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fashion, freebie, gift, paris metro, second life, sl fashion, tuli
Just look at it! This lovely dress by Paris Metro is free here!
Credits for the rest of moniq’s look will be available in my next post. I’m in a hurry now 😦
20 Sunday Jun 2010
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fashion, freebie, gift, paris metro, second life, sl fashion, tuli
Just look at it! This lovely dress by Paris Metro is free here!
Credits for the rest of moniq’s look will be available in my next post. I’m in a hurry now 😦
13 Sunday Jun 2010
Posted fashion, MV-SL-FASHION
inToday I read about a new blogger challenge launched by Alicia Chenaux. Here are the details. And I love challenges 😀
The question for the first day is : Why did you become a blogger? How has it enriched your life?
The answer for the first part is easy. Because of this:
And this:
moniq looks so great and there are so many gorgeous fashion items out there!
My avatar is about one and a half year old. Most fashion and SL-related blogs are older than that 😀 And I spent half of my time in-world adjusting my shape to look good, but not really knowing that there was a fashion world. Shame on me, the RL fashionista!
And then it all opened up to me, by accident. I discovered a shoe store and I loved their footwear so much, that I googled them to see if there is also a RL store that makes those shoes. Instead, I discovered the SL fashion blogs. So I became a Sl fashionista also. My love for clothing, shoes and bags was channeled to the virtual world.
It took me months to get familiarized with SL fashion and at some point I realized that I already had or knew about most good freebies out there. And that I could tell a great design from a low quality one and that … well… having a 1000 skins and changing them several times a day to match the hair and the outfit and even the shoes is great! 🙂
It took me several months to gather the courage to start blogging myself, because there are so many fashion blogs and at least half of them are great. I did it, though, because I love the way my avatar turned out and I love how good designs look on it.
Besides the narcissistic side of it, there’s more: I’m always low on lindens, because I refuse to bring RL money in a game, so I only spend in SL what I earn in SL. So I can’t be a good client for designers all the time, although I get SL broke easily :))) So taking nice pictures and displaying great outfits is my way of giving something back to all those content creators who brighten my days 🙂 I hope they see my snapshots and they like them.
One good thing about blogging is that I went back to something I used to like, but had given up years ago: Photoshop. I’m re-learning its features, the buttons, the shortcuts… and I like it!
I have to mention this: I’m not Photoshopping the outfits! I play with the background, I crop, I copy and I paste, I multiply, I liquify the knees, elbows and other body parts that should be round and smooth, but are not because of SL avatar limits. But not the clothing or the shoes. If something can’t be edited in world (prim attachments, mainly) because they are no mod, they are in no way suited for my shape or are just poorly made, then they end up in the trash folder. No second thoughts. No blog post for them either. And my inventory is only 16.000 items 😀
Plus, I love to see that there are people coming to my blog, looking at my pics and clicking a link for a certain outfit, hair style or skin. I am glad that there are people who appreciate what I do and I hope that those who don’t will tell me, at some point, what is wrong with my posts, in their opinion. I am glad that some designers have seen their outfits on my blog and liked what they saw. It is my way of saying thanks to them, after all 🙂
One more thing, on the selfish side: my RL taste for clothing has improved since I follow the SL fashion (I still have to find a way to edit RL clothing, though :D). And my RL budget is significantly safer and farther from bankruptcy since I spend a few or no lindens on SL designs.
I almost forgot to say one thing: my blog is part of no competition. I’m here for my own enjoyment, not to compete with other bloggers on who does it better or who posts it faster. I think there is room for everybody 🙂
Now that was a long story 🙂
Credits:
Gown by Paris Metro
Skin and hair mesh by YS&YS
Poses: VivaPoses
12 Saturday Jun 2010
Posted fashion, MV-SL-FASHION
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.doll, baby monkey, d!va, exodi, fashion, gift, hunt, june bug hunt, paris metro, second life, sl fashion, vivaposes
Actually I hate bugs. Even those so-called cute and harmless ones. But the June bugs seem to be a totally different story. Especially since they are part of a hunt. I found the two of them at Paris Metro. One cute dress perfect for the beach and an “adventure” outfit with the coolest top ever, which I matched with… well… birds :)))
Outfits by Paris Metro here and here
Shoes by Baby Monkey (called Ultimate Madonna Boots, they are color change for the actual boots, sole and trim, toes or no toes option, skin customization and so on… in one word, perfect. And no, I was not paid to say that :D)
Skin by Exodi (called Hot date, I like that)
Hair by D!va, which has just moved and has a new group gift hair. I’m not showing it because I got it after I took these snapshots, but you have my word that it is cute 🙂
PS: I’m still wandering around barefoot in Second Life :))
30 Sunday May 2010
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bliss couture, fashion, freebie, gift, glitterati, lelutka, nardcotics, paris metro, sari's, second life, sl fashion, W&Y
I was so surprised today to find out that LisaMun Aronowicz, one of the nicest people I have met in SL, gave me a birthday present. I only celebrated in RL and my presents were there too, so I did not expect to receive gifts in SL. So I had to show this beautiful set of jewelry. I put it on while I was wearing a cute dress with golden stripes, but I thought it deserved something more sumptuous. So here it is, with this great gown that Paris Metro is giving as gift for the opening of a new store:
Lovely, isn’t it? Thanks again, LisaMun 🙂
Next up is a gorgeous dress from Bliss Couture. I will say no more about it 🙂
And this cute dress from Sari’s, the one with golden stripes I was writing about 🙂
I’ll leave the rest for another day 🙂
First pics: Jewelry by Faceted (SLURL updated, this is the good one 🙂
Dress by Paris Metro here
Hair by W&Y
Skin by Lelutka
Last two pics: outfits by Bliss Couture and Sari’s
Shoes by Nardcotics
Skin by Tuli
Hair by ChiChickie!
Poses by Glitterati, Miamai and VivaPoses
13 Thursday May 2010
Posted fashion, MV-SL-FASHION
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alatiel, baby monkey, behaviorbody, candy nail, dutch touch, fashion, freebie, gift, HOUSE OF BENINGBOROUGH, hype, junemoon, oceane's body boutique, paris metro, second life, skin, sl fashion, [ka] designs
I’ve been trying for two days now to write this post and show my new dresses. Meanwhile, new ones came in and I had to take pictures of them too…. and so on 😀
No more now. I’m not unpacking anything until I have this post published. I promise 😀
Enough with the talking, let’s roll now 😀
This is just to show you a close-up of this gorgeous skin which is already on the feeds :p
Now for the credits:
First pic: dress from Junemoon (subscribo gift), hair by Hype (former group gift), skin by Dutch Touch (in cream, with blonde hairbase and eyebrows). For the life of me, I can’t remember which pose I used 😦 (That should be a lesson to post the pics right after I take them :D)
Pic 2: Dress and Hat by Paris Metro (Happy Birthday, Shayna Forzane!), hair by KC, skin by Dutch Touch, this time the darkest tone and with dark hairbase and brows, pose from Divas Pose Pack (free on xstreet).
Picture 3: Dress by House of BENINGBOROUGH (group gift), skin by Oceane (MM prize), hair by Tiny Bird, shoes by Baby Monkey, pose by BehaviorBody.
Pictures 4 & 5: dress by Alatiel (gift to the Fashion Trend grpup), hair by Miel, skin by [KA] Designs(subscribo gift), shoes by Trixxy’s shop (old hunt prize), pose by dfo!, nails by Candy Nail, lashes by Razzanova.
10 Monday May 2010
Posted fashion, MV-SL-FASHION
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aimesi, dulce secrets, freebie, gift, nardcotics, pacadi jasha, paris metro, second life, skin, sl fashion
I’m feeling classy in this retro outfit by Paris Metro (ok, I admit I was about to use a pose which looked like falling off the stairs, but I refrained). It was a gift tonight for the brand’s fashion show here. Right after, I rushed home to try it on and, of course, take some snapshots (what’s new lol). Just pretend that the skin make-up matches the dress 😀
So… no more talking, here they are:
Outfit with hat and gloves by Paris Metro, skin by Dulce Secrets (subscribo gift, came in yesterday), hair by Aimesi, shoes by Nardcotics, bag by Pacadi Jasha (the store is closed, as far as I know), poses by Tuft and BehaviorBody.
02 Sunday May 2010
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art museum, candy nail, exodi, fashion, freebie, gift, glitteratti, paris metro, second life, skin, sl fashion, vanity hair, virtual bucharest, vivaposes
That is the name of a Paris Metro dress. However, it is not the dress I want to write about, but one that was given today at the Paris Metro opening in…well… Paris :)) However, pics were taken in Virtual Bucharest, at the Arts Museum (yes, they built the actual museum, paintings included, in SL). So this is moniq inside the painting of Stefan Luchian:
I am wearing Exodi skin, Vanity Hair up-do, yoyita shoes and prim nails by Candy Nails. Poses are by Vivaposes and Glitteratti. There’s also a statue in front of the museum, kinda ugly, if you ask me, but I thought I’d take a picture of it nevertheless. I took several, actually 🙂
And this is the dress called Inside the painting:
On another note, this was my avatar this morning. Don’t you just love when such things happen? 😀