Tuesday 6 December 2011

LoveCat's Roundup

I've mentioned before I have a lot of outfits I want to write about, I've also mentioned that the 'problem' with LoveCats outfits (which isn't really a problem)  is that they're usually so perfect off the peg that there's not much of an 'in' for putting my own spin on it. That also means there isn't a lot to write about, since beyond the clothes, there's usually only hair, makeup & jewellery to choose.

I've had this post as a draft for ages trying to get the pictures right, but there comes a time you just have to say 'post it'

Nonetheless, there are a lot of great LC outfits I love, and I want to share them today.
Note: This list is NOT exhaustive.

Distortion.
Mentioned in my Cyberpunk post, this cute little outfit gets a steampunk vibe from the included goggles. Paired with a free hair from Amacci, BSN green eyes, and my Dragon Tatoo. Not much to say about it except it looks great.

  Natasha.
Channelling the Black Swan in this outfit I saved under 'Dark Ballerina' LoveCats Natasha has a real S&M Vibe. I paired it with a black flexi 'tutu', stockings from LC Anastasia, 'Streak' black makeup by Glamorise, a black updo and Death of Baroque tattoos.

 

 
Kisu.
With the flavour of the Orient, Kisu comes in several colours, of which I have three. Mixed with my 'Tan' skin, unnamed full perm oriental style flexi hair, brown eyes and dragon tatoo.

Turning Japanese  Club Rez 9 Roisin Dubh @ Greater Ireland 1

Anastasia.
Elegant and exciting, not for the faint hearted. The boots are the same as LoveCats 'Secret' but only come in the 'tall' version, so I raided the 'secret' folder for a short version. Rose red lips and vivid blue eyes, and some extra sparkly diamond bling.
 










Fallen.
Black leather for that 'Biker Chick'. This is one of those outfits that isn't too 'out there' when you want to look good without looking like fancy dress.
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Pyro.
Appearing at the top of this blog, and mentioned in the 'Blog Photoshoot' post, I always meant to go into more detail about how I made up the look. There is actualy a bit more customisation in this than the others in this post, but it's still mostly LoveCats.
The outfit includes LoveCats 'Pyro' Hair (sold separately). With LoveCats 'Nisha' and Ronjas 'Jane' Tatoo layers. The skin is from Little Brittan Design's 'Deadly Assassin' - the 'hood shadows' on the skin hilight the eyes Virzeni Design 'Fire Eyes' really well.
The wings are Coadey Concord's Excelent Free Aurora Particle Wings, colour coded to the outfit.

Fire 6 

Waterfall.
The other outfit from the top of the blog. The skin is MyDear's 'Bella (Pale)' with Mad design 'Kiss Me' Lips, and hair by Amacci 'Millan' Similarly coordinated set of Aurora wings.

Ice 3 

Desire.
This ouftit comes in several colours and I have them all! It looks sexy and revealing, while providing cover where it's needed. They glow in places and have a great 'clubwear' feel. You can colour block with them or mix complementary colours (green/gold, gold/orange etc) for a unique look. They come with paw boots, and  matching ears & tail. I sometimes wear them with tattoos, and sometimes I don't. The hair

Lemon and Lime
Desire Lime and Gold

Club Rez 4
Desire Silver with TESLA heels.

Saturday 3 December 2011

Cyberpunk



When I started this blog I had a long list of existing outfits I wanted to talk about, but then I created new ones as time went on and wrote about them first. One day I will write about those existing outfits.

That day is not today.

After seeing Imogen in LoveCats 'Distortion' (more on that in another post) with its steampunk-esqe goggles I was inspired. I wasn't sure what to do with that inspiration, until I saw a latex top by 'Catch It' as a featured item on marketplace and it hit me:

I wanted to do a Cyberpunk outfit.

First, I had to decide on a colour theme. The top I'd seen was green/yellow, but the store also had it in red.

I couldn't decide which colour to go for, so I went for both!


After picking up some matching pants, I found some nice flat 'Astral Queen' boots by Pop Tart. They needed adjusting, and had built in invisiprims, but that was easily fixed, and paired with an alpha for my feet they were looking great and suited the latex pretty well. The latex came in opaque or translucent, I went with the latter to show off my sweet new ink (different for red and green) and added some black tape pasties for modesty.

I tried a couple of cheap hair/goggle combinations from the marketplace but didn't find anything that really lit a fire under me. I'd seen a Steampunk pilot's hat by Dirty Lynx, but held off due to cost. I realised i'd have to put my money were my mouth is and buy it.

I wasn't disappointed, it's wonderfully detailed and fitted my theme well.


I added a 'Fatal Error' Gas mask (now gone from the marketplace), Fingerless Gloves from LoveCats (there she is again) Luna, and spiked bracelets by Akaesha. A 'Terminator' face tattoo and red cyborg eye (it was cyberpunk after all).

For exploring a dystopian high-tech future, I needed to get tooled up. I equipped a grenade belt from the 'Sara Croft' freebie set I got from NCI, one of Coco Colonial's Colt pistols, a leg strap knife from LC's Dangerous, and a set of Zeon: Rade Swords. These looked very nice, but I had to strip out a load of colour-change scripts to get my total down (I created a couple of 'fixed colour' copies, one for each outfit), but what you can't see in the screenshots is they are animated.

 


I really love how these outfits turned out, and had a lot of fun searching the grid for cyberpunk locations to take the snapshots (Graves store and Insilico) it just shows what a diverse place the grid is.