Second Life Relay for Life Clothing Fair - Part I

I decided that I am going to break up my Relay for Life review into seperate posts. It will make them more readable, and allow me to group everything into seperate catagories that match a general genre. It took me the better part of two days to make it through the entire set of sims, which includes the several hours of 'downtime' we experienced due to the gray texture issues. Despite that, the relay hit the 4 million mark this afternoon which is a huge accomplishment as far as collecting Lindens goes. There are still two days of the fair left, so they may very well break 5 million or more before its all said and done.

Several vendors have RFL vendors set up in their home stores, or have donation boxes for RFL set up. Elikapeka Tirimisu has three set up that she will make matching donations off of, so hurry over to ETD and donate!

There were a lot of signs up at the fair, but this one impacted me the most. It was in the Avilion Mist RFL shop, right there in the center of all the clothing and shoppers. I couldn't get a good image of it, due to lighting and texture issues, but this sign was beside a beautiful sword that was bathed in a sort of glittering holy light. It was very much so like the Excalibur images people have created, and tied the modern day trials back to the forgotten myths of old. Its also in a really awesome font that I just can't stop looking at, heh heh.

For the entire modelling shoot, I wore Totally Betty's Delicate Rose Makeup Skin, an RFL skin that is quite pretty, though its a very soft make up, so a lot of its details are a bit missable. Its only 100 L$, and there is a matching natural skin for the same price. Skins are often way more than that, so its fairly much a steal.

We'll start with the casual, gothic, punk and/or Neko bits first. Now, I arranged everything into outfits, and there were a number of single piece items that I've not got images for. I spent roughly 5k L$ at the fair all together, though I didn't keep exact track because it was for charity...a charity that I may eventually have to use, heh.

The Artiste
This first outfit is a mixture of several pieces I bought at various vendors throughout the fair. I want to have a number of red and black tank tops available to me, and this was for charity after all.

The hair is from Deviant Kitties, the style is called Latha and this is the red with white tips version. Its a fun hairstyle I use a lot more than I expected I would. It was purchased long before RFL, so don't expect to be able to buy it there.

The shirt is by Mischief, and it is available at their RFL booth. Its called Frill Camisole and this particular one is in Cherry. Its got a number of layer options and style options, which is always desirable in practically any and all clothing.

Around my neck is Callie Cline's Tomboy Signature Charm necklace with the black cord instead of the brown. I was a tomboy as a kid, so I was impartial to it after seeing the name...I may have to merge my other two neckpieces into one necklace...

The gloves are by Pushbutton Industries, and are also available at RFL. They're the Bindi Armwarmers in Gloom, and even though the image is at an odd angle to view it, there is a very stylish mehndi patter on the topside of the gloves.

Sitting pretty on my hips is the RFL Belly Chain in Black Iron, by Dark Eden. While the chain doesn't work if I'm wearing most skirts, it is tail compatible with jeans and other non-prim legwear. There's a fair amount of detail to it that is lost due to the size of the image, and from what I can tell its only available at DE's RFL booth.

Artfully torn and paint-splattered, the jeans are from Wrong's Look One and aptly titled "Spattered Black Jeans". Yes, that's a hole in the knee, you're not imagining it. It came with a t-shirt, however I rarely wear them in RL, so I've not bothered with them much in SL. I basically bought the set because it was for charity, and I liked the jeans. >.>

Go figure that after spending three months or so searching for boots I like, I start finding pairs all over after finding the initial pair. These babies are the Gothica Boots in black by *Hexed*, a boot that appears to have been released at RFL. They are very awesome, and actually required very little adjustment unlike most SL footwear. They're hard to see, but there are fashionable little rings on various places, a couple of which seem to be glowing due to the boots texture.

The Wilde Cat

Now, this outfit makes me wanna figure out skin design just to make a skin that looks like my old RL ren faire guild's body paint. I used to hang out with the Wildes in San Diego during faire time, and largely the guild wore white body paint with black stripes along with bits of leather and fur. When I say bits, I mean bits - the Wildes are a Visigoth group, and often wore just enough to cover their private bits.

Another DK hairstyle, this is Havok in Red with White tips. Its a messy short bob with a bit of long hair hanging in the middle of the face. Sometimes that little bit of hair gets annoying, sometimes I love how it looks.

I got this at Gritzi's booth at RFL. It actually comes with the corset, two different skirts, thong, long pants, stockings, gloves, collar, heels, tail and ears. All of them coordinate, so you can vary the look without having to purchase more items. The entire set is called Wild Cat - Complete II, and since it does include its own ears and tail, you don't have to worry about being a Neko to dress to the 9 lives.

I don't particularly like the shape of the shoes. I really don't like the way some extreme high heels make the foot look, it just seems kinda cartoony to me. Your feet don't really look like that in RL, they don't magically flatten when you put on a pair of arch-breaking pumps. I may end up trying to take them apart and retool them to work with less foot sheering, because otherwise they're not going to get use at all.

The shoes and collar also bling. I'm not quite sure if this can be turned off or not, but I don't know all the various channels bling scripts use, and there's no notecard included with the set to tell me what channel to use, if it turns off at all. It will be a pity if it doesn't, because its a really nice collar as far as non-scripteds go.

The Black Widow

Next we have a super-goth outfit that comes in leather and vinyl, all in the same package. The Spiderweb by Pixel Passion includes two different sets of the top, hotpants and pants for two different looks. I'm wearing the regular version in this image, though the vinyl version looks just as hawt too.

With the way the stockings are done, its possible to just create a shoe shape through the Appearance window and wear them without prim shoes, however I'm still stuck on these Gothica Boots, so I took the easy way out and used them.

This is available at the Pixel Passion RFL booth and actually wasn't all that pricey. Its also one of the better uses of the spiderweb mesh that I've seen so far, and I've been looking around a lot lately for one to off-set Beetle's regular fishnet shirt from Snatch. I kind of want a whole short dress in the spider mesh, mostly because I had this really awesome dress that was a neon blue slip dress with spiderweb sundress over it. The end effect was that the blue shifted between dark blue and bright blue as the fabric shifted, which looked totally awesome on the dance floor. I'm not quite sure if the same effect is achievable in SL, since all the shading has to be done on the texture due to a lack of natural shadow beyond the basic ground shadow that avatars cast.

Baby Doll Fairy

This is another instance of the "I want the pants, but its in an outfit" moments. Luckily the Devilish Cupcake set came with multiple colour varients so I now have several pairs of awesome pants, and several bright baby dolls for if I ever go to a rave in SL.

The hair is from Goldie Locks, and was also bought long before RFL. This is Hannah in Russet Red, and its got a braid in the other side that you can't see from this angle. I think its about the trendiest hairstyle I own...

The baby doll is actually three seperate pieces. There's a tanktop-like shirt, the prim flow skirted bit and then small tie prims that rest above the straps of the tank top. I do kinda like the idea behind it, however the colours are just different than anything I wear on a regular basis. This is in Lava Girl, which is about as red as the set gets.

Another thing you can't see is the little fairy drawing on the right thigh of the capri. These are a pretty high capri, and there were cuff bits included that didn't work with the pose. They're a really nice jean pattern though, nice seems and everything.

The shoes are from ShoeFly, which has been running a number of discounts this month. These are Pink's Summer Wedge, and are sorta like a style of shoe I have in RL. I haven't actually found an exact match in SL yet, but these'll do for now.