Grid Expectations

Wow, lots of great hairstyle goodies came out over the past few days, plus I came across a really cute hair store called Candy House. Here’s a bunch of my favorites…

I love the hair at ETD because the styles there almost always fit my avi right away. If I ever need to edit ETD hair, it’s usually just some minor change like moving a prim ever so slightly so that it doesn’t cover up an ear. Upon visiting the newly remodeled store, I was immediately drawn to the romantic-looking Marisela hairstyle which you see pictured here.

Using my Armidi giftcard, I was also finally able to treat myself to the Roxy style that I’ve been wanting for a while now. ^^

Another hairstyle that I adored is the Berri2 by Truth. I didn’t buy it for my main avi because it didn’t quite look right on my shape, but my altie sure looks adorable in it. There were actually a bunch of new styles that just came out at Truth and the demos are free, so it’s definitely worth your while to take a look there.

While running around some random Japanese sims, I came across the adorably named Candy House, which is owned by the equally adorably named Marina Puff. Candy House has more of a cozy boutique feel to it, with roughly a dozen hairstyles. What’s great about Candy House is that you get all the available colors in just one package for just 120L, and as if that weren’t plenty of value for your money, some of the packages contain the hairstyle with different types of bangs… again in each color.  Awesome stuff, really!

All right, instead of writing a whole lot more about the hairstyles I grabbed at Candy House, I shall simply let the pictures do the talking.

FYI — this Mocomoco style has texture change hair accessories on it. You simply click on each part to cycle through the textures. This hair is modifiable and so I plan on eventually loading some of my own patterned textures in it.

And oh my goodness… I am in love with this hair from BettiePage Voyager’s shop in Osaka. After seeing it on Natasha, I HAD to have this hair, even if it meant camping at the BP* lucky chair for it. (It’s not for sale and is offered only as a freebie from the chair.)

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Okay, and now for a completely abrupt change in subject, (because quite frankly I am too tired at the moment to come up with some clever segue)… I have two cute chairs up for sale at my shop in Juicy (the sim formerly known as La Reina).

If you’d like to give them as presents, you can do so by sending from either my OnRez storefront or my SLExchange listings.

Yay, I’m blogging on Grid Expectations now, people will actually read what I write! Comparing traffic stats between our Poseur blog and here was humbling.

Gogo teleported me to BP* because the lucky chair had a letter N. (Sucks for Niki that she wasn’t on!) She had been watching the chair there because of some fabulous hair that Triangle Caudron had posted. I can see why my circle of friends went a little chair camping mad for this hair! It can’t be bought, you can only get it from the chair.

I am calling this look my Disco Bitch look, thanks to Vivi for the excellent name suggestion.

The pose is from mine and Nikita’s shop!

Sorry for not including the location where I got the clothes.  I had several messages all asking where I got this!  I got it from a lucky chair at an authorized reseller’s store.  Only the green version is in the chair but I think there were other colors for sale too.  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Leodegrance/165/49/65 

RaC has some new hairstyle offerings. My favorites? Cherry, Princess, and the funky and unusual Lioness. <3

The picture of Lioness doesn’t do it justice… when I put it on, the way it moves almost makes it look like my avi’s underwater.  Hehe :p  If you’re curious how this will look on your avi’s head, you can get a demo for 1L.

Additional info: Skin - RaC, Tasha; Eyes - Simtropia, blue light; Earrings - Celestial Studios, Lulu color changing earrings; Shirt - <3 Cupcakes, White Lacy Shirt; Body Shape - Mela’s, aurora I

BettiePage Voyager, proprietor of the wonderfully whimisical BP*, has released three new hairstyles today, and hoo boy, talk about KEWT. >.<

She’s dubbed this series of hairstyles “heavy bangs hair”, and all of them come in a rich chocolate color that I think should work with most skintones. They’re named “pony”, “pop”, and “twin”, all of which coincides with the adorable lil’ pigtails that they sport in varying positions. Here you go, feast your eyes on these cuties (clicking the images will take you to their respective flickr pages where you can view a larger size):

As always, you can demo these for free at BP* and then pick them up for an affordable L$100 per style.

Additional info: Skin - RaC, Sofia; Eyes - Simtropia, stone deep; Body Shape - Mela’s, pink lady

My friend Gorgeous recently turned me on to BP*, a shop owned by BettiePage Voyager. She actually has three locations, and upon visiting all three I discovered that each location has at least one exclusive item that you won’t find at the other two.

I picked up this this dress and hairstyle, which I really like a lot. You know I’m really liking an outfit/hairstyle if it stays on my avi for more than two hours :p and this ensemble made it through an entire day.

I won’t go into too much detail because I really think the pictures speak for themselves. The dungaree dress and the wild ponytail hairstyle are exceptionally well-crafted, and everywhere I went people were asking me where I got my outfit from.

Other items pictured above are freebie earrings, necklace, and slippers from Lassitude & Ennui.

BP* locations:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Aoba/75/159/30
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Osaka/147/138/21
http://slurl.com/secondlife/KABUKI/140/79/28

Lassitude & Ennui:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Nouveau/71/65/30

Hair Fair 2007 has arrived! I went with Alan the other day, who warned me that “This is going to be crazy”.

Oh my god, he meant the lag. It was incredible; I saw countless grey bald people moonwalking about and booth images took a really long time to rez, with some of them never rezzing the entire time I was there. And I can’t even recall how many times I crashed!

I was IMing with Alan pretty much the whole time. Hair Fair is actually duplicated into two sites so that more people may be accommodated, so I went to one site and Alan had gone to another. He suggested removing attachments so as to lighten the load on the sim, so I took off my hair, jewelry, and AO. I drew the line at going completely naked, though.

After multiple crashes and not even being able to buy a demo, I left with the determination that I would return when there were less people logged into SL.

I returned several hours later and although things were still laggy, it was nowhere near as bad as before. Several people were shouting out advice to people to take off their hair, AO’s, and other high prim-count attachments, such as shoes. “Disable your AO, embrace the newbie waddle!” one woman shouted, hehe.

I was able to do much more during my second visit, and let me tell you, the hair at Hair Fest ‘07 was worth every damn crash I’d had to endure to get there. Some of the booths were just downright gorgeous:

I also saw several vendors there that I’d never heard of before. Curl Up & Dye was one of them. Isn’t that a fantastic name for a salon? I chuckled when I saw the booth.

I picked up a bunch of demos, and now I must admit I find myself in a bit of a quandary. They are all fab! How on earth am I going to choose just one or two?! (The following images are thumbnails with links leading to their respective flickr pages.)

Such tough decisions ahead of me!