Licking my chops

I’ve been reading Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, which is supposed to be a collection of feminist retellings of fairytales. Several of the stories turn on encounters between teenage girls and animals. In one, Beauty transforms the Beast into a man with her love. In another… Well, let’s just say that those transformations can work both ways. And poor sweet Beauty missed out on some very sexy sex. The stories inspired today’s outfit, which sees Portia looking satisfied after sharing a barbecued big bad wolf with grannie and the woodsman, who turned out to be gran’s boytoy. That’s right: gran’s the original cougar. If you don’t like to read books, you might see if you can rent The Company of Wolves, a fascinating film written by Carter and director Neil Jordan.

This week I had my eye on some cool but pricey new jumpsuits. I decided to stop denying myself and splurge on whatever I wanted. To my surprise, instead of heading for Diram or Celoe, my av returned to Fameshed to drool again over Fanatik’s beautifully textured leather dresses. It seems I have some catching up to do in the not-denying-myself department.

Credits to creators
:FANATIK: Leather & Lace dress Brown S (NEWISH at Fameshed)
-tb- C88 Lace Dress – Brown [worn underneath] (old Collabor88 item)
Remy, BeastHood(FurCast)-M-OldFur/Brown (NEW at Around the World in Africa)
::Exile:: Little Things:Dirty [damn I love this hair]
{.essences.} Maria skin *Soleil dark* Sugar (NEW at TDR)
*League* Folklore Leggings -Ziggy (pl)
Maitreya, Devi Booties Rosewood (another catch-up splurge)
::je suis…grande::browns::bangles
:: Purple Moon :: Noble Ring in Walnut
poses: The Muse Poses, Tyche pack; PDA
location: Wretched Hollow

Dancing fools

Lavender mingles with mulberry and lilac wine mixes with bordeaux in this homage to New Wave. It’s New York, the early 80s, and the Pleisure models are dancing at their favourite after-hours club in TriBeCa. Miss Q, clad in sequins and spandex, is the first to hit the floor.

She lives in the East Village. What she does there no one knows, but judging by her eyelashes, it’s arty.

Portia’s conventional hairdo gives her away: the poor thing lives in Murray Hill, works in an office in midtown, and doesn’t know what TriBeCa stands for. Miss Q helped Portia transform her Veschi jumpsuit by cutting off the wide legs, giving her a harem pant that shows off her wedges. Unfortunately, no one could improve on Portia’s dance moves.

Anorak is a wealthy NYU student who lives in the West Village but regularly escapes the hordes by staying with her parents uptown. It’s her turn to be the idiot who decides, around 8 AM, that it’s a good idea to gallop in circles around the dance-floor.

She thinks her wig once belonged to Andy Warhol.

And Loica? Nobody knows where Loica lives and nobody knew that she doesn’t dance. She showed up late, or rather early, and set about fascinating men. When her friends asked her why she hadn’t livened up her burgundy outfit with lilac, she pulled her dress off and exited the club, very slowly, in an exquisite set of lavender lingerie by Epoque. But that’s an outfit for another post.

Credits to creators
Look one
jacket: Alatiel, part of Pretty in Shorts (May group gift)
top and belt: Veschi, part of Jump Her Lavender
leggings: League, Shiny Leggings Grape (freebie)
skin: Curio, GP Petal [Light] Winter–Coal 1
hair: Govil, Four Prim Hair Black (freebie)
lashes: Glow Studio, Ademonia Lashes (old Dressing Room item)
shoes: Surf Couture, Spring Fling Wedges in Blackberry
necklace: Chuculet, Ina Pearls White (5L)
gloves: Viva Glam, Brody Gloves Lavender
pose: DARE

Look two
jumpsuit: Veschi, Jump Her Lavender
hair: Posh, The Morning After Dirty Blonde
skin: Curio, GP Petal [Light] Winter–Coal 1
shoes: Surf Couture, Spring Fling Wedges in Blackberry
wristlets: LH, part of Tomorrow outfit
pose: Dare

Look three
dress: BebeDoll, Bethany Dress Plum (June group gift)
jumpsuit: artME Fashion, The Evil Under the Sun Feminine Bordeaux
hair: Wot?, Hair 020 (DTCH gift)
skin: YS & YS, Stella Cute Skin (old Dressing Room item)
boots: G Field, Short Lace-Up Boots in Lavender (subo gift)
necklace: Violet Voltaire, Love in a Void Necklace
eyes: Poetic Colors, Cosmic Dreams (freebie)
pose: DARE

Look four
dress: Zaara, Chaya Dipali (sale ends June 13th)
scarf and bangles: Lemania Indigo, part of Cashmere Gold outfit
skin: Dulce Secrets, Cypress Merlot 1400 subscribers (subo gift)
hair: fri.day, Tatum Passionate Red
pose: On the Cover

location: Ubah Paine (Thanks Kaina Shikani for letting me shoot while you were still setting up.)

Hard pink

As an ex-goth urbanite, I wear black most of the time in RL, so people are surprised if they see me in a pink t-shirt. Hot pink, shocking pink, fuchsia or what SL calls pink, magenta straight off the CMYK wheel. These shades of pink annoy other people almost as much as black, and that’s why I like them. They are obnoxious colours, not concessions to femininity or to provincial aesthetics. (Oxymoron alert?) Today I salute hard pinks by having the latest pink dollies blast holes in the dark fabric of Primitive City.

First up is Dilly Doll’s Lexia, which comes with a parasol (with and without pose). If you take off the skirt, you have a lovely bodysuit underneath. Primitive City was very laggy when I went to shoot there, and after holding a pose for ages while the parasol rezzed (bad computer, remember?), Portia was unceremoniously logged off, twice. The next pic is one of my favorite types of SL pics: the “I have been logged off and almost completely drained of colour, but I can still chat and take this one photo” photo.

Portia wears Tacky Star’s Faded Vaudeville Star skin, which I picked up as part of their generous Haiti relief fund item. The shape of this Waka and Yuki hair gives the word nightmarish new meaning. I dig it much. The grey shrug is the latest group gift from I <3 13, and it reads “Be Happy.”

This is Wanda, the new heart-patterned dress available in a rainbow of colors on Blue Blood’s Lucky Boards. Go now while the dress is fresh and the crowd is thick enough to keep the boards changing. I switched out the black stockings for these gartered woolens I got from League. The fanged leather boots, which are beautifully sculpted and outright scary (a rare combo) are the Shoes and Accessories hunt prize from Demotik, available till February 15th, I believe.

Unbirthday Redux, an old freebie (?) from lamb, is the perfect frame for Tacky Star’s 100L Polly skin. Each shade of this dolly skin comes with three mouths: cracked, as you see above, lined on either side of the mouth to make your avatar look like (even more of) a dummy, and plain.

Coming soon: Soft pink (the color no ex-goth urbanite can justify)