It's Always Sunny - Somewhere

Today I'm going to start my post by talking about my new head. I decided to try some LaQ heads recently because I think the concept of one hud to rule them all really is a simple and smart idea.

Instead of paying for a hud every time you want to buy a new head, you simply buy the hud once and it works with any head that you have by LaQ. You also can buy all skin tones of the skin created for that head, at one tiny price. Also for now anyway, body appliers are super cheap.

Here's me in my new Scarlet head from Laq and matching Scarlet skin. I'm wearing almost the shape I had been wearing before with a few tweaks mainly to length the face and to give a bit more chin/jaw.

Also, get this you can wear system eyes with this head. (Well I guess you can with any of them but it's a default with this head.) Wear your own eyes, system or mesh as you please. (It comes with some default eyes as well.) I'm wearing cosmetics for LaQ by Shiny Stuffs and Stix with an omega hair base from Izzie's. The head comes ready for omega appliers, no need to add anything to get omega appliers to work. This hair is by Monso and I'm wearing eyes by Ikon.

These a-ma-zing ears are by Swallow, the Princess ears, currently out at Kustom9.

Here's a detail so you can see how pretty they are, you can input rgb on these ears or use the existing tones plus tinting to get the perfect match. Several gemstone, metal and pearl options plus lots of these cute tattoos come included.

Moving on, I'm wearing the absolutely beautiful Camdyn Romper by Reign @ Collabor88 with the matching Camdyn Heels also at C88. I felt I wanted a little more coverage so I'm wearing a lingerie applier by Sn@tch.  The romper comes in either solids or prints and I chose prints. There's a bundle of prints available in the included hud and the crochet lace trim can be traded for solid trims if you so desire.

The sandals come with lots of color changes on various parts of the shoe as usual with Reign ♥

Here's a nice dtail of what these shoes look like. I just love thebows in the back.

I want to show you the back of this in a minute but before I do I also want to talk about the beautiful jewelry I'm wearing from Earthstones at Liaison Collaborative. Which I just realized I didn't take any good photos of, ugh It's an art deco sort of style of dainty necklace and earrings. I bought the fatpack of both necklace and earrings.

What I didn't realize when I bought them was that the necklace also has a beautiful back drop as well.

I had to put on different hair so it wouldn't be covered up, but look how pretty that is. Also notice the nice detailing on the back of the romper as well. It's just lovely. This hair is by Wasabi Pills.

I went really minimal with this outfit, I don't have any other jewelry on as I usually do. Oh there, you can sort of glimpse the front of the necklace. I am wearing nail appliers by The Plastik, and that's pretty much it.

I'm using a variety of poses, I believe some are by Foxcity and some are by Belleposes. The photo booth is by Foxcity and is called Blank Minds. I used windlight settings by Strawberry Singh, Mostly the Light up my SLife and Close ups ones.

Recap for those tl;dr people :)

Basics

Body: Maitreya Lara 4.1 with included Bento hands.
Head: LaQ - Scarlet Head with Scarlet skin appliers
Shape: Kouralee - Medison (much modified)
Hair: Monso - Minnie currently available @ C88 until around Jun 6.
Ears: Princess ears by Swallow @ Kustom9 
 (Side note, although I could find many references for when K9 opens, I couldn't find anything on when it closes but I assume it's the end of the month.)
Clothing

Camdyn Kimono Romper by Reign @ C88
Camdyn Laced Heels by Reign @C88
Camisole Applier by AVB - Dainty Baby set

Jewelry
Earthstones - Lalique necklace @ Liaison Collaborative until May 26

Cosmetics & Other Appliers

Stix - Smidge Lashes for Laq available at Laq commerce
Shiny Stuffs - Boho Beauty - Eyeshadow for Laq also available above
Shiny Stuffs - DewDrop  - Lipstick for Laq  as above
Izzie's - Hairbase Omega

That's all this time :)💋 Stella

Everybody got time for Blueberry!

I'm a Blueberry girl and have been since way back when she first started making clothes for Maitreya. I've swapped avatars a few times since then so I'm having to fill in some of her older styles in my wardrobe.

Every so often, Blueberry has a sale bless her, and you can pick up older styles for half off! Recently I grabbed these hoodie dresses which, come to think of it aren't even that old. But I love these dresses at any rate. The corset detail and the way the side of the skirt is made are just wonderful.

The dress is called "Liza" and comes with a version with the hoodie up, or a version with the hoodie down. For each single color of cdress you can change the color of the corset and strings, the metals and the panties (and whether panties are worn or not) With mutli color versions, you can change the dress too ;) Foxy made hair to go with this dress in either up or down hoodie versions but I'm wearing a new hair by Doux instead.

I say new, I believe it came out a couple of weeks ago for the Kinky event. It's called Lia and has this pulled back top knot kind of look with lots of lush waves and curls falling around your face, shoulders and back. Really beautiful.

The skin I'm wearing today is from April's Catwa PowderPack. It's Essences Selena in M01. I still love powderpack and think it's a great value. You usually get at least two full skin sets including body appliers plus tons of makeup and other appliers. This skin is very beautiful in my opinion with lovely lush brows.

I'm also wearing makeup from the April Catwa Powderpack. My eye makeup is from Arise and my lipstick is from Colivati. I did blend out the lipstick a little bit since it seemed a little dark for my tastes. I just used the sliders on my Catwa hud for that. My eye applier is from Powder Pack as well, from the items offered by Euphoric. I'm a huge fan of her eyes and I think these are very beautiful. I'll show a close up below of my face before the end of the post.

I'm a bit mad at myself because somehow I managed not to get a really good look at these shoes/boots and they definitely deserve a good look. These are Essenz' offering for Fameshed this month. (And you don't want to miss Fameshed for May because it's a birthday round and that means free gifts! Just join the Fameshed group for free and happy gift getting.)

Anyway, these are called Maracaibo and feature a platform and stacked thickish heel with criss cross ribbons up the calf and a pretty bow tied off to the side. I love them!

My jewelry today is all stuff I've had before but still love a lot except for my thigh chains.

My hoop earrings are called Hyper Hoops from Indulge Temptation, aka IT!. Sometimes you just want a simple pair of hoop earrings to wear and since I was wearing kind of big hair these worked well.

My necklace, rings and hand bracelets are all by Amala.
Necklace - Genevieve
Rings - Madison
Hand Bracelet - Robyn.
They all come with texture changes of metals and gemstones.

My thigh chains were made by Pervette and are called Exotic. No metal changes but they do include gem changes. (You can buy these in gold, silver and I believe also black.)

I'm using a nail applicator by Alme called Simplicity.

My poses are by BellePoses and FoxCity. My beautiful backdrop is also by Foxcity called ShowTime Darks. It comes with a hud to change the curtains to a choice of four different great colors.

And that's the lot. Mwah. Thanks for reading. Oh, here goes that close up I mentioned.

Look at those eyes. Aren't they beautiful? By Euphoric in April's Powder Pack for Catwa.

A Little Boudoir Time

Hey, anyone reading this and thank you if you are. Sorry I haven't been around, a trip to Florida and a strong right turn in my real life made it hard to get on SL and also to get motivation to blog. But here I am.

Today's post, however is brought to you more by my friend Lovely than by me. She wanted some Boudoir style pics and got dressed and I did my best to make her look great. As always click the pic for a larger view or go on over to my flickr for really ginormous versions.

I really can't stress enough how windlight settings and advanced lighting are your friends as far as
snapshot quality. I did very minimal editing in most of these shots because I was very happy with them as is. Lovely liked them too.These two shots were using JaxBlackNite wl settings. I built my own backdrop, just an offblack photo background on a half box. Get his settings here. I

I believe these two poses are from the Saucy set by Infiniti.

So, here are the details for you as dictated by her.

Body - Maitreya Lara 4.1
Head - Catwa Lona 3.0
Shape - Lucia by Lilo's Fit for Lona head - adjusted. (Stella's note, this shape place does *not* usually provide demos so please be careful buying.)
Hair - Jemmie by Doe in Blondes. This was a gacha hair.
Skin - Minji by Pink Fuel in Biscuit
Eyeshadow - Dreamgirl Shadows in Earth Bound by Adored
Lipstick - Sparkle and Shine by Pink Fuel
Lash appliers -  Dramatic Lashes - Bossie
Nails - Empire Stilletto Nails Medium
Nail Polish - AlaskaMetro - Classic Shimmer
Eye Appliers by AviGlam - Prestige Eyes in Lavender


See more below.

Here's a better look at this beautiful skin and cosmetics etc. I used a warmer windlight setting but unfortunately I don't totally remember which one it was. I believe it was another Jax setting but can't be positive. Incidentally this head/face pose is by Body Language from the UrBeautiful Fatpack.

Choker - Kylie Choker Thick by Amala
Earrings - Abigail earings by Amala
Bracelet & Rings - Carina by Real Evil Industries
Anklets - Aurora by Avaway
Ears - Eura Ears by Random Matter

The little diamond heart on her nail is a group gift from Zoz. It was intended to be used with Zoz nails but it works great with these as well.

Last but not least is this absolutely beautiful lingerie set by MoonAmore called Serenata. Lovely had on a cute garter that went with it but we found with some of the poses it just didn't work that well. In addition I had to do some editing on her left bra strap because it kind of went screwy. Gotta love sl. This pose is by Foxcity, Showtime 1.

Lingerie - Serenata by MoonAmore
Shoes - Cassie Pumps by Gos Boutique
Foot Tattoo - Fiore Elegante by Defiant Pixels

And that's the lot. Thanks for reading ;) Mwah.