Throw Together - Casual Saturday

I just threw on something casual but with a classy necklace to see me through shopping.




Marni found this great store Grandma, where I grabbed this white top and aqua knitted cami, they have some way out styles and patterns, great for eclectic mix and matches in your wardrobe. I also finally had enough spare money and time to have a good leisurely shop at Megg Demina's Chapeau Tres Mignon, where among her beautifully artistic hat creations she features furs and the gorgeous necklace I'm wearing. Finally, it wouldn't be casual spring (down under) Saturday without wearing something from Sand Shack, and the Hippie Skirt was perfect!

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The List:

Hair: ETD - Eva in Honey ETD

Skin: Lovey's - Chai in Blueberry Lovey's

Earrings: Muse - Elle Bead Earrings in Rose Muse

Necklace: Chapeau Tres Mignon - Satyr Necklace Chapeau Tres Mignon

Top: Grandma - B Lace Top and Cami Grandmas!

Tattoo: Aitui Tattoo - Cherry Blossom V.2 in Red Autui Tattoo & Piercing

Bangles: Model's Left: Cake -Flea Market Bracelet Cake
Model's Right: Earthtones - Giraffe Bangles Earthtones Boutique

Skirt: Sand Shack Surf Co. - Hippie Skirt - Foggy Bay Sand Shack at Artilleri

Shoes: Sand Shack - Delia Print Flats - Boardwalk.

*RED ALERT*

***This is a Red Alert***

Reports have broken out of highly unorganized waterfights across the grid. Teams of women can be seen (and a few men) with a colour ball in hand ambushing others and engaging in the throwing of water-filled balloons. These women have been identified but for National Security reasons their names cannot be released at this time. I was alerted to this situation by one Tenshi Vielle, and was sent to investigate.

The epicentre of the madness appears to be Sheep Island. A fountain beholds a HUD which enables the crazed women to form teams, and equip them with water balloons. It also gives detailed instructions to a prize of L1,000,000. I was able to descramble their code and can safely release to you the following:

Game Overview

The Second Life Shockwaves Water Fight game is a grid wide water balloon fight with the winning team receiving L$1,000,000!! This is a provocative game of individual skill, alliances, team play and strategy. Bring your friends and test your skills in the Shockwaves Water Fight Game!

Wave/game 1: from August 23rd 2007 to September 12th 2007
Wave/game 2: from September 20th 2007 to October 10th 2007
Wave/game 3: from October 18th 2007 to November 7th 2007


Crazed fashionistas, famed bloggers and high end designers have all been spotted running around the grid with glazed eyes and a hunger for their next victim. I was told not to enter Sheep Island as this is the most common place for teams to set their ambush, but managed to get undercover and into one of the sims designated a water zone, where 'players' have alerted all that there are fights to be had and victims to soak. I smuggled a picture out of the medical camp at Jessie, of Tenshi and I facing the frontline.



The government is at this time quiet on the issue, but a small insurgence team is rumoured to be mobilised to defeat the large gang of wandering wild women. Before I am cut short I urge all readers to go to Sheep Island and get involved. These people must be stopped! I must claim the prize money! I...

***End of Transmission***

The Fashionista - a Creature to be ware of

The SL fashionista can be picked out from a crowd; her cake bedroom prim lashes, framing her FD eyes. A soft glow being given of by her face lamp illuminating her loveys skin. Clutching he PC bag and tottering on her sculptie maitraya heels.

The true fashionista is a rare breed many impostors try to mimic the true creature in an attempt to join there heard. She shops alone and has a steely reproachable manner as she often talking in IM’s to her fellows. Its has been my experience whilst attempting to infiltrate this heard that these action are not meant in predatory manner. The permanent contact between the fashionista’s in merely a call to other telling them were the best products are for replenishing their inventories. The will later be found at a trendy watering hole swapping gossip and tips.

Once in the heard there is a hierarchy system those with the best plumage rank highest. Also newcomers to the flock will be treated with suspicion until proven to not be an impostor.

To catch a full-grown specimen one must have one of two things, a male avi with payment info on file whilst having a kind-giving manor or for a shop to catch a fashionista, to quote the godfather “make them and offer they can not refuse”.

The fashionista is similar to the magpie in the sense that they are attracted to shiny things, which they will hoard in there nests. Although in fact not in the avian family despite the spindly like appearance. They are in fact carnivorous epically around sales and special offers. If captured should be treated with care and allowed to read her favourite blogs.

Can be spotted in the desolate area often around tabalue or in the latest trendy shop.

Elegance in SL

“It is a sort of harmony that rather resembles beauty with a difference that the latter is more often a gift of nature and the former a result of art.” Genevieve Antoine Dariaux from the book Elegance

Although the above is a somewhat arty and ever so slightly pretentious quote, it’s rather true. Although the act of beauty in SL isn’t a gift its something you can happily purchase, the idea of elegance is something that I find is often over looked. It’s odd how in the metaverse the two are reversed.

So instead of another photo shoot I thought id invent the 10 rules of elegance for SL and possibly a few things in my opinion to consider.

1. Less is more, always
2. Pastel coloured shoes are tacky
3. Make sure all your prim attachments fit; it takes only a few minutes to do.
4. When going to and event re-bake as soon as you get there just in case of a Ruth visit. The shortcut is Ctrl+ R
5. Try and find an AO where you feet touch the ground…. It’s just not natural!
6. No bling script should make there way into you inventory unless you plan on a) wearing them ironically e.g some ghetto fabulous joke or b) becoming a Christmas tree.
7. Glitch trouser come with your prim skirts for a reason wear them.
8. Shorts with bare legs and heeled boots are so wrong. It just doesn’t work ether wear flats or put on some fun bright coloured tights for a trendy mix.
9. Cropped tops are the height of tart. Naked mid-drifts unless your at the beach just don’t work (I don’t care if I sound an old granny :P)
10. Androgyny is chic on woman in a virtual world its easy to make sure people know you a girl whilst rocking a tux.

These are my Views and just a few things to think about


Marni

Votes Are In

Thanks to everyone who participated in our little bit of fun, alas no winner is to be announced this week with Marni and I in a tie!! This just means we'll have to up the ante for next fortnight's theme off, which will be announced Friday. We loved getting pics from everyone, and our prize winner is Nicole Sautereau!! Nicole will receive a colour choice of Marni's Sunglasses, and a 500L gift card to Last Call.

Our prizes will vary each contest, so keep your eyes out, we're working on getting some great goodies for those who compete. We've also secured a daring guest to be involved in our next round, she's fun, she's a fellow blogger and you'll have to keep watching this space til Friday to see who joins the fun!

Syndicate(d)

I was at Queen Couture a while ago spying on the latest glamorous high fashion release and I met Tyreak Takashi, designer extraordinaire of fantastic urban clothes and AO's. He was wearing some great clothes and showing off his creations, he gave me the LM to his store the Syndicate, where of course I couldn't help myself.



This jacket was what popped out at me first, and I LOVE the hood. Polka dots and fur is genius. Although I couldn't get the neck to fit me right, it was advertised for men, so I think that's my bad. The jacket is so well textured, and the wrist and waist detail completes it perfectly. The hood was also perfect and didn't require any editing to fit.



The Under the Influence strings blew me away. It's such an original idea, and I have no clue what I'm gonna use it for but I had to have it, the wood is so well textured. There's a great range of belts available to, and while at that point I had already bought so much, I still had to have the padlock belt. Again, fitting to me was no problem.


This little bear, though, is the cuteness. Gloomy bear is his name and there are some different types available, this one was wearing a noose, and was my personal favourite. Hug him, carry him around, he's made to be loved.

There're so many more things Tyreak has made, typing AO's, accessories, shoes and a lot more, you have to check it out for some fantastic finds. He's also working on a main store which will hopefully be opening in a few weeks. I'll definitely be waiting for that, but until then I've included his current store locations for you to see for yourselves.

Visit In-World:
Plunder

The Pixel Cartel

Pull D'Vagin

Friends List: Yes - Review Copies: No - Discount on Gloomy Bear


The List:

Hair: Aden - Rihanna in Black Random

Skin: Lovey's - Chai Mulberry (nekid) Loveys at Fashion Mode

Jacket: Syndicate

Glasses: Nylon Outfitters -Nylon Outfitters

Belt: Syndicate

Jeans: GLAM - Gold Jeans in Light Indigo Wash GLAM Main Store

Boots: Shiny Things - Sleek Laceup Boots 2.0 Shiny Things

PopFuzz Corsets 3 styles

When i ran into Miss Popfuzz and saw her wearing this corset set before it had even arrived on our shelves i knew i HAD to have it!I of coarse ended up with the fatpack, so here are the corsets in blue pink and gold in a few different outfits.

1.The classy look Aden Andy 3 hair in strawberry, loveys blueberry skin, foxy's cigarette and Tete a Peid sling back shoes. Popfuzz corset in blue

2.Vintage Vixen

This is a vintage look almost pin-up without being over "dressing up box", these shots show some nice close ups on just how well made this corset set actually is. Note the sculptie bows. Also i know for a fact the whole thing was handpainted with a mouse (yes i do mean that lace).
ETD Rachel chestnut, loveys cherry skin, stockings from Bettie's, corset as before.

3. a Little bit high fashion and a little bit punk

Now this is a look is you want to punk it up a bit, hot pink being colour of choice!
Kin Pur hair in pink , loveys bubblegum makeup, kyoot neck brace, socks from shop seu, Biker Boots from X3d.
Corset set as before.


Marni

Voting Update

Hello fabulous people, I noticed this morning the poll was down, and mysteriously came back once I signed in, so if you'd like to vote, but the poll thingy isn't up for some reason, leave your vote in comments section of the civil war post, and you will be counted. Please, do it today. If I have to wait until next challenge to have an awesomely bad theme off winner, I may get stabby. And remember, enter yourself by sending an email to eyva.matova@hotmail.com for some free stuff. Yay Free Stuff!

BTW more posts are coming, we haven't died or anything, there's just so much fashion to fawn over in SL, and we're in the process of creating something special for you all. Have a great weekend :D

Eyva :)

It's Civil War!

With SL being borked beyond belief, Marni and I have been having a little fun with our inventories. Our competitive streaks collided and we always seem to drag one another into a trash-off or drag-off and head straight to the nearest high fashion zone (Tableau seems to be the hottest spot) to confuse passers by and humiliate ourselves in general. And now we're taking it one step further!!

We're taking it to the blogs. We've decided enough is enough, and we brought our outfit-off out for everyone to see and vote on. Our in-fighting and hair pulling was amusing to the random bystanders, but we need your opinions, and your votes, to see who really is the Style Master of the two.

Basically the plan is, each fortnight or so we pick a theme, and create an outfit we think most represents that theme. We have a set of rules to follow, which will be revealed in a little bit. But it's all in the name of fun! We wanna get a bit silly and have fun doing it, and thought you might like to join in. So, down the bottom of this post you can vote for one of us, but we also want you to send in yours!

So here's the deal: We're aiming to do this every fortnight or so, and we'll have a guest star join us in the fun! This week it's just the two of us as a sort of 'trial' to see if we can pull this off or fail miserably, but after this we'll get another sucker in to join us. We'll put our pics up, and you choose who you think best represents that theme/style, or even just who you think has put together a mean outfit for the event. But here's where you can participate even further.

We also want you to send in your pics, following the rules below, to the email in my (Eyva's) profile in the sidebar. Marni, the guest, and I will choose a winner and they will receive some neato prizes! The 'contest' will open when the post is up, and finish exactly one week from then. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment, or email me, or see me inworld, I'm trying to cover everything here. And to make it challenging, here are the rules:

1. No photoshopping, we want an inworld snap and the only ps you can do is resizing images. We have a hard-assed photoshop pro behind the scenes who WILL spot rule breakers!

2. Dollar limit: We will set a linden limit each week, but for our ceremonial first stab, it will be limit free.

3. No porn - keep it classy, if for some reason you have to show that extra bit of skin, that's fine, just refrain from, well, the pink bits.

4. Have fun! We want cheeky, we want wacky, just stick to the theme if you wanna win!



That said, the theme for this competition is Preppy.

Prizes include:

-Royal Blue Plastic Fantastic Sunglasses in your colour choice
-500L gift voucher for Last Call (does not include Celestial City)

Prizes will change with every event.

So get to it! You've got til 12 noon, EST (Australian time, east coast) Sunday 19th August.

And without any further ado, we submit to your votes, who will you choose as this fortnight's
Style Master? Look at the top of this post to add your vote.

Marni is on the left ----------------------------- Eyva is on the right



***Disclaimer: We reserve the right to humiliate ourselves and our (lack of) photoshop talents as may be the case. We do not suppose to be experts in the fields of stated themes and in the event of landslide victory the winner may choose a punishment fitting the theme, which may or may not include chickens, lycra bicycle shorts, or secret horror snaps posted on flickr. :D

Peek In The Closet

Today I'm flipping my usual style in order to show off a few things I recently found, in that tiny period when SL actually functions. I usually go through an unconscious routine when I log in, and it involves the outfit selection. Painstaking at first it may be to look at the shambles of a shopping spree crapping up my inventory and all it's meticulous folders, I realise how quickly I forgot that I bought something, and the adrenaline starts. I begin by finding one thing I have to wear, right now, and build from there. I somewhere along the way decide what kind of theme or dress standard I'm going for that day, skank? sophisticated? punk? well, try-punk? Today I found these boots, quickly searched for good pants that fit in them, and at that point decided my look for today was toight. Not tight, toight.



Well, tight too. Once I saw the jeans melded to my skin I knew I had to have it all looking fitted. The boots I found in ENVY, at Color Scheme Products, and fell in love with immediately. The detailing is excellent and the textures very realistic. Even the small buckles are well detailed with excellent shadowing. I bought a few sets of GLAM jeans and capris a while ago, and they were perfect for today.

These miw sunglasses were the first set I bought in SL, and they're my absolute favourite, they can funk up any outfit and the slightly square sides of the frames hooked me in. I got them in the pack of four base colours, and love them all. You can get the bracelets from Cake, the different colours and loose stacking up the arm seemed perfect, and love the little bit of animal in there too.

Every single piece in this outfit was very well-made, no seam problems, and texturing used effectively. Is anyone else noticing how unbelievably good designers are getting? Now, I'm off in my toight pants and toight top to cruise the town.


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The List:

Skin: Loveys - Chai - Antonia (nekid) (188, 161, 30)

Hair: Artilleri - Charlotte v.1 - Brown October

Shoes: Color Scheme Products - Camel Skin Boots in Beige (33, 153, 22)

Sunglasses: miw -Soda Painted Sunglasses - Black (132, 100, 24)

Bangles: L - Turnstyle - Choco Bloo Bangle Set (232, 141, 399)
R - Cake - Flea Market Bracelet (129, 46, 24)

Top: Sand Shack Surf Co. - Diner Top in Black (92, 180, 24)

Belt: Pushbutton Industries - Soundtrack Belt (171, 108, 22)

Necklace: Earthtones - Boho Necklace - Black/Silver (77, 237, 24)

Tattoo: Aitui Tattoo - Fallen (156, 191, 27)

Theatrical Fashion - Masks and Feathers

Mask and Feathers is a shop that can start to cater to the more eccentric fashionista. I as style rule have tried to fear nothing my inventory has it all, Drag queen lashes, Super hero outfit’s, Mari Antoinette themed hair even a Cyborg jumpsuits (what I wanted the shiny trousers!). Think Quirky costume like style is something I wanted to bring into my first blog post. This will be Half review and half and introduction to my style.

Masks and Feathers sells what you would expect from the name. Here’s a selection mixed into outfits. All the photos were taken in Intempst Nox’s Opera house.

Outfit One

This is Kind of City girl Chic meets Masked Ball. It also incorporates my love of Using men’s clothes on woman (shirt).

Gold Mask- Masks and Feather Horned mask (no bling option)
Edna KIN hair
Loveys blueberry skin (worn throughout)
Paper Couture yellow Social Tea bag
Artillerie Hanna Highwaisted skirt
FD green Eyes

Outfit Two

Bird of Paradise hat by Chapeau Tres Mignon's
Rachel hair from ETD in Chestnut
G.L.A.M metallic Jumpsuit

Trimmed Striped Gloves in White and Black (iv mixed two different cuffs together) from Masks and Feathers

Outfit Three

Mask and Feathers Obsession Mask (black)
ETD Katie hair style in White
Glamour Dress from Cammi Cooper
Paper Couture clobber Shoes

Outfit Four
















ETD Couture twist dark blonde
B@R rose Decadence Coat and eye mask
Masks and Feathers Tail Feathers in Black and White
T-strap shoes in Red, Shiny Things
Cammi Cooper Leggings (snow leopard and with red lace trim)

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tanglewood%20Shores/60/232/21

Kisses
Marni!