Revelations

Hair: Elikatira (Elikapeda Tiramisu, Mesh!!)
Shape: selfmade
Lipstick /w teeth: Pink Fuel (Mochi Milena, Kumi Lipstick)
Ears: Illusions (Siyu Suen, Mesh!!)
Horns: Europa (Kazuhiro Aridian)
Wings: Losthaven (Tala Laval, Mesh!!)
Nails: How Vexing! (Myuushi Bubble, Mesh!!)
Eyes: Mayfly (Arkesh Baral, Mesh!!)
Bolero: Innocuous (Circuitous Resident, Mesh!!)
Top: Pale Empress (Dolce Blackflag, Mesh!!)
Pants: Meli Imako (MW Boa, Mesh!! Marketplace Item!! These are tinted, the basetexture used is 'Grey')
Boots: Mon Tissu (Elie Spot, Mesh!!)
Gloves: Deviance (Surreal LeShelle, part of Mistress Outfit)
Belt: Surf Couture (Emma Gilmour)
Necklace: MG (Maxi Gossamer, Zodiac Event!!)
Knuckle Dusters: Fanatik (Kendra Zaurak, Mesh!!)
Daggers: EZ Weaponry (Deccan Arida)
Dagger on Arm: Innocuous (Circuitous Resident, Mesh!!)

Location: Neva River Sim (Neva Crystall, NON-Role-Play), Neva River

Beauty lays behind the hills.

Hair: eep (Eep Resident, Mesh!! new!!)
Shape: selfmade
Ears: Illusions (Siyu Suen, Mesh!!)
Eyes: Mayfly (Arkesh Baral, Mesh!!)
Lashes: LeLutka (Thora Charron)
Furcoat: Zenith (Miffyhoi Rosca, Mesh!!)
Bolero/Sleeves: GSpot (Jalilah Jewell, Mesh!! New!! Part of Chloey Outfit)
Undershirt: Fishy Strawberry (Fae Eriksen, part of Suede and Wool Dress)
Corsetwrap: Cellar Door (Nitestar Albion, Mesh!!)
Pants: Ison (Harry Hyx)
Boots. Lassitude & Ennui (Jackal Ennui, Mesh!! New!!)
Belt: Ingenue (Betty Doyle, Mesh!!)
Necklace (long): MG (Maxi Gossamer, Mesh!!)
Necklace (short): Handverk (Daphne Klossovsky, Mesh!!)
Rings: Handverk (Daphne Klossovsky, Mesh!!)
Bow: Centipede Weapons (Kendra Zaurak, Mesh!!)
Dagger: LR Weapons (Larion Rhode)

Location: My secret Home. :P

In the waves I've lost every trace of you.

Hair: LeLutka (Thora Charron, Mesh!! NEW!!)
Shape: selfmade (not for sale)
Ears: Illusions (Siyu Suen)
Eyes: Mayfly (Arkesh Baral)
Corset: League (Nena Janus, Mesh!! NEW!! at Whore Couture Fair)
Bolero: GSpot (Jalilah Jewell, Mesh!! NEW!! part of Cloey Outfit)
Shrug: Zaara (Zaara Kohime)
Skirt: tram (Moca Loup, Mesh!!)
Sandals: Slink (Siddean Munro)
Belt with Flowers: GSpot (Jalilah Jewell, NEW!! part of Cloey Outfit)
Epaulettes: Gizza (Giz Seorn, NEW!! at The Arcade Gacha)
Headdress: GSpot (Jalilah Jewell, NEW!! part of Cloey Outfit)
Collar: GSpot (Jalilah Jewell, part of Serenity Outfit)
Ring: LaGyo (Gyorgyna Larnia)
Staff: Losthaven (Lucia Cyr)

Location: Humanoid (Artsy Sim), Gilmour

Queen of the High Forest

Hellos!

So, I have been repeatedly asked why I do not dish out a post every day currently. Two reasons:

1. I passed my final, final, final exam on monday. 11 hours of exams, essays, showlessons and oral exams after 1,5 years of traineeship. I was really damned busy.

2. I do not post every random stuff some store happens to release, especially not if it is the usual template stuff. I do use template stuff at times, but only if it is really well done. I rather go for quality than quantity. I wait until I really love an outfit and then blog it.

I got a few outfits up my sleeve, so whenever I find the time the next days, I'll blog.  Oh and if you want to listen to true greatness, listen to this:

Woodkid - I love you

Here another proof that you can mix and match mesh-outfits. :P


Hair: Magika (Sabina Gully, Mesh!! NEW!!)
Shape: selfmade, not for sale
Ears: Illusions (Siyu Suen, Mesh!!)
Eyes: Mayfly (Arkesh baral, Mesh!!)
Coat: Ryvolter (Inna Bilavio, Mesh!! NEW!! Limited!!)
Corset: GSpot (Jalilah Jewell, Mesh!! NEW!! Part of Cloey Outfit))
Undershirt: League (Nena Janus)
Pants: Ryvolter (Sanya Bilavio, Mesh!! NEW!! Limited!!)
Boots: The Lounge (Erielle Deschanel, Mesh!! To be released!!)
Scarf: Drift (Kallisto Destiny, Mesh!!)
Belt: GSpot (Jalilah Jewell, NEW!! Part of Cloey Outfit)
Necklace: erare (Thora Charron, NEW!! GIFT!!)
Bangles: MG (Maxi Gossamer)
Crown: GSpot (Jalila Jewell, part of Queen of the Woods)
Dagger: LR Weapons (Larion Rhode)
Bow: Centipede Weapons (Kendra Zaurak, Mesh!!)

Location: My home parcel, IM me if you are interested in taking pictures. :)

Ripped content....makes me angry.

This time no fancy picture, just this:



So, recently I have seen more and more and more people promoting and wearing armors and follower pets created by Manticore/Erebos. I admit, a bit ago I fell for the ruse myself and bought a cute little dog there, being rather unaware of the fact that the pets displayed are all ripped from games such as Final Fantasy as well...since I never played those.

And this is just ONE example out of all their stuff. I fear not a single item in that store is NOT stolen.

I myself became suspicious the moment the store began to release a ton of excellent mesharmors...that all seemed oddly familiar to me. :( I could bite my ass for wasting 450 Lindens on the small dog.

I made the experience that ever since mesh was introduced to SL, any random store that pops up with a TON of excellent stuff at once should be regarded with suspicion.

I for once am a huge supporters of original creators and I personally-hate- blowing money of peoples' ass when they sell stolen stuff. I am really sad to see just how few people seem to care about this and don't even feel a bit bad about buying stolen stuff. I guess a lot of people who aren't regular gamers aren't even aware of it, just like me when I bought the dog. FF is one of the few games I never touched.

I do not really think one can expect people to recognize every little piece of stolen stuff from other games, but I do think that a bit of common sense sometimes helps: Large amounts of excellent seeming stuff for low prices from a largely unknown store? = Likely ripped. Not always, but there's a good chance for it.

I personally do not even -mind- if people get stuff for themselves, but as soon as you profit from it, imho you are not only ripping off the creator, but also those who buy from you, letting them believe you buy legal stuff until one day they look into their inventory to find out it's been replaced with an ID from LindenLabs and an odd message in their IMs.

Food for thought.

Arica. :)

PS: I find some reactions, even from bigger bloggers, rather disappointing. Basically they go: It is LindenLabs responsibility to take them down.

Oh sure, it is. But do you really think that takes away -your- responsibility to not support thieves by throwing money at them or displaying their stuff knowling on blogs? I hardly will blame anyone who doesn't know it, but I will blame anyone who is being made aware and still says "Oh, that is LL's responsibility, not mine." Especially since the TOS clearly state that you, as the user of content, have a share of responsibility as well.

Modern Elfy Times!!! :)

Hello peeps,

so, I guess I owe an explanation (or not?) as to why I am have been sooo slow with everything lately. I keep telling myself that I'll have the time to blog more...but then I figure: NOpe, again no time. I am currently in a trainee programm for teachers and it basically eats up my time. I got my final exams in less than three weeks and well...I better not procrastinate. So until the 4th of March, I will probably not be blogging again after this post.

Today, I wanted to show you gyus an outfit I made for a casual OOC elf a s well as some of my favourite hairs that more or less recently have been released.

Here is my outfit. Forgive the not so cool picture, I tried to figure out how to get shadows to work properly. Oh well...skillfull me isn't all that skilled yet. :)


Hair: Exile (Kavar Cleanslate Mesh!!)
Shape: selfmade
Eyes: Mayfly (Arkesh baral, Mesh!!)
Ears: Illusions (Siyu Suen, Mesh!!)
Blouse: Tee*fy (Azure Electricteeth, Mesh!! Collabor 88!!)
Skirt: Götzsche (Goetzsche Resident, Mesh!!
Pumps: Elikatira (Elikapeda Tiramisu, not for sale anymore. :( )
Clutch: Milk Motion (Marie Lauridsen)
Belt: Tokidoki (Maya Levane)
Necklace: League (Nena Janus)

Here come my six current favourite hairstyles, in no particular order:


Both Magika hairs are just flawless. I love, love their system where you can buy the whole scale of natural colours (brunette, red, black, blondes) for only 250 Lindens. The textures and meshwork is awesome, and each hair comes in three sizes. Magika has improved so, so much over the years. Imho, Sabiny Gully is currently one of the best hairmakers out there. These hairs fall in a natural manner and are really long as they reach down to the lower back. I am in love with these. Also I think her haircolours look very nice and natural, even if I picked a not so natural red right now.

The LeLutka hair is very nice as well, the soft waves giving it a very innocent look. I love the fact that you can turn the hair accessory on or off. I have to unfortunately turn it off because it clips into my elven ears. :( But even without it, this hair looks really nice. Her haircolours and textures are very, very good as well. I really can rarely complain, unless she is making one of her strange hairstyles again for which you'd need a bottle of hairspray to have them stay that way. But oh well, this one is awesome! It also fits me quite perfectly, even without the alpha layer.



And here comes Eaters Coma. Kumii Yoshikawa always already amazed us with her really pretty styles that she made for SIXTYNINE. The style 'ME' was one of the favs I'd say, and I saw so, so many chicks with it. Guess what? Now she has redone it in mesh, and while I like Burley's remake of it as well, this one just made me SO happy. I am wearing it on the right. I do not think it is  a 100% exact replica of her old ME-style, and I wish teh bangs would be a bit lower on this one, but this is a thick, very wellmade and hot braid that goes over your boob. Truth has made a similar style, I believe it is called Froukje, but the way the braid just seems cut off at the bottom always bothered me. I love this. Eaters Coma in general makes very good mesh styles, even if not all of them are fitting my personal tastes. The style on the left is one of my current most worn styles as well. I think her textures are awesome, however I do wish she would add more colour-variety to her packages. Also, making hair, even meshhair, no mod is a bit sad. One should be abllowed to tint it a bit!

In the middle there is Exile, and I really, really do like it. Often enough, the shape of Exile's hairs doesn't go well with my headshape at all. In this case, I was SO hapy. Not only does it come with a bunch of cute, rigged meshflowers which you can obviously detach. :) The textures are nice and I really do like how it flows down over your boobs. I tinted the hair in this case. I bought the Naturals Package Exile offers and the tone 'Sunset' doesn't exactly strike me as a red tone, so I tinted it a bit,  e voilà, now I am happy. :)

I think that is something  creators of hairs should really keep in mind: Please, please add packages with one example of each natural colour! I know Exile, Eliaktira, LeLutka and Magika do this, but I really wish others would follow as well. Make it a little more expensive than  the usual packs, that justs eems fair. But nothing is worse than having to buy tons and tons of hairs in a new colour, just because youc hanged your colour after years. :D I know what I am talking about.

 

So, that's it for now and the next post will be more than liekly after the 4th of March. Unless I start procrastinating... :P

Arica

 

Ecstasy of Gold

Hey peeps,

I know, I know. I have been slow lately. Several reasons there, and those aren't excuses: I haven't felt terribly inspired lately, since a few of my favourite designers have been very inactive the past month. Also, I am currently studying a lot since on march 4th I'll have the second part of my master's degree and hopefully become a full teacher finally, after 1,5 years of an extremely stressfull internship. So bear with me please, I really do feel stupid that I feel so lazy lately.

SO, I am glad Curio is finally back, even if I daresay that the compromise they amde stinks. Pity, but at least they are back. So right now I am waiting for new skins from Curio and The Body Co.

Talk about the Body Co: I abandoned my Orchid skin. Why? For several reasons:

1. For once, Body Co stated they will not create Tango appliers for their skins. Their decision, but a big let down for me.
2. I got tired of their prices. I am sorry, but 500 Lindens for a watermarked (!) Make UP, that you can only use with that ONE specific skin and not even any of their other skins, is just ridiculous. Doesn't matter how many layers it comes with, since I don't want a make up in a billion of skintones but rather one I can use for mixing and matching.
3. During their Sale, the Orchid skin was 750L while all others were 500L, due to the package being slightly different (three types of brows). The other skins come with one type of brow, which imho, isn't exactly a nice deal for a single skin. Time moves on, skins nowadays come with several brow layers, hairbaes, freckles, sometimes different make up layers or even nose-addons and so many other things. I think they do not offer a whole lot for the money you pay, at least not outside of the Sale.

I still love their skins, but that still put me off.

So now, I wear a new combination of skin + skinlayers. I really do like it a lot. :-) Thoughts on it? And...there are even Tango-appliers for this one. :D

As for the new outfit: I tried to put together a layered outfit with pretty much mesh-only items. :)



Hair: Magika (Sabiny Gully, Mesh!!)
Shape: selfmade (not for sale)
Ears: Illusions (Siyu Suen, Mesh!!)
Eyes: Mayfly (Arkesh Baral, Mesh!!)
Make Up: LAQ (Mallowry Cowen)
Lipstick: Rozena (Lindsay Rozen)
Cloak: Zenith (Miffyhoi Rosca, Mesh!!)
Pullover: Cold Logic (Coldlogic Resident, Mesh!!)
Undershirt: Kyoot (Saeya Nyanda, part of Knit Mini Dress, SALE!!)
Shorts: Beetlebones (suetabulous Yootz, Mesh!!)
Underpants: Kyoot (Saeya Nyanda, SALE!!)
Socks: Apricot Paws (Zii Minotaur, Mesh!!)
Boots: So Many Styles (Irie Campese, Mesh!! New!!)
Gloves: Caverna Obscura (Elvina Ewing, part of Ascalon Ranger)
Scarf: DRIFT (Kallisto Destiny, Mesh!!)
Necklace: League (Nena Janus, Mesh!!)
Ring: Yummy (Polyester Partridge)
Slingbelt: DECO (Veluu Faulds, Mesh!!)
Belt: Mandala (Kikunosuke Eel)
Bracers: Rochambeau (Leviathan Flux, part of  Valmeyjar Outfit)
Bow: Centipede Weapons (Kendra Zaurak, Mesh!!)
Sword on hip: EZ Weaponry (Romper barbosa, Mesh!!)
Dagger on Thigh: LR Weapons (Larion Rhode)

Location: Alirium (Non-Role-PLay), Alirium