This is mostly just going to be pics. These are the dresses that Kimmera Madison-Fall designed for me to compete in for Miss Ebony International. Diana is on sale as of a few weeks ago so please go snatch it up if you just love it. Thanks again to her and for one of my students for reminding me that I needed to post these lol. Good night all.
Okay so I've been MIA a lot between classes, RL and Miss Ebony International. As of yesterday, two of those things have been taken care of a bit lol and this weekend will see another great crop of graduates leave MIOS before we take a break for a few weeks. Yesterday, the Miss Ebony International finals were held and four hours or so after it all started it was over. Congratulations are due to all the girls because it was a long grueling experience from start to finish in that the challenges were more time intensive than I could have ever thought and waiting patiently through 3 hours of questioning was slightly traumatic. However, I made it all the way through my first contest that was at least partially based on my own skill set and appearance. I mean I did Miss Fashion last year but that was mostly based on the ability of my designer and my styling of those designs. I came in third then, I did not do as well with MEI. Crashing as I'm answering a question probably didn't help and I'm not sure that I totally answered my next question from Frolic Mills but I did make the top ten and was happy and slightly stunned by that. My designer in this contest, the always great Kimmera Madison, was happy with how I presented her work so I can't really ask for more than that. I'll take photos and plaster the blog with them in a few days and then both dresses will be up for sale at her shop. Thanks to all that came to support me yesterday--I seriously appreciate you all waiting it out with me. I get the grind of what a major contest is like now and while I am SOOOO not ready for another right now I might sign up again for one in the future. I'm glad I had this experience and will continue to try to push myself every chance I get but for now, I'm enjoying the nap I have had for the last 24 hours.
The weather here is making me stay inside more but it's also making me sleepy. So when I'm not busy with scheduled activities in SL I've really not been on as much as I could have been. The Miss Ebony International pageant is winding down and I have to say that regardless of what happens it has been an interesting experience that has pushed me to develop new traits and handle lag is new and exciting ways. Next Sunday is the final competition (which will be held at the same stage as Mister Virtual World was) and I have to say being backstage at Patch was an interesting experience. The backstage area is gorgeous by the way but it is mildly intimidating to know the caliber of models that have competed there but at the same time it felt totally natural to be there and the girls were great as normal. I hope that I do Senegal proud in great outfits that Kimmera Madison designed for me and let me preview a few weeks ago. Both make me look like a regal African princess and it will be an honor to rock our final challenge in them.
Normally I'm not super tardy with pictures but my brain was having styling block with the photos for the Argentine tango challenge that is due later today. Thankfully my partner was willing to dance with me and take my photo so as soon as he can finish editing it I'll post it to flickr. I have a few others to add from the other runway challenges and I'll upload one of each of those to this as well. I'm afraid my sexy edgy military costume started to look like a campy futuristic airline stewardess but ehhh I liked playing with so it wasn't so uniform like. And I went all burlesque for the music challenge since my original thought probably wouldn't have made much sense. But for those of that remember the early 90s and George Michael he had a video that he wasn't in at all--which at the time was groundbreaking apparently--but it was populated with runway models ( Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Tatjana Patitz, Cindy Crawford, and male models John Pearson, Mario Sorrenti, and Peter Formby). It wasn't the first time music and fashion mixed but it always stayed in my mind. Both my partner and good friend said it would be too random especially since the video wouldn't play along with it. Regardless, love the song and I'm gonna include the video along with the photos. Have a great weekend and for those that I'll see next Sunday good luck, thanks for your support and woot.
Oh and there is another surprise coming but until it's set just let me leave you with man it's so amazing.
So I just got through eating dinner and trying to recover from a week of being on emergency call which always makes me more tired than I imagine even when I don't get calls. I just went through week two of our challenges for Miss Ebony International as well. Week one was a runway challenge taking our lovely Hucci asymmetric swimsuits but with a Lion King theme as the unifying thread. So we had to choose a character from the story to portray. For some reason my brain leaped to Scar and I did everything I could to pull it off. I have pictures below so you can tell me how I did. They haven't been touched up at all because I wanted to get these up before I came up with a reason not to do so. Week two's challenge was a photo one in which we display our style and what we are comfortable wearing. I did a vintage look circa Amelia Earhart because I didn't to recycle anything in my vintage folders and also didn't want to stray too far away from who I really am as a model or SL resident. You can see it on my flickr page if you want to check it out but I didn't snap any new ones specifically for the blog. And great big shout out to Kimmera Madison and her totally kick ass store for 1) providing me the lovely furry type collar from a dress at her store and 2) agreeing to help me with the outfits for Miss Ebony International. She's such a treat and friendly and for some reason we're on the same page with the design thoughts so yeah Kimmera and Tres Beau.
Let's see, what else do I need to tell you? Maniera's academy is still great and I love being able to teach with them as it does keep pushing me to reach beyond my normal boundaries and be creative in how information is relayed. And they are just a great group so it's easy to go to work. I submitted again for Miss Essence of Ebony, I think I may have mentioned that last post, and was notified yesterday that I made the cut for the next casting and will be searching the grid for a look that screams this month's country. Thankfully I get a few weeks to pull it together since the holiday will make me more likely to just forget about everything. That weekend is the third challenge for MEI too so it will be busy busy.
Without further adieu, here are the photos and you guys have a great day.
