Second Style Magazine

I’m am very happy to announce that I have the privilege of being the new owner of Second Style Media. Since being an active part in Second Style for the past three years, I’m honored, and very excited, to acquire this new role. I would like to thank Celebrity for this opportunity. It’s been an absolute pleasure working with her since the beginning as we’ve both seen this magazine grow up from nothing into what it is today. You haven’t seen the last of her, though, she will be posting on the blog, as usual, with her fabulous insight to the SL fashion world.

Second Style Magazine will hold production until May to allow for the necessary transition. Thereafter, we will continue to release on a monthly basis. If you are interested in advertising, please contact me and mention this blog and receive 10% off any size ad or package. Advertising on the blogs will continue so if you are interested in advertising immediately, that is available as well.

Thank you all for your support these past years. With out you, we wouldn’t be what we are today. I look forward to continue working with you all to make Second Style even better in the years to come.

Thank you,
HeatherDawn Cohen <3

Mimmi Boa’s SuperElite Elite Graduate students will be doing their graduation show at 1pmSLT on Tuesday February 17th. Come down and see the latest fashions from OC Orage Creations, Indyra Originals and Total Betty. You can find us here!

Isabel Brocco’s SuperElite Elite Graduate students will be doing their graduation show at 6pmSLT on Tuesday February 17th. We hope you will join us for the second show to see the designs of Patrizia Blessed, Digit Darkes, and Zullay’s Designs. Again, we will be here.

Love is in the air, that is for sure! Valentine’s Day weekend. I hope all of you experience love in some form or another. Lots of ongoing adventures in SL right now such as “Diana the Huntress” exhibition, Zullay Designs Where’s The Love? Hunt, The Vain Inc. “Kissed” Hunt, The Greatest Love Hunt, and Runway Fashion week begins today! For more info on these and the following events, please refer to the google calendar. You can always send me event info in world or at rhirossini@gmail.com Hope to see you out and about!

Friday 2/13

Runway Fashion Week 2009, http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bryant%20Park/147/52/653
1pm Brenda Clellon
2pm Kunglers
3pm MB Designs
4pm Jador
5pm Mashooka

Saturday 2/14

Garden of Art & Tranquility Grand Opening, 12:30pm http://slurl.com/secondlife/Mac/128/130/31/

‘Be My Valentine’ Valentine’s Party, 2:30pm http://slurl.com/secondlife/Haute%20Couture/190/141/22

Runway Fashion Week 2009, http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bryant%20Park/147/52/653
1pm House of RFyre
2pm PB collection
3pm DE Designs
4pm Chianera Cioc
5pm azul

Sunday 2/15

Runway Fashion Week 2009, http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bryant%20Park/147/52/653
1pm MEB Fashions
2pm ::eLDee::
3pm Bolero Collection
4pm SWA Second Wave Apparel

Yep – real life has struck again, but since this is the final week of the 30 Days project I wanted to close out my run with a really lovely set of skins by Ayesha Bisiani of Skin Within. Ayesha has a bunch of different ethnic skins ranging from pale Russian to dark African. One of the newest skin lines is the creole inspired Anaise line which is shown to the left. (Note on the right the amazing new prim-toed shoes from SLink – I’m wearing the chocolate set in my photo. They’re L$500 a pair and look so so good with this skin tone from Skin Within.)

One of my favorite things about the Skin Within lines is that Ayesha develops four lines of makeup for each skin tone. A day and evening set, a “fantasy” set, and a smoky eye makeup set. She’s never afraid to play with color, and the fantasy makeups – especially on Anaise lend themselves well to photography and haute-fashion runway shows. You can see Mambo on the left from the fantasy line and Laballe in the first set of photos above.

Which isn’t to say you sacrifice anything from the rest of the skin for makeup’s sake. The body on Anaise is really quite lovely with her caramelly skin tone (and that modifiable to go a shade darker and a shade lighter) and the body shading on this skin is as yummy as it looks. I am especially in love with the nose and ear shading on this skin – I think it looks fabulous on my avatar’s shape. The body also features a torso with well defined cleavage shading and “soft” tummy – it’s not quite as ripped as some of the other skins you can find in Second Life which suits me fine.

One of the other unique things about Anaise is that the day and evening makeups all feature freckles. On the left I took a close up of one of my favorite makeup sets, called Paris from the evening line. You can see the skin has a well placed and well dispersed smattering of freckles across the cheeks and nose. On the right, I am showing off the extraordinary skin-art Ayesha released for the Anaise line in a very (1 copy left in fact) limited edition. As Anaise is inspired by the creole culture of Louisana, Ayesha hand-drew Mardi-Gras inspired artwork directly on the skin along with a Carnival-style makeup theme on the skin’s face. With RL Mardi-Gras fast approaching, you might want to consider saving your pennies for a skin-a-pooloza for your big Fat Tuesday celebration.

What’s next for Skin Within? Ayesha tells me that she’s thinking about her next Limited Edition skin. She is not yet decided, but is looking into an Asian inspired theme or potentially even doing a new line of darker toned Indian or African skins.

You can check out Skin Within at Skin Within (124, 128, 28).

You can pick SLink’s wonderful new (and affordable) prim toed platform sandals at Sanctum (56, 126, 35). Also – until February 15th, you can pick up a set of these sandals with a special Valentine’s theme for only L$100 – that’s 80% off the normal price!

Lingerie by Love Lace and Insolence. Hair by ETD. Gloves by Fleur.

Only one of these weekends left until the famed “Valentine’s Day” I hope you all have someone special to share this time with. Lots of fun stuff in SL this weekend! There are a few hunts going on for Valentine’s Day, We have The Greatest Love Hunt, The Vain Inc. “Kissed” Hunt, and Zullay Design’s Where’s The LOVE? Hunt. You can also see the “Diana the Huntress” exhibition (landmark in calendar). Please see our google calendar for more information on these events. As always, please send me event information in world or at rhirossini@gmailcom

Friday 2/6

Saturday 2/7

SuperElite Graduation Show, 9am http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fashionista/135/128/21

LA Modeling Academy Grad show, 12pm http://slurl.com/secondlife/Jonathan/7/197/24

The Biggest Fashion Show. 2:30pm http://slurl.com/secondlife/ZI%20Paradise%20Island/159/230/24

Sunday 2/8

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Jonathan/103/185/24

One of my earliest joys in SL was the ability to dress totally off the wall in all sorts of costumes, hair, and skin. This included mermaids, Elizabethan era courtisians, aliens, super heros, etc. What makes a great costume is a fab skin to put together that polished look. It’s one thing to put on a costume, but to totally transform is another.

Early on I was fortunate to have been led to PanJen to find some really cool skins. There are also regular type skins for those of you who like a toned down look. Oh and did I mention the cost? Yeah, each skin is 350L! Worth a gander and really afforable for playing dress up.

Skins shown here are PanJen Drow, PanJen GlamGoth 3, PanJen  Mystery MKII 4 blue, and PanJen Goth Elegance 1. Lashes are also from PanJen.

Created by Pandora Jensen who has been a SL’er since 2004, the skins at PanJen meet a wide range of styles. From Goth, to Pixies, or Drow to Sparkles this is a shop I highly encourage you to visit.

Visit PanJen at Absence (65, 146, 454).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ve written a couple of times before about Pulse Skins by the incredibly talented Lorac Farella, and I definitely couldn’t leave them out of our 30 Days project, now in Week 5. (Just 9 more skins to go…) Lorac was kind enough to share some of her newest releases with me and since Valentine’s Day is on the top of my mind, I decided to build a giant prim heart to photograph these skins inside Second Life. These first two skins are part of the Pulse “Kissed” skin line. On the left is Magical and on the right is Serenade. Like all of Lorac’s Pulse skins, these are all hand painted skins. Astounding but true – Lorac has spent a long time mastering pixel artwork and she brings that passion for pixel art to her skins in Second Life. The body on Kissed skins are a bit defined, but don’t have that uber-crunch gym-rat look at all. The makeup and face highlights all give Kissed a very youthful and vibrant look. Lorac also loves to play with her eye color on these skins. Magical, for instances, brings pink, purple, and a touch of shimmery green to the mix; you can pick lined or unlined as you wish.

You can really see the eye makeup in this close-up photo on the far left. And on the right is another new release from the “Bella II” line – this time a dark tone. I love Lorac’s dark tones. They’re not too yellow, and they’re not too orange. They have a really nice blend. I must confess that this shape I’m using is not my normal shape. It’s called “Out of Africa” by Scar Ayres. Scar recently opened a new shop and although I’m not a huge fan of pre-made shapes this particular one caught my eye. Scar also tipped me off to the Pixelfashion lashes I’m wearing throughout these photos. They’re L$300, but they have a menu-based color change system. I don’t know when or why I’ll need lime green lashes, but if I do, these have me covered. In any case they’re easy to fit and look so lush. I’m really enjoying them. Mostly in black, of course.

Finally, I had to leave Pulse with Lorac’s wonderfully shaded and multi-tonal Elegance line. This is Tone 6 from her line. There’s one shade darker and 5 shades lighter. I absolutely love the shading on this body and the face is so amazingly executed with perfect highlights and lowlights in the right places. Elegance comes in 7 Virtues, 7 Sins (this is “Greed” – green eye makeup, of course) and a new monthly release for 2009. (January and February are already available.)

Skins: Pulse, Nip Tuck Island (40, 134, 461)
Shape: Scarlia Inc, Tora 5 (67, 140, 21)
Color change lashes: Pixelfashion, xstream80 (62, 210, 29)
Lingerie: Insolence, Venom (94, 133, 28)
L$1 Giant Prim Heart: Le Zoo (136, 36, 24) – with Valentine’s Day coming up, I figured, why not? If you want a giant mod/copy/no trans prim heart, stop by and pick one up.

PLease join us today at 11am SLT for the debut of Lady Thera’s new shop on Fashionista Island and an amazing fashion/art presentation.