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Compare: Beads and Pearls
I love pearls, and I don’t think I wear them often enough. I get stuck sometimes in the idea that pearls are only for old-fashioned ladylike Jackie O outfits. Of course, pearls and beaded necklaces are far more expressive than we usually give them credit for. Check out how each necklace below brings its own personality to the party.
Necklaces, left to right: › Continue reading
More Houndstooth
A few more houndstooth things for you today, of the non-coat variety.
I’m smitten with this hat, and the attached boy-short hairstyle is adorably unisex. Unfortunately, it’s no-mod, which really disappoints me, as there aren’t any strong red shades available for the hair. However, if you’re not a redhead, there are lots of great blonde and brunette shades available via blue-box menu. The hat itself is also color- and pattern-changeable.
The skirt has great movement, and is a very flattering length, hitting above the knee without being scandalously › Continue reading
Spring Houndstooth
The clocks have been set forward an hour; flowers are beginning to bloom. Spring has arrived, barely — the air’s still a bit chilly. And I have a serious crush on houndstooth.
I love houndstooth. I think it’s the dignified, ladylike Queen-Elizabeth-Jackie-O aspect that appeals. Something about a lady on the street and all that. At any rate, the pattern is an elegant choice for a light spring jacket, adding structure to the soft spring color palette and florals.
So, obviously, these are houndstooth coats, from a variety of virtual shopkeepers. I’m partial to › Continue reading
Feature: Reel Expression Innocence Poses
The lovely and talented Luth Brodie of Reel Expression made some new poses a while back, and they are as usual gorgeous. The set’s called Innocence — I’ve dressed in a less-innocent outfit in order to show the expressiveness of the poses.
So, we’ll run through my pose criteria, starting with expression. These poses are stunning. If you dressed your av in an innocent way, they express innocence, as the title implies. In any other outfit, they’ll also express a bit of shyness and especially a certain vulnerability. They express the beauty of self-doubt — and yes, a bit of self-doubt in an otherwise confident person is beautiful. After all, flawlessness is dead boring. Our human frailties are › Continue reading
Bloggers’ Challenge: Closet Clean-Out
I’m doing some much-needed inventory sorting today, and as I kept finding cute things, I thought I’d do Luna’s challenge.
Look of the Day: January 22nd
It’s been a long time since I did a look of the day. Usually, my look of the day is whatever outfit I’m wearing for another blog post. However, I’ve decided to start sharing my “running around the grid” looks, because, well, I like them.
I like to wear simple, comfortable looks when I’m hanging out in the skybox, or running around the grid. I don’t accessorize much; I just like to throw together a few › Continue reading
Review: Reel Expression Burlesque poses.
Reel Expression recently released several Burlesque-themed poses sets. I wanted to do these pose sets justice, really showing off their expressive quality (more on that later.) As I was playing with the poses, I decided to try my hand at setting up poses in an intimate, photable-type setting, using poseballs to set the poses where I wanted them. It’s a bit of work to get the poses to work all together, trying to visualize where and how each pose will interact with one another, but it was an interesting experiment — though certainly an area where I could use quite a bit more practice. It’s funny; you wouldn’t think slapping down a few poseballs would be so much work to align.
Moving on to the poses themselves. In this case, I’m considering the two Burlesque standing pose sets and one Burlesque sitting pose set from Reel Expressions. So, how does one evaluate a set of poses? For me, specific criteria: expression, naturalism, fit, mesh distortion, and value.
First, expression: does the pose express a certain mood? Is it sultry, or emo, or standoffish? I demand that my poses have expression. I want them to tell a story. You may have a perfect outfit and setting, but it’s really the pose that will tell the narrative — the narrative that helps to make a picture worth a thousand words.
Burlesque, in my mind, is about the contradiction between › Continue reading
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