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So it got to be a new year and so I'm like, doing a thing, this thing, remember the time I used to do this thing? More relevant: remember the time I used to do this thing without opening my posts with some passage about remembering how I used to do this thing? 

Yeah....Good times...

So, okay, I spent most of December wearing sweaters, almost all of them from Ugly Sweater gachas by 8Bit, soooo many ugly holiday sweaters. But it's not so much December anymore so Xmas sweaters aren't the thing, so here I am in their Bee-Mas sweater, which I do actually own in RL. Except it's a little bigger in RL. My skirt looks plain but I can't believe I never used it before, it's so incredibly simple and versatile, it's from Petite Bowtique, a gacha which I guess might not be available anymore, but it was the Hogwarts uniform one, and I'll have to remember to use it more! 

So like, my boots. ALL DECEMBER, I wore variants of these amazing reindeer boots from Blubb. They were SO cute, and it helped that my cabin at my school's winter camp was The Reindeers, I wore the heck out of those boots in all their different styles, but they're none of them available now, so I picked up some other boots from Blubb, these polkadot rainboots. Why Blubb? 1. Because I <3 Jennah, who owns it, and 2. because alas, Blubb is closing down and is in the midst of a sale, everything 75L or less! 

My adorable hairband is from Tic Tot Toe at the new round of Hello Beautiful, and includes 6 colours in the pack but this red one goes with my boots nicely, and I like the fact that sugar skulls aren't just for November 1st! I don't wear a ton of jewelry, but this gingerbread man ring was part of an xmas present and is so cute, it's by Yummy from the Arcade, which has just finished so you'll need to track it down at a yardsale somewhere I guess. 

Finally my nails (at least in the second picture) are from Hello Dave's wonderful advent calender, which I played religiously because of how Hello Dave's nails are Omega compatible so I can wear them with my TD. Just because I'm 6 doesn't mean I can't rock a fierce manicure. 

Credits:

Hair: BarberYumYum 61 /with Bangs E (@ SaNaRae)

Sweater: 8bit - Bee-Mas (gacha @ Color Me Cute)

Skirt: Petite Bowtique - Magical Me Skirt (gacha)

Tights: idek I've been wearing them so long, I'm sorry! 

Boots: Blubb - Rain Wellies - Red Dots 

Hairband: Tic Tot Toe - Kawaii Skull Bow - Red (@ Hello Beautiful)

Ring: Yummy - Kitchy Holiday Ring - Ginger Bread Cookie (gacha)

Makeup: 

Nails: Hello Dave - Advent Nails - 3rd December

Poses:

Image 1: Imeka - Violet Pose 3

Image 2:  Kalmia Stand Free 2

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel -  Harley V2 - Porcelain

Eyes: Buzzeri -  Bewitched Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Cute Bytes - Toddleedoo - Baby Girl

Ears: Mandala - Steking Ears - Season 5

Hairbase: LeLutka Hairbase - Jessica

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

Lashes: Action - Natural Lashes - Burgundy

Brows: Buzzeri - Nikohl Eyebrow - Lighter Tintable

Teeth: PXL - OpenMouth PRO Teeth v2.0  - Baby Teeth add-on

Openmouth: Okkbye - Parted Lippy v2

Various tattoo layers: Tuli - Inner eyelid customization - tintable

Pink Fuel -  Doll V2- Crystal - Neutral Lip + Blush Remove

Des Lunes -  makeup remover

Cheek Blush made by a Villain

Pink Fuel -  Harley - Porcelain - Button Nose + Freckles (dk)

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Not going to Pixel Prom tonight. But I wanted to be pretty anyway. So here I am, being pretty. It's nice of me, and pretty. 

Credits:

Hair: Lamb - Need You

Dress: Goth1c0 - Lysana Gown - Forest (@ Illusion Point)

Shoes: Reign - Break-up Pumps 

Necklace: Yummy - Repurposed Charms Necklace - Eclectic (@ N21)

Wings: DRD - Fairy Wings Monotone (gacha)

Gates: Windsong - Leila's Garden Gates - Dark Rainbow

Makeup:

Eyes: Angelica - Summer Makeup Eyeshadow - Secret (gacha)

Lips: Nova - Hayden oo7

Tattoo: silentsparrow - Eclipse Tattoo - Ornate (Slink Physique applier - arms and hands worn only - for Mix)

Nails: The Plastik - Fairy Dust

Poses: 

Image 1: Imeka - Chaconee - Pose 2

Image 2: Bang - Stand 487M

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Harley - Porcelain

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

Lashes: Izzie's - Mesh Alpha Lashes

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

lotd290415 - GTA Special!

I've been playing Grand Theft Auto V for the last few days, as is the craze on Plurk. I played it on PS3 when it first came out, although it's more accurate to say that I assisted my husband. I'm good at the tedious bits. Not so much at the shooty bits. So I'm progressing rather slowly in the story mode, and in Online mode....let's just say I got distracted by the tedious bits. Right now, I've been concentrating on leveling my character's stamina. By cycling around the map a bunch of times on a really expensive yellow bicycle. I know, I'm lame. 

For my look today, I have attempted to recreate to look of my character in the game, and I think I did an okay job. Second Life Nivaya is rather more polished than GTA Nivaya, she also is, um, rather less mannish, shall we say. Because my goodness do female player models in GTA have the broadest shoulders.

The easiest part of my outfit was the glasses, I knew I had some fantastic decorated vintage cateye glasses by Yummy from a few rounds back of Colabor88. Next, the red skinny jeans. I was sure I had something in my inventory, but nothing was quite the right shade. My GTA character's pants are very very red, I've spent enough time looking at them while she's cycling to know how red they are. The ones I eventually bought were from Sakide, whose skinny jeans I'm a big fan of and I know she doesn't wimp out on the bright colours. 

Surprisingly much harder to track down was a black and white striped tank. I would have thought it was a fairly basic item, but I tried all my old standbys for basics and all of them turned up nothing. On my search I found a lovely yellow bike to pose with! Eventually Tee*fy came close enough to what I was looking for, it wasn't full-length or racerback, but I filled the gaps in with an applier tank. Also surprisingly tough to find were just the right kind of skate shoes.

I didn't expect to find exactly the right hair, and I wasn't disappointed. My GTA character's hair is a frizzy disaster, but this hair by Ploom paired with the awesome group gift hairband from Magika I think I've featured here before. It's incredibly versatile, colour-change AND tintable.

The hardest part was the pizza tattoo my GTA character has. Such a thing does not exist in SL as far as I could find. I asked if anyone could quickly make me a custom one with a Slink Physique applier, but nobody was free to do that and then someone reminded me about the Slink Personal HUD, which allows you to make your own tattoos and the like for personal use. After a Google image search and an unspecified amount of time in Photoshop, I dropped my texture into the HUD, and here I am with a completely appropriate pizza tattoo, yay! 

After that, all that was left to do was the makeup, a simple enough task with an inventory like mine (I speculated her polish would be chipped), and a gun, which I know nothing about and the Marketplace furnished me with something that looked more or less correct. And there I was. More or less the same person! Hooray!

Credits:

Hair: Ploom - Samantha

Top: Tee*fy - Basic Tucked Tank - Striped

Undershirt: Arise - Solid Tank - Grey (Slink Physique applier)

Pants: Sakide - Slim Jeans - Red

Shoes: Baiastice - London Sneakers - Canvas Black (gacha)

Glasses: Yummy - Ellery Glasses - Black 

Hairband: Magika - Headband

Gun: Arsenal Inc - 9mm Pistol

Bike: Toro - Racer Bicycle - Mustard (gacha)

Makeup:

Eyes: Wicked Peach - Winter Harvest 6

Lips: Nar Mattaru - Ember Lipstick - Classic Red

Nails: Action - Reckless

Tattoo: self-made for personal use (Slink Physique Applier)

Poses: 

Image 1: Everglow - Afternoon 07

Image 2: Repose - F BLADE 1

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Doll v2 - Vamp

Eyes: Buzzeri - Lillian Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Slink - Physique 2.3

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

Lashes: Alaskametro - PrimLashes - Classic

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Busy day today - various things commencing and whatnot. I started my day in SL by starting the exciting new Wayward Hunt, which is a rebranding of the venerable Zombie Popcorn event group, but it turned out I'd jumped the gun, since it didn't actually start until 1pm SLT, and here I was excitedly running around at like, 5am or something. Stupid timezones. So I plan on picking that up again after I've finished this post, since there's some cracking stores along that trail.

Instead of that, I did the also just-started-today TAG Gacha thingy, which combines the hopping from store to store nature of a hunt with the wallet drainingness of a gacha event! Um but I made it sound much less fun than it is. You wear a HUD and it teleports you to each shop and you click the thing there to show you've been there, and then there's a gacha machine you can optionally play and in each machine you have the chance to win a Rare ticket for a special prize at the end! Phew! The theme for this round is circus sideshow and there's plenty of creepy cute greatest show on earth stuff to play for along the way! 

It's where I met my little friend(s) here, Sai-Khwa, the two-headed monster of Thailand! Lassitude & Ennui's machine is packed full of a circus of cute and special cats, all of whom have their own little story, there's more to Sai-Khwa than meets the eye!

My shirt is by Offbeat at Xiasumi School Festival and I liked it because the ink blot looked like Mickey Mouse. I bought it on hyasynth Tiramisu's recommendation and then I bought the pants she recommended too and then was for some reason startled today when I went to see her and we were dressed the same-ish. On the one hand, I should probably be more original, on the other hand, I could have a much worse occasional stylist than her.

My awesome hair is by Olive at The Kawaii Project. I remember a few years ago, just before mesh was a thing, streaked hair was all over the place and I loved it, throwing a blonde streak all up in there. It's rarer now but I always jump on it when it's an option. My eye makeup is gorgeously layered and by Wicked Peach at Black Fashion Fair which also opened today because today is apparently epic. 

Oh, and my poster is by Frogstar at The End, a post-apocalyptic event which didn't open epic-today, but yesterday, which is close enough. The numbers on the poster can be changed. I chose 626 because of reasons, and if you can guess my reasons, you can be my friend! 

Credits:

Hair: Olive - The Steamer (@ Kawaii Project)

Shirt: Offbeat - Working Girl T-shirt 2 (@ Xiasumi School Festival)

Undershirt: Sn@tch - Iggy Jersey Bodysuit (Slink Physique applier)

Pants: Ison - Coated Denim - Grey

Boots: Katat0nik - Toy Boots - Tux 2 (gacha)

Choker: Bubble - Choker - All-in-One (gacha)

Nose piercing: Yummy - Safety Pin Nose Ring - Silver (@ Collabor88)

Ring (right hand): Schadenfreude - Wee Beastie Ring - Rabbit (gacha)

Rings (left hand): Noodles - Dainty Rings - Seven, Eight, Nine

Friend: Lassitude & Ennui - Sai-Khwa - Rare (gacha @ TAG Gacha)

Poster: Frogstar - Apocalypse Survival Counter (@ The End)

Makeup:

Eyes: Wicked Peach - Black Magic 3 (@ Black Fashion Fair)

Lips: Angelica - Rika Lipstick - Pale (dk)

Nails: La Boheme - Abalone
Tattoo: Letis Tattoo - Sancus (slink Physique applier @ Suicide Dollz)

Poses: 

Image 1: Marukin - Soft Grunge Looks - Peach (@ Collabor88)

Image 2: Bounce This Poses - Tiffany 2

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Doll v2 - Vamp

Eyes: Buzzeri - Lillian Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Slink - Physique 2.3

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

Lashes: Alaskametro - Prim Lashes - Classic

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My back hurts from playing too much Just Dance. That is the current full truth of my life. It's sad. 

This outfit contains no elements of what I had intended to wear except for the hair. It's one of those things where I was like "well I'll just change that.....and now this bit looks weird...." and so on. I'm leaning too heavily on yellows and purples lately. It's okay though. I dig yellow.

Okay so, my top is from the SLX outfit "Pawned". Ducknipple's SLX outfits which I have been featuring pieces from lately really are excellent value for money. The outfit currently has a promo price of 100L and for that you get this top (which comes in 5 color change options with a HUD), shorts, boots, and jewelry. 

With it I'm wearing Insanya's Ruffle Tutu, which has become a bit of a staple of my wardrobe. It's absurdly short, which in part is what makes it so versatile along with the wide range of colours and patterns it's available in, but the fact remains it is absurdly short. Luckily, so am I, and I have the good fortune to have tights. I've featured these before on my blog, they're by Schadenfreude, and one of the things I particularly love about them is that there are options about the height of the waistband - a lot of other tights I tried showed over the top of this skirt. 

Also by Schadenfreude in this post is my parasol, from the current round of The Seasons Story, and my bracelet, from this round of Collabor88, because I can never wear too much Schadenfreude. 

On the table next to me is a donation item from Xiasumi School Festival, with the proceeds going towards Save the Children: Japan Tsunami Relief. It's by silent sparrow and is adorable spooky-cute ghost-shaped daifuku mochi, which is a snack I love so very much. There's scripted holdable versions and mouthie versions and the tray gives you them and it's awesome. 

Credits:

Hair: Magika - Forever 

Top: Ducknipple - SLX - Pawned

Skirt: Insanya - Ruffled Tutu - Plain Gold

Tights: Schadenfreude - Miami Fishnet Leggings - Purple (Physique appliers)

Boots: Fri.day - Maggie boots - Buck

Bracelet: Schadenfreude - Pearl More Bracelet - 3 Skulls (@ Collabor88)

Nose ring: Mons - Septum Ring - Style 22 - Rosegold

Ring: Yummy - Bumble Bee - Pink (gacha)

Parasol: Schadenfreude - Kitsune no Yomeiri - Wagasa (@ The Seasons Story)

Table: Digs - Etienne Side Table 

Snacks: silentsparrow - Spooy Daifuku - Tray (@ Xiasumi School Festival)

Makeup:

Eyes: Buzzeri - Pixie Eyeshadow - Bronze

Lips: Kooqla - Malvi Lips 08 (noble)

Nails: Hello Dave - Flowers in Our Hair

Poses:

Image 1: Everglow - Model415

Image 2: Kirin - Sweet Girl Pose 5

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Doll v2 - Vamp

Eyes: Buzzeri -Bewitched Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Slink - Physique 2.3

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

Lashes: Alaskametro - Diva prim lashes