Just Some Random Purple

  Not much of a real blog post today, just thought it was funny that I have won a lot of purple things from gachas lately so I decided to show a couple of them. I will try to do some kind of real blog post about something eventually, maybe over on It's Only Fashion even. We shall see!

WORN:
Hair: VCO @ Epiphany (BiGi)
Skin Applier: Pumec @ Epiphany (Mia)
Makeup: Alaskametro @ Gloss (Winter Beauty Book)
Dress: Valentina E. @ Epiphany (Jane)
Mesh Head: Catwa (Kittia)
Mesh Body: Maitreya (Lara)

It's My Birthday and I'll Cry For Help If I Want To

  Having a birthday the day before Halloween is so much fun for me. I love creepy things and I love birthdays so it's just meant to be.  With all the creepy things going on in SL it's hard to choose what to blog so I am just blogging the dress I have been wearing lately, along with some new (free!!) goodies. Enjoy!

WORN:
Dress: Dami @ The Arcade, 75L gacha item
Hair: Astrology, daily Halloween "advent style" VIP gift, 50L join fee
Eyes: The Little Bat @ Pulse Neuro-Drain event, hunt gift (50L to join the hunt)
Lipstick: AlaskaMetro @ Trick or Treat Lane, free tester color (full pack of colors is 75L)
Balloons: A.D.D. Andel, not sure if available for sale anywhere anymore

It's Been a While!

  Hi guys!  It's been about 50000 years since I have blogged here because of my long SL break.  Well today I wanted to make a post!  I found this outfit from Lassitude&Ennui and I just had to show it.  My photography skills really need brushing up after this break so I am not sure if you can really see how awesome this is but I promise it's great.  Lots of colors available!  See it on Flickr HERE.

WORN:
Outfit and Boots: Lassitude & Ennui @ The Gacha Garden, gacha items
Hair: Wasabi Pills
Tattoo: Silent Sparrow
Body from Maitreya and head from Lelutka

Tuli, Three Ways

  So one of my all time favorite skin brands, Tuli, has some new release goodness out.  I want to share some photos with you and the the details will be under the cut so that this doesn't overwhelm the feeds and such. :P

Foxes and Shoes?

  So foxes and shoes don't go together generally but my daughter was all MOM GET THOSE FENNEC FOXES when she saw me looking at the Seraphim gallery for Kustom9 this round.  SO then I had some fixes, and bought a couple pairs of shoes there, got one more pair as a review copy from an unrelated place, then realized I had two more just sitting around.  So shoes and fixes it became!!

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Poiple Pwincess

 My daughter helped me put together a look today.  It wasn't going to be for a blog photo but when it was done I was like  OK, I love this.  So, here it is!  Have fun. :D

WORN:
Dress: Junbug
Hair: Mina @ Kustom 9, was discounted to 199L for this color pack for this event
Crown: Swallow, 1L, 3 color versions included
Skin: Enfant @ Kustom 9, 299L gacha item
Eyes: Insufferable Dastard
Lipstick: Adore&Abhor
Pose: Marukin

That Gal is Red Hot

  I managed to keep my computer from crashing long enough to take a photo.  WHAT!?  Yep!  I just loved these items so much I couldn't resist making an attempt.  And it worked!  My computer is still moving very slow and working very hard (growl growl growl, it says) so making my way out of the skybox to get this stuff was rough but so worth it.

  My hair and outfit are both gacha items.  I know some people are tired of gachas but I still kind of love the thrill of it.  Plus I am not too particular when it comes to colors and patterns of most things so that makes gacha easy for me.  I just got really lucky when it ended up being all red stuff.  Yesss!  The only rough thing about it is that the leotard and the feather tail skirt from the outfit have to be won separately.  That's rough.  You can still wear the leotard without the tail but if all you win is tails...well, you better get creative with your styling.
WORN:
Hair: Ploom @ The Fantasy Gacha Carnival, gacha item
Outfit: !Go! @ The Fantasy Gacha Carnival, gacha items (tail and leotard won separately)
Skin: Flounce, 55L through Sunday only, includes two tones
Stockings: Weon, free
Pose: Pretense, part of the "Bikini Lovin" pack

Sacrilege

Fallen for a guy,
Fell down from the sky
Halo round his head
Feathers in our bed

It's sacrilege, sacrilege, sacrilege, you say
It's sacrilege, sacrilege, sacrilege, you say

WORN:

Leotard: Popstar Industries, 50L, comes with so many applier and regular options

Wings and Necklace: The Horror @ The Gathering, gacha items, 50L a pop 

Hair: Little Bones, group gift, many colors included

Skin: Mudskin, part of the sale currently on, appliers for SLink separate

Mesh Body: SLink

Eyes: Shy Girls, fat pack only 30L!

Pose: Marukin

Song Lyrics: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Sugar For My Belly

  So, we all know that TSG has cute faces on their skin.  An example of this is below.  Even if you hate my avatar's shape and my photo taking skills you should still be able to see how nice of a skin this is.  Slightly realistic with a mostly "cartoon" appeal, freckle options, birthmark option, brow color options, no brow options, etc.  All awesome.  But maybe you might not know one very cool thing about the bodies.  (There will be a cut below because boobies is why.)

Cutie Booty Baby Face

  So Baby Face (A.K.A. Baby Princess) has these freaking adorable skins at Skin Fair.  I had never heard of the store before this which is nuts because I freaking love skins.  I'm glad I found them because OMG SO CUTE WHATTTTTT!  Here I am wearing the option for teeth layer and no brows (I'm wearing a different brand's brows.).  I am also wearing eyes from the brand that are really nice.
 My sweater is a gacha item from Moon Amore.  I have blogged this store before but only ever found their items on the Marketplace until now.  The sweater is from a gacha and each win comes with a HUD to change the texture to a different color/pattern.  The rare prize is the HUD for all the colors.
  My little toast earrings are also a gacha item and are from buttery Toast.  Only 25L a pop!  I love this store because I love everything to do with food and clearly the owner shares my interest.

  I did a second look to show you some more options for the Baby Face skin.  This one is shown with the brows on, an eyeliner tattoo, and is used with mesh breasts.  The applier matches really well and comes with a cleavage and no cleavage option for it.  he skin also has options for your mesh butts, hands and feet too.

  More details below!
WORN:
Skin and Eyes: Baby Face @ Skin Fair
First Eyebrows: Adore&Abhor @ Skin Fair (part of a pack)
First Hair: Chemistry
Second Hair: Wasabi Pills
First Shirt: Moon Amore, gacha item
Toast Earrings: Buttery Toast, gacha item
Second Shirt: IAF
Breasts: Lush
Poses: No longer available, store is closed

Just Cuz

  So I spend most of my time in SL bald, AO-less, probably naked, because of the being a creator/hermit thing, as I have said before, so when I put an outfit on for no reason other than to feel cute I guess I should blog it.
  Most of these items aren't particularly new so I am sure you have seen the blogged a million time before.  I just love the colors, the shapes, the styles, and feel that considering how happy they make me I should show them, new or not!

  I left the photo completely unedited, no sharp angled rounded or pixeled line smudged, because I wanted to show you how it was pretty enough unedited, with my lower end graphics, that I still felt compelled to post.  Spring is here folks, and the colors are ready to pop!
WORN:
Dress: Valentina E. (past FLF item, not sure if still out in this color but I will check and update)
Shoes: Adore&Abhor
Hair: Clawtooth by Clawtooth @ The Arcade
Skin and Mesh Head: SLink
Pose: Marukin

Surprise! Guess What? I Exist!

  No, for real, I do.  I feel the need to point that out because there are some people in the world who would claim that people like me are fake.
  You see, I am bisexual.  I am 31 years old.  This is not a phase.  I have known this almost my entire life.  I've dated men and women.  I am currently married to a man because he's the one who chased me down and held me long enough for me to give in and just agree to love him, haha.
  There are people in the world who have made up there mind that bisexual people pretty much don't exist. They say we are straight but experimenting. Gay but experimenting.  Horny sex addicts.  Seeking attention.  Greedy.  They have lots of excuses made up in their heads to explain away people like me.  This is not just straight people.  Even gay folks like to say this.  Obviously not everyone feels this way but some do.  It sucks.
  Coming out is rough as it is.  You worry what people will do because sometimes the reactions are very harsh.  People have been beaten, abused, tortured, arrested, and even killed for their sexual preference.  Sometimes you decide to come out to someone you feel you can trust first, a very accepting straight friend, or a gay friend.  When you come out and people you think will accept you laugh at you and dismiss you as a phase or whatever it's hard.  It makes it even harder to want to come out to the rest of the public.

  There is an event in SL right now run by SLGBT that is raising money for PFLAG, an organization that seeks to educate the public about LGBT folks and their families, advocate for them, and provide services to promote the health and well being of those who might not be in the best situation.  It's important to not the "B" in LGBT.  They accept bisexuals.  They recognize our existence.  They recognize that it is a genuine sexual preference and not a phase.  I can support this 100%.
  I like this shirt from Pale Empress's gacha because it goes even further than LGBT and includes Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex, and asexual.  This is important since many groups don't regularly feel included.  Asexuality is one that I know many feel is almost never included or recognized by groups so seeing it on this shirt makes me very happy.
  Anyway I have written way too much so I will end quickly, haha.  You can find the SLGBT website HERE and the Seraphim article showing all the gacha items available HERE.  50% of all gacha proceeds will be donated to PFLAG.  Check it out!
WORN:
Shirt: Pale Empress, gacha item at SLGBT Spread the Love gacha event
Hat: Capacious, gacha item at SLGBT Spread the Love gacha event
Skin: My UglyDorothy
Eyeliner: Adore&Abhor (part of a pack)
Hair: Analog Dog
Pose: No longer available
Eyes: Inkheart, only 9L

  Please note a few things here.  First, I might be getting a few things wrong.  I am feeling...weird at the moment and my mind is sort of messy.  I will fix any mistakes if I find them.  Second, if any of the language or terms I have used offend you let me know!  What might not be offensive to me and people I know may very well be offensive to someone else.  If that's the case I apologize.  Third, my experience as a bisexual woman does not reflect that of everyone in my situation.  We all have different lives and I don't claim to speak for everyone.  Finally, my experience is not meant to diminish in any way the experiences of anyone else of an sexual preference.  This is just my feelings about things that go in the world in regards to prejudice against bisexuals.
  With that, I am done babbling.  Have a great day!

Smudge

  More Goth Fair!!!  You have a little over a week left to hit the World Goth Fair.  I keep hearing people say they don't want to go because they aren't goth but omg there are so many great things!!  Like this dress from Volstead, for example, is shown here in classic black lace but there are other colors too!  Does not have to be style "goth" at all.  I wore this dress with the group gift earrings from Ladies Who Lunch and a necklace from Lassitude & Ennui, to give it a more vintage feel.  Of course I added lots of other darker items (like this incredible skin!!!) to make it spooky like I like though. ;D  More information below!

Worn:
Dress: Volstead @ World Goth Fair, charity donation item
Earrings: Ladies Who Lunch, group gift (500L join fee)
Necklace: Lassitude & Ennui
Skull: Half Deer @ World Goth Fair, 100% donation item, other colors included (meant to be worn but I rezzed it for the photo instead)
Skin: Jalwa @ World Goth Fair, 100% charity donation item! (Includes multiple brow options, cleavage option, and even SLINK AVATAR ENHANCEMENT APPLIERS for the feet and hands.  I can't tell you how much of a bonus getting the appliers with a skin purchase is to me!)
Hair: Shag (does not include the bangs, see below)
Bangs Attachment: Alice Project @ Fameshed (comes with the "Disna" hairstyle)

Red March

I got this dress from Valentina E. for Zodiac and it is incredibly sexy.  I wanted to add some cute to the look so I added this hood from BCC at the Arcade and this skin from Pink Fuel for the Adore&Abhor anniversary and, voila!, a sexy red riding hood look for the day.

I should note that in SL I could not get the hood to work over the dress and hair without parts of both poking through it.  I edited it in Gimp because I really loved how the items looked together but just know that if you want to wear both inworld together you might not be able to get it to work.
Details:
Dress: Valentina E. @ Zodiac, other colors available
Hood: BCC @ The Arcade, gacha item
Skin: Pink Fuel @ The Adore&Abhor anniversary celebration, 75L
Eyeliner: Mons @ Marketplace, 1L
Hair: Alice Project
Nails: Leverocci, 30L

Wintery and Kitteny And Stuff

I heard some people chatting about how they couldn't find ice skates they liked so I thought I would show these bad boys from Dilly Dolls in case anyone else is looking.  There is a gacha with a zillion colors (and exclusive patterns) where you can get them for 50L a pop.  You can also do like I did, since I am lazy and impatient haha, and just pay 100L to get a pack with multiple colors.  :P  The skates come with a hud that has options for size and 12 different colors.  Other styles and colors for men and women are available in the store as well.

My friend Sanura gave me this adorable gingerbread cookie KittyCat and I wanted to show him in my picture too since I was feeling all wintery.  If you don't want to do the whole raising/breeding/feeding thing you can get a little shoulder pet guy like the one in the Santa hat for free at the RFL Xmas Expo!  To keep yourself from nibbling on the cookie kitty and to warm up on skating breaks you can grab a cookie and hot cocoa from the What Next tray.  Steam or no steam options, it gives out drinks on touch, and it only has a land impact of three. :D
Worn/Used:
Ice Skate Boots: Dilly Dolls, 100L a pack for this style
Food and Tray: What Next
Tights: Jane
Cookie Cat: KittyCats (breedable pet, style of cookie chosen at random)
Santa Cat: KittyCats, free @ Xmas Expo

Retro Winter

  I got this hair from EMO-Tions and everywhere I go someone is all "OMG WHERE DID YOU GET THAT HAIR?" so I figured I should blog it.  It really is an awesome style and it's made well.  I love a classic Betty bang anytime!  I thought this gacha dress from Cupcakes was a nice addition since the polka dots and bows have that vintage feel to them.  This little mesh shawl from Zenith will keep your pixels shoulders warm, goes with so many types of looks, and is color change.  Yay!

   My skin is a dollarbie from Mother Goose's and the black lipstick adds a bit of the gloom and doom I love to this otherwise sweet as pie look.  If you ever have a newbie ask where they can get good skin for free or cheap, SEND THEM TO MOTHER GOOSE'S.  There are a million there.  My decor is from What Next and is just sweet, wintery and a bit whimsical.  There are poses for singles or couples but my dress would not cooperate with the poses so I didn't use them.
Enjoy!
Worn and Used:
Dress: Cupcakes
Skin: Mother Goose's, 1L
Hair: Emo-tions (hair base layer included)
Shawl: Zenith
Decor: What Next
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  I was asking people on Plurk to share their before and after shots of photos HERE and it was fun so I thought I would share my before photo here in case anyone else is interested in that sort of thing:

Basically I just changed the lighting, softened a couple of sharp edges, fixed a weird spot on the shawl that the post created, sharpened and blurred a couple things, cropped, etc.  Not much but more than I normally do!  If you have any before and after shots you want to share feel free to comment in my Plurk about it or share in comments. :)

Happy Vamps

It has been getting really dark, really early these and I have been thinking that if I was a vampire I would be super happy.  The days are short, the nights are long, they don't have to worry about freezing to death...yeah, it would be good to be a vampire way up north.  Anyway, because of that I decided to do a winter vampire look.  I am wearing the skimpy little fur one-piece outfit from Sakide for Around the World.  A vampire doesn't have to worry about staying warm so could totally rock this skin-baring look, hehe.  The outfit comes with a long-sleeved undershirt and boots as well!  My skin is a gacha item from Essences that you can get at The Deck right now for 150L a pop.  It's very realistic!  It comes with dark brows on it but I used the La Petite Morte eyebrow remover layer on top of it.  I used a set of alpha and prim vampire teeth from A Netherworld on that marketplace for only 75L and some under-eye shadow from my my store to finish the vampire feel.

My hair is from Alice Project for Around the World.  She has NINE new styles out for it.  I am not even joking.  I think the owner needs a nap.  The store is in like all the events ever, haha!  This style is called Yuri and can be used with any of the Alice Project Nova Collection dye huds to get the color you want.
Thanks for reading!
Worn:
Hair: Alice Project @ Around the World
Outfit: Sakide @ Around the World
Skin: Essences @ The Deck, gacha skin
Eyebrow Remover Tattoo Layer: La Petite Morte
Under Eye Dark Circles Tattoo Layer: Adore&Abhor, part of the Shreveport Date Night set
Vampire Teeth: A Netherworld @ Marketplace, 75L
Eyes: Adore&Abhor, upcoming hunt gift, not yet available
Bite Mark Tattoo Layer: Dreaming Alice, store closed it looks like (or at least I can't find it)
Pose: Marukin
Photo was taken at the Izzie's store sim.