♥ Hello Beautiful - Round 5 - Part 2 ♥

Okay, so I lied.. I decided to do another post tonight. I'll continue tomorrow though! 

I'm wearing awesome eyes and wings from *BABY* which are available at this months "Hello Beautiful" You can change the wire of the wings with the HUD and resize them if you desire. The eyes come with regular and mesh versions.. with different size iris depending on your preference. I'm wearing the smallest one.

My shape and skin are also at this round of "Hello Beautiful" - they're called "Gwen Skin & Shape" and are from Sugar & Spice. This shape and skin set is absolutely adorable! I've already had compliments on it.. I was even asked if I was wearing a mesh head a couple of times. This skin set does come with a mesh head applier though, but I just wanted to show off the awesomeness of the shape without it today. Very cute!

Check out my epic ears from Tikkels! You can find these too at "Hello Beautiful" - if you haven't guessed already there's tons of awesome things to be found there. These ears come with a HUD, so you can play around and match up your skin with a little bit of fiddling. There's also a few preset skin tones if you don't fancy messing around too much. You can also change the little gems on the ears! So awesome! They don't come with an alpha though.. but I got around this by using one I already had for ears. On a mesh head you can just disable your ears though and not have to worry about the alpha issue.

I'm wearing another necklace from ToddleTeeZ! These are available at "Hello Beautiful" in a gatcha. The one I have on is "Love" and even says so on it. Many different ones to collect! They're sparkly and pretty. 

If you couldn't tell already I got a few bits from "The Arcade" - amazingly I've not stepped foot in there though. I've bought things from yardsales and off my friend ZoZo. Still managed to spend quite a bit though! Completed my MishMish collection, so I was happy getting the whole set of those adorable pugs.

 

Credits:

Outfit: Jayla Pink from tinyOWL
Hair: Hair"Miu" (Type B) (Black amber) from D!va
Wings: Pretty Fairy Wings - PINK from *BABY* 

(Hello Beautiful - March 2015)
Ears: Mesh Ears from Tikkels (Hello Beautiful - March 2015)
Eyes: Fairy Dreams Eyes from *BABY* (Hello Beautiful - March 2015)
Necklace: Magical Dust Necklace - Love from ToddleTeeZ 

(Hello Beautiful - March 2015)
Skin and shape: Gwen Skin & Shape from Sugar & Spice 

(Hello Beautiful - March 2015)
Nails: Mermaid Nails ToddleeDoo from Awwdorable 

(Hello Beautiful - March 2015)
Doggy: Weenie - Pie from Silentsparrow (The Arcade - March 2015)
Stump: Spring Eternal - Tree Stump Chair - Starry from Half Deer 

(The Arcade - March 2015)
Piggy: [GARDEN FRIENDS] Cap'n Oink the Piglet from ISPACHI 

(The Arcade - March 2015)

Special thanks to:

Sugar & Spice, ToddleTeeZ, *BABY* and Tikkels

♥ Hello Beautiful - Round 4 - Babysteps Part 1 ♥

Hi everyone!

Firstly, I want to address something I saw on SL Secrets. For those of you who aren't familiar with SL Secrets.. it's much like Post Secret (where you anonymously post online a picture/words regarding to a secret.. without the repercussions of people knowing it's you) 
Anyways.. so, SL Secrets.. I was browsing them last night - as I sometimes do when I'm bored.. to read what people are too cowardly to say to whoever and I saw a post that didn't sit well with me.. it was regarding bloggers and how this person claimed SL had no need for them. Well, I think a whole bunch of designers who rely on us to spread the word of their items would disagree with that person. If we were not required, why would designers look for bloggers? Why would designers actively seek them out? 
I started blogging because I like putting together outfits, plain and simple. I never expected to get picked up by creators or to end up blogging any events. Almost two years down the line and I started to get noticed.. which was fantastic! I was over the moon and slowly but surely I picked up a whole bunch of sponsors. Before I knew it I was getting at least 5 items to blog sent to me a day.. which is also why I got rid of all my sponsors and now I just blog what I like as it was so hard to keep on top of it all. Some creators have been fantastic and let me ask them randomly when there's something I'd like to blog and they'll send it my way. Other than the occasional time that happens, or events I blog.. I pay for everything myself. Some bloggers do it purely to get free stuff.. and that was never my intention when I started to blog. I just like to show off what I put together and hope someone else likes it too.. maybe they'll draw inspiration from it for their own look - or copy it completely! Too many people get butt hurt over people "stealing" their look from their blog.. if you don't want people to copy you, don't blog your look.. simples! 
I like not having the pressure to get posts out as frequent as I was before, means I get to think about what I write and put together a look that I'm really happy with. I try not to edit my pictures too much, as it wouldn't be honest.. I just tidy up anything that looks weird.
Anyway, to end my rant about this.. I'll just say.. if bloggers were'nt needed - why do creators look for them? Why do events do better with them? Even as a blogger I look at other blogs to find out what's going on, where the next event is.. what hot new stores there are.. etc etc. It's a lot easier than running around inspecting people. So, to that person who said bloggers aren't required.. I'm sorry you don't see the benefit of them - but I believe they are needed. If all bloggers went away I'd not know of events or anything and I'd probably just be stood in a sandbox on my own looking sad.

Now I got that rant out of the way.. I have more Hello Beautiful items to show you! If you want to see what else is on offer there, please see my last massive post featuring lots of great designers. Today I have an adorable skin from Babysteps to show you, found at Hello Beautiful. This is "Kandy Skin - Normals" and I'm showing it off on the super cute BooBoo mesh head from Cute Bytes. This skin looks absolutely adorable on this mesh head. I love it so much! It comes with an option for regular heads too if mesh heads aren't your thing.. and includes lots of different colour brow options. There's even a freckles option! This particular skin will be on sale after the event too.. there's a limited one at Hello Beautiful too, "Kandy Skin - Pastels", which won't be available for sale after the event - as it's limited.. which I plan to show you very soon. 

I'm wearing a cute outfit from Sugar & Spice called "Hadleigh's". Not only is the shirt and skirt very cute, but there's a HUD to change the texture of them, so essentially you're getting a few different looks for one price. I happened to think this shirt and skirt combo was nice, the shirt says on it "A little bit dramatic" which is so me! It was a bargain 50 lindens in the sale too! Can't grumble at that.

So.. this hair is from D!va and it's.. wait for it.. it's.. free! Yes, free! It's a group gift and the group is free to join too, so it won't cost you anything. It has a resize script in it too and sizes down easily.. it was a bit fiddly to get it to fit right on the mesh head.. but that's because I suck at positioning hair. I move it around, resize, move some more, resize some more.. then hate it and start again.. eventually I was happy with it though. Just took a lot of patience on my part.

Woodlands is open again.. and there's some fab stuff to be found. Including this pose I'm using from "the pose shop" - Not a store I'd heard of before, but definitely a store I'll check out again. 
Can I just have a grumble though at how many gatchas were there with outfits in them? Not like.. a whole outfit. But parts of an outfit! I absolutely hate that.. I understand why creators do it, because they make a whole lot more money that way.. but for the buyer it is really annoying. I like ones where you get a whole outfit, but you are not sure what colour you'd get.. I can deal with that. But when there's a million pieces for like 50-75 lindens a pop - it gets ridiculous. Seriously.. think about how expensive that outfit would be if you added up all the pieces individually. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't pay that if you saw it on sale for that price in a store or on marketplace. I refused to play those machines.. even though the ones from Turducken and Purretes were really hard to pass, because the outfits are super cute.. but I just can't justify spending that much. Hmm, that turned into another rant.. my bad!

Anyways.. I took three pictures. You should be able to click them for a larger view. 
Happy shopping everyone! ♥

Credits:

Outfit: Hadleigh's from Sugar & Spice
Hair: Hair "Bambi" (Black amber) - Free group gift from D!va
Necklace: Letter K Necklace - Gold from Little Ones Couture
Ring: Ice Cream Scoop Ring - StrawberryxGold from tsg
Bracelet: Fairy Tale Stamped Bracelet - Star Gold from .trinket. 

(Woodlands February 2015)
Mesh head: Baby Mesh Head #2 - BOOBOO from Cute Bytes
Skin: Kandy Skin- Normals from Babysteps 

(Hello Beautiful - February 2015)
Nails: Heart Nails ToddleeDoo from Awwdorable 

(Hello Beautiful - Feburary 2015)
Pose: // 4 macaroons from the pose shop (Woodlands February 2015)

♥ Seeing Red ♥

No, I'm not angry.. I just struggled to think of a good title - that just kept popping into my head.

I'm wearing a gorgeous dress from LVS KIDS today. I've been meaning to blog this for ages and with one thing or another haven't gotten around to it. Today it's getting an airing. It comes with cute little shoes, which the poofy-ness of the skirt is unfortunately hiding.. but trust me, they're adorable. This is a great formal dress.. or it would make an amazing bridesmaid/flower girl outfit. I love the deep red colour and the big bow on the back.

The shape and skin I am wearing are from Bad Seed Boutique. In my last post I showed "Lacey" off by showing how it looks on the TweeneeDoo shape it comes with. Today I'm showing it off on the smallest shape it comes with (since the Lacey skin comes with multiple shapes - so you can grow if you wish) It's very detailed and the lips are especially nice. It's fantastic quality, comes with various tattoo layers, eyebrow colours.. and the shape is pretty adorable too. The shape of the face I particularly like.. the chin area is different to a lot of shapes I've seen and so the uniqueness of it makes it awesome.

Decided to break out of my usual blonde tones and go back to my original brunette colour.. I achieved this by digging out an old style that doesn't see the light of day any more.. but it's very pretty, yet, messy (much like the majority of D!va styles) Perfect for us little divas.

Credits:

Outfit: TODDLEEDOO -Wedding Party- in red from LVS KIDS
Hair: Hair"Mayumi3" (Brown diamond) from D!va
Necklace: Fairytale Necklace - Queen of Hearts from tinyOWL
Bracelet: Charm Ladybug from Petite Bowtique
Skin and shape: Lacey Pale/Basic - Shape: Age 2-3 (with lashes tattoo and brow shaper) from Bad Seed Boutique
Nails: Zipped Nails ToddleeDoo from Awwdorable
Pose: Playful - Playful 2 from .click.

♥ Fighter ♥

Tic Tot Toe has this wicked cool outfit at The Bazaar event. It comes complete with the katanas and mask. I think it's from some kind of anime, but I think it looks pretty awesome and I don't even know what it's from!!

Credits:

Outfit: Inari Armor from Tic Tot Toe (The Bazaar)
Hair: Hair"Miu"(Type B) from D!va

Nails: Camo Nails ToddleeDoo from Awwdorable