Crimes of Fashion - A Second Life Book Cover Meme

I can't stop giggling. When I saw Strawberry Singh's book cover challenge, I immediately thought of old pulp novel covers as my inspiration. Sam Spade had better watch out. Dolly Baroque is coming to town!

Meme instructions: Create a book cover to show your avatar in fiction. It does not have to be based on a real book, it can be one that you make up. Don’t forget to leave a link to your cover in the comments and share it in the Blog Memes flickr group.

Credits:

D!va Hair "Layla" (Type A)(Red amber)
Mandala Polly Necklace
Valentina E. Dita Belted Pencil Skirt Black
Valentina E. Dita Tucked Chemise Black
Valentina E. Dita Vintage Fur Bomber Silver
IKON Promise Eyes - Green
Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands
Slink Visage Mesh Head - Becky
DeeTaleZ HUD for Slink Visage "Face Viola" 

DeeTaleZ BODY MIXEDTYPE

Diesel Works Pose

Love for VIP's

PXL Creations has a Valentine gift for members of its VIP group, this lovely special edition Jade skin called Love. It's a perfect skin for a night out with that special someone on Valentine's Day, don't you think? The group costs $250 Lindens to join, and it is worth every digital cent, for the truly lovely and exclusive bonus gifts such as this skin.

Credits:

PXL Creations Jade NAT "Love Edition" MEB C2
Mandala Simple Ears HUTUU
Beetlebones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)
IKON Spectral Eyes - Green
Maxi Gossamer - Earrings - Keshi Pearl Heart  - GOLD
Maxi Gossamer - Necklace - Keshi Pearl Heart - Short - GOLD
Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands

LeLutka - POCAHONTAS hair - Bournville

 Cracked Mirror Athena Dress (coral) (at FaMeshed)

Black and White - a Meme

I love it when Strawberry Singh's meme for the week is a photography challenge. This week she has challenged us to take a headshot with black and white processing in mind. I like the drama of black and white photography, and find the studies in contrasts fascinating. There are lots of gorgeous submissions to the Blog Meme flickr group and I highly recommend looking through them. Thanks, Berry, for the challenge!

Meme Instructions: Share a black & white portrait (headshot) of your Second Life avatar. You can post a raw shot or process the image as much as you like. Don’t forget to leave a link to your image in [Berry's] comments and also share it in the Blog Memes flickr group.

Credits:

TRUTH HAIR Gaia 2 

Glam Affair - Vera - America 03 C

IKON Spectral Eyes - Amber

Miamai Catwalk Lashes Glitter 01
ISON - asymmetric tank dress (sand)
Lazuri Maysoon Ring

MANDALA Necklace 777 jewelry set Yellow
Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands

Tools of the Second Life Photo Trade - A Meme

 I took this photo Sunday night before i saw Strawberry Singh's meme for this week. Honestly I wasn't trying to copy your look Berry! But I do love the memes, so even though I'm not showing any tools in the photo, I'll tell you about them.

There's only one HUD that I always wear for photos and that is the very handy (and very free) AnyPose Expression. I use it mostly to focus eyes and occasionally change my expression. I have several other tools, but I only wear them when I need them.

I haven't updated my Pose Anywhere HUD in a long time because I prefer using pose balls or stands. When I use my HUD and need to touch something to bring it into focus, my camera view changes because my avi turns around. I save this tool for places where I can't rez a pose ball.

I love my Animare Pose and Animation System. It's perfect for those small adjustments I sometimes need to make to a pose. Sometimes a different tilt to the head or a small hand adjustment can make a big difference to a look.

Non-photo tools are my Vista Animation Overrider that I've worn for years and my wonderful texture organizer from my building days, the Skidz Partz - TMat. It's a great way to keep those textures organized and to reduce the size of my inventory. You can even store poses in it, although I haven't tried that. It may seem pricey, but I've had mine for years and it still works perfectly.

In other news, I've been feeding my hair addiction with this latest Truth Hair release called Bryn. I feel fabulous - at least until my next fix.

Credits:

TRUTH HAIR Bryn

Maitreya Vintage Lace Gown - Antique Part1

Maitreya Vintage Pearl Necklace

Glam Affair - Cleo - America - Clean F

  IKON Spectral Eyes - Amber

Mandala Simple Ears HUTUU

Beetlebone Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)

I'd Like to Thank My Mom...It's the Oscar Contest!

Contests are fun and Harper Ganesvoort's 5th Annual Oscar Fashion Photo Contest is one of the most fun of all. Last year Ayla and I won 3rd place with this entry! Every red carpet fashionista should enter! Check out past years' entries (and add your entry for this year) at this Flickr pool.

I'm planning to take a few photos and choose my favorite for my entry, but this "Thanks Mom" photo is a definite possibility. There's time, the contest runs through March 2nd.

Credits:

Baiastice Giulia dress - metal gold
Mandala 777 jewelry set Yellow

LeLutka - KATE hair - AuburnHaze (New Release)
Glam Affair - Vera skin - America - FLF E

Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands
Slink Female Feet (AvEnhance) - Mid
ANE Aura Shoes GOLD 

Pose and Props - Standby Inc. - World Tour - Microphone (Gacha Item)

SL OSCAR (Free on Marketplace)

Practical Jokester, Moi?

Strawberry Singh has started her blog memes again. Hooray! Last week was a "what did you do for New Year's Eve" meme. Mine was too uneventful to blog about. My friend who was going to spend the evening with me came down with a cold, my sons had friends over and I spent New Year's Eve staying out of their way. YAWN!

This week's meme is about practical jokes - jokes I'd played or had played on me.

Meme Instructions: Share one or more practical jokes that either you have played on others or others have played on you inworld. If you have pictures or videos to share of it, even better. Don’t forget to leave a link to your post in [Berry's] comments.

I hung my head and sighed. I couldn't think of a single practical joke! I asked Ayla for help and she couldn't think of anything either. I threw a surprise SL party for her and her RL husband to celebrate their real life wedding, but other than getting them to the party under false pretenses it wasn't a joke.

We decided we were awfully, awfully boring, or forgetful or both. She logged for the night and at that minute I gave my forehead a slap. I remembered the day we decorated our friend Friar's home with grafitti. I still had my grafitti, so I recreated the scene of the crime, maid outfit and all. Here's the original picture! Ayla's was a god awful rendering of body parts. Maybe she'll share it. I got caught (go figure, how'd he guess it was me?). Here's a bit of our conversation about the matter:

Friar Tyles stands tapping his medieval foot on the floor as the lass begins to clear the wall of the strange symbols know as 'words'. With a devilish grin he tilts his head to the side to catch a glimpse of the lovely thighs on display and says...'I'm not sure who Ayla was but her friend has a good grasp of anatomy'

Dolly Baroque squints at the crude drawing above the fireplace and says, "Anatomy? Like the stars and such? I suppose it does kinda look like a rocketship, but what's that other thing? Twin moons?"

Friar Tyles bursts into peels of laughter at the misunderstanding. Pointing at the "W" with two dots at the centre hs tries to keep a straight face as he says...'I believe that is the constellation 'breastus major' also know as the funbag constellation'

Dolly Baroque turns to look at him, bowing to his superior wisdom. She was not likely to tell the gentleman what SHE thought the picture looked like.. not a rocketship and stars, that's for sure. "Well you'd know best Sir..." she says sweetly and turns back to the wall scrubbing.

Credits:

Belleza - Ria Med 1 R

Belleza - Ria Med Freckles 1

MANDALA Simple Ears HUTUU
BeetleBones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)
IKON Spectral Eyes  - Amber
Maxi Gossamer - Ring - Royal Khadijah Estate - Large
Paint brush
Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands
TRUTH HAIR Luella

Provocation Maid costume

Provocation Maid rim

  

A Lesson in Truth

Truth Hair is the lesson. The first new Truth releases of 2014 are gorgeous! And remember when I told you there was so much more to blog for Collabor88? In the top photo the Belleza Skin, Yummy Accessories earrings, and The Secret Store blouse are all available at Collabor88.

In the second photo the dress is from Tee*fy, the clutch from Baiastice, and the black pearls from Maxi Gossamer. All at Collabor88!

Credits:

(Top Pic)

TRUTH HAIR Luella (New Release)

Yummy Pearl Wisp Earring - White (at Collabor88)

 The Secret Store - Mary Pleated Shirt - White Polka (at Collabor88)

Belleza - Ria Med 1 R (at Collabor88)

Mandala Simple Ears HUTUU

BeetleBones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)

IKON Spectral Eyes - Amber

MIEL HIPSTER PEEPERS - tortoise shell

(Bottom Pic)

TRUTH HAIR Snow - Gingers (New Release)

Belleza - Ria Med 1 R (at Collabor88)

Belleza - Ria Med Freckles 1

Belleza- Ria Med Gloss Lip 4

Baiastice -Yara clutch-black (at Collabor88)

Maxi Gossamer - Necklace - Knotted Shimmer Pearls (at Collabor88)

Maxi Gossamer - Ring - Royal Khadijah Estate - Large - SILVER

Yummy Pearl Wisp Earring - White (at Collabor88)

Tee*fy Julianna Fluffy Dress Classic (at Collabor88)

Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands

MANDALA Simple Ears HUTUU

IKON Spectral Eyes - Amber

Feather Soft

Two new things to love - the latest Lelutka hair and this necklace and earring set from Mandala. What could be better than feathery statement jewelry and swooping curves of pretty hair?

Credits:

MANDALA YAKUSHI  WHITE Earrings and Necklace

MANDALA SIMPLE EARS HUTUU

Mutresse Jana Cardigan
BeetleBones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)

IKON Spectral Eyes (right) - Amber

LeLutka NEU hair - AuburnHaze

LeLutka NEU side - AuburnHaze
Glam Affair - Vera skin - America - FLF E 

 

Resolution

I'm not a big one for New Year's resolutions. I'd rather resolve to do things on my own inner clock. Sometimes, however, I ignore the inner clock's alarm and hit the snooze button. There are a lot of things I should resolve to do as a blogger. Check out more events, keep up with new stores, credit poses more often (the one in this photo is from Diesel Works), among a million other things.

But number one on my resolution list is to reduce and/or better organize my inventory. I wrote about my inventory about a month ago and I'm ashamed to admit that the limited success I had made has completely evaporated as I grab more new releases by the fatpack! I'm at over 39,000 now! I hit 40K and panicked, deleting a bunch more duplicate landmarks.

So this is why I'm leaning against the closet doors (a great item from Digs - fake doors!) to hold my inventory at bay.

Happy New Year, everyone. Don't drink and drive!

Credits:

 

Maitreya Stagioni Boots Sand
Maitreya Wool Cardigan Beige (New Release)
Maitreya Zipper-Skinny Jeans - Dirty

Cracked Mirror Layered Tank (blue/red)

Yummy Chunky Scarf - Cranberry (at Collabor88)
DECO - MESH Her Warrior Watch
MANDALA SIMPLE EARS HUTUU
Maxi Gossamer - Earring - Hampton Boho
Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands 

LeLutka - SATO hair - AuburnHaze

Glam Affair - Vera skin - America - FLF E

Cheeky Pea Beresford Vanity - Dazzle

Tres Blah Vanity Accessories (Gacha Items)

Color.Me.H.O.F Mesh Luggage Set (Gacha Items)

Color.Me.H.O.F Mesh Fashion Rack (Gacha Item)

Apple Fall Vanity Flair Magazines

Apple Fall Empire Table Lamp

Happy Holidays

I wish you all peace and joy for the holiday season and the new year.

Credits:

  

PXL Creations JADE PA Winter C2 (VIP Group Gift)

LACUNA XMAS Cami - Candy Cane
IKON Spectral Eyes - Green
Miamai Catwalk Lashes Glitter 01
Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands
TRUTH HAIR Dove

MANDALA pearl rain 2 earrings

Guess Who I Look Like!

I didn't consciously design my avatar shape to look like anyone in particular. So when I saw Strawberry Singh's blog challenge for the week I didn't know how I was going to answer. I uploaded a picture to the Celebrity Look Alike Generator and was surprised but very pleased with my top result. According to that website, I most resemble Katherine Heigl! I lightened my hair for the picture in honor of that gorgeous blonde. I just wish Second Life allowed me to make that luminous smile of hers.

Credits:

One Bad Pixel Tee Dress Soft Pink
LeLutka HELEN Hair - SummerTime (New Release)

Belleza - Leila Med 4 R

BeetleBones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)
Mayfly - Luminous - Mesh Eye (Deep Honey Hazel, w3) (New Release)

MANDLA Haramita  earring/silver

Hair Fair 2013 - Fashionably Dead

Hair Fair 2013 has cute-as-can-be casual hair at Fashionably Dead. The styles I'm showing include a bun or pigtail/ponytail choice in both packs. Moon has a removable color change hat and Jupiter has a hud to change the colors of the flowers. HERE is the SLurl to teleport directly to the Fashionably Dead booth at Hair Fair.

Don't forget that you're shopping not only for hair but to raise money for the charity, Wigs for Kids.
 

Credits:

(Top Pic)

Fashionably Dead Luna Hat (click to change textures) (at Hair Fair)

Fashionably Dead Moon Pigtails - Brunette 5 (at Hair Fair)

Slink Mesh Hands (av)

The Secret Store - Elsa Ruffle Shirt - Sunflower (at Collabor88)

Adam N Eve Skins - Marnie T2 Bare

Adam N Eve Marnie Eyebrow Tattoo Red T2

Mandala Simple Ears Hutuu

Beetlebones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)

Mayfly - Liquid Light Mesh Eye (Summer Shore, w3)

(Bottom Pic)

Fashionably Dead Jupiter Ponytail - Brunette 5 (at Hair Fair)

Fashionably Dead Skater Dress -  Orange S

Mandala Simple Ears Hutuu

Yummy Winter Flower Earring - Silver

Beetlebones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)

Mayfly - Liquid Light Mesh Eye (Summer Shore, w3)

Adam N Eve Skins - Marnie T2 Amber

Adam n Eve - Freckles

Adam N Eve Marnie Eyebrow Tattoo Red T2

Love Donna Flora - We Can Help

I remember the first time I went to Donna Flora. April and I were mad for 20's vintage clothing and hair, so we were scouring search with words like "roaring 20's" and "flapper" and other terms. Of course we found Donna Flora, and I spent HOURS there, looking and buying. The jewelry looks like something you would find in the estate jewelry section of the very finest jewelry store. Her attention to period detailing was and still is unmatched in Second Life.

I never met Squinternet Larnia, the creator behind Donna Flora, but through Cajsa Lilliehook's posts and updates, I knew about Squinternet's fight with cancer since late 2011. She had overcome her prognosis for over a year, but her cancer is back and she hasn't been able to release recently.  According to Cajsa, "Her income from SL has dropped to just enough to maintain her sim. In characteristic Second Life fashion, the community that makes SL what it is has come together to throw a fundraiser for her to help defray her  expenses. While Italy has national health insurance, she must finance any alternative therapies and much of her home nursing care."

Love Donna Flora, the fundraising event, starts July 25th and run through August 11th. Designers will create one item for sale at 100% and can sell additional times that they can split with a 50%, 75% or 100% donation. There will be donation jars available soon for merchants, DJ's and others who want to help. See more details HERE.

Of course, another way to help is to go to Donna Flora and shop. Saffron Foxclaw started a blogger challenge called Bare All for Breast Cancer. The challenge is to showcase one of Squinternet's beautiful creations in a breast baring way. Join in. Post your picture to the Flickr group HERE and post to your blog if you have one. I may have chickened out of full frontal, but I've got the spirit of the challenge wearing the Kristabel set of necklace, earrings and gorgeous statement ring, and nothing else.

Credits:

Donna Flora Kristabel earrings
Donna Flora Kristabel necklace
Donna Flora Kristabel ring

Mandala Simple Ears Hutuu
Beetlebones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)
Mayfly - Liquid Light Mesh Eye (Aged Bronze, w3)
Slink Mesh Hands (av)
TRUTH HAIR Colbie - Gingers01
Glam Affair - Cleo - America - Clean F

Hot Fun in the Summertime

It's summer and I feel like living in bikinis, hats and flip flops. I want to do nothing but hang around on my What Next float (a Zodiac item), drinking iced tea and admiring the view of my sim. I'll leave only to shop for hair and shoes to fit my SLink feet.

I love a good hat hair, so when Truth released male and female hair versions of this cute ball cap with a texture change hud, I snapped both right up. Well, I snapped them up after making a half-hearted swipe at inventory maintenance to please my typist, but that's a different story.  The male version in the pic below can be easily co-opted by us short hair loving girlie-girls with a little resizing.

Credits:

Baiastice Chain Bikini-flowers print

Maxi Gossamer - Rings - Atlantis Moon

Slink Aussie Thongs Rigged Female Medium Blue

Slink Mesh Feet (Av)

Slink Mesh Hands (av)

TRUTH HAIR Jolene [Size 2 Head] - Gingers01

What Next} Soda (prop, comes with the float)

Second Pic

TRUTH HAIR Joel - Gingers01

Erratic / Cary / Double Tank
Deco Earrings

Glam Affair - Cleo - America - Clean F

Glam Affair - Cleo - Freckles 2

Mandala Simple Ears HUTUU

Beetlebones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)

Mayfly - Liquid Light Mesh Eye (Aged Bronze, w3) 

Black and White

I have a couple of things to mention today. First of all there are a couple of group gifts that I consider must haves. Dura released a great third anniversary unisex hair for group members. The striking necklace I'm wearing is a Pure Poison group gift for the month of June. Both groups are free to join and worth the group space they take.

Secondly, I have lately been admiring Kaelyn Alecto's Flickr photo set, Black&White series, erotic and lovely (and some NSFW). It has inspired me to attempt some black and white images of my own. I'm still in the process of discovery. My first attempt at a B&W erotic photo is included below. I'm sure you won't be scrolling down because it's NSFW. (wink)

Credits:

Dura The 3th year Anniversary hair (group gift)
Pure Poison - Yola Necklace (group gift)
Glam Affair - Cleo - America - 05 F
Beetlebones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)
Mayfly - Liquid Light Mesh Eye (Aged Bronze, w3)
Slink Mesh Hands (av)

MANDALA SIMPLE EARS HUTUU
Tee*fy Aurelia Summer High-Low Dress Creme

for second photo

Lelutka Athena hair

Mandala Pearl Rain Necklace

SLink photo prop eyelids

Abloom in June

There are so many amazing new releases that it took me awhile to figure out what to do first. I finally decided on the Baiastice maxi dress from the new June FaMeshed event. Hucci had some darling shoes to add to my SLink feet that suited the dress perfectly (see below picture). My Maxi Gossamer ring is also from FaMeshed.

The lilac flowers and pose are from Adorkable's gacha items for The Arcade Gacha Event, always a fun madhouse. Adorkable has announced that she'll be closing her store soon, which is heartbreaking news. I'm still trying to recover from the closing of Olive Juice! Still, best of luck to Adorkable.

My Truth hair (what a perfect casual shorter hair!) and Mandala star earrings are also new releases, though not part of an event.

Credits:

aDORKable Poses - Blooms 1 (at The Arcade Gacha Event)

Mandala ohoshisama earrings/Gold (new release)
Hucci Embessa Leather Sandals - Wild Pink (at FaMeshed)
Baiastice Hina Maxi dress-print-floral summer (at FaMeshed)
Maxi Gossamer - Rings - Atlantis Moon - Small - GOLD (at FaMeshed)
TRUTH HAIR Charlize - Gingers01 (new release)

Slink Mesh Feet (Av) Toes

Slink Mesh Hands (av)
Glam Affair - Cleo - America - 05 F

 Glam Affair - Cleo - Freckles 2
Mandala Simple Ears HUTUU

 Beetlebones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)

 Mayfly - Liquid Light Mesh Eye (Summer Shore, w3)

Dolly's SL Guilty Confessions - A Strawberry Singh Meme

Oops! I've been spilling things about my SL life right and left in these memes. The habit has caught on and I actually confessed in my last post that I was wearing shoes that were not matched to my outfit. Do I have any confessions left? At least those that I'm willing to share? For this is the newest of Strawberry Singh's entertaining blog memes - our guilty confessions. You can read hers here.

Confession #1.
I have a game I play with myself about my inventory. I'll type something random in inventory search and see what (if anything) pops up. At least half of my inventory of 33,000 items is dumb sentimental stuff that I can't bear to part with for this reason. If I delete that pink elephant, no elephants will pop up during my game!

Confession #2.
I spend a lot of lindens on things I love in Second Life - clothes, shoes, hair, skins, jewelry, homes, furniture, landscaping, etc. I really should cut back a little.

Confession #3.
I pretend to be kind of clueless. Sometimes I am clueless about what the latest drama might be, but sometimes I just pretend to be. It's an avoidance technique that I probably learned at my mother's knee. I'd rather not hurt feelings or have my feelings hurt. So, rather than jumping into the frey and expressing my opinion, I feign ignorance.

Confession #4.
Berry had an interesting and honest confession in her post about silent boycotts. I suspect we all do that. We do it in real life all the time. For example, I'm not going to Chick fil A anytime soon, because even with a corporate apology, I don't want to line a homophobic senior manager's pocket. My boycott there is silent (well, it was until now).

The same principle applies in Second Life. There are (only a very few) SL people whose creations I hesitate to blog because somewhere along the way I saw that person vent in an ugly or childish way about something. The same thing is true of event organizers. I don't do this at the first sign of trouble.  Anybody can have a bad day and vent inappropriately. I respond more to a pattern of behavior. If someone represents a brand in Second Life, that brand could suffer from silent boycotts if they act like an unrepentant asshole. It is so easy to lose trust and so hard to regain it.

Credits:

Adam N Eve Skins - Bethany T3 Bare
Adam N Eve Skins Bethany Eyebrow Tattoo Red T3
Adam N Eve - Freckles

Mandala Omochi Bracelet /SAHARA Brown
Mandala Omochi earrings/Sahara Brown
Emery - Mesh Denim Jacket Hollywood Dark
Mayfly - Liquid Light Mesh Eye (Aged Bronze, w3)
Slink Mesh Hands (av)
Tram C409 hair / maroon (size40)

Pink and Hearts for Girlie Girls

Yesterday I mused in my blog about whether I could do a hearts theme between now and Valentine's Day on the 14th.  I have no idea, but I thought I'd give it a try.  I loved the Teefy sweatshirt dress in pink polka dot and it went great with the snood.  See the hearts?  Both are available at FaMeshed for the entire month of February.  For good measure I added a heart-shaped pendant watch from Maxi Gossamer. 

Credits:

Tee*fy Collar Snood FlutterHearts
Tee*fy Olga  Sweatshirt Dress PolkaDot Pink
Truth Hair Dolly w/Roots - pumpkinpie
Maxi Gossamer Necklace - Patience - Heart Watch Pendant - Long - SILVER
-Belleza- Ava Med Red 0

-Belleza- Ava Med Light Gloss Lips 5
MANDALA Simple Ears Hutuu
Beetlebones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)

Poetic Colors eyes - classic gen4 - snow light - medium bright

On the Red Carpet

Ayla and I had fun planning this photo shoot together to celebrate glamorous Academy Awards dresses for the 2013 Oscar Fashion Photo Contest recently announced here by Harper Ganesvoort.  We looked around for a location, but I ended up building a set from odds and ends in my inventory.  AprilMae Devin, our dear friends and sim mate, made the poses for us!  Shopping for and styling the outfits - well - that was sheer pleasure.

Ayla's been ill lately, but she's recovering, much to my relief - not to mention her own.  We're all glad you're feeling better Ayla.  You've been sorely missed!

Credits:

On Ayla

Rebel Hope Marilyn Dress - Pink

Gos Grace Sandal - Elegance Collection -  Mirror

TRUTH Adeline w/Roots - toast

Cherry K is for Kandy Bracelet

Yummy Teardrop Gemstone Earrings  - Diamond 

League Jen Suntan PinkChampagne
Slink Mesh Lashes
Slink Mesh Hand
Mayfly - Deep Sky Mesh Eyes (Midnight Hazel)

On Dolly

Baiastice Mana dress-stars black
Baiastice Velvet long gloves-black-left

MANDALA Silver metal POLLY Bracelets, Necklace, Earrings/Black

MANDALA Simple Ears Hutuu
TRUTH Soleil w/Roots - marmalade
BeetleBones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)
Mayfly - Deep Sky Mesh Eye (Deep Honey Hazel, w3) 

Belleza - Ava Med Red 1

Poses by Alterior Motions just for us!

Background items not made by Dolly are from:

 Post (vases and flowers)

Deco (palm trees)

City Builder (velvet security ropes)

(See Taxi page for Store SLurls)

 

Belleza Ava

I got Belleza Shyla not too long ago, it seems.  When Ava was released this week I thought - "it won't be that different, I won't be tempted."  So I got the demo.  It was just different enough in a fresh faced way that I had to have it.  It's so me, don't you think?  Ava is all over the blogs right now, deservedly so, and I couldn't resist adding my kudos to the praise.  I'm wearing the version with the least amount of eye makeup, not being a heavy eye makeup wearer as a general rule.  If you buy the mini-fatpack as I did, you get four eye makeups, three eyebrow shades and plenty of matte and glossy lipstick tattoo layers.

Also, check out the mesh ear!  Mandala released a "clean ear" version of mesh ears to wear with my earring collection!  I have the first pierced edition, but I'm not a huge lover of multiple piercings so I'm thrilled to add to my ear collection (only in Second Life would that not sound creepy).

Truth consistently releases gorgeous hair, and this week was no exception.  I love the slightly breezy effect of Brianna.  Don't think I'm taking you for granted Mr. Hawks!  

Lastly, Ayla and I are adding a "taxi" page of SLurls to our favorite stores and events to our blog, instead of to each post.  If you want help with a quick trip to the store for something you've seen on a post, check there!  It's a work in progress and we'll be adding to it as we blog.  

Credits:

Belleza - Ava Med Red 0

Mandala Simple Ears HUTUU

Truth Brianna w/Roots - pumpkinpie

Auxiliary - Vintage Tube Top Copper (at Collabor88)

Deco - Mesh Seaside Earrings and Necklace

Mayfly - Deep Sky Mesh Eye (Olive Hazel, w3) L

Beetlebones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)