Hello! This is Washu Zebrastripe, and Teagan has let me write some posts for Savoir! I have been in SL’s hair community for a long time, and I’m happy to help here and introduce myself to all of you! You may see me post about once a week; focusing on mesh hair and also styles that work well on darker skinned avatars.

With the new mesh feature in Second Life, we’re seeing many more designers using it in their creations. Hair is no exception, and I’ve been excited to see what would be made as soon as I heard about mesh. :)

I’ll start off this post with a new mesh hair from Alice Project.

This hair is called Sohee, and I found it on the SL Marketplace.

At first glace, it looks just like a sculpted hair. It’s pulled into a side ponytail, with the longer strands sitting both in front and behind the avatar’s right shoulder. I decided to keep the lighter color on it, instead of wearing my normal dark brown/black. The texture work is lovely and AP offers many options for darker, lighter, or wild colored tips.

So what’s the big deal about mesh? I’ll be happy to show you:

I deliberately chose a pose that was impossible with sculpt or prim hair. However mesh hair moves with the avatar, so we can see that everything remains in place against my back and chest, no matter how I move my head! With sculpts, I would have spent a long time trying to find a pose that made sure the hair didn’t stick through me.

So this is very exciting to me! I am happy to try this new feature and use a new client, if it means no more stiff hair! Additionally, the mesh is ‘rigged’ to your skull, which means that it adjusts size depending on your head size. Hopefully this means that more varied avatars can wear mesh hair, including those who RP children or other small avatars.

The down-side is that you cannot manually resize a mesh hair. It moves with your skeleton, and is firmly locked to it. This will cause a problem if you need to adjust a strand or move the hair up/down a notch. It would be impossible. Designers are trying to work around some of these issues by offering different basic options, however it may be some time before we find mesh fitting everyone.

Hair – Alice Project – Sohee – Marketplace Link – L$1 for Demo, L$200-500 for color packs.

Skin – the body co – Chocolata – In-World Link

Dress – JANE – summer maxi dress.1975.berries – In-World Link

Categories: Uncategorized, alice project, mesh, ponytail(s)
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Here are some new releases in the hair industry:

Alice Project has out a new release called Persuasion. For more details and pictures go to the store blog.

Birth has out new releases called River and Stream. For more details and pictures of these new releases go to the store blog.

Dura has out a new release called 21. For more details and pictures go to the store blog.

Iconic Couture has new hairstyle called Nadie. For more details and picture of this new release go to the store blog.

Ploom has out a new release called Lea. For more details and pictures go to the store blog.

Categories: alice project, birth, dura, iconic, ploom
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2011 Hair Fair selections from LoQ, Alice Project and Pritty.

LoQ – Liqueur

LoQ – Sake

Alice Project – Delicate

Alice Project – Elsie II

Pose: Amacci – Model Poses, Skin: Curio – Petal Pout-Pure 2, Clothes: Jane – Lace Cami Blacks, WoE – Gracelyn Jeans Steel, Eyes: Amacci – Real Eyes Brown Big, Lashes: Cake – Bedroom Lashes

Categories: Hair Fair 2011, alice project, loq
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Today’s style is from Alice Project.

The Amara style is a ponytailed style with two ponies held in place low behind each ear.   The ponies themselves have hair wound around their place before they fall forward over the shoulders and down to the waist.  The hair in front is parted on the left with a clean wedge bang angled over the corner of the right eye.

The Amara style costs $1000L for a mega pack, $400L for an xtreme, tipped natural or all naturals pack, $150L per color pack, and the demos are $1L.

Pose: Striking Pose – City Chic 6, Skin: Exodi – Dael Kauai (Pale) – He Loves Me – Dk/C, Clothes: EMO-Tions – White Sensual, Eyes: Tea Lane – Dark Brown Eyes(sqsm), Lashes: Cake – Bedroom Lashes

Categories: alice project
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Today’s style is from Alice Project. This store has recently moved and revamped so be sure to update your landmarks and check out the changes.

The Anahla style is a dual ponytail style with two thick ponies held in place just above each ear.   The hair of the ponies falls over the shoulders down the back and over the chest as well.   The bangs are parted on the far left with a wavy wedge crossing the corner of the right eye.

The Anahla style costs $1000L for a mega pack, $400L for an xtreme, tipped natural or all naturals pack, $150L per color pack, and the demos are $1L.

Pose: GEEZ – 008, Skin: Exodi – Dael Maui (DkTan) – He Loves Me – Dk/F/C, Clothes: Fashionably Dead – Seasons Hunt Babydoll, Eyes: Tea Lane – Dark Brown Eyes(sqsm), Lashes: Cake – Bedroom Lashes

Categories: alice project
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