Strange Pixels

Siyu Suen of Illusions has recently released the viney and fantastically twisty curly leafy Hedera silks.  Ok, that was a lot of adjectives.  And yet, still not enough to express how much I adore these silks.

(I conjectured all kinds of meaning for the name Hedera when I first saw them.  I’d finally settled on some woodland nymph or nature goddess.  Then I Googled it, and found it that it was actually a kind of ivy!  Which is, of course, incredibly fitting.)

This set comes with top and bottom clothing layers, a prim leather loincloth, and a zillion different prim vine parts that twine about different parts of your body.  They are modifiable and are fitted quite easily.  But truly, not much fitting was needed.  I’m not sure what kind of magic Siyu used to coil these so perfectly around the avatar shape, but perfectly she did it.

They also look.. *ahem*… quite nice without the top.

The beautiful tattoos are part of the impressive new Sphinx skin from Trap.  I picked it up at the Harajukubox Skin Fair, which ended so quickly I didn’t get a chance to blog it first.  But Selos assures me that they will be available in the store today-ish.

The combination of the silks, the skin, and the faun bits is just too perfect.  I feel like a member of a hidden forest tribe who paint  their bodies with ash and minerals and run around with bows and arrows and pan pipes and whatnot.  It’s very idyllic, I assure you.

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Categories: Costumes, Critters, Fantasy Clothing, Mourna Biziou, Silks, Skins, Women's Clothing

The Koreshan bake sale ends today around noonish, and I couldn’t let it pass by without pointing out a couple of favorites.

The macabrely adorable Death Sugar Sugar dress from Schadenfreude.  Sweet icing piping and skulls embellish this arsenic-filled-cake of a frock.  The hair is from Wasabi Pills, another Hair Fair treasure.  Also of note are the glossy saddle-style boots from Sn@tch, which I had a downright squee-ing fit over when I saw.

Silent Sparrow’s Meat Jacket, complete with inspection stamp tattoo, and an adorable little steak charm hanging from the belt.  Is this one of my favorite things in SL evar?  Why yes, yes it is.  This is a jacket after my own little carnivorous heart.  The hair is from Draconic Kiss’ hair fair selection.

In both pics I’m wearing some of Nomine’s specialty skins, all on sale for $L100 a pop right now.  Harlequin skins, vampire skins, greasemonkey skins, fantasy colored skins… If that sounds like your kinda thing, head over to Nomine before Wednesday and scoop ‘em up.

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Categories: Boots, Goth, Hair, Mourna Biziou, SL Locations of Note, Skins, Unisex clothing, Women's Clothing

So… I kind of suck.  I’ve been trying to get to a post on the Fantasy Faire all week, and I haven’t been able to until now.

Well, better late than never.  With only 3 days to spare, I can finally post some of my favorite finds.

Sharp strips of fabric, lush tufts of fur, exposed midriff from neck to belly, and some of the most voluminous pants I’ve ever worn… this is Trap’s unique and dramatic Ghost Hakama outfit.  I don’t even know how to classify this ensemble, but I love the edgy feeling it gave me to wear it.

Kitheres’ Breanne coat in black, with its shiny, textured leather that you want to reach out and touch.  I just love the interesting sworls and symbol embellishments.

The cool boots (Caverna Obscura) and wings (Material Squirrel) were also obtained from the Fantasy Faire, althought I don’t believe either are new releases.

Over at Illusions, Siyu has reissued her wildly popular prim ears to include texture-matching to many popular skin brands.  If you’ve hesitated to try them out before because of the difficulty of matching to the skin of your choice, you should hop on over and give them another try.  I’m a happy Mourna, because all of the newest Nomine lines are in the match list.

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Categories: Accessories, Fantasy Clothing, Mourna Biziou, SL Locations of Note, Unisex clothing, Women's Clothing

So I threw my back out a few days ago, and I’m posting now from inside the pink haze of painkillers and muscle relaxers.  Here’s hoping I don’t look at this post in a few days and wince.

I’ve been kicking this outfit around for a few days, knowing it needed something but not sure what.  Then Siyu released her new yummy range of hats, and that sealed the deal.  Like all of Siyu’s goodies, they’re scripted with a multitude of colors and patterns.

This skin is a teaser from Nomine’s new revamped Sylvan line, due to be released this weekend-ish.   Start saving your $L up now, because they are magnificent.

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