“Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns.”
Dean Koontz, Strange Highways
Archive for the ‘Sorceress’ Tag
Hallowe’en 2018 — Darkness Reigns
Hallowe’en 2012 — Modern Sorceress
Harper presents an enchantress for the 21st Century
The details:
- Skin: PXL Faith (sunkissed, nude, light eyebrows)
- Hair: PurpleMoon Exa (black, with hairbase)
- Nails: Mandala HUD nails (medium length)
- Gown and fur: Jador Divina
- Shoes: N-core Soul pumps
- Makeup: {DA} Glam eyeshadow (noir); Glamorize Feel it! eyeshadow (royal); Glamorize Dirty Babe lipstick (Black Beauty)
- Jewelry: Finesmith Aria suite; Finesmith Cybergirl earrings; Finesmith Gloria jasper ring
WindLight settings: Torley Linden — NIGHT: Our together
Photographed at my home
Summoning the Elements
Red Lip Wednesday Redux — The Enchantress
I slapped together the two photos I posted Wednesday for Cajsa Lilliehook’s Red Lip Wednesday Challenge in a half-hour before having to get ready for work. I must have done a better job in 30 minutes than I thought, because I got a fave on the post. Here’s four more, with the local effects finally kicking in, and a touch more makeup to improve the look.
(Stop the slideshow, right-click and select “View image” or equivalent to see the larger image.)
And here are, as ever in demand —
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The details:
- Skin: [PXL] Candy SK NE NudeLips MEB
- Eyes: Sterling Artistry Jeweled Eyes (rose quartz)
- Hair: Analog Dog Delora (cherry) [An old style, and possibly the curliest hairdo on the Grid, though I’m sure I haven’t exhausted all the possibilities]
- Costume: Deviance Enchantress (Onyx; includes the staff I’m holding)
- Boots: R2 Pumehana Ioa boots (black)
- Makeup (in order of application): [sYs] EPSILON – Graphyc eyes (blue); Glamorize Tribal Touch eyeshadow (Gilded); *BOOM* Love my eyes Liner and Mascara (medium thickness); Glamorize Dirty Babe Lips (Bleeding Fire –a glowing shiny red)
The White Witch
O brothers mine, take care! Take care!
The great white witch rides out to-night.
Trust not your prowess nor your strength,
Your only safety lies in flight;
For in her glance there is a snare,
And in her smile there is a blight.
After seeing the original at Harper Beresford's blog (A Passion for Virtual Fashion), I had to give Eshi Otawara's "Black Gems are Forever" a shot of my own. However, I decided I'd discard the pants she had in the confection, and used an old skirt from Anubis Style instead (which I think was created for the old Rezzable "Black Swan" show, as that was the name on the gown).
The great white witch you have not seen?
Then, younger brothers mine, forsooth,
Like nursery children you have looked
For ancient hag and snaggle-tooth;
But no, not so; the witch appears
In all the glowing charms of youth….
I especially love Eshi's headdress of jet-topped pins and a "veil" of thin, flexible "wires." I've pinned it into a fri.day coiffure -- normally the SL epitome of casual style; but with this headdress added to it....
But though she always thus appears
In form of youth and mood of mirth,
Unnumbered centuries are hers,
The infant planets saw her birth;
The child of throbbing Life is she,
Twin sister to the greedy earth.
Candy Nail has an amazing variety of prim nails, including these black talons with jewels stuck all over them.
And back behind those smiling lips,
And down within those laughing eyes,
And underneath the soft caress
Of hand and voice and purring sighs,
The shadow of the panther lurks,
The spirit of the vampire lies….
Note the black jet choker and the earrings, which mirror the headdress. There's also a ring, but the nails knocked it off, of course; one of the two things I don't appreciate about prim nails, no matter how good they make you look.
Oh! she has seen your strong young limbs,
And heard your laughter loud and gay,
And in your voices she has caught
The echo of a far-off day,
When man was closer to the earth;
And she has marked you for her prey.
She feels the old Antaean strength
In you, the great dynamic beat
Of primal passions, and she sees
In you the last besieged retreat
Of love relentless, lusty, fierce,
Love pain-ecstatic, cruel-sweet.
O, brothers mine, take care! Take care!
The great white witch rides out to-night.
O, younger brothers mine, beware!
Look not upon her beauty bright;
For in her glance there is a snare,
And in her smile there is a blight.
Excerpts from “The White Witch”
by James Weldon Johnson (1922)
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The details:
- Shape: L. Fauna Lapine
- Skin: L. Fauna Lapine.Snow-Fae Frigid
- Hair: fri.day Jules (startled white) (Parvarti Monday)
- Eyes: Poetic Color Gold Flakes (amethyst) (Lano Ling)
- Dress: Eshi Otawara Black Gems are Forever (top, gloves, earrings, choker, headdress); Anubis Style Black Swan system and prim skirts (Anubis Hartunian)
- Shoes: Detour Glamour Metallic pumps (Detour Sideways)
- Nails: Candy Nail P045 Swallowtail Black prim nails (peche Bury)
WindLight setting: Torley Linden’s DUSK – Briony
Read Harper Beresford’s original article
