Steampunked

“Supervillain” means never having to say you’re sorry”
― G.D. Falksen

Just a little reminder that a new you need to hurry to get to Soho Market, only a few days left of this round. I found this cute azz ripped jeans there! Also don’t forget about The Luck of the Irish Gacha event. It’s still there, so go get this cute top and corset, and the boots, my new favorite.

 

Body:
Skin:  *YS&YS* Mina Skin – Skin Fair 2014
Hair: TRUTH HAIR Maiko [Black Fade Purple / Silver Black] – The Arcade

Clothes:
Top:  1 Hundred. Gacha. Dreamer Vest – Luck of the Irish Event
Corset: DGD Lucky Underbust Corset – Rainbow Rare – Luck of the Irish Event
Jeans: [LDP] Black Ripped Jean – Soho Market
Boots: AZ Blarney 1 – Luck of the Irish Event

Accessories:
Nails: Beautiful Freak Nails – Black Celebration – Slink West
Make up: Boobielicious Soiree – Moondust Night Eyeshadow – Skin Fair 2014
Piercings:  Puncture Anti-Eyebrow (Gemstone) Basics
Piercings: dl:: DL Face Piercings 01
Collar/Hat/Mouth key: *{ SeVered GarDeN }* AGATHA dark
Gloves: X-DollZ Laced Gloves BLACK
Belt: ~Pepper~ Chained Belt – old inventory item

Remember

Never be afraid to try something new;
remember amateurs build the ark,
professionals build the Titanic
~Unknown

Someone who always inspire me to do something different to what I’m used to is Demien Sage Mortis, check out his blog here. He challenged me again and this is what I came up with.

Lola:

Body:
Skin:  *YS&YS* Mina Skin – Skin Fair 2014
Hair: *booN LCA518 hair black/chocolate/purple

Clothes:
Pants and hoodie: ::Envious:: Paris – Whore Couture
Stockings:  C h a r y  Fades.
Boots: * .:: deeR ::. * MESH higher combat boots – Luck of the Irish Event

Accessories:
Nails: Beautiful Freak Nails – Black Celebration – Slink West
Face Tattoo: [Plastik]-Soul Ink-Soulless/Pollock
Piercings:  C h a r y . – Horizontal Body Horns (BLACK) – The Big Show
Piercings:  Puncture Anti-Eyebrow (Gemstone) Basics
Headpiece/arm bands/leg band: *{ SeVered GarDeN }* RASHIDA * FUR

Demien:

Hair – *ARGRACE* ARATA – Blacks
Crown – .Pekka. Barbed wired crown – old metal
Ears – [MANDALA]Stretched EARS-OMIMI
Nose Chains – .ARISE. Double Nose Chain / Black
Hood – *chronokit* ModsCoat02 Black
Top – DOZZE – Denim Vest (Black)
Harness – ::ZED:: MESH Black Hex, Latex & Leather Harness Laced
Pants – LQMesh Suspender CargoPants UNISEX – REDGRAVE
Boots – [Gos] GTFO Boots in Black [M]-

The Frill

Today, this is all I have to say:

stubborn
ˈstʌbən/Submit
adjective
1. having or showing dogged determination not to change one’s attitude or position on something, especially in spite of good reasons to do so.

 

This cute undies is a rare from {B-DaZZeled} and the Butterfly ring from  PMS available soon at the Luck of the Irish Gacha Event! Don’t miss it!

Success

Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be
Successful
~Albert Schweitzer

A while go, when I left co-blogging on another blog, I didn’t feel like much of an success. I had to start from the bottom with this one, as I didn’t give it much attention as I was more focused on the combined blog. I was in constant competition with the other blog, until one day I realized that I was blogging for the wrong reasons. I started out the right way, but it somehow got into competition and I lost my real focus. Happiness. I can now say that it’s almost a year later, I have no idea how that other blog is doing, but I know I’m a success. Not because of fame or what other people think of me, but how I have grown and how I view my accomplishments. It’s still a huge work in progress. I still think I  get a lot of misses, but I’m happy 😀

Body:
Skin:  Glam Affair – Vera – America 07
Hair:  [elikatira] Shine – Brown 

Clothes:
Top:  Tee*fyAna Slouchy Satin Tank  and bra from Viomagic – old inventory item
Pants and Stockings:  ..::KnocKeRs::.. Hipstah Shorts –  The Hipster Fair
Shoes:  N-core Donna – new at FaMeshed

Accessories:
Necklaces:  MishMash Crucifix Necklace
Earrings: [EY:NO] Chained Cross Earrings
Ring:  ::LEONARD:: Love you
Tattoo:  PMS – I see you – includes Lola and Slink Appliers

The Secret

Remember that failure is an event, not a person

~ Zig Ziglar

One of my favourite bloggers/inspirational people is Chris Brogan and when I read this quote I was reminded of something I read when I thought I was not making progress as I wanted too. Chris said if things are not going as you want it too, re-evaluate what you are doing. Make a new goal. I didn’t change my goal, but I decided to change my approach. I decided to make my goal more visual.

His second piece of advice was, help others. I do that indirectly with my blogging. Sure, not in a RL way, but the other day someone on my timeline on Facebook commented that bloggers get angry that they are being “copied” by other people. It made me laugh out loud, because what is the point of being a fashion blogger then? Isn’t it so that you can show people a style for them to go buy the product and wear it too? If I see someone copy me, I feel flattered. Someone actually liked the way I styled enough to want to look exactly like me. It would make me feel so accomplished.  I will always encourage people and help them where I can. Even if it sometimes mean that they turn out to be a more accomplished blogger! I love seeing people happy.

Then his last piece of advice, take action every day! Do something every day to achieve your goal. My goal is huge passion, so this is the easy part. Learning a new skill, looking for something different, looking for inspiration.

So if at first you don’t succeed.. remember, that failure is an event, not a person.

Body:
Skin:  Glam Affair – Vera – America 07
Hair: [INK] Hair___BPPYO ::Blonde

Clothes:
Pants: IAF Black Highwaist Shorts (With Phat Azz Appliers) –  Soho Market
Cardigan and top: *ZC* Boho Cardigans and Patchwork Purse – The Hipster Show
Stockings: C h a r y . – Black Sporty’s – Dark Pink
HI-Tops: Eudora 3D Army Hi-Tops

Accessories:
Rings: The P!nk Bandaid -Boxed- iMustache Dualring and MG – Rings – Roho – Gold-Silver
Necklace: ! AimLesz Style* Mustache Chain

Short Love

Okay so this is the second time this week that I’m blogging these shorts from Fuck-Lish, but I’m really just in love with them. You know how something just sit right.  The top are from Fuck-Lish too, perfect combination. Both the shorts and the top has a hud so you can pick and choose your color combination. They are sold separately.

My poses are from Mien. Poses. You really do have to go to the store, it was recently redone. Go have a look!

Body:
Skin:  Glam Affair – Vera – America 07
Hair: Magika [03] Sudden

Clothes:
Top: [Fuck-Lish] Ripped Back
Shorts: [Fuck-Lish] Short Shorts V1
Boots: Slink Demi Boots Tan

Accessories:
Necklace: L&B Mesh Jewelry “Lover’s” Unisex Necklace

Poses:
Mien. – Pyra 4/5 – New in store now

Just want you to know

And I’d give up forever to touch you
‘Cause I know that you feel me somehow
You’re the closest to heaven that I’ll ever be
And I don’t want to go home right now…

And I don’t want the world to see me
‘Cause I don’t think that they’d understand
When everything’s meant to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

Read more: Goo Goo Dolls – Iris Lyrics | MetroLyrics

Body:
Skin: [the Skinnery] Sasha
Hair: TRUTH HAIR Ainsley –  variety

Clothes:
Top: [Cynful] Waves Neckholder – Black
Pants: …:::Scrub:::… Histrion Leggins Leo – FROST EVENT

Accessories:
Bracelets: …::: Scrub :::… Point of View – FROST EVENT
Tattoo: PMS – I see you tattoo
Piercing: Cute Poison – Agelast Piercings –  FROST EVENT
Piercings – .Pekka. Crushie Piercing UNISEX and Rake Piercing (Chest) Unisex

Pose:
PURPLE POSES – Guitar Poses for Girls

Twinkle little star

I have done a combination of a few events in this post. The poses are from mien. at The Pavillion (the pack has 6 poses), the top, and pants are from Soho market, hair and glove necklace are form the Arcade and the boots from FROST. I have been shopping!

Body:
Skin:  [the Skinnery] Sasha
Hair: “”D!va”” Hair “Daisy” (Type A)(Citrine) – The Arcade

Clothes:
Top / Pants: !!smesh ~ All Day Casual Mustard Outfit – Soho Market
Boots: :hf: “Stomp” Boots //- FROST EVENT
Tights: Izzie’s – Gradient Tights

Accessories:
Glove necklace -VCO Gloves necklace 02 RARE – The Arcade
Maxi Gossamer Truth Owl – Rare – The Arcade

Pose:
mien. – figurine – The Pavillion Event

Store Smarts

I’m curious how you guys feel about this, so please leave your comments. My inworld friends will know that these days I’m like a ping-pong ball when it comes to being inworld. I’m on and off, on and off – I know, I’m really just looking for attention. 😉 In all seriousness, I have trouble rezzing 70% of the time, which I know is probably 80% my PC’s fault.

Despite this, I love blogging and shopping and styling is what I mostly do in Second Life. I do use Marketplace more and more. My first preference however, is to shop inworld. I love browsing and also explore the rest of the sim while I’m at it. Looking for more places to take my photos.

Which brings me to my pet peeve: huge stores without clear signage of layouts or sections. I get so annoyed if I take ages to rez (probably crash twice before I do see anything) and then I have to search and search for an item I saw on another blog, as I need to look through the shoes, then the swimsuits, then the lingerie, then more and more and more.. just to not find the top I want… just to do it again.

Yes I know, my PC problems are not the store owner’s issue. But I’m sure I’m not the only one with the same problem. Should you not make things as easy and as comfortable as possible for your customer?

Just to be clear, I don’t mind big stores. I’m just saying if your store is big, make signs and put things in sections so I don’t have to look through the skins and shapes if I want a top. Thing is, if I’m there and found what I was looking for easily, I might think, wait… while I’m here, lets go look at the swimsuits and in future I’ll come back again and again.

What’s your opinion on this?

Body:
Skin: Glam Affair – Lulu –  Jamaica  – available at Collabor88
Hair: eXxEsS Mesh Hair – MARE Blonde

Clothes:
Bodysuit: Color.Me.H.O.F – Anja Basic Unitart
Booties:  Just Design – Cruel Gold Satin

Accessories:
Rings: Color.Me.H.O.F – Triangle Ring Gold / Maxi Gossamer – Positano Night Jewel – available at Collabor88
Bracelets: [EY:NO] Mess Bangles
Belly Chain: -RYCA- – Belly Chain IC Gold
Necklace: ::Sweet Leonard:: Material Girl Necklace
Eearings: Maxi Gossamer – St Tropez Hammered Disks

Poses:

Soo excited my own!

Written for you

Today I have been reading through blogs not related to Second life at all. And one caught my eye as the guy who wrote it mentioned Cape Town, South Africa and since that is where I grew up and my whole family lives, I read on.

It was a heart warming blog about this guy and a woman he met via the internet that lives in Japan. They became good friends and fell in love. Everyday she would forward him a picture and he would write something about it – even just a line or two. The only two things the script had to have, was it had to start with ‘The’ and ‘you’ needed to be in it somewhere. This continued from 2007 until the day of the blog I read, 29 April 2013.  Eventually he actually published it as a book. So the  day of the last blog entry, they met in real live. He said he may start a new blog.  ♥

Something new from Delirium is this cute pants and top. Also FreshFace has this amazing new skin which comes in four shades, shape and tango appliers.
Body:

Skin: (FreshFace) Jasmine – Olive

Hair: ::Exile:: Stay the Night – Pink Sugar

Clothes:

Pants and top:  ::Delirium Style:: Lavena Isenia – Light Denim

Shoes: .:SuPerBia:. 1NNOVATION Fashion

Accessories:

Make up: Izzie’s shimmering Eye shadow pink

Eyeliner: -Glam Affair- Couture Eyeliner no.01

Arms Cuffs: *BOOM* Fearless Wrists Cuff

Tattoo: B*FLY – Pink Lotus Tattoo

Piercing: .Pekka. Nora

Piercing: <-Puncture-> Dermal Stones

Piercing: Ko’oeku – Vanda Piercings

Nails: Izzie’s  – Spring/Summer 2012 Classic Nails