2012 Color Challenge: Week 27: Cadmium Red

I got started on Cadmium Red later than usual, but it's a color I really love - so bright and vibrant.I went to a darker, more punk direction than I usually do - combining one of Wasabi Pill's Fairy Tale Event hairstyles with a very old purchase or win from Evldva (included hair not shown) and a set of jewelry from Ticky Tacky that I've had in my inventory forever. I love the combination of old and new - and in new news, Curio Obscura has a Lucky Chair! I've been lurking there for the better part of the morning, and began to notice just how complicated and amazing the store is. It's a giant Victorian mansion on the back of a hypno-eyed robot creature rampaging across the landscape. I went with a completely extreme color scheme, but I think the shadows and architecture hold up to it. As a reminder - outside of cropping, none of these pictures are edited; this is what can be achieved within second life with the right light settings.

There have been a number of posts recently ironically segueing off of each other about the topic of originality. Given a choice, the majority of humans cluster and group, building up conformities with a few people excluded. In the individualisticly-obsessed Western model, this is a failure of humanity, a failure to be "yourself", a failure to be unique and special and to innovate enough. As someone who has recently started seeking out local communities to join and people to build from strangers into friends, I have perhaps a unique perspective; I want to conform enough that people will like me, want to be around me; conform enough so that I can build circles of local friends to spend time with, do things with, support and be supported by without sacrificing any centrally important things to myself. In that way, I find the grouping behavior of humans deeply reassuring; it has resulted in me being able to find local hobby groups that share my interests, within which I may find people who will like me and whom I will like. The urge to community includes the urge to conform, and this has both positive and negative implications - on the positive side, people support each other, hold standards for each other, and make each other better; on the negative side, people negate themselves, pull each other into hatred and cruelty, and make each other worse.

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Credits:

Skin: De La Soul, Aestali - Cream Rose (promotional item)
Eyes: House of Ruin, Hypnos: Atomic
Ears: Illusion, Seelie Ears
Eyelashes 1: *X*plosion, PrimLashes
Eyelashes 2: Flugeln Brise, 05-A
Lipstick: Mock, Bella Vetro Gloss
Hair: Wasabi Pills, Matchgirl Mesh (promotional item)
Wings: Fancy Fairy, Azarelle Wings
Jewelry: Ticky Tacky, Sweet Dreams
Dress and Shoes: Evldva, PIP Rebel Yell Red

Poses: Glitterati

Location: Curio Obscura
Light Settings: TOR, HORROR Profondo rosso
Water Settings: Glassy

Photographed by Deoridhe Quandry
Post processing: Cropping, only

Color Challenge: Week Twenty-five - Periwinkle

I love the color periwinkle - and the periwinkles that grew under my childhood window - but I didn't have much in my inventory for Periwinkle Week! The hair was the basis of the outfit, and everything else radiated out from there. Well, that and the desire to wear the shoes from Eclectica!



The hair is from DV8, Dreadful Steam in Periwinkle, and I love the combination of textured hair and ropy twists of hair into a striking updo. I love the cyber style of it - not my usual appearance, but enjoyable none the less. The updo is festooned with a couple of rings, making it appear as if the hair was almost metallic rather than... hairific.

I matched the hair with a dress from my eternal favorite, G Field, one of her Cocktail Dresses - Helen! I love the lacing down the back, and the flowers decorating the front at the waist and chest. The skirt is thigh length; long enough to be classy, but short enough to be flirty.


The shoes are new Garden Party shoes from Eclectica. I love these shoes so amazingly much! I've been waiting for an outfit to slide them into, and this one seemed to fit the bill.They come in both a pattern dominated style, shown here, and where the pattern is in the trim and the main shoe is black. They come in a bunch of different colors, all of them vibrant without being oversaturated.

The necklace is from Deco, a store I don't often wear but which worked perfectly for this outfit. It's a double strand of pearls, hanging low enough to brush behind the roses of my dress. It fit perfectly, looking natural with the outfit. The bracelets are from Ticky Tacky, a fantastic jewelry store with whimsical designs. I love the mixing of small and medium beads which set the usual stack of rings apart from the rest. The stockings are from a new-to-me store Has Been, as part of the Demure lingerie set.


I found the sim through the Destination Guide, which frankly I've been enjoying quite a bit in terms of finding new sims! Between that and Second Life of my Dreams, I don't think I'll ever run out of places to explore! Honestly, I'm amazed anew every day at the sheer creativity and amazing design in second life. One of the fun things about this sim was you could sit on all kinds of things! You could tightrope walk, or sit on a bed and take a tour, or even settled down in a tree and enjoy the sunset! Probably my favorite part was going about and trying to sit on things, to see all the things I could do! I rode the bed ship twice!

The other fun thing was these prim avatars floating around all over the place. At first, it was very disturbing to see a figure out in the distance and yet no green dot to correspond with it, but it wasn't long until I not only got used to it, but even rather enjoyed being around people who weren't actually people.



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Credits:

Eyes: Tacky Star, Pride
Ears: Illusions, Mystic Ear - Fairy
Skin: De La Soul, Charlie - Nude
Wings: Fancy Fairy, Azarelle
Hair: DV8, Dreadful Steam - Periwinkle
Dress: G Field, "Helen" Cocktail Dress - Lavender
Necklace: Deco, Black Pearl Double Strand
Bracelets: Ticky Tacky, Worship the Black Pearl bracelet
Stockings: Has Been, Demure Stockings
Shoes: Eclectica, Garden Party shoes, lilac

Location: Mysterious Wave
Light Settings: [TOR] Awwyeah
Water Settings: [TOR] Chivandria clair

Photographed by Deoridhe Quandry
Post processing: Cropping only