She comes in colours

With all the events opening lately, you could be forgiven for neglecting to head out to Second Pride, where I picked up Epic’s animated rainbow wings for free. You may have also missed the launch of Sopha Portal’s new skin line for My UglyDorothy. Miu is the debut face. Ms. Portal is offering her signature cute shape and distinctive makeups, but now you have a choice of eight tones, each of which comes with mesh feet (but not SLink feet). The new system is a bit confusing, but I think I got the hang of it. You buy the base skin, which comes with a blank white face, and then you add the makeups for the face. The makeups can be added on one tat layer or they can be added in blush, eyes and mouth tats. This makes it possible to mix and match makeup elements if you have a fatpack for any given tone. Among the new tones, I like the pale tone number 2, seen here, and the lightest of the dark tones, number 6, seen below.

If you’re a member of the WTG group, you can now pick up the June gift of earrings and a matching ribbon necklace in a cute rainbows ‘n’ rain theme. If you want to see more of Anorak’s kookie colourful Yome Shoujo tunic, check out the Pleisure Flickr. Keep in mind, however, that it’s only available in less funtastic fabrics.

Credits to creators
Miu wears
*MY UGLYDOROTHY -Miu Shape(Modifable) (NEW)
*MY UGLYDOROTHY -Tone2 skin and *MY UGLYDOROTHY -Miu_PopPop1(Red)_tone2(teeth) (NEW)
/Wasabi Pills/ Lory Mesh Hair – (BOOBS) – Gingerbread – RARE (Arcade gacha; ty MissAllSunday Lemon)
*Epic* Fairy Sparkle Dream Wings {Rainbow} [For.Photos] (at the Second Pride event)
Color.Me.H.O.F [ButtonDownShirt[Purple]_M
- Glam Affair – Stella Eyes n4

Anorak wears
*MY UGLYDOROTHY -Tone6 skin and *MY UGLYDOROTHY -Miu_Lovely4(Dark Brown)_tone6 (NEW; ty Sopha Portal!)
+:+WTG+:+ **Fun! Rainy day!** ear-pierce [comes with necklace] (VIP gift, fee to join)
xxYOME SHOUJOxx, *TacOchan* [MESH-XS] -mini DRESS (old gg, not available in this texture)
*COCO*_BowShirt(White)
[yulicie] Mochi – Black hair
MONS / Shocking eyes – brown

poses: marukin

Although these photos have been GIMPed, I did not retouch the skins. These photos were shot without shadows on the CalWL Windlight setting. Everyone’s settings differ, so please be sure to demo skins!

If this be cute

I was gonna take the night off and watch Hannibal, but TuttiFrutti’s adorable Valentina dress saved me from myself.

*TuttiFrutti* Valentina Mesh MiniDress – Rose [M] (NEW and exclusive for the Summer Fashion Festival until the 16th of June; ty Bela Tolsen!)
[yulicie] Anya – Light Blond
.::Mother Goose’s::.Natalie-1L$ skin
C’est la Vie, Teapot Bag Navy (gacha at Sounds Gravis Beach Gala #2 event)
Shakeup! Fabric-Flower Ring [Sweet] (Arcade gacha)
Tee*fy Colour Blocking Minimalism Bangle Ocean Shade R and Peach L
Pig – Knee Sock Mit Suspenders – White Sock
pose by PDA
location Virtual Decay
GIMPage minimal

The new old chastity

It was a dark and stormy night when Portia Capelo contacted her friend Sian Pearl, who makes cool, wicked stuffs, and said “So, like, I know this person who told me that her sister was talking to a guy whose girlfriend was reading a book written by a woman who interviewed a sub who remembered (fondly) her grandmother’s tales of tight-lacing and erm chastity belts….” At first Sian hesitated to take on my special commission. Wasn’t a chastity belt an instrument of repression and torture? Not, Portia figured, if it’s my idea. Not if it’s temporary. Not if the person who’s holding the key knows when to spring the locks. (Not if one secretly believes that it would be no worse than wearing underwear when it’s 105 degrees.) After doing some research, Sian asked if she should build in a dildo and a butt plug. By this time Portia was no longer pretending to be merely curious. She’d thought about this quite a bit and, truth be told, it seemed to her that the chastity belt should be a nice escape from all the penetrating one has to put up with. Sian was not down with the dildo either, but she designed the belt so that it looks like pluggy things could be added. She actually came up with something much more subtly stimulating: that lovely furrow in the front, which I assume is meant to keep the labia minora separate and the clitoris sequestered. Sian decided that she wouldn’t produce the chastity belt for her MetaTheodora line, which is a shame. It’s hard to believe SL doesn’t host a thousand fashion slaves longing for some of this medieval bling. UPDATE: This was reverse psychology. Sian changed her mind.

That’s right. Two different looks. Oh sure, like you know what to wear with yours. (You do?! Text me.)

Look professional
MetaTheodora, PORTIA III Chastity Belt (NOW AVAILABLE)
cheeky, Wet Tanky! (old HTH 4 hunt gift)
[MystiCanvass] Jamie Skin D Cup-Copper (old event skin)
Lolas ::: Tango ::: Mesh Breasts (spine)
Amacci Hair, Celine ~ Natural Copper
:FANATIK: My bad girl ring Copper
[R3volt] – Jade Cuffs [V3]
bellballs/PIDIDDLE – Fringed Cuff – Nature
Glitterati, Boobtacular

Look casual
MetaTheodora, PORTIA II Chastity Belt (NOW AVAILABLE)
-Suicidal Unborn!- Dirty Top Purple XS
::Exile:: Little Things:Blackgold
[theSkinnery] Byuri-Foxy Lady(toffee) DB CL3 (old event special version)
(r)M ~ Copper Rings (dollarbie on Marketplace)
*BOOM* Bold wrist cuff (v1) Titanium
Glitterati, Pin up Girl

GIMPed and a little PIMPed

Go big (princess)

Sometimes you’re the princess. Sometimes you’re the pea.

Credits to creators
[ SAKIDE ] Vintage Glam Panties Blue M (only available in red, white or black) [I had to fiddle with this a lot to get the right colour on the applier layer]
*SoliDea FoliEs* Haudrey _ headpiece_ asian flower 1 (I don’t know if this is available any more)
+:+WTG+:+ **Isis** set (May 2013 group gift)
Lolas ::: Tango ::: Mesh Breasts
Glam Affair – Cassipea Europa – Retro BL (not available)
Glitterati, Sleepless Nights (100L until the end of the month when the store closes)
GIMPed and Pixlred and buried overnight under a hemlock bush

Go big (spokesmodel)

People often ask me how I manage to keep up with my research and writing while maintaining an unhealthy level of depression. The secret is letting yourself go. This is easy if your depression takes the form of paralysis. When, after half a day of sloth, you realize that you are once again shitting your life’s work away, going out to work without washing your hair feels like the right thing to do. If you are trying to be a productive member of society while neglecting all its duties and pleasures, you stand to benefit from the tricks I’ll share with you today.
1. Forget the shower
Take whore baths (all the cracks). It was good enough for your great grandmother. Not that she was a whore. She just didn’t have any running water. I use two cloths, one for the dirty parts and one for the delicate parts. I’ll let you decide for yourself what is which. Conserving energy by removing lights from your bathroom makes everything—including the all-white room itself—look much less dirty than you imagined.
2. Put the shower to better use
If you comb your long shedding hair into the sink, you have to clean up every last strand every day. Or they will tangle up in the drain. Eco-freindly unclogging costs you an hour’s worth of writing or moping time: 15 minutes fishing the decomposing hair out of the drain, 45 minutes gagging between fishing attempts. I discovered I could avoid all this by combing my locks into the tub that I wasn’t using for bathing.
3. Reluctantly use the shower properly
Studies show that Pssst! can only keep your hair smelling like an old lady for so long. Eventually it will smell like a dead old lady, and you will have to allow water to beat down on your bean. (Be sure to fish the hair out of the shower before you hop in. Feel satisfied that you’ve only had to round up the strays once this week.) I dispute the claim that having sex is the best motivator for more frequent and thorough bathing. It’s way too easy to convince yourself that staying sticky and wet, in more than one place, is some kind of tribute to your lover.
4. Stock up on basics
Postpone laundry for a month or more by buying dozens of panties. You can’t afford to pay twenty bucks a piece, so go to the big department store and find that one table with five pair for $19.99. Sure, they are going to be decorated with tiny turtles and inappropriately child-sized bows, but they will also be cotton, which is far healthier for the vajayjay (especially if you want to walk around sticky and wet after sex…). EMTs do not actually check your panties, so it’s safe to wear each pair for two days. Bonus: any morning you wake up late or frantic, you get to forget how many days that pair on the floor has already served. If you find a bra you like, buy three in black, saving the time you would waste trying to find another bra you like. If you wear all three identical bras before any single one of them is dirty, you will lose track of which one you’ve worn too many times and the pressure to wash them is off.
5. Multitask in the shower
If you have to shower, make it worthwhile by simultaneously washing out a couple of pairs of undies or a bra. Never wash more than one bra in one session: chances are you’ve forgotten what you did with the second one, but if you look several times you should be able to find the third one in one of the piles of all-black clothes on the chairs in your bedroom.

Credits to creators
MichaMi: Hedda Leather Dress in Wine_M
[ #7 ] D I S C O V E R Y – zero miles Lashes (at Finesmith’s Summer Boutique; ty Shortie!)
Miasnow, Sweety Pale
cStar Limited – Spectrum Lines Eyeliner (old gift)
>TRUTH< Demi – chocberry
bellballs/PIDIDDLE – Fringed Cuff – Tropical (Golden Finish)
MONS / Shocking eyes – sky
Glitterati, Pin up Girl pack (on sale till store close at end of June)
I always have time to GIMP.

Go big (rocker)

I’m fairly certain the top half of this outfit needs no explanation. (I do want to point out the skill I seem to have developed of making my av’s tatas look walleyed.) The bubbled-up Chouchin shorts from Yomeshoujo are the real attraction today. They’re actually much lighter hued than this rather dark pic suggests. They are available in several other fabrics. If you’ve never been to Yomeshoujo, you should go for the lulz, unless you are a minimalist, in which case you should still go. It will either reassure you that your home is not, in fact, deadly dull, or it will inspire you to get rid of that one tchotchke, take a Xanax and chain yourself to your fake Mies chair. [Stop it, you're making everyone horny again. -ed.] Anorak is wearing Mayfly’s latest lustrous mesh eyes in a lovely shade of persian blue. Her cool new eye-makeup, available in a softened rainbow range of colours, is Sigal from Zib Scaggs at Zibska. The jeweled eyebrows and cluster of crystals are Zibska’s ingenious Valle set, which features size and colour change. If you’re really having fun with it, you will call the whole thing a meteor swarm.

Before signing off for today, I want to give the first ever Pleizzie award to the Numberology event. I have stopped shopping at huge events because I do not have the time to wander around a giant build, even if there’s a map online. Waiting for tiny shop signs to rez takes years off human lives and, studies show, off the lives of their pets. At Numberology, the stores are clearly labeled, the labels are large and they rez quickly. There are no randomly placed ads making you think the store you seek is over there when it’s actually over here, or, even worse, making you think you could use the ad to TP to the store you seek. [The thought of that makes me hard, in a good way. -ed.] Most importantly, Numberology allows your av to fly over kiosks that are, for the most part, open roof, meaning that you can see what’s available without descending from the sky. I imagine that events forbid flying because they think customers will discover stores if they are on foot. If stuff doesn’t rez, there’s nothing to discover. Ultimately, if I am a happy customer because I was able to access easily my fave store’s booth and bought something I love, I am more likely to poke around the other booths. (But I still want to do my poking from the air.) One more thing, SL: for the love of goddess, always provide chairs, or if you offer chairs already, offer more. These are the best means of getting around a sim or a large shop. If there are no chairs at a laggy, walk-only event, I log off and chain myself up to jerk off in my reproduction Eames lounger. [No, no, besmirch anything but the Eames! -ed.]

Credits
xxYOMESHOUJOxx, *VAV4* [MESH-S] -CHOUCHIN PANTS
*Epic* Cropped Lace-Tex Bunneh Jacket Hood (at Perfect Wardrobe)
Lolas ::: Tango ::: Mesh Breasts (spine)
Zibska, Sigal DK ~ Meadow (NEW; ty Zib Scaggs!)
Zibska, Valle set (ty Zib Scaggs!)
::Modish:: Herra [Crema] (90L skin, no demo, outside The Box event, has pretty pink eye-shadow and 1950s cat’s-eye liner)
Sedmikraska, Drippy Tights with, underneath, [North West] Ruba Tights A (purple)
*SoliDea FoliEs* chameleon – ring
Baiastice,_Piramid Studs Leather Cuff-purple- (Arcade gacha)
*Ticky Tacky*, Mama’s Little Binky Ring – Onyx ((not available)
- .HoD. – Dragon Spiral v9 – Black & Pomegranate
.::MADesigns HAIR::. ~ DORA ~ Black VI (may not be available)
Mayfly – Deep Sky Mesh Eye (Light Persian Blue, w4) [only showing the right eye] AND Mayfly – Liquid Light Mesh Eye (Light Persian Blue, w4) [only showing the left eye] (NEW; ty Arkesh Baral!)
Glitterati, Shuttered pose prop (on sale for 100L)
GIMP wuz here

Go big (sexbomb)

I do not know why I am plotting a week’s worth of posts called “Go Big.” Perhaps I just miss fake bübs. Today I invite you to enjoy Riri Ninni’s heavy Desert Bangles for h.m.a.e.m, available in a limited quantity at The Couturier’s Docks. The pack contains all six of the big bad bangles you see here. Each can be worn separately.
Sounds Gravis Beach is holding a gacha festival that is confusingly named Gala 2, as if it were another fundraiser for Gala Phoenix. YukaChoco Magic of Chocolate Atelier has made big-bust-friendly transparent bodysuits in an array of solid colours and in leopard and heart prints. (Of course it’s gacha, so you can’t set your heart on the hearts. Sniff.) if you are feeling modest, you can double up on the included layers to eliminate the transparency. At the c.A shop, there’s a new Lucky Board featuring some pretty babydoll lingerie. In case you hadn’t heard, Glitterati will be closing at the end of this month, and is holding a blowout sale until then. The poses shown here come with white-feathered fans for old-timey burlesque dancing.

Credits to creators
h.m.a.e.m, Desert Bangles (at The Couturier’s Docks; ty Riri!)
c.A, Evelyn bodysuit black (gacha)
Skinnery, Byuri special edtion in toffee, with Lolas applier sold separately
Skinnery, lipstick from the Voluptuous Lips pack
Lelutka, Bouffant Fades pack
Glitterati, Feathered
GIMPed and GIMPed again.