What to wear when you’re in a fashion funk

Sometimes there are days when I can’t put together something that looks put-together for the life of me.

There’s a new Dressing Room collection out, and it’s stupendous this week. Lots of lovely things, from a stunning open red shirt by Aoharu, to lovely jewellery from Magic Nook and GLOW Studio, pretty lashes also from GLOW Studio, three skins (including another gorgeous Gina from Tuli), eyes… you name it, it’s there. Even a fabulous male skin with shape by CheerNo.

Mar splurged in there, but when she got home do you think she could put a look together around anything? Nope. Today is a fashion funk day, and fashion funk means a crabby Mar. So she resorted to what always works when nothing else does: black and the comfort of stuff she knows already works well.

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Viva glam

No, not the M.A.C. Cosmetics range! Mar picked up these new release free Camila Sunglasses from Maschienenwerk today (closer, more detailed view here on the Maschienenwerk blog) and built a glamorous look around them.

The dress is from the Gallery Corset Dress fatpack at Sn@tch, and I’m utterly in love with it. The hair is Leslie in chocolate caramel, by Exile (a past Dressing Room offer) and has a perfect windswept look. The skin is my current favourite from Tuli: Gina 04, available at The Dressing Room. Shoes are Kalnins Rhapsody and nails are Love Soul’s Sexy Girl B in purple.

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Changing your spots

Funny how blogposts evolve. I’d originally planned to base a look around some funky leopardskin boots I got at the Cart Sale in Car Wash, but I couldn’t find any animal print items in inventory that matched the print well enough. I did, however, find a nice leopardskin top from a Cupcakes dress, and ended up basing this look around that.

It’s a kind of glam, clubby look, and I fell in love with Ivey’s gorgeous Nightclubbing Skirt fatpack at Sn@tch with its sculpted prims and little hint of lace, so that had to be a part of this look! The top is, as mentioned before, from an old Cupcakes dress. The shoes are the very reasonably-priced Kahakai shoes in black, from R2. Hair is #55 (an old freebie or dollarbie; can’t remember which!) from Waka and Yuki. The jewellery comes from the Jewellery Fair 2009, and is the Fall Colors Topaz Set from SBJ.

Mar added the recent Stiletto Moody free gift Box Bracelet because it had the perfect colours for this look. Her skin is the current Gina 04 offering from Tuli at The Dressing Room. Finally, Mar hopped over to Love Soul’s discount board and snagged the Sexy Girl A*Black prim nails to complete the look.

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Emerald Evenings

Today’s look came about after I ‘paid and played’ with a few gacha machines. For those that haven’t used them yet, gacha machines are becoming increasingly popular among store owners in Second Life. They are stocked with random prizes (often one item in many colours) and the customer, on paying the required (and usually low) price receives a random item from the machine.

At Baby Monkey Mar received some pretty box bracelets for a L$25 payment, and a further L$25 payment to a shoe vendor in the same store yielded a great colour-change pair of shoes in similar hues. Hence the quest began to put together an outfit around them. In the end, I couldn’t match the bracelets, but I did manage a look based on one of the possible shoe colours.

As mentioned, the shoes are from the gacha machine, and different footwear is inside it. Mar received the Beckie Pumps in the blue and green colour set. Her pants are from Sn@tch’s recent releases: the Classic Knit Trousers. Her top is, again, from Sn@tch (and you thought Ivey only made punky gear, right?) – the gorgeous fatpack of Jane Ruched Tops with big puffy shoulder detail and a cute bow where the ruched section is gathered.

Jewellery is from Ticky Tacky: the Lomo Saltado Bangles which Mar already had in inventory, and the L$5 Gem Spot Earrings in Flame Warrior, from Ticky Tacky’s discount room on the top floor of the store.

Hair is from the freebie Danina fatpack by Amacci, and is the auburn shade. Skin is the current Gina 04 from Tuli, at The Dressing Room, and eyes are Tuli’s Gem Eyes in sapphire (free at Tuli’s mainstore).

Lastly, Mar’s nails are the Folklore Prim Nail & Ring in green, from the discount board at Love Soul.

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