The unofficial, unauthorized, fansite blog of CronoCloud Creeggan, an avatar in the game/playtoy/virtual world, Second Life®. Since I consider myself a fashionista, guess what I'm going to talk about...mostly...Fashion!
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Connie Arida made me buy this "Wild Wife" Lingerie because of a pic she did that the CC Liked. Thankfully, unlike Erratic lingerie, United Colors lingerie is more "reasonably" priced. It's less than HALF the price of an Erratic set, which is a good fair price for lingerie. Sadly, stockings are not included, but I consider this lingerie to be a better buy than the Erratic Eden set. There's a Hud that you can change the colors of the trim/straps as well.
League Erin skin, Clawtooth "Audrey H" hair that I have tinted to my proper color (good ole 128/65/0 to the rescue). I bought the EnVogue hair that Connie was wearing in the picture, but sad to say it is NOT tintable to my proper color.
I'm not sure what shoes these are. Dirty Princess I think.
I think I look like a redheaded Scarlett Johanssen with RBF (Resting Bitch Face) But I'm ARISTOCRATIC, not angry. I really need to find a different skin that makes me look less "angry" and more "approachable". I do think I look good, just in a severe way.
Gaussed and glowed this one up.Thought about picking up some violet eyes for a "Liz Taylor-esque" look, but I didn't get around to doing it. The "Audrey H" hair reminds me more of her, than the Blessed Audrey.
Imagine a little story starring a fictionalized Avatar me:
The Lady had prepared for a special evening with her innamorata and had picked up some luscious lingerie and a robe to wear over it. Now to wait:
The Allure robe has a closed option, Shoes from KC.
And more waiting.....where was she?
Truth Polilla hair and League Erin Skin
Really, what was taking her. I've gone to a lot of expense to look pretty!
Now I'm a little ticked off and getting a bit steamed, so I opened the robe to cool off a bit. She had BETTER like this look when she arrived or there would be CONSEQUENCES with All Capital Letters.
The Allure robe has a hud that lets you have it closed, open, or take if off from the hud.
I tapped my high heeled foot on the floor. My patience is growing thin. And I'm just one of those people who liked being...obeyed.
She's still not here. Boy was she going to GET IT! She'd get the Resting Bitch Face for sure...even though some said I always looked Bitchface-y. But I'm not really angry all the time.... I'm ARISTOCRATIC. Yeah, that's the ticket. Maybe I should pull out the Riding crop, that would show her.
FINE, BORED NOW! I'm Going to bed, her loss, because I look FABULOUS!
Some time back before the holidays I was thinking to myself as I often do, about fashion. Wait...stop laughing, I'm not always thinking about fashion or shopping in SL! Anyway, I was thinking: "What would the CC wear if she had a holiday office party to attend." I had an outfit in mind, but didn't take any pictures or anything, being lazy, unmotivated to blog and without a lot of time.
But... I follow a few RL fashion blogs, One in particular is Fashion Apocalypse, which is the blog of my favorite curvy fashion blogger, who calls herself "The Lapsed Victorian". I tend to like what "Lapsy" likes. She likes the vintage influences, worships Christina Hendricks, and dresses WELL.
Well anyway, a couple of days ago she posted her Christmas day Outfit of the Day which was, "On Fleek", as the kids say these days on their Facingbooks, Tinterests and Pumblr's. If you follow that link you can see that it's a lovely red dress with vintage influences, ballet neckline and slightly below the knee hemline. She accesorized it with a nice bag, patterned hosiery and nice shoes. I LOVED EET! It reminded me so much of the outfit I was thinking of for "CC" that I decided to post the outfit. It also reminded me of an outfit I was thinking of for a character in a story that was writing in my head.
Anyway here's the look, taken with shadows, depth of field and whatnot:
That's the Fame dress from Molichino. Molichino shut down so it's not available anymore sad to say. But I love this dress and should have shown it on the blog sooner. It's in my flickr, but not the blog, but I would have sworn that I blogged it, but I guess I didn't. But it doesn't matter because you can't get it anymore. Sadface, because it works well over the Maitreya Lara body. The clutch is from CoCo
The hair is Wasabi Pills Jamie, which I wore because it reminded me of "Lapsy's" hair a nice layered mid-length. Jewelry is the Michelle set from Yummy. Skin is my usual League Erin and eyes are my usual IKON Charmed Eyes in Moor.
The shoes and hosiery I picked up for the look today. I was going to wear my Izzie's tights, but the patterned tights don't have Maitreya appliers. So I looked on market place for something like the dotted faux-fishnet Lapsy was wearing and found these Polka Tights from The Secret Store, which are perfect for adding a bit of interest to the leg.
The shoes are the Mutresse Volena Spectator style pumps, worn with the SLink High feet, but I'm wearing them with all black options set.
Here's a studio shot of the look.
It might not be surprising but I thought about doing a "do's and don'ts" of Holiday Party dressing post last year using RL as a basis for the choices. One of the pictures I took then is also a good holiday party look. It's a bit more formal. You wouldn't wear this one to an office party, unless it was held at a hotel ballroom or something. This is more a "Dressy holiday party where there will be dancing" look:
The dress is the PurpleMoon Maureen from a couple of years ago. It's vintage inspired with a sort of 50's look to it, but it's classic enough one could wear it to a modern party. It's a nice dress but doesn't play well with mesh bodies sad to say. I'd kill for an updated version. I wore it with Truth Mayim hair, and Essenz Zurich pumps. I do believe that's the same Michelle pearl set from Yummy. I was wearing Belleza skin back then, of course.
Anyway there you have two nice holiday looks. Which would work rather well for Valentines Day outfits as well!
First some windlighty, depth of field-y cheesecake on my Dutchie Gustavian Lesbian edition sex be--, I mean my Dutchie Gustavian Lesbian "photoprop" bed! (/me waves to Miss DME and Charlemagne amongst the admirers of CC Cheesecake)
Yes, I forgot to use the ankle lock! Facepalm moment on my part.
Now for the actual pose stand pictures, still cheesecake though. I think I resemble my friend LDO in this one:
Right then, Erratic Delice set, Bra, thong, suspender belt (garter belt for us Yanks), and suspender brief (brief with built in garters), and stockings (with appliers for Maitreya bodies and Slink feet) Make sure you have the most recent OmniHud 6.1 version of the feet, the stockings require them. I really can't say more about the lingerie other than it's Erratic, which the glamorous sexpot fashionista types at the Chamber seem to wear. The fit is good (erratic lingerie also works on non-mesh bodies if you're close to the standard sizes), and it looks REALLY good. It's frickin shmexy for sure. You can probably guess I have the fatpack.
I wore it with Truth's new Heloisa hair, a shmexy "windblown supermodel" hair and Hucci's Jacmel pumps
But this post isn't really about the lingerie, it's about the body. I've been wearing the Maitreya Lara Body for two months now, and can state that I can recommend the body, with a caveat. That caveat being the lack of fine grained control over the alpha, meaning I can't wear it with some of my mesh items sad to say. One example being the Steffen Garcia Blair.
Otherwise it works well, is relatively easy to use, and has good support amongst third parties.
As you can see, I'm also wearing the Karin head, with League Luna head appliers.
Perhaps I shouldn't have picked it up, since I was iffy about the demo. But a couple of friends had been urging me to go ALL mesh with a mesh head, and I wanted to see how it looked with actual League appliers on it so I held my nose at the price (L$2500, I consider it a bit overpriced at that level, I think a 1200 to 1500 price would be more reasonable), and bought the thing, and both sets of the Luna appliers.
Sadly the Luna makeup works much better with blonde hair than red. And you know how I am about my red hair. The lipsticks need a little more work to be more flattering to a redhead. (As do the Erin makeups) And I'm not sure I like the head, there's something about it when I look at it in profile (from the side) that bothers me. From the front it's gorgeous, but the side....I have mixed feelings.
Also the head had fewer functions than some other ones I have heard of. For example there are only two settings for the mouth, closed and slightly open. Some other heads have animated mouths. Also lash tinting uses a color picker than some standard presets. Another caveat involves the included hairbase applier, there aren't enough colors in it and I don't think my favorite hair makers make a hairbase applier for the head yet.
Sadly because of my mixed feelings on this head, I cannot categorically recommend this head, or the other Lelutka heads....yet. My feelings may change as further updates are made to the head, I hope.
Also, besides LDO, it makes me look like my bacon-loving friend RachelAlivia, who also uses this head, especially with the blonde hair.
The Witch of the Woods had faced her haughty rival of the raven hair and the porcelain skin and had been defeated through treachery.
She was now cursed and exiled.
As the curse took effect she thought one thing: If Wicked was was they thought she was, then Wicked she would be.
Hundreds of years later, curse or no, she was ready to end her exile. After outfitting herself in modern accoutrements, she would now achieve her vengeance.
"Wait till they get a load of ME!", she thought with a laugh in her mind.
Another gratuitous cleavage shot.
Why yes, I WAS inspired by Zelena of the television show, Once Upon a Time, so the cleavage isn't really all that gratuitous. My Friend Gabi immediately recognized I was doing a version of Zelena when I showed her the pictures.
I cam across this inspiration by lucky chance. I just happened to run across a Zelena video in a search I did some weeks back, I haven't actually watched the show yet, haven't had the time, and well...bandwidth cap.
After seeing that, I was like, "OH MY GOD! Just look at HER!" And then I started Googling her. Her famous fairytail black gown with the cleavage reminded me of the Black Arts Flora which I'd demo'd but not bought because of alpha issues with my non-mesh body.
Back to the SL fashion, I'm wearing the League Erin skin, when I'm non-green. It's my standard skin now, even though It's not quite the perfect skin for me.
The green skin is the Lumae Orsimer Adore skin with a Luxuria Red Gloss layered over it. "Orsimer" being a reference to the Orcs of the Elder Scrolls game series. The skin DOES come with Maitreya body appliers AND Lelutka head appliers (as well as appliers for other bodies and heads) It also comes with a set of ears as well! I'm also planning on using this skin when I go Jagermonster from Girl Genius.
The old time-y neo-victorian look comprises the Black arts flora jacket and skirt, which as I said, couldn't actually wear before I started using the Maitreya body. The default alpha when used with my non-mesh body has issues and needs some more work. But with the Lara on the other hand it works very well. This outfit is template based, there ARE other versions of it on the grid. I picked two other colors of it, the red and pinstripe version.
I'm carrying the Inanna staff from Tekeli-li, which I've had for a while and has a ton of color change options that you change via chat commands, not menus.
The Empyrean Forge Heritage statement jewelry set I picked up specifically for these looks, but it's the sort of glamorous statement set I'll get good use out of. It is also color change for the gems.
I'm also wearing Ingenue Laura pumps, which you can't see. The Victorian hat in all black I got with the Chantilly Victorian Gown by Boudoir, just a simply lovely and sexy victorian hat, not even taking into account how great the gown is.
The modern dress is the Kastle Rock Hilary dress, with Izzies Sheer tights basics, the versatile Hucci Glynco pumps, the same jewelry set and Amacci Amelie hair for both modern and old-timey looks.
More Zelena! (From Reddit) These two looks are what inspired my modern "wicked witch" look.
Fabulous!
The show apparently runs on The Rule of Cool, Ridiculously Cool Clothes, and The Rule of Cleavage. When Cosmopolitan of all things does an article about the cleavage, there's a lot of cleavage on the show...and it is glorious. As Everyone Knows, the CC is All About the Cleavage. It is one of my many "CC Rules #1"
But All of the fashion on the show is fabulous! Modern and Fairytale, which may be why I like the fashion so, since I need both Modern and Old-timey looks in SL. Just look at Regina! (you could easily come close to this with the red jacket version of the Black arts Flora)
And the hats! The HATS with the CLEAVAGE and the GLAM makeup Squeeeeeee! I need everything Regina wears on the show in SL...now please. Just look at these two modern dresses Regina wears, they are so me. She also reminds me a bit of Megan Mullally's Karen Walker in "Will & Grace", whose style I also adored.
Though it isn't actually just Regina's and Zelena's outfits I love, ALL the female characters have such delicious wardrobes in both modern and fairytale settings. The Gowns! THE FABULOUS GOWNS!
