Who’s That Girl?

I would have never thought in a million years that anyone would want me to give their avatar a Dove-Makeover. But, some of the cafe wimmins decided to let me play dress-up with their dollies. Yay! What better excuse for a bunch of ladies to go shopping? The volunteers were Candy, Rylan and Curvy. They were super cooperative and so much fun to shop with because they were so open to experiencing anything I threw their way. We decided I would give them “Dovelet(tm)” looks, see if you can recognize my personal style and flair on these ladies? I had already made up my mind I was going to let them keep whatever skin choices they wanted, and I’d even let them keep their preferred hair color – but these ladies were so awesome that they even went BLACK for me! How cool is that?! So, after a few hours of grid hopping ALL over the place, and hopefully introducing them to some fun new shops they might not have ever tried before, here are the results! The Dovelets! :D

First up, Candy. She is SO short, even shorter than Dove if you can believe that. So, I immediately knew I wanted to give her a dolly-girl look, something as adorable and cute as she is. Because she’s not all legs, I couldn’t bog her down in prims like I might Dove, I had to keep it simple but still get the look across – that meant no poofy skirts and swallowing leg warmers. I had originally wanted to put her in that sweetheart short cut from booN but when we went to KUROTSUBAKI to pick up some clothing, they had the cutest hat + hair there and it just fit the dress we picked up also. Of course I had to find socks at amerie’s NAUGHTY, I wanted the white lace leggies, but I couldn’t find them. I went with some sickly pastel socks from there instead, I think they compliment the hat nicely. Candy tinted the hat-hair dark just for me, isn’t she the sweetest thing? I almost stuck her in flats, but I wanted at least one “too big for this figure” element since that’s one of my favorite things to do, so I opted for the boots from [0N]…I just love that “aw, she’s so widdle” feel that they give any cutie-girl outfit. I believe the necklace is one of Candy’s very own creations, and it was the perfect, simple touch to complete the outfit.

Next up we have Rylan (NOTABOY) Carling. heh heh. Normally whenever we run into each other, she is one of the sexiest ladies, totally humpable. So in my mind’s eye I wanted to flip her entirely and give her the typical ‘punky boi Dove’ look. It was a no brainer that I would be taking them to Primitive Designs (which is now two stores, not one)…that’s where I hooked her up with the pants and socks. Of course, you can’t have this look without the UBU Pornstars, I made every lady buy a pair simply cuz. :p Rylan had to run off to RL so she didn’t get to finish shopping with us in person, but I gave her a notecard of things to shop for to finish off her look and she did so well! You can’t be an official Dovelet without some sort of skull in the mix, and the tank from No Mercy was a great addition, I lovelove their tops. That punky hairstyle from Philotic Energy is always fun to wear, and she accessorized great from Kru’s (belt), Pushbutton Industries (wrist bands), Clobber (gloves), amerie’s (tie). If we’d had time to, I probably would have thrown some tattoos on her, maybe some upper arm wraps (you guys know how obsessed I am with using every attach point known to man) and who knows what else, but I think for someone as sexy as Rylan, she really pulled off punky Dove really well.

Last but certainly certainly not least, Curvy!! She was a little more of a challenge for me. At first glance I wanted to do something fierce but still sexy in a Dove-way. As we were shopping, I almost let my vision slip into something more casual/hippie but I knew that if I started down that path, I would end up going cute with her because Dove in hippie gear would be disturbingly cute. So, I ditched that and went back to my original plan, mainly because every time I’ve ever seen Curvy, I think: fierce. I wanted the new hairs from MMS, I knew that much – we snagged this totally fresh and so fucking RAWR hair from there and as soon as she had it on her head I knew that her look was going to need a focal point. It had to have one big BANG and “wow” factor, something to build around. I’ve always admired how innovative the styles at LBD are, so we went trotting over to the store and slipped into the new Noir collection room. The jacket. Curvy. It was a match meant to be. It was perfect. It was exactly what I was looking for – something that made a big statement, but didn’t require a full out-of-the-box outfit. Her look was pretty easy after that, patterned pants from Digit Darkes, although I did consider leather pants from both LF Designs and Redgrave. I wanted to put her in those really strappy armidi heels, but Curvy won’t show gargoyle feet to anyone. I can’t say I blame her. heh. When that was ruled out, my second option was, of course, chunky boots – Sinistyle, oh yeah baby. I wanted some chunky plastic-y looking earrings for her and some lace gloves but our hunt kept coming up empty thanks to closed stores and bad teleports (what’s up designers? come back to me! ) so I just grabbed something simple from VG Republic and the gloves from Cachet. Now, normally Dove would not show her midsection unless there was no way around it, but I let Curvy keep her …curvy appeal.

Voila. Them’s the Dovelets. And I feel like a total conceited asshat after writing all this …but it was fun, we all had a good time and I wanted to show it off! Thanks ladies, I guess it’s my turn next time, to let you guys make-over Dove.