Less than an hour to go and Hair Fair ends for another year, I could not resist this last look with a Bandana by Baiastice, so run if you haven’t got them already, they are awesome.

Full list of all styles and slurls Hair Fair 2017

Equipment Used:

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots–

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

Props, Furniture, Build –

Kitchen Set – TIA

Location –

Poses by –

SLC Body Language

Skin & Body Parts Worn:

Chloe Mesh Head (Bento) – LeLutka

Kendall Skin appliers – Glam Affair

Dynamic Mesh Hands (Bento Enabled) , Deluxe Feet & Hourglass Physique Body – Slink

Avatar Enhanced Skin Appliers : Glam Affair

Avatar Enhanced Nail Appliers : set 4 –Flair

Bandana –

Baiastice – Black (Bandana booth on each sim)

Clothes:

Bella Bustier – Tee*fy

Doliene Set Skirt and Thong – Nocturnia

Shoes :

Ayaka Heels – Breathe @ Fameshed

Ten hours left of Hair Fair 2017 and I am bandana’ing all over the place. When I grabbed this Turtle march Bandana I did so for the cuteness factor, but realised very quickly, that turtles can be so fashion too :). Especially when the band matched my olive romper.

I am off to a meeting, and I hope you all have a wonderful last day of Hair Fair 2017…

Full list of all styles and slurls Hair Fair 2017

Equipment Used:

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots–

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

Props, Furniture, Build –

Location –

Poses by –

SLC

Skin & Body Parts Worn:

Chloe Mesh Head (Bento) – LeLutka

Kendall Skin appliers – Glam Affair

Dynamic Mesh Hands (Bento Enabled) , Deluxe Feet & Hourglass Physique Body – Slink

Avatar Enhanced Skin Appliers : Glam Affair

Avatar Enhanced Nail Appliers : set  7  –Flair

Bandana :

Turtle March Bandana – Hair Fair 2017 (Bandana booth on every sim)

Clothes:

Lima Romper – Scandalize

Accessories :

Iracy Necklace – Sand – Kunglers

Happy Bandana Day to one and all, if you have not gotten yours yet, you can run over to the sims and grab them by the handful, as they will all be gone after midnight tonight.

LeLutka was unable to participate this year for Hair Fair, but to show their forever support of the event, they still made Bandanas in 6 colours for us to have for the Bandana Booths. They are stylish and elegant, and the colour options are divine. When they are only 50L each, you need to be getting everything you can, as all Bandanas each year after the event will not be available.

I hope to get another post out today, but in case I don’t know that I did grab as many as I could carry out the door, and the booth doors are wide. Teaming this one up with the incredible floor length dress by Scandalize. Whimsy and I were at The Chapter Four, saw their booth, she tpd to their main while I was still trying the demo, and a few moments later we were fatpacking all in sight. They do all the body options and their items are not only gorgeous, but seriously check out the fatpack pricing it is RIDICULOUS! – in a great way for you.

Adorning myself with some beautiful jewellery pieces by LaGyo and RedMint, you can actually see the ring this time, and these cool wall hanging pieces I grabbed at TCF as well. I hope you have all had a blast this Hair Fair, I know I did, it took me days to get all my shopping done, and I was aiming to try and show, but seriously the folder is so big I would be unpacking forever, cannot wait to wear it all though.

Be good and thank you all for your awesome IMs during the event, everyone has been wonderful, and again a huge thanks to all of our amazing Hair Creators, not only giving of their talent, but also the donations they have made are so appreciated by Wigs for Kids.

Full list of all styles and slurls Hair Fair 2017

Equipment Used:

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots–

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

Props, Furniture, Build –

Location –

Poses by –

Le Poppycock @ The Chapter Four

Skin & Body Parts Worn:

Chloe Mesh Head (Bento) – LeLutka

Kendall Skin appliers – Glam Affair

Dynamic Mesh Hands (Bento Enabled) , Deluxe Feet & Hourglass Physique Body – Slink

Avatar Enhanced Skin Appliers : Glam Affair

Avatar Enhanced Nail Appliers : set  10  –Flair

Bandana : 

Ru Wrap THAR – LeLutka @ Hair Fair 2017 (Bandana Booths one on each sim)

Clothes:

Almane Dress – Scandalize

Shoes :

Ayaka Heels – Breathe

Accessories :

Vintage Royal Crown Ring – RedMint

Nails Coffin (Slink Bento) – Empire

Coral Necklace – LaGyo

I joined Hair Fair committee in 2007, I missed the first by a month, and was so honored to be part of something so enormous. I had had the idea for Bandana Day, a day on the last day of the event, that people would remove their hair to show they care. I approached Six Kennedy (much missed) about the idea, and she spoke to Elikapeka Tiramisu and they dragged me into a skype call with a dozen hair creators. It was incredible to be part of something so important, and Elika was kind enough to let us replicate a bandana she had made with hair in the past, so that that was the original base for the first bandanas.

Everyone got on board, designers from all over the grid, and I logged in there every day for the two weeks and watched, and took in every single thing that went on. Much of that first year for me, gave us ideas to be used in years going forward, and are as much a part of  the event as the bandanas, such as bloggers day, the buses, how the booths are designated etc.

I am grateful that Six and Elika took a chance on me, and I am really honored each year to help with something so special. I used to think of ways to fundraise in RL and my mind would imagine all these things that were just not possible, they were not something I could have really been able to do. Second Life gives us the chance to help people in ways we could never imagine possible…to do things for others that span the whole world. I think each and every day Second Life enriches us, gives us opportunities that we can run with, whether it be as a creator, a blogger, a shopper or visitor, no one leaves Second Life without having in some way contributed to the bigger picture.

Yesterday I did a post on the Most Valuable Players for Hair Fair, for me it is also Six and Elika, and also everyone in Second Life, and Linden Lab (this year I remembered to leave off the S )  who also help us leading up to and during the event. So thank you to everyone that visits Hair Fair, this year and years past, in whatever capacity, you really make a difference.

Now I tried to dress warmer, as I am freezing, and added a tattoo applier layer top under my pinafore dress by Narcisse (tattoo layer as the straps are close to the body, and clothing layer will clip)  , and then of course Australianised it with thongs lol thigh high thongs no less, kind of defeated the wanting warmth part of my story, but I look fabulous so not caring, not even a little. The dress has some great colour options, and I went with one of the bonus fatpack colours. It also has texture change parts for straps, waistband, skirt and front panel, so you can rainbow yourself if you like.

Because of holding the bag, you cannot actually see the incredible ring I have on, which is bento for my slink hands, and has all the other bento hands and an unrigged option also. While I bring it up though, is that Red Mint is now selling her Jewellery in RL as well, and it looks amazing. Included is the link to her online store, and the jewellery is really lovely, and as much as possible I like to share the info of our SL creators that go RL, as it is great being able to wear items RL that way too.

Full list of all styles and slurls Hair Fair 2017

Equipment Used:

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots–

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

Props, Furniture, Build –

Boho Dreamtime Hammock Cloud – Cheeky Pea

Location –

Poses by –

Izumiya

Skins/Heads

Chloe Mesh Head (Bento) – LeLutka

Lisl skin applier Lelutka – The Skinnery

Dynamic Mesh Hands (Bento Enabled) , Deluxe Feet & Hourglass Physique Body – Slink

Avatar Enhanced Skin Appliers : The Skinnery

Avatar Enhanced Nail Appliers : set  1 –Flair

False Lash Effect – Flirt Pack – Stellar

Hair:

Thea, Terryn, Clara – Elikatira @ Hair Fair 2017 ( Redhead Sim, Middle row right side)

Clothes:

Felice Pinafore – Narcisse @ The Liaison Collaborative

Julia Jersey Top -Applier – Sn@tch

Shoes :

Rock your body thigh highs – Pink Pearl Designs

Accessories :

Vintage Royal Crown Ring – RedMint

The Doctors Bag – Coal – Black Bantam

It is like 2009 up in here, three posts in one day…oh wait it must be Hair Fair time :D. These styles are by the wonderful Vanity Hair, and if you are not aware Vanity Hair is one of the founders of the monthly event HairOlogy. Every year leading up to and during Hair Fair, they show the event such respect as to shut their doors and give hair creators the time off to focus on preparing for this annual event. we think that is so awesome of them, and it shows how strong a community Hair creators often are.

These styles are so laid back and fun, that I ended up zoning out on the water, and really chilling for a bit. A much needed rest. The styles vary from fun and a bit zany, to playful and charming with the ability to glam up if required, these are things you need from hair and Vanity Hair achieves that. I am wearing my LeLutka head hairbases with the styles, while there are also ones included, however I was also using the tattoo layer for this great wet look for face and body that Izzie’s recently released at Summerfest.

I decided to merge some pieces at this round of C88, and create my own tankini look, by using the amazing bikini bottoms by Blueberry, with the knotted tank by Spirit. Using their texture change huds to bring them together into the same colour range, black and gold and a unique take on the pieces, giving you more bang for your buck. I was able to do the same with the Love bracelets by Noir, also a C88 item and the whole ensemble ended up black and gold love.

Full list of all styles and slurls Hair Fair 2017

Equipment Used:

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots–

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

Props, Furniture, Build –

Location –

Poses by –

Donut Diva – Winx & Flair

Skin & Body Parts Worn:

Chloe Mesh Head (Bento) – LeLutka

Lisl skin applier Lelutka – The Skinnery

Dynamic Mesh Hands (Bento Enabled) , Deluxe Feet & Hourglass Physique Body – Slink

Avatar Enhanced Skin Appliers : The Skinnery

Avatar Enhanced Nail Appliers : set  1 –Flair

False Lash Effect – Flirt Pack – Stellar

Wet Body and Face – Izzie’s @ Summerfest

Hair:

Chocolate Chill, Montenegro, Queen Rhi – Vanity Hair @ Hair Fair 2017 ( Middle left side Blonde Sim)

Clothes:

Adrianna Bikini (bottoms worn) – Blueberry @ Collabor88

Road Outfit (Shirt worn) – Spirit @ Collabor88

Accessories :

Love Bracelets – Noir @ Collabor88

walkman graffiti – Tentacio

Nails Coffin (Slink Bento) – Empire

One of those things that I know how to spell without even thinking about it because of Second Life, Bliensen + MaiTai, the other thanks to Whimsy is Apothecary. It is actually a very long list, of things that Second Life brings into your real life, with learning software, spelling things you never knew you would use so often, and the many other hundreds of SL quirks that just rule our lives now.

So Bliensen + MaiTai always have such imaginative hairstyles at Hair Fair, and this year they interspersed some roleplay looks with some of their known for vintage styles. I was overjoyed that one of the dresses I just recently unpacked from sYs was the perfect look, and colours for these styles. To get that coordinating lipstick, I actually tinted one of the Ohemo lipsticks from this current Powder Pack, with the tinting option in the LeLutka head HUD. Also a LeLutka made for item, the Lashes I am wearing are from Stellar, and there are a few different styles to choose from, giving you fuller fluffier lashes, which was perfect for this look.

Full list of all styles and slurls Hair Fair 2017

Equipment Used:

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots–

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

Props, Furniture, Build –

Location –

Poses by –

Glam Steps  – Winx & Flair 

Skin & Body Parts Worn:

Chloe Mesh Head (Bento) – LeLutka

Lisl skin applier Lelutka – The Skinnery

Dynamic Mesh Hands (Bento Enabled) , Deluxe Feet & Hourglass Physique Body – Slink

Avatar Enhanced Skin Appliers : The Skinnery

Avatar Enhanced Nail Appliers : set  1 –Flair

Lipstick – Ohemo (Powder Pack LeLutka July)

False Lash Effect – Flirt Pack – Stellar

Hair:

Grimhild, Balboa, Chained – Bliensen + Maitai @ Hair Fair 2017 (far right noirette sim)

Clothes:

Wiccan Dress – sYs

sYs always bring it when it comes to their Hair Fair styles, in fact they bring it with every event I ever see them do. They have their own style by definition, and it has such a fantastic mix of Futuristic and Asian influences, with an abundance of that French eye for detail.

Wearing sYs items always gives me a feeling of rawr, take on the world, save the planet, or just take charge in general kind of feeling, you know when you cannot make time for the whole planet…we all have those days right. All three styles are fun and alluring, and the dress shirt which is also by them is a must have for me, it is incredibly easy to wear and look fabulous, and teamed up with these killer platforms that came in the Bound box, this month’s subscription, I am making plans and taking names, and getting it all done.

Only a few days left of Hair Fair 2017, so make sure you log in all your alts and get everyone restyled and fabulous, and help Wigs for Kids in the process.

Full list of all styles and slurls Hair Fair 2017

Equipment Used:

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots–

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

Props, Furniture, Build –

Location –

Poses by –

Winx @ Flair –  WinxBox – Between The Lines – Runway

Skin & Body Parts Worn:

Chloe Mesh Head (Bento) – LeLutka

Lisl skin applier Lelutka – The Skinnery

Dynamic Mesh Hands (Bento Enabled) , Deluxe Feet & Hourglass Physique Body – Slink

Avatar Enhanced Skin Appliers : The Skinnery

Avatar Enhanced Nail Appliers : set  1 –Flair

Lipstick – Ohemo (Powder Pack LeLutka July)

Hair:

Angelie, Hanabusa, Asuka – sYs @ Hair Fair 2017 (Brunette Sim far left side)

Clothes:

Kinjo Long Shirt dress – sYs

Shoes :

Heather Locked Platforms – Moda (Bound subscription box July)

Accessories :

Nails Coffin (Slink Bento) – Empire

Shirt Dresses are the perfect way to dress casually or dressy in the kind of weather everyone is having up there at the top of the world right now. They are beautiful, and Baiastice did a fantastic job with their release at C88 this round.

The carefree style was perfect to accompany any of the three beautiful styles by Mina at this years Hair Fair. She has created perfect carefree styles, that have a few features in two of the styles, giving you extra options and better fit. A recent change of textures makes her brunette colours so rich and well looked after. Mina also has a beautiful gift style in her booth at the fair, you can see HERE in the coverage of the gifts at Hair Fair.

Ready to take it on the road with this fun car by Nomad, that does have its own poses included, but I went with the ones included in a bento Ao I picked up at SLC recently.

Full list of all styles and slurls Hair Fair 2017

Equipment Used:

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots–

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

Props, Furniture, Build –

Vintage Roadtrip Car – Nomad  @ Collabor88

Location –

Poses by –

SLC Body Language Kawaii Drip AO Poses Included

Skin & Body Parts Worn:

Chloe Mesh Head (Bento) – LeLutka

Kendall Skin appliers – Glam Affair

Dynamic Mesh Hands (Bento Enabled) , Deluxe Feet & Hourglass Physique Body – Slink

Avatar Enhanced Skin Appliers : Glam Affair

Avatar Enhanced Nail Appliers : set  1 –Flair

Hair:

Fiona, Emma, Luna – Mina  @  Hair Fair 2017 ( Redhead sim middle left side)

Clothes:

Twana Shirtdress – Baiastice @ Collabor88

Shoes :

Bow Wedges – Vale Koer @ Collabor88

Accessories :

Nails Coffin (Slink Bento) – Empire

IMPORTANT LESSON LEARNED!

This Hair Fair has been a real eye opener, as in if you don’t keep them open, you will miss a lot of very important information and features. Because of Hair Fair, I tend to spend the leading up months in a bit of an ‘under a rock’ mode. While I was aware these features were a thing, I did not see the different ways they were being included in people’s products.

This is not specific to the hair featured, this is just a lesson I learned last night on another full sim shop. When trying a demo, I tend to not bother with the colour huds, I know what I like, am often familiar with the stores colours, and just look at the hair and the sizes the hair may come in. This almost bit me in the bottom last night, in a way that would have lost me some very exciting hair, and also cost the creator some lindens, because I was about to not purchase, all pouty and sad face.

I had tried on a style, loved it, was all excited about it leading up to the shopping outing, and tried the one demo option and cried. It did not fit me in the chest. Now I am used to the stores that do + options or (_)(_) options or just Breasts and every other type of naming. So seeing only one, lead me to believe there was only one. However, when I was still pouting on my Hair Fair Bus with Ashia and Vivian, I was trying to edit the bus to move it and caught my hair, when I did it showed there was more to the hair than visible.

Now again, I know that transition hair is very popular now, it has however been a thing since before I was born in SL as I remember it back in 06…but comes and goes, and it is full steam ahead mode now, as mesh makes it more desirable . However I had only seen styling HUDs included with the packs, so that if I saw one of those, I knew the hair did more, it had more options. What I didn’t know, was that some stores are doing that part in their COLOUR huds. So again, not bothering with needing to see the colours, I did not put the hud on and see the other features.

I ransacked the demo folder again, looked for a style hud, not to be seen, threw on a colour hud just in case, and as an option, was not only different looks as in forward of shoulders, behind shoulders etc, but different breast options for the same features. The sky literally opened and beams of light cascaded upon me FATPACKING IT IS! Not even joking, had I not misclicked that store would be down 1600L and I would have been grumpy all the way …. to the next booth 😛

Now that being said, the styles being featured today, also have the transition options in their colour HUD, but by the time I was trying that hair on I was a smarter hair enthusiast, and prepared for this to be a thing. It however fit me, so that would have not been a need, but it was a lovely surprise to find that there were so many bangs options for the ponytails style.

So the moral of this story, as long as it is….is GO BACK TO HAIR FAIR and anything you did not think fit you properly when you demod, may be worth revisiting and trying again, because there may be hidden options for that exact thing.

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Now onto the goodies. The styles featured are from Amacci, as the title of the post suggests, and whatever Carina has been doing of late, she needs to keep on doing, because everything is just beautiful. The options, the textures, the styles, all just work in the perfect combination of needs. Her booth is lovely, the ads are so pretty, it was just a really exciting feeling entering her space.

Another store that blows my mind everytime they release anything is Mutresse, now I have mentioned in the past the incredible amount of texture change options in every piece of her work, but this time it is simply taking the time to utilise the way you see her items in a folder. We all know that folders unpack in a mess, and one extra space behind a name can throw one item to a completely different place in the folder than the rest. Now with sizes and bodies to cater to, tops and bottoms and all that jazz, it can be chaos.

I noticed in the last Slink update that they had also done a bit of work on making sure that all notecards sat at the top of their folders, by using * at the front of each title, putting it at the top. I myself use symbols in my inventory to put things where I need them… exclamation marks put things at the top and ~ tilde symbol puts things at the bottom, which is helpful for folders inside other folders.

But what Mutresse has done is epic, and I hope many take notice…

Genius!

Not only do they have great style, but they have a complete understanding of how customers need to see at a glance what they themselves need. Now need is important too, because you all need this tunic and bikini set just released at Collabor88. The tunic is beautiful lace, and fits perfectly over the bikini, but it also fit over these capri pants by Maddict, and as often as I can, I try and find combinations you can mix, as it does play a big part in deciding what to invest your lindens in.

The bikini top and bottoms have separate ties attachments, and everything has texture change options, not only in lace similar to the tunic, but the top and bottoms also as shown come in solids versions. I personally would love to see a solid version of the tunic, but that is just a wish not a need.

I am wearing the outfit with some also by Mutresse shoes, that were actually last months C88 item, they also have many colour combos you can go with, but when I wear them in all black, they remind me of Irish Dancing shoes, and that is just too cute.

I changed skin for the first time in a week, and went with the Paris skin by YS&YS, I really like the detail on this skin, and I opted for some recent Powder Pack make up by Alaska Metropolitan, who has an incredible talent for make up. Using the tinting option on the LeLutka head HUD, I was able to make the eyeshadow a touch closer in colour to the beautiful lipstick. It tinted so well actually I will get colours for days out of it. The tinting option on your head HUD is the paintdrop icon under the posestand option.

Lastly, and if you are still reading, I applaud you, the necklace by Maxi Gossamer is also at this round of C88, and it fits so well with a little rotating and moving, no resizing needed for me. Changed the textures to ones in keeping with my theme and voila, fabulous.

Full list of all styles and slurls Hair Fair 2017

Equipment Used:

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots–

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

Props, Furniture, Build –

Boho Curtains – Cheeky Pea

Owl Fancy Lamp –Mutresse

Boho Bead and Skull – Cheeky Pea @  The Fantasy Collective

Floral Rug – Winx & Flair 

Location –

Poses by –

SLC Body Language Kawaii Drip AO Poses Included

Skin & Body Parts Worn:

Chloe Mesh Head Bento – LeLutka

Paris Skin Appliers – YS&YS

Dynamic Mesh Hands (Bento Enabled) , Deluxe Feet & Hourglass Physique Body – Slink

Avatar Enhanced Skin Appliers :  YS&YS

Avatar Enhanced Nail Appliers : set 5 – Flair

Alaska Metro Eyeshadow Lumina – Powder Pack July LeLutka

Hair:

Lani , Inia and Feray – Amacci @ Hair Fair 2017 (Noirette sim far right side)

Clothes:

Lilana Swimsuit & Tunic – Mutresse @ Collabor88

Roadie Capris – Maddict @ Collabor88

Shoes :

Vaska Flat Sandals – Mutresse

Accessories :

San Juan Skyway Necklace & Earrings – Maxi Gossamer @ Collabor88

Nails Coffin (Slink Bento) – Empire