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Starting tomorrow, I am going to be away from home for almost two months. I'll have my laptop, but it's not nearly as nice as my desktop, so while I will be able to be in SL and even blog some, my pictures are likely to be a bit um...worse. So I figured I should make the effort to be a bit more grown-up for this post.

It was tough to stop running around as a kid, so I needed to shock myself out of with by being all sexy, that's what's happening here, and also, here (nsfw) - kind of jarring, I know, but there's a whole slew of sexy events going on right now.

ROMP's Fresh spin-off event is one of these, showcasing a softer, more delicate side of kink. The Capture Me bed by Frogstar is from that event, shown here in the dark wood "Deviant" variant, but also in keeping with Fresh's theme, there is also an "Angel" version with light wood and white sheets. The bed itself is big enough for a small orgy, is loaded with Adult animations and cuddles, and rather importantly, incorporates a lockable cage for those who aren't allowed to play right now.

My Yes, Mistress eyemakeup by The Wicked Peach is also from Fresh, and has variations with either gold or silver liner on the lower lid.

My dress is by Insanya at the Burlesque event which is also going on right now. It comes in 8 lovely colours and a variety of sizes outside of the Standard. The skirt is very short in front and a little longer in the back, and the dress has a lovely bow on the back, and it makes me feel like a disreputable saloon girl.

My shoes are from one of Ducknipple's latest bargain SLX outfits, Brussel. The full outfit comes with a texture-change bustier, skirt, jewelry and these hot shoes, currently available for a promo price of only 100L$!

My usual red hair looked a bit heavy with this look, so I reverted my hair by Magika to its traditional out-of-the-box pale pink, which I must say, I really really like.

Credits:

Hair: Magika - Lemon 

Dress: Insanya - Yva dress - Marron (@ Burlesque)

Shoes: Ducknipple - SLX - Brussel outfit

Necklace: Noodles - Bury Me necklace set (@ MadPea Buried Alive hunt)

Bed: Frogstar - Capture Me bed - Deviant (@ ROMP Fresh)

Makeup:

Eyes: Wicked Peach - Yes Mistress Gold - 3 (@ ROMP Fresh)

Lips: Nova - Rachel o6  (Nyam Nyam applier)

Nails: Dark Horse Style - Valentines 2
Mesh lips: Cathode Rays - Nyam Nyam
Teeth: Loud Mouth - Parted Teeth

Poses:

Image 1: Ma Vie - La Vampira 08

Image 2: Kirin - Rumi Pose 1

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Doll v2 - Vamp

Eyes: Buzzeri - Lillian Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Maitreya - Lara

Ears: Ears: Mandala - Steking Ears - Season 5

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

Feet: Maitreya - Lara

Hairbase: LeLutka Hairbase - Jessica

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

Lashes: Beetlebones - Mesh Lashes - Papillion Black

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I've been leaning too much towards dresses this December, too tasteful. So here's this!

My top is an applier by KaliKo, she's been producing a lot of applier clothing lately which I'm really enjoying, and as a bonus she's also now doing Omega appliers, which is good news for everyone! Also good news, the outfit this top comes from is currently a freebie at her Slink West (Physique applier only) and Love-n-Lust locations! 

My impossibly tiny shorts are by Sakide at the F R O S T event as part of the Thermal outfit, and include various HUD options including an ability to hide the pockets, decorative studs, and for the daring, panties. 

If you haven't been to the Arcade yet, you're clearly not paying attention. My socks by Erratic and my snow monster companion by my apparently unofficial mascot-maker of the season, silentsparrow, are from this month's round, but also from a gacha are my supercool horns (the lights are animated!). All of Souzou Eien's gacha machines are currently marked down to 25L a throw, so I was able to pick up a few of these in different colours, plus a few other awesome items, for next to nothing!

Though my pictures don't show it well, my hair by Tameless is a punky shaved-sides affair with a very full ponytail, but what I really love about it most is that one little strand hanging down at the front. I think that is completely charming. 

Credits:

Hair: Tameless - Raina

Top: KaliKo Timeless - Ho Ho Ho Outfit (Slink Physique Applier) (free @ Love-n-Lust and Slink West)

Shorts: Sakide - Thermal Outfit (@ F R O S T)

Socks: Erratic - Eva - Holiday Socks - Grey Hearts (gacha @ The Arcade)

Horns: Souzou Eien - Frost Candy Horns (lit) - Green (gacha)

Septum piercing: Mons - Septum Ring - Style 20 - Bronze

Snow monster friend: silentsparrow - Snow Monster - Wampahh! (gacha @ The Arcade)

Snowflakes and snowman: Frogstar - Wooden Snowflake Trio/Wintergreen Snowman RARE (gacha @ The Liaison Collaborative)

Makeup: 

Eyes: Nomine - Megaliner - Betch

Lips: Nova - Aelia o5 (Nyam Nyam applier)

Mesh mouth: Cathode Rays - Nyam Nyam 

Tattoo: Letis Tattoo - Bohemian 

Nails: La Boheme - Xmas Bell Silver
Poses:
Image 1: Bang! - stand 456M
Image 2: Kirin - Cute Summer Pose 5

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Doll v2 - Vamp

Eyes: Buzzeri - Lillian Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Slink - Physique

Ears: Schadenfreude - Fey Ears - Spiral Horns w/rings

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

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

Lashes: Mon Cheri - Falsies

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I don't need no excuse to cosplay Ariel.

This rad sketch-style skater dress is by Noodles at Geeks n Nerds Fair and comes in various themes including Disney Princesses, Hogwarts uniforms, and Star Wars, and they are all amazing quirky love. 

The hair I got in Olive's amazing 75% off Black Friday sale (sadly now over) is PERFECT with it, and I'm wearing Fri.day's wellies from Kawaii Project because I don't want to get my feet wet. Though that's Splash! lore, I guess.

The necklace which is a dead ringer for Ursula/Vanessa's in The Little Mermaid was actually a freebie from Erare, the mermaidy side project at Celoe. It might still be there even. 

About my lip colour - it's from Nova Bodyshop, which is still relatively um....nova - and honestly their lipsticks are some of the best value on the grid if you own one or more mesh mouths. You get like 10 or more system layer lip colours within a colour family, plus appliers for Loud Mouth AND Nyam Nyam, all for usually about L$100, and as you can see, they're wonderful quality. 

My fishy companions are both from silentsparrow but separately. The one on the right is from the Elemen-Tails gacha machine, the other is a plushie available in the normal buying sort of way. They are each lovely though.

Credits:

Hair: Olive - The Izzy II

Dress: Noodles - Mermaid Princess Dress (@ Geeks n Nerds Fair)

Boots: fri,day - Cutie Wellies - Mint (@ The Kawaii Project)

Necklace: Erare - Secrets Necklace

Fishy Friend 1: silentsparrow - The Betta Fish Plush - Happy

Fishy Friend 2: silentsparrow - Fish - Water Elemen-tails - Ocean (gacha)

Makeup: 

Eyes: s0ng - Glitter Mood - Hello Pinky

Lips: Nova - Anne o3 Lipstick Layer (for Nyam Nyam)

Nails: Wicked Peach - Under the Sea

Mesh mouth: Cathode Rays - NyamNyam

Teeth: Loud Mouth - Normal Teeth

Poses: 

Image 1: Label Motion - Set #2 Pose 4

Image 2: Ma Vie - Phenomena 03

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Doll v2

Eyes: Buzzeri - Bewitched Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Slink - Physique

Ears: Schadenfreude - Fey Ears

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: Mon Cheri - Falsies

Ooo a Review! : Cathode Rays "Nyam Nyam" Mesh Mouth!

 Today I have been playing with the newly-released mesh mouth from Cathode Rays, called Nyam Nyam. I have been looking forward to getting my hands on this item since a few people on my Plurk timeline mentioned they were helping to test it out. 

I have experience with mesh lips before with the LoudMouth, but there are several key differences between the two.

The most immediately apparent difference is that the Nyam Nyam includes four different lip positions, changeable via an easy-to-use HUD, which gives it a very dynamic feel. The mouth also animates with the Second Life voice function enabled, although I have not tried it myself, I have seen a few gifs of it in action and it looks extremely cool indeed. 

It includes the by now de rigueur support for appliers, however on this day-one of release, there are currently none on the market and I have zero skin-making skillz, so I needed to tint the surrounding skin of the mouth the old fashioned way, using a the included colour-picker HUD. I was able to do a good enough job, I think. All the pictures in this post are unedited except for cropping and addition of a border, using the same Windlight setting I use for all my blog pictures, "Nivlight 2", which I will get around to releasing one day.

 Out of the box, the Nyam Nyam took a little work for me, personally, to fit. It was sized quite a bit larger than my usual mouth, and it was not immediately apparent (though it is covered in the online manual), while it is No Mod, it does contain a Resizer script. I needed to shrink it about 12% with the script to make the mouth a size I was comfortable with. The script is a basic "scale" type resizer, what I would love to see in future versions is the type of resize script which allows a finer grain control, allowing individual resize of the X Y and Z dimensions. 

Once the Nyam Nyam was resized, I had the problem of the included Alpha layer being too large for my chosen settings, however the creator Tashanni Resident included a copy of the alpha texture for personal modifications, and I found this easy enough to work with, with basic Photoshop skills, and when I was done with that, on a version of my shape modified with the slider numbers in the included notecard (and then tweaked a bit to accommodate my own changes I had made) everything was able fit quite attractively. 

I think the Nyam Nyam offers quite a stylized approach to the mesh lips market. The highly pronounced cupid's bow, and very split-looking lower lip will not appeal to everyone, and the range of lipstick colours included seems to cater in particular to a less-mainstream crowd. The lipstick textures, by the way, are lovely - richly pigmented and detailed cremes. The beautifully-shaped teeth are attached to the mouth in one solid piece, and reaffirming the appeal to a more alternative market, have included vampire and neko variety teeth in addition to the standard human pearly-whites. I would like to be able to move the position of the teeth up and down a little to support the angle of any picture I'm taking, but I understand with the complex nature of the Nyam Nyam this could prove difficult. Also I would be delighted if a gap-tooth option were added in future. But that's because I'm a big gapfacemouth.

Another minor gripe for me, although I'm not sure how I would address this anyway - it's probably just me - is that I found it necessary between the first mouth pose and the others, to reposition the mouth on my avatar's face, or the other mouth poses seemed too high. Or vice versa, the first position seemed to low. However that's probably down to my own personal preference. 

One thing I really love about this is how certain Second Life facial expressions can be used without having to worry about what the mouth is doing. For instance, the picture above, where I am blowing a kiss, is achieved using the Nyam Nyam's third position, and the Second Life "Disdain" expression. The photographic possibilities with the combination of mouth shapes and SL expressions are endless and exciting. 

While the Nyam Nyam mesh mouth is not quite yet in my everyday-wear category, I am certainly extremely interested in its potential applications in photography. With free updates promised "until there isn't anything left to update" (<3!) I look forward to any upcoming refinements, and can strongly recommend giving the Cathode Rays "Nyam Nyam" mouth a try if you are interested in giving your pictures some extra life or just if the style fits your aesthetic - Nyam Nyam on Second Life Marketplace and Nyam Nyam at Cathode Rays Mainstore in Second Life

Credits:

Mesh body: WowMeh Silhouette - Pink Fuel appliers

Hair: Fashionably Dead - Momo

Top: sn@tch - Devani Top - Sand

Panties: Epoque - Simple Bikini Panties - Lights Pack (Wowmeh Applier)

Makeup: 

Eyes: Pink Fuel - Harley Cosmetics - Vivid Eyeshadow - Vivid Green+ Wing

Lips: Cathode Rays - Nyam Nyam Mesh Mouth

Nails: Virtual Insanity - Sakura #1

Poses:

Image 1: Hiccup - Macho Man: Randy Savage

Image 2: Aushka & Co - Ania Pose 3

Image 3: Ma Vie - Phonomena 03

Image 4: Purple Poses - Model 07