The Call for Couture Festival starts today! This event runs from October 10th – October 31st, so you’ll have plenty of time to shop around and also bid on some exclusive items at the auction.
I’m wearing a couple of the fabulous items you’ll find at CFC (see credits below).
If you love Truth hair as much as I do, there’s a fatpack of this new Padma style for just $110L! This is part of the 10-10-10 event thing and the hair pack will be on sale for 10 days.
What I’m Wearing:
Laqroki – Nellie 02 (Fair) Glow Skin
Caroline’s Jewelry – Kennedy Pearls Jewelry Set
Muism – Simple Black Dress (CFC)
SLink – Ariadne Ankle Boots (Black)
AddiCt – Day Tripper Bag / Blondie (CFC)
When my friend Melanie showed me a cool gadget that she found on Marketplace yesterday, I said I have to share this with everyone on my blog! I’ve been playing with facial emotes for years, usually via an emotes menu that comes with a scripted gadget or a free HUD (found on Marketplace).
Back in June, I even spent $350L to purchase an eye focusing HUD to keep my eyes still or moved them into a different position for some pictures. I thought it was a great investment at the time, and even recommended it to a few friends.
Well, the FREE AnyPose Expression HUD that Melanie showed me does ALL of this… and MORE. This HUD has all the default facial emotes that can be played one at a time, or several at once to create a unique look. The HUD is even scripted to focus eyes and change to different hands poses — so you can make any pose in SL more interesting. This is a fashion blogger’s dream HUD and I’m just amazed that it’s FREE and not $300-$500L, which I would have willingly paid for to have a single HUD that does it all.
Eyes!
Hand poses!
For today’s post, I took off all of my prim lashes and used Mozz Tattoo Lashes cos I didn’t feel like re-adjusting my lashes for all the different facial emotions. Normally I just adjust my prim lashes to fit — so I have a few in my inventory for “smiling” emotes.
I hope you guys find this HUD review useful, and do check it out, it’s amazing!
After a brief hiatus, Evangeline Miles of Evie’s Closet is back and releasing even more gorgeous gowns. I adore gown like these, and they never fail to make me want a to own a horse.. even though I did turn down a horse last year and chose to get a sleek little sculpted car instead. Oopsie! I want a horse now! And a castle.
[ Evie’s Closet – Isolde Gown Wine | Dutch Touch – Serie 2 Skin | ETD – Katherine Hair | Muse – The Dauphin Necklace + Earrings set ]
This is the Isolde Gown in Ice and it’s GORGEOUS. I think it would work really well as a wedding gown too.
I love the Aria gown, it comes with a matching flower wreath for each color. If I were a Greek Goddess, this would be my gown of choice. It’s so beautifully textured and includes short sleeves and long sleeves options.
[ Evie’s Closet – Aria Gown in Red | Laqroki – Phoebe Skin | W&Y – Yuki 37 ]
Here’s the Dina Gown in Cranberry color and it’s the JULY FREEBIE of the month!! Evie’s Closet is one of the most generous shops in SL, always giving a gorgeous gown to group members when there’s a new release. There’s only a few days left before July is over, so TP to Evie’s Closet to pick up this gown before it’s gone!
Speaking of good freebies, one of my favorite freebie skin comes from Dutch Touch! This was last year but it’s still gorgeous, I see people wear it all the time.
I spotted Squinternet Larnia wearing this gorgeous big and fluffy hairstyle on her Flickr stream, and I had to have it! Anessa Stine was kind enough to drop me a landmark to the hair shop in-world, and I spent a good bit of L’s buying some crazy wigs. Yes to me, these are not actual “hairstyles” but more like wigs you would wear with costumes.
The hair shop is called MrS – normally I laugh at hair like this, but I really wanted this style. Most of the hairstyles at that shop were terrible cos they were full bright, with flickering flexi-prims, and just kind of cheap looking but that was exactly why I liked the two wigs I got — they looked like tacky fun wigs.
I am wearing two incredible new Donna Flora releases. The Wave dress & Bambola dress, both have gorgeous textures & sculpted pieces. The Bambola dress also includes a gorgeous butterfly shaped hair bow.
A few days ago I read somewhere that fans of Twilight could purchase Bella’s engagement ring so I really wanted one in SL! Thankfully, Caroline Apollo was already one step ahead of me and released this ring ages ago. Visit Caroline’s, if you want Bella’s ring!
Even though I rezzed in Second Life in 2006, the first 13 years of my SLife were spent on private regions. I bought my first region in my first year, so mainland was never something I paid much attention to. I didn’t even get Premium until I got my first Bellisseria home on April 15, 2019. Ever since then, I’ve been buying mainland here and there, holding snow land, bidding on auctions trying to get beach land, all of it. I love land. I don’t always love mainland chaos, but I love nice waterfront land enough to keep dealing with it.
So when I read the post about Gaeta 1 closing, I’m not even going to lie, my first thought was where the hell is Gaeta 1? Then I kept reading and saw they’re offering size for size replacement parcels and will work with owners to find something comparable. The second I read that, I went straight over there and bought land.
Gaeta 1 continent in Second Life
If owning land there is my ticket into the new Zindra continent, then I bought my ticket and I’m ready to move.
There’s a town hall Monday, April 20 at 11am SLT, so I’m hoping they give real details then. For residents like me that can move instantly, I hope Linden Lab lets us rush in and claim spots first. I’m not going to waste anyone’s time going back and forth for weeks. Just give me what was promised, a comparable parcel. Every piece of land I bought on Gaeta 1 is waterfront, so yes, I expect waterfront back.
What makes this fun for me is I remember when Bay City launched, and I remember Horizons too, but I wasn’t Premium back then. Now I am, and I am readyyyyyyyy.
The Adult land part does not bother me at all. I’m an adult. I also don’t think everyone is about to throw up sex clubs all over the ground. I think a lot of people will do homes, gardens, cute builds, and nice parcels like anywhere else. What I do hope for is some kind of covenant. No ugly visible ban lines, no giant prim walls killing views, no trash in the sky. Let’s start this continent off right.
This is not a fashion post, but I still need to say go get the new Margot tee from ISON. I wasn’t even going to buy it until I saw they were giving a free print HUD with any color pack. The prints are cute, it got me immediately, and now I own it.
69 has new hair!!! The shop is impossible to find in search, so you’ll have to look up Kumii Yoshikawa’s profile and tp from there or use this link here.
The store is group-only access right now, so I had to pay $300L to join the Sixty Nine group. That sucked and I normally would not have paid this fee to join since I’m desperately out of group space, but I really wanted to check out the new hairstyles! If you’re already a member, lucky you.. if not, pay the fee or wait a few days for it to be public access again!
Now onto the hairstyles! There are so many new vendors up on the wall that it was overwhelming. But I think I have it sorted out. There are some new hairstyles with different bangs, and then there are hairstyles with scarves or earmuffs attached. Between the scarf-styles, you can choose between two different scarf choices. There’s not much difference between them so just buy what you like best!
Here I am wearing the Intense hairstyle (with color changeable earmuffs) and the Terre hairstyle. They’re SO similar, I don’t know why this was sold as two separate hairstyles instead of one but I paid $300L per style.
The scarf hairstyles are sold by bangs type and by scarf style. I am wearing the Verte 04 (I love the bangs!) and the scarf on Verte 04 wraps around once. I’m also wearing the Hiris 03 style, with no bangs and the scarf wraps around twice.
So there you have it.. there are lots of hair options to choose from!
