If you want BLOOD? You got it!

When I was only about a month old in SL, I found myself in Transylvania to find that the sim was packed with people, as they were having an open air event in the streets of the sim, with music, dancing, and lots and lots of blood. The event was a "Blood Bath" with the crimson fountains, and the walls, ground and avatars covered in blood. It was then that I realised that there are plenty of other people in SL who, like me, love the odd horror film, and like to get a little gory now and again. But where do you go to pick up the splatters, slices and scars to cover your avatar? Well, as part of the public service I like to provide, I had a wander around three of the best, so that you can get a little gory yourself.

The first place I visited was Defiant Designs (HERE). This store has a small selection of horror based fashion, but as with most things, it's the quality rather than the quantity that's important here. They offer blood splatters, gun wounds and bloody handprints which, when worn, look so photo-real that they make your avatar look more real just by being covered in them. The blood splatters look fresh, with light reflections, and allow you to merge them with your own clothing, in order to make you look like you are fresh from slaughtering some innocent victim. Defiant also offers other horror themed items, with the disturbing "syringe gauntlet", a wristband complete with hypodermic full of strange unidentified liquid, and a mouth attachment that makes you appear to have your mouth sewn shut. The designers also have a love of knives, with a variety of dagger arm and thighbands in a range of eye catching styles.




Bloody Hell (HERE) doesn't make anything other than wearable blood splatters, blood textures, body wounds and mutilations, and surgical scars. But what they do, they do well. The scars are particularly eye catching, looking as though your avatar's skin has been sliced open, and crudely sewn back together with thick string. If you are looking to disturb passers by, you can do a lot worse than this shop, and if you find yourself wanting it all, the store offers a "Fat Pack" of all it's items, at a vastly reduced price, so you can be as mutilated or blood soaked as you want, whenever you want.

No article on bloody clothing would be complete without mentioning, for my money, the king of gore fashion. Sinistyle (HERE) is dedicated to visceral and disturbing and bloodstained design, with not only some superb blood splatters (although the "blood bath" covers you in so much blood, splatter is an understatement), but also almost every piece of clothing they sell has either a bloodstained version on offer, or included in the pack. T-shirts, jeans, trenchcoats all covered in red. Even the superb "DNA evidence" boots, which are not only bloodstained, but leave a trail of bloody footprints behind you as you walk. They also offer a wide range of clothing items wrapped in barbed wire, razorblades, and rusty spikes, giving a full horror fashion experience to both male and female shoppers.

So take a walk on the dark side, and discover that looking like a homicidal maniac never looked so good.