Her poses are edgy and artistic and inspiring.  One of the most beautiful photos I’ve seen in ages, taken by the stunningly talented Keiko Morigi, uses one of Del May’s poses, and it’s absolutely fair to say that this pose *makes* the photo.  You have to see all of the poses, so make sure you go down to Del May to check them out for yourself.

Teleport to Del May

Credits:

Hair – lamb Soma in Ink \ Skin – LeLutka Ife 4D in Light \ Bodysuit – Mijn.T Cirque du Ballet (Designers United exclusive, but there is something similar in the store) \ Tights – Shop Seu Taitsu tights in Blue (tinted purple) \ Shoes – LeLutka Saffron Pumps in Black \ Poses – Del May.

It comes in eleven colours at an insanely reasonable price for each (L$125 each!) or you can get the fatpack for L$700.  I don’t know why they’re so inexpensive but I’m not complaining!  Added to that, the champagne colour is only L$50 until midnight tonight for Fifty Linden Friday!  I don’t think I’m going to be changing out of this dress anytime soon!

Go get yours at Tiny Bird!

Credits:

Hair – lamb Soma in Kit Kat \ Skin – Fashionably Dead Bird Skin in Faded 4 \ Shoes – Surf Co Shoelace Sandals (Hey Emma…..please can we have the rest of the colours now?) \ Earrings – Sigma Saturn earrings in Silver/Rust \ Pose – Long Awkward Pose \ Location – Ode.

Luth Brodie of Reel Expression, who was possibly the first maker of model poses in SL, or at least the first one I was ever aware of, is back to work and making poses!

One of the new releases is the Fashion Series 8 set, twelve poses geared for fashion.  It has some great poses in the set, and the switching is smooth and easy.

Credits:

Hair – Truth Paige in Night \ Skin – LeLutka Lola makeup 8 in Light (currently unreleased) \ Clothes – Fri.day Paradiso Romper in White \ Boots – Bax Prestige Boots in Metallic Gold \ Belt – Fri.day Cinch Belt in Gold \ Necklace – Mandala Hannya Necklace in Gold \ Bangles – Mandala Takara Bangles in Inca Gold \ Poses – Reel Expression Fashion S8.

One of the other new releases is the Sex Sells V3 set.  Of course she’s right, sex does sell.  I love the poses that kinda hide you from prying eyes, peekaboo!

Credits:

Hair – lamb Soma in Ink \ Skin – LeLutka Lola makeup 8 in Light (currently unreleased) \ Lingerie – Whippet & Buck Effie in Antique \ Shoes – Maitreya Gold Shanti in Black \ Earrings – Zaara Urvi Chandelier Earrings in Silver \ Poses – Reel Expression Sex Sells V3.

And finally, there is a new pose prop, 12 poses in the ladder.  There are some great poses in there, I definitely recommend heading down to Lalique and checking them all out.

Teleport to Reel Expression

Credits:

Hair – Fri.day Michelle 2 in Jealous Red \ Skin – LeLutka Lola makeup 8 in Light (currently unreleased) \ Top – Pig Sing Sing \ Jeans – Armidi Grace Jeans in Grit \ Boots - Coco Riding Boots in Black \ Pose Prop – Reel Expression Ladder.

50% of all sales from these sets will go to Motivation, a wonderful charity that the Pose Fair is supporting.  I absolutely love it when fairs adopt a charity to support, and I don’t go to fairs that are solely for sales and have no altruistic intentions whatsoever.

The Secret Agent Man set is based on any number of spy movies, with their typical “I’m a badass killing machine, but I also look damn hot doing it!” stances.  And yay, it includes a prop handgun for those of us who don’t actually own any in our bulging inventories.

The Ball Pit is my favourite new release from Olive Juice, and it’s got tintable balls!  Haha I am 6 years old, I swear.

The menu-driven pose switcher is easy to use, and I like that it actually tells you which pose you’re on for those of us who forget things like that too easily.

Go check out Olive Juice at the Pose Fair!

Also worn:

1st photo:

Skin – Tuli Eva V2 in Tone 3 \ Hair – lamb The Glow Deux in Ink \ Top – Armidi Gisaci Sequin Babydoll Dress (top only) in Gold \ Skirt – Malt Stitched Suede in Soot \ Stockings – Blowpop Seamed Fishnet Tights in Black \ Boots – Bax Prestige in Gold \ Bracelets – Mandala Takara Bangles in Inca Gold

2nd, 3rd, 4th photos:

Skin – Tuli Eva V2 in Tone 3 \ Hair – lamb Soma in Kit Kat \ Top – Coco Turtleneck Sweater in Black \ Tights – Truth Xanadu Tights in Black \ Boots – Bax Prestige in Black.

Haunted Zuzu is yet one more new-to-me store, and when I saw this cute Black Crystal set, I knew I had to wear it.  The hair flower has weird spiky things coming out of it, and it reminded me vaguely of a spider, but it’s a different sort of embellishment and I am always up for something a bit different!  The flowers are really pretty and well done, and besides this colour, there’s a bunch of others.  Go check them out at the fair!

Also worn:

Hair – Fri.day Amelia in Timid Brown\ Skin – Tuli Eva in Tone 03.

Dark Mouse is one of those stores I keep meaning to go to and I can’t pinpoint why I haven’t yet.  But luckily, I got some blogger copies of their latest releases and so yay, more flowers for Phoe!  I especially love the Found Things set, shown on the right, a delightfully eclectic blend of a vintage-y feel. On the left is Remember Me, which includes the bracelet for both wrists which I love, because I am lazy and impatient, and don’t like having to refit it for the other wrist when I want to wear it on a specific side.  I thought they were at the fair but I can’t find them so screw it.  Visit their mainstore!

Also worn:

Hair – (left) Lamb Bonjour Operator in Kit Kat, (right) Truth Lillian in Cocoa \ Skin – Tuli Eva in Tone 03 \ Tops – (left) Armidi Gisaci Hoja top in Black, (right) G-Field Off shoulder chiffon top in Green.

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It was incredibly hard to pick out five, but then I remembered:  I’m not picking out the five “best” of anything – I’m picking out my personal top five favourites.  They may not be the best in any category, but they look good on me and I like them, so there you go.  Your mileage may vary.  If I was willing to bend my own rules though, I’m sure there’d be five more skins in this blogpost.  But instead, honourable mentions will go to: Aden’s Gen5, which tbh I have no idea if it has a real name but it’s really pretty, Tuli’s Bella skin, Cake‘s Bella skin, L.Fauna‘s new skin line Lapine, Rockberry‘s Uma and Farrah (and maybe Jules, which I haven’t tried yet) and Belleza’s Jesse.

First is Laqroki (aka LAQ)’s Ania skin.  This is one of her more recent releases in the Glow series.  I love the face and I find it very soft and pretty. Talk about cheap, too!  The entire fatpack of like 10 makeups was less than 2K, and it’s my understanding that it’s because really only the face is new, though I could be wrong about that.  Really, all that meant was I could get the entire Ania collection, in all three skintones (fair, peach and nougat, worn here).  That’s my deep, dark secret, until now.  No one knew I bought all three tones.

Hair: Fri.day – Kate \ Lingerie: Zaara – Kanti.

LeLutka‘s been on a roll lately, releasing one great skin line after the other, while launching a fabulous new experimental fashion collection inbetween.  I really liked Eclat (aka Oksana), but the thicker eyebrows were not for the faint of heart.  The thinner eyebrows on Estelle, released not all that long after Oksana, were a bigger hit and I haven’t seen many avatars who don’t look pretty in this skin.

Hair: Maitreya – Alex \ Lingerie: Insolence.

Dutch Touch‘s Jolie is a goddess-like skin.  I was late in getting Cleo, which I loved.  I was late in getting River, which I loved more.  But then Jolie came out and I was like “Cleo, River, what, who?”  Jolie is amazingly beautiful, with tons and tons of makeups and lots of skintones (including a dark one, yay!), but is apparently going to be outdone hopefully soon by Gwen, which I’ll happily whore myself out to get a sneak peek of.

Hair: Maitreya – Zoe \ Lingerie: Fishy Strawberry – Ignition \ Ring – Paper Couture.

Alyson is a pre-release group gift from Belleza, and it’s not out in the store yet.  But Alyson is like Belleza’s own gorgeous Jesse’s younger, fresher, wide-eyed innocent little sister.  I’m really looking forward to seeing the entire lineup and I hope that’s in the very near future.  I was in the update group, which you have to pay L$250 to be in, and one night just before the holidays I went a little crazy in my group list and left nearly every group I could, Belleza being one of them.  Then the very next day I heard there was a skin gift in there, and I could’ve kicked myself for leaving early!  It’s a permanant fixture now, though.

Hair: Lamb – Baby’s Got Back \ Lingerie: Elymode – Halter Tank & Shorties (this colour was limited, but there’s other pretty colours).

And finally, we have yet another group gift pre-release, this time Tuli‘s lovely Eva.  I’ve been gushing over this one for a while now because it’s all I can do to just wait semi-patiently until it’s in the store.  I wear this most often lately, and the fresh clean makeup look is perfect for everything I wear.  I feel like going to Tuli’s sim and just standing there, waiting at the doors going “open open open” like that old commercial for some store in the US that I can’t ever remember the name of.

Hair: Truth – Lillian \ Lingerie – Blowpop – Yvette.

Last year, I did a weekly series, with posts dedicated to showcasing one particular item of a genre.   This year, I’m not going to be that ambitious, just because I don’t spend as much time in SL as I did last year.

So today, it’s all about my top five favourite hairstyles.  Now, there is obviously a ton of haird I love and wear constantly, but these are the ones I seem to pull out all the time when I have like one minute to put together an outfit that doesn’t look like I spent only one minute putting together the outfit (and now I seem to have blown my cover so I’ll have to figure out some new stand-bys )

Now, Edie is a brand-new hairstyle, but no less an absolute staple in my inventory.  Truth is my superhero when it comes to hair.  This is hands-down my favourite ponytail in SL.  I hope next is a version with bangs, and without the braid, and with bangs with the braid….

Worn in this photo is L.Fauna‘s Lapine Berry in Pale and LeLutka‘s Turtleneck Sweater in Grey.

I think Maitreya does the best messy updo’s in all of SL.  Green is one of my favourites, though it was a close call with Zoe, again by Maitreya.  I couldn’t decide.  I want to have Onyx’s bedheaded prim babies.

Speaking of prim babies, one of my friends recently told me that her ironically purchased and only-kept-to-freak-out-her-friends prim baby was named after her favourite skin creator, Gala Phoenix.  So Gala, if you’re listening, you have a huge fan. If you IM me, I’ll tell you her name!

Otherwise worn in this photo is Laq‘s Ania 02 in Peach, and Elate‘s Tuli sweater dress in Burnt Orange.

I’m in love with this short hairstyle, again by Truth.  Don’t worry, he doesn’t appear again on my love letter to the hairstylists of the grid.  This is Grazia, named after his partner (though I think he made it before they were partnered), the divine Ms. Horwitz.  It comes in two flavours, and while I love both of them, this one is just a wee bit better.

Also worn is the Alyson group gift in Pale, by Belleza (a skin I’m eagerly anticipating) and Gettin’ Horizontal in Cherry by Mischief.

There are so many long hairstyles in SL that it’s practically impossible to choose just one for this list.  But I gave it a try.  Lamb Bellic makes some of the best dos and textures around, and Poppyseed is one of the best really long styles I’ve seen in a while.  The little braid is so cute too.

LeLutka‘s Estelle is my skin of choice in this photo, in Makeup 2D in the Light tone, and the Fri.day Basic Cami in Navy Dot.

And last, but not least, is Fri.day’s Tatum hair, which is probably my most favourite updo right now.  The bangs are awesome, as are all the bangs that Fri.day does, and it strongly reminds me of Elika’s work.  I miss Elika.  Where’s Elika?  Sadface.

Sorry, got lost in a tangent there for a moment.  Tatum also comes in two flavours, for those who like the straight bangs, and then those who don’t can wear the Tatum II style with the bangs pinned to the side.

Worn in this photo is the amazingly tantalizing Eva skin in Tone 3, a current group gift (unless it’s dropped out of the notices by now, which is distinctly possible) by Tuli, the Chandy earrings by Paper Couture and the black turtleneck by Coco, another group gift of days gone by, though this one is still on the wall in her store, as far as I know.

So that’s it, my top five hairstyles currently on the grid.  Did I miss any?  Did I make a huge mistake with one of these styles?

Poses by Long Awkward Pose and Reel Expression.

Now, despite my best intentions and my own SL resolution to write more blog posts, I’ve recently threw out my back and I can barely see with the pain of it; nothing seems to help but  I’ll take a metric ton of drugs anyway.  So, only one photo today.

Mere words cannot express the beauty and artistry of Paper Couture; it would be foolish to even try.  Instead, I’ll just sigh with delight over the amazing texturing and detailing of each piece.  If you go to only one place today to shop, make it Paper Couture.

Edit:  Okay. I took more photos of my favourite part of the collection!

Onyx Gemstone Set

Agate Bib Necklace

Noir Gold Set

What I’m Wearing:

Hair – Lamb Bang Bang Bob in Ink

Skin – Tuli Eva Group Gift in Tone 3 (when will it be released??????????)

Left Outfit – Paper Couture Cream Silk

Left Jewelry – Paper Couture Silver Bead Necklace, Paper Couture Water Over Wine Ring

Right Outfit – Paper Couture Snowdrift Suit

Right Jewelry – Mandala Lotus Necklace, Paper Couture Water Over Wine Ring

Poses – Long Awkward Pose.

Jewelry Photos:

Hair (Top) – Fri.day Tatum in Jealous Red \ (Middle) Lamb Bang Bang Bob in Butterfinger \ (Bottom) Kookie Chiggy in Ink.