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Shoujo Spring

Posted in MV-SL-Fashion, new releases, skins on March 22, 2009| 1 Comment »

Mmmm… newness at Fleur makes me happy… especially when it’s newness in the Shoujo line, which currently is my favourite at Fleur. I just love the smooth and soft features of these skins. Roslin and CJ have created 6 new lovely make ups for this season, with soft pinks, sheer blues and powdery peach colours.

The body on this skin is the new Shoujo body, as it was introduced late last year. The soft glow, the handpainted look and the level of detail on this body makes Shoujo a worthy alternative for those of you who do not pursue the current trend for hyper realism and shine. And on another level, I hear many people complaining these days that everyone seem to use the same references, whether they were legally acquired or not, well… The creators of Fleur have been on a quest for references NOT used by everyone and their mom, making Fleur skins some of the most authentic and original skins available.

Hair: Alicia by Truth, eyes by Miabella Foxely (don’t even know if she sells them, but she should!), face shots made with the Filtercam from Mechanized Life (Codie rulez!)

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Look of the Day, March 21, 2009

Posted in LOTD, MV-SL-Fashion on March 21, 2009| Leave a Comment »

LOTD090321, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

Feeling all artsy today in Aoharu’s simple white long shirt, Calypso Giano’s striped Love is a Gamble top, Kari/TW’s black new school jeans and Redgrave’s black Biker girl boots. A colour accent is Muism’s Tartan 001 skinny tie and I’m wearing Artilleri’s Paula glasses for the intellectual touch.

I’ve picked the über classy but casual Grace hair from LeLutka for today’s look, and I’m wearing Lionskins’ SU fair 27. Love the luscious lips on this one.

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Look of the Day: March 20, 2009

Posted in LOTD, MV-SL-Fashion, Oh no on March 20, 2009| Leave a Comment »

Rant ahead…

Why don’t I just follow my gut feeling? A loooong time ago I stumbled on a then new shop from a then new designer, and I picked up the cutest looking dress.. only to discover that it was far from flawless, and that the primwork needed to be re-done before I would even consider wearing it… That dress by Indyra Originals has long been deleted, and although I have been looking at her designs on occasion, I have always had this “be careful” feeling that the vendors cannot be trusted to reflect the quality of the actual design. Last week at the clothing fair I saw this lovely outfit at her shop: Bourgeois. And that blouse would be perfect to match with numerous outfits…sheer, looking gorgeous… so I bought it. After all, designers develop over time, right? They get better, improving their skills…So I bought it, and I’m wearing it here. And it does look lovely… or doesn’t it… It does, except for the 2 less sheer “stains” under the arms, that obviously have not been properly cleaned up, and a similar stain on the neck, barely covered by the prim collar.

Anyway… I should make a habit of taking more time to shoot pics for the blog… Had I seen this before logging off from SL… I probably would have changed the blouse in something better, but oh well… I always hear people want flaws to be pointed out.. so here you have one… major… flaw…. Luckily the rest of my outfit is pretty flawless and pristine… like Insolence’s Dolores white bra, like Maitreya’s Ivory high waist skirt, or, also from Maitreya, the white slinky stilettos. Simple but elegant. Less simple, but simply to die for are Muse’s new Melusine earrings, currently available at l’Armoire . Also lovely are the Secretaire glasses from Le Petit Prince.

I’m wearing Tuli’s Nathalie skin, one of the sweetest faces around at the moment and ETD’s Juliana in strawberry.

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Insolence: Dolores

Posted in lingerie on March 19, 2009| Leave a Comment »

Insolence Dolores, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

There is this pattern… Camila Yosuke from Insolence releases pretty new undies… Grazia gets greedy Le.Sigh. Thanks Camilla for just dropping these on me, they are lovely. at first sight they may mostly look black, but the flowers have subtle gold, teal, purple and red embroidery. And then there is the white set and the pure black. Call me ignorant, but I have just discovered that the layer options that Camilla offers for the tattoo wearers among us are also offereing extra options to play with, for more or less sheer versions of the sets.

All hair in this collage is from Truth, the skin is PXL Creation’s Grace, the shoes are Maitreya’s the glasses from Artilleri.. and the roses …. they were a gift *smiles*

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Look of the Day, March 19, 2009

Posted in LOTD, MV-SL-Fashion on March 19, 2009| Leave a Comment »

LOTD090319, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

I found this cute green country boy shirt at Posh earlier today, and thought it would match nicely with my fave shorts of the moment, the Stein shorts from Whippet & Buck (available soon) I’m wearing them with the suspenders from the Kari/TW/CS new school collab outfit, Lucas Lameth’s Heartwood necklace and bangle and Truth’s soon to be released C.Edo ballet flats.

I’ve stepped outside of my normal skin routine and picked one of the fall edition of Starley’s Vogue skins (cashmere 3, frecks) which I’ve grown to appreciate more over time and actually looks good on me now (Vogue used to be one of those skins that one should just have for the sake of it, but it didn’t work well with the previous versions of my shape. See, I still tweak my shape every now and then, it’s a dynamic process). My hair is Exile’s Whitney in coffee.

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Look of the Day, March 18, 2009

Posted in LOTD, MV-SL-Fashion on March 18, 2009| Leave a Comment »

LOTD090318, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

Launa Fauna’s Isabeaux leather pants still rock my socks and hug my hips. I’m wearing it with another all time favourite basic in my inventory, the untucked Right Said beater from Last Call. I know it isn’t available any longer, and that it can easily be replaced with other tanks, but I totally love the shading on this one. Under the top I’m wearing the latest from Insolence, the bra from the Dolores set, which merits a post of its own (later this week). I’ve picked the Kensington boots from Tesla again, because of the perfect brushed shine that the leather texture has and Maitreya’s coin belt which has a pretty perfect fit for me, once I resized it like 15% larger because I’m so much bigger than Onyx. I’m wearing the purple huge necklace from Milk motion and the Claire earrings that Miabella Foxely made for LeLutka.

I am a bit in love with SLink’s new hair textures. I’ve picked Nicole this time. It comes with a HUD that allows you to pick the colour you want, adjust the texture of the hairband and slider adjust the size of the hair. My skin is PXL Creation’s Grace in Fashion tan, rose lips dark eyes.

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Look of the Day, March 17, 2009

Posted in LOTD, MV-SL-Fashion on March 17, 2009| 2 Comments »

LOTD090317, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

As I unpack box after box from the Lelutka spring collection, another look got created with one of their creations. I’m wearing the skirt and belt from the black Valentina dress with SLink’s gold button down shirt and Maitreya’s black long scarf. The stockings are from Insolence and the Verve pumps are Maitreya’s again.

I’m wearing LeLutka’s new light LondonRevolution skin make up 8 and the Journey hair from Argrace.

As usual http://slurls.wordpress.com/ for your TP’s

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Look of the Day, March 16, 2009

Posted in LOTD, MV-SL-Fashion on March 16, 2009| Leave a Comment »

LOTD090316, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

After the LeLutka spring event, and the incredible generous gifts of the ladies behind the brand to the attendants of the show, I found it hardto make a choice for the items to use in today’s look. I ended up mixing the Micha jeans, Gigi trench and Shanon shoes from Lelutka with the avocado scoop neck shirt and the new Jaquie hair from SLink! and oddly enough, I find the deep turquoise eye shadow of Fleur’s Vivant Marni 3 in buff the perfect contrast with the green from this outfit. The earrings are the olive melange earrings form Zaara.

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Look of the Day, March 15, 2009

Posted in LOTD, MV-SL-Fashion on March 15, 2009| 1 Comment »

lotd090315, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

The daffodils are in full bloom here and there is a lot of them just outside of my house. That might have inspired me to pick W&B’s gold Cole top as a colour base for today’s look. I’m wearing it with Nyte ‘n Day’s snake grey Vestige skirt and Michami’s Stella jacket. During a recent inventory purge I found Boing Fromage’s Sautoir set back, and the necklace, although an old piece in my inventory, is still so good! The shoes are Fnky’s classic pumps.

I’m wearing the pretty Poof hair from Magika and my skin is another work in progress from the hand of Hart Larsson @ PXL Creations.

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Preview PXL Creations:Jude

Posted in preview, skins on March 14, 2009| 1 Comment »

This is the first time I practically begged Hart to send me samples of a skin. And a male skin too…. Ok, I admit, usually I don’t beg at all, because we have this understanding that works out just fine: he sends me samples for my opinion and I drive him crazy with my feed back. But I don’t know anything about male skins, so this has really been his private project. I even only saw it for the very first time when it was well on it’s way already. First time I saw Hart in this skin, I was like… “wtf are you wearing…? That’s gorgeous…” And then I drooled some, I swear. By now the skintones are final (summer, autumn, winter and spring), and Hart will be working on the hair options. For sure this skin will come with a hairbase, for the other options, I’m still clueless, but I will keep you guys posted.

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Look of the Day, March 13, 2009

Posted in LOTD, MV-SL-Fashion on March 13, 2009| Leave a Comment »

LOTD090313, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

Über socialite Paris Hilton turned 28 and like a well educated spoiled brat should, she didn’t have one, not 2 but at least 3 b-day parties… a pre-day, a b-day and a Vegas do-it-all-over-again-day party. During the Vegas party she was wearing her hair in a flapperish do, which Zerlinda Boucher recreated for SecondLife and which I’m wearing here. So I decided to stay withing the theme and dressed up in Redgrave’s silver sequined Club dress, with Lucas Lameth’s silver Kau’i disk necklace and Michami’s black Noomie jacket. The boots are Tesla’s Kensingtons which I absolutely love.

Today’s skin is the gen 4, from Aden.

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Genesis – Eden skins

Posted in new releases, skins on March 13, 2009| 3 Comments »

Warning: opinion ahead!

The latest project of the multi talented Ms Ryker Beck is skins. Those who follow her on Plurk have been taken on a weeks long journey of development and teasing and finally, the end result is here, and it’s very pleasurable.

Eden has a face that remotely reminds me of some of the skins that I used to wear a lot, it has a full, luscious mouth like Evermore’s Hybrid and the carefully plucked and styled eyebrows like Pixeldeep skins. Said eyebrows are non mod though, and while they are subtle enough to not be “in your face” for the more fair haired, it would be nice to have options, especially since Ryker has made a tintable landing strip on clothing layers. To tackle the alpha bit in a skin is not the easiest thing to do though, so it might be something for the future to work on. As are the freckles, I really like a freckle face, I even like a freckled skin better, but for Eden I’ll go with the non freckled version, because honestly, these freckles look more like a adolescent skin problem to me. Eden comes in 8 skintones, ranging from a very pale, desturated skintone to a really dark one. Some of them more saturated than others, some of them quite orange even. I’m sharing the fairly neutral Nutgmeg with you which I totally like. Eden will be available in 20 make ups.

On to the body… Ryker is known for some fairly explicit skin reviews in the past, and while you won’t get any spread eagled shots on this blog, I’ll try to be as explicit in words as I possibly can. (more…)

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Look of the Day, March 12, 2009

Posted in LOTD, MV-SL-Fashion on March 12, 2009| 1 Comment »

LOTD090312, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

Feeling a bit bohémienne today I picked Ibizarre’s brown hippy skirt and wear it with the beautiful orange Spring sweater that I picked up at my last spree at DP YumYum. Then I added a little contrast to it with Lucas Lameth’s Maya II necklace and earrings retextured the turquoises from SLink’s leather belt accordingly. Make sure to always save a copy of the original if you do things like that. I picked Maitreya’s Grace heels to complete the outfit.

I’ve picked Soda’s Spring girl next door skin because of the sweet look and Analog Dog’s Go hair which has some pretty amazing textures.

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Look of the Day, March 11, 2009

Posted in LOTD, MV-SL-Fashion on March 11, 2009| Leave a Comment »

LOTD090311, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

Today is Jacky’s b-day… she’s one of my oldest RL friends, and not in SL or anything.. but I know she used to read my blog at some point, so… Jacky… if you still do… CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

That being said, I went for a very laid back look today with the beige sweat cardigan and the brown light pleated skirt from DP YumYum, worn with Tesla’s bronze Kensington boots, Kari’s plain brown belt and Atelier AM’s volume necklace.

I’m wearing Launa Fauna’s Elle F hair in brown 1 and Mai sunrise skin vol. 4

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Look of the Day, March 10, 2009

Posted in LOTD, MV-SL-Fashion on March 10, 2009| 2 Comments »

LOTD090310, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

I started out with the hair this time, I picked it up at Tukinowaguma and it’s called Setuna. I wanted something dandy to go with it, so I decided to go with the jacket and the blouse of Skin Flicks’ brown Cynthia skirt suit and pair it with Dela’s beige Katherine pants. The shoes are Maitreya’s Verve in olive and the gloves are the tinted tan gloves from Fleur. My earrings are from the faceted dark garnet arrangement set from Paper Couture and so is the Diamond Encrusted Square Cut Amethyst Ring.

Today’s skin is Efe, from PXL Creations.

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