Strange Pixels

I adore a good textile pattern in SL, so these new Olive sweater dresses from Ducknipple had me frothing at the ads.  They come in a variety of stripes and colors, so you should definitely check them out.  I love Ducknipple for their lovely textures, and for their prim clothing and accessories that always fit me perfectly right out of the box.   Belts, especially,  take a good bit of fiddling of linked prims on my part before I can wear them, but what you see here was edited not one bit.

This dress immediately reminded me of the ubiquitous, beloved Old Boots from Shiny Things.  I marvel that with all the advancements in sculpts we have now, these boots can still hold their own and hold it well.  How many other pairs of shoes from years ago would still look good today?

Also take note - fabulous new skins from Nomine!  The Mosaic line is a departure from what I’m used to from Nomine,  as they bring a touch more smooth realism.   I personally love both styles, but get a hankering for each at different times.  And of course these skins come in the Nomine skin tones and makeups that you know and love - including some previously Limited Edition makeups!  I’m particularly in love with the lips; just look at how soft and plump they are.

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Categories: Accessories, Boots, Mourna Biziou, Skins, Women's Clothing

I realized I have all these neat undies that never (and I mean never) get seen by another person.  So I decided to blog some of my recent favorites.  Brace yourself for gratuitous bum shots.

Since I’m showing so much skin, I decided to make it an interesting one.  This is the Manna-Kin skin from MIASNOW, with tintable scales tattoo from HUZ colored to match each cool makeup.

Corset from Rotten Toe, with cute little prim frill and bow attachments.  I love how clothes from Rotten Toe seem to accentuate a thicker type avatar

Elegantly deconstructed Valerian undies from Plastik, along with the fab new posture collar.  Like everything from Plastik, these are available in a whole slew of rich prints and colors.  The collars come plain, with straps, with buckles, or with feathers.  I’m really in love with the collar and I’ve been wearing one of them pretty much nonstop since I got my paws on ‘em.  It’s divinely sculpted to fit around the neck and shoulder area perfectly.

Ok, this is a bikini.  But it could totally be worn as undies.  The adorable batkini is available in a billionty colors, and it has these cute little prim ties to really finish it off.

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Categories: Boots, Goth, Mourna Biziou, Skins, Tattoos, Underwear & Lingerie, Women's Clothing

Just a quick Look of the Day.

I apparently wasn’t quite through with the Valentine’s look yet, and I’m like a dog with a bone when I latch onto a theme.

Did I overdo it with the hearts?  Yeah, probably.

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Categories: Accessories, Eyes, Freebies, Goth, Hair, Mourna Biziou, Skins, Women's Clothing

Munchflower Zaius has released a whole slew of very pretty Valentine’s-day themed stuff lately at Nomine.

This new dress is not one of them, but it still puts me in mind of that day for some reason.  I think because it’s deceptively cute, while still capturing the slightly macabre nature of giving out pieces of your heart to those you fancy.

Lassitude & Ennui has released some fabulous new sculpted ankle boots!  How exciting is that??  I hope this heralds more new releases to come from one of my favorite stores of all time.  (No pressure or anything, Jackal.)

The Imogene boots come in a variety of tantalizing colors, each with a HUD for customizing button and heel color.

After Grady’s beautiful last couple of posts featuring W&Y, they were definitely on my list to stop by.  I was pleased to find that the shop has really grown since I last visited! (It had probably been about a year since I gave them a look-see.)  I was… less than pleased to see that they’re releasing their hair no-mod now.  I have a few reservations about blogging no-mod hair.  But as I’m seeing this restriction more and more lately, I don’t see how I can avoid it and still show you the lovely craftsmanship and variety that I find.

But hair-makers, PLEASE:  if you’re going to make your hair no-mod, at least use the resize script that allows you to fiddle individual prims!  There is such a wide array of avatar types in SL, you really limit your sales if you don’t give customers some way to fit the product to their avatars.

W&Y sell their hair in scripted hair-packs, where you can change between 4 colors via popup menu.  Now that’s a feature I can support!

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Categories: Accessories, Boots, Goth, Hair, Mourna Biziou, Women's Clothing

Many cool things to show you today.

Firstly, a super-closeup of my mug to show off the new peepers.  Poetic Colors has released a series of fairy-tale inspired eyes, all in luminescent, ethereal colors.  I am in freakin’ love with this set.  All available with or without a glowing golden ring around the iris, a light or dark outer eyeball, and a matching glow prim to attach to each eye.  They’re gorgeous and hypnotic.

I went a little curly crazy today, but Silent Sparrow’s amazing new(ish) Gloomy line just inspired me.  There are so many pieces available: suits, jeans, different skirt styles, jackets, corsets.  All sporting lovely Burton-esque gothic curls in Hya’s usual compliment of rich, deep colors.  In this post I’m wearing the shrug jacket and the kilt-style skirt.

The hair and necklace I’m wearing today were picked up on 50L Friday.  I adore the idea of 50L Fridays, but unfortunately my schedule rarely allows me to take part. :\ Happily, I was able to sneak inworld for  a bit last Friday night, and I see now that I’m going to have to try every week.  Such an awesome haul!  I feel a little bad blogging some of those things now, but everything is still available in a different color and/or at regular price.  And honestly, I would have paid full price for any of these things.

More fantastic new boots from Lazy Places, available at the 2009 Footwear Expo. I love love love these boots!  They give you all the coolness of the animal-leg style boot, but with a sleeker, sexy, feminine shape.  Lazy Places continues to push forward in their niche, and put out some really awesome, innovative footwear.   I’m always excited to see what they have to offer.

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Categories: Accessories, Boots, Eyes, Fantasy Clothing, Goth, Hair, Jewelry, Mourna Biziou, Skins, Women's Clothing

Just sneaking in with a quickie post tonight, because I know I won’t have another chance until after Thanksgiving.  Ugh, I will be so happy when this holiday is over.  And if I never see another turkey again, it’ll be too soon.

The skin is new from Deviant Kitties, where they have released some beautiful skin tones with cool, edgy makeups.

The Shredder tank is from Plastik, and is offered in their usual variety of juicy colors and patterns.  The great shredded pattern continues up the back, but I somehow missed getting a picture from the back… sorry bout that.  :\

I love this skirt from Schadenfreude, with its amazing little coffin, batwing, and skull details.

The Footwear Expo is in town, and not to be missed are these killer Ankou boots from Lazy Places.  LP was one of my favorite finds from last year’s Expo, and they’ve wowed me again this year by releasing a digiboot with a human style foot.  Aren’t these awesome?

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Categories: Accessories, Boots, Mourna Biziou, Skins, Women's Clothing

I set out to create an “autumn fairy” ensemble, for a pinup calendar I’m taking part in.  (I’m Miss. November, if you’re wondering.)  So there I was, trying to think of where to begin, when the notice for this new Autumn Leaf Headpiece from Evie’s Closet falls into my lap.  Eureka!  And what do I see immediately upon rezzing?  This lovely fairy outfit in a variety of colors!  (I picked the red because of the Autumn color scheme, but it I was sorely tempted by the other colors as well.  They’re all quite lovely.)

Never has a themed shoot worked out so perfectly!

I love this set because of all the options, and I’ve tried to show most of them to you here.  Clothing layers from risque to modest, 4 different skirt styles, and a matching pair of wings.  The wings I’m wearing are not the ones from this set.  I chose a pair from Seven’s Selections because of the finer control they give me over animation, size, and flexiness.  However the matching wings are perfect, so I don’t want anyone to think I’m not wearing them because I didn’t like them.

Munchflower has released a line of Equinox skins at Nomine that are just too adorable, with a sprinkling of freckles across the bridge of the nose.  They come in a whole slew of lush makeup colors, and of course I’ll be showing more of them here in future posts because Munch is my skin goddess.

This leaf jewelry set from Shiny Things is an old favorite of mine, and I was very pleased to find out that my SLink feet could be worn with the matching anklets.

(And if you’re interested to see how my pinup turned out… *ahem* I ended up not wearing very much of the outfit. >.> )

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Categories: Accessories, Costumes, Fantasy Clothing, Hair, Mourna Biziou, Skins, Women's Clothing

I’ve been a bit out of the shopping habit lately, but I recently made up for it and then some at the PixelDolls sale.  Everything is L$ 50 or less!  But I’m not sure how long this sale will last, so get your butt over there if you haven’t already been.

The long skirts from PixelDolls are always some of my favorites.  The glitch-pants are well textured and mesh with the prims extremely well.  They’re flowy and slimline with no bulky prims.  They fit me almost directly out of the box.  And my favorite bit?  Neph never uses alpha textures on her long skirts, so there  is never any interference from shoe invisiprims.

During my recent shopping binge, I also stopped by the Skin Fair. I’m kind of a freebie snob, but I had to grab the dollarbies offered there from Imagen.

Imagen skins are lovely, and I adore all the imperfections like beauty marks and stray freckles.  I have to especially commend them for their excellent freebies.  As a matter of fact, the freebies and dollarbies I’ve picked up at Imagen have been some of my favorite skins from that shop.

The Skin Fair will continue until November 22, and is well worth visiting.

Also of note:  these amazing bracelets from Mandala.  I don’t usually go for no-mod accessories, but I couldn’t resist these gorgeous bronze lotuses.

I dropped by G Field to find a pretty necklace, and spotted these great ankle boots.  Even though they don’t really show in the pictures, I love to see a cool boot peeking out from under a long skirt when I walk.   I’ve tinted these to match the outfit better, and gods bless one of the few shops who still offer modifiable shoes. <3

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Categories: Accessories, Boots, Freebies, Hair, Jewelry, Mourna Biziou, Skins, Women's Clothing