Strange Pixels

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’m being a bit naughty today.  I don’t generally blog items that are no longer for sale, but these fantastic skins from Gauze were only available at the Harajukubox Skin Faire (which was over too quickly for me to blog it.  :( ) Being named after the Shiva Creator and Destoyer aspects (respectively,) they particularly appealed to me.  I don’t practice Hinduism, but Shiva has always held a special place in my heart.   And the daring cut of the awesome Tamed outfit from Blue Blood was just begging to show off some interesting skin.

I love the design of this outfit.  It alternately drapes you in Ghanima’s trademark silky cloth in some places, and flashes skin up to the thigh in others.  It’s bold and sexy without being tawdry.  It also looks great with or without the cloak.  The Tamed set in black is a group-only special color, btw.  Join the Blue Blood update group for a small fee, and get access lots of great specials and exclusives.

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Categories: Fantasy Clothing, Goth, Mourna Biziou, Skins, Women's Clothing

Be warned:  if I see you in something cool, I will nab it.  (And no anti-inspect device can stop me. ;))

Today’s boots are from Rebel Hope, and I nabbed them from Achariya.  (She’s looking fabulous in them over here.)  They’re just so soft and velvety looking; one of those things in SL I just wish I could reach out and touch.

The accessories I’m wearing are from LouLou&Co.   I visited this shop a while back, but their selection was pretty limited and I promptly forgot about them.  Then I saw the always-glamorous Munchflower wearing the necklace and belt, and I scurried over as fast as my little teleport could carry me.  They have really built up an impressive selection since I last went, and onto my regular-stop list they now go.

This set greatly appeals to me, with it perfect little beads, skulls, crosses, ribbons, and flowers.  The belt in particular deserves some close attention.  It’s very ornate, with lots of attached little baubles and links and well textured bits of leather.  It resizes easily, and fits like a dream.

I really love this shirt from Rotten Toe.  I have a weakness for stand-up collars, even if they are a pain to find hair and accessories for.  It comes with cool raggedy prim tails, but I couldn’t work them in with the belt.

I’m also wearing one of the new Enchanted skins from Cupcakes.  It’s always fascinating to me how much difference a skin can make on an avatar.  To me, Cupcakes skins have a very mature and… regal look to them.  Some of the complaints I had about previous Cupcakes skins (such as overly-severe body shading) have been addressed in this new line, while retaining all the thing I love about them.  They’re definitely worth checking out.  My only complaint with this new line is that the lightest skin tone is at least a few shades darker than their previous lightest.

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

I’m not sure what impresses me more about Schadenfreude:  Allegory’s edgy-cute rockstar aesthetic, or her precise technical skill.  Her latest creation, the aptly named Electro-Cute, demonstrates both by the bucketful.  I’m modelling the skully set (of course,) but there is also an octopus, bird, bat, owl, dragon, alligator, goldfish, and elephant in candy-cute color combinations.  As we’ve gloriously come to expect, there are also all kinds of options and layers.

I was searching for the perfect thing to wear with this adorable dress, when I remembered the Cat-Person Parts from Mutation Industries that I’d been meaning to pick up for some time now.  After searching through numerous inworld locations with no luck, I finally located them on XStreet, so I’ve included the link with the SLurls after the cut.

The hair is from Deviant Kitties, a Hair Fair selection that I never got around to blogging and which is now in her shop.  The right side is scripted to texture change, with what appears to be every color she offers.

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

(In lieu of actually being able to think of a title for this post, I’ve just named it after what I’m currently listening to.)

Over at Nomine, Munchflower Zaius has recently released a whole slew of really cool new miniskirts.   These aren’t built off glitchpants, so you can wear your favorite pretty undies with them.   Bring on the upskirting!

There are a gajillion styles in just as many colors, but these are two of my favorites.

Handcuffs and pins notwithstanding, I thought this “locked black” style had a sweet little look, so I paired it with a new peekaboo shirt from Sn@tch.  Doesn’t it have just the most perfect neckline?

I can’t help but feeling a bit like I’m sick and wrong for matching the handcuffs on my belt to the handcuff on my necklace.   Not because they’re handcuffs, but because my first thought on seeing the skirt was: “Hey!  I totally have a necklace to match that!”.

The irregular and creative styling of this “cobweb voodoo” skirt led me to compile something a bit edgier for the second look.  I feel a bit like an extra from an 80’s music video, but that’s not a bad thing.

You may have noticed my unique critter accessories.  Wynx Whiplash has released a few wearable pets that no gawth should be without.   Ravens and bats, oh my!  Beautifully textured and sculpted, these critters spread their wings and caw/squeak (respectively) at you on touch.  They also fly around your head for 10 seconds on command and parrot anything you say on a certain channel.  The bats come in black, brown, and white.  The black is my favorite, but I’ve shown it in brown for contrast. Good stuff.

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

The last time I blogged Blue Blood, the outfit was called Death. So it seems fitting that this time I chose Ghanima’s fantastic  “Immortal” set.

There are so many things I love about this outfit:  from the top of the Burtonesquely curled collar, to the bottom of the wickedly striped  pants.

Immortal includes some different options, like a shorter prim jacket, and an undershirt and tie that I chose to forgo for this set.  I had to edit the collar slightly to be worn with this choker.

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Categories: Goth, Mourna Biziou, Women's Clothing

Strange Pixels has a new home!

Huzzah for a new server, a new theme, and lots of shiny pretties to play with!  Thank you so much to Kavik for everything he’s done.  :heart:  You rock big time, Mr. Brock!!

Now on to the bloggins…

I know some people dress for the seasons in SL, but I just can’t bring myself to care about that in here.

It’s starting to feel like spring outside, but that doesn’t matter in here.  I can have autumn if I want to.

Hopefully everyone knows that Aki Shichiroji sells stunning plants, trees, and landscaping items through her shop Organica.  But did you know she also sells avatar accessories under the Kitheres brand?  Today I’m wearing a pair of her awesome sculpted boots, scripted with tons of colors.

Achariya pointed me towards this lovely jacket from Juju’s Closet.  It is unfortunately made for men, so the prim lapels just couldn’t be persuaded to cooperate.  But it is made well enough to be worn without and still look great.

The skirt is newish from Sn@tch, and I love the unique shape of the square prims.

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