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Something Old, Something New

The "New" would be this new outfit created by a new designer in SL.  Her name is Larue Laval, and she happens to be my sister in first life.  Ok, I helped. ;)  She plans to do her own collection under the label LaLa FooFoo.  I'm just helping to get her started in Photoshop.  Hopefully we'll do some more collaborations and she'll soon have her own boutique going.

This outfit includes a tank top, semi sheer sweater with flexi prim ribbon and loose fit cropped pants with prim cuffs to hide that icky, nasty leg bulge thing that happens with loose fit pants.  The pants are moddable, so if loose is not your thing, feel free to tighten them up.  Available in six different color combinations or as a complete Willow Pack set.

I'm very proud of her. I think she did an *awesome* job, especially for a first timer.

The "Old" in this post are some older hairstyles that I've redone with the new textures.  This does mean that all my old hairstyles are gone, I'm afraid.  I may redo some more of them in the future, I'm not sure yet.  I may just make all new hair to replace them too! :D

The four styles that were renovated are:

I've changed this one to Cutie Poofs II as I did a little more work to it than just retexture. I added more prims for volume, flexi pieces and redid the bangs.

Debutante remains mostly the same style but I did fill it out a bit and add a few flexi pieces to give it some movement.

Delish is one of my styles that I've always really liked for it's versatility, so I left it unchanged, only the texture was touched on this one.

Same thing for Streamer II:

Demos are available for all the hairstyles.

More About Hair Fair

Vee Grace put together this nice little gallery showing every booth at Hair Fair. They're shown in numerical order as they appear on the Hair Fair map.  Definitely worth a look to see what you might have missed. I've made the rounds a handful of times at least and I keep finding something new on each lap.

Check it out HERE.

And because text is boring, here's another gratuitous picture of my avatar:

Hair Fair Update Update

Oops, apparantly putting my hair in my store broke the Holy Covenant of Hair Fair.  Sooooo It's just displayed there (that is to say it's displayed only and NOT for sale) for now until after the 14th.  I'm not trying to hose anyone at Hair Fair or "cheat".  I'm honestly just so out of the loop having missed so much time moving.

Anyway, I beg a thousand pardons and shall go flog myself with something adequately painful.

Hair Fair Update

I've now added the three Annie May styles to Celestial City as well, as there have been a lot of people/problems/lag/crashing on the Hair Fair site.  Macy is still available only at Hair Fair as I don't want to mess around with the Locks of Love script.  All four styles will continue to be available in Celestial City AFTER Hair Fair, but I will start discontinuing the old styles and textures.

Hair Fair!

Hair Fair has officially begun.  I would recommend waiting awhile before attempting to enter though as over 100 people are currently struggling for access.  Remember, Hair Fair will last a full week, so performance will get better later.  If you don't make it inside now, try again when it slows down a bit.

On to the new goodies:  I have 4 new styles out, some of which have been seen here and there for a few weeks and are now available for purchase.  The "Macy" style shown above is my Locks of Love benefit hair.  100% of all purchases of that style will be donated to Locks of Love.

Three other hairs in a series are also new today.  Inspired by fun and whimsical anime hair styles, Annie May is my interepretation of a less cartoony version of some that I like.

Come by, say hi, grab some goodies and some new hair.  I've already got my eye on about 40 different styles!  With an event this size there's definitely something for everyone.  See you there!

Last Chance

It's your last chance for the 2006 limited edition Halloween Costumes, and 50% off Halloween skins. These will be gone forever after tomorrow.  I have a busy day so I'll say it now since I'm not sure I'll make it online much tomorrow:  Happy Halloween everyone!

And so this post doesn't feel like a total bump, check out this video (if you haven't seen it already) by the band "Ok Go".  This is one of the greatest videos EVER and appears to be filmed at the local health club with someone's dad's video camera and $200 worth of aluminum foil.  I can't stop watching it and wishing I had a bunch of treadmills (and an ounce of coordination).

Five New Hairstyles

So, I'm concentrating on prim based things while "Save As" is unavailable. I know there are work-arounds for it, but it's just too big a PITA to make very many pieces. I hope that it's fixed soon so I can go back to work on the new skinline.  In the meantime though, I'm keeping myself busy and entertained with prims.

Five new styles are out today:

• Cutie Poofs is a short pigtail style with nicely tapered tails that give an almost "heart shaped" hairstyle. 
• Streamer is a girly style with side buns and lots of loose flexi pieces. 
• Streamer II is similar to Streamer (obviously) but the back is filled in for a long flowing style.
• Debutante is my favorite of the bunch with a satin color change ribbon and bow on a shoulder length bob. I'm really happy with how the bow turned out. It keeps it's sheen even after tinting and without "shiny" enabled. Yay!
• Sleek is a very long, ultra flexi hair that really swings when you move! This is what I wish my hair looked like irl but I have way too much volume. *shakes fist at hair gods*

Here are the photos in no particular order:

Ok, so that was alphabetical order, but who cares!

Two new updos

I am on some sort of hair kick, I guess.  I need to make one more Charmed pack to fill my big wall o' Charmed skins, but I can't decide on theme for it and I'm still a little burned out on clothes after the last 200+ piece Lulu set, so.... HAIR IT IS! Or maybe shoes next. (Ok, Ginny? Shaddup now.)

The latest hair is two distinctive updo styles, both of which started as an attempt to make something else entirely but spun off in different directions, but I liked the end results, regardless of how far they strayed from "the plan", so I am releasing them both anyway.  Maybe I'll just keep trying to make that hair in my head and see where else it takes me. :))

My favorite of the two is the one shown above, which I've titled "Delish".  It's casual enough to wear with jeans and a sweater, but probably dressy enough to wear with a bridal gown as well. I love the versatility of the style, and add to that the color changing script, which affects the headband and flower seperately so you have almost infinite options to match your outfits. The texture on the headband is metallic to start with, so using "silver", "gold", etc. color codes gives it a really nice looking metallic finish.

Also out today is the one shown below, "Deco". Which I titled as such because the hair ornament (is that like a metallic snood? I don't know.) reminded me of certain art deco architecture (not that I'm an architecture buff, I could be way off. Who knows?).  I think it looks great with a more formal gown or with silks, if you're into that sort of thing. ;)

The headband on this one is also equipped with the color change script. It's tinted "navajowhite" in the picture to give it that sort of pale golden color, but is silver by default.

That's all for today. I'm off to enjoy the rest of my long weekend. Cheers!

Elise II

I've updated one of my best selling hairstyles. It remains pretty true to the original, with two main changes, new face framing bangs and flexible strands. This marks my first foray into flexi hair!  I must say, it's even harder than non-flexi hair, which is damn hard for me, given my obsession with perfect symmetry and my inaptitude for mathematics. Yargh!

This release happens to coincide with Dazzle Haute Couture's new  "Elise" dress, which is a gorgeous confection Ginny describes as "a girly dress for girly girls".  The tulle skirt over the mesh skirt is a great idea. It looks wonderful, and you don't see many dresses done with an overskirt this way.  The dress also has a really pretty iridescence to it, which she doesn't mention, but I think it deserves noting.  Anyway!  The dress and the hair look great together.

So... go buy them both! ;)

elka Tails

I actually made this hair (per elka's request) about a week and a half ago, but it got pushed back while Celestial City was being rebuilt.  In fact, I filed it away and forgot about it. Stumbled across it on accident today! Oops!

It's very similar to the Lulu Tails+Hat I released last time, only it's hatless for those of you who don't like hats.  I went with the straight blunt-cut bangs, again on elka's request. In fact, elka made so many requests, I had to name the hair after her. :)

On a related note: in my ongoing efforts to increase performance in the sim, I've changed the manner in which I display my hair.  Until now, I took a snapshot of every style in every color and made an ad for each one.  Not only was this a huge chore, it was a LOT of images.  I've replaced all the old hair ads with new ones that just show a texture sample.  Rather than use a miniature version of the textures, I applied them to some hair shaped prims and photographed that. I think it gives a better idea of how the texture will look on a wig.  So hopefully people won't be confused and think the prim shapes are the actual style they're buying.  I'm trying to work up demos for all older hairstyles (the newer ones already have them) to try and decrease confusion as well.

The good news is that I've taken 348 textures and turned them into 29!  I swear I can feel an improvement, but meh... might just be my imagination. Either way, I think it's a step in the right direction. I am continuing to look for ways to increase performance, without giving up aesthetics.

From now on, the hair ads will look like this: