In the shadows : Skin Fair 2016

No sleep...

No more sleep...

Twilight was falling, time had come again for her to ease out of the hidden spaces, to coalesce at the edges of the light.

Each step she took gathered, remaining after she had moved on. Beams of light streamed through stained glass, each passing moment the colours deepened.

Dusk tugged at the world, twilight was subsumed, the last vestiges of light drifting higher and higher, up and away. Shadow she was, darkness was was her realm, the gift she brought to the world. Every night she was changed by it, the darkness she brought wrapped around her, making her whole.

The Skin Fair 2016
Being out of the blogosphere is dangerous! Events like this are perilous to miss! Two sims choc-full of stores for all your skin needs. Huge numbers of creators of appliers for mesh bodies and heads - not an area I'm into. (Did I mention my usual shape is from 2007?) I'm sticking with my SLink mesh hands and feet for now!

Skin : :[P]:- Ellistrae Skin (Femme):// Balok L$ 1499
For this - you get a LOT. Think I'm kidding? I'm not:
System Skin (Worn) Face Options on Tattoo Layers Chest Options on Tattoo Layers Genesis Lab Head Applier Times 4- No Brows, White brows, Glossy Lips, Default Head Slink Visage Head Applier Times 4- No Brows, White brows, Glossy Lips, Default Head Omega Head Applier Times 4- No Brows, White brows, Glossy Lips, Default Head Lelutka Head Applier Times 4- No Brows, White brows, Glossy Lips, Default Head Lena Full Body Applier Maitreya & Maitreya Finger/Toenails Full Body Applier Slink Physique Full Body Applier Belleza Full Body Applier with Nails & Nipples Lolas Applier in Two styles Omega Full Body Appliers Brazilia Full Body Applier Lush Mesh Breasts Applier Sinful Needs Mesh breasts & Nipples Appliers Perfect Bum Lower Applier Ghetto Booty Lower Applier Phat/Cute Azz Lower Applier Apple May Baby Bump Applier Slink Individual Feet, Hands, Toenails, and fingernail Appliers (Worn) Loud Mouth Applier Soul Kissers Applier
BOOM  *breathe breathe*
The final image also shows : Tattoo : TAO tattoo [xx]+FGInc.+ ebony L$ 300 This delighful twist of darkness comes in Omega and SLink appliers, also in system layers. Here shown in the 'non-pg' version - pg version also included.
Skin Fair 1
Skin Fair 2
Also shown, from We < 3 RP
Dress : :[P]:- Romorah Gown:// Wisteria L$ 239
We < 3 RP

Decking the halls

"Santa baby; slip a sable under the tree, for me..." Home alone this weekend, she could sing all she liked. Far from being a disney princess; the ones she had heard about anyway, those who sang or whistled and creatures of the forest showed up to do their housework. When she sang, they showed up alright, but tended to leave her home messier than they found it.

Rudi was one who always came to play for the holidays. She could never commit to plans on Christmas eve for some reason, but would show up late on the big day itself, pressing her shining nose to the window, looking for her Christmas dinner of spiced oats.

The 24th was still a way off, there was enough time between her decorating and all the training Rudi always seemed to start doing in the winter to take a day to relax. Warmed all the more by the fresh snow falling outside and the lights on the tree. She'd found the box of silly hats, and It's a Wonderful Life was just starting. It was going to be a great day.

More Madpea headgear from Tannenbaum Holiday Market

Raymond the Raving Reindeer - he has a very... flashing nose
Frosty Flurry Flake - Your own snow globe, with a snowman and a snowstorm in it!
Twinkly Twisty Tree - real glowing lights!

Other items worn:
Skin : :[P]:- Immortalia Skin-Femme:// Ambrogino
Lips : La Malvada Mujer - Anna Lipstick- N5
Hair : Magika [Hair L] Early Christmas
Snowflake tattoo : +REDRUM+ Snow Time Tattoo Full Body
Dress : :[P]:- Desdemona Dress and Halter in Rose

Other items shown:
Skybox : llorisen // mimi skybox.blue
Reindeer : Baffle! Caribou
Green Garland : C&F Elegance Garland
Tree : !! Follow US !! Christmas '13 Vintage tree
Rug : .aisling. FakeBearRug.Coll.White
Card Garland : Boudoir - Vintage Christmas Card Garland 1

Plastik Men @ The Skin Fair 2015

In the darkness of the town the foghorn echoed across the port, the only sound of safety any could expect to hear at this hour. All other sounds were illicit; from the scratching of roaches and squeaking of rats in the walls, to the muffled footsteps, muted moans and snicker of blade coming from the depths of each alley.

Janus lingered here, and other sordid spots like it, each night. The heart of darkness was all he could offer at this hour, bringing a depth of shadow where it was needed, for tasks impossible, or improbable, to complete in the light. He cast no judgement, brought no crime into being. All he enabled, would be uncovered, when the time came.

Janus was a man of two faces, two sides of the same coin. Just as he brought darkness at times to all places, so he also brought light. Light didn't always mean sunshine, didn't always mean happiness, it meant sight and sight could uncover terrible things. Beauty was terrible, it could wound more terribly than hate.

He would weather the changes he brought, feeling them as keenly as any he affected.

As promised - though a little later than anticipated (forgot to upload the images before going away for the weekend) the Male Immortalia Skins from The Plastik exclusive to the Skin Fair 2015!

As with the females, there are twenty tones to choose from, the male skin comes with appliers for SLink hands and feet, toenails and fingernails. Just as generous for the boys, there are eighteen tattoo layer options for body shading and make-up, and eight brow options included.

Nocturn Janus
Skin :  :[P]:- Immortalia Skin-Male:// Nerio
Eyes :  :[P]:-Haunt Collection-Blind Trauma (Eyes)
Horns :  :[P]:- Vi Horns [L-Corded]:// Gunmetal  /  :[P]:- Vi Horns [R-Bare]:// Gunmetal

Daiurn Janus
Skin :  :[P]:- Immortalia Skin-Male:// Gaspare
Eyes :  :[P]:-Haunt Collection-Bloody Blindness
Lip :  :[P]:- Immortalia Makeup:// Stripe
Face : :[P]:- Immortalia Makeup:// Shadow Makeup
Horns : :[P]:- Vi Horns [R-Bare]:// Thicket  /  :[P]:- Vi Horns [L-Corded]:// Thicket


Hurry to grab these! Limo!

Demonic Highrise - Plastik at Skinfair 2015

Down in the streets, the acolytes and affiliates roamed in shadow and sunlight. Petra kept to the shadows. These days full sunlight, even for the briefest of moments, hurt like Hades. She was temptation, a lure, an unexpected oasis in the world of noise and bustle. She emanated calm, danger too, but only ever once it was too late. Her curves caught their attention, her eyes drew them in, they came close... and it was all over. The acolyte had performed her task well, more followed, her days grew shorter, nights longer. Soon they may last forever. Up in the heights, amongst the antennae, as close to the stars as any could reach with their feet on solid ground in the city, this was where they all aspired to be. From this precipice of concrete Ryva watched the world move by below. Her gaze missed nothing, during the hours of sunlight she withdrew, but her eyes were everywhere. Acolytes and Sénéchaux brought her knowledge and the bounty of the living, this vitae replenished her, letting her see further than ever though the miasmic glow of electric light. Beware should you fall under her eye, it may be the last, and best thing you ever do. More wonders from the Skin Fair 2015

The Immortalia Skins from Plastik are a beautiful  range of skins for the vamp, demon, other undead or immortal among you. A Skin Fair exclusive, the detailing is subtle, helping these stand out, while remaining wearable, in all tones, for any occasion.  There are twenty tones of this amazing skin available, in female and male versions. (Pictures of the men to follow soon!). Again - more revealing pictures are available on my Flickr!

Limo to the Skin Fair 15

Petra

Skin : :[P]:- Immortalia Skin-Femme:// Ambrogino
Eyes : [Plastik]-Bloodless-Gold

Makeup : :[P]:- Immortalia Makeup:// Haihe

Ryva

Skin : :[P]:- Immortalia Skin-Femme:// Nerio

Eyes : :[P]:-Haunt Collection-Bloody Blindness

The skins come with eight brow shapers, tattoo layer freckles for body and face in light and heavy amounts - appliers for these also included. Smudgy eyeshadow and a beautiful lip stripe, lip options in glossy or darker tone. The separate applier pack contains options for Lolas, Slink hands/feet/toenails/fingernails/phatazz

Sinful Needs, Slink physique, Slink Visage, Ghetto Bum,Perfect Bum, Maitreya Lara, Belleza Venus, Lena Body, Cuteazz, Omegas, Babybumpand Loud Mouth. There's also included a form to fill in if you use a body part not already covered by the above!

Petra

:[P]:- Vi Horns [R-Bare]:// Satyr
:[P]:- Vi Horns [L-Corded]:// Satyr

Ryva

:[P]:- Vi Horns [L-Corded]:// Smog
:[P]:- Vi Horns [R-Bare]:// Smog

Fantastic horns - available in 33 - That's Thirty Three colours. HUD driven options for the colour of the cord - can be worn with or without this feature. As I'm greedy - I like one of each!

Heaven and Hell

The borders of heaven and hell were a strange place. These two worlds touched all the time, but only fleetingly. The briefest kiss. Darkness and light, neither could exist without the other, but they could never be in the same place either, and that made things difficult for those trapped in each realm.

Eiael was from the realm above and the shadow of her heart, Eurynome, from the realm below. Dark eyes had met light aeons ago in the early times of wars between those in the light, and those who had tumbled into darkness. Neither had stepped foot in the world of the other, they would meet during battles on the plane of forgetting, crossing rivers without name on mounts of shadow and dazzling light. Wings would carry them above the melee, above the masses of those at war, above the pooling blood of each side, mixing and melding in the dust from which man was created.

Such battles were now rare, the dust lay still. Each side knew the strengths and weaknesses of the other, and saw no point in wasted effort. Away from the cries and ululations of war, in the peace, they could only hope to meet at these rare crossings. Fingertips touching across the border, across the void. A distance both infinitesimal and wide beyond measure, where only true love could reach.

 Soon enough, the realms would drift apart, Eurynome and Eiael would go back to their own. The earth and all those on it would be between them again. Time would pass, and they would wait.

For each there was only the other. They would wait, and they would watch. One looking up, the other down, until the shifting of the worlds brought them back together again.

These outfits from Lazybones were another find for me at the Depraved Nation Block 100 event.

So different from the other 'street clothes' I'd bought there, these were worth a post all of their own. Lazybones Anna's Secret (White) and Lazybones Nina's Secret (Black) are fantastic Angelic / Demonic whichever takes your fancy outfits, a step outside the norm with spikes in silver or gold - both black and white options have both metal choices. Appliers for your Lola's mesh bewbs are also included, and the attachment parts of the outfit are all menu driven for resizing.

Shape : [ S H O C K ] Dakota - Noire Shape  Set - with Skin - L$ 200
Skin : :Sugar: [4] DB Bay / Naked Truth L$ 699 - for a range of teeth and cleavage options
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Magic%20Moment/194/41/1751 
Hair:  >TRUTH< Chynna w/Roots - Fades Pack L$ 250
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Truth/158/27/34
Eyemakeup :  SuPerBia LaCe FaCe TaTToo  L$ 69
Lips :  Pink Acid Juicy Fruit Lips - Pale Pink   (Juicy Fruit Lips colourpack) L$ 60
Outfits :  Lazybones Anna's Secret and Lazybones Nina's Secret  L$249 each
Bewbs :  Lolas ::: Tango ::: Mesh Breasts L$ 1750
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lolas/151/76/38
Boots :  Boots : Razor /// Rev Boots  L$ 349
Top picture Pose : DelMay - Elements - Earth L$ 150
Little bit of modding done to the positions for the poseballs here to get the separated look I was after.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Terravia%20Island/229/39/23
Halo on Eiail : Plastik - Madre Halo (pack) L$ 99
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Beautiful%20Machine/104/138/96


All items not linked are available at the Depraved Nation - Block 100 event until the end of May.
LM below.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/District/120/122/33 

Back on the Block

Here we are, as promised, more of my favourite items from the boutique stores at the Depraved Nation Block 100 event. Hurry on over there - not too long left - and now the first wave of shoppers has subsided, you can move while you shop!
Lips : Pink Acid Juicy Fruit Lips - Pink03   (Juicy Fruit Lips colourpack) L$ 60
Six great colours in this pack from Pink Acid - from palest pink and nude through to tangerine. 
Top :  Plastik :[P]:- Sterling Jacket [M]://Vee  L$219
Anything with V on as an option and I'm there. Love this, total preppy 1980's flashback combined jacket and t-shirt.
Jeans : Lapointe & Bastchild Mesh Jeans (Heel Ver)- XS Divine Blue BootCut    L$ 299

As shown last time - but here with more of the detailing in shot!

Earpieces : RemarkableOblivion - Elysium - Black  L$ 249
Wow. These are amazing. Steampunk meets classical in these beautiful winged ear pieces.
Makeup : SuPerBia LaCe FaCe TaTToo  L$ 69
Beautiful and delicate - perfect as dramatic makeup, or for a masked ball.
Top : [NV] HAI TOP - B Bloody  L$ 165
Straps and bloodstains? How could I resist?
Pants : .:Useful Things:. Sus Pants Mesh Black   L$ 160
Pants and suspenders included in this set - with all your usual MESH sizes to choose from to fit your style.

Eye makeup : SuPerBia LaCe FaCe TaTToo  L$ 69
Lips :  Pink Acid Juicy Fruit Lips -  Pale Pink - (Juicy Fruit Lips colourpack) L$ 60
Dress : DuckNipple Mesh: Zipper Dress  L$ 195
More options hidden in this one! The dress, with its zipped neck is great looking, and you have HUD driven colour options to choose from for the material.
Boots : Razor /// Rev Boots  L$ 349
More HUD goodness in these beauties! A fairly epic range of colour options, flat colours, and patterns to choose from.

Here's your ticket to the Block!
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/District/120/122/33
  

Do not disturb...

      Leave passion to rest in the peace it may find.

Do not disturb...         

Pose : Del May - Do Not Disturb - Group Gift
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Terravia%20Island/229/39/23


Skin : :[P]:- Astrali Skin[LolasBlend]:// Calypso  L$ 799
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Beautiful%20Machine/148/153/135
Hair : .::MADesigns HAIR::. ~ ERIN ~ Black IV  (five tones pack) L$ 300
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Kmadd%20Enterprise/118/84/24
Hairbase : MADesigns-Hairbase-braIniac
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Kmadd%20Enterprise/118/84/24
Eyes :  REPULSE - Nocturnal Eyes (Green)  L$ 99
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/REPULSE/97/143/23
Breasts : Lolas ::: Tango ::: Mesh Breasts (spine)  L$ 1750
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lolas/151/76/38
Breast chain :  .:ellabella:. Chained-Diffuse Black (Pack also includes silver and gold) L$ 249
Further pictures - perhaps not suited to this blog - available on my Flickr
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Beautiful%20Machine/148/153/135
Skirt :   *Tentacio* Kay Skirt black L$ 70
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cies%20Island/130/126/23
Nails :  Rozoregalia : *Gemma*Ring&Nail/3*(F):Ring&Nail  L$ 400
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LE%20LOOK/167/128/21
Boots :  TEN"10 Megas boots  L$ 350
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Serena%20Monte%20Carlo/207/42/22


Altar : Stone Misery - Elven Altar  L$ 325
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Owendale/70/97/33


Skin : [rQ] - Dark@TYPE.oS-hairBASE-Soul Patch.S.o4(Make-up)
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Magic%20Isle/110/132/41
Hair : .::MADesigns HAIR::. ~ LOGAN ~ Silver Tones VIII
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Kmadd%20Enterprise/118/84/24 
Jeans : +REDRUM+ - Grandpa's Jeans Grey
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Death%20Row/196/83/56
Boots :  ::GB::  work boots
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/GABRIEL/128/127/23

My Apologies - I don't have all the costings for the males items to hand - some are old - some current. SLurls provided for anyone interested in tracking something down.

Love Hurts

As the day of the Saint rolled closer and closer, love was in the air. Valentine had never set foot here, few would by choice. Few, but some. The darker alleyways are sometimes the best places for some lovers to meet, after all, who would look to find them both there?

The demon and the angel had met there once by chance, many years before. The alleyway had grown no cleaner over time, though at least the body of the one whose soul each had come to claim that fateful night had gone. Food no doubt for the rats which scurried ceaselessly between crates and trashcans. Love like this was not something that could be explained, too close to hate as it was. They should loathe each other, and certainly, each felt nothing but repulsion for all the other stood for. Despite all of this, love was what it was.

Whenever good and evil came together, there was bound to be violence. Angels would do all they could to be good and fair, and Demons likewise to be destructive and evil. Violent passion drew them back there each time, despite the inevitable pain that would follow.  Far from these opposites of feeling, emotion and nature cancelling each other out to some even keel, sparks would fly, and blood would flow.

Each time they met, there would be love. At each meeting; pain. The cycle continuing on and on throughout the ages.  As they loved each other, the Angel would give up his heart, and the Demon, she would eat it...

Oh Valentines... Death as love. How fitting for these latest releases!

Shown above, we have +REDRUM+ Love Thief - Stolen Heart - which is a two person set, the prize at +REDRUM+ in the current Tainted Love Hunt (which when I get round to hunting out all the prizes, there should be another post about).  Its L$1 until the end of the month, and comprises in its two sets - which are transferable for you and your love - blood for the arms, blood for the face, a chest wound, sticky out tongues, and a heart to bite on! You can find all the details about the ultimate anti-twee hunt here...

http://www.woefulwednesday.com/the-tainted-love-hunt/

Here is also the latest release from S U G A R! That's right, after so many of us crying, complaining and whinging because she wanted to have an enjoyable life, she came back! *grins*  This is a reload of perhaps my all time favourite skin - Cry My Heart Out - and it's a Group Gift!  There are five skintones, each with standard, with teeth, and a total of three cleavage options. If you were lucky enough to get the previous Cry My Heart Out skin - you might just love this lipglossey do-over!

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Magic%20Moment/195/41/1751


Also shown:

On the Demon:
Hair : Magika - Early (03)
Top : [ SAKIDE ] Insanely Cute Dress White
Skirt : ..:::C&M DEsignS:::.. Emanuelle*Pure White Feather*Skirt
Pasties : [Plastik]-Bandaids - Cirrus
Wings : Material Squirrel  - Ezriel
Nails : +ROZOREGALIA+- Gemma

On the Angel:
Skin :  Akeruka  - Antonio
Hair :  *Dura-Boys&Girls*20 (black)
Tattoo :  +REDRUM+ Leopard Tattoo
Horns :  [][]Trap[][] Obsidian Crown
Vest : +REDRUM+ - 'Punk' Denim Vest
Jeans : +REDRUM+ Grandpa's Jeans Grey

Frost!

 After waiting over half a month for Frost to start, I feel a bit remiss in leaving it this long to blog some items! Here we are anyway at last. Frost is a marvellous event, staged by Depraved Nation. It's a showcase of some of the best designers in SL, all with their own ministores, offering up some of their best stuff. with exclusives to the Frost event for sale, many at reduced prices. Oh, and the lovely people only went and wrapped up a big pile of items as gifts, some in their stores, some nestling under the frozen gift tree!

Of all the tasks at this time of year, trimming the tree was always her favourite! Each bauble collected over the years began as a decoration, and turned into a memory. With the passing years, memories were turned into baubles as well, sweet times and sad collected together, and lit with the magical glow of the lights. The scent of pine filling the room, everything calm, happy and bright... until the train came roaring through the room. Each year she forgot that little detail about this place, the seasonal scare becoming all part of the fun.

No word of a lie - as I was admiring the tree in a Christmas themed SIM, not having really noticed anything unusual about the room, it having tracks and all, when suddenly, a train! 

Shape : [:ME:] C2W Special Shape - Gift at Frost

Skin :   [:ME:] Nixie Light Skintone (Winter Preckled  w/ CL 04) - Gift at Frost

Skins and Shape in a gift! Great detailing on the skin, rosey winter glow to the cheeks with freckles too, fresh from a long afternoon snowballing.

Tattoo:  +REDRUM+ Finally Free Tattoo  -  Gift at Frost

Beautiful birds and designs on this tattoo. Lovely mix of faint linework on arms and legs to the bolder birds on the chestpiece.

Outfit :  1 Hundred. Babe Bodysuit. - Gift at Frost

Very sexy twist on a santa suit! Built into the shirt or jacket layer is the shiny black belt you would expect on the jolly old elf, but its not obtrusive. Styled here for a Christmassy look, you could wear this any time of year as its not in your face xmas costume wear.

Earmuffs :  Adoness - Daisy Ear Warmers - Red  - Gift at Frost

Very cute earmuffs! Red for the season, but decorated with a daisy, to keep you warm all the way into spring.

Necklace : KOSH- TALVI NECKLACE  L$75  50% off @ Frost

Beautiful, as with everything from KOSH. Couldn't resist this necklace. It comes with different attachment points, in male and female size versions. Also available were other jewellery items in this range to match.

Boots : Cheeky : Strap Boots (MESH) Dark Brown  L$200 @ Frost

Great MESH boots, Dark Brown and Black, have a bit of a saddleshoe feel to them, but in boot form, and with straps! Available in a good range of colours. I was also tempted by the purple!

It was a dirty job each year, taking care of the naughty list. Making sure all of the coal was mined, bagged up and delivered. Some people may have expected her to have looked grubbier, to be covered with the coal dust, be grumpier, affected by the naughty people she had to deal with, but no. This was the Christmas season, and nothing made her happier. By taking care of the naughty list, it freed up everyone else to take care of those who had been good to one another. Such generosity of spirit meant there would always be a gift waiting for her, under the tree.

Skin : : S u g a r : [2] Cane - [Lush] Berries (DB - Lush {Cleav-3} Crease)  L$ 899 @ Frost

It's with a very heavy heart I write this, as S U G A R is going to be closing. I can only wish the creator Iokko well, and hope that she finds happiness in whatever she does next. And of course, as a massive fan of her work, that she changes her mind at some point, and makes some more beautiful things for me to see, and NEED.

Outfit : [Plastik]-Bordello- Corporal Adorable - Gift at Frost

Plastik has been incredibly generous with their under the tree giftbox. This dress is one of many items, ranging from outfits, to shoes and more and more. This particular minidress is sexy, but modest, with a lovely lace panel over the chest.

Horns : *Epic* .:F R O S T:. 2012 Demon Snowflake Horns - Gift at Frost

Fantastic and subtley wintery horns from Epic, with pretty snowflakes at their tips.

Clutch : PARADISIS Serenity :  Purse - Gift at Frost

Lovely little clutch bag, with ribbons, but set apart from others by additional decoration, in the 2nd picture here it looks a bit like a creepy pink hand, which it isn't at all, it's a cute little piggy.

Nails :  [ S H O C K ] Frosty Penguin Nails - Gift at Frost

Very cute little penguin nails. Some cheer for your fingertips!
 
You can find it all here...

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Frost/131/125/28



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