Kusama inspired culture shock

No, I don't know if the dress is inspired by Kusama or it's just a happy coincidence..but I love Yayoi Kusama's work, (check her out! ), and when I saw this dress, it just made me think of her.
It's all about polkadots, it comes with a veil/mask a ring, and in three other colors. The floating spheres around it can be detached, but it's so appealing complete. It turns it into more than a cute dress. Though it's stilla  cute dress on its own, It's slightly sheer, yet all your 'private' parts are covered neatly.

Skin: Mariko - Lynn (lucky board item)
Hair: Elikatira- Charmed
Lipstick: Redbird- Pinup Lips  (Culture Shock item)
Dress: *SoliDea FoliEs* - Shock Dress  (Culture Shock item)
Mask: *SoliDea FoliEs* - Shock Mask (Culture Shock item)


have a nice day!

Culture Shock 

I'm back from a small..not so small hiatus in which real life decided to take some time form sl. And I'm really excited, why?..because I'm blogging again, and just for a soon to be..almost starting fashion event that also helps people out of sl.

As you may know, or not, CUlture Shock is about to begin. What is this? It's a sim fair event by CHIC Management and sponsored by MODAVIA Productions. You might have been at it last year.

The Proceeds from the event go to Medicins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders/Médicos Sin Fronteras)

For more info about the stores, landmark, etc, please go to:

www.chic-management.com

www.modaviafashionmarketing.com

www.msf.org.uk/Culture_Shock_2012.event

It runs from May 4th to May 26th, so you have plenty of time to stop by

I'll be making a couple more of posts in the next days. But for today this is what I came up with. While I was looking trough the stores I realized that I was picturing the name of the event thinking of the exotic. Ethnical patterns, wooden beads, ceramics, asian designs, fabrics. Yet everything else can fit umder the wing of culture, even those things that are usual. But then, where's the shock on that?. This is what I could come up with ^^

The Shape is from Savoir Faire, it comes with a style card, it looks really cute with the skin it has on the vendor, but I fell in love of the face when wearing this skin (from my ugly dorothy). The hair worn on the pictures (from Tameless) comes with a lovely hairbase of its own. It actually looks as it you combed the hair with gel into a mohawk. But I was tempted to see how it'd look with the head shaven instead, and I really liked the result. 

Shape: Savoir Faire Shapes- Lucelia (Culture Shock item) 

Skin: My Ugly Dorothy- Serah 

Hair: Tameless- Foxy 

Piercings: [ni.ju]- Terymn Piercing

Dress: Bliss Couture- Bryn (Culture Shock item)

Necktie: Lassitude and Ennui- Ophelia Pearl necktie (cafe hunt gift (old))

Tattoo: [arnadi] - Hell Mex

Hairbase: Raw House (sold with a mohawk, not separate)  

Sandals: ::GB:: Ring Sandals- white (Culture Shock item)

So, I keep on changing picture styles...just out of not deciding how I like to put them up better....and I probably might never settle down on a way XP. I wanted to blog a pair of items from Onyx Noir's winter hunt...a pair of shoes i've fallen in love with..and a lot more.

The hairstyle comes with options for solids and also to color a separate strek in a different color. (Tameless keeps their new releases discounted on their first days). The gingerbread man plushie is part of the Winter Hunt gifts, there's other three of them, all as cute as this one

Hair- Tameless- Nadine

Sweater- Aberrant- Lovin' Feeling Sweater-Cranberry (avaliable at the Black Market)
Skirt- Honey Kitty- Black free dot skirt (free)

Socks- Doppleganger- Scrunch socks White/black polka dots

Boots- Apple May Designs- Sculpted Snuggies white/black

Scarf- FIR&MNA- The Samhain Scarf

Bag- Lou Lou & co- Bloody Mary

Plushie- Dilly Dolls- WInter kid- Ralph- Onyx Noir's winter hunt gift

The second look is based upon the first, just that, being am in the southern hemisphere and here it's almost summer, i felt like making a less warm variation of the first one.

Top- Tarnished- Lady Crochet top Onyx Noir's winter hunt gift

Shoes- Alice Project- Faelin Pumps (mesh)

Bandaid- Pekka- ouchi knee

Deer Plushie- Violent Seduction- Calamity (Pure) (mesh gatcha item)

So, i'm not exactly the most often user of gowns, but i saw this one, and it was so beautiful i couldnt resist giving it a try. There's a lot of work done on the flowers, the sculpts are lovely, and I'm really fond of the slightly sheerness of the inner skirt that you get to see on the side. I tried to contrast the hair it with the piercing and skin...i dont know if i managed to do it, but am really fond of the outcome. I hope you like it too ^^

Hair: Truth- Tamina

Eyes- Cool Beans (closed) Soulful Eyes

Skin: Fashionably Dead- Bird Skin- Shark

Dress- Siss Boom- Sugared Plum

Piercing- ni.ju- Mero Piercing

Location : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Garden%20of%20dreams/126/37/92

Onyx Noir's winter hunt starts on December 2nd ^^

And Squeek! has a lil gift for it. I've had a blood/dark version of it for Horror Haute some months ago and never released it... I might get them out for this winter..or next summer though. But for this hunt I made a special pattern for it, on an icy light blue and spiders?.

Come look for it when the hunt starts, even if the scarves are put out for sale later, this pattern won't be avaliable. And there's also going to be gifts from other stores at Onyx Noir, so come, visit and explore around

The hunt will go from December 2nd to January 2nd.

So, I had a little walk and stumbled upon a quite intresting sim, Humanoid is a beautiful place to relax and explore, there's doors that lead you to different scenarios and there's some other spots you can see down at the ground level. The photographs in this post were shoot in that location, yet there's more than this to see.

I wanted to feature some items from Cool Beans, the store is closing soon and it's having a sale, so it's a good chance to go and visit. The scarf shown is 22769 for the homme hunt, but it was so pretty and matched the eyes so nice I had to use it (they have a male outfit for the hunt-shir, jeans and scarf). And the skin is Al vulo's new group gift, there's no fee to join, you'll find the gift sign close to the landing area

Skin: Al Vulo!- Chen* Blackpearl choco (group gift)

Eyes: Cool Beans- Soulful Eyes-Blue Lg

Hair: Elikatira-Play-Black 04

Bra: Eleanor Riigby- Aztec bra (old hunt item)

Top: Randomcity- Tank Tops- White-Torn-Opaque

Shorts:Cool Beans- Chatty Kathy Shorts- Brown

Scarf: 22769- Silk Scarf Turquoise (Homme hunt- going on now)

Shoes: Sleepy Eddy- Boston Sandal (straw)

Piercing: ni.ju- Snake bites

Earrings: Redskull- Classic Music earring

The Noobie style challenge

So, i picked up the challenge from Gogo because it just sounded like fun, and also because trying to come up with low budget outfits was one of my goals when I started blogging.

Rules were that the whole look should cost less than 550L, and that it had to be stuff that was avaliable currently. And so I did it. I didnt make an alt, but I was really careful and didn't cheat. I realized somehow it is easier to come up with an outfit from existing freebies you gathered, than having to find cheap or free items to put up a style...in other words, it was the oposite process than from what I'm used.

Being it was a look for those starting in SL, and that what we most do then, is exploring places, and shopping, and...well, just being at places where a casual look is apropiate, I tried to go for something relaxed...you probably won't be attending a wedding at your first week on SL...but, I could be wrong.

The shirt is in a gatcha, so is the scarf (but in both cases I only had a single play, as having to have more than a play would add on the budget) The shirt is meant for male avs, though it needs a little of resizing only to work on girls.

The bag is named as a demo, yet its an usable demo, and it somes in two sizes to fit small avatars.

Skin: My Ugly Dorothy -Luckyboard01- 0L

Eyes: Amato- Eyes Marron- 0L

Hair: Wildo-Wildo/M/01- 78L

Shirt: Nerd-Scoop Neck T-shirt no04- 40 L

Skirt- WIldo- Union Jack sk-50L

Scarf: Sweet Leonard- Nature knit Muffler- 40L

Socks: Pig-Argyle Sock M.Suspender-Gary S- 50L

Boots: In her shoes-Warm Winter Boots- 0L

Bag: Tanuoco (marketplace)- 0L

Total: 258L

...more than enough to make yet another look ^^

Have a nice day!