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

A world of watercolour

Mei had come down to the water to witness the illusion which took place just once each decade.

Few believed such things were possible, no one who had never seen it could put any stock in the tales. Those who had been raised on stories of its existence, to them it was a wild dream, a fairytale of childhood, not something to search out as a truth. Mei had more faith in the tales she grew up loving than others. Ever an aesthete she had always liked to believe the stories, the words of which wove into such dreams there were days she had cried on waking for the loss of them.

Mei believed in dreams, in stories, in the words she had been given by parent and grandparent. She went down to the water, stepping into its cool embrace as the moon rose. Smooth flowing water grew in substance as the world faded away. The transparency through which the stones of the lake bed showed clearly now darkened, through sepia to the blackest of inks. Looking up, individual colour had drained from the world, replaced by delicate washes and brushstrokes. All had become art, as she had known it would. Now she had her own tale to tell, to pass down word of all she had seen to her own kith and kin. 

As sad as it is that the Skin Fair is over, many of the exclusives are now available in the creators own stores. Mei Lei is one such beautiful creation from DS'Elles. Shown here in 'Medium' tone, one of five available, each skin comes with five brow options. No brow, blonde, red, brown and black. Included are three tattoo options for freckles, cleavage, eye liner, eye shadow, lips and a hairbase.

The Mei Lei shape is available separately from DS'Elles, as are SLink Appliers for Hands and Feet, SLink Physique, Loud Mouth, Maitreya, and Sweetlips.

DS'Elles