[roma aeterna est]

Rome is eternal - and so is its beautiful style of clothing that still influences nowadays RL- and SL-fashion world. Vigo's 'Atia' dress uses those days' rather simple and figure-hugging cuts in combination with opulent fabrics and sumptuous accessories. The outfit comes in a wide range of colours and includes, along with the dress, a diadem, a pair of bracelets for the upper arms and cork sandals with prim feet (not shown). As you can see in the picture, the different pieces of clothing allow you to create several styles, no matter if you're going to use the outfit for roleplay or a masquerade ball.

On Raven:

Hair: Analog Dog - Lua
Skin: -Glam Affair- - Gio Light
Eyes: ::UH:: - Doll Eye (lightblue)

Outfit: ViGo - Atia (sky)

[dawn's highway to sin]

I saw a ghost on the highway
bleeding on the road
he said an empty heart is always
stone-cold

Time to let it go
and time for you to grow old


The Festival of Sin is approaching with huge steps (February 18th - March 3rd), so I thought blogging a teeny tiny preview of one of A:S:S deLuxe's exclusive items to make your mouths water would be a nice idea. Vain to the Bone is the name of this rather unusual facial attachment - various precious gems, which are scripted to change colour, frame the exposed half of a head where one can see the both tattooed and pierced skull underneath. The eye socket is carrying a diamond-cut gem which is colour-changeable as well (choose between the shades crimson, dark purple and black).


Skin: ~Tableau Vivant~ - Adam
Hair: RAW HOUSE :: - Willow
Eyes: ::UH:: - GS eye (Aquamarine)

Facial attachment: A:S:S deLuxe - Vain to the Bone (for Festival of Sin)
Facial tattoo: KOSH - TOO MUCH STRESS (part of - .HoD. - Mess Of Metal)
All blood: REPULSE
Pants: *Muism* - Leather Trouser/Pure white

Lyrics: The 69 Eyes - Dawn's Highway

[switching to ginger... and boobs]

Ever since my fellow blogger Dagmar introduced the "Switch your gender for 0 Linden"-challenge, I have been snooping around for nice looking items to create a female avatar, and here she is: Darla, the ginger-haired summer fairy - or at least that is what she reminded me of, even without wings.



The skin was easily found and is a prize of one of the 28 (!) Lucky Boards at Mother Goose's. Most of the skins you can win there are female, but the owner, Milok Hermit, always makes sure to have some male items around as well. Since I hardly ever like the pre-made shapes floating around on the grid, I made one on my own to match the skin, and you can scoop it up in the Eclectic Equations group for free. ::Umedama Holic:: was the provider of Darla's eyes; they have a really stunning, realistic look and seem to be a permanent freebie in store. Hairwise, Exile is the place to go to collect a wide variety of female (and male) styles for free, and they all come in fatpacks, too!



At *ICING* I discovered this pretty, summery dress for 0 L$, and there are two additional garments, shoes, and a couple of other freebies to be found in their "freebie wardrobe" in store. Joining the Maitreya subscribo will bless you with a fatpack of the lovely pumps Darla is wearing, and last, but not least, the marketplace helped me with the accessoires: the light-pink nailpolish is a gift from BabyPrincess, and the subtle looking pearl necklace an offer from Curious Kitties!

Skin: .::Mother Goose's::. - HENA(2) (Lucky Board prize)
Hair: Exile - Ali (free fatpack in store)
Eyes: ::UH:: - GemStone eye G04 (free in store)
Shape: [EE] Darla for Mother Goose's HENA (2) (free in the notice archive)

Dress: *ICING* - Pizzicato Poppies (free in store)
Shoes: Maitreya - Group Gift Pumps (free fatpack when joining the subscribo)
Necklace: *C:K* - Simple Pearl Necklace (free at the marketplace)
Nailpolish: BabyPrincess - Pink nails (free at the marketplace)