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Happy Queen’s day! My fellow Dutch are going a little orange crazy on this day, which is the celebration of the Queen’s Birthday. I’m not likely to go into town today, but I figured I’d post this link to give you an idea what Queen’s Day in Amsterdam is like.

I’m wearing Nicky Ree’s Queen’s Day special Fiona in Orange and the oddly scripted but awesome looking Precious Queen crown, necklace and earrings from Alienbear. Odd because the crown comes with a built in heavy facelight, and the script is not really logical. Once you have figured how to turn it off it’s quite ok though, after all, with windlight who needs facelights anyway but to annoy your fellow residents.

I’m wearing Belleza’s Elle skin and fri.day’s Summer hair.

SLurls can be found here.

Yay.. posting a blog without being able to look up the exact names of the items because LL has messed up our little virtual world again. This should be fun! Oh well… lets see…

From top to bottom:
Hair: Nimue by Maitreya in bistre (got that one right)
Skin: Elle by Belleza in mocha
Necklace by Earthstones
Shirt by Coco
Jacket by Ahoaru
belt (group gift) by Coco
Skirt Rebel by 5th & Oxford
Shoes by 2Real

SLurls can be found here (or will be added when the grid is back up)

Pierced

Pierced, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz. Image post processed

Mandala has a new collection of jewelry out, among which this face and ear piercings. Although I don’t wear face piercings often, I think these are quite stunning. Mind you, they likely require some adjusting, which can be a challenge in laggy places, but they are copy/mod, so save an original version and play til perfect 🙂

Hair by Little Heaven, Skin by Belleza, eyes by PXL Creations.

SLurls are listed here

LOTD, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

I’m using Zaara’s lime Churidar (which came with the fuchsia Syona Kurta set) and matched it with Très Blah’s black scoop neck top for today’s look. The back of Maitreya’s Billow Boots matches perfectly with the black of the top. You’d be surprised how bad different shades of black can look together, but this is a good fit!

I’ve kept accesoires simple with Illusions’cord necklace and bracelet, and Artilleri’s Onyxia teal sunglasses. The bow belongs to the scoop neck top.

I’m wearing Tuli’s Sayuri tone 2 make up 1 (freckles) and Tukinowaguma’s Ellie hair in black and then tinted in some of the many options that pop up when you touch the hair. Lagtastic without a doubt, but cute.

SLurls are listed here.

A quick one today, because I have to hurry. I hate starting my days in a rush, but… oh well, I suppose sometimes it’s just that way.

I’m wearing Argrace’s new chiffon tunic (small flower), Ingenue’s Liasis shoes in late and Boom’s Chains of 925.

Today’s skin of choice is the beautiful red brow version of Dutch Touch’s Keira (caramel, dawn) and Truth’s copper Tesa hair is the finishing touch to this quite romantic look.

A special heads up for my eyes, because I rarely mention them. 99% of my time I find myself wearing these Glow eyes from PXL Creations in greygold. I used to be a hard core Miriel fan, but I love these just as much these days.

SLurls are listed here, as usual.

Unkempt!

Even though I am mostly very busy, I can not let Grazia hog all the hotness on this blog! Here is what I have on today:

Shirt & Tie – *ARGRACE* Feel (Fresh White)
Pants – Zaara: Classic Jeans for men *black*
Undershirt – Zaara: Wifebeater *black*
Hair – “FA”Trick Master [Gloomy Brown]
Shoes – Akeyo Chucks (Lowtop)
Glasses – HOC – Rectangle Framed Glasses #001

Just a reminder, you need to click the picture above for a full sized view in a new window.

Exile released some awesome hair just before the weekend and i’m showing you various shades of red today. From left to right: Mercy, Carly, Shirelle and Sadie.

Hope you all have had a wonderful weekend, and a good week ahead!

<3, Grazia

Yes, I fatpacked on these, and I also got the SLDD special purple tunic (only available today, only for SLDD members. Click here to read more).

Sooo… what does that mean? That means I have 9 of theses sets and 1 tunic to play with over the next couple of days, and that you will likely see elements of this set appear in a lot of my outfits this week.

I’m showing 3 of them here, the saffron, fuchsia and sky set. Shoes are from Armidi, Pixel Mode and Shiny Things, skins bt L.Fauna, Laqroki and Dutch Touch. All hair from Truth.

Slurls can be found here.

Miss Falingwater Cellardoor was gone for so long, that I almost expected her sim to quietly disappear one of these days, until a couple of weeks go she appeared on plurk… and updated her gorgeous flowers… and asked for blog links… and today she released new shoes!!! I’m a happy chick!

Shiny Things has always been one of my favorite shops in SL, and as for these Zimmy’s? I do not want to let go of them. Hurry over to Shiny Things, because Fally has a new subscribo thinger and as a welcome gift there are these shoes, in faded denim!!!

Innsmouth, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

The sim is modeled after the novel written in 1931 by H.D Lovecraft. Its a dark and stenchy and haunted place, yet strangely attractive. Lots of abandoned, worm-eaten and crumbling house to explore. But, beware, this is a role playing community, so please do not disturb the community members. When I visited Innsmouth earlier, there was no one around though… but actually that was only adding to the creepy atmosphere. A (RP) must see. Amazing sim.

Click here for a slurl to and more pics of The Shadow over Innsmouth

HUZ Back?

I know I have been away, just a little bit of fighting illness and then there is work! Anyways, hope everyone is okay and here is what I have on today:
Shirt:Emery – Shirt Plaid
Pants:*Muism* VSL jeans/Dark
Hair:CheerNo.HairDesing – TROYLEE [SurreaL]
Shoes: [ hoorenbeek ] Loafers w/Strip – Black
Eyes: Aitui – Mirage Eyes – Emerald Hills – Veins

Teacher’s Pet

Teacher’s Pet, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

I saw this Teacher’s Pet outfit at League today and I just had to have it. Lots of attentions to the details and the textures, as usual with Nena Janus’ designs and I just think the shirt is so cool!

Hair by Truth, skin by Laqroki, Glasses by Homespun, socks by League, shoes by GOS.

New @ Tiny Bird

New @ Tiny Bird, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

I seem to be a fast hair blogger today… oh well, in this case it may actually be true, since these will be released later today at Tiny Bird when hopefully I’ll be fast asleep.
Autumn just sent these to me and is okay with me sharing them with you already.

To the left you see Milk Thistle, and to the right Two Weeks.

I love Thursday hair day!!!

New @ Truth: April 22, 2010, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

Yesssss… it’s Thursday, hair day @ Truth‘s… and normally around this time of day I’m at work, but today I’m going in later, so I can actually post this when the hair is still warm so to speak!

From left to right, in warm brown colors: Tesa, Annette and Emme.

Have a happy Thursday!

When I started to unpack all all 8 make ups in 5 skintones and  tried the first one of Exile‘s new skins on, my initial thought was… “hmm… I don’t think this skin is for me” . Some of the stronger make ups look a little weird on me, just… not… me… (which may sound weird considering I wear a lot of different skins and have no issue adjusting my shape, but still).

But then, going through the make ups, I noticed that the softer lip colours were actually looking not bad. Not bad at all. Rapture gives my avie a more mature look, without the skin issues that usually go with an aging skin. So I went into appearance and tweaked my shape a little bit (pic of Rapture on my normal shape aside to the tweaked shape for comparison below) and I pretty much like the result.

Rapture is one of those skins that for me look great from a distance, but once you zoom in, the body shading that gives the over all definition, looks a bit harsh. For instance, Kavar added some shadow under the arm, which on the full body pic looks really good and natural, but when you zoom in… it’s really just a dark and somewhat blurred spot in the elbow pit. But since a lot of my fellow skinwhores frequently state that  it’s really about the face, I think this will not be a major issue. Also I am not a fan of the knees, which do look a bit like my RL age.

On the other hand, I really love the slightly desaturated skintones. Out with the orange self tan looks!! In with the natural skintones!!

Go try a demo for yourself!

NB portrait image is post processed

Exile's Rapture Body

Left: Rapture on my default shape, right: on tweaked shape