Fins and Metal Finery

I do not wear much jewelry in SL. As a RL designer, I tend to be picky with what I see in here, I think due to most of it being so symmetrical. Also it gets in the way when I make hair, and who would want jewelry overshadowing their products in an ad? 

I have enjoyed Finesmith's designs, I think due to a lot of it being NPIRL (not possible in real life) and the fact that 1/2 of their pieces aren't perfectly mirrored. There is also metal options in most cases, so you aren't stuck with a design that you would have loved more had it been in gold. Why SL is so filled with silver jewelry, i don't understand.

Why am I blabbing about all this?

Finesmith has their VIP group open for a week, until March 7th. This is group normally comes with a pricey join fee, so I would say hop on in it while you can. It is worth it, as there are two gifts a month, first dibs on notices on the various discounted events they are in and VIP discounts from time to time.

Here is a close up of the New Years set that is still out. While you are joining, go on to the store and grab it. Not sure how long the gifts that are currently out will stay so remember to go to the store to join. If you want to join ahead of time, you can do so in search, or look me up, Helena Stringer, and click the group straight from my profile, it is near the bottom.

Now, I am really excited to show you this find! Well the two of them, yes there are two awesomesauce things I found on SLM. One is this lipgloss. It is the best I have in inventory, and the fact that it is free is crazy. The Designer offering this up is Beyond Sinister. Seems she had a store, and is now reopening. She only has this gloss and a dress up on SLM so far, but I will be watching to see what else pops up. Maybe if we all rate this gloss she will make some more items for us? Just a thought.

Secondly is this mer set. When not designing, or in my own demony form, I do enjoy me some mer action. I tend to use a land AO, so I slither around on the ground. It is very fun to shop in, hehe, freak out the fashionistas at the hotspots! Anyways, this tail, tho in a dreaded colour, ick! is nicely detailed, so much so that I am wearing the dreaded colour to show you the set!

I hope you are all enjoying the weekend, and maybe this post will inspire you to wear something different and go find some cool water sims to play in =)

Credits

Skin - Orsini - Giselle in Dark/No Teeth Version - L$0

Hair - The Stringer Mausoleum - Septova in S.E. Coffee with Cream - L$0 Group Gift (Pay Fee to Join)

Eyes - Fossegrim - Blue Eyes - L$1

Lashes - Vizeni Designs - Star Lashes in Black/Medium - L$0

Lip Gloss - B. Sinister - Gloss 0.1 Revised - L$0

Mermaid Set - Taliesins Tails - Special Edition Chakra Lotus - L$0

Jewelry - Finesmith - Happiness New Years Set - L$0 Instore Group Gift (Free to Join until March 7th)

Poses - SERENADE

The colourful world of Shop Free*Style

You'd be surprised right along with me to find out that the above shot is is raw from Second Life. Other than the name and border, it was all SL. Yay for playing with shadows and windlight.

To those who know me *Waves* I am back, working on new projects, and of course, blogging. While I have not been online per say, my RL sister(Cherelle Capra of CIRCA) keeps me up to date.

Free*Style has always been a love for me. I joined the group in it's early creation, posting things that I found on the grid(in the beginning it was just a bunch of us out finding things), later I posted as a designer, until finally I joined the blogging team(as a guest designer blogger) in March of 2009. Yes, it will be 4 years as a Free*Styler in a few days. I have always blogged something a bit different, often doing themes, event coverage, or lists of places to find specific things.

While I may not always be posting(that is why the whole guest thing), Free*Style is always a part of my SL. It is with great honor that my sister and I were able to help with the next phase of it's life, helping to bring Shop Free*Style to fruition.

Now that the shop is live(as in open to public), I got out of my hermit hole to show you my top picks of opening day.

I have always been a collector of eyes, and our very own Rosemarie Indigo of Banana Banshee has a few things out at the shop(like many of our bloggers here at Free*Style). These eyes are in her gacha, only L$5 per play. There are a bunch of colours, showing here the emerald. So yay, got green on my first try, then guess what Stringer fans? I got the rose, which isn't rose, well not to my eyes, it is PINK! GAAAAA!

The totally awesome neon GREEN skin is by our very own Sileny Noel, in the gacha she set up. It is packed with "The Unusuals" skin collection, and only L$5 per play. LOVE!

The lashes are from Butterfly Kiss Boutique, and while the store itself is not yet open, there are a few items at Shop Free*Style. The label will be focusing on lashes for it's mainstay product, so it isn't any wonder that one of their free items is this curly set.

I also have Squeek's free offer on, which is a set of eyeliners. Yes, I am wearing a whole set of eyeliners! Jks, I have on the blue.

The thing that inspired this whole look, which I was going to blog even before I saw what else was in the shop, was this top from Spyralle. This is right up my ally, since my aim has always been to either cause a headache from the vibrating colours, or to look like a munchkin brought up his lunch of poprocks. I think this does both, and though not your typical SL fashion fair, I can't help but love it. I really want to find a neon yellow tutu to go with it, and wear like big @&$ combat boots.

The necklace is from Lasaki, also at the new Shop Free*Style, and it comes with facial tats, which I don't happen to have on.

Also, because I know you are going to ask, the horns are made by me, and I threw them into a gacha at Shop Free*Style. There are 12 colour variations, some normalish, some not so much, and a few in between.

Poses used in this post are all offers at Shop Free*Style, ranging in prices from L$0 to L$10. I was seriously surprised at all the awesome packs, so if you are a blogger yourself, or you post on flickr, or just like to collect poses, it is seriously worth your while to go and look. Some of the L$25 and L$50 packs are jam packed with  pose goodies, which is a serious steal from what you would pay at the stores.

Credits

Skin - A&A - The Unusuals Green - L$5 Gacha @ Shop Free*Style

Hair - The Stringer Mausoleum - R.Red in Aqua - NA

Eyes - Banana Banshee - Rose eyes in Emerald - L$5 Gacha @ Shop Free*Style

Lashes - Butterfly Kiss Boutique - Curlie Q Lashes - L$0 @ Shop Free*Style

Eyeliner - Squeek - Eyeliner Blue - L$0 @ Shop Free*Style

Top - Spyralle - Whimsy Fractal Top in Chartreuse - L$1 @ Shop Free*Style

Shorts - Inoiu - Neon Shorts in Green - L$0

Boots - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Slouchy Boots in Aqua - L$0

Necklace - Lasaki - Back to Basics necklace - L$1 @ Shop Free*Style

Horns - The Stringer Mausoleum - Crown of Horns in Earthday - L$25 Gacha @ Shop Free*Style

Your Taxi to Shop Free*Style!

I originally wanted to do an "on location" shoot, and had the help from a fellow blogger and general SLelebrity, Sasy Scarborough. She sent me to Rachel Breaker's sim, which is full of crazy. The shoot didn't really turn out, everything is huge, so to get good photos of both the sim and the avi is not the easiest. Add in shadows, and it is a bit of a nightmare. So I played with one of the shots, and thought I'd share =)

The sim is worth a visit, so here is the slurl!

Off The Wall

*runs off to hand Tesh her red magic marker*

The Living Dead Girl

Ya that's me, living dead girl. Why? Oh I live in a mausoleum. I'm Helena Stringer, your newest guest blogger to hit the Free*Style pages. I learnt of Freestyle almost right after it was born. I started making notices shortly after, for all the deals I found(in the beginning anyone could post deals, we weren't that big then). I didn't know of the blog, till one day Creamy basically said to the group, I'm to lazy today to post all the shops I found items in. So check out the blog. Well she had had the blog way before then, but that was the turning point for me. When you get too busy designing, and are a cheap ass like me, you can sort of just window shop. It's a beautiful thing.

My aim here will be to blog in theme, me I love themed things! So be it a certain item, like a whole post on ankle boots, or blue things, or ducks, you get the idea. Feel free to put themes of things you want me to find, in the comments, I'll try my best for you, designers willing!

I decided to be a bit lazy myself, and do some freebie shopping on slx . . . oops Xstreet SL®. It's a great thing for when sl sucks . . . ermmm guess I can't say that here. Little round furry things okay? They normally come in a pair, unless something is wrong.

Anyways.

The Dress above caught my eye. I have a thing for making my hips even bigger(shoves more Hershey's WHITE chocolate chips in her mouth). I was let to this dress by clicking a link from slx to the store. There is a bunch of goodies here. I had also found a set of gloves on slx. Now they led me to the inworld store, which had even more goodies. The ones I wear here are of the inworld variety.

I had the perfect tat from one of my new favvy stores. Hadn't worn it yet, so why not get nakie for you guys?


If you don't have an eyelash folder, man oh man, go out and find some of those suckers. You will have to learn how to modify objects in sl, since we are all different, but most take little tweaks. These, well the fit me perfect! They come in 5 colours.

The necklace, I couldn't tell you when I found that, but it seemed to fit the bill. It's just too bad he didn't have a lil ebil grin, eh?

OMG another great find! My hips are even bigger looking!(throws Hershey's WHITE chocolate chips in her hot chocolate).

These next 2 dresses warranted on location shots. I took these pics at the Crimson Shadow sim.

There is a pink version of the dress too, but it clashed with all my blood.


Even dead girls like shoes! Sad thing is, even with my arsenal of grayish skins, I couldn't find one to match right. Maybe I'll have to make one out, now that you all are going to run off and get these, or you could maybe share with me if you find a good match.

These are for is your worried your toes are more in a state of decay then you thought. You get to keep them digits with these! While adding a bit of fluff too!

Picture 1-3

Dress-BADKATZ-Lanicera-L$1
Gloves-Steamstress-January gloves-L$0
Tattoo-.:WEiRD.DESiGNS:.-Wings Tattoo-L$0
Eyelashes-Cybernetic-Eyelash type 3(ooo what a name!)-L$0
Necklace-Vellas- Devilkin jewelry set-L$1(only Necklace shown)

Picture 4

Dress-18th Century-Red Velvet Gown-L$0

Picture 5&6

Black Dress-Marinoco FashionBlack flowered wedding gown-L$0
White Dress-Marinoco Fashionwhite flowered wedding gown-L$0

Picture 7

Shoes-Tesla-FRANKEN-FOOT-L$0

Picture 8

Shoes-[may]-LoLi Shoes
Socks-Bondage Witch Project Store-White Socks w/ Frill Trim-L$1

Non Free items

All hairs-Well I'll let you guess(Smerks)
Skin-Fatal Error-Wounded Vampire Skin-L$40-might not be free, but a great deal
Eyes-House of Ruin-Starry Eyes - dusty-L$30-BESTEST EYES EVER!

I know it's long, but I have no clue how often I'll be doing these, so I got to get as much in as I can!

Until next time

H