A fairy from forest feast

Behold! I am...

...a fairy! A fiery fairy of autumn. Not a 'fae' or a 'faerie,' please note; I always regard those spellings as self-conscious archaisms that annoy me in the same sort of way as Aleister Crowley's affectation of 'magick.' Magic is magic, a fairy's a fairy, and Faerie is the name of a country (you might have heard of it, fairies live there). You don't lose anything worth having by spelling these words normally. I am now going to stop before I go off on a bitchkrieg about how J.K. Rowling doesn't know the difference between an elf and a hobgoblin, and will change the subject by saying, don't you love my skeleton-leaf wings?

Well, I do, so if you don't it doesn't matter :) They're based on apple leaves, as is the whole outfit. It's called 'Pix*ie apple Leaf of autumn,' because the Japanese are somewhat wayward with capitalisation, and you can get it from forest feast. I tend to favour Japanese content creators, not only because I like their style, but because their work is relatively cheap compared with that of American stylists. I'm not sure if the reason is the yen-to-Linden exchange rate, or simply a different perception of what it is reasonable to charge for Second Life items, but it's rather nice! This outfit, for example (which also comes with a shape and eyes that I didn't choose to wear) will only set you back L60. The snow crystal fairy outfit is slightly more expensive, at L100. I hope spring and summer fairies will follow!

The rest of my ensemble:
Skin, eyes and shape: as for first post.
Hairdo: 'Sayuri' in Red from Zero Style. If you wanted to cosplay Hermione Granger in SL, you could do worse than buy Sayuri in light brown.
Shoes: Signature Sandals in brown and gold from Lassitude & Ennui. These are free! They also come in black and white, with your choice of gold or silver buckles, and are a great wardrobe basic.

Edit: I couldn't resist adding the frost fairy outfit to my collection, so here it is, in the rather lovely forest feast garden. There's a lot of foliage for me to freeze.... of course, this will only make the garden more beautiful.

The hairdo is 'Meghan' from ETD, and I changed my Signature Sandals to white with silver buckles.

Gothic Lolita with aiorina

Here are some Gothic Lolita outfits from a Japanese creator called aiorina. Her shop is called LossPass, and she has some lovely clothes for sweet Lolita and Elegant Gothic Aristocrat styles.
Here's a bit of cultural exchange for you - in America this type of dress is called a jumper, but in the British-English speaking world, jumper means sweater and this is a pinafore. I don't know what the flip the Japanese call it.

In these pictures I'm wearing the same skin, shape, eyes and hairdo as in my first post.
I love the pattern texture, so brocadey, and the crisp white blouse.


This is such a party dress, isn't it? The platform Mary Janes are a design called Hitomi (a girl's name meaning 'bright eyes') from Lassitude & Ennui. They're available in lots of colour combinations! I love L&E's shoes, and they offer some neat freebies too.
The following one is more Victorian or elegant. It gives me a wintry, Christmassy vibe.

I love the... the what would you call it, jabot? Lace doofer at the neck. Those are the Hitomi shoes in another colour.


And this dress feels like the older sister of the preceding one. I have to say, I dropped the ball a bit with my hairdo, it's not very Gothic Lolita... I'm just enjoying the braids and pompadour a lot.