Purple* | Hair: Curio Obscura – Stackable Hairstyle Rococo Rolls

Outfit: Dress: The Muses – Shield Maiden Violet*

Poses: HopScotch – For the Beads 4 | Part of the furniture. | aDORKable Poses – Melancholy 1m

All in Your Head

Some days are more surreal than others. There’s whales in the lake and bunnies on the table. Party lights for no reason and way too little coffee to live with it all.

Conversations with fashionista meeroos don’t help much either, all they’re concerned about is how well they match to you.

Even the mystical macaw masked meeroos just keep telling you it’s all in your head. Perhaps so, but what a head it is! Life is never dull if you just take a deep breath and exhale out some imagination into the world.

The clutch by [HANDverk] is available in the new round of L’Accessoires and the bracelets and the macaw mask are available in Global Domination. The fancy bow on the meeroo is by Zibska and can be acquired from The Gallery Gift Shop.  The skin by Pink Fuel and shoes by Gos are both group gifts. The dress by SAKIDE, hair by Exile and the earrings by Zibska are all new releases.

Scene: Sim – Ely’s Home | Meeroo Bow: Zibska – Jolie Collar* | Meeroo Mask: [HANDverk] Macaw Mask.feathered/blue*

Body: Skin: Pink Fuel – Alyx Peach Sultry EyeA/dkbrow | Eyes: IKON – Horizon Eyes v2 Dark Turquoise XL | Lashes: Redgrave – 39 – Luscious | Hair: Exile – Crazy in Love | Hands: Slink – Mesh Hands Casual 

Outfit: Dress: SAKIDE – Silky Latex Dress Red* | Shoes: [Gos] Grace Sandal  Red Glitter | Bracelets: [HANDverk] Leather Loop Bracelet.brown/gold* | Clutch: [HANDverk] Tetrahedron Clutch.liquorice* | Earring: Zibska – Vonn Deux Earring*

Pose: PoseMonster – Behind 3 | Part of the furniture.

52 Colours: Cotton Candy

I managed to avoid the first idea of something super cutesy, actual cotton candy and silliness overboard and instead almost took the colour seriously. What? You know I have issues with pink. The skin is Pink Fuel’s prize in the With Love <3 Hunt that just started. The vanilla pudding colouring of Wasabi Pills’ Kylee hair was just out in the 50L Fridays and the wreath is the latest group gift by World’s End Garden. It’s in the celebration of renewing the sim and I took the pictures in the new landing area just for that. The Society dress by Volstead was the exact cotton candy tone and worked perfectly for the whole rose-filled scenery. Speaking of, the fading and rose layers and such are all from in-world, I liked the effect of shooting through them.

Scene: World’s End Garden

Body: Skin: Pink Fuel – Alyx <Ivory> Pony Dkbrow | Eyes: IKON – Eternal Eyes Green XL | Lashes: Redgrave – 39 – Luscious | Hair: Wasabi Pills – Kylee Vanilla Pudding 

Outfit: Dress: Volstead – Society blush* | Wreath – World’s End Garden – Le jardin de la fille hair wreath

Poses: N/A | BENT! – ONE. Simply Stillness Appears*

52 Colours: Tangelo

I did not even know this is an actual fruit, thought it was just a mesh-up name for the colour, but apparently it is! I had to do something silly for Miss Tangelo, so somehow that translated into an anything-but-realistic sailor costume. With a cutesy hat. The First and Last and Always necklace by House of Rain is available in the gachas at Unhinged Festival. It was just the right amount of sweet to go with the look. The Reema hairstyle is by Alice Project, who keeps saving my colours with the HUDs that allow exactly that: colour change. The sailor costume is by *BOOM* and if you are new to this outfit, be warned: the skirt is really really short from the back. Really. As for the surroundings, I wanted both a hint of orchards and sea, so I went to visit Selidor. Plenty of both there for silly sailors to pose with.

Scene: Selidor

Body: Skin: Pink Fuel – Ember Milk New Blood | Eyes: Poetic Colors – Summer Wheat | Lashes: Redgrave – 39 – Luscious | Makeup: M.O.C.K. Cosmetics – SuperSweet Shadow One Ai Shui | Hair: Alice Project – Reema* 

Outfit: Costume & Hat: *BOOM* – A Day on the Yacht Tangerine | Necklace: House of Rain – First and Last and Always Pearl* | Rings: Sweet Leonard & Needful Things – SummerBreeze Rings

Poses: Amato – Pose Play 02 | !bang – Stand 137

52 Colours: Wales

Wales is a green that to me looks like a child drawing grass with crayons. I was initially rather worried about finding anything in the right tone, but then out of nowhere (read: the depths of my inventory) I found this mini-dress by The Plastik to save the day! Even when I wore it as a top with pants by Somnia instead of a dress.

Today is Bandana Day, so if you haven’t yet got your bandana, Hair Fair has a handy booth in every sim. This particular watermelon bandana is by Curious Kitties. I made sure to match it with a watermelon noming bat by Pink Fuel and delicious basket of noms by Poche. The latter is available in Okinawa Summer Festival.

The Nasreen-skin by bilo was fittingly innocent to go with the summery relaxation and it seems I’ve been unable to get these Nostalgia-boots by lassitude & ennui off of Sonya, since she’s still wearing them.

Remember that today is the last day of Hair Fair, so if you haven’t yet bought all the things, now’s the time!

Scene: Tree: New Trails – Mediterranean Tree Set | Basket: Poche – Watermelon Punch Basket | Bat: Pink Fuel – Watermelon Bat

Body: Skin: bilo – Nasreen-ATG* | Makeup: M.O.C.K. Cosmetics – Parrottia Makeover | Eyes: Poetic Colors – Poison Ivy | Lashes: Redgrave – 39 – Luscious 

Outfit: Top: The Plastik – Carnival Dress Stem | Pants: Somnia – Tweed Waders Green* | Boots: lassitude & ennui – Nostalgia Boots Sepia* | Bandana: Curious Kitties – Hair Fair Bandana (watermelon) | Ring: .(bewildebeest). – Bubbles Ring Green Silver (not available) | Earrings: Tekeli-li – Chained Crystal Earrings

Poses: !bang – Stand 135 | aDORKable Poses – Swords Ground Sit I

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.)

 

 

 

52 Colours: Cadmium Red

Hello bandwagon, here’s my Red! I know that everyone and their pet dog have blogged this gorgeous hair + hood by Exile from Fairy Tales 2012 event, but it was so conveniently timed and toned for this week’s colour that I couldn’t resist.

I am rather fond of the turn-arounds with Red’s story, those where she is a wolf hunter or even the wolf herself. From the victim or the damsel in distress into action heroine. Yes, the world is full of bad wolves — both the obvious interpretation of sexual assaulters and any kind of problems in your way, but Reds of today don’t have to just sit still and hope to be rescued.

This particular Red adventured in The Dark Muse Forest, perfect for her to check if anyone is home in the little cottage or to traipse over stepping stones. Her outfit is one of the excellent oldbies from my endless fantasy folders, a gypsy outfit by Wishbox. The Pink Fuel skin was a hunt prize during the xmas time.

“Is that a wolf I hear…?”

Credits – Body: Skin: Pink Fuel - Alyx <Hazel>  - WLH – Naughty (dkbrow) | Hair & Hood: Exile - Lady in Red:Raven | Eyes: Insufferable Dastard – March Gift Shades of Green 1 | Lashes: Redgrave – 39 – Luscious | Poses: 1) aDORKable Poses – Love Gun Stand 2 / 3) E.inK – Headphones/Music2

Credits – Outfit: Dress: Wishbox – Gypsy Chemise (red) & Gypsy Overdress (charcoal) | Boots: lassitude & ennui – Selene mesh boots black/red* | Axe: (mad world) – Wolfhunter Axe 

Parasols and Corsets

I have a soft spot for both and they go together oh so well. This particular character began with a corset, got a burlesque twist of ruffles and stockings and lacey little tophat and when I added the parasol, I knew she needed a crazy updo and by the point her hair took a bunny shape I knew she had to be some sort of anime character. Yes, again.

She’s clearly one of those not too sane characters that dance on the edge of good and evil depending on their moods, whims and personal likes. They might save the hero because he’s cute, but they might torture him because it’s entertaining. Who knows! I went to the Epic Toy Factory to run around, because it was the only suitably colour-crazy and mix-match-fest of imagination place I could think of. It has become even more gorgeous since I last visited.

The Giselle jewelry set is by Maxi Gossamer and the sky-reaching eyeliner with additional row of dots for cuteness is by Pin Me Down, at the moment available only in Zombie Popcorn Carnival. The mesh corset that trains your ribs to stop being so rude and getting in the way is by *Perception* and boy does it do its job well! The pinstripe doll outfit is from the closing sale going on in Vanilla C Designs, as is the parasol with AO.

 With the shopping instructions delivered, the anime princess shall depart the kingdom of magic toys and ignore the fact that she’s one, as well.

Credits: Mesh Corset: *Perception* – Underbust Corset Red* | Dress, stockings, gloves, hat: VC Designs – Pinstripe Doll | Shoes: G Field – Strap Shoes Alex Red | Jewelry: Maxi Gossamer – Giselle Opal Set Black | Parasol: VC Designs – Black Rose Parasol | Skin: Pink Fuel – Alena Sugar Classic | Eyes: Roly-Poly – GlassEyes (charcoal) | Makeup: Pin Me Down – Darkside 3 | Hair: Milestone Creations – Bunneh III black 

Back to the Crypt

The World Goth Fair ends on 31st May and is thus almost over. Just a few more days for the last moment shopping, then it’s time to slink back to the crypt to rest and recuperate.

This necklace by KOSH made me laugh, it’s so perfectly gothy-cutesy. It’s also one thing that SL jewelry has to be for it to work: big. You all know the LOD-issues, which means that small, delicate jewelry — no matter how gorgeous in closeups — pretty much vanishes the moment you are not cammed in on it. Much approval on big show pieces like this.

The Flame mesh corset is by *Perception*, the gloves and the Flirty pants by SAKIDE and the Wanderlust boots by lassitude & ennui. The skin by Pink Fuel is from the Skin Showcase and the Exile hair from the current Dressing Room Blue. I did vamp the skin up with an eyeliner by Pin Me Down, though.

The crypt is of course from *~by Nacht, I swear I could use these settings for all the pictures! The held candelabra is from the gatcha by The Muses; if you get lucky you might win a chandelier, too!

With that I shall leave the gothic heroine to sneak in and settle down for a …nap. Or some such. It’s been good indulging in gothness so much, I hope all of you went and shopped and enjoyed as well~

World Goth Fair: Crypt: *~ by Nacht ~ The Crypt (with candelabra 88 prims)* | Held Candelabra: The Muses – Candelabra Bronze 3 Arm B | Corset: *Perception* – Overbust Corset Flame* | Pants: SAKIDE – Flirty Leather Leggings Black* | Boots: lassitude & ennui – Wanderlust Boots black* | Necklace: KOSH – Demonica Necklace (WGF Edition) | Eyeliner: Pin Me Down – Liner 6*

Skin Showcase: Skin: Pink Fuel – Alena <Sugar> – Classic (dkbrow)

The Dressing Room Blue: Hair: Exile – Late at Night: Raven

Other Credits: Bangles: Mandala – Takara Bangles Buddha Black | Lashes: Redgrave – 39 – Luscious | Eyes: Poetic Colors – classic frozen silver bright | Poses: LAP – MS2-Runway19 / LAP – SU-HandsUp4 / Glitterati – Drink 1