I kissed a Mango and I liked it!

HEEEEEEY YOUUUUUUUUUU GUUUUUUUUYS!

*Waves*

Ya it's me, I'm back(sort of). I've been super sick the last 4 months, and am starting to try to get back into a more normal routine again. My first post of the year was going to be a man post, but I couldn't resist these Mango, Mango Skins. I don't normally do posts on openings, group gifts, and whatnot, cause the blogs are so saturated with them. But I could not RESIST these skins. Honest. I was rolling around on the floor in them like they were the demon version of catnip.

You'll see in the pic above, I'm wearing Mango, Mango's Skin Dollarbie made for the reopening of Aqua. And well it's Aqua! This made me very happy, cause after hearing about [42] closing down, I didn't know where I was going to get my basic everyday coloured skins. I mean I'm aqua like every other hour! Well maybe every other day. These horns from House of Ruin were perfect for this skin, you can nab them in the 7Seas fishing area on the Mountain at the Aurora Vale Sim . These eyes were only L$30 at the Valentines Bazaar, made by Little Pricks( a store name to really sink into eh?).

So Aqua skin, for Aqua opening. So what can you get from Aqua? Well like always they are very generous. You can nab this little black dress that makes even my small boobs look massive. I'm wearing pirate boots from Duh! to go with it.


Here I have on the other "coloured" skin from Mango, Mango, called Purple and Proud. It went perfect with the L$5 deal from Aqua, this little lavender boob wrapper(so not named that guys). Same Duh! boots, different Duh! colour.

Aqua happens to be in a few hunts, this lingerie is a gift from the Burning Hearts hunt. I paired it with Mango, Mango Sun Goddess skin, which is a steal at the Valentines Bazaar.


This dress is part of the Heat Wave hunt. I'm wearing Mango, Mango skin in Classic, which you can nab for L$150 for a wee bit longer.


Also at the Valentines Bazaar are these poses from On the Cover.


I just had to show you my fav Mango, Mango Skin, Lemonade in Pale. It's sooooo hard finding yellow makeup. Not gold, yellow!


Here are some more Mango, Mango skins

Upper Left-Art Accident-Lucky Board Gift
Upper Right-Goldy-L$1 Instore Gift
Lower Left-Retro-Lucky Board Gift
Lower Right-Sea Face in Pale-L$50 Valentines Bazaar Deal



Upper Left-Spring Goddess-L$50 Valentines Bazaar Deal
Upper Right-Wild Blue Yonder in Tan-L$50 Valentines Bazaar Deal
Lower Left- Tropix in Pale-L$150 Instore Discount
Lower Right-Dolli in Pale-L$150 Instore Discount

Wearing:

Profile Picture and Pic#1

Skin-Mango, Mango! -Aqua Opening-Instore Dollarbie
Eyes-Little Pricks-L$30 Valentines Bazaar Deal
Dress-Aqua-Daring Deidra in Black-Store Opening Deal-L$1
Boots-Duh! -Pirate Boots in Black-L$0
Horns-House of Ruin-The Fool Horns-7Seas Fishing Prize

Pic#2

Skin-Mango, Mango! -Purple and Proud-Instore Dollarbie
Top-Aqua-Bandeaus in Lavender-L$5 for a Limited Time(Store Reopening Deal)
Boots-Duh! -Pirate Boots in Purple-L$0

Pic#3

Skin-Mango, Mango! -Sun Goddess-L$50 Valentines Bazaar Deal
Lingerie-Aqua-Careless Whisper Lingerie-Burning Hearts Hunt Item

Pic#4

Skin-Mango, Mango! -Classic in Pale-L$150 for a Limited Time Only
Dress-Aqua-Sizzler in Red-Heat Wave Hunt Item

Pic#5

Poses-On the Cover-LG Poses 1&2-L$1 for the pack of 2

Pic#6

Skin-Mango, Mango! -Lemonade in Pale-L$150 for a Limited Time Only

Pic#7 and Pic#8-Credits with Pictures

All poses in post(excluding Pic#5 and Pic#6) are from KS2Cool's newest pose pack for L$5.

***Why is there stuff not Credited? Find out why here!***

Now for a bit of random news . . .

To all those remembering my "Under 30 Days" Posts, they will be started back up again soon. I have 4 months of catching up, finding moved store landmarks, sending out the vendors to those that sent in apps, and various other things. So more on that next week.

Helena did a Duh!

So if you hadn't been by the big bad Duh! store yet, you wouldn't have known it reopened with a bigger badder location/build.

I was supose to let you know, but I suck!

Well here I am, about a month later, letting you know.



This you can get in the Lucky Chair at the store. You might just need a pair of pumpkin ankle boots right soon! lots of events to go and dress up for.



This baby is a hunt gift, for the Pumpkin Prints Hunt, Duh! is #106.



These are a few of the various items on the L$1 wall. Unisex boots and sneakers too! so dudes come on down!



Renee is a sweetie, and she made a necklace to match my first ever dress, in a colour to match my riot vendor version. This is L$1, and you'll find it to the left of the store.



The newest L$1 gifty? this lovely rose thingy on my BEWB. It is perfect for the season, if you want to be girly but in orange. I'm wearing the Snatch VIP group gift with it, a lovely Black Jazz inspired Bodysuit. This group is worth the fee to join, lots of hot news, hot contests and hot gifts!

Credits:

All Footwear, the Necklace and Flower from Duh! Hunts gifts or L$1 each

Skins all from Elfpyre-Not Free
Eyes all from House of Ruin-Not Free
Last Outfit from Snatch-Group Gift

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Deviant Sorceress

I don't get to go out lucky chair stalking often, my work and well myself just don't allow it, it takes up too much time, when I could very well be making hair.



This outfit tho, it had to be MINE!



With halloween on it's way, and many parties, events, hunts and whatnot going on, now a days you need at least 3 outfits per day. So what do you want to dress up as?

Well Sexy Sorceress here could totally hit the void for you, be that one missing piece to pull that perfect look in.

This beauty is made by the talented fellow Canadian Surreal LeShelle, owner of Deviance. She specializes in costumes, so get on down there and check out what she has got!



Credits:

Skin-42-Galaxies Skin in Purple-L$42 for a pack of 6 colours
Eyes-House of Ruin-Prismatic Eyes in Violet Violence-Old Hunt Gift
Whole Outfit-Deviance-Seductive Sorceress in Purple-Lucky Chair Gift

Eyelashes no longer available.

There is also a pink bunnah costume in the chair, but it was like pink

***Helena Stringer Runs from the PINK!***

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Helena stole pants, lots and lots of pants!

It's not every day you get bombarded with pants, and then have the promise of more pants. Now in sl I tend to wear alot of dresses, I only get to dress up a few times a year, and have often wished to be in a dress more often.

But these are some funky ass pants!



Treebie Withnail owns a store called U-neek, I blogged her last week, and I know it doesn't seem fair I'm doing it again, but I LOVE COLOUR. She was even sweet enough to tell me to delete all PINK items, Icky pink, blaaaaaaaa!

I did throw on these pink pants before deletion. These both are of her newest style.



So what is free what is free, I here the chants rolling in. Well there is a hunt at her store, before she has to move, yet again. She wanted you all to get a chance to get in the subscriber, so you all get the new landmarks.

You looking for 10 red ankhs set at L$1 each. Each has at least 1 pair of pants, but many have more. Stuff for guys, stuff for girls and stuff for crazies. XP

Here is my bootie, showing you a few of the finds.



The last pair here(on the right) have some really big ass bottoms.



If that wasn't enough tho, there is one of every item in the store set to L$1. Hair, skins, boots, clothing, and anything else in between.

These are the crazy ass boots you will find.



These are 2 of the skins you will find.



And this was my fav skin I found for L$1. It has a wicked crazy makeup, but is also blue! and the outfit matches well, the top and bottom are each L$1.

So get on down to U-Neek! These will only be out till Monday night, as she is moving to the new sim, so hurry hurry!

Not Free Items

Eyes in all pictures from House of Ruin, not yet released, but name Hell-ena! can't beat that. They also happen to be demon eyes, double bonus, and are so fun to mix and match.

Picture 1

Skin from Rockberry
Tat from InkD
Shirt from Tyranny Designs

***Why is there stuff not Credited? Find out why here!***

U-Neek got me Nakie!

U-Neek is just that, a unique store.

Recently they had to make a really big move, and there has been some updating of older products. If you want something different, this is the place to be.

Treebee Withnail has a very refreshing vision with her products, she also happens to be very VERY generous. She has had to move due to the Ebil takeover of her previous location, and the demon landloard from hell wanted to charge her even more for her plot. Sadly due to the move, she didn't have her subscriber backed up(it was new) so she lost all her subscribers. If you were on her list, go click it again! If you were not, she set out each of the subscriber gifts out, so everyone can enjoy them.

There are Midnight manias galore, lucky chairs galore, a wall of gifts and cheapies, and better yet, there is a hunt! or actually sort of like 2 hunts! She has a star one for clothing and stuffs, and a duck one for skins. Today I'm going to show you some of the skins.



So there are 10 skins in the duck hunt. U-neek products are a bit different, so maybe not to everyones tastes. There is always a play of colour.



Full on body tatted skins are hard to find, specially in goth tones. So here you go, tribe yourself out.



Surpisingly enough, this was one of my favorites. I tend to shy away from anything pink, but I do so love oriental designs.



This skin deserved an on the location shoot. I did attempt to find places for them all, but it's hard to find well made sims, that allow nudity, and where you aren't getting chased with dude and their floppy wangs.



This was my fav skin out of them all, it's all cyber spacey.

The hunt end on the 15th of August, so come on down, hit the subscribo, the MM boards, and grab up some U-neek Gifts!

Credits:

All Skins from U-Neek-L$1 for each Ducky(there is a male skin too)
All Eyes from House of Ruin-L$20 per set
All Lashes from Cybernetics-they no longer sell lashes =(
Hands in last 2 pics from Groll's Inn-Handy Tech Hands-L$400
Boots in last 2 pics from HoC-Knee Boots in Plain Colors(they colourchange)-L$40
Coochie Zipper in last pic-Free Speerit-Part of a freebie pack, long long ago-was L$0 or L$1

Madness

So I was finishing up my previous post, and putting the pictures in my various group on flickr. While going back to my own page I see some {Frick} ads. Could it be? New Skins?

I proceeded to the landmark given on the flickr picture provided. And got stuck in a box! The Shock, The Horror. The box talked to me while I was trapped, spouting things like "closed for reno" and "Here is a landmark to a satilite loaction you already have bought everything at".

After 3 flickr pics of big crazy haired designer lady comments, whining all the way, Fricka let me know it was she who forgot to reset the landing point.

Good

I thought I was in some dream of madness.

The above skin is one of her new purchasable makeups. It is called Baroque, I'm wearing it in the goth tone, and the makeup is called Rigaudon. What Fricka does with all her skins is gives you options, you get big lips, small lips, lipstick, no lipstick, freckles, tho not always with each skin. This pack I got 4 skins at a price of L$199, thats L$50 a skin, not bad at all.

But thats not free is it?

Well Fricka never disappoints.



She has made wearable demos. Yes they are demos of the skins, but in a very special colour, a Noir tone she calls it. They are real skins, so no marking to make them less desirable. Think of it as a free sample.



She had sent a few noir tones out to her group over the months, and I've always enjoyed them. You wear them, and any colour just pops.



This is a special wearable demo for the Drow line, it's very own colouring in green. Dude I so would have bought the green! bonus!



I had just opened my group gift from the VIP Sn@tch group. Ivey is a darling, and has always spoilt the masses. Well in her group you get almost weekly lovelies. There is a join fee, but most groups have them now, and you tend to get sale notices before the masses, which a designer hermit like me enjoys.

This weeks gift is this lovely gothic gown called Despair. Plunging neckline, Highlighted details.



The Back plunges just as far as the front, making this a perfect dress for a tattoo enthusiest.

If you need to find the Sn@tch group either search inworld using "Sn@tch VIP" or look at my profile(Helena Stringer), it's in my group list.

I took all the pics on top of Fricka's store =)

Credits:

All Skins- {Frick} -All but the first one are L$1
All Eyes-House of Ruin-various shades of the Felid Eyes-L$20 each
Dress- Sn@tch -Despair-VIP group gift

(Blogger is being weird with my Sn@tch landmark, which I normally can get around, but not today it seems, so in case here is the store slurl http://slurl.com/secondlife/Snatch%20City/123/212/30)

I'm off to make more big ass hair!

It's my Ruin

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I have a little surprise for you all today.



I gush



and gush



and GUSH



about my House of Ruin eyes. Up until now, the store has been under reno. It wasn't so bad, I had a tp down to the new build grabs some up while Ruina was flitting about, and then the vendors mysteriously went offline, and no more new eyes for Helena! I was heartbroken. =(



Well this week marks the Reopening of House of Ruin!

The build has fallen from the sky where it use to be, to settle as ruins under the sea. After months of being under the water, a community of octopus have settled in to make it their home. They are a skittish bunch tho. Reefs have begun to form, and you may be lucky enough to see a few mermaids flitting about from time to time.



If your really lucky, you'll get to see the denizens of the underwater habitat, Ruina Kessel, owner of House of Ruin, or AlterEgoTrip, owner of Eyes by AET. There is also talk of a secret lab, where strange collaborations between the two creators may pop up! EYeL@B! is it's name, see if you can find it.



Join in the dance, as human or Mer, in the center of Ruina's store. Prance around as you shop for eyes that tell a story, of who you really are inside, or what you aspire to be.





To mark this event, there is a hunt! Both stores are participating, and you can also snag a few of their collaboration eyes, the first taste of whats to come.



The opening hunt runs from May 14 - May 30. Your looking for shells, and if you look at the House of Ruin sign picture above, you'll see one on it, that is one of the little buggers.

Rules as Per Ruina:

RULES??
1. Feel free to make cheat sheets, hint sheets, tell your friends where they are, tp people to the prizes, blog them, announce them in groups, whatever. None of that bothers me in the least. Have at it! :)

2. Please DO respect that some people enjoy hunting, so don't shout finds in vicinity chat.

3. If I find anyone, or if anyone gets reported to me for griefing or harassing, it will result in an insta-ban from the store, likely pemenant.

that's it! Enjoy!

I thought it fitting to swim about on my journey to my new eyes. So I had some help from my Plurkies(and my darling Wifey) and scored some fins for you!

I love the swirling look to these eyes, they are one of the Collab items between the 2 designers, called Swimming Horses in Water Birth.



The tail is from an Underwater garden, in a place called Wingdom. It's got a bunch of stuff to start you off in your mermaid adventures.



Dahlia is another green eye. Lubs! It helps me portray my innocence. It works right? RIGHT?



This tail I picked up a while ago at Malaika. I'm a lover of green things, can't you tell. DEATH TO PINK! There are a few tails there to pick up, to start you on your way.



Now Ruina, like all good designers, has an Inworld group, and a subscriber system. But like most designers, she only spoils her inworld group like silly!

And oh she did, there were so many eyes, I crashed my viewer, trying to pan thru them all. HEAVEN!

These are some of the ones you will find in the package:



Now the hunt items are not to be left out, and there are even MORE of those!



The all the skins in the 2 picture sets above were dropped on me by Bambee Pelous. She is redoing her skinline, and decided to set the old ones on XStreet to L$1. There are a few others not shown. But there are a good start to getting your fantasy makeover on the right track.

AlterEgoTrip has been a busy girl as well, bringing us some new mystical wonders for eye loving needs.



The Skins used in these pictures above are not free, but one of my lovely fans, Cerdwin Flanagan, has been restarting up her store, along with all her spectacular artworks on Flickr. These are part of her first in a hopefully long line of skins to come.

Now I leave you off to adventure, but watch out, there is a sharky girl out there! This is the new finset, made by Cheran Snook of the store Atargatis. I blogged her free tail in my first mer-critter post here on Free*Style.



This set is not free, but is her new project she is working on. She will have them out soon. For now, you'll just have to see me slice the waters in it. It made me gravitate towards a darker skin, which I did nab for free, but it's not free anymore. I never realized how lovely Tuli's dark skins are, as I stick to my rather pale RL colourings, or just plain deathly white.

Skin-Tuli-Natalie dark 07-L$850



The makeup went perfect for this last set of eyes I'll show you. These are Prismatic in Witchery.

So go off, flip a fin, and have some fun exploring the new build!

I'm off to find dinner

CHOMP CHOMP

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