Ask and Ye Shall Receive

Once upon a time, llittle Lludmila heard on Plurk that a friend of hers had had an outfit named after her and she went to the store to look at it (and, of course, to snag the free copy of it in the chest).  She sighed wistfully.  We took a picture and posted it on the Flickr page.  Today, on her typist's mom's birthday (August 1), Skye Qi finally tracked Lludmila down (not that hard - she's the only double-L one in-world) and asked if she would like to have a gown named after her.  "Would I?!"

This will be a non-vintage gown (which is okay, because Lludmila swings both ways) for a new non-vintage line.  We are soooo excited!

Skye shows off an example of the forthcoming dress to The Eponymous Lludmila!  Skye looks The Eponymous Lludmila over and remarks, "You'll have to shorten the skirt."  

Both Skye and The Eponymous Lludmila are now trying to think of a way to get Llinden dollars named after them.

Three of the nine colors of the Lludmila dress which comes with matching evening bag.

Tee hee!  Lludmila is sooo proud to see her name on not just zombie skins, but gowns!

Update, September 4: Skye Qi now has the Lludmila gown as well as other outfits available in her shop Vintage Apparel.  There will be a 50L color available for each of the gowns in her new line, ~Glitz~, based on interesting textures.  Also, there is a free Honduran dress available in a nearby chest as a thank you for donations for medical mission for the needy there.  This fundraiser was very successful.  They saw 867 patients and filled over 3,000 prescriptions.  SL bought about 6,000 adult and kids' vitamins.  

Not Untouched by Dany

I had only logged on to SL to get some slurls to finish some unpublished posts and my September gift from the Dany French Touch group (which I was clever enough to join back when it was free - now it's 150L!).  There was this gorgeous gown and a suit for men, too!

Lludmila is pleased as punch with this! Now if she only had an occasion to wear it ...

If you didn't join the group, the dress and the men's outfit are dollarbies at Dany French Touch in New Toulouse.  

Cal Before the Mast

Lludmila

Hair: a former freebie from Waka & Yuki

Gown: the September Group Gift from Dany French Touch.

Cal 

Hair: old freebie, Hinder by Bryce 

Job Suit: Dollarbie from Dany French Touch (he's so relieved he didn't have to stalk the lucky chair again!)

Shoes: Men's leather dress shoes 20L or 10 colors for 100L - a huge bargain! at Duh!  Also, they have a comfy lucky armchair and Cal won a pair of camo men's boots just for showing up to check the slurl!

Hair So Pretty - I Could Just Cry!

I found some lovely hairs recently ...

Up-do with enormous flower from Waka & Yuki no longer free.

I often see hair on the freebie blogs and wish they came in Lludmila shades (white to grey to platinum blonde), but I go get them anyway because Kathy could wear them, or some other shape I have. This one had this humongous black flower thing on it and I wondered if you could change that ... and found out you could change the hair color as well! Well, hot damn!

Cap and side ponytail also from Waka & Yuki.

The same with this one: change the hair color and the cap color. Those are tears of joy! The color change leaves just a touch of contrasting color - nice!

Lludmila loves a cute short cut.

And then, one of my favorite places, !SyDS!, had some new hair (also dark) in the lucky boards. I decided I loved this short cut after I tried the dark, so I bought the "milk" shade. There is also a new hair with a tiny pigtail.

Bottle Bird

On the For the Love of Science Hunt, I found a stuffed prize box at this quirky shop called Bottle Bird, run by a friend.  I love that you can go either way with the tees:

Note the Team Dawkins shirt ... for us atheists ... and the fractal leggings.

Gasp! Don't tell my Humanist friends I'm wearing the Team God tee!  

Yipes!  I'll lose all my cred!  But it went so nicely with the high-waist skirt!

Return of the Decomposition Notebook

True to her word, Jupiter has reworked the zombie skins and they will be available for the Twisted Hunt, starting tomorrow, the hunt itself starting here.

As you can see, Lludmila is really happy about that.  But even happier that the prize box contains not just the doll skins, the key, and 3 lovely green zombie skins ...

... but the zombie skins are named after her!  Yay!  I feel so - so validated!  Oooo, lookit the nice lip color!  There's a bright red evening lip, this lighter (perhaps coral) color, and the pale lips as in the photo at top.


The super-stuffed Absentia Twisted Hunt prize will be hidden somewhere near here.  Bwah-ha-haaa!

Taking a Back Seat

Friday must've been Bumday on the hunts.  There I am, minding my own bidness and ... there they are.

Hanging out of their pants and sticking out of their prim skirts.  Our default view of ourselves is from behind - how can they (a) like that view and (b) not notice?

You can put together a lovely (?) outfit, but how can you tell if your bum's too big?  Check out your AO.  Do your hands embed themselves in your cheeks?  I know there are animations for avs with "larger features" - I've seen them.  Invest in some realism.

OMG, it just didn't stop!  And what's the point of teensy hands hanging next to that huge caboose?  "Ladies,"* please get a sense of proportion.

*I always suspect a guy behind the big behinds, but I could be wrong.

Pick and Choose

I have nothing but the greatest love for Heartsick skins.  They are utterly gorgeous.  Oh, I might grumble a bit about the shading under the lower lip which seems slightly excessive and the eye make-up here on the Platinum Hunt prize might be leaning a bit towards raccoon, at least in my opinion - but check out that cleavage!  Is that not convincing?  The lip coloring is pretty and not garish, the face seems to glow.  What's not to love?  I do however remember grousing while I was searching for the prize that searching for something and then paying for it is actually called "shopping."  It seemed like damned cheek that I'm paying 10L (what is that in RM, not even 3 cents?) and I have to look for it.  At least that was until I found the box.  When I found it, with the several skin tones and bewb options, I nearly hugged it. 

I liked the hair prize from Exile - which reminds me of a style that could be nicknamed "Matron on Drugs," but in a good way.  But I liked this one.  No, really.  I went looking for it especially.  Maybe the  pearl set makes it look matronly.

Heartsick skin, Exile hair from the Platinum Hunt - 10L per prize.

Same skin, different hair - and isn't she a cheeky thing, peeking out from under that bang!
ploom hair, also the Platinum Hunt.

Lludmila is ever so grateful when some version of white is included in some fatpack of hair colors.  There were at least two in the Exile and ploom offerings.  I've tried other colors on her little head, but they just don't look right.
Thank you, designers who contribute freebies and even the low-cost prizes to hunts.  I don't really begrudge you the 10L - I'm just short of Ls lately.

Shapes: I create my own shapes; I just tinker until it looks like something natural and attractive to me.  The Zombie skin is from Absentia.  Eyes by Perefim Cao from the old [OMFG].