Saudade

Saudade: The feeling of longing for someone that you love and is lost.

I can honestly say that this post was one that pushed me out of my comfort zone. I was spending time styling with my dear friend Madeleine, when I asked her to help me choose a gown to blog. She said, "Kay, this one would look incredible on you!" as she pointed to Azul's limited edition recolor of their Esmerelda mesh gown in peridot. Esmerelda comes with a mesh gown in 5 standard sizes, a system layer top, collar, sleeves, and flex-skirts. Green is definitely my favorite color, so I was excited, but instead of going with my usual dark touch... Maddy pushed me to style soft and feminine. I avoided my typical dark makeup, went with lighter colors, and utilized this shawl from Zibska. With a little tinting, I was able to get the PERFECT match that brought out the different tones in the gown. With some dark lace gloves I was able to pull out a little more of the darker tones, but not too much, while my ring (and it is special to me) pulled out the greens and highlights, even though it was very small. As for posing, I had to create my own pose, since I found some that were close, but not quite cutting it. I went with something very longing, as the mood I was in while crafting this post was missing someone special to me.

Now for the credits.
Hair: Moon Hair. - Insect Religion - Naturals 1
Skin: JOLI - Lucie Skin - Bare - Cream
Eyes: Ikon - Charm Eyes - Forest
Lashes: Mon Cheri - Falsies
Eyeliner: cStar Limited - Cat Liner - 008 - Jester Cat
Eyeshadow: Zibska - Leia
Lipstick: Topazia - Collection Liquid Lipstick 03 - Light Pink
Shrug: Zibska - Huld Collar
Gown: -AZUL- - Esmeralda - Peridot (Limited)
Ring: Dare Designs - Eternal Ring - Platinum/Emerald
Gloves: Avanti - Noir Lace Gloves - Black
Shoes: Bens Boutique - Montana Stiletto Fatpack
Hands: Slink - AvEnhance Hands Female - Relaxed
Feet: Slink - AvEnhance Feet Female - High
Pose: Custom.

Moonlight Densetsu

So Kaylith and I squeeed wayyy too loud when we saw this stuff and then proceeded to spend way too much on the gatchas to get what we wanted and ended up with a pretty epic haul despite not getting any of the rares. And then we had to blog them and well...

The funniest part is after we dragged our broke asses away and started to sort what we had we each picked the scout that represented us best on accident just going by what we got and how we could best style them. Funny how that works out. Oh and then we had to double team in Photoshop because well you need magic effects if you're gonna be a Sailor Scout and save the world!

Now to give credit where credit is due!

Dragon:
Skin: cStar Limited - Social Butterfly 1 - Shine
Hair: -LaViere- - Amanda - Black (Tinted Blue)
Lashes: Maxi Gossamer - Groomed - Medium - BLACK
Eyes: .ID. - Portrait Eyes - Blue
Necklace: .Olive. - the Scout's Tiara Bracelet - Mercury Gem / Silver (Resized and positioned to be a necklace)
Outfit: .The Sugar Garden. - Sentofuku Lingerie - Mercury
Scepter: .The Sugar Garden. - Moonlight Magic - Cutie Moon Rod Teal
Gloves: Dare Designs - Fleur de la Mort - Gloves - White
Boots: *Epic* - Neo Mega Stompers - Glacier
Pose: . Presence . - Magical Girl - Mercury

Kaylith:
Skin: cStar Limited - The Sweetheart 3 - Blush
Hair: Ploom - Peyton - Indecisive Pack
Lashes: Ploom - Lashes 5
Eyes: .The Sugar Garden. - Sugoi - Hazel
Necklace & Earrings: Maxi Gossamer - Solitaire Heart - Gold
Outfit: .The Sugar Garden. - Sentofuku Lingerie - Jupitor
Boots: Slink - Tall Leather Thigh Boots - White
Gloves: Dare Designs - Fleur de la Mort - Gloves - White
Hair Baubles: Two quick prims thrown together & tinted.
Pose: . Presence . - Magical Girl - Jupiter

Divine Infekt

"Let the liquid metal course through your veins, let your skin shine and glimmer in the newest silver. Join tomorrow's divinity, join us. We are the divine. We are the cybernetik."

With the new round of The Thrift Shop opening soon, cStar has created a new skin-- Cheyanne. This skin comes in five different make-up options and each make-up option has it's own unique rare. Rare, I say? Why yes, she is indeed a gatcha skin, but do not worry-- each make-up option is it's own gatcha. I must not forget, there are also some gorgeous new eyes available in a gatcha as well-- which I must say are attention grabbers! In the picture above I am sporting the Del Sol RARE option of Cheyanne, which is in the gorgeous silver tone. With bright oranges and purples paired with black lips, I simply couldn't resist-- I HAD to wrap up in my favorite latex and bring out the claws! I went with a very Bettie Page hairstyle, of course. <3 Not many people know of the place, but I really love the little shop named Sugar Pill. The creator has some pretty unique and well-textured stuff available that's an absolutely MUST-HAVE! Of course I matched it up with my favorite Dare Designs gloves and boots, accented with piercings and necklace from Cute Poison, then finally a latex posture collar and claws I made a while back. They aren't up yet, but I'll have them up and available soon.

Snagged from the in-world group, I had to share cStar Limited's ad for Cheyanne - Carribean. My lovely partner in crime styled and modeled for this make-up option, and I just love how pretty and soft it looks! Plus you can get a peek at the different tones and rare for the Carribean make-up option.

 

So in total there's 74 different skins you can win, with five different make-up options + their rares. As I said, there is an eye gatcha right next to the skin gatcha with it's own 4 unique rares. Over at the cStar booth, there's also some gorgeous eyes released. So, if you're a little low on L lately, why not drop by the Thrift Shop and snag some wicked awesome steals and deals? It's sooo worth it!

Enough of my rambling though!

Now for the credits:
Hair: Exile - Turn the Page - Raven
Skin: cStar Limited - Cheyanne - Del Sol RARE (Available @ The Thrift Shop)
Eyes: The Sugar Garden - WetLook - Lavender
Lashes: -Glam Affair- Celebrity - Eyelashes 14
Top & Skirt: SugarPill - Defekt Harness
Gloves: Dare Designs - Looking for Strange Gloves - Black
Bra & Panties: SugarPill - Wet Look Bikini - Black
Pants: [SAKIDE] - Zipped Latex Leggings Closed - Black
Boots: Dare Designs - Looking for Strange Boots - Black
Collar: . Presence . - Grim Wyrm Posture Collar (Unreleased)
Necklace: Cute Poison - Multi-Cross Necklace- Black
Claws: . Presence . - Claws - Black (Unreleased)
Pose: *PosESion* - Drama 6

Captured By Syn

I am gonna make this a quick and ...dirty... post. Well not really dirty because I made sure the nipples were not visible for the version that I am posting here. If you really want to see Kaylith's nipple you can go over HERE. That being said, yes it is odd for me to do a picture like this and yes it stems off of me being in an odd mood the other night and having friends that were willing to get into mischief with me. Thus Syn got to have her way with the Brightside, and the Darkside.

I am not even going to pretend to take credit for this picture. The poses and picture itself are all Kaylith. I was just in a mischievous mood and pulled out my harness and Kaylith decided to join me when Syn offered to play mistress for the pic. So from there Kaylith and I let our nicknames come to life as we mirrored each other like ying and yang. I with my bright rainbow make-up and pure innocent personality. Kaylith with her darker, sexy, let it all hang out, and not so innocent personality. I think Syn just wanted to say she could control us, but when Kaylith and I are paired together no one can control our scatterbrained schemes.

Now to give credit where credit is due!

KAYLITH (LEFT):
Skin: cStar Limited - TAO Goth 4 - Coffee
Hair: ::Exile:: - About Last Night - Raven
Hairbase: ::Exile:: - Hairbase 1 - Raven
Horns: +Half-Deer+ - Fawn Antlers - Heretic
Eyes: cStar Limited - TAO - White Goth Eyes
Lashes: cStar - TAO Goth Lashes
Collar: Haus of Darcy - Draconic Claw Collar
Outfit: The Sugar Garden - Black Leather Harness Bra & Panties (Part of Dirty Pillows Hunt)
Hands: SiniStyle - Taped Fist & Black Nails - Full Palm -Forearm Gap 

Nails: [Presence] - Basic Black Nails
Tattoo: [Under The Couch] - Twin Revolvers
Shoes: N-Core - EMPORIUM - Pure Black

SYN (CENTER):
Hair: Magika - Calm
Eyes: ~*By Snow*~ - Hybrid Eyes - Sky
Collar: Mesmerize Dungeon - Rubber Cuffs v4
Outfit: Dare Designs - Stingray Latex - Blue
Shoes: Graves - G391 Bound Boots

DRAGON (RIGHT):
Skin: cStar Limited - Spectrum 2.0 -Cream
Hair: Magika - After
Hairbase: Truth - Hairbase - Espresso
Horns: +Half-Deer+ - Fawn Antlers - Faithful
Lashes: .ploom. - Lashes 1
Collar: Cobrahive - Nemi Collar - studs
Outfit: The Sugar Garden - Black Leather Harness Bra & Panties (Part of Dirty Pillows Hunt)
Hands: SiniStyle - Taped Fist & Black Nails - Full Palm -Forearm Gap
Tattoo: +Half-Deer+ - Antler Hip Tattoo - Faded
Shoes: N-core - POISON - Noir Intense

Pose Set: [Presence] - Captured by Syn

Down The Rabbit Hole

So other than being a model manager my other excuses for not blogging much at least the past few days is the newest release at cStar. Last year there were gotcha machines out with different zodiac themed skins every month that followed the zodiac and had lots of skin tone options, this year is something totally new and if the trend keeps up my OCD will be going mad every release. This year the theme for the month gatcha releases is "The Art of ..." and here is the sexy ad that shows off the skins.

And if you read the fine print it says there are 200 skins. Yes you read that right 200 skins! It took me 3 days to collect them all but my collection is complete so my OCD is put to rest until the next release. My collection is so complete I even bought the lashes and eyes that were used in the ad that were put out for sale by the gatchas. So long story short, yes I have a problem, now I am not gonna try to stop having a cStar addiction anytime soon. The skins are worth way more that Jasmine sells them for, and the extremely limited and hard to find skins allow me to stand out in a crowd more than I would normally.

Now that I have given my excuses time to show off my outfit. Especially since this is one of my favorite pictures I have ever done.

Funnily enough the cStar skin wasn't the piece that got me thinking about this outfit. Odd I know but sometimes inspiration strikes form odd angles. For instance I originally saw the Kre-ations Horror Haute piercing and was befuddled as to what to do with it, so it got stashed away until I was wondering around Sn@tch and found this outfit in the lucky boards. Yes, I sat there for nearly an hour and dragged all my friends to tag the board until it finally hit a 'D' for me to grab it. From there everything fell into place. From the perfect goth skin from cStar to the horns from Kre-ations. And the keyhole tattoo Half-Deer made for The Retreat adds just that little bit of detail on my chest so that the posture collar fits in nicely and I can have my chest covered enough not to twitch.

Now to give credit where credit is due!

Skin: cStar Limited - TAO Goth 4 - Shine
Hair: .ploom. - Iris - Coal
Horns: .::Kre-ations::. - Marker Horns
Ears: :Zombie Suicide: - Mesh Gauged Ear Base - Size 3
Ear Plugs: :Zombie Suicide: - Hello Kity Plug ADD-ON For Size 3
Ear Butterflys: :Zombie Suicide: - Butterfly ADD-ON For Size 3
Eyes: .Insufferable Dastards. - Creature of the Night v2 - Starlight
Piercings: .::Kre-ations::. - Jestery piercing (For January Horror Haute)
Posture Collar: Cute Poison - Posture Collar - Cross (Part of last week's SL Fashion Week Now at the mainstore)
Tattoo: +Half-Deer+ - Keyhole Tattoo (For The Retreat)
Outift: Sn@tch - Pierette From Hell (Current Lucky Board Prize)
Nails: Sn@tch - Nail Candy - Black/White Cross
Shoes: Dare Designs - Delora Boot (Comes in all of the colors of the Delora outfit)
Pose: Apple Spice - Fighting Gravity 001

Peepshow

I have been spending a lot of my time these past few weeks hanging out at Dare Designs. Since being model manager comes with needing to familiarize myself with the clothing and make sure my models know what is out there and how it all works together I have been playing around in the Dare Designs closet myself making myself look pretty. I have to say this Cabaret/Burlesque look I came up with is defiantly one of my favorites so far so I had to share it!

I do soo love latex! And the fact that I found a reason to wear the Carmen 2.0 skin I grabbed form cStar on a whim makes me all the happier!

Now to give credit where credit is due!

Skin: cStar Limited - Carmen 2.0 - Subdued
Hair: Magika - Awkward
Lashes: .ploom. - Lashes 1
Eyes: .Insufferable Dastards. - Creature of the Night v2 - Starlight
Outfit, Collar, & Wristbands: Dare Designs - Scorch - Blue
Nails: Sn@tch - Nail Candy - Onyx
Boots: Dare Designs - Delora Boot (Comes in all of the colors of the Delora outfit)
Pose: Apple Spice - Ballet 007