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My family's been off on a lovely camping trip, my daddy did such a nice job decorating the campsite, so I wanted to take some pictures here. Trying to get a bit less studio-based, but it's haaarrrrd worrrrk, man. 

My whole outfit today is by Kylee's Place, at the newest round of Kid to Kid, the sweater and boots have like, a billion color-change options in a HUD, and the fox graphic is adorable. 

The superfun hair I'm wearing is by Doe at The Seasons Story, I really like Doe's unrigged hair for my TD, they have a lot of quite innovative styles. On my wrist, pride and joy, Noodles Slider Bracelet from The Epiphany gacha event, which I have completed in both Gold and Silver, including the fancy points prize charm for it. They don't show up well in the pictures, but I'm wearing some properly cute earrings by Rigby at Hello Beautiful.

I wanna take a sec to explain about the pile of things I wear on my face now. It's weirdly convoluted. I recently started wearing the skin I wear on my Big, which is Pink Fuel Harley in Porcelain, mostly because it's fairer than the Pink Fuel Doll skin I'd been wearing before. However, I prefer Doll's mouth for being a kid. So, on a tattoo layer, I'm wearing the "neutral lip + blush remove" layer, which is really intended as a makeup remover for Doll. It's not a perfect match around the mouth, but you really only see that if you know and you're looking close. So don't look close. 

I'm boosting my cute with PF Harley's Button Nose + Freckles tattoo along with my traditional Pekka Star Freckles, but the other big adaptation I've made to this skin by taking advantage of tattoo layers is at the eyes. Harley generally has some eyeliner, and after some searching, I found a layer by Des Lunes intended for use by kid avatars, which hides unwanted eyeliner, and is tintable for a good match. However for me, this took away a certain amount of definition I wanted, SO I put eyeliner ON TOP OF THE EYELINER REMOVER. Because I can. It's by Tuli and also tintable and very very subtle, but offers just exactly the level of defintion I was looking for. Oh and then my friend decided I looked too pale, and so she gave me her personal cheek blush, hah!

And that's what skin I'm wearing >.>

Credits:

Hair: Doe - Quirk (@ The Chapter Four)

Sweater, Jeans, Boots: Kylee's Place - Snug Lil Fox outfit (@ Kid to Kid)

Bracelet: Noodles - Fairy Tale Slider Bracelet Gold - with all charms (gacha @ The Epiphany)

Earrings: Rigby - Daisy Pearl Earring - Yellow (gacha @ Hello Beautiful) 

Tent: Sway's - Camp Out Tent - Bubblegum (gacha)

Trees: Landscaping by Felix - 1 Prim Mesh Pine Forest Cluster 

Makeup:

Nails: Adored - Sweet Tooth Mani (Omega applier)

Poses;

Image 1: Kirin - Hikari Pose 3

Image 2: Everglow - Hippie 08

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)

lotd200815

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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Lately I've been hanging out in Blithe a lot. It's a stunning pair of sims with lots of little areas for hanging out in and taking pictures and so on. Some of the pictures I've taken there are on my Flickr, directly from the SL viewer with no editing, that's how gorgeous the place is. A few days ago a new area opened up there, a bar in an old chapel, and I hurried on over, pausing only to throw together a suitable outfit, since it was an all-too-rare occasion for socializing. See I needed to be a bit casual, but also a bit shabby-chic elegant. I may be guilty of overthinking things a little.

So here's a thing I threw together or a refinement of same.

My lace shirt is something I've worn here before, in a different colour some months ago. It's by Nylon Outfitters and is an awesome little coverup, I'm a sucker for lace overlays and what have you. Underneath it is the supercute Jonquil chemise by Sn@tch, which has a lovely chintzy pattern in various colours. It's one of the things I've changed from my outfit since originally I was wearing the same undershirt as in my last post. But this one is lovely. I'm trying to accumulate long shirts on appliers for layering, it's sort of my bag.

My jeans are newly released from 20.Five and have previously been part of an SLX outfit bearing the same name, Tessa. These are a full version though, and come with a colour-change HUD with 5 different denim shades. I really like the fit of them and the highly defined wrinkles in them.

If you look really really close at my necklace you can see that the litttle tiiiny heart on it has a N on it. It's by Noodles at FaMESHed, and is so adorably dainty. Also, it has a HUD to change the letter, if for some reason you don't want an N on it...

My hair is part of a new set of released by Elikatira. I'm always excited when she puts out new stuff, even though it's so sporadically. There'll always be a part of me back in 2007 trying to bounce into the full region containing the big sales she'd sometimes hold with her old brand, ETD.

I've just realized as I'm typing this that I forgot to include any home/garden items or props in this post. This is because I suck. Please carry on as normal.

Credits:

Hair: Elikatira - Adeline

Shirt: Nylon Outfitters - Lace Crop Top - Black

Undershirt: Sn@tch - Jonquil Chemise (Slink Physique applier)

Pants: 20.five - Tessa Jeans

Shoes: Fri.day - Xela Platforms - Antique (gacha RARE)

Necklace: Noodles - Amore Initial Necklace - Single - Rose Gold (@ faMESHed)

Wristbands: katat0nik - Bow Wrist Straps - White

Earrings: Fetch - Sigrun Earrings - Rose Wood

Makeup:

Eyes: Wicked Peach - Passion 8

Lips: Angelica - Mellow Lipstick - Wine - Light (gacha)

Nails: La Boheme - Spring Beaded White (hunt prize)

Eye detail: Pekka - Eye Wrinkles and Bags - Light

Poses:

Image 1: EverGlow - Model 420

Image 2: Marukin - Breathe

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

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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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