Strange Pixels

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

There she is on the stage
Spinning as she sprawls
Thank God the curtains fall
Her spring is sprung
And dances done
Spinning as she sprawls
Thank God the curtains fall

In the morning, he twists the key quite hard
And ticking, she’s brought to boil
“Relevée, my sweet, on point, en garde!”
Her innards twang as they uncoil

“Gentlemen, this fallen angel is the illegitimate daughter of art and science. A modern marvel of engineering, clockworks elevated to the very natural process which even now is in your blood, racing, your eyes flashing at such irreproachable beauty. Here is Gaia, here is Eve, here is Lilith, and I stand before you as her father. Sprung fully-formed from my brow, dewy and sweet; she can be yours and yours again, for her flesh is the incorruptible pale to be excused from the wages of sin.”

-”Herr Drosselmeyer’s Doll,” Abney Park

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Categories: Accessories, Costumes, Fantasy Clothing, Goth, Hair, Hats, Jewelry, Mourna Biziou, Shoes, Skins, Women's Clothing

“I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.”

Marlene Dietrich

“Fashion is all about eventually becoming naked”

Anon.

“It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion

that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.”

Coco Channel

“Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.”

Francis Bacon

“Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made

up of the same ambivalent mixture of irresistible urges and inevitable taboos.”

Rene Konig

“Look, I’m not an intellectual. I just take pictures.”

Helmut Newton

Details below ~

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Categories: Accessories, Art, Bondage, Boots, Eyes, Grady Echegaray, Hair, Lingerie, Skins, Women's Clothing

It’s finally getting chilly here, thank goodness.  This summer has been particularly brutal, and I’m not sorry to see the back end of it.

In SL, my avie can dress for whatever season she likes.  But I find myself dressing for the season in a kind of celebration of it.   Today’s post is very much like something you might find me in, out here in the real world.  Only better, of course.

Sn@tch’s new Miss Prim and Proper set is so cozy,with it’s long cuddly sleeves and oversized collar.  A short flirty skirt (which fit with absolutely no resizing, I might add.) exposes adorable knit stockings, complete with garters and little skully fasteners.  The sweater underneath comes in a variety of colors.   I’m wearing the white, but have put a slight grey tint on it.  The sleeves do not actually have prim cuffs, but I dug around in inventory and found a set from another sweater.  One of the advantages of always wearing black, eh?

These boots from amaama immediately sparked my attention when I saw them on the Free*Style blog.  I must report that, although they look marvelous, they are not 3-dimensionally primmed.  That is to say, the laces and such are textured on to the boot prims.  Still, not much of a deterrent for me, especially considering the price tag ($L 170, a good deal for nicely sculpted and textured boots.)

Today I’m wearing one of the new Doll skins from Nomine.   These skins are as wonderfully shaded as we’ve come to expect from all of Munchflower’s work, and the unseamed version can be incorporated perfectly into less fantasy-oriented looks like I’ve done today.  But worry not, I do have a wicked dolly post in the works for the near future, to feature the seamed version.

As a straight-haired girl in real life, I dream of having fantastic bouncy curls like this new Cake ‘do.  Shush, just shush.  I can hear all you becurled folks just gearing up to tell me how annoying it is, and how you wish you had straight hair.  I don’t want to hear it. :P

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

Damn Deckard!

How does a guy manage to completely drop off the grid and disappear like that?

I could have really used his help on this assignment.

Take out the last rogue Nexus 6 loose in L.A. indeed.

Well, I guess it isn’t Deckard she needs to worry about.

It’s me.

The first Nexus 7.

Looks like my ride.

*Takes a deep breath.

Details ~

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Categories: Accessories, Boots, Buildings, Cyberpunk Clothing, Eyes, Fantasy Clothing, Grady Echegaray, Hair, Skins, Women's Clothing

So I wake up every morning looking like this and feeling like crap.

But that’s the good part, it always gets worse.

By noon, much worse.

And by afternoon, I generally look like this.

Hunting brainz is a hard job.

By midnight, I’m toast.

It’s the working life.

In the morning, I get up and do it all again.

Isn’t there a Greek Myth about this?

Details in Hades ~

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Categories: Accessories, Boots, Costumes, Eyewear, Fantasy Clothing, Goth, Grady Echegaray, Hair, Jewelry, Post Apocalyptic Clothing, SL Locations of Note, Shoes, Skins, Women's Clothing

Today, Achariya and I donned the new Cheshire set from ~silentsparrow~, styling two of its many options.

We’re dressed the same, only different.

Juicy pics by Achariya and styling notes are over here —————->

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

I stood upon the hills, when heaven’s wide arch
Was glorious with the sun’s returning march,
And woods were brightened, and soft gales
Went forth to kiss the sun-clad vales.
The clouds were far beneath me; bathed in light,
They gathered mid-way round the wooded height,
And, in their fading glory, shone
Like hosts in battle overthrown.

-from Sunrise on the Hills by Longfellow

Achariya  and I  put these outfits together a while back for a photo contest, and they were just too perfect for us not to share here as well.

Mirror images, corrupted doppelgangers:  Acha the blonde waif in white and gold, shining with pale luminescence;  Mourna the raven-haired darkling in black and silver, the evil twin.

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Categories: Accessories, Fantasy Clothing, Hair, Jewelry, Mourna Biziou, SL Locations of Note, Skins, Women's Clothing