Fishy Fun!

I felt like doing something a little random today, I am Rudh of the Random Ramblings after all and since yesterday I've been feeling like my body is just giving up, now that the stress is over... My cold is back with vengence, my back and legs ache, and OH I had a visit from mother nature. 
Right now, I want to distract myself with something a little random... Today we're going to let things get a little fishy... 

Have you ever found yourself looking at something in a shopping event and thinking, "Ooh I didn't know I needed one of those but now I can't live without it?!" That was the reason that I ended playing with the fishies today. The mermaid in me, NEEDED this... I had to have the FishBowl Top & Bra set - from Moon Amore, available now at Collabor88 - so that I could take the smaller fishies on walks with me. The Bigger fishies fit into the Dreamy Pond Bubbles that magically follow me when I walk, the smaller ones seem to slip through the bubble! 

What is she wearing;
Head Band: Candy Crunchers - Fish Bone Headband in Silver
Hair: TRUTH & FAGA - Velocity in Redhead
Skin: amara beauty - Freya in Ivory
Scale Paint: Izzie's - Body Mermaid Scales
Earrings: [Black Bantam] - Goldfish Bowl Earrings Set
Top: Moon Amore - FishBowl Top&Bra (Available until July 6th at Collabor88)
Bubbles: nani - Dreamy Pond in Bubbles Aura & Moon Amore - Ocean Lover  in Bubbles
Stomach Markings: EVERMORE - Siren Carving
Sparkles: Cole's Corner- Starstuff
Pose: FOXCITY. - Bae, Pose 3m
Backdrop: FOXCITY. - Glitter Box

Fairy God Mother Service

For Cinders to be free, she will need a little more assistance than a knife to get into a glass slipper...Never fear though Cinders, help is at hand. All you need to do is dial 1-800-IWAFGM - that's 1-800-IWantAFairyGodMother to be exact - and a magical Fairy God Mother turns up at your door. No pumpkin hand to hand? Not a problem! No mice around? No worries, this team of Fairy God Mothers come fully equipped for any situation. No phone handy, simply make a wish on a star, in a well or via any other well known wishing location and within half an hour your dreams can come true... 

Perfectly dressed in Caboodle Fashions, and adorned with a wreath of Wild Sakura, this model is of our good witch variety and proves very popular at granting wishes. The bad witch variety is currently unavailable but these can be distinguished by a darkness in outfit colour and dead leaves in their hair Remember good fairies sparkle, bad guys that sparkle are either in disguise or are fake vampires LOL... 
DISCLAIMER: Monetary wishes not possible! Also true love can be a hit-or-miss gray area!  

What is she wearing;
Butterflies: *LODE* - Head Accessory in Wild Sakura Butterflies White.
Flowers: *LODE* - Head Accessory in Wild Sakura Wreath Apple
Hair: Tableau Vivant - Fae Hair in Reds (Available until May 6th at Collabor88) 
Cape: Caboodle - Witch Cape RARE 
Dress: Caboodle - Witch Dress in Blue 
Wand: Candy Crunchers - Wiz Wand 
Pose: Image Essentials - Sultry V2 Pose 6 (Available until April 21st at Black Fashion Fair) 

Evil Mermaid Inside!

For some reason the craze of the Mermaid is still sweeping through SL like a case of the Chicken Pocks in kids... It seems that everyone has caught the half-fishy bug and I have to say I am really enjoying playing the mermaid myself too! I've never really been one for wearing the mermaid tail, but I've always had a thing about being a mermaid that can walk on land, and luckily with the pretties that are being released in abundance I've been able to do that a little!!
A part of me hopes that the cult of the Mermaid that is sweeping the SL fashion world, doesn't become like the cult of the Vampire or the Neko, but with events like Enchantment - yes the one based on Fairytales - going down the mermaidy route it is very hard to ignore the call of the sea!

This time though I am NOTHING like the conventional Disney Mermaid Princesses, unless perhaps you mixed them with a rock chick?! I would say I blame parts of the outfit but why should I blame anyone, I LOVE this mermaid on land look!!!
Starting off with the TWO main reasons I pulled this look together, I couldn't resist them at The Enchantment and I still get a kick out of the outfit that I pulled together using them!! The two things I simply had to have at the event were the adorable hair and the amazing tattoo!
The hair comes from SpellBound, and it's accessory options are awesome. You can wear it with or without the strings of pearls and there are two different headdress options - flowers or a coral tiara - plus you can wear it without any of these so it's a fairly versatile wig!
The tattoo is possibly one of the coolest I've seen since the Dolly wounds, and as it comes from the same store, it really doesn't surprise me too much. The store that is antielle has a habit of making things that I NEED, this was no exception! The Inner Mermaid Tattoo with it's ripped skin to reveal the mermaid within effect and the amazingly vibrant colours of the scales beneath is just gorgeous, and although Macabre it really fits with that whole Little Mermaid idea!
Once those things were on, everything else just seemed to come together easily. A cropped Evil Mermaid half-tee from Asteria and a pair of Blueberry Lana shorts, with somet killer high EMPORIUM Sally heels was all the outfit I needed, I accessorised by adding a Candy Crunchers Fish Bone Headband to the already adorned wig, some adorable Stupid Cupid glasses from Cute Poison - that OK didn't really fit the theme but looked really cute with the outfit - and then for that edgy look I added a Zenith Shark Bag!!
Finally it was location time, and I scoured a few sims looking for the perfect Evil Mermaid moment without much success... It was about that time I re-discovered that I'd bought the Trompe Loeil Nerissa Seashell Bath from a past Collabor88 event! BINGO! With the addition of a few {anc} Bubbles, a Bubble Brigade Crab from Half-Deer and a Delightful seahorse fom Fawny, the evil mermaid in me was ready to leave the sea and head to the hearest place to find a fisherman to lure to his demise!!  

What is she wearing;
Head Band: Candy Crunchers - Fish Bone Headband in Silver (Past Event Release)
Hair & Accessory: Spellbound - Sirena in Chapter II Sky (Available Now at Enchantment)
Skin: Glam Affair - Lauren in America 07 (Past Collabor88 Item)
Glasses: Cute Poison - Stupid Cupid in Purple (Available Now at The Kawaii Project)
Wounds (Including Face & Doll Carvings): antielle - The Alchemical Transformation (Past The Epiphany Release) 
Lip Piercing: Cute Poison - Wounded Piercing
Top: Asteria - Evil Mermaid
Shorts: Blueberry - Lana Rolled Down Shorts
Scales: antielle - The Inner Mermaid in Iridescent (Available Now at Enchantment)
Bag: Zenith - Shark Bag (Past Uber Release)
Shoes: EMPORIUM - Sally Heels (Past Fi*Friday Release)
Seahorse: Fawny - Mermaid's Delight Seahorse Companion 7 (Past The Gacha Garden Release)
Pose: Signature Pose - Caroline 4
Shell: Trompe Loeil - Nerissa Seashell Bath (Past Collabor88 Item)
Bubbles: {anc} - bubbles (Past Event Release)
Crab: Half-Deer - The Bubble Brigrade Crab in Orange (Past Event Release)

Look into my Eyes...

I saw them and had to have them, then I saw the others and had to have those too... Never did I think I'd wear them together but when I was playing around with looks for them, they just seemed to work... Then as if by magic the rest of my accessories - and in fact entire look - just seemed to come together with a magical swoosh.
I love it when things like that happen, I don't know about you, but I can spend HOURS and HOURS looking through the warehouse that is my SL wardrobe wondering what to wear on any day. I've gotten lazy in my SL old age and, unlike when I was younger, I now save changing so it is less than a daily occurrence...
Though sometimes I get inspired when I buy things, I need to create something a little different, and that is just what happened here.. My love of playing Dress-Up took over, this was the result...

Somewhat Demonic I felt, but then at the same time, maybe more like a sprite than a demon... 
The whole look started with two very different pairs of horns... The first set I bought was the Horror's Dream set from The Horror - and available now at One Word - and I knew from the moment that I saw these posted on Flickr that I HAD to have them... Call it love at first sight LOL... The set includes a HUD for easy colouring of eyes and horns, but what I love about it most is the colours... The blue for example - as seen here - is almost peacock feather like with its barely there flicks of green and purple... The second set are all about opulence... They can be found at the current round of UBER - with a theme this month of luxuriousness - from the store [CerberusXing]. These were another love the moment I saw them, I knew I couldn't leave the event without a pair LOL... Best part of these gorgeous horns is that they can be worn with less chains and without the septum piercing, so they are fairly versatile! 
Once I had the horns in place, everything else was just so much fun to put together... I KNEW I couldn't look human with two sets of horns like this, so I just delved deep into the wardrobe and in the skins folder I found one of my favourite sets... The [Gauze] Amethysts sets were available at a long since past skin fair, but the jewelled tone complete with it's full body layer scale tattoo just seemed perfect for this look. The look seemed to be even more complete with the addition of some Mitosis Eyes from ellabella and a January bun that was a past group freebie from Truth, but there was still something missing, something that it lacked... Then I found the gorgeous Candy Crunchers Spider Crown, lord alone knows how long it has sat waiting to be discovered in my hoard, but isn't it pretty?! But yet, even with that, there was STILL something missing... "Make-Up perhaps?" I found myself thinking... Low and behold, as soon as I tried this glitter effect - Spangle Me - eyeshadow from The Stringer Mausoleum, that was it... It was perfect... 
The photo I shot turned out even better than I had expected it too... This is definitely one of my favourite pictures of the year so far, but don't take my word for it, what do you think? 

What is she wearing;
Hair: Truth - January (Past Group Gift) 
Upper Horns: The Horror - Horror's Dream (Available now at One Word) 
Lower Horns: [CerberusXing] - Hundred Chained Horn in Black (Available now at UBER) 
Tiara: Candy Crunchers - Spider Crown in Black/White 
Skin & Body Tattoo: [Gauze] - Amethysts in Dark Orchid 
Eye Make-Up: The Stringer Mausoleum - Spangle Me in More Glitter Red 
Eyes: ellabella - Mitosis Eyes 
Piercing: Cute Poison - Starlust Piercings
Pose: PRETENSE - Dead Sexy