Strange Pixels

To have one of your favorite creators design an outfit with you in mind is an honor.   For it to be so spot-on as something you’d love,  and drop-dead gorgeous,  is fully squee-worthy.  What I’m trying to say here is:  ZOMG HYA MADE AN OUTFIT NAMED AFTER ME AND IT’S AAAWWWESOMEEE!

*coughs*

In so many words.

The Mourna set from Silent Sparrow is part dancing silks, part burlesque.  I love the  sleek, velvety, button-up corset, the subtle little ruffles peeping out, the fingerless gloves, and so many other great little details.   And it is available in Hyasynth’s usual complement of rich colors that make it impossible to choose a favorite.

I’m wearing another one of the beautiful new Mosaic skins from Nomine.  And to complete the circle of my vanity, I had no choice but to choose one of the Mourna makeup styles.

I’m going to wrap this up, before I have to start resizing my hair to fit on my gigantic head.

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Categories: Accessories, Boots, Goth, Hair, Mourna Biziou, Silks, Tattoos, 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

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

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 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