LotBaN: The Rainbow Goth

Darkness may be settling in sooner in my neck of the woods, but there's still room for a dash of color. I've wrapped up a rainbow in black in satin with Fleet from +++BLUE BLOOD+++, and you're welcome to come join me (or simply steal the outfit details) on my blog, Lifestyles of the Broke and Notorious!

Christmas gatcha!

Yesterday, Ellantha told me that the ultimately cool Japanese foursome of Perturb/ation, Clematis, Zakka and Nonino have begun their next Gatcha holiday festival -- Christmas! I absolutely loved the Halloween one, so much so that the month of October was dedicated to hanging out in the golden-orange thirty linden skybox all decorated with thirty linden adorable items, enormous joy for so little out of the gatcha machine. Their Christmas gatcha presents are just as awesome, fifteen items in a gumball machine for 30L a try. They're transferrable, so that if you get a few copies of the Christmas Coat by Perturb/ation (modeled above), you can pass them along to pals. { Go to the gatcha festival here! }



***Hair: EkoEko Stan (cream)
***Nails: MiaSnow nails lolli lime
***Pierce: FlipSide Double Labret Spikes
***Earrings: FlipSide earset2
***Shoes: Hat Mechanic Greaser Boots Brown
***Socks: (Shiny Things) Stripe Knit Thigh Highs - brown
***Skin: Den-Dou Rock Pale /06 Devil1
***Pants: Shop Sey Carving Leather (brown)
***Coat: Perturb/ation Gatcha (30L) coat, xmascoat Mens (comes with women's in the box too)

Drowsy and warm

When I was in Drowsy yesterday checking the location of the BettiePage (BP*) jacket, I boggled at the prettiness of the sim. Drowsy is amazingly well-built, the combination of talented creators and storytellers. Each vista looks like a film set, rife with potential action and meaning. My Alice-in-Drowsyland sweater comes from ~silentsparrow~, a snuggly piece with a quilted bit of cuteness on the chest, something that looks handmade for a cold season. (Now back to giving my students their final exams.)

***Shirt: Schadenfreude white oxford
***Sweater: ~silentsparrow~ vixen knitty sweater
***Gloves: Bliensen + MaiTai bedazzled gloves in red, Chimney hunt items
***Hair: !lamb egomaniacal in twix
***Boots: *ordinary design* Acinonyx boots (color scripted)
***Pants: Kyoot zipper cords in black
***Skin: Ugly Duck Yasmin (cat-blacklips)

That BP* jacket...

Gabrielle Kristan modeling the BP* jacket

I received a very nice IM today from Gabrielle Kristan regarding the location of the BettiePage Voyager jacket. (Moral: be careful of IMing me, you could end up in my blog.)

Gabrielle Kristan: Hi, I was reading your blog the other day and when it came to the jean jackets from BP (bettiepage) You had a little note asking if these were out yet. Im not sure if you know or not but I guess they have been out I have spend like a week looking for them and found them in some small corner of the sim. I have a direct lm to them if you get the question from people asking you if you know where they are :p

The location is here -- it'll dump you at the central TP point. Then go find the train that's fallen into the water at: Drowsy 38, 34, 23. The gorgeous items are in the train cars, yep.

For my RL Christmas list

When I was hanging about with my pal Fade Lei (of Ugly Duck) a few days ago, she pointed to her feet. "Look! New boots from Shop Sey!" I was struck by their soft-looking comfiness, and then spent a few days unsuccessfully fighting internet lag to get them. I finally got my hands on them last night, as well as this beautiful fluffy sweater from the same shop, and thought it was only fitting to have Fade model them on her wee girl avatar. Isn't the height differential on boy and girl avatars extreme? Sadly, this is totally the difference between IRL me and my husband too...





On miss Lei:
***Jacket: Ensvale
***Jeans - Garage (men's)
***Boots: Shop Sey Layer's Boots [A] Corduroy
***Shirt: pink outfitters
***Hat: cubic effect
***Skin: Ugly Duck by Fade Lei

On moi:
***Eyes: Poetic Colors eyes fairy - wolf gr dark
***Earrings: FlipSide earset 2
***Mouth rings: FlipSide F10 mouth piercing set
***Skin: Nomine sylvan male china white - plain sideburns
***Hair: Truth Damien - cocoa
***Pants: WMD Ronin Hara Jeans Low Rise Ripped
***Jacket: Shop Sey BoaJK[A] brown
***Boots: Shop Sey Layer's Boots [A] Corduroy
***Undershirt: Shop Sey TkTp/Hope/B

All wrapped up for your tree

Dark Eden always makes me giggle with their Christmas stuff. As a former Dark Eden girl, I always love the shibari holiday sets, especially including Halloween (orange ropes!) and the Christmas green and red. The ropes mostly fit my boy avatar here -- the chest didn't fit at all cause he has no boobies, and the groin required some tweaking. Despite that, I think he looks like Santa's happiest gayest elf, eh? The boots are as over-the-top as always, and the scarf set with skulls loops neatly around one's neck … There's one more very naughty item that makes me laugh. In the interest of my daughter not seeing this one, I'll just link to it!



***Eyes: Poetic Colors eyes fairy eyes - wolf dark
***Hat: Chicanery dirty santa hat (I'm not sure if this is still in his shop)
***Shirt: Vitamen Intimo black sheer tank
***Undies: Vitamen Intimo Black Sheer Brief
***Skin: Den-dou vampire skin - light / no fang
***Hair: Miau Haus Vasean Hair Juicy Green
***Tattoo: ~silentsparrow~ crowjane tattoo
***Scarf: Dark Eden Crossbones Scarf
***Boots: Dark Eden Lilith Holiday Boots
***Shibari set: Dark Eden Xmas Green Shibari ropes
***OMG candy cane penis!: Dark Eden Candy Cane Strapon

Ugly Duck skins

I have a designer friend who makes the most amazing skins for her shop Ugly Duck. She's never publicized them, even though her shop is jam-packed full of different kinds. She's spent the past three years carefully creating the bases ("Just for myself") until she was happy with them. She recently sent me a box of her newest stuff, very shyly and quietly, and I said: YOU MORON. I'LL BLOG THESE. Her skins come in several tones, and the makeups are all melting and perfectly blended and highlighted like a makeup artist has been at me. If you want to see the nekky skin, Go check out the demo at Ugly Duck.

By the way, I'm also wearing the brand new BeeBee boots by SLink. They're gorgeously made as always, and I can't wait to see how people wear them on their blogs! (SLURL to SLink)







***Skins: Ugly Duck - Chani skins
Chani skins in these makeups: plain, black red makeup, cateyes - blacklips & bindi, cateyes -eyeshadow & lipstripe, cateyes - redlips, cateyes, eyestripe - redlips, lipblush, pris, redlips.
***Eyes: Poetic Color Eyes Autumn - Oak
***Jewelry: Kunstkammer Black Forest suite in pearl/crystal/moonstone
***Socks: mocha loose socks in plain dirty beige
***Undies: ~momo~ dewdrop set in butter
***Hair: !lamb witch - butterfinger
***Boots: SLink BeeBee boots in white chocolate

I guess he hangs right

I'm blogging at you from my conference in New Mexico. Chatting with Winter this morning, I realized that I own astronomically more girl items than boy items, simply because I blog more as a girl. That's why whenever I notice something boyish about girl clothing -- like the very definite "shading" on these DP**yumyum BF jeans -- I gasp and put them immediately onto my boy avatar. Yep, these pants emphasize his assets, which is probably why they're called BF (boyfriend?) jeans in the first place. Thank you, DP**yumyum, for unwittingly increasing my male avvie's wardrobe! The Nomine sweater is also meant for girls, but surely boy-Acha's best girlfriends won't mind him borrowing their soft, fluffy sweaters…

Also, please note the awesomeness of my boots. They're from Hat Mechanic, and are meant for wearing with prim pants. They come with a taller variety for tucking pants in too.



***Sweater: Nomine Division Sweater Brown
***Jeans: DP**yumyum BF jeans - used
***Tank: /artilleri/ 8ball flaming skull tank
***Boots: Fade Dana Greaser Boots for prim pants
***Skin: Trap Axel Male, old group gift
***Hair: EkoEko (TekuTeku) Siva in cream

Please go away, stress

I loved Zala Wonder's boots so much that I totally stole them. These are from Ordinary Design, and are completely color scripted, the lace-up ribbons as well as the base. I put them on with a bunch of stripes (because once you start, it's hard to stop), /artilleri/'s beautiful scarf and these leggings from DP**yumyum. I wore these pattern-scripted Gritty Kitty headphones to look more like Zala Wonder :D.

The coat was made for winter two years ago by ~silentsparrow~, and I remember how much I loved putting it on and zooming around with my brand new Skoopf skates on the iced inlets of the sim. (By the way, I'm going to be at a conference for the next few days; blogging will be limited or nonexistent. But I'll be back!)



***Eyes: Poetic Color autumn oak large
***Gloves: ~silentsparrow~ (cocoa) toxine dress gloves
***Coat: ~silentsparrow~ (cocoa) marzipan coat
***Boots: *ordinary design* Acinonyx color scripted boots with ribbons. *_*
***Scarf: /artilleri/ Taylor scarf khaki/cream
***Skin: Curio Moonbeam Frex (dark) Winter - pure 2
***Hair: Maitreya Zoe - Caramel