White Pearl Salon Fashion Blog: GLAM LOOKS AND BASICS by Andrea Riverview

Much of this will be familiar to many of you, but I always appreciated some basic help when I started. Hope this helps our new fashionistas.

Be sure to watch the weekend sales. The Seraphim website is a great resource, at https://www.seraphimsl.com/

This gown at Dernier was available for 60L on the Happy Weekend sale. Others include the Saturday Sale, Fifty Linden Friday, eBento Weekend, and Wanderlust.

For great gowns, dresses and lingerie, two of my favorites are Sofia and Celestina. By joining their groups and watching, you can find great deals on fabulous looks for low prices.

For shoes that can work with many outfits, be sure to find the ones with color HUDS. I use the KC Couture pumps I found on Marketplace. You can color the shoes, sole, heel and inner to match almost anything, although the basic black works great.

Makeup can certainly add to your look. My favorite mesh heads come from Lelutka and Catwa. I usually wear the Nova evoX head from Lelutka. Their HUD comes with a great basic set of HD lashes, eyeshadows and lipsticks. Also included are skin variations, lash variations, and BOM eyes. I like to use the eyes from Yoshi. That shop also has some great gift eye sets for Lelutka and Catwa.

Beyond the basis Lelutka makeup, I like to add other skins. I've been using the Ruby Rose Kiss skin from Koonz. They also provide neck blends if you're having problems with a neck line. That isn't so much of a problem with the Maitreya V5.3. For pics, using a windlight like CaIWL works great.

Then you can also add other evoX makeup. Some of the shops I like include Sugarose, Velour, Goreglam and Nuve.

Anyway, hope that helps. Watch the sales. Experiment. And of course, demo, demo, demo.