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All Dressed up by Ana

December 18th, 2008 by Candy Flanagan

Ana Lutetia got to dress me up this time around, suggesting: “Dutch Touch or MG fashion for clothes, AuMa or Truth for boots and ETD (still on sale) for hair.” I admire Ana’s style and dedication to blogging, so of course I followed her advice!

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Once again, this challenge has led me to dig long-lost treasures out of my inventory - and I’m glad this outfit from MG Fashion (URL, SLURL) got to see the light of day again! It’s called Hunting Season and wearing it I felt ready for a long trek through the woods, but a quick shopping trip in the city had to make do!

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My first stop was Truth (URL, SLURL), to find some shoes. The Huntress Boots were actually my first shoe purchases at Truth, even though I’ve long been a fan of Truth Hawk’s clothing. They look great, but it took well over an hour of wrangling with the resizer script to get them to fit - I miss the days when such things were mod and I could fit them in a few minutes! There was a reward for my hard work, though, in the form of a free pack of sculpted heels tucked in a corner near the Subscribe-O-Matic at Truth! My next stop was ETD (URL, SLURL). I found the perfect hair, the Janine with texture-changing cap - on sale for only L$30, as Ana said! The sale runs until December 26th, so there’s still time to find your own favorite hair style, if you’re a fan of ETD.

The lovely Nissa Nightfire has followed my own suggestions on her blog, Magpie Metaverse. Check out her Wasteland style!

I’ve also been trying my best to keep the list on my first Dress Me Up Challenge posts, adding any new posts I come across on the feed. Let me know if I missed you!

I Dressed Them Up!

December 16th, 2008 by Candy Flanagan

Two lovely ladies have let me dress them up: TearSong Vaughan from The Hole in the Universe and Cajsa Lilliehook from It’s Only Fashion. I suggested TearSong go for a simple, classic look and she came out looking fantastic - see for yourself here. I love seeing redheads in pink, so I sent Casja to Momo. She looks great, check out her post.

I haven’t actually sent out many suggestions, but I will when I find the time again, it’s so much fun!

All Dressed Up à la Achariya

December 15th, 2008 by Candy Flanagan

Seeing the suggestions come in for the Dress Me Up Challenge has been a lot of fun. I have attempted a few looks, but it has been more difficult to implement them than I had expected! While I am versatile, I’m also very picky. o.o

I had to grin when Achariya suggested:

“I’d love to see you in Marie Antoinette garb — like the huge dresses from Drac or Pixeldolls, or the Dans Macabre dress from ~silentsparrow~. Big poofy hair also from Drac, and delicate slippers of some sort. ♥”

I have actually had the appropriate dress in my inventory since it’s release, but I had never worn it! It’s awful, but true - my inventory is still a cavernous black hole. No wonder I shop so much, sometimes it’s the only way to find something to wear!

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Draconic Kiss, Pixeldolls and silentsparrow have all been long-time favorites of mine, but I focused on Draconic Kiss for this look. Draconic Lioncourt of Draconic Kiss (URL, SLURL) delights the lace-frilled heart of every Gothic Lolita with gorgeous dresses. Draconic also branches out into detailed costumes, packed with extras. The Theresa dress, based on a design from the 1700’s, comes complete with the fantastic wig and hat pictured above. There’s a skin available separately, with a delicately powdered face, but since I didn’t buy that along with the dress over a year ago when both were released, I went with the one Draconic Kiss skin I already owned, the Doll skin. These skins are some of my absolute favorites and I come back to them again and again, especially when I am feeling even frillier than usual!

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Achariya also suggested delicate slippers to match, which have unfortunately been swallowed up by the volumes of my skirt, but rest assured the Estampie shoes in lavender velvet from Lassitude & Ennui (URL, SLURL) matched perfectly. I also chose the Cameo choker from Lassitude & Ennui. I wasn’t really sure that either piece was true to the period, but they looked so great that I couldn’t resist!

Liked the look? Think you can do better? Dress Me Up!

I nearly forgot to mention the location for both shots, Provence Coeur (SLURL), a group of half a dozen sims filled with charming shops and rentals. All six sims are themed, based on France in the 1700’s, and I spent nearly an entire day exploring the rustic French countryside, pretending to be Marie Antoinette!

Life In Plastic, It’s Fantastic!

December 11th, 2008 by Candy Flanagan

I’m back after a hiatus! My first project has been to get my inventory in grip. Review copies, new purchases, notecards, landmarks, random crap - I’ve got a month’s worth of sorting and purging to be done. Thankfully, I really love that sort of thing, I’m weird like that.

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Since I am spending most of my time in various states of undress anyway, I thought I would accept Achariya’s Dress Me Up challenge. Make my day and dress me up! Because, really, with over twenty thousand items in my inventory, I just can’t find anything to wear!

Rules are:

1. Post a picture of yourself in your underpants.
2. In this post, invite your readers to suggest a particular outfit (or hair, jewelry, shoes, skin, etc.) from a designer for you to purchase and write about. (Designers, feel free to suggest items from your own line - why not, after all?) People who respond should explain why they like these items.
3. In the next few weeks, look back over the suggestion list and incorporate these ideas into your regular blogging, marking these entries with the tag “dress me up.” Post in as many or few suggestions as you want. It’s up to the blogger’s discretion to pick which items to wear, so no complaining if they don’t pick your idea, K? :D

Fellow participants are, among others I may have missed:

Circus Sillies

August 26th, 2008 by Candy Flanagan

Last night, my friend Agnes Periapse and I decided to head to the Hair Fair. We trimmed down our attachments, digging in our respective inventories for fashionable primless clothing. I had Achariya’s Hair Fair Challenge in mind, but one thing led to another and we ended up looking less cool and more fool. We had a ton of fun, though!

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There’s not a lot to say - we both made new skins and applied our favorite textures. Repeat with Linden hair. A few slider tweaks later … and a paisley pony and lined lion were born!

If you’d like to see people who took Achariya’s Hair Fair Challenge seriously check out these links:

Enjoy the Hair Fair (URL, SLURLs: Orange, Pink, Purple, Red)!