Fantasy Faire: Ravenshard

Ravenshard is am amazing candyland sim with curving, flowing paths that arch up and down and turn unexpectedly, landing me in the drink (which is often made of chocolate). I can't say it's en entirely bad cycle, but it definitely could be disconcerting. I got lost on this sim more often than any of the ones this faire. I really don't feel like my pictures did it justice; once I've finished up the final two sims today with some Relay for Life items, I'm hoping to have some time to take pure landscape pictures before the sims close. The faire ends - very sadly - tonight around midnight, so hurry to see it all in person; pictures are always a shadow of the beauty of the Faire. Once more I'm decked out nearly head to toe in Fantasy Faire donation items from a variety of stores - most of them are not exclusives, but all of them are gorgeous. My horns, for example, are form a new-to-me store called Europa, which have the added bonus of coming not only fully modifiable, but also with a copy of the texture map for the horn texture, in case you want to take the shape and make it something truly amazing; this appears to be a consistent part of Europa's store, as the crown I also picked up came with the same thing, meaning someone can really take these products and customize them. I'm seriously considering trying to make rainbow horns, because that's just how I roll. I also bought these for an alt who is a demon, to replace her chainy horns; Deoridhe is normally not this obviously horny, but I figured Fantasy Faire was a good excuse to add to my fantastical horns.

My skin is another shade from De La Soul's special Fantasy Faire release - this time in gold and shown with a light tattoo over it. I also made sure to get a close up on her matching nails - all of which come standard with every skin. They have the same tentaclely pattern on them in the same colors, but since you get every skin tone in the nails with every skin, you can actually mix and match. I'm wearing the included Goldrush eyes, too, though they're a little small for my eyes - I have freakishly huge eyes. My hair is an amazing, ankle length braid from Lupoaica which cascades over the shoulders and butt in a way even Rapunzel would envy. The one downside is that it falls almost straight back from the rear, so it works better with pants or a short, tight skirt than with the clothes I usually wear. The color HUD is also really kind of neat - where you can buy different sets and load them in the same HUD, which means it's relatively easy to add more hair and accessory textures to existing hair HUDs. My necklace is another donation item, this time from coLLisions, an intricately woven necklace honoring Thoth with purple enamel in front. Finally, my gorgeous, stylish, unique dress is from The Muses, another new-to-me store which simply entranced me with it's offerings. I love how it combined texture layers with mesh layers, and the unique silhouette. The sleeves in particular are a testiment to using the best of tech in Second Life - the tops are simply sculpted prims, editable to fit ones upper arm; the length of the arm is a texture glove; the wrist and end covering the bulk of the hand is rigged mesh, allowing it to cover either the standard hand or my special SLink rigged mesh hands. They even took care to line a little way inside the dress, so where it gapes it looks like fabric might look gaping. I also really like the patchwork quality of the texturing, something fluid and lovely and yet not too blocky or busy.

( More pictures here. )

Credits:

Skin: De La Soul, Candace Ceredil - Light Gold (Fantasy Faire Donation Item)
Eyes: De La Soul, Goldrush (promotional item)
Eyelashes 1: SLink, Mesh Lashes
Eyelashes 2: Flugeln Brise, 05-A
Hair: Lupoaica, Evita (Fantasy Faire Donation Item, promotional item)
Horns: Europa, Lokyli Horns (Fantasy Faire Donation Item)
Wings: Fancy Fairy, Azarelle
Dress: The Muses, Starfall (Fantasy Faire Donation Item)
Necklace: coLLision, Harmony of Thoth (Fantasy Faire Donation Item)
Feet: SLink, Mesh Enhanced

Poses: Glitterati

Location: Ravenshard
Light Settings: Sim Default
Water Settings: Sim Default

Photographed by Deoridhe Quandry
Post processing: Cropping, only

Enchanted Rainbow

I'm going to gush. Again. See, in my sparkly little soul I adore rainbows with a fervency which regularly invites mockery from my nearest and dearest, and within a very short amount of time two of my favorite stores fed my rainbow loving soul, so I'm sort of a ball of sparkle and glee - not very coherent, but very colorful! First of all, Alice Project has a HUD (now for sale) which allowed me to recolor all of her infinity hair rainbow (you will be seeing a lot of her hair in the next few photos, I'm just saying), and then Fallen Gods created and shared with me this incredible new skin. It's textured like wood, with the shininess of wood smoothed by hand rather than rendered shiny with gloss. The grain is still there, adding depth and form for the skin as it curves smoothly over my body, but it's also highlighted and enlivened with these amazing, rich, rainbow colors and bits of sparkle - as if a rainbow faerie touched the wooden statue with magic and brought it to life. There is not enough gushing for this skin; it has officially rendered me incoherent and squeeing. Colors curved along arms, legs, even a delicate curve from the buttocks to the back of the thigh which is simply stunning; this new skin has completely blown me away.

Into this mix, of course, comes my dear friend from De La Soul with another set of - subtler this time - rainbow eyes. The eyes were actually created for his line of petites, which are being released for the first time at the new Petite sim opening, but he made them bigger for me because he loves me (and he's promised his petites will also be released full sized once he gets a chance). I'll have more information once I'm showing off one of his amazing petites, but as you can see just from the eyes they are amazing. The leaf jewelry is a free hunt prize in the Acorn Hunt from Alice Project at the All About Autumn Faire, and are recolorable (but sadly, not rainbow). She also has similar earrings with more leaves for sale, which are simply gorgeous. I'm also wearing some lovely bracelets from the Libra Zodiac Event made by CoLLisions, which have a matching necklace which unfortunately is hidden by my gorgeous outfit from Deviance, which was a lucky chair release (I'm not sure if it's still in the chair, but similar versions are for sale). I ended up resizing the bottom for my narrower-than-standard hips, and it was astonishingly easy to shift the prims; I live in hope that Deviance will jump onto the mesh bandwagon even if it isn't rigged, though - the detail of her clothing would really shine through mesh.

Edited to add: Surreal LeShelle IMed me to say: "My necro outfit is actually unrigged mesh and I do have some mesh projects I'm working on atm (as well as some regular old clothing layer stuff). I don't plan to release any rigged mesh the way things are now. Just don't like the idea of people having to change their shape to wear it. When the deformer gets sorted out I'd love to do some rigged outfits though."

Ya~y!!! My wish was fulfilled before I even made it!

I'm having a hard time changing out of this, and I don't often say that.

( More pictures here. )

Credits:  

Skin: Fallen Gods, Onyrica - Roots (promotional item)
Eyes: De La Soul, Lumi Doll - Cosmos 2 (Petite Eyes for Bigger Avatars, Promotional Item)
Eyelashes 1: *X*plosion, Primlashes
Eyelashes 2: Flugeln Brise, 05-A
Ears: Illusion, Seelie Ears
Earrings: Alice Project, Autumn Leaf Earrings (Hunt Gift, Autumn Faire)
Hair: Alice Project, Collette
Wings: Fancy Fairy, Azarelle
Dress: Deviance, Elementalist - Rainbow
Bracelets: CoLLisions, Wisdom of Thoth (Libra Zodiac Event)
Shoes: G Field, Mesh Wedge Bootie "Beth"

Poses: Glitterati

Locations: Ce n'est pas une peinture
Cadenza
Light Settings: TOR, NIGHT This Spells Moon 3
Water Settings: Glassy

Photographed by Deoridhe Quandry
Post processing: Cropping, only