it's the weekend baby!?!?!?!

Ok so yesterday I assumed I'd have a relatively good weekend with little to do but attend rehearsals and shake my moneymaker on the JCNY runway---okay so maybe shake is a bit of an exaggeration but I was gonna be down there posing. Well I was wrong of course. First my late evening appointment to straighten my hair was postponed till this afternoon. Now I told her then I had an appointment at 6 and needed to be out of there. But any woman any where, and some of you men who have been waiting for us women, know time moves like molasses on the weekend in a hair salon. What should have taken a few hours, three at most, took 5 instead. So of course I was late for my appointment and rushed back home. The appointment was dress rehearsal for the Model's Workshop runway show tomorrow. Thankfully they were very understanding and I think I did well for the part I was there but I soooooooooooooo hate being late.

I've also been looking at random contest notecards coming my way and some things look interesting and others well just don't. Most of them want you to join their update group, which in the day of limited group space, is a slight problem. If SL ever did expand the group limits no issues at all but I have been leaving groups left and right these days that I don't really need or aren't active just in order to keep the 20 ish I have now. Not a lot of room to play with. That and because I am being more active with the modeling I'm wary of certain types of contests and have just had some odd interactions with a few of the contest promoters I've seen. Granted it could be me and my perception of them may be skewed but it makes me hesistant to enter. And that may be to my detriment, cause hey exposure is exposure. But I have to wonder if exposing myself to repeated rejection at the hands of the same person is even remotely logical lol. Ahh well, we live and learn.

My time as a showcase model for this month is winding down. Monday the May winner will be announced and I will take a break. I've loved doing what I'm doing but it's a bit tiring after awhile especially when you're there basically by yourself. It's great when the other models are there but everyone has noted the fatigue that sets in after awhile. I will definitely be applying again though, sometime next month for sure. It's a fantastic opportunity and everyone should take the chance if you are given it.

The last thing I will ramble on about is my unfortunate shopping habit. I say unfortunate primarily because I don't need any more of anything I buy really. I have a ton of formal dresses and hair and skins and shoes but I so hate when I hear about a sale. I will check it out if nothing else and every now and then I manange to not buy anything there. Alatiel caught me last night and Sascha's mainly cause I wanted a purple dress for Monday---Monday is wear purple day in honor of those still in the middle of a cancer battle. I also stumbled upon Savvy Avvy which oh my goodness if you have never been there by all means check it out. And then I finally got over to Maitreya's hair store. I love several of them and you can't be 700L for a fatpack of hair. I seriously doubt I'll need white hair but dang it I have it now lol.

All righty, enough of me. Have a good one boys and girls

Rouge

Incredible Randomness

I really meant to come update the blog last night with my random shopping adventures. I try not to get shopping happy on SL because I can quickly become bankrupt trolling my favorite shops. And I try really hard to ignore the sale notices because that's like invitations to free crack lol. But this weekend Pixel Mode was having a 50L sale so I couldn't pass that up right?!? One problem, I was fixed in my head that it was PixelDolls lol as I had been there and seen similar sales lol. Well not so much and there were lovely things there and I found the cutes shoes EVER along with a great fat pack of boots. I tell a few friends and fellow models on the JCNY runway and vow to stop spending lindens for the day. One tiny problem, turns out PixelDolls was also having a sale so of course I traipse over there and it's 50L/100L feast. And I joined the update group and oh my that was group gift heaven. By all means if you haven't joined their update group please do, as well as the one at Deviance which gives out lovely things as well. As a random aside, update groups are the bestest. They don't eat up group spots and don't ever seem to crash my inbox with tons of messages. Yeah update groups.

Okay so after my day of shopping and several hours on the JCNY runway I got an unexpected instant message. Unexpected and yeah fantastic. I was selected to be Model of the Week for SuperElite which ummm rocks. You can read all about boring little old me on the blog--link is in my blogroll. As soon as I remembered how to save a texture to my hard drive I was able to use the great picture that was taken for my first JCNY submission. I'm not sure what I did to catch anyone's radar but thanks to whomever thought of me and I am incredibly flattered to have been chosen. I should get back to trolling SL and prepping dinner so we can eat all afternoon and watch basketball.

Love ya,
Rouge

Surprise Surprise

Okay so I was fully prepared to log on Wednesday night and tell you all about my JCNY experience and how fantastic the week had been. And that I had really enjoyed the time and was sorry to see it end. I can still tell you all of those things because it was a great week and I did learn a lot and make some new friends as everyone talks about. The girls were fantastic and friendly, it was a good boost to my confidence in general and has encouraged me to keep entering other contests. Not to mention it's been interesting talking to all the people who wander over to the runway because you never know what the conversation is going to be like and how much you're going to enjoy it. I have to say that it's been encouraging to hear all the well wishes from those that do stop to speak and it's been great encouraging other people to apply. Being on the runway has also made me think I kinda like doing this and I think I might be good at it. So as I was saying before I started rambling there. I was prepared to come and tell you all of those things. But as I was wrapping up my time on the runway the notice came out about the new models for Week 4 and yours truly was on it again. So were a few girls from last week which rocks cause I like talking to people and everyone has been great like I said before. So maybe next week I'll wrap up what it's been like to be on the JCNY runway and all the stuff I've learned.

Speaking of learning. Via the "model looking for work" group in SL I learned about another group "Model's Workshop" that was hosting a runway show for less experienced models. Hey that sounds like me and I did jump on it and got selected along with the rest of the other models that applied. Not all of us will be in the show due to scheduling issues it looks like but I could be wrong as I'm on mid-afternoon to late evening on SL. Anyhoo they also do a great job of informing you of random thing you might want to know about modeling from poses to shoes. They host free workshops that are great and encourage conversation. If you are new the modeling scene join both groups if you can make space. They have helped me greatly in hearing about castings, contests and the like. I'm debating entering a few other contests but I think I will. The worst thing that could happen is I get rejected. Best case I'm all over the place and tired when I log off because I've worked my pixelated booty off. Till next time.

Yeah Me!

Okay so now that you know who I am and a little bit about me I have happy news to share. Since I reserved the name for this blog I was stunned--and I mean that literally--to have been chosen to be in the JCNY MODEL'FEST showcase for Week 3 of May. I had no conceivable idea that I'd be selected but I figured it might be worth a shot, if nothing else it would give me a chance to take new photos and work on my styling a bit. It's been a great experience. I've met a lot of girls who are actually in different agencies or groups with me and it's been a sharefest of sorts. Landmarks for clothing and skins, ideas for shots, ideas on styling and posing in general have all been a part of the last week for me which has been again just fantastic.

The same day I hit the JCNY runway for the first time I found out that I got accepted for a runway show with Model's Workshop. Another opportunity I didn't actually anticipate getting but so not turning it down. My first practice is tonight actually and I have gotten all my clothes ready so yeah. Just need to see if I can find what I want to in way of new poses or altering my huddle. Ahh well let me try to get that ready so I'm not rushing this afternoon.

Welcome Everyone

Not sure who I'm saying welcome to just yet as no one really knows the blog exists just that it was a work in progress. I wanted a custom header so that took a while to teak and then to format correctly for the blog. I called myself being all enterprising and wanting to create the whole thing from scratch, which I may do at a later point, but 2 hours and a massive headache later I scrapped those plans while looking for the right background and discovering this little premade wonder. So here we have it the first blog of Rouge Anthony. I chose the title because well natural everyday Rouge is curvy in RL and SL. I love that I can be anything in SL but didn't want to ignore the day to day aspect of who I am either. That being said I'm a Second Life resident who has recently gotten more seriously involved in the fashion side of things. I have been signed to a few agencies since last year but I have been working much, a large chunk of which I can lay at my own feet because I haven't been forcing the issue or doing as much as I could to make myself model ready.

This year I signed up for formal training and completed my first set of classes at SuperElite. Great group of folks which gave me good insights and an idea of what kind of issues I might have in the great big modeling world. I was hired by the agency aspect of SuperElite upon the completion of my Elite class and will hopefully be doing great things with them in the near future. At present, I'm signed to SE, DejaVu Modeling Agency and Ebony Elite Modeling Agency. I also finally signed up for a variety of model resource groups which is helping move things along quite well. I want to write about that in another post though so I'll hold off for now.

I'll be tweaking the blog roll as things go on and wanted to say a bit about why I included Agency Report. It could be viewed as a trash blog by some because when an agency is getting bad feedback they seem to be getting roasted over an open fire. However, for new models sometimes warning of any kind can stop a bad experience from occuring. And it can also reconfirm that other agencies are fantastic to work for or that training with a particular academy is great as well.

Hope all is well for those that have managed to stop by and keep it curvy.