A Sweet Coat From Bliss Couture

Bliss Couture is a store that many people know as a gown store. That was my image too. But the other day, I found this sweet short coat that had a nostalgic feel to it. It looked like a couture coat of the past and I liked it very much!

So I tried to imitate a look with a retro feel and decided to add pink as the second colour. Unless you are going for that crazy and fun psychedelic look that is a burst of colours, it is usually good if you decide on the primary colour and secondary colour. Here it's green and pink.

So I wore this hair style that had a colour changing hair band from Adored Clothing & Hair and matched it with pink boots from Gbberish. These leggings came with the coat in the same set, but you can also wear jeans or other leggings. Another look I would like to try with this coat would be to wear red leggings and make a green & red look. Maybe I'll try that next time.

I changed the skin too to one that gives me that pink lip. Not the nude pink that current makeups have but one with that mat pink colour in older fashion shots.

Bliss Couture - Juicy Doll Coat (Olive)

Short coat & leggings: Bliss Couture, Juicy Doll Coat (Olive)
Earrings: Swallowtail, Natural Stone earring (turquoise)
Nails: J's, Nail Pink 07
Short boots: Gbberish, Candy Shop Boots (Bubblegum)
Hair: Adored Clothing & Hair, Joyce Hair
Skin: LeLutka Beaute, London Fair makeup 1b

Written and modeled by Kay Fairey, model and writer for the Best of SL Magazine and Runway Magazine.

A Brand New Designer On The Grid

"Fashion Nomad" is a new brand by a new designer Aleida Rhode. She opened her store only about three weeks ago and is already churning out new releases very energetically. Aleida had been one of the top models in SL and I had known her through modeling jobs as well as runway projects at Ewing Fashion Agency where we both work as a staff member and model. Through her modeling career, Aleida has seen many fashion brands as well as outfits and I am looking forward to see what she will add to the SL world of fashion.

Here is one of her new releases, Balinya Dress in rose dust. A very subdued soft pink dress that is very elegant and good for any semi-formal party. I matched it with a burgundy coloured pair of shoes and a matching rose hair accessory. I also tried white shoes, as well as similar coloured shoes but the entire image looked "sleepy" when I used soft colours only and it seemed to work best when I added stronger colours at my feel level and at the top as a hair ornament to sharpen up the entire look. I must say, however, pure white also worked too but it was a bit too predictable so I decided to show the stronger coloured match in my pics.

Fashion Nomad - Balinya Dress (rose dust)

Outfit: Fashion Nomad, Balinya Dress (rose dust)
Necklace & earing set: Twinkleberry, Delicato (rosa)
Rose hair ornament: Illusions, Hair Rose (pink)
Shoes: enkythings, Ekota-X (burgundy)
Hair: Amrita, Prim hair、Rea
Skin: MMS Light - Flower (this skin is no longer on sale and Minnu now has a new store under the name of LeLutka)

Although this particular dress I have shown is soft coloured, Aleida also has lots of bright coloured shirts, tank top as well as jackets. Even dresses too. To show one of such examples, I picked this shirt top which is a pretty fuscia coloured top with a see-through lower part of the bodice and puff sleeves.

Here I made a fun spring look using various accessory items. I could have made a sweet look with a pink shirt that has puff sleeves but I tend to like going against the expected so it was more like an experiment which was also a lot of fun.





Top: Fashion Nomad, Soroti Spring Shirt (fuchsia red)
Pants: Devilish Cupcake, Gidget Pedal Pushers Glitch Pants (houndstooth)
Belt: Sole Accessory, Sole Bend Poach Belt with Chain (gray)
Bangle: Sole Accessory, Sole Dot Bangle (pink)
Necklace: Sole Accessory, Sole Dog Tag
Sandals: Courtinsane, Marquise Sandals (pink)
Nails: Persona, Polished Nails (pink)
Hair: 69, Envy Me (charcoal)
Skin: MMS Fair - cold (this skin is no longer on sale and Minnu now has a new store under the name of LeLutka)

Written and modeled by Kay Fairey, model and writer for the Best of SL Magazine and Runway Magazine.

A Charming Spring Dress From Hal*Hina

Hal*Hina is a Japanese store that is very famous in Japan for it's skins, both for female and male avatars but from some time ago, they have also started to sell clothes.

Hal*Hina outfits are, in general, very pretty in colours but never uses strong bold colours. Typically, the colours are soft and outfits very girly. Here I found this most charming dress called Tunic Dress - Doll which can be worn like I am showing in my pics, or as a shorter baby doll dress. What a perfect dress for this time of the year! It's still a bit chilly but it's definitely getting warmer. Yay!! Spring is here!!

I have matched it with a similarly dainty jewelry set called Placido by Twinkleberry, a pair of charming and girly shoes, also in pink, by G Field and a newly released hair called Thalia by Tsukinowaguma. The ribbon you see in my hair is a matching ribbon that was included in the
dress set for Hal*Hina.

Hal*Hina - Tunic Dress - Doll (cream)

Outfit: Hal*Hina, Tunic Dress - Doll (cream)
Necklace and earrings: Twinkleberry, Placido
Shoes: G Field, Lady Rose Shoes (pink)
Hair: Tsukinowaguma, Thalia (ebony)
Skin: MMS Light - Gray (Minnu has re-opened as LeLutka)

Written and modeled by Kay Fairey, model and writer for the Best of SL Magazine and Runway Magazine.

New Infinity Skins (previously known as Blowpop)

Hey folks.  okay so firstly apologies for not blogging for sometime, but i'm back and just had to blog these beautiful new skins from Blowpop's Annyka Bekkers, who has rebranded her skins as Infinity.  Beautifully hand painted, the detail in the face and body are exquisite, just look at the bum!  and the lips, oh the lips.  i'm in love.  I've always been a fan of Blowpop, and these are no exception, in fact i think they are Annyka's best work yet.  Here are a few of my faves that Annyka very kindly dropped on me.  for more pics, please go to my flickr page 

CARMEN:

AVA:

ELIZABETH:

These are the first releases from Infinity and are comprised of 3 separate lines, Carmen, Ava and Elizabeth, each with their own distinct look and personality.  Each comes in 3 skintones and makeups specially designed to enhance each one's specific complexion, and they have hairbase options too.

Go now and try them on!  Infinity

all hair from 69

modelled and photographed by Clarabelle Cazalet (Second Look Studio, Timeless Model Agency, Premiere Models)

A Lovely Butterfly Dress From House of Beningborough

A relatively new designer, Bliss Beningborough for "the House of Beningborough", has lovely gowns as well as day dresses that will catch the eye of many in SL. She already has several stores and her stores are all full of vibrant colours.

This gown called "Flutterby" comes in several colours such as bright blue, yellow, white. It is a lovely gown with a big butterfly that forms the front of the bodice with a very big ruffled skirt and a hair accessory included in the set with matching colours.

I matched it with a flower accessory called "Sakura (cherry blossom in Japanese)" from "si*na Jewelry" which is a relatively small Japanese jewelry store that has some really nice items. This one caught my eye because of it's unique design using only dainty sakura flowers and leaves to create a charming necklace and earrings set.

Butterfly and flowers. What can be a better match in March when spring is just around the corner!

The hair I am using is "Kay ver2" from R's Hair Style where my good friend Rise Matova made hair based on my image (blush, blush). It's a lovely hair to be worn with formal gowns that is a clean updo and yet have some movement without looking messy.

the House of Beningborough - Flutterby (red)

Outfit: House of Beningborough, Flutterby (red)
Necklace & earrings: si*na Jewelry, Sakura Necklace and Earrings
Shoes: Haysuriza, Eiris Pumps Pointed100 Classic (red)
Hair: R's Hair Style, Kay ver2 (black)

Written and modeled by Kay Fairey, model and writer for the Best of SL Magazine and Runway Magazine.

Shoots With Elysium Eilde

Recently I joined a Material Squirrel poster shoot with Elysium Eilde. And the resulting pics were posted on her flickr page. Once they are up on her flickr, it means that we can download them from there.

So here they are.

The first two are in-store posters for Material Squirrel.


Above: From left to right. Vitality Lollipop, Krystanna Wycliffe, Kay Fairey, Pyper Dollinger, Valeria Pienaar and Elysiana Eilde

Aboe: Tiffany Drasonash (front) and Kay

And the last one was shot in response to Ely's call to come wearing pink for an anti bully blog post in Ely's blog.

Above: From left to right: Kay, Dion, Feles, Elysiana, Vixie, Elysium.

Click here to see Elysium Eilde's flickr page.


Written and modeled by Kay Fairey, model and writer for the Best of SL Magazine and Runway Magazine.

A Cool Rider's Jacket For Ladies

My regular readers will know by now that I LOVE rider's jackets in RL and in SL. These are one item I cannot go without buying if I see a cool one on the market. So....here I go again!

I found a cool rider's jacket designed for ladies from a store called "B11" in Japan. It seems Japanese stores tend to have lots of nice rider's jackets which is quite understandable with all the motorcycles in Japan. Most of the popular motorcycles companies such as Suzuki, Honda, Kawasaki are all Japanese companies. So go figure.

There were several colour variations including the usual black and also one in a leopard pattern which did, I must say, intrigued me as it was different. But I still wanted it to look like a rider's jacket and a leopard skin pattern was just a bit too "girly" for my ideal of what rider's jackets should look like so I settled for a red one, which, surprisingly was my very first red! It was still different from the ones I have as most of them were black.

This jacket is a very slender jacket that could be worn easily even with skirts. In fact, I like wearing these leather jackets with skirts...which reminds me, I must try that styling here sometime. But for today, I went in a very "conservative" direction wearing the jacket with a pair of leather pants from DeLa.

If you are looking for cool leather pants, DeLa is a good place to start as these pants come in eight colour variations which is quite unusual for leather pants. These eight are also divided up into four each to form two sets of fat packs for those who embrace a great love for leathers. This one I wore is "silver" although it does look black. The one labelled "black" has a much darker black colour. I could have gone with that one too but I thought this silver one will give me a slightly softer look compared to a bold red + black.

This time, I wanted to wear the jacket more as a fashion item rather than for a look that was more appropriate for practical riding so I matched it with black boots from Shiny Things that has some heels but without wearing the calf prims. This way, I won't have to worry about my boot prims coming out of my pants while it still looks like I am wearing boots.

I received some nice compliments in this look........so I guess I will just keep on increasing my rider's jacket collection. *sighs*








Rider's jacket: B11, Riders Red/Ladies
Leather pants: DeLa, Leather Pants "Linda" (Silver)
Boots: Shiny Things, Wrapped Stiletto Boots (black)

Written and modeled by Kay Fairey, model and writer for the Best of SL Magazine and Runway Magazine.