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 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

Munchflower Zaius at Nomine released a whole glorious line of gypsy-inspired clothing and skins yesterday.  You can imagine my impatience as I trudged through work, hearing these lovelies sing my name.

Making the wait even more unbearable was the fact that Achariya’s scrumptious boy incarnation was dressed and awaiting me.
I pictured him lounging langorously… shirt half open, a bored expression in his eyes…    TORTURE, I tell you!

There are so many options and pieces in this set… shirts, vests, corsets, skirts, jackets, jeans… in rich colors with an exotic gypsy aesthetic.  These pieces just beg to be layered up and combined in a million different ways.  Get thee to Nomine, and gypsify thyself.

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

You won’t see me blogging something like jeans very often… but these from DP YUMYUM are extra special.  I have to say they’ve quickly become my favorite pair of jeans in inventory.  I especially love the butt. ^.^  They’re available in different colors, and I’m going to go back and get every single one.

Den-Dou skins…. I’m still undecided, for me.  They look absolutely adorable on some people.  I have real issues with the eyebrows, hence the shaggy-banged do in this set.  However, the lips are luscious and beautiful, and the eyes are lovely.

All of the poses from today’s post are from Sweet Lovely Cute.  A couple of people have passed me this LM when I asked them where they got their darling AO animations.  Really cute, fidgety, sweet animations.  To my delight, I found out that they have a very nice selection of modelling poses as well.

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

This outfit mostly came into being because I was searching for “spider” -something in my inventory, and I realized I had lots of cool webby spidery stuff I’d never shown.

The clockwork spider necklace is worth seeing in person.  It has all kinds of cool little mechanical spinny bits.

A good shrug is something I always have my eye out for in SL, so I love love the new Shruggies from silentsparrow.

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

This cute top from <<Discord>> is actually the top of a babydoll dress.   The dress is cute-as-a-button, but try as I might, I can never get babydolls to work except in still photos.  Someone else with less junk in their proverbial trunk might be able to have better results than I.  But at only 99 $L, the set is totally worth it just for the top.  The sculpted cuffs also utilize a cool new click-to-change-the-shape system that <<Discord>> has implemented in many of their sculpted cuffs and collars.

Since the top was made to go with a dress/glitch-pants, it did come up a little short.   I’ve extended the bottom using one of the ingenious clothing-layer belts from PixelDolls.  These things are really a lifesaver;  you can wear them on top as a waist-wrap, or peeping out from under it can give the appearance of a woven edging.

I adore jacket-layer suspenders, and these from Armidi are only the second pair I’ve ever found.

The skin I’m wearing was a Valentine dollarbie from Imagen.  I saw a notice that it will only be available through tomorrow, so you’d better hurry and grab it.

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

… unless they’re pretty emo boys. :P

The idea of a Boy-For-A-Day challenge was floating around Plurk a few days ago.  I don’t have to tell you that it’s all Achariya’s fault, do I?

My schedule has been too hectic to really take part in the challenges that have passed around, but when boy-Mourna (aka Silas) caught wind of this one, he chloroformed me, tied me up in a sack, and hijacked my Photosphere for the day.  We have that love/hate thing going on.

Yes yes, the ubiquitous Abyss skin. What can I say… it just looks good.

I loves me a boy in a kilt, I does.

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Categories: Goth, Men's Clothing, Mourna Biziou

It occurred to me recently that I don’t share enough casual ensembles.  Not every post has to be a theatrical costume, eh?

If you ever run into me out and about, I’ll very likely be wearing something like this.

Yay for new boots from Shiny Things!  I think I shall be shod in these Ving boots for some time to come.

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