21st century exodus

I have this mesmerizing metallic dress by Aliza Karu of [AD] Creations. I style it with some futuristic hair by Eshi Otawara. The dress falls to the knee and the dreads inch past it. It’s a swelegant combo and I’m excited to shoot it. I get one medium shot and Exodus crashes. I get a low-res test shot of the entire ensemble—including some boots I picked up on sale at SLink—and Exodus crashes. I log in while watching TV and Exodus crashes. I walk and chew gum at the same time and Exodus crashes. I coordinate my blouse with my pants and Exodus crashes. I eat meat and rice at the same meal and Exodus crashes. Like a little bitch. (I do not care for that phrase, but it fits.) It doesn’t want me making connections.
The next day I decide to make my pics extra spacey. I get one closeup of Portia on a fcking machine at Necronom VI and guess what? Okay, I don’t need to read the manual to know what to do. With Exodus, I mean, not the fcking machine. Stay focused on the fashion, people. Days later I finally get a chance to reinstall Exodus. I do it clean. Exodus crashes four times while my inventory loads. I backtrack to a version so primitive that it has no height offset. The thought of slidering to High and enabling Deferred Rendering sends me scurrying for my teddy bear. Which is long gone. I fear I may try to cuddle one of you if I go inworld again. Please accept this last cruddy photo of Portia as an invitation to admire the asymmetrical bangs of Betty by MissAllSunday Lemon for Wasabi Pills. Please also look past all those 0s and 1s to see a lovely group gift skin from Amesha Jewell of Aeva/Heartsick. Adorned with gemstones around the forehead, Airelle comes in 7 tones, including mesh feet.

Credits to creators

AD Creations, Waiting Metal Dress (NEW limited edition at Seasons of Couture; ty Aliza!)
Aeva/Heartsick, Airelle Gemstone (VIP group gift, group is free; pick up skin in store and check notices for box of feet)
shot two: Wasabi Pills, Betty Rouge (NEW; ty Miss Lemon!)
shot one: Eshi Otawara, Ninja Girl Majestic (not available)
Fleshtone, Narsha Vanity Cuff Silver (Sadly, Fleshtone has closed down)
Solidea Folies, Chameleion Ring
ellabella, Vae Face piercing (colour change)
oh yeah, GIMP had to hump these real good

Braille to the night

It’s been a bad week for brains. They’ve been overtaxed. Now that I can feel my grey matter returning to its usual spongey and sproingy state, I am once again able to blog. The last day of the Fantasy Faire, an event raising money for cancer research, is Sunday April 28th. So you still have time to bounce over to The Plastik’s pavilion to buy Aikea Rieko’s new Draziirah skin. Draziirah has to be shot in bright light to show off the weirdly cracked chocolatey skin. The skin features a full-body vine tattoo which is sold in ten different colours, including silver, green, red, yellow, blue and purple. Portia is wearing Draziirah in one of the greens, Anjuna, which I’ve tarted up with HoD’s Lovely Disarray face tattoo and Electro Blue Neon Punk earrings. This is a brand new item available at The Gallery Gift Shop till mid-May.
Each Draziirah skin pack features a plain version of the skin and some extra mystical tats. I’ve used tats from two skins, Anjuna and Silver, to decorate Anorak’s beautiful bod. In addition to the elf ears shown here, the Drazira skin pack includes glowing eyes. Anorak’s classy Wasabi Pills hair, Erika, is also available at Fantasy Faire. This version of The Plastik’s Vexed dress was a gift, but there are plenty more patterns to choose from in the mainstore.

Credits to creators

Look one
:[Plastik]:- Draziirah [Female]://Anjuna (NEW; at Fantasy Faire; ty Aikea Rieko!)
- .HoD. – Neon Punk Gauge Electro Blue with Lovely Disarray – I’m no Priest Face Paint – Neon Punk Edition [unisex] (NEW; at The Gallery Gift Shop; ty Aydan Darcy!)
: Amorous : Die Schlacht set of face piercing and pasties and earrings not shown
Analog Dog, tangled obsidian (almost unrecognizable colour due to Windlight setting)
:[Plastik]:-Vaele Coll(Base)://Galaxia-Nala eyes

Look two
:[Plastik]:- Draziirah-Female:// Plain Base Anjuna pack (NEW; at Fantasy Faire; ty Aikea Rieko!)
:[Plastik]:- Draziira Tattoo[Face-Dots]://Silver
:[Plastik]: Draziira Tattoo[Body-Dots]://Anjuna
:[Plastik]: Draziira Tattoo[Body-Suns]://Silver
:[Plastik]:- Draziira Tattoo[Face-Suns]://Anjuna
/Wasabi Pills/ Erika Mesh Hair – Pancake (NEW; at Fantasy Faire; ty Miss. Lemon!!)
:[Plastik]:- Vex Dresses [XXS]:// Chevron (former gift)
*BOOM* Bold wrist cuff (v1) Titanium
*BOOM* Fearless wrist cuff (v2) Titanium (this is the Collabor88 edition)
.:ellabella:. Vaeface piercing, colour change

poses: Ma Vie, Revealed

Pretty gritty

It’s time once again for Fashion for Life, a charity event which supports cancer research. I did my shopping, and I hope to feature my purchases over the next few posts. (I also just bought a rubber corset, and I have my eye on a metal chastity belt…so my plan to be posh may go awry.) Ms. Nevery Lorakeet of LpD makes the kind of ball-gown that ladies adore: delicately coloured, dreamy and fluffy like whipped cream. Her new gown, Steam Cloud, features a boned white corset set against a pale pink inset in the bodice. No fewer than eight large panels of white net make up the voluminous skirt. A good SL blogger, like Lada Leeroy, will run with this gown to a stunning sylvan setting and do it justice in poetic photos. A bad SL blogger—that would be me—will get nervous about the whole nature thing and retreat to her favourite dark alleyway. Think of it as an urban beautification project.

Another one of LpD’s charity items is the makeup Portia wears in this post. The eye is an especially elegant combination of silver-white shadow and dramatic black eyeliner. If you are planning to shop Fashion For Life, do note that the organizers have made all our lives perfect by providing a page of direct TPs to the participating creators’ booths. Because the event is spread over seven sims representing the seven wonders of the ancient world there is absolutely no lag—a wonder in itself.

Credits to creators
Pic one
*LpD* – *Steam Cloud* Dress (at Fashion For Life; ty Nevery!)
*LpD* MakeUp – *Steam Cloud* (at Fashion For Life; ty Nevery!)
:[Plastik]:- Maelian Skin [BETA]:// London Fog. (former Lazy Sunday item)
/Wasabi Pills/ Fay Mesh Hair – Dark flame (ty MissAllSunday Lemon!)
[Etchaflesh] Rose Leather Neck Corset (M)
-UtopiaH- Wild Skull [gold] (Tango compatible and available in silver) (at Perfect Wardrobe)
:[Plastik]:- Dena’ina Bracelet [L]:// Suntouched Gold
:[Plastik]:- Dena’ina Bracelet [R]:// Suntouched Gold
Leverocci – Stone Encrusted Cuff_MarbleStone
Mons/ Shocking Eyes Brown

poses are old freebies by xbordeaux
street location is Urban Decay
GIMP is the word

Lead me to your taker

It is with a heavy sigh—and a van-load of expletives—that I announce the imminent disappearance of Pleisure from the blogosphere. For quite some time I have been unable to upgrade to new versions of any viewer. Now with server-side-Easy-Bake-Oven about to debut, I will no longer be able to blog without buying a new computer, and a PC at that. It’s possible Pleisure will just go into a coma like Buffy did when she decided to give up fighting Glory. And a witch will come to the rescue. (Has to be a witch: the Mac geniuses know nothing about what one needs for SL.) Until the coma comes, I am going to share fashion stuffs with you, even if the pics I take are less than perfect. Sian Pearl has just released an Extreme Cyber HeadSet for MetaTheodora. There’s a version with a semi-opaque visor that is guaranteed to terrify spoiled blonde gods with bad taste in clothing. Portia pairs her headset with Epic’s Tango-friendly Slasher suit, which is available in multiple colours at a reduced price for a limited time at Bewbapalooza. This outfit inspired me to shop for neck corsets, so you may not see Portia’s lips before Easter, when the desire for chocolate will embolden her to meet the day in nothing more than a layer of Chap-Stik. One final note for all you space-girls: just because you don’t have gravity doesn’t mean you can’t defy it with some old-fashioned spiral curls. Get your Momo on at Whore Couture Fair 2.

Credits to creators
MetaTheodora, Extreme Cyber HeadSet (No visor) (NEW; ty Sian!)
*Epic Boobies* Reverb Slasher Suit with Neck Corset {Metal} [S] (at Bewbapalooza)
Lolas ::: Tango ::: Mesh Breasts (spine)
/Wasabi Pills/ Momo Mesh Hair – (BOOBS) – Dark flame (at WCF2; ty MissAllSunday!)
[Bamboo] Nails – Corset [these are gorgeous but I always fail at nails; the pack features pink, red and nude] (at WCF2; ty RubyRed Russet!)
Essences – Thursday *light rose* black (recent TDRF item)
Essences ~ Eyelashes Perla
cStar Limited – Underline Me Eyeliner
::Modish:: Love Vision eyes Sample (V. Day gift)
[sYs] ALTAIS – bracelets (white)
ISON – carazon boot -S- (silver)
Thadovian LTD, Golden ManMelter Ray Pistol v.4 (old gift)
Glitterati, Cubed
GIMPed for your pleisure

ah phooey

Foxy soft

Today I felt like playing it soft. And a little strong with the dark eyebrows of Sopha Portal’s new Fox skin for My UglyDorothy.
Fox is darker than Ms. Portal’s recent creations. This tone, Caramel, is the middle tone of three. There are eight makeups and a base skin in the pack, with teeth and no teeth options. Black isn’t always forbidding. Witness BOOM’s Soft Swerve sweater in Pitch.

Wasabi Pills’ Ivette is one of a pair of two softly curling new hairdos for Whore Couture Fair 2.

Credits to creators
Look one
*MY UGLYDOROTHY -Fox08(Caramel) (NEW; ty Sopha!)
/Wasabi Pills/ Ivette Mesh Hair – Black coffee (NEW at WCF2; ty MissAllSunday!)
NuDoLu, tunique de lumiere red (NEW)
Pink Acid, Leather Mermaid Scale Leggings – White
[sYs] ALTAIS – bracelets (white) (recent Limited Bazaar item)
::LEO-NT:: Vintage Dream Ring~baroque~ (VIP gift pair of rings; small fee to join)
::{u.f.o}::animal wire headband – PEARL – cat RARE (old SGS gacha)
Dark Mouse, Vintage 50′s Pearl Stud Clip – White (store is closed, but these were available at the Fab Free shop on The Wash sim)
MONS / Shocking eyes – hazel

Look two
*MY UGLYDOROTHY -Fox03(Caramel)
*BOOM* Soft Swerve Off-Shoulder Top (Xsm) Pitch (NEW; ty Aranel!)
*Dura-Girl*27(Black)resize
SIGMA Jewels/ Deco necklace purple – chest (Lavender Hill Hunt 5L item)
MONS / Shocking eyes – brown

set: Sn@tch, Dark Photobox
poses: The Muse, Erik poses (for the dude in you…) (ty Audrey!)
I GIMPed the faces a little to soften some harsh lines caused by lighting. Please demo all skins!

Ready to pounce

Don’t shoot shoot shoot that thing at me. I’d forgotten that June Dion of Bare Rose could make Portia armourlicious for less than 200L. Be grateful I’m off romance or she’d be prancing around in the hot pink version.

MissAllSunday Lemon continues to make the best mesh hair on the grid. Her latest is Alicia—full-bodied long hair with a perfectly curved wing over the right eye.

Credits to creators
::: Bare Rose ::: Infiltrator Lady Black (comes with a pink version)
Remy, FentFur-Gold-Ombre (at Limited Bazaar)
/Wasabi Pills/ Alicia Mesh Hair – Ethereal (NEW; ty Miss Lemon!)
mijn.botique accessories / studded earrings n.2 (aw damn…was at TDRF but is not at TDRF any more)
{.essences.} Xihe_light_freckles (was a special event skin)
[ glow ] studio – Pin up eyeliner
.Pekka. HOMICIDAL Lipstick (shiver)
.Pekka. KERE Lipline (white)
Juxtapose poses – Sweetness [Valentine's Day gift]
location is Wretched Hollow
GIMP cures all.

NSFW, eh?

Bunneh Brickworks Kawashima is an SL blogger and one of my sweetest Flickr friends, but she is also a bad influence. In a good way. This week, Bunneh is shooting a series of photos featuring public nudity. I had to see if I could do what she does. (These two pics will have to last a whole week, so look at them slowly. Or frequently.) I admit that while shooting these pics I was afraid that I would be caught and banned from my fave sim. So I appreciate the risky thrill of public nudity. At the very same time that I enjoyed doing something wrong, however, I also felt the rightness of the beauty of the naked human body, of the SL creators’ imaginative ways of enhancing that beauty, and of my own effort to create an erotic image rather than just a nude shot. I had to shoot many vanilla pics and many upper-body images before I was absorbed—or committed—enough to find a sexier pose and show Portia’s pudendum. If we are easily shocked by erotic imagery, it is because we are too distanced from the naked body rather than too close. Our determination to keep the body, and sex, private is a symptom of our inability to embrace the body in its erotic aspects. (Don’t get me started on body-as-bourgeois-private-property. That way lies Marx.) Having said this, I did decide to censor the pic with some soap bubbles. If you want to see the uncensored version, you will need a Flickr account with preferences set to see restricted images.
In addition to Bunneh’s example, I was inspired by Umazuma Metaluna’s new Lolas Tango appliers for The Skinnery. These are the sexiest nips on the grid, their appeal to the fingers as strong as their appeal to the eye. Ms. Metaluna has done appliers for old skins as well as new, so customers aren’t forced to abandon the old skins as obsolete. She is putting her customer first. This I like.

Credits to creators
[theSkinnery] Byuri-Foxy Lady(toffee) DB CL1 (this was a special edition of the Byuri skin)
[theSkinnery] Tangos Skin Applier and, in the same package, Tangos Nipples Applier [there's a nipless version of the applier so you can avoid nip-slip]
Lolas ::: Tango ::: Mesh Breasts
[Aura] Grimm – Corset – M – Antique
first pic: Magika [Hair S] Stumble
second pic: Wasabi Pills, Christy 2 Chocolate
- .HoD. – Chained – Slide
.:ellabella:. Saint – Jet
Yummy, Boho Rings – Maroon
Graves, G329 Cuffs
poses: Glitterati
GIMPed for your pleisure, but the applier is not retouched (enjoy my signature jagged shadows)

My pretties

I swear that someone somehow stole my blogging gene. I’m down to “system skirt bad; she pretty.” So I shall just say that I hereby offer you a shot of Aliza Karu’s tour-de-force Ania gown for AngelsDemons Creations. In addition to the dramatic cut-out back you see here, there are cuts in the front of the gown which make the dress look as though it’s independent of the body, not hung on it. Suvi Breil took a fabulous shot of the whole ensemble, from the front, because she’s a genetically sound blogger.
I am also featuring this beautifully ornate brooch, with optional stripe makeup, which is an Avenue Readers group gift in the A:S:S deLuxe shop at Zenshi. I like the look of the brooch on bare flesh, with its nasty screws set into Portia’s adamantium breast-plate. Portia is wearing MiaSnow’s unusual Sweety skin, a favourite of mine, in the Exotic tone. The Sweety skin comes with the lashes shown here, with eyebrows, a few lipsticks, and with basic options of cleavage and dimples on or off.

Credits to creators
Look one, pic one
[AD] Ania Gown (ty Aliza Karu!) [note that the mesh gown comes in only one size]
MiaSnow, Sweety PALE w/ bra cleavage
/Wasabi Pills/ Skye Mesh Hair – Orchid
*BOOM* Fearless wrist cuffs BrwnGlaze (at Collabor88)
S o H, Big Dragon Friend (old freebie: the year of the dragon will soon end, so breathe fire while you can)
PDA, Gangplank Oddment

Look two, pic two
A:S:S deLuxe – Playful Violence brooch (with stripe tattoo) (gift in shop: join Avenue Readers group)
/Wasabi Pills/ Jamie Mesh Hair – Rye
Zibska, Ayira ~ Ear Cuff [colour-change and resizable via menu]
MiaSnow, Sweety EXOTIC w/ bra cleavage, worn with LASHES black
MONS / DualColor eyes – green
Ma Vie, Ma Vie pose pack (60L limited time special at new pose shop from Miamai on the Glam Affair sim)

Look one, pic three
[AD] Ania Gown (ty Aliza Karu!) [note that the mesh gown comes in only one size]
MiaSnow, Sweety PALE w/ bra cleavage
[ #7 ] In the City Lashes M/C
Mynerva~Platinum Drow Eyeliner (old gift)
/Wasabi Pills/ Skye Mesh Hair – Storm
Finesmith, Happiness (includes a tiara; VIP group gift, with a fee to join, but I think it is also the current subo gift)

GIMPed for your safety.

Never been a night owl

I’ve never been one of those people who can’t believe she’s starting her work-shift at the ungodly hour of 1PM. Love this geek chic: new from Wasabi Pills, Lumi 2 features curly hair with the cute colour-change hat from Lumi. Lumi 2 is adjustable mesh, so if you found the original too big for your noggin you are sure to enjoy the sequel.

I’ve never been one of those people who wakes up to her surroundings around 4PM. The Lumen dress is not the latest offering from Nevery Lorakeet of LpD, but it is one of my favourites. I can never resist a paisley pattern, and the batwing sleeves are fun to photograph. The Lumen pack includes a poncho version as well as the dress. It’s available in washed-out red tones, shown here, as well as pink, black and blue tones. Do note that LpD has changed location, so you will need to use the new URL listed below.

I’ve never been one of those people who starts studying at sunset.

Credits to creators
/Wasabi Pills/ Lumi 2 Mesh Hair – Gingerbread (NEW; ty MissAllSunday Lemon)
*LpD* – *Lumen* Dress Red Tones (Mesh – Size M) [a quick fix for anyone who finds the alpha layer too big: narrow your av's shoulders] (NEWish; ty Nevery Lorakeet!)
fri.day – Basic.Turtleneck (Salmon)
fore, lace zip Leggings
h.m.a.e.m. – raining boots – brown cream (NEW; ty Riri Ninni!)
:Curio: Petal Frex [Light] Party Girl-Potion 2 (NEW group gift fatpack; search for “Gala and Rita”, not Curio, to find the group)
:FANATIK: My bad girl ring Copper
Tee*fy Wooden Bow Necklace Black Strap
[KAMOURASKA] Rouyn Porcupine Cuff Matte Ebony
(vive9) Risky Readers [abyss] (old gift)
all poses built into the furniture
location: library
GIMPed before 9AM

Luxuriate

These pictures obviously go together.

Ladies stretch out their arms in them.

And look very pretty.

Credits to creators
Look impish
{Meghindo’s} ~ Chy Dress [comes with fringed clutch and many different flexi skirts] (VIP Gift, which also contains a skin in multiple tones; fee to join)
*BOOM* Dame Elbow Gloves (antique) xsmall (NEW, mesh, in many many many colours; ty Aranel Ah!)
Glam Affair – Renee – Fairy Tales 01 RAV (Arcade gacha)
MEMIL eyes 06_orange brown (from Marketplace)
Clawtooth: Louise Brooks – Red eye flight
Eclectica Deco Knot set in pale silver
Addictia, METRO Sandals – Silver
BENT, Posebox (old hunt gift)
Lightly GIMPed

Look admirable
Zibska, Amelie set of colour and size change earrings and necklace (ty Ms. Skaggs!) UPDATE: Still available at TGGS until December 19.
Luxury[87] – Snakeskin sheer catsuit (former Lyfe of Style item; no sign of an inworld store)
/Wasabi Pills/ Skye Mesh Hair – Pancake with /Wasabi Pills/ Hairbase included
MONS / Sunny Skin -light brow-soft makeup- light tone V1 (at TDR Fusion; includes a freckle version; love this hard)
[sauce] ka-pow! : lashes (not available)
MONS / Shocking eyes – blue
Yummy, Thin Boho Ring – Maroon (Nov. Collabor88)
Glitterati, Boxed
I GIMPed thie beejezus out of this one. Okay, maybe only the bejeez.

Pleisure apologizes for the quality of today’s comments and wishes to assure readers that we will fire whatever unpaid intern let an unpaid intern assign an unpaid intern to write copy.