All that Jazz!

I owe this look to Miss Trudie, my jazz and tap instructor from age 5 to age 9. As an impressionable girl and aspiring dancer, I idolized Miss Trudie. She smoked cloves and smelled like patchouli, had a penchant for gaudy costume jewelry and granny glasses, tiny mysterious asian symbols tattooed just below the underside of her wrists, and she would occasionally bring in her crazy siamese cat, Leopold, to entertain us. She was beautiful and graceful, eccentric and worldly and so full of life…

Here’s to you Miss Trudie.

(this reflection effect was a pain in the ass by the way)

CREDITS:
Body:
Hair: Joanna2 ; fri.day
Skin: Faith Cream Peacock; Atomic
Eyes: Gemstone Sapphire; Silhouette
Lashes: Wisp Full; Silhouette
Tattoo: Minimalist Oh Lonely Windows; Aitui

Outfit:
Vest: Draped Vest Arizona Mud; PIG
Bodysuit: Last Resort black; Kyoot Army
Socks: Leather band suspender socks; Picnic
Shoes: High Oxford scarlet; Tesla
Scarf: Long Scarf Sangria; Maitreya

Accessories:
Glasses: Genius Peepers; Miel
Cigarette: Napalm V.2; Gentleman
Earrings: Vintage Black Earrings; Paper Couture
Ring: Water Over Wine; Paper Couture

The Sweetest Thing

Being blonde in SL is a funny thing. It’s very limiting especially where skins are concerned. Despite all of the beautiful faces that Belleza has had to offer (especially Jesse), I haven’t been able to indulge because the lightest of the skintones were still a bit too dark to work with my sunny blondes.

Happily, with the release of Alyson I can slip into the Pale skin tone. While admittedly, I’d still love to have an even lighter option, I think I can pull off the summer sun look with the Pale.

Body with a hint of glow and shaded/highlighted in all the right places.

Cleavage Option:

15 Makeup Options (each with hairbase option)

Isn’t this face just the sweetest thing?

A single Alyson skin is priced at 1200L$, a line of four for 2500L$ and finally the fatpack at 7000L$.

Found at Belleza. You can also join the -Belleza- update group for 250$L. There are always previews released to the group, so it’s a great value.

QUICKIE: New ATOMIC VIP Group Gift

New skin gifty from ATOMIC! This new face is called Fae and soooo pretty!

Join the ATOMIC VIP Group for 250L and find the gift box in store.

Other Credits:
HAIR: Sasha (ash blonde); Maitreya for RedCross Haiti Relief Benefit
EYES: Mood Seaweed Cloudy; Silhouette
LASHES: Wisp (full); Silhouette
TOP: Savoir Turtleneck; Maitreya

LOTD 01.18.10

Lovely Lavender

Credits
BODY:
Hair: Amelia2 Happy Blonde; fri.day, hair flower from Dress
Skin: Hiccup Lavendar Lippie; Tres Blah Stumblebum exclusive
Eyes: Mood Seaweed Cloudy; Silhouette
Lashes: Babydoll; Silhouette

OUTFIT:
Dress: Vaudeville Dress 1; Oyakin Designers United III exclusive
Blouse: Balloon Sleeve Blouse (white); COCO
Socks: Laceup Socks white; noju
Shoes: Mary Geos (pale pink); Shiny Things

ACCESSORIES:
Gloves: from Romantic Soliloquy; Paper Couture (past seasons available on xstreetsl
Ring: Water over Wine; Paper Couture

You’ve Come a Long Way Baby…

I couldn’t resist throwing my submission in for Sophia’s Challenge.

Carissa has changed quite a bit since 2006. I have the amazing designers on the grid to thank for that! (and finding a bit more skill with those shape sliders!)

I was a huge, HUGE fan of Digit Darkes when her brand was X3D. In my eyes, her Couture Collection was the best thing since sliced bread. Digit was also the first designer I ever had the nerve to talk to. My signature hair was always black and usually this Billie style from Blooberry. At the time, I was SUPER protective of where this hair could be found, back before many eager shoppers knew how to “Inspect”. The Naughty Designs Alina skin was my first skin love, and I actually wore it exclusively for about 6 months. Then I discovered Lovey Darling skin, ETD hair, went blonde and the rest is history…

And now? I’m much shorter, lost the spider legs, and traded in the “deer in headlights” eyes for “sleepy stoned”. Exclusively blonde, and a skin schizophrenic, too many shoes and a nightmare inventory. Over three years later, that’s at least 2 SLifetimes. You’ve come a long way baby…

Silhouette Release and Gifts

The Shortcake Collection is now available in store. These shapes are my answer to the demand for smaller avatars. The same unique faces you can expect from Silhouette with bodies ranging from 5′3″ to 5′7″ in height. Each packaged includes a mod/copy shape, full styling card, fitted lashes, and eyes.

Bloggers interested in reviewing the collection should comment on this post with a link to your blog.

I’ve also set out a gift under the Christmas Tree at the Flagship Store. Holiday ONLY Edition Frosted Lashes and Evergreen Eyes. The lashes are fun to play with tinting for different makeup affects.

TP TO Silhouette

LOTD 12.21.2009: Lil Red Riding Hood

ATOMIC Released the first 3 Makeups of the “Winter” Face today. YAY!! Hurrah!

My look of the day was inspired by the new hair from fri.day

CREDITS:
BODY
Hair: Melanie (happy blonde); fri.day
Skin: Winter Peppermint Cream; ATOMIC
Eyes: Mood Seaweed (S) Cloudy; Silhouette
Lashes: Wisp (full); Silhouette

OUTFIT
Scarf: part of Melanie hair
Dress: GroupGift 200912 by MNK (join MNK group and touch gift in store)
Turtleneck: Cashmere Gray; BOOM
Tights: Solstice Tights (cabernet); love.love.love (may not be available anymore)
Boots: Elsa boots (gray); Surf Co.

Quicky: ATOMIC VIP Group Gift

If you haven’t already, join the ATOMIC VIP Group for 250L (it’s sooo worth it!) I’m sure you’ve seen the ADORABLE antlers that were gifted to group members a few days ago. And now today. NEW SKIN! It’s a new face named “Winter” and I’m so in love. Now I have another skin to agonize over until new skin tones and makeups are made available for sale. *le sigh* But grab yours by Joining the group and visiting ATOMIC

Other CREDITS:
Hair: Poppyseed (powder) by !lamb
Sweater dress: Call Me Baby (icicle) by BOOM

ATOMIC Skins: Well worth the wait

When I started this blog post over 4 hours ago, I had so much to say…hopefully I haven’t run out of steam, but if I have, I believe the pictures will bail me out…

I’m a self professed Skin Whore..12 steps worthy. For those of y’all that have been around for a while know how I am about skins. I’m an addict. Mainline me STAT. That being said, I have been wearing ATOMIC skins exclusively for *gasp* THREE WHOLE MONTHS! If you don’t believe me, check my Style posts. When Ivy Graves of ATOMIC sent her VIP group a sneak peak gifty of the new face Baily back in early October, I “rediscovered” ATOMIC skins. I wore the Bailys for a month and then settled comfortably into the Grace Face (gawd I love saying that…it so rolls off the tongue) I’ve had a poster of myself in the Faith skin hanging in the old ATOMIC skin shop for a while (vain? me? naw…) but for some reason I felt comfiest in Grace. It’s not commonly worn on the Grid and it felt, well, ME…

Needless to say I’ve been salivating since early October over the release of Baily and the new makeups for Grace and Faith. I’ve admittedly tried stealth camming over sim lines on multiple occasions to preview the new makeups and attempt a rogue purchase (to no avail). But last night, at midnight, the new Atomic Sim OPENED!! *zomg! spasms! dribbles and faints in appro-po fangirl ecstacy*

I’ve been waiting…in agony…and ! IT WAS SOOO WORTH IT!!! Ivy didn’t just deliver with new makeups for Faith and Grace. There are updates to both the Face and Body. Most notably, she’s exchanged the powdery finish with a more “glowy, glossy” affect. See for yourself with the aforementioned photogs that took me HOURS! (*dies dramatically from all the work*)

First. Let’s look at differences in the faces….

The difference between the “Old” and “New ” faces of Faith is less extreme. The eyebrows are the same, but notice the difference in the cheekbone highlighting and the lip shape….

The differences in the updated Grace Face are a bit more extreme, most notably the eyebrows. Also notice that the lips have gone from a very pretty matte to a gorgeous full shine gloss.

As far as the body is concerned. Ivy has corrected both slight miffs I had with the previous generation of skins. The tummy and the spine. When I say slight miffs, I’m almost overstating, I LOVED the previous skins but was only infrequently annoyed by a couple of issues. The first generation body was near perfection, but I was slightly bothered by the overshading in the abdomen. It was a lil more “gym rat” than I preferred, and the spine was kinda of, erm, bumpy….But NOW? Holy HELL!   Overall, the new generation of Atomic skins have more highlighting and a subtle glow. while the overall shading has been reworked,  and the spine is TOTES PERFECTO!

SEEEE???????

Now that you’ve seen the differences between the original and new versions…bask in the beauty of the new MAKEUPS!!

FAITH:

GRACE:

Each makeup purchase yields a total of 8 skins….Ivy has added cleavage versions, on top of the usual options of Freckles and “Nude” lips, so you get: Tinted Lips x 4 (fresh complexion, fresh complexion with cleavage, freckles, and freckles with cleavage) and Natural Lips with the same options.

Are you still reading? Jeebus…get your ass over to the new ATOMIC sim. There’s new clothes and shoes and tattoos and all sortsa shizz! Gawd! I didn’t even show you the Baily skin!

TP TO ATOMIC]

Other credits:

Hair: !lamb Witch in Powder
Eyes: Silhouette Mood in Cloudy Seaweed

**one more lil note. I purchased all these skins (yeah  I told you I loved them) and Atomic is using a new vendoring system. I had issues with the delivery of both fatpacks, but IMed Ivy and the customer service is SUPREME. She made it right while they are working out the apparent kinks**

LOTD 11.12.2009: COCO Goodness

This look started with two amazing additions to my inventory: the Zipper Leather Pants and Zipper Booties from COCO. Uber fabulous. You must have them. Trust Me. Would I steer you wrong? The overall style is a bit glam and a bit rock n roll (and I’m wearing a TATTOO! zomg! can you believe it?).

Then I got all shutter buggy with the pics (LOVE the wall flower poses from TORRID) Enjoy <3

STYLE NOTES:
BODY
Hair: Single Lady (champagne); Exile
Skin: Grace Honey VIP Pink; ATOMIC Group Gift
Eyes: Gemstones Sapphire; Silhouette
Lashes: Wisp (full); Silhouette
Tattoo: Mechanical Fern (faded); AITUI

OUTFIT
Top: Tank Top2 (white); Lelutka
Bottoms: Zipper Leather Pants; COCO
Shoes: Zipper Bootie; COCO
Scarf: Long Scarf; Maitreya
Gloves: 04 Biker Gloves + straps [metalcap] -Red-; Redgrave

ACCESSORIES
Earrings: G Hoop; BOOM
Bracelets: Running Bangles (silver & Silver/Black); BOOM
Ring: Bandara Silver Quartz; alaMood