damaged and broken as I am, I'm trying not to breathe

Another day, and my most challenging product shoot yet: finding a way to make the Abyssal Maw Jaw Brace from /Vae Victis\ fit me. Turns out--it can be done!



Not entirely sure it works on me, but that's a separate issue--the answer is, it can be made to fit. I'm wearing the small variant, unrigged so it can also be stretched a bit, which I did to pop the side braces out of my round cheeks. (Yes, I know. In SL you can be anything, and I still gave my avatar round cheeks. Shush.)



I started off in NuTanis with everything in teal, save for the eye details, which were in bright green.



Why does this come in pastels? I have no clue, but this is it with a pink jaw section, a bright gold cheek section, and silver eyes.



Decided to wander, and found a new building had been added, and laid down for a bit. It's been something of an exhausting day. This is it in the dark gold for jaw (sixth over from the left on the top row of the Jaw section on the HUD), the brighter gold for the cheek brace (fourth over from the left on the top row of the cheek section on the HUD), and black eyes.
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Since I was shooting through a hazy window, I picked brights for this one--aluminum white (second over from the left on the lower row of the Jaw section of the HUD), pure white for the cheek section, and bright purple for the eyes.



And finally, another really impressive HUD to play with. Eighteen shades for the jaw section, eighteen for the cheek section, and eighteen to match for the eye inset details! Phenomenal.

The downside--I pulled this to blog, uh, last month, and while I am technically within the 30 days to blog it, the hold-up means I don't entirely remember what event it was at? But it's in the main store now, and it runs L$450. Comes in full sized and 'small', and also, comes in a full-sized and 'small' BOM version as well.

And I will say--looking at the detail on this, the way it curves, I think my original idea (which, admittedly, I went with, see above) of putting it in a cyber setting doesn't really do it justice. This could go with a medieval look, a dark fantasy look, it could go straight-up, full-on elegant horror--what I'm saying is, the amount of different tints for the sections really make it endlessly functional. Demonic lord of the pit on a thrown of skulls? It'll work. Kawaii gurololi with an eyepatch in pastel pink and blue ruffles? It'll still work. I'm very impressed.