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Still alive! I'm sure nobody was actually concerned but here's a reassurance anyway, I live, and if my outfit is anything to go by, so does grunge.

First off though, I am so very excited about the newest version of Firestorm, which includes all sorts of good things, but particularly the new Layer Limits which allows you instead of, 5 jackets, 5 alphas, 5 socks, and so on, a total of 60 of any combination of system clothing layer. For us mesh body wearers, what this means is, ALL THE MAKEUP, since we're basically otherwise just wearing like, an alpha or two. Sooo the effect is a bit subtle but I have PILED on the auxiliary face tattoos. I've got extra moles, and a thing that makes my nose more buttony, and TWOOOOO eyemakeups, and a lipstick AND a shader to make my open mouth look more natural. AND THAT'S JUST THE BEGINNING. Seriously I am mad excited about this.

I ended up dressing like a moody teen from getting dressed around my SL mom, Christa Echos. This put me in an understandably rebellious mood, and then we went to Kustom9, which, idk if this was official or planned, but seemed to have a nice 90s grunge motif going on, and that's where I got the plaid shirt and cropped top combo by Amitomo, the tank includes a color-change HUD too. My hair by Olive and shorts by Monso are from where we went next, Shiny Shabby, and were serious must-have items.

My boots I have actually featured before, by Bubble, and are appropriately called My Fav Boots.

Credits:

Hair: Olive - The Late Hair (@ Shiny Shabby)

Shirt: Amitomo - Crop Top + Loose Shirt - #6 (@ Kustom9)

Shorts: Monso - My Patch Denim Shorts - Vintage Blue (@ Shiny Shabby)

Boots: Bubble - My Fav Boots - Flowers

Necklace: Random Matter - Vira Necklace

Rings: IeQED - Dream Ring Set 

Nose ring: Atooly - Emma Star Nose Hoop

Skateboard: Everglow - Skateboard 1

Drainpipe: Twice Baked - Grocery Store drainpipe M0219

Trash can: Grimes Central Design - Public Trash Can  GREEN

Makeup:

Eyes 1: Tres Blah - Indie Liner 5

Eyes 2: Nox - Toxic Shadow - Night

Lips: Angelica - Milky Lip chop - Apple

Openmouth alpha/Lip shading: Okkbye - Parted Lippy V2 - Shading Pink Base

Teeth: PXL - Openmouth Pro Teeth

Nails: La Boheme - Arclight Silver 

Poses: 

Image 1: Everglow - Skateboard 1 - Pose 8

Image 2: Snaphappy - Aria 6

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Harley - Porcelain (with button nose tattoo)

Eyes: Buzzeri - Lillian Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Slink - Physique 2.4

Ears: Ears: Mandala - Steking Ears - Season 5

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

Feet: Slink Avatar Enhancement Feet - Med

Hairbase: LeLutka Hairbase - Jessica

Freckles: Pekka- Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek/ Mudskin - Face Mole6

Lashes: Izzie's - Mesh Alpha Lashes

Brows: Buzzeri - Nikohl Eyebrow - Light Warm Brown

Eyebags: Pekka - Eye Wrinkles - Light

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Busy busy busy busy! 

You know, Hair Fair starts on the 11th? I won't be making my customary post(s) about it until the week after next though, because I'm going to Camp Hardknock in SL, on my adorable kid avatar. I had hoped to ease into this change with some posts of her, but instead, flailing and panic occurs because there are not enough hours in the day! 

Also coming so soon because it's an exciting week, Wizarding Faire! Opening July 12th. I am a massive Harry Potter fan, longtime readers (who am I kidding?) of my blog might remember my posts on the Wizarding Fair a couple of years ago, I am a Hufflepuff and I ain't even sorry. I love to decorate my house in SL with little hints about my being magical, a cauldron of potion on my stove, a stack of spellbooks as a monitor stand, and so on, so these things here from various creators at the event will my heart with ALL the joy because none of them are like "I am a thing from Harry Potter" and are more like "I am a thing magical people have" and I dig that. The plants, by the way, are amazingly animated, they are so much fun and have earned a permanent place in my home <3

This wand isn't really mine though. Mine is larch wood with a phoenix feather core.

The awesome-creepy Furby tattoo on my thigh is from the Body Art Hunt and is by Operate Bodyshop, and so it deserves a lack of pants, as suggested by my shirt by Oaken at IDK this month which you JUST have time to shop if you hurry! 

 Credits:

Hair: The Secret Store - Sugar Hair (for MIX)

Shirt: Oaken - Wordy Shirts - HUD 4 (@ IDK)

Bikini bottoms: Sn@tch - Pua bikini bottom

Boots: Bubble - My Fav Boots - Flower 

Necklace: Cae - Seeker's Quest (@ Wizarding Faire)

Wand: Krave/Strike It - Nokturn Wand - Brown (gacha @ Wizarding Faire)

Couch: Little Llama - Lazy Lounger Yellow (@ Wizarding Faire)

Plants: HEXtraordinary - Frumious Blubbersnort, Flutterfly Bush, Venomous Tentacle Vine (@ Wizarding Faire)

Candy tins: Little Llama - Ice Mice, Blowing Gum, Every Flavow Beans (gacha @ Wizarding Faire)

Shelf: Atooly Home - Simple Shelf

Trophy: Distorted Dreams - Charms Trophy (gacha @ Wizarding Faire)

Potions bottles: Toiz - Summer Cool Portion, Funny Portion (gacha @ Wizarding Faire)

Badger plush: Lost Junction - Mascot Plush - Pomona the Badger (@ Wizarding Faire)

Makeup:

Eyes: Nova - Guilia Eyeliner - oo3

Lips: Adored Bodyshop - Liquid Lips - Electric City (@ Candy Fair)

Nails: Angelica - Candy (@ Candy Fair)

Tattoo: Operate Bodyshop - 90s Tattoo (for Body Art Hunt)

Poses: 

Image 1: Verocity - Hermione 3 (@ Wizarding Faire)

Image 2: Offbeat - Muah Muah Pose 1

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Harley - Porcelain

Eyes: Buzzeri - Lillian Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Maitreya - Lara 3.3

Ears: Ears: Mandala - Steking Ears - Season 5

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

Feet: Slink Avatar Enhancement Feet - flat

Hairbase: LeLutka Hairbase - Jessica

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

Lashes: Alaskametro - PrimLashes - Classic

Brows: Buzzeri - Nikohl Eyebrow - Light Warm Brown

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Today I'm like.....little yellow....walking hood....with a dragon, and a pork bun. It's cool. Um I'm sleepy, so I'm not even going to try to explain. I like these things, they're cool. Lots of love, Niv

Credits:

Hair: Fashionably Dead - Matilda (@ Collabor88)

Shirt: Tee*fy - Kelly Knotted Tank - Nope (@ Collabor88)

Skirt: Goth1c0 - Pitchfork Plaid Skirt - Purple (@ Suicide Dollz)

Cape: Ur Favorite One - My Favorite Saurus - Yellow Cape (gacha @ The Arcade)

Shoes: Boom - Melody Flats - Lemon (@ Collabor88)

Panties: Bubble - Circus Carnival Underwears (Maitreya appliers)

Purse: Zenith - Rattan Bag with Scarf - Orange (gacha @ The Arcade)

Dragon: Half Deer - Solstice Dragon - Smolder (gacha @ The Arcade)

Pork Bun: BluPrintz - Steamed Bun - Cute (@ Multicultural Menu)

Rings: ieQED - Persephone Rings

Rug: silentsparrow - A Forest Rug 

Makeup:

Eyes: s0ng - Glitter Mood Makeup - Silver Line

Lips: Angelica - Milky Lip - Honey

Nails: Wicked Peach - Offbeat

Poses: 

Image 1: oOo Studio - Rainy Two

Image 2: Sari-Sari - Cute01

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Harley - Porcelain

Eyes: Buzzeri - Lillian Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Maitreya - Lara 3.3

Ears: Ears: Mandala - Steking Ears - Season 5

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

Feet: Slink Avatar Enhancement Feet - flat

Hairbase: LeLutka Hairbase - Jessica

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

Lashes: Alaskametro - PrimLashes - Classic

Brows: Buzzeri - Nikohl Eyebrow - Light Warm Brown

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I had a birthday the other day! I got a new computer for it! It's nice, I pushed my old one too hard really, but the shadows on this one are crisper anyway, so that's cool. Anyway when it was my birthday there was a nice little beach party for me and here's what I wore to it and subsequently the next 3 days because I've been busy/procrastinatingy. Also because it's rad to run around in a bikini when you look this good.

The bikini itself is soooo cute and by Bubble, released last year but still so cute for this summer, especially if you never got that Rare Zaara bikini from Arcade. I actually totally did, but I didn't want to be a cliche. I needed REALLY cute tattoos to go with it though, and after asking around, settled on these Sailor Moon themed ones from Antielle, which tick all kinds of boxes, being colourful and cute, available in various levels of fadedness, and still being kind of badass. Very happy with them indeed. 

While I didn't wear the infamous Arcade bikini, my hair is from this round of Arcade, by Spellbound, and is lovely, the scarfy bit hangs down at the back nicely, and the other version of it in the machine has a lovely big bow at the front, and each pack comes with looooads of hair colours AND band patterns. Also from Arcade, the towel rack, by Snips & Snails, which after this picture is going next to my rooftop pool. The pool noodles right next to me are from a different gacha machine, at The Play Room, the McKids machine there has a big pop-up pool with great animations in it as the Rare, so I ended up with a whoooole lot of noodles.

My shoes are by Ducknipple and are admittedly a little precarious for the beach, but for tottering around SL in a bikini, perfect! As ever, they include a color-change hud with like, 12 options in it for good matching. My nails are by Alaska Metropolitan who continues to be some of the best value in SL with the whole pack being 25L for so many nice designs and colors for so many different nail appliers. 

Credits: 

Hair: Spellbound - Muse - Sky - Candy (gacha @ The Arcade)

Bikini: Bubble - Ruffle Bikini - Blue Rainbow

Shoes: Ducknipple - Mokka Heels

Nosering: Mons - Septum Ring - Style 23 R

Necklace; Cae - Seraphim Necklace (not for sale)

Towel rail: Snips & Snails - Towel Rack B (gacha @ The Arcade)

Pool Noodles: McKidz - Pool Noodle pack 2 (gacha @ The Play Room)

Makeup:

Eyes: La Boheme - Glamor Eyes - Calypso 7

Lips: Angelica - Cutie Lip Gloss - Salmon (lt)

Nails: Alaskametro - Tropics/ Silver

Tattoo: Antielle - Moonlight Justice (Maitreya Lara Applier)

Poses: 

Image 1: Slouch - Pose254

Image 2: Offbeat - K9 Muah Muah :-* pose1

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Harley - Porcelain

Eyes: Buzzeri - Lillian Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Maitreya - Lara 3.3

Ears: Ears: Mandala - Steking Ears - Season 5

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

Feet: Slink Avatar Enhancement Feet - flat

Hairbase: LeLutka Hairbase - Jessica

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

Lashes: Alaskametro - PrimLashes - Classic

Brows: Buzzeri - Nikohl Eyebrow - Light Warm Brown

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As I was writing this post last night, we received the heartbreaking news that Amy (Scarlet Chandrayaan in SL, owner of Alouette) lost her battle with cancer. It was for Amy that the Leaf on the Wind fundraiser was held (which I covered a little here), though she never was well enough to visit London. Amy and I were not close friends, but she touched my life and the lives of hundreds of others in SL, and on Plurk, with her kindness and strength, with her good humour and talent, with her grace and just being really, genuinely, truly good. I cannot pay enough tribute to her. She was an incredibly beloved young woman who was taken too soon and will be missed and remembered by everyone who knew her.

Tributes far more beautiful than mine can be found here: http://shewasourleafonthewind.tumblr.com/

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A couple weeks back there was crazy mad excitement on Plurk when Redd Columbia announced she would be bringing back her store, RC Cluster, and with all the old faves remade in mesh, to boot! After an initial exciting Fifty Linden Friday release of some fun and delicious glue and an awesome karaoke machine, the next wave of products is out and I'm starting with the crutches and cast set! 

These beautifully detailed crutches have a built-in AO for all your hopping needs, which includes some rather daring moves like the swinging I'm displaying in the top picture to take the strain off your good foot, as well as some more conventional keeping-the-cast-raised sort of standing. The cast you can wear comes in a Large or Small size and is signed or unsigned - here I'm wearing the unsigned because I'm a bit of a loner. A pro-tip - Even though my cutie shoes by Ingenue are rigged mesh, and so they cover both feet, I hid the one on my cast foot by editing with Select Face checked, and set the textures only on the left foot to 100% transparency. Just remember to set it back to 0 when you're done! The crutch and cast set is fantastic for RP purposes or if you just feel like you don't hop enough. 

My skirt is by Sn@tch and I love the little worn scuffy patch on it, makes me feel like perhaps I was wearing it when my unspecified leg accident befell me. My sweater is part of Bubble's new Pastel Goth release at Suicide Dollz, my grey one is covered in scaredy cats, but there are all sorts of light colours with designs like crosses, spiderwebs, bats and um...bows with eyeballs. 

I'm wearing a parted lips alpha by Kibitz, since I have finally figured out how to wear these things without looking completely derp. At least from the front. The is the new Vampy version from the summer round of Cosmetic Fair, the shading tattoo layer really sets them apart from a lot which are just an alpha, but between that and my hairbase, freckles, eyebrows and beautiful eye makeup by La Boheme, I NEED MORE TATTOO LAYERS. 

Behind me, on the wall, Atooly's Neon Heart Angel is available at The Fantasy Collective and is available in 3 colours and is going straight into my house after this! 

Credits:

Hair: Little Bones - Chachki

Top:  Bubble - Pastel Goth Collared Sweater (@ Suicide Dollz)

Skirt: Sn@tch - Winnie Jean Mini - Red

Shoe(s): Ingenue - Lacy Flats - Coffee (@ Collabor88)

Necklace:  Sweet Thing - Violet Melty Moon Necklace - Starshine (gacha)

Crutches and Cast: RC Cluster- Mesh Crutches 

Wall Art: Atooly - Neon Heart Angel - Red (@ The Fantasy Collective)

Makeup:

Eyes: La Boheme - Glamour Eyes - Babarella S1 - 5

Lips and teeth: Kibitz Teeth System - Vampy (@ Cosmetic Fair)

Nails: Nylon Outfitters - Art Nails - Fresh and Light (@ Collabor88)

Poses: 

Image 1: in the crutches

Image 2: oOo Studio - Moody_five

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Harley - Porcelain

Eyes: Buzzeri - Lillian Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Maitreya - Lara 3.3

Ears: Ears: Mandala - Steking Ears - Season 5

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

Feet: Slink Avatar Enhancement Feet - flat

Hairbase: LeLutka Hairbase - Jessica

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

Lashes: Alaskametro - PrimLashes - Diva

Brows: Buzzeri - Nikohl Eyebrow - Light Warm Brown