Glam Punk

I said I wouldn’t be doing this darn fashion thing much, but I couldn’t help myself with this one…be warned that I am so not a photoshopper, so not a fashion critic or writer and uh …so not fashionable.

There’s some things you should know about Dove if you don’t already (and one of those things is, yes, I speak about her in third-person sometimes). 70% of the time she resembles a boy, short, black butchy hairs, grungy dirty boy-styled clothing and so on. The other 20% if she isn’t a boy then she’s a really creepy dolly version of herself, decked out in poofy dresses, stacked heels, and stitches. What about that missing 10%? Well, that’s what happens when I start randomly trying on pieces of clothing in my inventory that I forgot I even had and you end up with something kinda cool (in my world anyway), but I’m sure no one else on the grid would probably dare to be seen in.

I had bought the whacky-fun hair from Digit Darkes a week or so ago and since then had kept it in the back of my mind as to how to rawk it, because I knew it was special. But it wasn’t the hair that actually started this mashup, it was the hair that finished it off perfectly in my opinion. I actually started it with the pants – they’re the most wonderful pants ever! That’s what they’re called anyway – I have to agree, they’re too cute – from Double Paradox and so much fun. The texture work on the pants-base itself isn’t amazing, but I kinda like that it’s sorta non-descript and blurry…I prefer that often because sometimes clear lines and photo-real textures make clothing look too hard and crisp …when I wanna accomplish a smooth and flowy kinda look. Now, the texture on the prim attached legs is perfect…patchy-lace and so purty. I opted for the larger, poofier leg prims that almost look like a skirt if you stand with your legs too close together – but there are the options of smaller leg poofs and an actual skirt included too!

I doubt I have to say much on the top, it’s tried-and-true Last Call all the way baby! I own quite a bit of LC’s stuff, especially after the sale that’s been going on for awhile now. I love LC but at the same time I tend to shy away from ‘out of the box’ ensembles …so I’ll usually take a piece from one of the outfits and pair it up with something else – like this instance. I snagged the sleek and equally poofy scoopneck top from the Kirsten outfit. I’m honestly not so fond of the sculpted sleeves, but they helped to balance the heaviness of the hair and the poofiness of the pant legs. What I do like is that the shirt has a semi-sheer lacy panel just below the breasts that almost makes it feel like it was made to be paired up this way! (God bless multiple layers and tuckable layers…no midriff exposure here! yay!)

Once you have a top and bottom to any outfit, you just have to accessorize properly and you are win! I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to tint the lycra tights from GLAM properly, they kept coming out looking retarded and ugly – you guys are masters, teach me! Anyway…I happened to find a pre-tinted black pair with another outfit from GLAM and voila! Score! The gloves are the mid-length (not that that matters since the top has a 3/4 sleeve) black leather gloves from TaP (didn’t they change their name though?), an old favorite to fall back on time and time again – ever notice how they look like crap up close but from a good distance they’re just awesome? Weird texture.

So yeah …accessories….um, oh! Shoes! I recently hit up the Shiny Thing’s group sale and omigosh is my inventory ever full of yummy black shoe goodness now! I wanted to rawk some clunky, chunky heels with this but they made the outfit take a really scary “old lady” turn…so then I tried on the ballet flats, but they made Dove look even shorter than she is (67 on the scale)…but when I switched to the next folder of shoes to try on, I forgot to remove the lacing attachment the ballet flats left on, and the heels that came up next were a total win ….and I kinda liked the “girly-cute” effect pairing them with the ballet-lacing had. So I left that happy little accident alone (see Dahlia! I did it! ).

I rarely get to wear jewelry, most of the time Dove has some kind of gritty scarf or neck bandage on, or hair so wild and shaggy that you can’t see her ears anyway. But this time was not so! Woo! And I wanted to go all out with it. Black and white seemed to be a theme and I knew I owned some beautiful pearls from both Caroline’s and Muse, I ended up going with the Muse pearls simply because I figured out I could wear two different sets of pearls at the same time (Margaux & Celine – happy day for multiple attach points!) and end up with a neck that looks like it’s holding up a ton of stones. The earrings go with the Celine set and were just a complete given – is it just me or do pearls make every other girl feel so …fancy-schmancy and purty?

And finally, I leave you with the wig that started (or ended) it all. The Glitter Punk. Perfect name really. I’m not sure if I’ll ever find another reason or way to rawk this hair so hard…which is probably why I decided to do a fashion post even though I tend to shy away from those sorts of things. Not much to be said about it, it’s freakin fabulous, it’s huge and dramatic ….it kinda reminds me of a beautiful fan-tailed fish floating about underwater. Plus, everyone knows I love glitter. There you go, eat it up.

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Skin: Celestial Studios- DN Vogue Skin, Cashmere (Vamp – Enchant)
Eyes: Celestial Studios – Deep Series, Brown
Eyelashes: Cake – Bedroom Lashes
Hair: Digit Darkes- NATURALe-Defiance -Glitter Punk
Shoes: Shiny Things- Classic Blacks, Pumps + Criss-Cross Ballet Flats, Calf Lace with Flower
Top: LAST CALL- Kirsten, Scoopneck Top
Pants: Double Paradox – Wonderful Pants
Jewelry: ~Muse~ – Margaux Draped Pearl Necklace + Celine Pearl Necklace & Celine Pearl Drop Earrings
Tights: GLAM- Black Lycra Tights (Satin Fleur Babydoll, Black)
Gloves: Tete a Pied – Gloves Medium Black