Estelle // Group Gift by The Skinnery (2 versions incl. and comes in ALL skintones)

Few days ago a new round of KUSTOM 9 started and this round is, besides clothing and accessories, full of home&deco items so I felt inspired to set up a scene for my blog post. It took me a while to do this but it was lots of fun and I hope to be doing more home&deco posts in the futur. You will find a listing of all items I used at the end of this post.
Another round of N21 is around the corner, August 21st, and ARISKEA will have the Chakra necklace and bracelets available. I love her jewels so much!! I am also happy to announce that COCORONI will be at N21 and she made some cute tote bags and they come with a hand and shoulder pose as well.
I am also proud to announce I am as of now an official blogger for THE SKINNERY *happydance* This is one of my favourite skin makers on the grid. I love the unique faces and little details Uma puts into her skins. Her newest release is Zuri and will be available in the tones champagne, honey and toffee as a pre-release at THE FANTASY COLLECTIVE. Make sure to go demo this beautiful skin!!

Now I wanted to talk to you about something that deeply touched me. The OLIVE YOU fundraiser event. It is a small event friends of  Rose Naminaeko, owner of Olive, organized to raise money so Rose and her real life family can pay lawyer fees in the hope he can help them to prefend their house from going into foreclosure. I am horrified by the idea of loosing my home so I went to grab some lovely items at Olive You and I hope our contributions will help them to keep their house!! More info you can find on Rose's Flickr here. More info about the event and participants you can find here as well.

The Valena hair by Olive @ Olive You <3 // Zuri skin by The Skinnery @ TFC // Chakra Necklace by Ariskea @ N21

HeartStrings skin by Atomic @ The Chapter Four

I feel so honoured and happy to still be an official ATOMIC blogger that I decided to make a special edit (using a green background is not my specialty lol) to promote the new upcomming skin by Atomic, called Song. Ivy released a teaser, Heart Strings, at THE CHAPTER FOUR and is available in the 2 for 1 room. This means there are 3 packs with each 2 skintones. Each skintone comes with 4 brow options and one without brows, Loud Mouth appliers and 2 special lip add-ons. Other appliers for each skintone are available at the temporary mainstore here. She will be releasing Wowmeh and Slink Physique appliers very soonish as well. Another eyecatcher is ALCHEMY at WE LOVE RP. I am in loooveee with this set!!! The Lok Armor set will be available, August 6th, in 4 different metals and all sets have a HUD to change gem colour. This set will be 25% off regular price during the event!! These girls make me feel like a goddess ❥

Special Lip Add-ons for HeartStrings by Atomic @ The Chapter Four

This will be my last post for HAIR FAIR 2014 unless I'll get the time to get in and buy some hairs. But next few days gonna be busy since today I'm finally packing my bags to go back home!!! YAY!! After being 3 months from home I think I coudn't be more excited about today LOL But before I go I wanted to show you what GEEK has up for this Hair Fair : Life Beyond Sprinkles (my fave), Blueberry Geek, Paper Planes Collide and a man's hair called Monster Crossed. Except for Life Beyond Sprinkles all hairs have a rez script so you can make it fit your head. Jada also made new textures and  new HUD's and so now you can change color for the wisps as well. I also forgot to mention that this fair is helping a great cause called 'Wigs for Kids'. GEEK is donating 50% of every sale to Wigs for Kids!! Yesterday a new round of KUSTOM9 kicked off and again I would buy everything!! FISHY STRAWBERRY has a super sexy coated pants out and it is so detailed, it's perfect in every way! And she also made a Y-back top to go with them sexy pants who has a super sexy back and the straps are HUD controlled so you can change the colors. Enjoy and see you all in a few days ❥

Blueberry Geek // Paper Planes Collide by geek @ Hair Fair 2014

Tattoo - Reckless - Warrior w/neck Fresh @ The Mens Dept

TheSkinnery - Demon Eyes @ We <3 RP // random.matter - Eyebags v2 @ The Thrift Shop

Ardent Eyes by BUZZERI @ Kustom9

Skin : TheSkinnery :: Xiao - Bare face (honey) DB CL1@ TCF :: NEW
Eyes : Ikon :: Ascension eyes :: black
Eyeliner : TheSkinnery :: Xiao :: waterline eyeliner @ TCF :: NEW
Allergy makeup :: TheSkinnery :: Spring Allergy Makeup @ TCF :: GIFT :: NEW
Hair : Moon :: Daydream :: Reds @ TCF :: NEW
Hat : Atomic :: Forest Friend Baret :: Fox @ TCF :: NEW
Sweater : Atomic :: Forest Friend Sweater :: Fox Neutrals @ TCF :: NEW
Necklace : Amala :: Pearl Drop Necklace :: silver
Ring : Atomic :: Celebrate! Cupcake ring @ TCF :: GIFT :: NEW
Leggings : Maitreya :: Leggings black
Shoes : FLite :: Skywalker Rigged :: gold (limited edition!!) :: NEW
Bag : Ison :: two tone leather bag :: vaki(special edition)@ Justitia :: NEW
Pet : Alchemy-Birdy :: Sassy Cat :: G :: Mao (gacha) @ TCF :: NEW



Pose : Le Poppycock :: Uncompromising @ TCF :: NEW

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Atomic introduces it's new skin "Innocence" at The skin Fair, starting March 14th , and will be available in 7 tones : Porcelain, Milk, Sugar, Creme, Honey, Latte and Mocha. As with the previous skin release "Muse" there will also be 2 packs of lipsticks available and 2 packs of brows.

Another new addition to the Atomic Skin line are the optional cleavage enhancer and dehancer. Down, from left to right you can see the dehancer, enhancer and natural.

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.:: BODY::.

 Skin  : .tsg. :: Hope :: E tone

 Hair : Taketomi :: Emiko:: Pastel05 :: NEW
Eyes : IKON :: Spectral eyes :: wight
Eybrows : Buzzeri :: Katie Brows :: Tintable @ kustom9 :: NEW
Feet : Gaeline Creations :: Tip Toe Bare Feet (easy to use HUD with tons of options)

Booty : Luck Inc. :: Cute Azz :: NEW

.:: CLOTHING ::.

Top : Vincue :: Piper + Top :: Firebrick @ Hipster Fair :: NEW
Shorts : Vincue :: Poppy + shorts :: Olive @ Hispter Fair :: NEW
Cardigan : Maitreya :: Wool cardigan :: coffee
Scarf : monso :: My Neck Warmer :: stripe (girls) @ TMD :: NEW

.:: ACCESSORIES  ::. 

Earrings : Blah :: My Toxic Earrings :: Yellow
Tamagachi : geek :: DigiGeek Stash :: snow @ Bodify :: NEW
Bag : MiWardrobe :: Orbed bag 4*4 @ kustom9 ::NEW
Pet : Alchemy :: Rat Familiar :: brown @ The Fantasy Collective :: NEW
Anklets : Gaeline Creations :: Jewels Dhanya Anklet (add-on for tip toe bare feet)

.:: POSES ::. 

ZZANG :: Good Girl Gone Bad :: pose #4

Second Life Helpful Tools Meme

Berry does a meme every Monday and it's been a while since I did one so gave it a shot cause this one I find very interesting to share. If you wanna find out more about the Monday Memes you can find them all on her blog http://strawberrysingh.com/ .

 Meme Instruction: Share a screenshot of your viewer setup and/or a list of tools/HUDS you guys use to make your Second Life experiences better. If you share a screenshot, feel free to share them in the Blog Memes flickr group.

I'm a very basic girl so no big fuzz or crazy stuff on my screen. That's why I did not take a full screen shot cause I'm just using Firestorm with the viewer 3 lay out. I did not change anything. I'm only been using Firestorm for a few months now. Before I always used the default viewer. Now I just got used to this viewer I might be looking into improving it to my personal likings so I'm very curious about others doing this meme and maybe inspire me to improve mine. I will be showing you the HUD's and tools I use most in my SL and why I use them.

1. The one HUD I never take off unless when I go to laggy events and wear a full body alpha so no one recognizes me walking around like a chicken haha AKEYO is my favorite animation overrider creator. There animations are smooth and I think they have something for every style. The Power AO is easy to use and personalize. You can invite people to dance with you as well.
2. Last week OKKBYE released stand animations with and without breathing to be used for when you are styling your avatar or for when you are working and want your avatar to stand still. She also included a note-card on how to install and use these with the Firestorm Viewer. It was so easy to set up and I've been using them ever since. You can create a whole ao with your favorite animations and have it just build in in your interface. Isn't that amazing?! I think I will be using this for a lot more in the future.
3. The PoseAnywhere Hud I don't use very often since I mostly take pictures in my studio. But this HUD is definitely a must have when you like to wander around sl and use your poses in places where you can not rez out poses or if you wanna pose others. Just don't put to much poses in one HUD cause it might take you long to scroll true it to find the right pose. Don't put ALL your poses in one HUD if you have hundreds of them *coughs* You can take copies and make different HUD's for different type of poses.
4. One of the HUD's I ALWAYS use when I take pictures is the AnyPose Expression HUD. Before I knew about this HUD I used to wait long moments before my avatar finally looked into the right direction. With this HUD you can position the eyes the way you want them or eyes from others around you. I'm a big fan of these squint eyes. They are so adorkable! You can also use facial expressions but most of the time they don't work with prim/mesh teeth or eyelashes or just look creepy so I don't use them very often. The hand animations I never use since they don't work with mesh hands and I never ever take off my mesh hands. Don't ever again wanna see those default sl hands!
5. Another tool I always have open when taking pictures is the Environment settings. I never made or tried making a wind-light myself. I downloaded some amazing wind-lights here  and they also explain very well how to install and use them. For this picture I used StrawberrySighn close up wind-light with graphics on medium. Annan Adored and AnaLu wind-lights are my favorites.
6. To position my camera I use the default camera tool with camera constraints disabled in advanced menu. 
7. Mr Poophead makes me smile when I have to do pictures and I'm in a bad mood. VERY IMPORTANT TOOL!

The stuff I am wearing :

Skin : .tsg. :: Hope :: E tone

Eyes : Buzzeri :: Hime Eyes :: Chocolate @ kustom9 :: NEW

Brows : Buzzeri :: Katie Brows :: Tintable @ kustom9 :: NEW

Hair : Taketomi :: Emiko :: Pastel05 :: NEW

Scarf : monso :: My neck warmer :: stripe (girls) @ TMD :: NEW

Top : Vincue :: Piper+Top :: Firebrick @ Hipster Fair :: NEW

Cardigan : Maitreya :: wool cardigan :: coffee

Necklace : fashionably dead :: Fox Necklace (gold) @ C88 :: NEW

Mr Poophead : Alchemy :: Rat familiar :: brown @ The Fantasy Collective :: NEW