A new round of Genre is here and the theme is Baroque. Lots of old fashioned goodies await you, like this gorgeous mesh dress from The Library and fantastically tall powder blue hair from Blienson + Maitai.
The Library – Marie – Purple (NEW – GENRE)
Blienson + MaiTai – Liaison Dangereuse – Hair (NEW – GENRE)
IKON Immortal Eyes- Midnight (NEW)
League Skin – Erin – Feline
Garage – Lahesv2.0
Scene – built by meh
Store info at Blogging Second Life
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Poses: Ma Vie
Skin: [PXL] MIA Jazz NAT ~ Makeup 02 REB C2
Eyes: [UMEBOSHI] Eon eyes light Green (med)
Lashes: [LeLutka]-DIVA lashes
Mesh Attachments:
Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands – Casual
Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands – Relaxed
Slink AvEnhance Feet High
Slink Physique Mesh Figure
Mani/Pedi: FLAIR
Clothing: .Shi Fur Pullover {RedSet}
Peqe – Deviant Skirt
Shoes: MIAMAI_Regan pumps – Black Skin
Jewelry: [MANDALA]LEGACY-Maasai Earrings – Collabor88
I have wandered all of Hair Fair and have been busily sorting my purchases and promotional copies by style. This is a slideshow of some of the short styles. I have more short cuts that I will be showing you soon, along with long styles, braids and ponie, updos and hair with hats or other embellishments. As always, Hair Fair is one of the Wonders of Second Life.
Store info at Blogging Second Life
****SHOPPING LIST******
Poses: Reel Expressions (no longer available)
Skin: -Glam Affair – Cassia – Exotic – 02 E
Eyes: [UMEBOSHI] Eon eyes light Green (med)
Lashes: Lelutka DIVA lashes
Jewelry: Mandala at Collabor88
Hair: Clawtooth, Chichickie!, Discord Designs, Elua, Exile, Fiore, Ink, LNS Designs. All at Hair Fair.
I made it, I finished the hair fair, it took a few intervals to get through but I did it and I have like WAY too many hairs, more than one gal needs really. But that’s okay right? I’ll use them more than once right? I’ll get dressed up and go places and show off my new hurr right? Ehh, probably not, but they make for great pics!
I noticed a lot of straight , side swooped hairs this year, which are lovely, but how many does one person need of that style? Maybe 5, or 6, I can’t remember. I seriously had to decline buying a few quality hairs simply because the store before them pretty much had the same style and I probably bought it. Perhaps a few strands were different and set them apart but for the most part that super long, hair flowing down the front on one side and hair flowing down the back on the other side seems to be the theme this year. Could have been worse, could have been mall bangs.
1st Pic Hair: Tulip – Ashley
2nd Pic Hair: Olive – The Alice
3rd Pic Hair: [MAG] Rough
Additional Items Worn:
~FO*FUN~ wings tattoo
-tresblah- Half Tucked Tee – Off White
-tresblah- Leather Leggings – Black
IKON Ardent Eyes – Chocolate
*League* Skin Erin Fair -Feline
While I am sorting the hair from Hair Fair by style so I can shoot the pictures for you, I took a few snaps of this great dress from Thalia Heckroth™. This is only her second release and already she’s working in prints and not doing strapless. That’s ambition. In the distance, you can see some of Half-Deer’s Thomson Gazelles that are available at Collabor88. Continue reading
Here are some hair fair goodies from Ploom, A&A and Koy. I love how everyone is incorporating really fun colors in their hairs now.
Ploom – Plasma
Adore&Abhor – Darling Hair
KOY – Lana
1st Picture:
.ploom. Plasma (large) – Ploomage (HAIR FAIR 2014)
*League* Skin Erin Fair Feline
IKON Ascension Eyes – Azure
La Malvada Mujer – My Pink N2/ full (COSMETICS FAIR 2014)
2nd Picture:
Adore&Abhor – Darling Hair (HAIR FAIR 2014)
La Malvada Mujer – Smoke on the water N3 /eye makeup (COSMETICS FAIR 2014)
*League* Skin Erin Fair Feline
IKON Vanity Eyes – Coffee
3rd Picture:
KOY – Lana (Large) (HAIR FAIR 2014)
La Malvada Mujer – My Pink N5 /eyes makeup (COSMETICS FAIR)
IKON Spectral Eyes – Grass
*League* Skin Erin Fair -Feline
This gorgeous belted dress from Emery can be found at Collabor88 in several earth tones.
Hair Fair opens tomorrow. While DJing the opening party, I hunted far and wide stalking the wild hair, the short hair, the curly hair, the long, straight, curly, fuzzy, naggy, shaggy, ratty, natty, oily, greasy, fleecy, shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen, knotted, polka-dotted, twisted, beaded, braided, powdered, flowered, and confettied, bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied!
Since joining Second Life®, I have never missed Hair Fair and have to say this is my favorite build. The build is just a whole lot of hair product and I cracked up when I sounded out the name of the product. The stores are inside the product boxes and the creativity of the designers in decorating the boxes is another part of the fun of Hair Fair. Continue reading
I love that picture from Anya Ohmai and am borrowing it to remind you that HAIR FAIR is coming sooner than you think. It opens July 12th, that’s less than 100 hours from now. The opening of Hair Fair can be a bit of a scrum – actually it is completely a scrum – but you can avoid being trampled underfoot as rabid fashionistas chase the latest and greatest hair by joining the Hair Fair Demo Group and can try out the new releases at your leisure in the comfort of your living room or even sitting in your bathtub. You could even host a Hair Fair Demo Party and play “I Like Your Hair” while all putting on the same demo at the count of one-two-three – hair!
You can get all the information about Hair Fair at the Hair Fair blog. To join the group, you can TP here or enter this in chat secondlife:///app/group/2e30d166-f3e5-e2de-ff72-b3da2d06ded2/about or just search Hair Fair Demo Group in Search. The group is free. Hair Fair will never charge a fee for the demo group.
I am always excited when a blogger becomes a clothing designer. I think of Milla Michanaga who formed MichaMi and Elysium Elide who started elymode and recognize that both of them focused long and hard on construction quality. I think that, being bloggers, they had this pre-formed set of standards that created a daunting hurdle to overcome before they began to release. Having noted construction flaws in other work, they felt an obligation to do as they say and held themselves to higher standards. So, when Thalia Heckroth™ told me she was moving into clothing design, I was excited. This is her first release and I am pleased to say she continues the tradition.
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Second Life fashion is full of moments of synchronicity and this is one. It all started with the dress from Baiastice. It was released in many solid colors and prints, but I was most drawn to this earth-toned batik. I was fidgeting about, trying to choose hair and MiaMai released some gorgeous turbans with an Afro-centric inspiration and this tobacco version is perfect with the dress. Meanwhile, Kunglers released a necklace in a coffee color and of course, coffee and tobacco are the peanut butter and jelly of louche lotus-eaters. And then, if that were not enough, PXL Creations released a Jazz quartet of skins for Rhapsody. All events have no causal bearing on each other, but they are uncannily in synchronicity.
The combination of pieces made me think of Ballaké, a classic of African Jazz by Bembeya Jazz National— after all, Jazz developed in America from African roots and American music traditions. Then it migrated back to Africa and found a new iteration. These pieces draw their inspirations from Indonesia and Africa but are modified and changed in translation just as the music was. Continue reading
