Royal Blue … Review

Royal Blue is one of the many charming Boutique type stores located in the Horst/LLoyd/Starlust sims. I had been planning to make my way over there for a while, so I was delighted when Marni Grut dropped a sample of some of the new items appearing today at her store. Of course I had to take a gander at her wares and was impressed by the originality and freshness of her designs, grabbing a few items while there. The clothes are sold as separates and meant to mix and match. She also sells shoes, bags and accessories.

Credits: New Items – (Royal Blue) Floaty Summer Dress Dark Summer, Jacket Corporate Pow Wow in Boardroom Blue, Shoes Sluts in Skyscrapers(come with re-size script), Bag Studded Clutch Olive(comes with AO or without). Eyes (Exodi) Realite grape,(Fashionably Dead) Heavy Brow Bird Skin, Hair (!Lamb) Unbirthday redux Tacky Gold, Jewellery (Violet Voltaire) No Love Lost and DM Stoned Life Bracelet, Pants Meow for I am Catwoman Black and Top Body Con is not Dead silver (Royal Blue). Shot in 1920’s Berlin Project and Tochigi Japan. Poses by LAP, Blogger Pack.

This ‘n that……

This summer might be remembered at my house as the one that never was. The fickleness of the weather and family commitments have resulted in a gradual piling up of outfits waiting to be blogged. Rather that dedicate a post for each I have decided to show you a few of my favourites.

I acquire clothing in SL in various ways. I love to shop, so I am constantly exploring new areas. I go to sales and will often wait for a sale and then go crazy picking up items that are faves. Fairs are also a good way of seeing and buying new products. (Like the hair fair and skin fairs). DSN can be a valuable approach to seeing samples of designers wares. Belonging to the maximum number of groups, I do belong to a few which are fairly generous to group members. These tend to be some of my favourite designers as well. Subscribo’s ….I join a ton. When it comes to soliciting review items, I do mostly with skins. This is because in the case of skin reviews you really need a few of the skins, in a few tones to properly show them and discuss them. That doesn’t mean that the occasional review item doesn’t come my way. It is always interesting to look at an item with fresh eyes. Sometimes I will come across an item randomly in a Japanese sim, or one I’m shooting pics in not having any idea where it will turn up in a blog or I might look specifically for piece that will match a theme I’m working on. All that said my inventory is starting to look like the Creature from the Black Lagoon and I need a front-end loader to find anything…..

Credits: (It is Long)

Pic1-Skins-5th&Oxford Audrey English Rose Med (Group Gift), Exodi Shiloh Honey Coconut(Callie Cline Flawless Lashes), Blowpop Ava Almost Blue2 Tone 2, Sin Skins Light Drow Skin7 (Sale), Otaka Designs Tattoo Azteca (DSN) Upper Body. Hair- Foam The Lioness, Sari’s Hipie-dee-doo-Dreads Brown, (fd) Dorothy’s Day Earth, 0 Style Sheila Yummy, Shoes-SLink Claire Wedge Chocolate, Sakka’s Studio WedgeSole Gladiator, Magi Take Chucker Sneaker, L&E Travellor Boots. Jewellery-Bleinsen + Maitai Necklace Sleeping Flower (SCD), Exodi AnaLu Set, !Rt (Rotton Toe) Tamagotchi, Retro Plastic Watch and Bracelets (Earrings Heart Container Violet Voltaire), Mono Green Rusted Choker&Bracelets, HOC Aviator Style Glasses. Outfits- Naive Stacie, Milk Motion Cut out Pants, *DP* Belt Bangle Set, Exodi Harlow Daywear Mocha Forest, Truth Zanadu leggings Brown, Pink Outfitters Main Street Swing Jacket&Tee, A02 Painters Dystroyed Denim Pants, Socks Vinyl Cafe, Belt SD Wears Awaken Belt Silver, Denim Vest and Grafitti Jeans Fashionably Dead.

Pic2-Skins-Ugly Dorothy Mama’s Lipstick (Harajuku Skin Fair)Candy Nails Black , Curio Petal Beach Osprey2 , Le Pinceau Loreena Light, Fashionably Dead Salvation Army Song Bird Skin. Hair-Gritty Kitty, Faders Blond, Lamb Baby’s on Fire Butter, Analog Dog Bex Dark, Curious Kitties Nanotech Graphith, Shoes- *UN* Death Dolly Goth Mary Jane, She’s So Unusual Shoes Tri Rose T straps, Magi Take Chuckers, Sakka’s Studio Cream Strap Sabo Sandals. Jewellery- Hair Rose *+.RP.+*chain cross, Cad&Tart Fleur de Lis Collar, PD Celtic Cross wristbands, Cuffs, Milk Motion My huge Necklace, Psyche Glow Bracelets, Fashionably Dead Necklace, Fear&Loathing Leather Bracelets, Cuffs. Outfits-Pididdle Pitseleh Pencil Dress grey, !Lux White Star Stockings, {Boutique} Georgiana Dress, Sh*t Happens Stirrup Pants Mariya, T-Shirt Navy Skull Shit Happens (10L) Shorts S&S Sailor Shortie Blue, (PO) Shiny Thread Belt Fashionably Dead, Boy friend Socks WWII, T-Shirt Drowsy no15, Shorts Anuenue Loose half Pants green, Socks Sen2.

Note: I’ll apologize now for not providing SLURLS for all these items. In the spirit of Mashups everywhere I chose not to be constrained by limited options and show the looks I like, which mean that there are at least 50 stores. I’ll be happy to help you find any of these items inworld or on my Comments if there is any difficulty. I also used a whole slew of Poses from various sources , ++Desire++, Oyakinbo, {Flowey}, Dare, Cyanide, Pididdle, LAP, Rel Expression, Striking Poses… I try to keep track.

Enchanted…

Normally when a new skin comes into my life I walk around the grid for a couple of days to get a feel for it. I tweak the face to fit the skin better and try to get a feel for the personality and how this skin fits with my Avie. “Enchanted” is the new skin from Cupcakes and at first glance has much in common with Seduction, another Cupcakes skin. I remember Seduction's lips primarily and these lips are still large and beautiful. I found my Avie had a sad look to her so the lips got smaller and corners turned up a little more than usual. She had something of a classic beauty look to her which is fine though I like my blonds to have an edge. I was running around shopping…(so many sales!!) when I spied this dress from A-Bomb and with the shoes..I realized all it needed was some funky hair and I’d have an 80’s Debbie Harry feel.

The body has some nice shading and its understated, soft with a lovely belly. There are areas across the body where the tone is a little uneven but could be interpreted as light tanlines. The face is especially well shaded with contouring around the cheeks, lips and eyes. I have shown the freckled versions as I love the texturing, freckles are lightly sprinkled around the body.

The skin comes in four tones; Cream, Apricot, Sienna, Sepia, and Cioccolato. All my pics are with the Sienna Tone, a light tan.

There are 11 Make-ups which run the gamut from Bare to Ruby. Eye make-ups are pretty, and lips range from very glossy to matte. Left side; Bare Freckles, Berry Freckles, Fairy Freckles, Glamorous Freckles, Golden Freckles. Right Side; Midnight Freckles, Natural Freckles, Princess freckles, Ruby Freckles, Smokey Freckles. (I left out Midori Freckles, oops!) This picture doesn’t do justice to the gorgeous eyes and lips, it is well worth demoing just to see them. Individual skins are 1000L with fatpacks going at 5000L. Poses are from Flowey, who is having a 50% sale this week and I found the Mike and animation (Falta’s Animation) for free in the sim where I took the pictures, Sinners Heaven. The Hair is from Truth and the shoes from A-Bomb as well, are texture change which makes them pretty versatile.

Credits; Outfit 1-Skin-Cupcakes Enchanted/Sienna, Eyes-Exodi Vetro Eyes Blue, Outfit-A Bomb Little Lisa Dress, Fukmi Shoes, Jewellery Violet Voltaire Creepy Crawly Cuppycake, Hair-Truth Grazia Mirage. Outfit 2-Skirt Tuli denim miniskirt pink, !lux! Pink Band Aids Luxicous Main Store, Flipflops Sand Shack Surf Co. Freedom flops pink. Poses from Flowey (Bottom pose is a blogger gift from Vposes.)