Last night was the Vampire Ball at Nocturne. Everyone dressed up extremely fancy for it, though its often hard to take snapshots when everyone is dancing and moving, and there are poseballs scattered everywhere to allow for multiple people dancing together. I don't know why, but I hate having poseballs in images, even though they are a common item seen in SL. I will edit them out if its fairly easy to do so, otherwise I just won't take a picture that contains them.
The music was provided by Zan Eldrich, and was mostly of the Gothic and/or Industrial style - a few of the darker alternative rock songs got slipped in. He also weaved some of the vampiric standards in, and he even was able to find Sanctum Sanctorum by The Damned, which used to be extremely rare. The Evil Manipulative Daniel years ago spent something like two months helping me try to track down a copy of my own, back before music downloading was more than hours and hours of a dial up connection getting a song in bianary from an alt._____ newsgroup. He also played Bloodletting by Concrete Blonde, Deception (Ravnos Theme Song) by the Cruxshadows, The Vampire Club by Voltaire, Cry Little Sister done by GERARD MCMANN not the god damn Sisters of Mercy, Zan and a couple of other super vampiric songs.
Zan, who is consistantly super tall, dark and spooky was even more spooky and seemed quite a bit taller than usual. Something about nearly max height gentlemen and top hats makes me feel like I'm using my super short starter avatar again, though I imagine I'd feel like I was about the size of a gnat if I had actually been using it. I totally forgot to ask him what he was wearing, though I do know that cape is a Lucia Cyr creation...the cloaks she's created for her Cyrian nobles and vassals is quite unmistakeable. They are not for sale, and please do not bother asking her if you may buy a copy - they are part of the Cyrian role play in Ave Maria, for specific characters. She does, however, produce items with a similar dark theme in her LostHaven shop.
Beetle was there as well, somehow making vampire mix well with clockwork doll. She wore the First Princess outfit from Bare Rose in Red, though you can't really see much of it here, with a pair of boots from Draconic Kiss. Her hair was from Goldie Locks - in case anyone missed it, Cyrians are hair freaks - and is the Aphrodite style in Black with gold ornaments.
I should probably mention her eyes, since they are quite visible here, and not entirely normal. She picked them up at Atomic Kitty, which is also where we got our 'trendy' ear and tail sets from. Beetle has a lot of really neat eyes, and she typically has one coloured blue and the other coloured green; I actually got the idea for my blue and violet eyes from her.
The fan came with the set, from what was mentioned, and has a very nice animation to it. A lot of times, they hand pose ends up going into the fan itself, making it look like the fan is cutting the fingers off of the hand. This one doesn't do that, and I am almost tempted to buy the set for the fan alone!
For the majority of the night, since there is a nightly themed contest, I wore the Evening Together gown from LVS & Co. I really do like the look, and it reminded me so much of Mina that I figured it was completely appropriate for the theme. After PatricLoren won the contest, though, I decided I wanted to see what the other part of the outfit's set looked like...
...totally vampiric Cabaret ring mistress look. Except I lacked a bullwhip and a chair...
I'm not sure which I would like better with this outfit, the ShoeFly Gladiator heels in black or the black Gothica boots by *Hexed*. I may just try and find some non-decorated boots, maybe a pair of equestrian boots in black, just for this look.
The other thing I might change here is the hat, which is from my . I might tilt it so its covering one ear instead of resting atop both of them. I may also go pick up the La Petite Morte hat from Snatch for it. I discovered later on that it also looked pretty killer with those sexy pinstripe pants I found the other day.
All and all, the Vampire Ball was really fun, and I was glad I actually got home at a decent hour from work so I could go.
Since I mentioned ShoeFly, I have a little story to tell. I had bought a pair of the Gladiator platform heels in red latex, however due to one of the many horrible bugs that a merchant could have occur, the invis prims weren't working on them. I sent a quick note to the own, CCTV Giant, and went off to bed.
The next time I logged in, CCTV had sent me a new pair of the shoes along with an explination of what caused the first pair not to work right. A complimentary gift was included as an apology for the mix up, even though it wasn't really CCTV's fault. I already was becoming a fan of ShoeFly, but the awesome customer service from the owner has totally sealed it for me. Needless to say, if you're looking for shoes - especialy ones with sound, check this store out.
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So I did find something fun today before work - hot pinstripe pants for a really nice price!
Theses are the pinstripes. They've got matching zippered pockets on the rear, and they were only slightly modified to fit properly inside the boots. They were from a small wall vendor in the Pulse shopping mall. Its sort of out and to the right of Sn@tch, the company is called True La La, and it doesn't look like there is a main store or anything.
I also picked up the shirt I'm wearing there, and though its kind of hard to see entirely there aren't just slashed holes. There's a bit of white over the holes, that cuts away kinda like its been frayed or is fraying apart. The back is a racer back style, with the same kinds of slashes going up and down it as the front. The frayed parts of it are more noticeable on my back due to the dark tattoos down my spine, which is right in the center of the shirt.
The shirt was 50 L$ and came with a pair of gloves I'm not wearing while the pants were 75 L$. The belt is part of the pants, painted on and not prim so no tail conflicts, which make me a happy kitsune. The whole area seemed a bit geared towards Neko so that's probably why it doesn't conflict.
Now the hair is from Sirena, and its called Felina. Its got some fairly fresh ideas as far as its construction goes. Its scripted for colour changing, so you can make it different every time you wear it, with 66 colour options. It also is two separate parts - there is the main hair, which I chose to wear with blonde tips, and then additional fly away bits that I chose to use black tips for. The various colour combinations between the two along with two different set ups for the fly aways allows for a great range of versatility in style each time you wear it.
The boots are still the same ones from ::69::, and no, I've not made the charms for them yet because I'm very indecisive about what should go into them. I actually was pretty torn between using the boots or using the sound effect Gladiator heels I got at Shoefly the other night - I think either one would work with the outfit.
Behind me in both images is the sign for Nocturne, a nightly Gothic/Industrial dance club. There are several DJs and a regular compliment of dancers as well as several regular club goers that frequent the establishment. I've considered being a dancer there a few times, however up until recently my work schedule really conflicted with most of their nights. Now that it doesn't, I may re-apply for it.
While I was at Sirena's, I looked at the new hair that was announced via Fashion Consolidated today. Its called Faith and its another scripted hair style that is an updo that drops down into a long style with the click of a stylish comb in the back of it. There are a lot of good pictures aside from this promotional picture available at Natalia Zelmanov's blog. It seems Natalia's getting into scripted hair a lot lately as her last few releases have had scripted colour change items or hair itself, or an updo scripted into a long style like Faith here is. Not that I don't love the idea of scripted hair, I just haven't seen it done quite as often by the many hair designers I've frequented.
Natalia's blog is more than just fashion release notices, though. She does a lot of travelling in SL and always writes up something about each location she visits. For a lot of them, she'll make new outfits specifically for the trip or the trip will be the setting for some sort of tutorial or photo shoot. Just don't be surprised when there's more than just Sirena to her blog!
A short, fairly quiet night all and all, but I'm grateful for that as I'm still not feeling too well.