RFL, Rising Silks

One of the joys of blogging for me is sometimes getting called upon to blog something completely out of my comfort zone. What is to be learned about such an experience is that challenging oneself and treating every job in a professional manner teaches one things that cannot be learned if you stick to just what you know. As part of the RFL bloggers, I took a trip over to Miro Collas’s store Rising Silks. I remembered how I noticed that most stores, especially ones carrying silks catered to a mostly female clientelle. This store is mostly male and not only has some pretty well designed silks but also a whole bevvy of male poses.




This set is one of the RFL charity items, Darkness Elemental, and I can say that a great deal has been done with very little fabric! This set is available at the Fantasy Faire and also comes in a female version. The metals and gems are changeable for glow, brightness and shininess. The poses here are by Diesel Works, Dante, and I am glad that I finally got a chance to use them! Like all Rogan Diesel’s poses they are well proportioned and attractive. Shape and skin are Belleza and hair is from Exile.



This set is a special Edition called Mythic White and amazingly is a freebie. (please remember to leave a donation for RFL though..)There is a lot of particle action going on, so it’s not the piece to wear when in a laggy area like The Faire but is a wonderful challenge to photograph! Somehow I am wearing  a few of the pieces from the female set of the Darkness Elemental thrown in as well, so this is a combo… One of the great things about silks is that they really show off skins and tatts.  The female skin is again the new one from Tuli, Sayuri, great make-up colours and detail throughout! The poses are new by Diesel Works, Scarlett.



Credits: Pics shot @ Lost World by lolmac Shan, and Roan & Lumeria. Poses By Rogan Diesel,  Dante and Scarlett.
His – Clothes Rising Silks (& Animations Rising)  Darkness Elemental {R} 550L also a female version, Skin Belleza Thomas V2 group Gift, Shape LE LOOK (part of a group gift), Hair Exile Kavar havok (brown), Spear VM project DSN, Tattoo Eched Saga.
Hers- Clothes Special Edition Rising Silks Mythic White (free) also a Male version , Tuli Sayuri Tone2 F 9b {R}, Tattoo GoK Aphrodesia, Hair Exile Tyra (ash). Rising Silks @ the Fantasy Faire.

Pose fair 2010

I have to admit, I was late making my way over to the pose fair. I did go with a purpose though and it was to take a look at the group poses and couple poses with the idea of blogging myself and my two new alts. I made these guys a while ago and have been putting their looks together whenever I get a free moment. I picked up a free AO from over at LAP (which is for under 30 days) and started looking out for deals, and ways of outfitting them on the cheap. The girl avie was easy, what with 50L Friday, sales, group gifties, and other various discount deals (like the Dressing Room) I was soon able to skin and clothe her pretty quickly and within budget. The guy was much more difficult. I guess most male Avies know what I’m talking about. There are few sales, almost no discounts and skins are almost impossible to find under 1000L. I did find a lot of freebies over at MADesign and it’s well worth a visit if you are looking to get a start. The best deal in skins is the group gift from Belleza (at 250L group fee) but I already had that one for my other male alt, and I also had a different kind of look in mind for new guy, something in between aging rocker and messy slacker… The skin I found at LAQ and it has a lot of options in the facial hair dept. Most of the look came from Aitui (yay I’ve been wanting those ear plugs!!) with the boots from Cheerno (a group gift).



In order to make this pose fit I had to do several things; I had to make him shorter and us gals taller. I had to put us all on different viewers (Snowglobe, Emerald, Kirstens). I kept the windows minimized except for the one I was working on. My viewer was on ultra graphics, the others were on low. I was surprised because I had no crashes and the pics all turned out fine. It is important to be on a stable viewer and no 2.0 versions until the bugs get worked out. I had found lots of stuff at the pose fair and still have lots of poses to try out. Poseballs can be edited which allows a lot of leeway with what you end up with and all in all, though the setup was longer, the experience was a lot of fun.



Credits: Poses used in this post were group poses by RC Cluster (Lady killer) & PDA Penny Dreadful Arcade(creatures). Pose fair here (until April 16).

My Look-Skin L.Fauna Lapine (pale2) Mulberry, Shoes Kalnins Orchid {R}, Hair Exile Fae (champagne), Dress Linc (luckInc.) teasedress (baroque), Necklace A&A fashion Extreme (gold) Dressing Room.

His Look-Skin LAQ Defined skin Daniel (fair) 10 pack (1995L), Aitui Type 1 stretched ear Human, Baseball Tee Samurai (grey), Tokyo jeans ultra low rise (dark wash), Hair Mino’s Deceit (black/blond), Boots CheerNo Mona Lisa GroupGift, MADesigns City Exclusive gifts – Promise Eyes Brown Pale, sf Design open leather vest jacket, HUZ Tatts valuepack Kanji. [LAP New Male AO].

Her Look-The Dressing Room-YS&YS Stella Cute skin, Glam Affair Marta dress, Eyes Ibanez (freebie), Duh!-Catena Mosaic Necklace, Deep Red stripe tights, Sneaker boots (black out), Hair Tiny Bird&Reek soon enough (sandy blond). [LAP new female AO]. (Respecting time constraints I did not add all the SLURLS, if you have trouble finding anything send me an IM inworld and I’d be happy to help.)