StyleCard: Kitties Lair Gina

I just love the footwear that Babette Ultsch creates, her style is a bit more tart-ish than most of the creators on the grid, but the quality is amazing and she always comes up with something fun for us shoe fans. Babette's latest release are the Kitties Lair Gina Heels, her very first foot and toes in a shoe creation. The sole is a platform of mirror like chrome, and the uppers are available in both patents and metallic snakeskin, the heel strap is accented with a silver heart shaped buckle. The fit on these was just perfect, and the skin tone was easily matched using a drop down menu that contains basic presets and custom control for perfect match. The shoe is equipped with 11 nail polish shades. Overall I have to say that I am a fan, these are fun and attractive and will work with a variety of styles.

Visit Kitties Lair for a closer look!

The Stuff;

Shoes - Kitties Lair - Gina Sandals - Gold

Skin - Curio - JUNE - Sundust FREX, Pure 4

Hair - lamb - Unbirthday Redux - Kit Kat

Outfit - DCNY Lace Top from Hariette Outfit - Blue, DCNY Harmony Pants- Blue (released tomorrow).

Accessories - Donna Flora - Lemon Juice Set, MEZZO Cosmetics chain Bracelet.

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StyleCard: Kalnins Conqueror

Okay people, slow it down a sec... there is such thing as too much of a good thing, I think. All kidding aside it has been a whirlwind of fantastic shoe releases the past couple of days, and I am happy to announce Kalnins Shoes has thrown it's hat into the ring with it's latest, the Conqueror heels.

As with it's previous releases, the Kalnins shoe is amazingly well made and priced, with the ability to color change and customize to match almost any look you can imagine the versatility of this fun looking heeled sandal. I love the metal rivets on the criss-crossing straps and the open ankle/avatar join point which is practically seamless when worn. Another hot shoe!

Visit Kalnins for this one.

The Stuff;

Shoes - Kalnins Footwear - Conqueror

Skin - Redgrave, Leona Tan - Smokey

Hair - Pocket Mirrors, Hikaru Updo - Brown

Dress - Donna Flora, ESTER (Mini Skirt)

Accessories - Necklace & Earrings by Paper Couture, Nails (w/ Ring) from LoveSoul.

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The New Gold Standard

It is with much delight that I can finally present a new shoe from Maitreya's Onyx LeShelle and Beauvoir Rousselot, I has been far too long. The brand new Maitreya Gold Footwear Collection launched yesterday with three spectacular foot-in-shoe styles. The new shoes are as beautiful as one would expect from Maitreya, and the foot is hands down the most realistic I have seen, lifelike skin texture - easily matched to a list of popular skins or custom matched by hand from hue, saturation and lightness quotients. Another lovely feature are the nail polish options that go beyond the basic color selections to actually include multiple natural nails.

The shoes are available in single color options or bundles of shades if you can't settle on just one. The Shanti shoes (shown above in nude) are beautifully textured and feature wrapped and wrinkled ties that are absolutely gorgeous, all balanced on a stacked wood heel. The shoes are available to demo which is a very customer friendly touch, especially for shoes of this quality and price, it is important to be able to see what you are paying for.

Please visit Maitreya Gold to fully appreciate these fabulous shoes.

The Stuff;

Shoes - Maitreya Gold, Shanti - Nude

Dress - Donna Flora, CRISTINA - gold

Skin - Gala Phoenix, June Sundust, Frex/Dark - Doe 1

Hair - Analogue Dog, Gamma

Accessories - Styles of Edo, Chocolate Pearls & LoveSoul Nails.

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StyleCard: Digit Darkes Dolce Heel

Digit Darkes released another pair of foot-in-shoe pretties this week. The Dolce Heels come equipped with more changeable features than I have seen before on a shoe. A very decorative and gem accented shoe that makes matching with the bright wonderful Summer fashions a breeze. You have options for sole, leather upper, flower texture and shade, gem color, nail shades and a completely tintable base palate that makes these really special.

As with her previously reviewed Desire and Lotus Heels these shoes are certainly well made, my bone to pick remains the unbecoming dark shading one the sides of the ankle and foot that make skin matching a daunting pursuit - I was able to match the front of the foot and toes quite easily, but the side shadows remain fairly obvious.

Baiastice is a favorite for beautiful dresses, and the newly released Cotton Stripes Dress is gorgeous with it's burst of summery color. I am also a big fan of the Donnarama Gloss Skins and the beautiful creamy textures and stunning make-ups, worn here. Shopping details below.

The Stuff;

Shoes - Digit Darkes Dolce Heels Custom

Skin - Baiastice Donnarama GLOSS Sunkiss

Hair - Armidi Super Pony

Dress - Baiastice Cotton Stripes Dress - Orange

Earrings - Heureux papillon DEKO Pierce - Gold

Bracelet - Yummy Found Hearts Bracelet - Tinted

Necklace - Ume Mode Crown Pendant (Color Change)

The Sexy Spangle

COCO knocked my socks off with it's latest release, the Spangles Stiletto Heel. This sexy new shoe features a sculpted foot and toes on a sexy high leather sole with spangled toe strap, banded elastic ankle wraps, and my favorite detail, a laced up back. The Spangle Stilettos come in 3 variations - gold, silver and black toe straps - black is shown here. But at 300L$ per pair you could afford to make more than one choice.


On the plus side there is only one shoe attachment point here, making these a viable option if you like wearing a cuffed capri and don't want to give up your cuffs. Shoes are not resizable, but they come in 2 sizes and I strongly recommend you try the demo to make sure you will be happy with the fit. Color change is not difficult, it uses the same RGB and brightness button adjustments as we have seen before - but - each shoe is controlled separately, meaning it is possible that you can end up with feet of slightly different shades, or take notes of your clicks so you can duplicate on to the other.


I went for more dark and sexy with the newly released Galizie dress from The Plastik, it's cut outs and leg garter seemed to compliment the shoes well. Hair is sexy, mussed and shorter - another great style from DETOUR. Shopping Details Listed Below.

The Stuff;

Shoes - COCO Spangles Stiletto Heels - Black

Skin - Gala Phoenix JUNE Sundust (Frex)

Hair - DETOUR Flux - Brown Mix

Dress - The Plastik - Galizie Dress, Hearts

Accessories - LeLutka - Grace Earrings & Pendant (Group Gift)

Sugar and Spikes

A quick update for you on the latest from SLink footwear. Siddean Munro has 2 more great styles, created for 2 different kinds of girls... or maybe the same girl who likes to change up her style frequently.


The Hattie Sandals are a great moderate height heeled shoe with sweet straps that wrap the foot and ankle, an attractive sculpted flower ornament decorates the top of the foot. The Hattie Sandals come with texture change features for shoe color, nails, and toe rings.


For the girl who is serious about her stilettos comes the Spike Heel Stiletto, not only is the heel a significant spike on it's own, but the shoe is equiped with a dangerous set of metal spikes on the toe and the ankle strap. For the more timid, but still utterly sexy, the spikes can be removed with the click of a button on the convenient hud attachment that also allows for multiple other customizations. Look for a unique floating platform sole on this pair.

Visit SLink to see what's new.

The stuff; with Hattie - Rockberry Skin, Exile Hair, Kuso Dress, Encore Pearls, Caroline's Ring. with Spike Heels - Rockberry Skin, Magika Hair, Skin Flicks Dress, Sole Heart Key Necklace (tinted).

More Feet, Pretty Shoes.

Digit Darkes is the latest to release a foot-in-shoe creation with her Spring 2009 release of the Lotus Heels. In true Digit Darkes style the attractive platform sandals have great detail and gorgeous accent gems. Both the Base and Leather upper parts have multiple colour/fabrication options, toenails and gem stones are customizable too, making for a very versatile shoe, which is always a nice value for your Lindens. Where I do offer some criticism here is with the foot itself.

For this shoe Digit created an invisi-prim foot attachment that basically makes your avatar feet vanish, and then attached the shoe to the lower leg, an interesting method that I found to work well in hiding the foot and ankle join. The shoe drop down menu offers multiple selections for skin tone, and even included a note card recommending what tone might suit some top selling skins, as was the case with my tan skin from Redgrave. The color itself did match my skin pretty well, but it seems to me that in an attempt to up the realism on the shoe a large amount of shadow was added to the foot, making for an odd break when looked at from certain angles, as I mentioned earlier the design of the shoe itself is really spectacular and perhaps it was a windlight setting issue that gave me the deep shadowed effect. These are very pretty shoes.

You can get a hold of these sparkling stilettos at Digit Darkes Main Store.

The Stuff; Redgrave Leona Skin (Tan - Cyan), ETD Gwen Hair (Espresso), Top Part of Retro Tube Dress (Black) from So Many Styles, Artilleri Pencil Skirt (Teal), M * A * ii * K * I High Waisted Belt (Patent Black), LeLutka Clutch Purse, UnTone Drops Earrings, UZURI Bracelet.

Wired Up with SLink

I got these Caged Platforms sent to me this morning, yet another foot-in-shoe release from SLink. The truly unique offering from Siddean Munro looks like a modern art piece, with it's wire cage heel and lattice that extends from the top of the foot to the ankle. The ample platform base and tied leather ankle wrap are color changeable, as are the metals which can be set to your preferred finish. No salon visit is necessary to change the color or your pedicure, and painted details, therewas also not too much difficulty matching my skin tone, though hand entering the RGB gave me an unusual result, I eventually sorted it out with the color palate method and was happy with the look of the skin tone on the prim foot.

For the remainder of my sexy Saturday look I relied on COCO's new coverall zip-suit called 'Combinaison', which comes with black and white tube top options for underneath, but I wore mine over a bikini from SNOC which I picked up at the clothing fair. A few accessories and I was all set to step out in these sexy shoes.

Look for the Caged Platforms at SLink.

The Stuff; Redgrave Leona Skin, TRUTH Hair, COCO Coverall Suit, SNOC Bikini, SLink Footwear, Earrings by Creamshop, Bangles by DeLa.