Enchantress of Dragons

La Metallique Fair opened on August 15th and I was lucky enough to cover the event for Seraphim – this always gives me an opportunity to really look in great detail at the items available at an event and I was particularly blown away by what is on offer here. Organised as a celebration of L’accessoires‘s second anniversary, the fair is packed full of fabulous jewelry, shoes, bags and other accessories on a metallic theme. I’m truly spoiled for choice as to what to blog and I do hope I have the chance to post more before the event closes, but I needed to show you some of the designs made by Alienbear Gupte because they are just breathtaking!

I love dragons – I particularly love Chinese dragons – so you can imagine the squee’ing echoing around my head when I saw these. The detail in each and every piece is incredible and photographs so beautifully – I had so much fun working on the pics that I had to tear myself away to actually blog them ( a raw shot is included further down so you can see a couple of items in their unedited glory.) A copy version of the dragon scale bracelets is a completely free gift for the duration of the event and a couple of the items are totally exclusive to the event and won’t be available later. There are more items in the fair stand than I’ve pictured, including a fantastic earring set that is a VIP group gift [L$100 to join] – I wasn’t able to get the group vendor to work for me but if you take the landmark to the member’s shop (once you’ve joined the group) you can pick it up there. Check out Alienbear’s Flickr for her vendor photos.

Alienbear’s Designs are not the only store to be offering items that will only be on sale at La Metallique Fair – so be sure to visit if you can and take a good look around – it really is a lovely event with a nice clean set up and has never been particularly laggy when I’ve stopped by. It’s open until September 8th so you still have a week and a bit.

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These shoes can also be found at La Metallique Fair – I’m sorry you cannot see them in great detail but they are gorgeous and the whole 22769 stall is another must-see stall. The dress I’m wearing is by the always-yumtastic BOOM and I cannot believe how well it matches the jewelry.. I love it when that happens!

I also want to say a big thank you to the girls over at the wonderful FabFree blog for making me aware of this lovely dollarbie skin by INSITU! Follow this link to read Love Trill’s post and see her beautiful shots of all the included skin tones.

Finally, a word on a personal frustration – I know I can’t be the only blogger this happens to (please tell me I’m not!) but it seems like I’m always getting a shot I’m happy with, changing all my settings and getting out of the pose and/or editing it until I’m happy, and then realising I forgot to do something. In this case it’s my nails – I was going to change the length and use an applier. It’s certainly not something I’m going to attempt reshooting for (I shot these on ultra with EVERY FREAKING THING ENABLED and it’s so rare my computer will tolerate that I’m not going to push my luck!) still, these little things bug me.. maybe I need to write myself a checklist..

Hope you’re all having a fantastic week, thanks for reading!

❤

Credits

Clothing & Accessories
Dress: ‘Hye Tube Dress (Amber)‘ – BOOM – L$295
Headpiece: ‘MeiMei Chinese Dragon Headpieces‘ – Alienbear’s Designs (@La Metallique Fair) – L$1000
Necklace: ‘MeiMei Chinese Dragon Scale Necklace‘ – Alienbear’s Designs (@La Metallique Fair) – L$300..
(..ONLY available for the duration of the event.)
Bracelet: ‘MeiMei Chinese Dragon scale Bracelet‘ – Alienbear’s Designs (@La Metallique Fair) – L$0 – Freebie..
(..copy only version, transfer version is L$250.)
Ring-L: ‘MeiMei Dragon Ball Ring‘ – Alienbear’s Designs (@La Metallique Fair) – L$500..
(..also includes Dragon bracelet, not shown.)
Ring-R: ‘MeiMei Chinese Dragonhead Ring‘ – Alienbear’s Designs (@La Metallique Fair) – L$500
Shoes: ‘Serenity Heels (Gold)‘ – 22769 (@La Metallique Fair) – L$185
(..for Medium Slink AvEnhance Feet only.)

Body
Hair: ‘Tsubasa (Midnight)‘ – Argrace – L$250 – 5-colour pack
Skin: ‘Nikole (Pearl)‘ – INSITU – L$1 – Dollarbie..
(.. includes 4 skin tones and lots of appliers.)
Eyes: ‘Liquid Light Mesh Eye (Sea Green Shadow)‘ – Mayfly – L$99
Lashes: ‘C01 Natural Eyelashes‘ – FTL – L$280 – Fatpack (2 versions worn)
Lipstick: ‘Center Of Attention Lips (Fire Engine Red)‘ – Glamorize – L$22 – 20-colour pack
Hands: ‘AvEnhance Hands (Mouse)‘ – Slink – L$450 (wearing included basic nails)
Feet: ‘AvEnhance Feet Female (Medium)‘ – Slink – L$675
Shape: My usual

Photo Tools
Pose: ‘Erte_two‘ – oOo Studio – L$45 (hand positions modified with Animare)
Eye Position: ‘Expression HUD v1.0‘ – AnyPose – L$0 – Freebie
Windlight (avi): ‘Starry Starry Night‘ by sian – available for download here..
(..seen best in raw closeup as the other photos have been edited.)

Galaxy

A new round of The Gallery Gift Shop has started and there are lots of goodies to be found there including this dress, ear gauges and eyes! It’s a beautiful spot so take your time and have a good look around ❤

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Hair: ‘Strangelove (Gray)‘ – EMO-tions – L$245
Skin: ‘80’s Show Off (Pale)‘ – cStar Limited – L$0 – Past Marketplace Freebie (no longer available)
Eyes: ‘Galaxy Eyes (Earth)‘ – Tableau Vivant (@TGGS) – L$75 – NEW!*
Earrings: ‘Neon Punk Gauges (Electric Blue)‘ – HoD (@TGGS) – L$200 – NEW!*
Necklace: ‘Safety Pin Choker‘ – Aidoru – L$120
Piercings: ‘Chest Piercing‘ – Phoebe – L$0 – Past Hunt Prize
Dress: ‘Natascha (Blue)‘ (mesh) – 22769 (@TGGS) – L$160 – NEW!*
Tattoo: ‘100 Member Gifty‘ – flaunt – L$0 – Past Freebie [Store now closed]
Arm Warmers: ‘Arm Warmers (Silver)‘ (mesh) – Epic – L$0 – Past VIP Group Gift [L$350 to Join]
Stockings: ‘Fishnet Stockings‘ – BoHo HoBo – L$0 – Freebie
Shoes: ‘Kitty Sneakers‘ (texture-change) – Crazy Kitty – L$280
Shape: ‘Keri‘ (modded) – Panda Punx – L$0– Past Group Gift [Free to Join]

‘Beat 10‘ pose by Eternal Dream (@Pose Fair, L$40)*
Location: Tim’s Dreams

(*Review copies gratefully received! <3)

pose by Eternal Dream (@Pose Fair, L$40)

Lynette

This may not be the most creative I’ve ever been as the idea for which hair to wear with this amazing outfit came straight from the ad on the box; I couldn’t help it, it’s just so perfect with it! I adore the textures and colours of this mesh top and pants outfit – so sumptuous and lovely – and the fabric detailing is so realistic: a joy to wear! And it’s just L$170 at this round of the Gallery Gift Shop which will be ending soon, so hurry!

Also, this beautiful skin is new from the ever-fab My Ugly Dorothy – it’s available in tones (Salmon, Burly and Saddle) and each pack includes 8 make-up variations (with and without teeth). Simply stunning.. check out the pic at the bottom of this post for a close-up ❤

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Hair: ‘Zoey (Chocolate)‘ (mesh) – Wasabi Pills – L$250 – Browns Pack
Skin: ‘Dorothy (05, Burly)‘ – My Ugly Dorothy – L$999 – NEW!*
Eyes: ‘Deep Sky Eyes – London Fog‘ (4 levels of whites) – Mayfly – L$0 – Free Colour
Outfit: ‘Lynette‘ (mesh) – 22769 (@The Gallery Gift Shop) – L$170*
Nails with Jewelry: ‘Orient‘ (colour change) – Formanails – L$0 – Hunt Prize
(Store Exclusive Easter Hunt now ended – available to buy for L$1,999)
Shape: ‘Keri‘ (modded) – Panda Punx – L$0– Past Group Gift (No longer available)

‘Model 115‘ poses by Focus Poses – NEW!*

(*Review copies gratefully received, thank you! <3)