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Yay I'm away from home and on my laptop and so all my pictures are jaggedy like this! Woo! Sorry, this is how it's gonna be for the next couple of months. 

Here I'm doing a joint post with Persephone Paine from Dressing in Pixels because I'm sitting next to her right now in real life! So here we are, in our finery from Collabor88. A really nice cozy downbeat theme this month with some nice alternatives to February's usual red-and-pink-and-hearts overdose. I think the colour palate is designed around this year's Pantone color of the year, Marsala.

I'm wearing the new skin from Lara Hurley, this is the first of her skins I've tried and it's a bit less pale than I've become accustomed to but it's really so very pretty in the face. 

So here we are both wearing the Plaid Heart dress by Katat0nik at Collabor88, and the two beautiful hairs Clawtooth has out, on me Yvette, and on Persephone, Erica, which has bangs. Perse is also rocking the full set of silentsparrow's Forest Love barettes which I gave a preview of a few posts ago. We're also wearing the Yummy's Best Friends necklaces because we're secretly in middle school.

I've also got on the knee socks by Atomic, which are system or appliers, with mesh tops, and Fri.day's Marsali flats, while Perse is wearing Ingenue's Cecily flats. 

Behind us is a couple of silentsparrow's Hunter's Kiss artworks, which are also available as stunning necklaces by Schadenfreude at Collabor88. It's been a good haul.

Credits: 

On Nivaya:

Hair: Clawtooth - Yvette - Outrageous (@ Collabor88)

Dress: Katat0nik - Plaid Heart Dress - Greige (@ Collabor88)

Socks: Atomic - Slouchy Knee Socks - Taupe (@ Collabor88)

Shoes: Fri.day - Marsali Flats - Olive (@ Collabor88)

Necklace: Yummy - Best Friends 1 (@ Collabor88)

Pictures: silentsparrow - Hunter's Kiss Deer/Hedgepig (@ Collabor88)

Makeup:

Nails: Flair - Maitreya Nails 3

Poses:

Image 1: Bang - Sweets

Image 2: Niv: oOo Studio - Cheesecake 1 Perse: Adorkable Poses - Handbag5

The Basics:

Skin: Lara Hurley - Heidi - Milky - Natural

Eyes: Buzzeri - Lillian Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Maitreya - Lara

Ears: Ears: Mandala - Steking Ears - Season 5

Hands: Maitreya - Lara

Feet: Maitreya - Lara

Hairbase: Ploom- Curly Hairbase Red 1

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

On Persephone:

Hair: Clawtooth - Erica (@ Collabor88)

Dress: Katat0nik - Plaid Hearts Dress - Dk Berry (@ Collabor88)

Shoes: Ingenue - Cecily Flats - Merlot (@ Collabor88)

Necklace: Yummy - Best Friends 2 (@ Collabor88)

Barettes: silentsparrow - Forest Love Barettes - Heart/Arrows/Blue Bird/Shroom (@ Collabor88)

Makeup: 

Lips: Pink Fuel - Harley - Crystal - Orange

Nails: Nylon Outfitters - Be My Valentine Nails (@ Collabor88)

The Basics:

Skin: Izzie's - Olive - Pale

Eyes: Mayfly - Luminous - Twilight Steel

Mesh Body: Maitreya - Lara

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This is actually a look I put together last year (with a few minor alterations) but never got to blog. I wore it until it smelled, figuratively speaking. It contains *gulp* system layers, so no Physique today.

Credits:

Hair: Wasabi Pills - Rene

Blouse: Sn@tch - Gilda Blouse - Black

Corset: Sn@tch - Patrona Corset - Teal

Jacket: Montagne Noire - Aviatrice Jacket - Verdigris

Pants: Schadenfreude - Strigoi Stripe Trousers

Boots: Lassitude&Ennui - Flutter Boots - Jay

Gloves: Scahdenfreude - Bixin Gloves (Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands appliers)

Ring: Atomic - Macabre - Skull Ring (@ Uber)

Hair Flowers: Bubble - Skully Flower Hairpin (Mix V2/Light Teal V2/Red V1)

Treat Bucket: Schadenfreude Treat Bucket 2014

Makeup: 

Face Makeup: Leti's Tattoo - Sugar Skull Face Tattoo - Red

Nails: La Boheme - Magnetic Black

Poses: 

Image 1: oOo Studio - Jewel Three Opt2

Image 2: Kirin - Athena Pose 5

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Doll v2

Eyes: Buzzeri -Bewitched Eyes - Jade (@ kustom9)

Ears: Schadenfreude - Fey Ears - Widowed

Hands: Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands - Flat (R) and Casual (L)

Hairbase: LeLutka Hairbase - Jessica

Lashes: Mon Cheri - Falsies

Obligatory Hair Fair 2014 Post! Part One

Yesterday, Persephone Paine of Dressing In Pixels and I fought our way into Hair Fair. We rode the little "prim bus" around and I drove because I'm bossy cool because that's my favourite part of Hair Fair each year. Other than the hair.

And such hair I got.

We got around two of the four sims before our funds/energy ran out. But I still got enough hair to span many, many blog posts.

Here are some of them, in roughly alphabetical order!

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Saltgrass - Denize: I was fortunate enough to receive this as a review copy. Saltgrass, a relative newcomer, offers a huge amount of really nicely-done textures in each HUD-controlled style, I believe they're definitely a brand to keep an eye on. Denize is a lush side-parted layered style, casually tossed over one shoulder, with a few flyaways and a nice wave to it. 

Argrace - Minami: I have a hat like this in RL! In fact, I'm wearing it in my RL pic in my inworld profile! It doesn't say Argrace on it though. And my hair wasn't red when that picture was taken. But other than that. It's totally like me! Woo yay!

Argrace - Kanade: A companion style to Minami, this has a super-adorable little braid over the shoulder, and cute little wavies around the face. I didn't used to be able to wear Argrace hair because they didn't have a red that suited me, so I'm incredibly glad this has changed in recent years, their hat-hair in particular can't be beat. And, a dragon is wearing my RL cowboy hat now. So I needed this.

Saltgrass - Raleigh: Another luxuriously thick wavy style from Saltgrass, this one is centre parted and takes especially well to the on-trend ombre textures we're seeing so much of lately.

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Atomic - Darling: I don't remember seeing this one in the Demo group, this was my first unplanned purchase. A very youthful mid-length style, Darling includes a rigged and unrigged version, and the dainty bow is texture change in a range of colours. Atomic's reds pack is a little more Natural than I would normally wear, but has a very wide range of shades in it, ranging from a pale strawberry blonde to a very deep mahogany, though, so that's cool.

Olive - Alice: On the other end of the scale, Olive, whose reds in my preferred pack (Pack 2) are very very bright. And I like that! But I'll probably tint these a light grey to tone them down for everyday wear. I love the placement of the bangs on Alice, the style frames my face beautifully, and the locks of hair themselves have a nice wave to them.

Olive - Anna: This is one of the few very long styles in SL that doesn't look kind of silly. The way the hair falls and lightly tangles is gorgeous. Until about 6 months ago, my hair RL was about this long, buuuut, it did not look as pretty at this. 

Olive - Crystal: A wavy midlength thingy. A very very very long time ago in SL, I had a style from Naughty that was like this and I loved it with all my heart. I have a total weakness for longish wavy styles with a centre parting like this. As a sidenote: I want to wear ALL of Olive's textures, alllll the time. They're such fresh, beautiful colours.