2012 Color Challenge: Week 6 - Alice Blue

Like many people, I found Alice Blue less than easy a color to find, but I had a goal to both wear a different type of the Petite avatar from Yabusaka and Fallen Gods that just hit the grid running, and to return to the LEA Avatar Games sim, and Alice Blue helped more than hindered these goals! At this point, a number of my favorite stores - including Evie's Closet, G Field, and Angelwing - have made clothing for the petites. In most cases, they're shrunk versions of their full sized clothing, but somehow on the tiny avatar those old outfits come to new life!In this case, I'm wearing a set of silvery, snowflake-festooned silks from Angelwing that drape beautifully over my glowing skin. The avatar itself is set to fullbright - you can also add glow, and change the expression, as well as tint it a variety of colors. This is the crystal setup from Fallen Gods, and the De La Soul Rainbow eyes I fitted to the pale elf from earlier work just as well.

I kept on the leg ribbons from G Field's fae outfit, as well as substituting her white roses for the snowflake crown and keeping my Fancy Fairy wings scaled down and lovely. I also scaled down the hair from +NK+ - it was menu driven and not editable, but it scaled down beautifully and really added a fae, thin effect to my look, like little spiky icicles festooned to my head. My only complaint is the bits of invisiprim along the edges of the avatar; I don't know how required they are, since I have a full body invisible layer on, but they add an odd effect to translucent things behind it.

I returned to LEA Avatar Games, a spot I'd taken pictures at as a full sized avatar, and had a lot of fun posing myself at or near items I'd touched on before. The effect of being a third the size you were is really, really fun. I also had the fun of catching up with a friend who had vanished over a year ago - and she brought out an avatar which was a third the size of me with some plans to turn THAT into an avatar! If it happens, I think I'll have to set up some type of scaling image of all three sets, as each comes up to the knees of the previous avatar, so the effect is truly striking.

I've been rather cranky lately, in a way which is difficult to qualify. It might be the lingering effects of my extreme, if brief, bout of the flu - or perhaps it's the effect of my surroundings; my home right now is rather pig-styish, and I've been struggling to try to get on top of it and failing miserably. Really, I probably need to put some cheerful music on my ipod and just dig in to clean and trash and clear everything out - if you don't see me around much in the next few days, that's what I'm doing. Cleaning in Second Life is so much easier; no dirt, or grime, or stacks of things - just disorganized folders of things to put on and then organize or delete.

( More pictures here. )

Credits:

Avatar: Yabusaka and Fallen Gods, Crystals Azure
Eyes: De la Soul, RooMee Eyes - Rainbow
Hair: +NK+, N.F.C. white
Wings: Fancy Fairy, Azarelle
Silks: Angelwing, Petite Frost Fairy
Ribbons and Roses: G Field, Fairy Accessories - white

Poses: Long Awkward Pose

Location: LEA Avatar Games
Light: TOR, EUPHORIA hello gaia
Water: Murky

Photographed by Deoridhe Quandry
Post processing: Cropping only

Beside Myself

Recently, I managed to recover the password of my original Deoridhe account, made almost two years before my main one. This brings up an interesting thing for me in terms of self-identity; I have made other Deoridhe's (one placeholder when lastnames went, and the others because I really liked the last names) but they never felt quite like "me" in the way that Deoridhe Starr does, even while I'm logged on Deoridhe Quandry.

This may get confusing, fast.

I had an amusing time of trying to get some of the same lucky board things on both accounts - teleporting each other around to different Ds to double up on the goodness. Finally, I decided I needed to do a photoshoot - largely with the things from the stores already crowding the grid with delightful Halloween outfits. The hair on Quandry was a sort of sideways lucky board find; I saw a girl wearing it while I was stalking a lucky board, and found a new and awesome hair store - Heart Softens - one of a long list of largely Japanese stores which I'm utterly enamored with despite not having the foggiest idea what they're saying. Luckily, Lindens speak universally in Second Life.

Honey Kitty and +NK+ are two more lovely stores that I'm totally in love with. I shamelessly stalked the +NK+ lucky board, collecting the dresses on both of them - but Starr, being the poor alt without much money or history - is the one showing it off. On Quandry is one of the newest Honey Kitty dresses which gave me the cards from the Fall Stamp Event that outfitted poor Starr with her bouncy, cheerful AO - which you obviously can't see, but which I've been really enjoying. My one big purchase on Starr was her shoes - I totally splurged to get her the "Alex" shoes from G Field which were just released. With the straps having multiple options, it was really a fantastic investment for matching to future outfits and well worth picking up the fat pack!

It was fun juxtaposing Starr and Quandry in pictures, both with the same shape, but with different skins and hair. The style is the same, the personality the same, but doubled up somehow. Starr is perhaps a bit looser, due to her being mostly equipped with freebies, but I rather like the effect of myself times two. That's one interesting thing about virtual existences - you can have them meet up with each other, and while you are inhabiting both, you also are both. With most of my alternate accounts, different facets of my personality emerge - some sweeter, some kinder, some more frisky, some sad and gloomy. Deoridhe is always closest to myself; my Mary Sue when I roleplay and my analog for myself when I'm not in character. In the past I've had Deoiridhe and Deoridhe at once, but never before have two Deoridhe's met.

I think we'll get along.

Credits: 

Deoridhe Quandry:
Skin: De la Soul, Aestali - Cream Rose
Eyes: De La Soul, Roomee - Rainbow
Eye Shadow: De La Soul, Simple Rainbow
Eyeliner: Adam n Eve, Hepsut
Lipstick: Mock, Bella Vetro Gloss - Lepore Red
Ears: Illusions, Mystic Ear - Fairy
Hair: Heart Softens, Macy - Honey
Wings: Fancy Fairy, Azarelle
Dress: Honey Kitty, Cards of Cutie - orange
Stockings: Honey Kitty, Diamond Tights - black and gold
Ring 1: Alchemy Immortalis, Nestling Finger
Ring 2: Earthstones, Eternal Blossom Ring - Bouquet
Shoes: G Field, Strap Shoes "Alex" - suede rust

Deoridhe Starr:
Skin: Cupcakes, Snow - Red Brows
Lipstick: Cupcakes, Charm Snow-Gloss-Violet
Hair: +NK+, Kitten Hair Limited Color
Wings: Fancy Fairy, Kira Grande Wings
Dress: +NK+, Witch
Shoes: G Field, Strap Shoes "Alex" - patent orange

Poses: Glitterati and Long Awkward Pose

Location: The Dare!
Light Settings: TOR, SCIFI Railingz
Water Settings: TOR, Freak-A-Dermia

Photographed by Deoridhe Quandry
Post processing: Cropping only