"Horror Show"? Oh, I though she was Russian!

Say what you will about Goth, but one thing it doesn't lack is variety. Sure, most aspects of it revolve around death and pain—physical and emotional—and for some, gore. But only the stauch cross-up-their-asses Gother Than Thou types will deny that there are so many styles that encompass what Goth "is". Personally, I never felt the appeal of the latter two—pain and gore—but I am open-minded enough to understand the appeal.

My point to all of this is that Horror Haute has been a challenge for me. The good kind of challenge. The kind that expands the limits of my creativity as I strive to balance that which I find aesthetically pleasing with the Horror theme of the event. I'll freely admit that I don't always hit the mark, but I'm always satisfied with the results. It's a challenge that I look forward to in the coming months.

This month I blended a little old with a little new. One of my first creations was the Bloody Tears brow piercings, and it remains one of my favorites. I've been wanting to use the animated blood pendants again in something, and after a bit of brainstorming and prim slinging, came up with the idea for wings. To give them an extra horror twist, I made them into piercings and added an optional blood layer for the hooks.

I'm really happy about how the blood layer came out this time. I've done blood layers and tattoos in the past, but I was never 100% satisfied with them. Working with prims is one thing, for me that's easy. Making clothing layers is the huge challenge. And it's made me admire the people that can really pull of beautiful clothing that much more.

Shape: Mine
Skin: *Rag Dollz* Deadly Rose
Hair: [Nikita] Rocked Hair - Coke Cherry (2012 Hair Fair)
Eyes: Faerycat Designs *FCS* Mesh Eyes - Wine (2012 World Goth Fair)
Tattoos: [White~Widow] Hiver (face)
              {VR} Holistic Haven (body)
Piercings: @->~ InSpired Designs Chained Ear Piercings ~ Ruby
                 @->~ InSpired Designs 'Captive Flight' Wings (July Horror Haute)
Pants: ~.:.Hysteria.:.~ The darkness (July Horror Haute)
Feet: E&A mesh feet


Backdrop: !~! TechStylez  !~! Crypt Hangout MCH
Poses: Leafy 'Of Motion' (#1 and #3)
           IOS 'Claudia 1' (#2)