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RFL Charity Shopping Round Up II
By Grazia Horwitz | April 13, 2007
OK dears… get your bandanas ready because tomorrow is BANDANA DAY!!!! Show them you care by replacing your hair! Be courageous, face the lag one more time and hurry over to Hair Fair before it’s too late… I’m pretty sure you have done it before to pick up the latest hairdos of SL’s finest. So go again and get a couple of the totally cute bandanas of which 100% of the proceeds go to Locks of Love, a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children under age 18 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis (they are transferable, so give them to your friends that dare wearing hair!).
Having said this, and counting on seeing a lot of bandanas around tomorrow, I would like jump to this weeks RFL round up.There are so many lovely things around that it is always hard to make a choice, but hey… next week… new round up. To stay in the Hair Fair atmosphere for just a little longer, here is Strength, made by Elika Tiramisu. It combines the bandana with some hair and although for tomorrow I think that’s just unacceptable (don’t be so vain!), you will look great with it for the rest of the year.
Last week the SL community has suffered the loss of Feliciaa Feaver. Feliciaa Feaver, known as Theresa Guess in First Life, was born in First Life on Sept. 7, 1960 and became a resident of Second Life on Sept. 27, 2003. She lost her battle with cancer on April 2, 2007. She will be sorely missed by all who were close to her. But this is one more reason why we relay and the Transylvania Relay team is doing the most awesome job in fundraising in Feliciaa’s honor. Bcreative Wilde has made this hot pink dress for RFL in rememberance of Feliciaa.
I always love to see designers team up and get creative. Emma Gilmour from Sand Shack Surf & Co, and Artilleri’s Antonia Marat have decided to do a RFL release together. Two designers, four bikinis…. 100% for Relay for Life. I love them. I have been wearing Antonia’s purple bikini during the shopaholics auction event and it is just a great looking piece of swimwear. More of these creative joint releases please!
Neferia Abel, the talented designer of the Ivalde and Embla labels, has created these two sweet Marilyn Monroe like dresses “Tiril”. Although I can’t see enough purple these days, being that the theme colour of Relay for Life, I love the simple stylish black and white for these dresses. As we have come to expect from Neferia, the textures of these cute little numbers are great and it is an item you don’t just buy because it’s for charity… you’ll wear it all year long, because it’s just a very, very nice dress.
Last one for this week’s round up is a release by Little Rebel designer Jonquille Noir. Three totally sexy, shiny and trendy slipdresses. I am smitten with the colour combination that she did… creamy chocolate brown with candy pink and the sequined awareness ribbon on the neckline is a clear statement: I Relay! Jonquille has also some wonderful swimwear released for RFL, but that will have to wait till next round up, as are several other tips that I have received this week.
Ok, that’s it for now…. If you are a designer and have RFL releases, please send me a notecard with a full perm ad of it, a landmark and preferably some info on what inspired you to this particular release and I’ll blog it in one of the next weekly RFL round ups. And to all the others that read this… if you have spotted a special release… drop me a note as well so that I can contact the designer and share it with all of you.
Topics: Dresses, Hair, Relay for Life 2007, Swimwear |
Grazia, thank you for reminding me to wear my bandana today.
Posted by: Catero Revolution on April 14th, 2007 at 4:07 pmHi, I’m an aspiring fashion designer and I REALLY NEED HELP!
I need a really good tutorial on how to make clothes look the way I want them to instead of using the “create new shirt” method. That method just makes the clothes look really crappy and primitive, and I want to make clothes in other shapes than the ones it offers. I know how to use photoshop fine, but I need to know how to get around using the “create new shirt” method.
Sincerely,
Leelah Beltran
Posted by: Leelah Beltran on April 16th, 2007 at 7:54 pmLeelah - have you checked out the Second Life forums yet? There’s a category called Content Creation, and a subcategory called Texturing Tips. If you look there, you’ll find a post with some wonderful clothing tutorials.
The basic method of creating a shirt that doesn’t suck, is using templates in Photoshop or your editor of choice to create the look you’re going for, and then uploading it as a texture, which you’ll use on a new shirt.
Best of luck to you! :D
Posted by: Jaydei Benmergui on April 16th, 2007 at 10:33 pm