doveswanson
I have been meaning to do a blog post for awhile now, I just haven’t had the time or the motivation. But lately I’ve bought a few things that I just can’t seem to get enough of and they’ve been screaming at me from my inventory ‘blog me you twat’ and so I must give in to their constant wailing. These are items that I’ve either had on my avatar’s body consistently the past few weeks, or can’t stop switching into/thinking of every time I try to put a new outfit together. Pardon the image, I thought it would be fun to try something new and tinker in photoshop a bit – I was wrong, it wasn’t fun and I won’t be doing that again.
0. *DP Yumyum – These are a pair of pants that I can’t seem to remove from Dove. I had them for awhile now and just hadn’t ever put them on… but when I did I was a little surprised. Not surprised because I know DP YumYum to sport quality items, but I guess I didn’t expect the attention to detail and that level of realism. I did a quick zoom and cam job and then I saw the backside of these jeans and couldn’t stop staring. They give Dove’s ass such a high-and-tight appearance (and make me very jealous of her). I was impressed at the sharpness to the texturing too, I don’t think I own many pairs of jeans that are able to maintain the detail in those tiny bits, like buttons – it usually gets fuzzed out but these do a really good job avoiding that. Also, the leg cuffs are prim and nicely done.
1. Whippet&Buck – I didn’t think W&B would ever open, and when it finally did I went and grabbed just about one of everything in my favorite colors! This Boatneck top is a real staple gem. It’s just so versatile and yes it does come on all layers. I love that when Dove is wearing it, it feels like it says so much, without being too much – if that makes sense? And one thing I truly love about it, not sure if this was intended, but the shading on the breasts creates this look that is so natural….no perky balloon boobs here, just shading that looks about how a natural set of tits should look on the body. High five!
2. Tiny Bird – How can I not love a hair I designed and that’s named after me? Hee. Autumn recently retextured her hairs and rebranded her store and since then she has been taking the grid by storm with her quirky-cute hairstyles. This one is called Dove (version II) and it was a hair I specifically requested and if you saw the picture I drew for her, you would know how freaking talented she really is to have produced this hair from it. Her textures come in so many shades, and she has some blondes and reds that almost make me want to change hair color – almost. The headband is also texture-change by menu, very easy to use.
3. Kumaki Glasses – I actually found this designer on Xstreet and I’ve been keeping an eye on their listings for awhile now. The other night while I was browsing the listings I noticed a new pair of glasses listed but that wasn’t even the best part – they were listed for 0L! 
I grabbed a pair and then spread the news and since then have noticed that the designer listed another pair for 0L too. I’m not sure how often they are changed, or how long they stay free, but it would probably pay to keep an eye on them. The styles are very chic and clever, great prim work and nice textures with tons of scripted options built in. Even if you don’t manage to snag some for free, they’re worth the L to pay for them.
4. & 5. Miel – Both the shoes and the stockings are from a shop called Miel. It’s sort of “all the rage” right now and usually I don’t buy into that except this time it’s the rage for a good reason. First of all, all it took was the word ’sock’ to get my attention but when I first tped to the shop and found so many nicely textured pieces with great prims I was sold. I could have probably done a whole post on nothing but the items I bought from Miel – which including whole outfits and accessories but I know that has been done and will be done plenty more times by others. I’ll just say that when I got the notice about these new flats last night I wanted to tp over first thing. Something I am learning quickly about this shop is that the designer likes to put a very different twist on the usual – what I mean is that something that could be just another pair of flats is now made cute and original by changing it up just a little…adding a button, putting some flaps on it, sticking a little decal on there. If you stop by you’ll find this is true of most of their items, they all have this special and unique twist to them, as well as some scripted goodness.
6. [Decoy] – This shop has been around awhile now and let me just go ahead and get this out of the way – Annette Voight does amazing texture work. There are some of her clothing items that I take the prims off just to wear them as the clothing layer because I almost feel it’s a sin to cover the texturing up with *anything* at all. She has the cutest shop full of goodies for you, very colorful, stylish, fun and seriously – the texture work is to die for, you can really tell that she takes that extra time for attention to little details…the perfect wrinkle in the exact spot, a button shadow just so-so. And yes, she does all layers, bless her!
So there you have it, some things that Dove loves.
