Hitting the Water

I recently entered a contest, a pageant of sorts.  I submitted entry photographs at the last minute.  I wasn't sure about whether I had the time to give to it, but I figured I could use the experience.  The phase after photo entry (if you are selected from your pictures) was a swimsuit styling.

This is what I came up with.

Swimsuit ~ Guarana Bikini from Purple Moon
Wet Tank Top ~ from INDI
Waterdrops ~ tattoo from INDI
Hair ~ Rush from LeLutka (band recolored and retextured)
Lipstick ~ Lip Gloss 1 from Face Paint
Jewelry:
     Earrings ~ Orquidea from Kunglers
     Necklace ~ Grateful from Earthstones
     Bracelets ~ Tumbled Stones (mix) from Earthstones
Nails from CCD

Contests - to enter or not to enter

Trying to get one's name out there in the modeling world is a perplexing thing.  I try to enter contests and this is more because I love to play with photos in Second Life.  Since I mentioned Ivalde in my last post, I wanted to show you my entry for their "Black Magic" contest.

I told you I love vintage/retro.  This got me second place!

MBMA

What is that...some kind of degree???  MBMA is the latest modeling academy which I have completed.  I had just two classmates who are now sistas.  Our instructor is the fabulous Sequoia Nightfire.  Now, I had been acquainted with Sequoia since early in my SL days.  She was/is a model at Ivalde (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ivalde/107/139/25) and since I love vintage/retro, I became familiar with the girls there -- Kymsara Rayna, Sequoia and another lady who has left SL.

Sequoia is the organizer of the wonderful Peace on Earth hunt each year and the creative genius behind Aurora Borealis.  Obviously, this woman is BUSY, so what a pleasure to have her lead us on this MBMA journey.

Excited is how we felt when told that for our graduation show, we would be wearing designs by Reign Congrejo from EVOLVE.  This is how it turned out:

Sorry, I am not going to list all the styling info.  Stop by Evolve and have a look for yourself --http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/San%20Jose%20City/163/171/23.  It will be worth your while.  And say hi to the models there, lots of lovely friends of mine.  :-)

Update

I know, I know...it's been ages since I did a post.  Second Life modeling is a time and cash consuming enterprise.  Since last we spoke, I (finally) graduated from the Miss Virtual World Modeling Academy.  Frolic Mills can be intimidating to models.  I find it entertaining to listen to him tell models what they need to change and/or what they have done "fabulously".  Now, this is a three day final class leading to styling for a runway walk in the hopes of graduating.  Many models do not graduate the first time, so it is a little scary.  On the second day we were to style burlesque.  I chose to go the Sally Rand route and got chastised for it but that is all I will say on the subject.  Our assignment for the runway walk was Steampunk.  Yikes, not a subject familiar to me.  I mean I have considered role play many times but never followed up; however, I have a friend and co-worker who has mucho experience so I gave her a shout.  Shiloh Fouroux saved the day when she introduced me to BlackOpal and Unzipped.

Here is my outfit:

P.S. I graduated...first try!  Also, I made some good friends through the process, which was my number one goal.