Dark Eden Girl Party Saturday

I just wanted to post a quick reminder that the Dark Eden Girl April party will be this Saturday on May 3rd, 8pm to 10pm or whenever we feel like stopping. You only have a few more days to get your votes in.

This month has been one of the closest in recent memory, all four girls ... err three girls and one boi... are doing very well in votes and the race is neck and neck. Your vote could really make the difference!


This month we are joined by the lovely and sensual DJ Nethermind Bliss who will be spinning tunes for us in the new improved totally remodeled Yume Club in Olive. Join us for breaking in the new digs!

Dark Eden wins Spacejunky Killer Coat Contest!

Well actually we tied with Bare Rose, who produced a very different and very phenomenal coat for the competition. Now you may be asking, what is this all about anyway? Well this is about a band called Spacejunky, which is ... difficult to categorize exactly. They're an RL/SL band that has gotten a lot of attention from CNN and magazines galore and is busily taking SL by storm.

They had a contest recently to make a jacket for the SL video of their new song 'Killer Coat.' Bare Rose and Dark Eden tied for the top honors and both our coats will be shown in the video. For me, being considered with Bare Rose is a true honor. As some of you may know, I based much of my business model and design philosophy off of the trail June Dion blazed. It is a personal milestone to be put in the same category as her.

Anyway the coat is a semi customized version of the Mania set. Look at the beautiful picture below. It is of Shakti, lead singer of Spacejunky, taken by the very talented Izzy Cole of Cole Photography. I don't think the set has ever looked better!

Look for the new video and more big news about Spacejunky at their website or Ning ring thing.

Wheelies Swag from Dark Eden

Sasy Scarborough has been putting together a benefit... thing (don't call it a charity Etain!) for a great club called Wheelies, I'm sure its all the buzz of the fashionista world. Well I put up a few items from Dark Eden to benefit Wheelies too. It seems like a great cause and a great bunch of folks... part of our extended SL family going the extra mile for each other.

Anyway first up I have been on a jacket kick and I made /yet another/ variant of my latest jacket design, the Wheelies VIP jacket:


Isn't it lovely. Be the toast of the club in this sleek black latex jacket. Take off the sleeves for a vest look. Take off the bottom sleeves for a 'rolled up' look! The possibilities are endless! (Well there's three options that's not exactly endless is it?)

Next I put up some boots and skirts in red and blue since that's kind of the colors in the logo. My Sarubobo skirts, since they are good luck charms and this seems like a great opportunity to give out some luck, and my new stripped boots, because I think they're super hot.




You can currently find these at my store Dark Eden in its new location in Olive. Look for them soon at the Wheelies event on Sunday! Look on Scarborough Flair blog for details.

Dark Eden Girl (and Boi): April

We are proud to announce the Dark Eden Girl Finalists for April '08! These are the first finalists that will be voted on in our new swanky digs in Olive! So if you want to come down and vote for one of the girls (or boi) pop over to Olive! As usual, our finalists submitted both a screenshot and notecard detailing their wonderful outfits. We have one returning dark eden girl finalist, Ocelot Zelmanov, good luck this time! Also we are under a City of Lost Angels blitzkrieg, we got a ton of great entries from CoLA girls and one CoLA boi! It was hard narrowing it down, but of the many CoLA entries, we selected Terry Toland, who I believe is a Supernatural faction GM, Alushee Essex, an angel, was the first guy daring enough to enter this girls' contest, and while I don't think that Jaimie Destiny is officially a member of the Brood demon faction, she did take her picture in the devilishly delightful New Gomorrah sim. There were several other lovely CoLA babes that we simply couldn't fit in this month, I hope you all will enter against next month!

Good luck to all our April finalists!

Alushee is our very first Dark Eden Boi entry! I have always said that if a guy wanted to enter, he'd have to go head to head with the girls, and Alushee has risen to the challenge admirably! Isn't he adorable?

Name: Alushee Essex

Hair: Lucy, from Kin

Tail: from Dragon Keep

Boots: Mistweave Cephalopod From Dark Eden.

Waist. arms and wrists. Cephalopod Skiken Bondage Silver Set.

Wings. Silver eagle wings from Pinion Feathers

Skin: Malice White from SLX

Ears: Made by Me! (Made by Alushee that is)

Jaimie's entry kept it short and sweet:

Hair from Zero style

Skin by Minnu Model

and the outfit from Dark Eden :) (said outfit is the Teeny Primkini set in Bloodrage color)

Hair: Mairi in black by Kin Keiko

Skin: Another Skin by Eloh Eliot, with makeup and modifications by Ocelot Zelmanov

Eyes: Intense Ocean Eyes by Sin Skins

Prim Eyelashes: Fluff by Sin Skins

Tattoo by Ocelot Zelmanov

Pasties: Black Pasties by Dark Eden

Jacket: Pink Latex Jacket by Dark Eden

Skirt: Nu Kua skirt in Midnight by Dark Eden

Shot in studio, high over Hippotropolis, using Second Life Windlight.

Terry was good enough to submit not just what she was wearing but the thought process that went into selecting her very creative look:

I'm a huge fantasy fan and I really wanted to do something original. While I love the disturbing adorable Medb set, I wanted to shine the spotlight on something new. While wandering through the store for inspiration, my eye caught the Shibari set. My gaze went between the coiled ropes and the bound fairies in my outfit before I was caught up with glee- I knew what I was going to shoot! After strapping up and shooting, I'm happy to present my entry, "Bondage Fairy". I used a combination of basic lighting and environmental change to create the atmosphere, and the background is part of the *CWS* Photography System (version 3.0).

This outfit was created with:

- [DE] Shibari Silver Chain set (the primary focus), with some personally modified additions: a 'nice' tag from the White Shibari Tags set group gift added to the top and a mouth-gag made of the same pieces as the Shibari Silver Chain. ((Dark Eden sim))

- Personally modified dragonfly wings, created with parts from the Medb set. ((Dark Eden sim))

- Nomine's Ultralight - Glossy Viridian skin. (((Nomine sim))

- Intense Violent/Obsidian Eyes by *Sin Skins*. ((Sin Skins sim))

- ETD's Lily - Black hair (slightly modified so pieces didn't go into my ears). ((ETD Isle sim))

- Mystic-style jewelry ears in the Fairy style and Natural tones (Tarnished metal and Blush skin used) by *~*Illusions*~* ((Carnivale sim))

New @ Dark Eden: Stripped Set

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We at Dark Eden are proud to present the Stripped set. This variant of the Mania set works perfectly with it. Get both sets and you can mix and match the pieces all you want. The set includes a jacket belt and boots, all designed as a latex body with oodles of straps wrapped around anything and everything possible, bound by metallic “X” shaped fasteners.

It is designed with a back logo feature, as I think all jackets should have. I figure most people will want to use their own personalized logo. The set includes detailed instructions for how to do this. Please read them if you are uncertain how to do it. I have, however, included 12 logo designs with the set which you can switch through with a simple click on the logo prim in back. Also, to help you customize your look, the logos inclue a color change feature. Simply type “/4 jacket (Colorname)” to change the logo to almost any color you can imagine! A list is also included with the set.

Each 350L set includes two sizes of jacket and belt and one size of boots, with 19 prim pieces per set and 3 glitch jacket layers. All nine colors are included in one mega set for 1500L for all nine colors.

The Stripped Mega Set is is a variation of the Mania mega set and works perfectly with it. Get both sets and you can mix and match the pieces all you want. The stripped boots are latex straps bound by metallic “X” shaped fasteners. The stripped boots are designed as a latex body with oodles of straps wrapped around anything and everything possible, bound by metallic “X” shaped fasteners.

The Stripped Boots are 200L per color or 900L for a mega set of all nine colors.

Dark Eden has Moved!

Dark Eden is getting back to basics in a big way. We have discovered that bigger isn't necessarily bigger and that our island sim, while lovely, was not necessarily the best way to serve our customers' needs. So we have stepped back and as part of a larger reorganization, we are leaving our island home behind and returning to the mainland! This time we have landed near our old location in the neighboring sim of Olive, thanks to our good friends Flip and Jen! Thank you so much both of you!

The old island sim store will be open at least til the 1st of the month but the new Olive location is already open for business! All new activities, such as voting for Dark Eden Girl, Dark Eden Girl announcement parties, etc, will be at the new store.

I'm in love with the new store location. The longer I am there, the better I feel about this new course of action. I am getting back to the two things I love most: making fun and funky clothes and hanging out with my dark eden girls (and bois!). I invite you all to come down, take a look at our new direction and please let me know what you think!

New @ Dark Eden: Mania Set and Boots

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"She is mounted on her chariot, the queen of sorrow and sighing, and is goading on her steeds, as if for outrage, the Gorgon child of Night, with a hundred hissing serpent-heads, Madness of the flashing eyes." -- Euripes, “The Madness of Heracles”

We at Dark Eden are proud to present our latest outfit set, Mania! The set is named after the goddess Mania, one of the most mysterious and powerful of greek mythological figures who is capable of possessing both gods and mortals alike. That mad intoxicating power was my inspiration for this daring set.

The jacket is designed as a latex body with oodles of straps wrapped around anything and everything possible, as is the Dark Eden signature, but with ridiculous amounts of spikes and chains wrapped over those! The set includes a jacket, belt and boots. It also works in conjunction with the earlier prototype Latex jacket if you want to tone down the spikes and chains a bit.

It is designed with a back logo feature, as I think all jackets should have. I figure most people will want to use their own personalized logo. The set includes detailed instructions for how to do this. Please read them if you are uncertain how to do it. I have, however, included 12 logo designs with the set which you can switch through with a simple click on the logo prim in back. Also, to help you customize your look, the logos include a color change feature. Simply type “/4 jacket (Colorname)” to change the logo to almost any color you can imagine! A list is also included with the set.

Each 350L set includes two sizes of jacket and belt and one size of boots, with 19 prim pieces per set and 3 glitch jacket layers. All nine colors are included in one mega set for 1500L for all nine colors.

Also, the boots are available by themselves. They sell for 200L per color or 900L for all nine colors.

Dark Eden Gives Back

We at Dark Eden are always experimenting with new and interesting ways to give back to our customers and attract new ones! I'd like to announce not one but TWO new give back programs for our amazing customers.

I have set up two giveaway chairs in our main store. They way it works is you sit in the chair for a preset amount of time, and at the end of it, it gives you a gift. One is set for 45 minutes, one for 30 minutes... that seems like a fair amount of time to get something cool I hope!

We'll be changing up the giveaways now and then but for now, on the experimental first run, we used the Grey Latex Jackets for the 45 minute chair and the Sarubobo Punk Skirts for the 30 minute one.

Also, as a thank you to all members of the Dark Eden Girls group, I am sending out the White Nylon 'Nice' sales tags to all group members. When you join you will also receive all the latest news and updates regarding new releases, parties, news, etc. I will be sending out new group freebies from time to time as well, so stay tuned!

New at Dark Eden: Naughty and Nice Shibari Tags

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Dark Eden presents the Naughty and Nice shibari sales tags. They are intended to be a sales tag for human property. These tags have a texture changing feature that lets you customize the message to let people know you are available and exactly what for. The 50L packs come in two color options, black or white nylon, and include collar and wrist cuffs for both hands. The 150L pack contains all color and tag texture options.

I've made two variants to these tags. The first, the “nice” tags are a little spicy but still tame enough for most audiences. They include eight messages: Feed Me, Pet, Bad Girl, Good Girl, Bad Boy, Good Boy, Be My Master, Be My Mistress.

The second, “Naughty” pack includes more risque messages suitable for a hardcore audience willing to go to the extreme: Free Fucktoy, Whore 4 Sale, Pain Slut, Humiliate Me, Use Me, Cum Dumpster, Cum Slut, Anal Slut, Public Slut, Public Property, For Sale, Fucktoy 4 Sale.

Obviously the Naughty Tags are not for everyone, use at your own risk!

Changing the textures on the tags is really simple but in case some people are confused I thought I would include these instructions.

Each tag includes a simple texture change script.

This script will change the texture displayed on the tag by clicking it with your mouse. Once clicked, the script will randomly pick one of the textures stored within the tag prim. Since it is random, it might take a few clicks to get the message you want. Sorry that's the best I can do with my meager scripting resources!

I have included 12 textures in the naughty tags and 8 in the nice tags. If you want, you can add textures of your own design to it. Simply drop them into tag prim and they will be included in the randomization.

If you have any you hate and don't want to display, simply delete them from the contents of the tag prim and presto! They'll never come up again!

If you have any further questions, please IM Etain Peregrine!

Thank you for shopping Dark Eden!

Dark Eden Girl March: Shay Daviau

Congratulations to Shay Daviau, our newest Dark Eden Girl! She looks stunning in the often overlooked Primkini design and also incorporates some beautiful work from our sister store Ookami Ningen. Shay is another entrant who tried a few times before getting the big prize. Congratulations Shay you earned your Dark Eden Girl crown!

This also means we are officially accepting entries for April. Here is how you enter:

• Take a screenshot of yourself in world. MUST be a screenshot, textures will be disqualified.
  
• Write up a notecard describing all the clothes, skin, hair, etc you are wearing and where they are from. Look to previous dark eden girls for examples.
  
• Attach the screenshot to the notecard (just drag and drop it in!)
• Send the notecard to Alexander Stygian.

Its just that simple. I know its a bit of an extra complication but I think its worth it.

Congratulations to you again Shay! You earned it!

Join us TONIGHT, grid permitting, Saturday, April 5th at 8pm to 10pm + SLT at the Yume Club in Dark Eden. We'll be naming the Dark Eden Girl for March 2008. We're happy to announce that this month we will be serenaded by the Trinala Show! DJ Nala Galatea and DJ Trinity Serpentine will be spinning tunes while we collect the last few votes for the Girl of the Month! Please join us for a wild night!