Posted in MV-SL-Fashion, preview, Sale on June 9, 2009| 1 Comment »
Blowpop Maya, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.
This is a preview of Maya, a new skin which will be the next release at Blowpop, after Annyka ends the current 50%-60% off clearance sale on June 21! so this is a great occasion to stack up on your Blowpop collection.
Posted in hair, MV-SL-Fashion, new releases, preview on March 27, 2009| 2 Comments »
Coming soon: Tiny Bird, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.
A couple of weeks ago, Autumn Hykova shared a folder with a lovely updo and tests for her new textures with me, and I fell in love. later I understood that these were not for Pixeldust, but that Ms. Hykova has been working on a new hair brand, Tiny Bird, and has been working steadily to create a collection of lovely, feminine hairdo’s.
I’m honoured she’s been willing to share her unreleased designs with me. From left to right, Giselle in the dark Dragees colour, which can be worn with bangs, like I do here, or without, Charlotte, in cream, which oozes class and femininity and Autumn’s latest Esme, which is a casual ponytail in what may be my favourite of her textures, Café au lait.
The Tiny Bird hair will be available soon.
Posted in preview, skins on March 25, 2009| 1 Comment »
Hart sent me the final preview of Grace Fair, which is the last skintone to complete the Grace line @ PXL Creations and….. he has made a series of special spring make ups!! So I just had to put them together on an image to share the upcoming with you. Keep an eye on the PXL Creations blog for the release later this week
Other need to knows: Hair Jacquie by SLink, jewelry by Caroline Apollo and snapshots taken with Mechanized Life Filtercam
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.
Posted in preview, skins on March 6, 2009| 1 Comment »
A couple of months ago Anyka Bekkers of Blowpop called out for beta testers for her new skins. I’ve always liked Annyka’s approach to skins, but unfortunately, her skins never fitted me well, so the times I have been seen in public wearing hers, add up maybe to 4… 5 times? With the betas I already noticed a difference in the way the skins looked on me. More friendly, less spoiled… I gave her a ton of feed back and then… nothing. Every now and then on Plurk I read how Anyka decided to rebrand and was looking for a new name, and a new style for her vendors and shop… but no release in sight. Until last night, when she dropped a preview pack on her beta testers with not one, not two, but three new skinlines! And they look good on me!!!!
So far every skin comes in 3 skintones, with 6 make ups and hair base/ho hair options. Meet Ava, Carmen and freckleface Elizabeth:
Posted in fashion, MV-SL-Fashion, new designers, new releases, preview, style-up on February 3, 2009| 1 Comment »
W&B, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.
Finally I got a go from Twiggy Whippet to use these dresses in a blogpost. She sent me these some time ago as a gift, but since she was no where near to opening her shop, it didn’t feel right to put pressure on her by blogging them back then.
Twiggy is the primary designer of Whippet&Buck and she’s currently building her shop and inventory and when I asked her about the status of things, she gave me a go, and she told me she’s planning to open in about 2 weeks. So keep an eye open for more information and SLurls and such.
So from left to right, I have styled the Bardot Tartan Tube dress in a few different ways:
The Olive drab dress I’m wearing with LeLutka’s black Dietrich blouse, Kyoot Army’s brown/black Electro belt, and Maitreya’s lime patent pumps. The purple Valentino I’ve teamed up with the scarlet medium length gloves from Fleur and the Feur scarlet Leather Sash Belt. The necklace is Aemilia, from W&B and the shoes are Belle, from Shiny Things. Then there is the Indigo, which I’m wearing with the Cole boat neck top from W&B in Electric, and the Turquoise patent belt from Fleur, and the classic blue stacks from Shiny Things. To the far right I’m wearing the Bardot Tartan Tube dress in gold, as is, with only the Calla necklace from Dela and the yellow Dahlia pumps from Armidi.
Further, in all 4 cases, I’m wearing Efe,fromPXLCreations, which I’ve been told is about to be released later this week and Damselfly’s Valerija hair.
Posted in new releases, photography, photos, preview, skins, SL on October 18, 2008| Leave a Comment »
So here is another one of the photos that I have been taking with the new Fleur skin. This photo is hardly touched. I have created the softness with in-world lighting and glow. Ok.. I retouched the buttocks, as they tend to look so edgy when you sit (and added the cast shadow)
But what this is about is not discussing photoshop techniques. It is to show you the details of the back of Allure. This skinline is fully hybrid, and showing more photorealism than previous Fleur skins. I think this back is so pretty, with the delicate spine and the shoulderblades so beautifully done. Oh, and did I mention I positively adore the dimples?
Allure will be available as of Sunday 19 October noon slt.
Hair by Truth (Deux), Earrings from Kraftika (No 130) , Tattoo from Marly’s (Man Ray)
Posted in photography, photos, preview, skins, SL on August 17, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Tuli Asturias was kind enough to send me a set of the skin that she will release later today, the lovely Elizabeth, which is a tribute to Callie Joubert.
Posted in freebie, Grapevine, poses, preview on February 14, 2008| Leave a Comment »
[update 02/16] Due to unforseen circumstances the official opening of Rue d’Antibes is postponed a bit…. so the poses I gave you a preview on…guess i’ll be sitting on them some more… and maybe add another few 🙂
Wheeee! Thank you al so much for your feedback on the poses and the shapes. I’m so glad you like them. Upon request I have started to add the pose sets to onrez.com so that you can gift them easier. Shapes and their demos will follow. You’ll find them here
This is a preview on a miniset of 5 poses that will be available for just 1L$, only this weekend (February 16 -17) on occasion of the official opening of the Rue d’Antibes sim.
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