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Goodness, look at me, wearing clothes intended for adults! Incredible! Not just any grownups clothes, grownups clothes that are coordinated! See the part where my dress matches my shoes. I'm terribly fancy. My tasty vintage dress and shoes combo is from GDit, a new mainstore release. The Dinner Party Set includes a fitted mesh dress for standard and mesh bodies, and shoes to fit both Slink and Maitreya feet. It includes not only the cream with coffee accents I'm wearing here, but also a rich coffee with cream detailing of both, and indeed made me want coffee. The iced coffee I'm carrying is from the Gilded Cage gacha by Tres Blah, from the round of Arcade which has just ended. It's almost my drink of choice from Starbucks - an iced mocha, with no whip. And an extra shot. But this seems milkier than I want. Ah well. 

I'm really enjoying being able to wear makeup again. It's a little more of a challenge trying to find new makeup these days for us stubborn types of don't wear a mesh head, but I'm still having a lot of fun finding new-to-me places that offer tattoo layer makeup. I especially love this lipstick from Shiny Stuffs, who now mostly make stuff for Catwa, but have quite a few system cosmetics, and the pouty shape of these red pinup lips is just glorious. I've also been wearing a lot of Veechi makeup lately, here, eyeliner, which I've paired with glitter from an old favorite of mine, Nox. 

My backdrop here is a rather neat gacha set from Culco from earlier this year, Street Sartorial, it comprises various bits of London-inspired street furniture - wall facades, railings, sidewalks, streetlamps, that sort of thing, and is super-useful for photography sets, I love that this sort of thing is becoming more common. 

Credits:

Hair: Exile - London (gacha)

Dress and shoes: GDit - Tea Party Set

Bracelet: Plastik - Opaline - Multistring Bracelet - Goldenesque (gacha)

Coffee: Tres Blah - The Golden Cage - Iced Coffee (gacha)

Wall, streetlamp: Culco  -Street Sartorial - Outer Wall - Blue, Road Lamp - Light (gacha)

Makeup: 

Eyes: Veechi - Winged Liner 8

Nox - Pearl Liner - Silver

Lips: Shiny Stuffs - Pin Up Lips - Classic Red 2 dkr

Nails: Hello Dave - New Season Berry Gloss 

Pose: 

Image 1: Ilaya - Brigitte Pose 2

Image 2: Flowey - Rise in the Air 

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel -  Harley V2 - Porcelain

Eyes: Buzzeri -  Glacier Eyes- Jade

Mesh Body: Maitreya - Lara

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

Feet: Slink Avatar Enhancement Feet - Deluxe

Ears: Mandala - Steking Ears - Season 5

Hairbase: Just Magnetized - Natural Hairbase - set 03

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

Mudskin - Face Mole 6

Lashes: Izzies - Mesh Alpha Lashes

Brows: Buzzeri - Nikohl Eyebrow - Lighter Tintable

Various tattoo layers:

Nova - Eyebags - Light / 50%/Hard

Okkbye - The Button Nose

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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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So yesterday, June 26th 2015, the Supreme Court in America ruled that same-sex marriages are legal and allowed and good all over the USA! You might have heard of this little newslet. Now, if you think this is a bad thing, I need to ask you now to go away and come back another day, because I'm sure you have your reasons but we are not going to agree on this matter and I don't want to fight you. Anyway, I am overjoyed. I am a bisexual woman married to a man and same-sex marriage has been legal in my country for some years now, but for all my friends who this directly affects, and for everyone I don't know who finally have the rights to live the life with their loved ones that they deserve, and just for what it represents for America overall - I am so so happy with this decision. Love is Love. 

I am also happy because on a completely un-sociological standpoint, I really really like rainbows a whole lot. Yay!

Most of my outfit here is in one piece, the shorts, tank and vest are the Clarce set, by Ducknipple. Each part of the outfit is color change via a HUD, so it can be mixed up in all sorts of ways. Under this, I have the Ripped Lace Leggings by Insanya, newly available on appliers and AMAZING for creating layered looks, with lots of options concerning the existence of underwear and color combinations and all sorts of good things. 

My shoes are from Katat0nik's machine at this round of The Arcade, which you have like 2 more days to check out, if you've been under a rock or something. These are the hyasynth version, which according to appearances earlier, I stole off her very feet. My hair is new by Olive at N21 and the flowers that go with it are so pretty and so color change <3 

Oh you can't really see it well but in the first picture there I'm holding a rainbow notepad - this is a group gift to celebrate from RC Cluster, you should go get it, it's lovely and when you click on it you can write in it, and writing stuff down is awesome! 

Credits:

Hair: Olive - The Sparkle Hair (@ N21)

Outfit: Ducknipple - Clarce Set

Leggings: Insanya - Lace Leggings - Ripped (Maitreya applier)

Shoes: Katat0nik - Art Shoes - hyasynth (gacha @ The Arcade)

Necklace: Earthstones - Gypsy Necklace - Multi/Gold

Piercing: Ellabella - Ballad of Stars - Rainbow

Flower Clips: Olive - The Precious clips (@ N21)

Notepad and pencil: RC Cluster - Notebook - Rainbow

Makeup: 

Eyes: Nox - Pearl Liners - Purple

Lips: AlaskaMetropolitan - Dark Matte - Swoon

Nails: A:S:S - Rainbow / Bella Elephante - Over the Rainbow (on thumbs)

Openmouth/Teeth: PXL - OpenMouth Pro V2

Poses: 

Image 1: Marukin - Peony 03

Image 2: Kirin - May Pose 6

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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A few weeks back, before this round of Arcade started, I was hitting up all the yardsales because I'd just discovered D-Lab's incredible Piccoli set from March's Arcade round. Don't judge, I was on vay-cay throughout March. Anyway I'd seen them on hya's platform and was like :O when I saw they little dude interact with two things, and I resolved to get LOTS OF THEM. Which I did. And they're all set up in a hidden location at the bottom of my garden and are lovely. Then this round happened, and the D-lab's Pippip birds. I am doomed. My little red friend here flies from tree to ladder and all points between, and there so many points between in my inventory waiting for me to set them up.

You might notice my hair is looking unusually natural today, that is because I bought the wrong pack of Olive's Powder hair at Uber, and the streaks are more reds, but ugh LOOK how beautifully it blends in, it's like, really really natural, I love it, and the shape of this hair at the back - it just falls like natural long hair, into wispy wavy bits, it's really really well done. It makes me miss my RL really long hair but then mine never looked as good at this. 

The theme of this round's Uber event is India, and my tattoos by Identity are not from Uber, but I'm pretty sure I bought them directly after being at Uber, so it's like a indirect influencing thing I guess. I actually bought them while I was on my search for cute tattoos that I mentioned in my last post, and there are matching versions for the legs too which I'm not wearing right now. 

My dress is by Oaken for Collabor88, I adore the neckline of it and the tightness of the top versus the open-sided skirt, it's got a certain timelessness to it and seems very comfy and casual to wear, I almost didn't wear shoes with it, But then I did, these are by Livalle and I've had them for a while but they're a nice classic shoe. 

Credits:

Hair: Olive - the Powder hair (@ Uber)

Dress: Oaken - Liberty Dress - Pack 1 (@ Collabor88)

Shoes: Livalle - Platform Heels - Cherry 

Piercing: Yummy - Cleopatra Septum and Medusa - Gold

Tree: D-Lab + Lizail - Pippip Apple Tree 01 (gacha @ The Arcade)

Ladder and Bird: D-Lab + Lizail - Pippip Set 5 (gacha @ The Arcade)

Makeup:

Eyes: Nox - Raze Liner - Blue (@ The Dressing Room Fusion)

Lips: Enfant - Molly's Liptint 11

Nails: La Boheme - Flora 

Tattoos: Identity - Taj - Hands (Maitreya Applier)

Poses: 

Image 1: Le Poppycock - High Horse

Image 2: Atooly Poses - 032

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 - med

Hairbase: LeLutka Hairbase - Jessica

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

Brows: Buzzeri - Nikohl Eyebrow - Light Warm Brown

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My crowning achievement over the last few days is getting all of the Tres Blah and Second Spaces sets from this round of Arcade (barring the Rares, because I don't need that noise) and cramming them all together on my dressing table (actually some of it is scattered around the rest of my bedroom, but there's quite enough to cram). So proud that I've taken my life into my hands and gathered it all up to take to my photo studio because my bedroom is a little too chaotic for photography. I really don't like moving No Copy things in a big pile like this. So wish me luck when it's time to put it back.

The vanity table itself is actually an edited version of one I got from Wimey a while ago and doesn't seem to be available anymore, I dragged it around to make it deeper and wider, tinted it a bit and re-angled the mirror, to accommodate all my goodies. What I love about it is its proper shabby chic look all scuffed up and a bit grubby in a believable way like as if I use it all the time. 

Now, while I was scouring the yardsale for my cosmetics haul, I wore this satin kimono by Oaken, I side-brand of Noodles. Um, when I say I wore it, turns out I wore only it. I didn't discover this until the next day when I logged in. So oops. Anyone at those yardsales, you're welcome. Still it was a good look, I love the texture of this, so sensual and touchable and nice. It's available in four packs, each with six textures at FaMESHed. 

So as not to be obscene, I've paired it with these flower lace leggings by Insanya, another of their excellent applier conversions, which I really appreciate. It's great to be able to wear these old favourites on the Maitreya body like this. So as to be more sexy, I've worn these wonderful shoes by Ducknipple for Slink High feet. The Lissa heels come with 12 colours options in the HUD, I've gone with a nice dark purple here to contrast the eyemakeup I did a really poor job of capturing in my pics. 

If I sucked less and you could see it: it's an awesome black kohl eyeliner with big gold wings, by Weaponized Sugar at one of the events I'm excited to be covering for Seraphim, The Makeover Room. 

Oh also, I want to talk about this necklace for a minute! Everyone's going crazy wanting the bikini from Zaara's arcade machine, but nobody is talking about how amazingly this necklace fits! Yeah, I set my ambitions low, it's true, but srsly. For some reason usually I have to move and rotate necklaces, I have no idea why. But this? Look how it drapes on my boobs. It's perfect! Yay!

Credits:

Hair: Ploom - Josefine

Top; Oaken - Bliss Kimono - Pack 1 (@ FaMESHed)

Leggings: Insanya - Lace Leggins - Style 2 - flowers

Shoes: Ducknipple - Lissa Heels 

Necklace: Zaara - Rudraksh necklace (gacha @ The Arcade)

Dresser: Wimey - Shabby Chickie Vanity

Clutter: Tres Blah - Jolie - Makeup Tower, Eye Makeup, Golden Hand, Nail Polishes, Nail Polish Collection, Makeup Clutter, Hair Products(gacha @ The Arcade)

Second Spaces - Makeup Junkie - Clean Up, Foundation, Contour, Lips, Brushes, Palletes (gacha @ The Arcade)

Tres Blah -Vanity - Plate of Treasures, Toiletries, Nail Polishes, Mirror (gacha)

Stool: Lisp Bazaar - Sunshine Side Table

Makeup:

Eyes: Weaponized Sugar - Super Kohl - 24k (@ The Makeover Room)

Lips: Nox - Shade Lips - Garnet

Nails: La Boheme - Mainframe Gold

Poses:

Image 1: oOo Studio - Sabrina_three

Image 2: Ma Vie - Jewel 09

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 - high

Hairbase: LeLutka Hairbase - Jessica

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

Lashes: Alaskametro - PrimLashes - Diva

Brows: Buzzeri - Nikohl Eyebrow - Light Warm Brown