50 Shades of Sexy: Sexual Healing

Sexual Healing was a fun 50 Shades of Sexy to do, though I didn't have the dress I thought I had bought a while ago from katat0nik. Her nurse hat is really cute, though, and I ended up pairing it with a cute lingerie corseted outfit from Blacklace - check out the texturing along the front and back, and the smooth line of the panty. This is an older set, but I really love it. I didn't like the stockings which came with it, though, so I ended up pairing it with a gorgeous set from Vextra Fashion, complete with a sheer garter belt. I love the lines of it, especially with the slinky lingerie. The shoes are my staples from G Field, the slingback heels which were one of the first ones I bought from her, but which still hold up much later (though I miss the tinting options on her new shoes!). The final touch is a gorgeous Bleeding Heart jewelry from Earthstones, complete with drops of blood leaking from it.

I ended up taking these pictures in the endgame area of the MadPea Hunt, where you combine together the fifteen hidden items and make a secret magical potion of love! I love the effects of combining everything together and the glowing pink and exploding light all over the lab! It was a really cute lab, too, with all kinds of beakers and things on fire, and things that probably will explode if left alone for too long!I adjusted a few things, but then there was some hissing and things started bubbling, so I got out of there fast! So... if you can't find it for the rest of the hunt, I'm sorry?

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Credits: 

Skin: De la Soul, Aestali - Cream Rose
Eyes: De La Soul, RooMee Eyes - Rainbow
Eyelashes 1: SLink, Mesh Eyelashes
Eyelashes 2: Flugeln Brise, 05-A
Eyeliner: Eternal Darkness, Harlequin Tears
Ears: Illusions, Seelie Ears
Lipstick: Adore & Abhor, Silent Star
Hair: Wasabi Pills, Sachiko Mesh (promotional item)
Hat: katat0nik, Happy Nurse Hat
Wings: Fancy Fairy, Azarelle
Hands: SLink, Mesh Hands
Lingerie: Blacklace, Midnight Affair
Jewelry: Earthstones, Bleeding Hearts
Stockings: Vextra Fashion, Sheer Stockings
Shoes: G Field, Ribbon Slingback Shoes

Poses: Glitterati

Location: MadPea Endgame Location for the Love Potion 9.9 Hunt
Light Settings: TOR, FOGGY The pink tower

Photographed by Deoridhe Quandry
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Lost in the Caves

At some point in the past I got on Wasabi Pill's reviewer list - and I have to admit, almost every time I get a knew hair I'm in heaven. Occasionally she does a style which really isn't my style - sometimes that leads to fun outfits, and sometimes it leads to the depths of my inventory (I have a hard time tossing, since the quality is so high) in wait for some future time when it might be perfect for a new outfit or look. This time, though, it's liek she reached into my brain and pulled out the perfect Deoridhe style of all time. I put it on, intending just to take a look then switch into non-mesh hair so that I don't look like I have a box on my head to most people... and I was lost. It's soft, and bends slightly with me, and is such a striking silhouette that I'll be hard pressed to take it off for a while. This is the sort of style that mesh seems made for - the weight of the hair down at the bottom would pull the hair to stay in place, and so it does. It bends slightly with my body, as you can see in a number of these shots, and is just overall so amazing that... I've said I'm in love, haven't I? I even love the heavy bangs with their air of mystery!

The dress is an old impulse purchase from Tainted, a store I don't normally buy for (and that I couldn't find an landmark for the store), but I have to admit I find the look very striking even in dresses-with-tails are fairly common. The texturing is superb and stands up really well to close shots. The mini skirt has the usual butt-and-crotch flap, and that has the problems attendant in the design, but the stark patterning means that the texture-mixing which often occurs is not a problem at all. What I love most about this outfit, though - something which is not easily captured in pictures - is how it moves. The layers flow smoothly, the flex is enough for movement but not so much that it feels like gravity is gone, and the effect is lush and striking.It's gloveless and fairly simply along the neckline, so I added in some very old gloves from The Black Canary which really fit the formal punk style of the dress. I also added in a couple of necklaces from Eclectica, both very simple but curving designs which I think I got on a 60$L Weekend Deal. The crowning touch was something I love to do with short skirts - I added a pair of stockings with the garters showing (from Vextra Fashion). I know garters are very old school, but I love the look when it's as painless as adding a layer on my clothes.

The location is one recommended in passing by someone on some blog, the reference of I promptly lost. The entire series of sims are part of Calas Galadhon, though I ended up in the caves on Mirromere, and they are absolutely gorgeously striking with panels of teleports regularly placed if you're looking for somewhere specific. I took these pictures along a very short set of caves by the waters, and I can tell you that even in the minutes after finishing I found half a dozen other gorgeous places to explore. I anticipate coming back here often.

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Credits: 

Skin: De La Soul, Aestali - Cream Rose
Eyes: De La Soul, RooMee Eyes - Rainbow
Eyeshadow: Bubble. Electro Pop Eyeshadow 2
Eyelashes: Flufeln Brise, Eyelash 5
Lipstick: Mock, Bella Vetro Gloss - Carmen
Hair: Wasabi Pills, Cherry Mesh Hair (Promotional Items)
Ears: Illusions, Mystic Ears
Jewelry: Eclectica, Victoriana Blue Agate
Dress: Tainted, Seven Deadly Sins - Sloth
Gloves: The Black Canary, Seri Corset Gloves
Ring 1: Alchemy Immortalis, Nestling Finger
Ring 2: Earthstones, Eternal Blossom Ring - Bouquet
Stockings: Vextra Messing, Opaque Stockings
Shoes:

Poses: pda

Location: Mirromere
Light Settings: Places Abracadabra
Water: TOR, Meridian Verde

Photographed by Deoridhe Quandry
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katat0nik Twins

katat0nik is in the process of kicking my butt with her releases - so often, and so fantastic! I still have a dolly avatar pairing in the wings, but when I saw she did rainbows! Rainbows! My absolute favorite rainbows! Well, something in me snapped and I promptly outfitted both mes with different shades of her fantastic release. Deoridhe Quandry, my main, is in the black version, and Deoridhe Starr, my original abandoned avatar, is in the pink version. Both of the dresses, an additional purple version, the shoes, and a rainbow tattoo are all for sale at katat0nik. There's also a new cupcake dress which will probably take a while for me to do pictures because! katat0nik! She is kicking my butt with releases!

In honor of the dress, I tried to twin Deoridhe Quandry and Deoridhe Starr as much as possible while still reflecting some originality between them. Both of them are wearing sale-release hairs from Exile; Exile is in the process of removing some of it's older content, so there's three walls of hair that, despite being older, are still pretty fantastic. I decided that Deoridhe Starr is the human, paler version of Deoridhe Quandry, so she got all of the light blondes and Quandry got all of the dark blondes! Well, by all I mean eight hairs - but at 50$L a color set it still only set me back 400$L on each avatar. The stockings were part of a buy one, get one to share special from Vextra Fashion, which means future twinning will be much easier due to shared stockings! The shoes are also identical, the rainbow shoes from katat0nik which are clearly going to be a favorite of mine!

Now for the differences!

Quandry is wearing a skin from Apple May Designs, Kat, and I really like the delicate cosmetics on the base. It comes with a wide variety of eyebrows and some cleavage variations - yay! I'm wearing the Pale tone, but there are other darker ones of course. I also highlighted her rainbowness with a Rainbow Key from Souzou Eien. I bought it on massive sale, because I just happened to see the notice on the day of the sale, but it's still available for a shiny 100$L, so even off uber sale it's still a bargain!

Starr is wearing cute accessories from a Honey Kitty gatcha which I was able to pass to her. The bracelet is an adorable mixture of bright, colorful shapes and the ribbon, and part of why I had some to pass was I kept playing the gatcha to get them all! The hair ribbon matches the bow and I think it really sets off the rest of the outfit. I also bought my darling a set of Flugeln Brise's lashes - 09 instead of the 05 that Quandry usually wears.

Switching over to the new release of Firestorm brought it's own excitement to this picture series. I actually had to take the first picture twice because my water settings didn't work! Ugly teal, no response from Windlight, and it turned out even my Windlight appearance was wrong with the recommended version. There's a second version of Firestorm with older graphics somethings, though, and installing that cleanly fixed my problem - so if you're noticing graphics issues, try installing the other version!

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Credits:

Deoridhe Quandry:

Skin: Apple May Designs, Kat - Pale Nitro 3 (Promotional Item)
Eyes: De La Soul, RooMee Eyes - Rainbow
Eyelashes: Flugeln Brise, Eyelash 05
Hair: Exile, Gossip Girl - sand
Ears: Illusions, Mystic Ears
Dress: katat0nik, Triple Dip Dress - black
Key: Souzou Eien, Rainbow Key
Ring 1: Alchemy Immortalis, Nestling Finger
Ring 2: Earthstones, Eternal Blossom Ring - Bouquet
Stockings: Vextra Fashion, Opaque Stockings - white
Shoes: katat0nik, Kita Mary Janes - Candy Rainbow
Poses: Long Awkward Pose

Deoridhe Starr:

Skin: Cupcakes, Charm - Snow
Eyes: De La Soul, RooMee Eyes - Rainbow
Eyelashes: Flugeln Brise, Eyelash 09
Hair: Exile, Gossip Girl - Ash
Hair Ribbon: Honey Kitty, Cutie Ribbon - Pink
Dress: katat0nik, Triple Dip Dress - pink
Bracelet: Honey Kitty, Cutie Ribbon Bracelet - Vanilla
Stockings: Vextra Fashion, Opaque Stockings - white
Shoes: katat0nik, Kita Mary Janes - Candy Rainbow
Poses: Glitterati

Location: INK Flagship Shop
Light Settings: TOR, FOGGY - Sad purple
Water Settings: Pond

Photographed by Deoridhe Quandry
Post processing: Cropping only