The Fashionable Heart

I love the combination of gray and yellow, or black and yellow, even at the risk of looking like a bumble bee. Here I’m wearing the very versatile black Dongipani shorts from D!FF and Pixel Doll’s charcoal shrug which is brightened by Artilleri’s Beatha top in yellow sans the cute little bows. To avoid the big bare tummy look, I added Veschi’s tintable tights in black. The full prim necklace by Swallowtail is a fun primmy detail. I just adore that necklace.

And like most of my grid sister fashionitas, I have not been able to take off those sexy as hell Maitreya ChiChi pumps in black with the pastel yellow trim. (I could see wearing the ChiChi pumps in yellow, but I had to opt for the black ones because of budgetary constraints.) The same can be held true for my hair. I’ve been having a blast as a platinum blond and Jade’s hair has been hard to take off. Beautiful backdrop and house by Barnesworth Anubis.

Top: Artilleri Beatha top *yellow*
Shorts: D!FF => Black Dongipani Shorts
Shrug: Pixel Dolls Shrug
Tights: -Veschi- Tintable Tights Burlap
Shoes: Maitreya ChiChi Pumps - Black
Skin - RaC= Lucia palette#2 Smoky
Bracelet: Lucite YELLOW Bangles
Hair: JADE Hair “NANA” Blond
Necklace: Swallowtail Full Prim Necklace

New from Frangipani Designs is the Jasmine dress which has an urban look and feel to it. This Asian motif dress is available in 4 colors. I’m wearing it in Blue Lagoon. The other 3 colors are part of a fabulous fall pallette, which includes burnt orange and brown. It has a flexi sash as well done in bronze that matches the trim on the dress. You could wear this dress without tights and a pair of heels, but I paired it with bronze metallic tights from Armidi Ltd and Redgrave’s fabulous scupltie boots in smoke leather.  The hair is Lannah from ETD in Ash Burnt. I think the pieceiness (is that a word?) of the hair style gives the look a modern pop and balances the dress and vintage-feel of the full-prim necklace from Swallowtail.

I’ve also included a close-up of my face because I’m sporting Launa Fauna’s new skin. I’m such a skin snob and this skin is absolute freckled perfection. The skin comes in the non-freckled variety as well. I have on the “Cole” skin in honey because damn it, if I can’t have a tan in RL, I’m going to have one in SL. What I love most about the Cole skin is its blush. It gives me that fresh, out-doors look that I adore.

Wearing :
Frangipani Designs Jasmine Wrap Dress (Blue Lagoon)
Armidi Limited - Metallic Tights [Bronze]
Boots /Smoke-Leather/ Sculpties Redgrave
Swallowtail Full Prim Necklace
ETD Lannah Dirty Pack Burnt
Launa Fauna CHAI Skin -Honey- Cole