Longing For Spring

After the endless work for Fashion For Life, I'm here again to catch up with the great fashion events of this crazy world!

I totally fell in love with a cute outfit by Mimikri, offered at 70L only at The Dressing Room Blue. I matched it with one of the most recent Al Vulo! faces, Leilani, and with the beautiful bandana MESH hairstyle, Lola from Wasabi Pills. Have a look!

Skin: Al Vulo! - Leilani (milk) - 800L 

Hair: Wasabi Pills - Lola MESH hair - 250L 

Outfit: Mimikri @ TDR Blue - Tahnee Khaki  - 70L 

Here's a chart of the six Leilani's main make ups, but there are many more coming on tattoo layer, as well as eyebrows and freckles options. The skin is shown in the milk tone, cacoa and sunkissed available too. Don't miss the group gift, a special Leilani make up in the sunkissed shade.

Other credits: 
Eyes: Poetic Colors
Lashes: Miamai
Jewelry: League
Pose: Glitterati

[Event] [New] Skin & Lashes

Al Vulo! is taking part to the Whore Fair, running from  March the 1st to March the 31th, with Alena skin. It comes in 3 make ups for the good girls and 3 for the bad girls, each with several options (cleavage, teeth and such) and in 3 tones.
I am showing the Porcelain shade, others are Cacoa and Sunkissed. Good Girl on the first row, Bad Girl on the second row.
Pictures are not postprocessed and were shot using the windlight sky "Nam's Optimal Skin 2".

The amazing lashes I'm wearing are the MESH Catwalk lashes recently released at Miamai. They are really beautiful, fit is very very easy, and once you reach it they look good from all sides!
I am showing Miamai Catwalk Lashes Evergreen Femme.

Other credits: 

Skin: the.oBscene

Eyes: Poetic Colors

Hair: Wasabi Pills, Elikatira (both MESH)

Poses & Background: Diesel Works

Italian Pride, News and Sales!

Apparently my year hasn't started at its best... My RL is still very messy and, the cream of the crop, the desktop had a nervous breakdown and needs to see a doctor.
In the meanwhile, I'm trying to survive in my Second Life on my laptop, very uncomfortable to take pics and such but there's no choice at the moment!

My first post of 2012 features recent releases from two great Italian designers, Berta Avro & Bubi Bolissima of Severed Garden and Hlin Bluebird of Al Vulo!

Ylenia, worn here in the shade "sky", is a full outfit perfect for winter times, including shoes and hat. Other color options are available as well. Check the details, I love them!

Sakia is one of the newest faces at Al Vulo!, shown here in the fair tone. Each make up comes with blonde and brown eyebrows, with and without hairbase and cleavage. Other tones available in store.

Outfit: Severed Garden - Ylenia Sky - 250L (550L the fatpack of 4 colors)

Skin: Al Vulo! - Sakia porcelain - selected make ups.

The picture is not postprocessed besides cropping and minor adjustments, taken with windlight sky "Nam's Optimal Skin 2".

The hairstyle I'm wearing is from Raspberry Aristocrat, which is having a 50% sale together with all the stores on the Zyrra sim, including JANE. But you should hurry because it's almost over.

Other interesting hair sales are running at Amacci (85L the color pack) and Heart Softens (39L the color pack).

Other credits: 
Eyes: Poetic Colors
Lashes: [glow] studio
Pose: Glitterati

Al Vulo!, Severed Garden

Today I'm featuring Italian designers, the talented Berta Avro & Bubi Bolissima of Severed Garden and Hlin Bluebird of Al Vulo!, whose creations are great samples of quality and originality. 

Dana outfit from Severed Garden is perfect for winter times, it comes with accessories and boots, and also with a cute frost breath maker worn on the mouth that produces a frost cloud! How cute is that? 

It is available in various shades (shown in olive here) and boots are also sold separately if you want other color options.

A note on the pose: it's a recent release from Diesel Works, from the Shyla pack, including 11 beautiful and kinda dramatic poses, perfect for your artistic shots.

Outfit: Severed Garden - Dana (olive) - 290L
Pose: Diesel Works - Shyla 

Giulia is the newest face from Al Vulo! Already available in the tan tone (and a special make up, blogged here, is the prize of the DIMH 3), it was released yesterday in the porcelain tone.
It comes in several make ups and each in many options: plain, cleavage, freckles, teeth, and eyebrows in different colors on tattoo layer are also provided. I really love teeth on Giulia, they are very nice and soft, not giving the "scary rabbit" look that sometimes comes out when wearing this kind of skin.

Here are my favourite make ups, showing the plain version on the left (no teeth on first row, with teeth on second row) and the freckled version on the right (same as before).
Pictures are not postprocessed at all and shot using the "Nam's optimal skin 2" windlight sky.

Skin: Al Vulo! - Giulia (porcelain) - 800L each make up, 2800L the fatpack.

Other credits: 

Hair: Exile (50L retirement sale), Shag

Eyes. Poetic Colors

Lashes: [glow] studio

[Hunt] Diamond Is Mine Hunt 3

Some beautiful hunts are running these days! I don't have enough time for complete overviews, so as usual I'll show you my favourite prizes. 

Diamond Is Mine Hunt comes to its third edition! It's organized by Sophistishapes, it lasts since November 18th till December 18th and involves 90 brands! You can find slurs, hints and pictures of all the prizes on the official blog. 

Skin: Al Vulo! - giulia* malice diamond hunt - 0L

Outfit: Tres Beau - Tres Beau DIMH - 0L

Hair: D!va - "Diva" (Type B)(Mercury) - 0L

Outfit: Angel Dessous - Pleasure Black - 0L

Hair: D!va - "Diva" (Type A)(Mercury) - 0L

Another prize I absolutely recommend is the one from AKEYO: the store offers 3 unreleased dance animations together with their amazing AO hud. I totally fell in love with this hud: it doesn't need any configuration, you just rezz it and add your animations, it will recognize them itself! No need to touch any notecard! And if it ever couldn't recognize the animation, a menu will ask you where do you want to place it. I have always wanted to create an original AO but my laziness prevented me to do so thinking to the huge notecard job... but now it's way easier! Furthermore, the hud has a dance option, where you can store and access your dances! Thank you AKEYO! 

Other credits: 

Eyes: Poetic Colors

Lashes: [glow] studio
Necklace: Sn@tch (free @Vintage Fair)

Shoes: Baby Monkey

Poses: (pda)

Look of the day

Skin: Al Vulo! - "nilpez* orange kauai olive" (group gift - 0 L)
Eyes: .ID. - "Summertime reflections DBrown" (The Seasons Hunt - 0 L)
Hair: *Dura* - "Summer group gift black" (0 L)
Headband: "LaGyo" - "Peonies headband aqua" (TDR - 70 L)
Top & sandals: Blanche's Boutique - "Heart Hunt items" (there are also a belt and a pair of pants - find 4 small hearts in the shop - 0 L)
Bracelet: CONCRETE FLOWERS - "Beach bracelet" (The Seasons Hunt - 0 L)
Skirt: S@bbia - "Lace maxi skirt white" (lucky board)

Sn@tch & Al Vulo Deals

After a crazy busy week, I am finally able to write here again!
Today I want to share with you 2 great deals on beautiful products I found on the grid.

Top: Sn@tch - Silky Silky Camis - the pack with 7 colours is being sold for 75L.
Skin: Al Vulo @ The Fashion Garret - [cloei] [bohemiene milk] - 50L

Other credits:
Hair: Elikatira
Eyes: Pulse
Lashes & Nails: je suis...
Scarf: JANE
Shrug: So Many Styles (discontinued atm)
Skirt: Izumiya
Belt: The Secret Store
Bag: Duh
Shoes: Donna Flora

[Skintones] AtomicBambi & Al Vulo!

Today I want to share with you two beautiful skins I got the chance to examine lately.
According to my taste, they are showing in fair shades, but darker tones are available as well.

The pictures are not photoshopped besides the obvious crop and paste and some softening of the edges. Taken with the windlight setting "Nam's Optimal Skin 1".

AtomicBambi - Alice Pale - Dark Eyebrows - includes a shape (not worn), other lipstick and 2 teeh versions on tattoo layer.

Al Vulo! - Renzie - Milk - 2 shapes included.

Other credits:
Eyes: Pulse
Hair: Shag
Lingerie: Ohmai!, Miamai
Shoes: Donna Flora, Nardcotix (new)
Nails & Lashes: je suis...

Al Vulo! - Nikita Fride

Lately the charity events, for very good reasons anyway, ate all my blogging powers.
But it's time to go back to my usual activity, and today I want to feature two generous and talented, in very different ways, designers.

Besides the black&white pic, no image is postprocessed except for cropping, pasting, adding text and softening sharp edges. Skins have been photographed using the Windlight setting "Nam's optimal skin 2"

Al Vulo! recently released a beautiful skin called Lalli, that I'm showing you in milk and sunkissed tones, all make ups. Each come with and without cleavage, with blonde eyebrows and hairbase, as well as tattoo layers for brown eyebrows and hairbase and eyeshadows. A specific shape, that I'm not wearing, is available too.

Nikita Fride has launched an awesome serie of peculiar skins inspired to the sins, with matching hair and tattoos.

Furthermore, she also released some awesome lashes I immediately fell in love with! Have a look!

1)Long Eyelashes Indulgence 2) Long Eyelashes Bliss
3)Long Eyelashes Jewels 4) Long Eyelashes Rainbow
5)Long Eyelashes Vengeance 6) Long Eyelashes Vengeance (bottom decorated)

Thanks a lot Hlin and Nikita!

Other credits:
Hair: Posh
Eyes: Pulse
Swimswear: Mischief (closed), Alexohol
Couple pose: Glitterati

Fashion For Life - part 9

Ninth post dedicated to the Fashion For Life event. All the outfits worn are available at the fair, donation items will be marked with a red *DONATION ITEM* writing.
Thanks a lot to all the designers that provided me promotional copies, you make my life easier!

This should be my last post dedicated to the event. Today I want to show you the donation items by Jada Humby Couture and Sascha's Designs.

Outfit: Jada Humby Couture - Fashion Bag "Rahel" ruffled dress black - *DONATION ITEM*, 499L
Boots: Jada Humby Couture - Shoe Bag "Aliyanah" boots black - *DONATION ITEM*, 599L

Outfit: Jada Humby Couture - Fashion Bag "Rahel" ruffled dress white - *DONATION ITEM*, 499L
Boots: Jada Humby Couture - Shoe Bag "Aliyanah" boots white - *DONATION ITEM*, 599L

Gown: Sascha's Designs - Arrogance Formal - *DONATION ITEM*, many wearing options, 499L

Dress: Sascha's Designs - Beerel Black - *DONATION ITEM*, many wearing options, 325L

Dress: Sascha's Designs - Beerel White - *DONATION ITEM*, many wearing options, 325L

Other credits:
Skin: TheObscene, Al Vulo! (new release)
Eyes: Pulse
Hair: Milana (group gift), Truth
Jewelry, Nails and Lashes: je suis...
Shoes: Nardcotix

Skin Fair 2011 [part #2] - Italian Pride!

The Skin Fair 2011 is an event involving the biggest part of the skin stores in Second Life. Martina gave you all the details here.

This year my country, Italy, celebrates the 150th anniversary of its unification. I won't annoy you talking about politics and similar stuff, I just want to let my Italian pride come out for some moments, because so often what happens here makes me wish so strongly to live elsewhere.

That is why today I am featuring 2 Italian brands, an established one and an emergent one: YourSkin & YourShape and Al Vulo!

Because many Italian people are talented...

...and Italian designers are generous, offering 2 of the most beautiful gifts available in the whole Skin Fair. Show them your love too!

Thank you very much, Monicuzza & Hlin!

Other credits:
Eyes: Pulse
Lashes: je suis...
Hair: Truth, Miel, Fri.day, 69
Lingerie: Fishy Strawberry