Jolie Femme

Brad

2010-10-16T23:51:00.000-07:00

I think this is the 4th style for men I've ever made. I thought I would try something new again. It is built with all sculpts, no flexy. It will also require a tattoo layer hair base, which I will put into all of the boxes with this hair.

The hair is 157 prims. That's quite a bit, but there are only 4 sculpts and 2 hair textures to load.

Each sculpted prim is split into 7 pieces (157x7). So it may actually look like there are over 1000 pieces of hair. While not perfect, it is certainly a step in the right direction for more realistic looking male hair at my store.

Last thing about this hair, please try the demo. This hair sits rather close to the sculpt and some shapes will not be able to fit in this style. :(

I'll probably price this at 220L and 800L for the mega pack. This will include the tattoo hair base. If your viewer doesn't support the tattoo layer yet, do yourself a favor and get one. :-)

Thanks for looking.

I may be hiding for a while working on Mesh Hair on the beta viewer. I can't wait.

;-)

Carrie

2010-09-12T06:05:00.000-07:00

I've been working on this style since the middle of August and it just kept taking such a long time. I just wanted to do something really special before my wedding on the 18th and honeymoon the rest of the month.

So here it is named Carrie, since this is based on a hairstyle that Carrie Underwood has worn.

Carrie is perhaps styled with a little more sculpt than I have used in the past to hopefully create less flickering and not such a sudden contrast between moving hair and static hair. There is tons of layering in this style. Adding a hairbase will also nicely add to this style.

At 147 prims, priced at 245L for regular packs and 825L for mega packs. I really put my best effort into this one (likely over 30 hours total).

As always, please try out the demo. As much as I try, I can not always test every shape out there and there will be shapes that will not fit into this. The demo is free and doesn't bite. My worst IM is someone saying they bought hair and don't like it and then want to return it.

Thank you once again for looking.

PS - Bought the nice gone at Blaze and its called Sophisticate. Everything else including the shape by JF.

The cost of making hair.

2010-09-05T00:46:00.000-07:00

The next hairstyle named Carrie (Carrie Underwood) I am making will require two new sets of textures to download at 50 colors each. This alone will cost 1000L in upload fees. Yikes!!! Now add on about 25 sculpts that is another 250L. Holy Cow!! Lastly, two uploads for the ad, 20L.

Why so many textures and new ones? Well I like to make new ones and keep things fresh. Or improve upon old textures. Things have certainly changed since the beginning of prim hair when one texture was good enough.

Marci

Tattoo Layer Hair Base V3

2010-08-23T22:17:00.000-07:00

First of all and most important is that this can only be seen in viewer 2.0 or higher.

I will be putting all Jolie Femme Hair colors available as one purchase for 10L, the price of one upload.

This is version 3 already. I believe there will be a version 4 someday down the road as I try a few more times to make this look even better.

The colors won't always match perfectly. SL does wonderful things like lighting prims and avatar completely at different lighting levels. You will notice this more with the lighter colors.

For 10L, I think this is a good option to have in anyone's inventory with Jolie Femme Hair as the colors will match up well.

Also these will have modify permissions for any tinting that is wanted.

Thanks for looking!

Monique with 2.0 Hair Base

2010-08-08T02:17:00.000-07:00

New with this hair style is Tattoo Layer Hair. SL 2.0 or great is required to use the tattoo layer hair base.

Scrunchies with this hair style is scripted with 36 colors/textures. They are difficult to trigger as the hair gets in the way. If the resize menu pops up, just close that and try again. I find that looking above the avatar works the best to hit that script on the scrunchy.

This hair is 140 prims. It was created with sculpted prims, flat textured prims and curly cylinder flex prims for the bangs. The hair base is meant to be a small add-on for an extra effect. It is not required to where with this hair.

Monique will be priced at 235L with the mega pack being 800L.

Thanks for looking.

Marci

Zoe

2010-08-05T23:42:00.000-07:00

With great regret, I am withdrawing from Hair Fair 2010. With my own wedding next month coming up, I just do not have the time to deal with Hair Fair and real life.

Which means some hair styles I have been working on during the summer will be released early.

Zoe has a prim count of 148 and will be priced at 240L for regular packs and 825L for mega packs (50 colors).

Mel B "Scary Spice"

2010-04-26T03:18:00.001-07:00

Made almost entirely up of flexy prims except for the base. Hair totals 114 prims.
This style is the 2nd in a series of Spice Girls hair. Unlike the previous hair, I made the outfit for this style and will be including it with the purchase of this style. This includes the skirt, top and necklace. So I'm going to charge an extra 10L for the hair for a total of 250L.
I also am including a base for the hair that uses the Linden Hair system. It does have some glitching with the regular hair if you are looking really hard. It is optional, so if this concerns you, use the "bald" Linden Hair.

Thanks for reading and enjoy.

Emma (Baby Spice)

2010-04-03T21:11:00.000-07:00

New hair based on "Baby Spice" of the spice girls. Emma is the actual name of Baby Spice, so I chose that name for this new style.
Emma is at 128 prims. The hair includes a color change script for the scrunchies.
The skirt is available at "Blaze". I actually kind of love the skirt. I don't buy much elsewhere, but making clothing at Jolie Femme has been pretty much over with for 2 years now. Just not enough time for hair and clothing.
I will price this at 240L. This seems like a fair price. I put in a few weekends for this style. It will be up in the new hair section.
I am thinking of doing the rest of the spice girls in the future.

Marianne 2

2010-02-20T04:28:00.001-08:00

It's been a while since the last hair style was released. I've been working on the Eiffel Tower which is built above my store. It's time to take a break from that and work on hair for the next several months.
I'm not sure how many people look forward to new hair styles from my store as its not as big of a name as some of the other well known hair stores like ETD or Analog dog. I will do my best to keep people interesting though.
This style is named Marianne 2. It is 121 prims. I really love the textures for the flexy hair parts. I did a good job making them look real. At the same time, they aren't photo sourced hair textures either. These are hand drawn in Photoshop. It gives a much better look and I can control the color much better.
Fairly priced at 240L for regular packs and 800L for Mega Packs (all 50 colors included).

Thanks for looking.

Julie

2009-12-24T23:34:00.001-08:00

Julie is a short style that comes with a cap. The cap uses the chin attachment point, so this style can be worn with or without the cap. This style will come with 10 different colored caps.
Julie also comes with a Linden Hair Mesh Base for all available colors.
The Hair is 82 prims and the cap is 1 prim.
This will be priced at 235L for regular packs and 800L for Mega Packs.
The hair and the cap will both come with resize scripts.

Marianne

2009-11-28T20:06:00.000-08:00

Well I had some days off from the real world work schedule and was able to come up with another style. I worked on making better and finer hair hair textures and to me that seemed to help make this style better than some others I have made in the past.

This style is around 123 prims. I will price it at 235L.

Recently I've noticed that some other stores sell hair for much higher than this. For 235L you get at least 6 colors. I've seen some stores charge as much as 350L for a similar amount and even as much as 200L for one color. Ouch!! Are you kidding me!

Fat packs or mega packs are even worse, 2000L for a fat pack? My fat pack or Mega pack contains all 50 colors priced at 800L. I know some stores put in more colors, but some colors can be created simply by just tinting the hair or even tinting the hair darker in many cases.

Maybe my hair isn't as good as theirs, but I do put in 15 to 25 hours (my estimate) per hair style. I spent over 1000L for uploads just for this style. It's quite often I create new textures for each hair style. The effort is there. 5 to 10 hair styles a month is just not my style.

I hope the product I create is half way comparable to some other stores as many of the styles are priced only 2/3 of their price.

Thanks for looking.

Claire

2009-11-21T22:13:00.000-08:00

This style can be worn two different ways, with or without bangs.

Also the scrunchie is scripted with 36 colors/textures. It can be tricky at times to trigger this script with the left click of the mouse. The re-size menu may come up for the hair. If so, just close and try again.

Once again, current and future releases do have the resize script for making hair sizing much easier than regular SL tools.

This hair is built with Linden system hair. It can be tricky to size if adjustments are necessary. If so, go to this post "http://joliefemmedesigns.blogspot.com/2009/07/linden-hair-mesh-sizing-instructions.html"

Wearing this with just a ponytail is only 15 prims and up to 62 prims all together.

I will be pricing this at 235L and the mega pack will be 800L. Don't forget that much of the hair at Jolie Femme for the month of November is still priced at 100L.

Thanks for looking.

A few more photos

2009-11-01T04:47:00.000-08:00

I know, but I spent so much time working on it. I need to show off a little. ;-)

FYI for anyone reading, the TP system goes from ground level to level 2. To get to the top use the TP from the middle of the second floor.

The top is a bit small, so you will need to zoom close enough to see your avatar on the top floor. From there find the stairs up to the balcony to see a great view. Too bad draw distance causes so much lag.

Also the Tower is not 100% complete by a long shot. I will be returning the hair production and the tower will now be a side project after two long months of work. There are textures that need to be done, a balcony roof on the first floor that needs to be done. Also some more pieces need to be added to the outside of the tower. I doubt I will ever finish it, but it is to the point that it looks pretty good I think.

November 100L sale: Eiffel Tower opening

2009-11-01T04:39:00.000-08:00

Since everyone will need to put up with the remodeling, I have put about half of the hair styles at Jolie Femme at 100L. Perhaps more later in the month. It took 3 days this week to remodel the store and put up the Eiffel Tower. Enjoy. I'm going to be putting up some pictures. Next week its back to making hair.

The Eiffel Tower

2009-10-15T19:39:00.000-07:00

It's been over a month and a half and no new hair. I think I can finally show why. It's far from complete. I also need to move it to ground level.
I plan on moving it to ground level in the next few days. I don't know how long it will take as I need to rearrange the store to go underneath the tower. The footprint of the tower takes up a full 1/4 sim. The tower is also 300 meters tall, so it is very big. More later. If anyone wants to take a peak, its 2000 meters above Jolie Femme.

Stephanie II

2009-08-31T06:21:00.000-07:00

This is a longer version of the first Stephanie hair style. I did need to add a few more prims, so its up to 126.

I strongly suggest to make a copy of hair before sizing it with the resize script. Once that is done, please delete the scripts to be polite to others on the grid as 126 of these scripts will add a lot of lag.

I will once again put this up this week for 100L, but through Saturday only.

Stephanie

2009-08-24T05:50:00.000-07:00

By request, I made this style based on Lestat 2. Someone suggested a style just like that but with more bangs covering the face. I hope I did a good job, I always seem to have issues with bangs.
I also added Linden Hair to this for the hair line on the forehead. It isn't much or really necessary to wear, but may add a small touch of realism.
I will price this at 235L.
What to make next??

Kara

2009-08-09T02:57:00.000-07:00

Kara is now available and priced at 240L. Normally I price hair at 225 to 235L, but I'm going to throw in the hair clip also. There are more colors of this hair clip available on the wall labeled Hair Accessories.
This style also uses Linden Hair for the hair line. Instructions on how to adjust this, if needed, are two posts down.
Kara is 117 prims. The hair in the style looks really good and realistic throughout. I made an effort to make the hair so it was like you could touch it. So I spent a long time on it. I no longer make hair that can be done in one weekend like I used too. That is not the way I'm going to do it anymore. This is much better.
This style comes in 50 colors and used the same Touch to fit sizing script. Just remember to make a copy before you size the hair and delete the scripts from the hair. Deleting the scripts is also polite to do unless you own your own region.

Thanks for looking and waiting for more hair!!

Sasha

2009-07-22T23:05:00.000-07:00

Sasha is 55 prims, available in 50 colors. Regular packs will be 230L and the mega pack will be priced at 800L.

The base of the hair uses Linden Hair with a realistic looking hair texture to match the pony tail and curls. The curls are made from flexy cylinder prims wrapped around with realistic curled textures.

As always, all new releases come with the sizing script. The mesh hair may need some adjustments, so I posted an instruction previous to this post.

The scrunchy comes with a texture script (36 total).

Enjoy and thanks for looking.

Linden Hair Mesh Sizing Instructions

2009-07-22T18:46:00.000-07:00

Photo 1: Go into appearance. Then to Hair (Arrow 1) and then Style (Arrow 2).
Photo 2: Hair Volume Slider - Will increase/decrease the entire mesh of hair.

Photo 1: Hair Front Slider - Will increase/decrease the length of the front hairline.
Photo 2: Hair Sides Slider - Will increase/decrease length of sides.

Photo 1: Hair Back Slider - Will increase/decrease length of hair in back.
Photo 2: Big Hair Front Slider - Will increase/decrease the height of hair in the front.

Photo 1: Big Hair Top Slider - Will increase/decrease the height of hair on the top.
Photo 2: Big Hair Back Slider - Will increase/decrease the height of hair in the back.

Photo 1: Full Hair Sides Slider - Will increase/decrease width of hairstyle, especially just above the ears.
Photo 2: Hair Sweep Slider - Tilts volume of hair forward or backward.

Photo 1: Shear Front Slider - Increases/decreases volume on the front.
Photo 2: Shear Back Slider - Increases/decreases volume in the back.

Photo 1: Taper Front Slider - Increases/decreases width of hair in front (see arrows).
Photo 2: Taper Back Slider - Increases/decreases width of hair in back (see arrows).

I need this space here.

Camping chairs and the lack of help from LL

2009-07-09T19:39:00.000-07:00

For over 6 months now I've been AR'ing this club across the SIM from me for camping chairs. There is around 10 money chairs, 6 plus prize chairs and avatars that just sit there for days on end in the same spot. The usual number of "green" dots on their club usually runs around 20 to 25. Which is "okay".

Then during the day when their events hit, the SIM will fill up with another 10 or more avatars and reaches a pivotal point of maxing out the SIM (max is 40). This doesn't count the 3 model bots I try to put up and potential customers and myself.

So I finally get a message from Lotte Linden after another AR I sent out. Here it is: [4:11] Lotte Linden: Thank you for contacting us about camping bots. At this point in time, it is not required that you report them, and in any case please limit your reports to one per topic and person. Sending in multiple repetitive reports will be considered abuse of support resources. Regards, Lotte

So basically it told me I'm SOL.

Even though as explained here: SL Blog, camping, botcamping and prize camping or anything to enhance traffic is banned. WTF Lotte! Rules generally apply across the board.

So I put up 13 of my own chairs in disgust and what does this club do? They get angry with me!!! The also don't know how to count. They tell me I have 15 chairs and they only have 10.

I'm disgusted!! I'm truely sorry no one can get into the sim at this point. I currently have two more shops up at Hairspray and Solace beach and tons of hair on Xstreet. LL has truely disappointed me to the greatest degree possible.

New Hair Accessories

2009-07-04T06:18:00.000-07:00

The hair clips and head bands are both 50L and up in the hair accessories wall at the main store.
Both items are modifiable and tintable, except for the crystals.
Knowing how to edit link prims is probably a good idea for changing the colors of the butterflies or in the headband.
I will offer to add these to Jolie Femme Hair styles for a small fee to compensate for the time involved in adding them.
Thanks for looking. I think I will start making some hair again in the upcoming week. The Hair Fair styles will be coming to the main store sometime next week after the fair wraps up.

Hair Fair 2009

2009-06-13T23:53:00.001-07:00

Hair Fair 2009 - These styles will be available June 20 through July 4th at the Hair Fair. More info available here: Hair Fair 2009 blog.

Demos are available at Xstreet at this location: Jolie Femme@Xstreet. No need to wait for Hair Fair to start, these demos are available for purchase at the time of this writing. Just make sure to sort styles "new to old" to find the Hair Fair 2009 styles.

On to the Hair styles (All hair styles are made of sculpts, flexy hair, and available in 50 colors each. All the styles are come with sizing scripts and with modify permissions)

Penelope:

This style is 94 prims. The scrunchy is scripted with 36 colors/textures including 2 plaid sets. It will be tricky to trigger the script. I usually sit on a posing stand and touch the left scrunchie to get it to work. It may trigger the sizing script for the hair, so just close that and try again.

The hair is made out of flexy cylinder prims. The texture is twisted around to created realistic curls.

Linda:

This style is 99 prims. A simple straight and very long hair style. The hair should reach about waiste length.

Elizabeth:

**50 percent of sales at Hair Fair will go to the Locks of Love charity**

This style is 89 prims. Medium length hair that reaches the shoulders.

Brigitte:

This hair is 123 prims. A short style that comes just below the chin and covers the eyes and forehead.

Bella III:

This hair is 127 prims. This style uses a similar techique to Penelope for the curls. The curls in the will be about waiste lenght like the Linda style. Bella I and Bella II are also available as shorter versions of Bella III. Those two styles available at the main store.

Some suggestions:

I think it would be best to buy the demos first and try them out on a different sim. The Hair Fair is always extremely laggy and many times the sculpts on the demos may not rez. Buying the demos beforehand and even buying them on Xstreet first, is probably the best option for purchasing hair at the Hair Fair.

Also please be polite to the other shoppers at the Hair Fair. Reducing the number of attachments and scripts being worn by your avatar with be appreciated.

Thanks for looking and enjoy!

Hair Fair 2009

2009-04-17T23:12:00.000-07:00

With the hair fair coming up, I will need to make some new hair styles for this event coming up in late June, early July. I don't think I'll be able to put out any new releases until then. I will be putting up my best effort just for this event, in the next two months on these 5 styles. I will be also putting up a freebie hair accessory at this event. I'm not sure what, yet. Hopefully this years event will be better managed. I wasn't that happy last year with the rather large prim limits. I thought some of it was rather unnecessary considering much of it never rezzed. Hopefully this year's event will a little less laggier.

Hair Fair 09 - Welcome!

Eric

2009-04-05T00:19:00.001-07:00

This hair built with normal prims would be about 456 prims. That is not the case with this hair as it is built with oblong sculpts which I use to create hair 1/8th of that primitive amount by pinching or dividing each prim sculpt into 8 pieces. So that actual total is 57 prims.

After the intial load of the sculpts, the hair will be much more efficient than any 100+ prim hair that I often times end up at.

I will put this hair up with a new release price of 100L for this first week (Until Sunday, April 12). I like to do this so people looking for new releases can get them cheap. Once that is over with, the normal price will be 235L for regular packs and 800L for the mega pack.

Once again, all new releases come with the hair sizer script. This makes things so much easier to resize. I do suggest to choose the delete option when running this script once the hair his sized up well to be lag friendly to other people. Before doing this, make back ups of the hair with the script.

It's been over a month, I know. I spent about 2 weeks learning how to do this. Then issues with outside of SL with real life came about. So hopefully now that is over with I can continue to make more hair. My next plan is for some braids to be done as I find this process I learned how to do could be very useful in making those.

Thanks for looking.

Lestat 2

2009-02-22T04:13:00.001-08:00

Based on the movie Interview with the Vampire. Released Lestat last week as a pony tail and this is my try at the same hair not tied up.
107 prims and the resize script as usual. I like this style more on the female model, but my intention was for it to be a Lestat style too. Clothing can be found here: GOTHIC VAMPIRE Clothing MEDIEVAL, Bonita (25, 37, 72)
I really like the dress. The hair really goes well with the dress.

Interview with the Vampire "Lestat"

2009-02-15T00:55:00.000-08:00

It's been three weekends. It may not look like it to some, but I spent at least 25 hours on this style. So I really put some extra effort into it. That is one of the reasons why its been three weekends since the last style.
This style is based on the movie "Interview with the Vampire". So that is why I'm naming it "Lestat". I managed to build this with 40 prims total. The scrunchie includes the color script.
The demo includes the sizing and scrunchie script. I suggest sizing the demo first to make sure this hair will fit. Some head shapes may not fit as desired.
Depending on how I feel, I may make a Lestat II without the hair tied up.

Behind on hair

2009-02-07T02:16:00.001-08:00

Trying to work on "Interview" but I'm having trouble. I don't know if I'll get done this weekend, but I will for sure next week or weekend. I've become too much of a perfectionist I guess. My next wigs I'm going to try to simplify a bit and have some more fun again.

Interview with the Vampire

2009-01-27T01:12:00.001-08:00

I decided to go with the guy hair in Interview With the Vampire. I'll actually potentially call it Interview too. This pony tail with end up not as tight/close to the scalp as Ashlee and the tail with be a bit more curly. I'll probably take at least two weeks for this, I'm not rushing hairstyles like I did a couple of years ago.

Ashlee realistic hair lined ponytail with shape shown

2009-01-26T08:14:00.001-08:00

My first and main concern with this hair was how many avatars will it fit. I sent out some prototypes to the Jolie Femme update group and had some positive replies.
I am still concerned. This hair will not fit everyone even with the resize script and my best effort. For that reason, please try the demo first. The demo contains the resize script and can most definitely be made to fit beforehand. I would even keep track of the numbers before making the main purchase to make things easier.
I also included the shape shown in the photograph, called Ashlee also. I actually made this shape months ago for my own use, but her it is for free out of the box to fit with the Ashlee hair. It is a short heighted avatar compared to other 7 foot ones out there.
The scrunchie in back is also scripted with colors and textures including plaid colors. I love the plaid!!
I spent several weekends on this project and hope it turns out the best way possible for the most customers possible. Thanks for the prototype tester's too. I almost gave up on this and I hope there isn't any issues with too many customers buying hair that doesn't fit.

Please please please, demo first!!!!

Over 3000 textures???

2009-01-15T03:44:00.000-08:00

Over the past three years making hair, I've ended up with over 3000 files on my PC just for hair. I know I had a lot, but didn't think it was that many.

Why so many? I use a lot of different textures on different styles. Often times each style has a new or a couple of new textures and take that times 50 colors per style. Often times I end up uploading 100 textures for new hairstyles which amounts to 1000 Lindens in upload charges. That doesn't count the sculpt maps which is what I mainly use for static pieces of hair.

Now I have a headache just thinking about it.

Creative Block

2009-01-11T00:27:00.000-08:00

I tried all weekend to come up with something fun to make and couldn't do it. So it may be a bit for another hair style to come out. I just can't make anything without really putting my heart into it. It might be the time of year too. It just too depressing outside, too cold, and stuck in the house for months due to the cold. Yuck! Ideas are welcome as always as always.

Amy III with flexy curls

2009-01-02T07:44:00.000-08:00

A customer requested a style similar to Amy I and II but with the curls found on Bella 1 and 2 styles. So here it is.
I thought this would be quicker to make, but it still took me a couple of days.
The claws are included once again as they are in Amy I and II.
I'm glad I made this, it turned out well. I still ended up at about 113 prims.
I don't normally do requests, I get too many or they take too long and the person who requested it just happens to never buy it or finds something else. I think that's just completely normal since the person requesting it doesn't really want to wait for long and usually with SL being as big as it is, there will always be something that a customer is requesting somewhere. I did this anyways as I really wanted to do it.
I'm glad I started using these curls again, they just look better in some lighting that the other flat prim look just can't do. Finer hair will still need the flat prims.
Thanks for looking.

Bella 2 Hair

2008-12-29T02:46:00.001-08:00

This is almost exactly like Bella, just a big longer. The hair length is almost the same length all around, a bit layered and some shorter bangs in the front.
I used the flexy curled textures put onto cylinder prims instead of flat prims again. I'm always trying different approaches to see what can be done. This way does require more prims, I tried to get it to 120 but ended up at 127 prims. So that is quite high. Lower and the hair is just too thin in my opinion. Higher and there is more lag. I did my best trying to find a good balance.
One advantage I did find using these prims instead of flat ones, was the lighting seemed to enhance the hair more and give it more realistic highlights. Flat prims seem to catch the lighting all at once making it look flat at certain angles. It's tough to describe. The disavantage of the cylinders is the amount required to fill in all of the gaps so its not too thin.
I will price this at 225L again, except the first week up to Saturday Night, it will be 100L. I like to do this for those who like to buy the new releases as the come out.

Enjoy the hair. I plan on making a Amy III using the same textures as the Bella styles.

First comment here picks their hair free

2008-12-15T07:06:00.000-08:00

Just trying out something. To see if anyone actually reads this, I will send a free hair to the first person to comment on this post. :-)

This way it might seem like I'm writing something useful.

Bella

2008-12-14T04:16:00.000-08:00

First of all, this style does not use flat prims for hair textures. I used cylinder prims for the long curly hair instead this time. This created a very different look.
As always I can not stress enough that photos only do so much. Demos are free and show how the hair moves in SL.
I used to use these cylinder prims all the time for my curly hair but stopped using them over a year ago. I went back and worked on them and improved them.
Not all of the hair is flex. I mixed it up with solid sculpts so the hair wouldn't show all the way through. Also it is 120 prims. I didn't want to go up further so I really need to balance going to crazy on prims, and making the hair thick enough to not show through at all.
I'll price this at 220L and 800L for the mega pack. This will probably be the last style before the 25th. I'm just way to busy with family. Thanks for looking.

Samantha "Afro"

2008-11-27T22:32:00.000-08:00

I put a lot of work into the textures of this hairstyle. So it took a while and my PC isn't exactly fast with all of the layers that were involved.
If you've ever shopped at Jolie Femme you will notice almost every hairstyle comes with different hair textures used on the alpha prims (flat prims layered to create detailed effect). So many of the styles are unique and the texture fit each style correctly.
This is my first try doing an "Afro". It's very different to me at least.
I priced this one at 220L. 800L for all 50 colors. Demos are always free. New hair will always be up on the Newest Hair wall which is opposite of the large, tall wall of hair.

**This weekend only, the price of this hair will be 100L (Friday, Saturday and Sunday 30th)

Alice

2008-11-16T02:22:00.000-08:00

After two weeks, this is done. When I was working on this, someone mentioned that it looked like the style that "Alice" from Twilight wears. So that is why I named it that.
This style is all sculpts except for anything that is flexy. Please LL, flexy sculpts please!!!
Priced at 225L per pack and 800L for the mega pack. Touch to fit which makes thing a lot easier to fit. There are 4 demos in the top box and there is a color demo at the store to view all 50 colors.

Viewer update

2008-11-06T05:03:00.001-08:00

I made the Amy hair styles with the current viewer which included the ability to mirror sculpts. I guess this viewer isn't mandatory but to view the hair correctly this is required. Little did I realize this would be a problem.

Hair claws

2008-11-02T03:44:00.000-08:00

Here is the hair claw poster. It shows all of the colors available. This box contains 3 sizes and 10 colors. Both of the Amy hairstyles contain the regular and small sizes and 8 colors.
This pack which is up on the hair accessory wall contains an extra two colors (black on white/Light brown on dark brown) and mini-claws.
This entire pack is75L.
The claws are tintable but require a bit knowledge on how to edit individual linked prims. If there are colors you want and don't feel like tinting them yourself, I can do quickly.
Enjoy

Amy II

2008-11-02T01:19:00.001-07:00

Amy II is almost the same as Amy. I used the textures from the April hair style. This style comes with the hair claws once again in two different sizes. The claws use the chin attachment point.
Everything is has modify permissions. The hair has a size script in it too.
I plan on putting out the hair claws in the Hair Accessories wall in little bit, unless something comes up. I'll add another post if I get to it.
Prices for Amy, 230L for the regular packs and 800L for the mega pack. All packs include 8 different colored claws. If there isn't the one color you want, they are modifyable. You just need to know how to edit linked prims and tint them from there. If not, I can probably make a color quickly.
That's it for now.
Personally I like Amy more than this one but love the bangs on Amy II.

Thank You Shoppers

2008-11-01T03:09:00.001-07:00

I just would like to thank everyone that shops at my stores and leaves me some of the greatest comments I could only imagine. If it wasn't for those comments, I don't know if I would have the drive to do this anymore. Even with the economy the way it is, its nice to know that someone is willing to pay for a virtual item at my store. Thank you.

Amy and new hair claws

2008-10-26T03:28:00.000-07:00

This style was fun to make. Actually I spent quite a bit of time making the hair claw for it than the hair. Dealing with sculpts has been a pain sometimes.
I made a few colors that are tintable or modifyable if needed. I actually made two different claws as one is a little bit smaller with fewer "teeth" on it.
I will be selling different claws soon.
This style will be 235L for the regular packs and 800L for the mega pack. The claws are basically included. They use the "chin" attachment point. I think this is all the info needed. Enjoy and thanks for reading the blog.

Sara

2008-10-18T22:50:00.001-07:00

Finally after a month of no hair and doing skins, made a new medium length straight style called Sara. This style wasn't too bad to make. I really liked the way the bangs turned out.
Priced at 220L per pack of 6 to 8 colors and 775 for the Mega pack of all 50 colors. 4 demos are in the box in different colors.
There is a color demo out in the store that does have all of the colors available if you are unsure of the color pack you want. Just keep in mind the older styles are at 42 colors not 50 (minus the tipped colors).

Veronique New Skin

2008-10-09T22:20:00.001-07:00

This is a skin I worked on last Spring but just finished this past month.
It's based off of the Sophie skin, but there were many changed to it. There is more cleavage, fixed up the eyebrows a bit and pubic hair.
SL has issues with stretching on the rear and inner thighs, fixed that as much as possible so its a bit smoother. The eyes are more defined too now. There may have been other small fixes or changes that I don't recall but it was enough to name it a new skin in my opinion.

Each skin comes with its own matching freckled skin. With the Sophie skins, I never made freckles. I had to this time. I didn't put a lot of freckles on, just on the cheeks, nose, arms and shoulders.
Skins also come with prim eyelashes in three sizes for easier fitting, and a brazilian wax layer.

This took a bit of space in the store. So I took down some old "Aneta" skins that weren't selling anyways. Aneta freckled skins and mod-skins are still up. They might even be further discounted.
Veronique is not modifyable. I wanted better lip color and it just could not be done with any type of tranparency in the skin for color changing. That does not mean I won't do small changes for a small charge within reason. I might charge 100L or something like that. Keep in mind 100L is like 35 cents which is almost nothing for the amount of time it takes.

There are 16 makeups per skin tone and 6 skins tones. With each having its own freckled skin that would make 192 skins total. With that many, I hope there are not any mistakes. It just a large number to go through for me.
Skins are grouped together like the Sophie skins. The rows are colors and the columns are grouped by makeup style. Multi-packs follow the arrows.
Prices, 1000L per single skin pack, 3000L per multi-pack of 4, 6000L per mega-pack (includes skin all in skin tone). Each pack contains all of the freckled versions matching the regular version.

Plans

2008-09-21T02:03:00.000-07:00

Well I've been working in real for 6 days a week so its been difficult to get much done. I'm also not working on hair at the moment. I'm still hoping for flexy sculpts to come sooner than later.
Anyways, I've been working on a new updated version of the Sophie skin. I started doing this in the spring but kind of let it sit back. So far I've updated the makeup to look a lot better. This is something I'm not really good at but I think its much better this time around. There will be a bit more cleavage showing. The older Sophie was rather flat looking. I also updated the pubic hair so its not up as high and a bit more neatly cut. The butt area is rather difficult to fix. I lightened it up a bit to blend in more. SL murders the mesh in-world. It makes it impossible to look great but it does look better now than the old Sophie skin.
Since I've been working so much, I'm hoping to get these up in a few weeks. I'm not sure if I will do 16 makeups per skin tone or not. I have a long ways to go. These won't be rushed.
I will begin making hair again after these skins are done.
I might also get ride of or combine the Aneta skins into packs to make room for these new skins.

Thanks for looking. I may post previews this week.

Collette

2008-09-09T04:43:00.000-07:00

Finally a new style at the main store. There's just been so much going on with Hair Fair and stuff in real life.
Hair Fair is over, so those 5 styles are now in the main store in the New Hair section.
I organized the store a bit better. It's not the greatest and not something I'm good at. I think I'd just rather spend more time making hair.
I'm not sure what to make next. I noticed I don't sell many short hairstyles. The long ones are more fun for me to make. Still pondering.
Thanks for checking out the blog.

Danielle updated and sent....

2008-08-31T03:34:00.000-07:00

There was a small issue with Danielle which I updated this weekend. I sent out replacements to everyone that had purchased at the Hair Fair. Hopefully I didn't miss anyone. This took 5 1/2 hours to do so I'm tired.

The problem was with the alpha. Not defective up close by from a far distance white alpha textures began to show up. I will no longer be using PNG as a texture format even though this format was to make things so easy and painless when it came into SL earlier this year. I've been told of another way to deal with issue with the white halo effect on transparent textures and will use TGA once again.

Hair Fair is tomorrow OMG!

2008-08-21T09:06:00.000-07:00

Hair Fair is starting on Friday, August 22. A few things I want to post quickly. I'm putting out a free headband which will only be free during the hair fair. I updated the Darcy II photo. Proposal will be sold with 50% of the sales going towards Locks of Love.
I'm really excited. I can't believe how good they built the 4 SIMS up for this. It's amazing.

Modified!

2008-08-14T07:13:00.000-07:00

All hair at the main store now comes with modify permissions. If you want hair with the modify permission, I will send new hair out to you usually within a day.
I think people still want to be able to move pieces of hair individually sometimes and maybe even tint a little so that is why I did that.

Again thanks for shopping at my store. I do appreciate the business and its something I love to do.

New posters for Hair Fair

2008-07-27T00:59:00.000-07:00

The first thing I did for these was make a little logo. It is Jolie Femme with a little piece of hair underneath.
I then made all of the background a bit brighter and the border only on the bottom. The permissions are easier to see also.
They will possibly change, but wants to comment on them, go ahead. I open to suggestions.

Danielle Preview

2008-07-20T00:22:00.000-07:00

I hope this turned out. I put in many hours and its the last style I will make for the Hair Fair. This will be the fifth.
I'm a bit worried, its 116 prims. It moves really well once its rezzed. The hair is mostly sculpted including the curls. So it shouldn't lag as much as curled up torus.
I need to make some better photos in the next couple of days. Then after that, what should I do?
I was thinking of making some hair accessories. I'm burnt out making hair. I know I made only 4 1/2 styles in the last month compared to some designers who make much more than that. I will not rush though. No need to. I want to make the hair as well as I can. When I find better ways, it usually means that it will need to take longer.
Compared to a year ago when I was making hair much faster, it wasn't as good. I'd rather make better hair. End of my little discussion. :-)
I am happy with this one like I was happy when I finished Audrey II. Now I'm not happy because these Hair Fair styles need to wait for another month. I actually finished much earlier than I needed too. I didn't want to be in a rush and make bad hair. :-)

Trinity for Hair Fair 2008

2008-07-07T09:11:00.000-07:00

The potential 4th style for Hair Fair is now completed. I messed around with "gray" photos for this one pic.
This style is all sculpts except for a few tiny hairs at near the neck. The bangs come all the way from the forehead around to above the ear and then curl back up and around. Kind of difficult to explain but the photo clearly shows them.
Hair Fair is going to be in late August now. I thought it would be early August. So that is a bummer because I'm almost done making 5 styles. I may finish early I think. So I may put a couple of styles out before the end of August since I will be done with Hair Fair stuff. I also need to reorganize the store. It is now too full. 5 more styles won't fit anywhere. Ugh.
Please be patient for the new hair. It takes a long time to make. I even redid the long flexy hair parts to Josephine because I wasn't happy after I finished it. I end up being so picky but that just means the hair is even that much better, I would hope. I don't rush this hair out at all. I even find mistakes days after I finish a style.

Josephine

2008-07-02T08:50:00.000-07:00

New hair done after a full two days of work. My hands are actually tired. So I'm going to take a break the rest of the day. I can barely type.
Josephine turned out well. I haven't made a style like this in quite some time if at all.
Hair fair is now slated for late August through early September so that gives me more time. Three styles are done and only two to go with two months to go. Now what? I guess I'll be able to make some hair for the store after I'm done with 5 styles (two more to go). I still have a week and a half off from real life work, so I can get plenty done in that time. Thanks for reading!

Darcy II

2008-06-30T03:39:00.000-07:00

Here's a quick photo of Darcy II. It's very similar to Darcy I except I took off some of the flexy on the back and added tipped/burnt colors. This will be the 2nd style at the Hair Fair. It is also my first male style. I'm not sure if how many male styles I will make in the future but who knows.

Hair Fair 2008

2008-06-23T05:59:00.000-07:00

I only took a few photos quickly so I could update my blog a bit. Hair Fair 2008 is coming up, so anything that I do make in the next month and a half will be for that.
These new styles will come with another hair pack. It was suggested by several customers that I should add some tipped/burnt hair colors and thats what I'm doing now. The total color choice will now be 50 hair colors. One other minor change also suggested by customers was for a "black" color. Nearly black will still be there but Ebony will be replaced by "black" which is much darker. Nearly Black and Ebony were very close anyways.
The style in this photo is complete. It's 100% sculpted. It won't be up until the Hair Fair.
I've been a bit slow making hair and updating my blog. I've been putting 6 day work weeks at my regular job. That will change after this week as I will have two weeks off from that job. I will be using much of my free time to make more hair and catch up so I can put up 5 new hair styles for the hair fair. I don't want to rush either. I guess I'm on a hair mission now!

Fleur

2008-06-01T00:35:00.001-07:00

This style took a LONG time. Two main issues I'm seeing. I'm taking longer and being really picky, almost too picky. I'm also doing a lot of work in Maya. And maybe a third, experimenting.
This style is an updo style. It's a bit messy on top and flexy mixed together with torus. The main part and bangs are sculpted.
The long curly bangs took a while to figure out how to make them and it was difficult (Maya). I was happy once I uploaded them though. They look natural and its something that couldn't be done with regular prims at all.
So being that I'm not good at updos and I'd rather make the long hair I'm used too, I'm happy with this one for now.

Darcy - Hair

2008-05-11T07:46:00.000-07:00

This is possibly the shortest style I've made in quite a while. I was almost even thinking of making a mens cut out of this too since it was so short.
Anyways just because of its length does not mean there isn't a lot of detail in this hair. It actually took me 4 nights of making this to get it just right and I've been rather picky lately too.
The entire thing is sculpted except for the strands of hair in the back that are flexy prims. Almost every sculpt is individual so there are no repeating prims. I wanted to make this look completely natural.
Take a look. Demos are free so it doesn't hurt to take a look.
I was thinking of making this into a men's cut but need to decide on a few things first. I'm always looking for suggestions. Even if someone dropped a few ideas on me it would be great. I might not seem to take them but in the long run you never know.

Audrey II

2008-04-27T00:38:00.000-07:00

Uses same textures as Audrey one so that is the reason behind the same name. It's also longer. For some reason this turned out well. I rarely like my own hairstyles. I maybe have about 5 favorites and thats about it.

Audrey Hair

2008-04-20T17:52:00.000-07:00

Made a new hairstyle this weekend but will put it up tomorrow. I didn't have enough time to put it up.
This one is different than some others. The hair textures I made are produced differently than the ones I made before. I don't know how to explain it but the texture of the hair actually follows the hair itself better. Basically it is an improvement. So I tried something else this time and I think this hair is wonderful. Most of the hair is in the back and side. A few strands left on the right side. All of it curly and the non-curly are all sculpted. I was surprised that this ended up being 80 prims or somewhere around there. I don't remember. A lot of times I end up around 100-120. So that is good.
So by tomorrow morning this should be up.
I will also try to reorganize the hair a bit. I'm running out of room and I keep saying I'm going to do something about it.

Drama......Hair

2008-04-13T02:51:00.001-07:00

Ok finally it is done! I never want to try to make this style again. Maybe I was just having bad luck. Ugh! At this point I do like it enough to sell.
Everything moves correctly now. The hair looks natural. The bangs even turned out nice and frame the face better. I general preferred darker colors myself but as always it will come in the regular 42 colors.
I will be putting this up later. I'm just really tired and need to go to bed.
Thanks for looking.

New hair coming soon

2008-04-12T01:30:00.001-07:00

I know I've been slow but what I'm trying to make if it even turns out is taking a long time. I've already redone it several times. I'm having realy issues. SL hasn't been running good and I'm really frustrated. The more I make hair, the more complicated it has been getting too. So its taking longer.
I did get some new hair brushes in photoshop to help me out. Basically every hair style I make requires new hair textures all 42 of them or more! So I need to spend 2 or 3 hours just making textures. Then making the hair for another several hours and then if it don't look good it gets scraped like last weekend.
I am trying though and I look back and do like some of the recent hair styles. My two most favorite right now are April and Rochelle. Both of them have great textures and don't glitch much either.

Paris Hairstyle updated

2008-04-03T01:36:00.000-07:00

The Paris hairstyle that was released a few weeks ago has been updated to Paris II. There were a few issues I ended up improving upon that I fixed. If anyone wants a update and bought Paris, I will send them Paris II.

Rachelle is Rochelle

2008-03-29T22:46:00.000-07:00

I can't spell. Now I need to rename all of those 42 hairstyles, ugh! When simple little letter. Someone also said I should fix some of the stretching on the Paris hairstyle. It's not bad at all, but I will see if I can even do that. I don't know. I thought it looked like a good style. Though I'm only a content creator and I don't do days of testing like some of the shoppers do. Customers are always right.
I'm also short on space at the store. I may be doing some reorganization before any new hairstyles but what am I doing to do?

Rachelle

2008-03-28T16:53:00.001-07:00

This hair has special meaning to me and many other people. I won't go into details but I put in a little extra effort into this.
The hair is very fine and needed a few extra prims. It runs at about 117 prims. It's about waste length, so it is quite long.
As always try out the demos. Hair like this moves really nicely but you can't see it in the photo.
Anyways thanks for looking. It's been a tough week here. Rachelle is no longer with us and it wasn't a natural death. She was taken away by someone or some people that are very evil. She was only 26 and was a single mother and now that baby has no mother. So I am sad at this. But we all remain strong.

Luxurious

2008-03-24T06:07:00.000-07:00

How long does it take to make hair like this? Well I timed it out and it took 8 hours for this one. I made new hair textures, like I've done for most of the latest hair. That part takes so long! Ok so I thought I was done in 8 hours. Then I looked at it again, the new hair textures were a bit clumpy looking. I don't know how else to describe it.
So I spent another 3 hours making new textures. Then I goofed up the scripts doubling them up on some prims so the hair wouldn't size right. Ugh!
It's done now and it moves really nice. I still find that April is my favorite for now.

Paris.....not Hilton either

2008-03-20T03:11:00.001-07:00

OK, I made this last weekend but it looked like crap. So I fixed it up a bit and made new textures. I am much more happy with this style now. I even ended up using fewer prims. 100% sculpts except for the flex.
I don't like short styles. I just can't do them well. This does work for me though.
This doesn't even look like what I was trying to do. My styles always end up somewhere different than I intend. Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe it forces me to let the hair do its own thing instead of trying to make it do something it can't.
OK, I'm going to put this up later. I'm tired but it will be put up eventually. It's just I'm out of room in the store and I don't know what to do. I would like to keep making hair instead of organizing the store which is tedious and boring.

What next?

2008-03-10T06:26:00.000-07:00

Should I update the Sophie skin or make more hair?

I kind of made some tweaks to the Sophie skin, improved the makeup and made the cleavage more defined. It looks great.

I don't know. I've been on a roll with hair and updating all of the skins would take several weeks for me now I think.

Maybe I'll just do both.

Celebrity!!!

2008-03-08T05:32:00.001-08:00

Ok, I've been working on the PC 8 hours straight and I'm tired so here goes.
One style for this weekend. This style is called Celebrity. This style turned out really well. I tried to get the hair to look more random. It's similar to April but more wavy and curly.
Of course its scripted for Touch-To-Size. It sure makes sizing hair a lot easier. It makes things easier for me because I no longer need to make 3 sizes of hair each time I make a hair style. I hope its working out well for everyone else.

Thanks for looking. Oh and the 5 styles below have been released and are up at the store. They are all opposite of the main wall of hair.

I'm thinking it is soon time to reorganize the hair. Right now there is no real order to the mess except maybe the further right you go the older the styles are. I'm just not good at making things nice looking but I'll try.

Trouble - Did I ever

2008-03-02T02:57:00.001-08:00

I really had trouble making this one. I was going to name this "Trouble" anyways, but I really did have issues making this. Making the sculpty parts was a pain in the but. The bangs alone took a few hours to make. Then the flexy texture I was going to use didn't look right so I needed to make on a different size and shape to fit this style.
I'm just not good a short hair. This is by far my best short hair style so far though. It still has plenty of flexy but short stuff. It sort of bounces a bit when walking or moving rather then flowing like a long style would do.
Hair Fair 2008? I don't see anything happening. I think I'm going to release these five styles as soon as I can. I need to make demos, and that sort of thing. Might take a few days to get them all sorted out. I'm tired.

Devotion - Hair Fair style number 4

2008-02-24T03:14:00.000-08:00

Spent three nights making this style. I really tried to do well on the bangs and I think it works really well. The hair is really curly in the sides and back.
I still like April the best. There is just so much hair in that style and it moves so well. This style still is very nice though. Maybe its just because I like long hair so much. This still is one of my better styles.
One more to go but the weekend is over. I still have not heard anything about the Hair fair. If there is no hair fair, this will be released as soon as possible then.

Bounce is now April - name change

2008-02-21T05:30:00.000-08:00

Immediately after naming this Bounce, I decided for a new name. I didn't like that name. So I choose April. I spent days trying to figure out a new name. I don't know why but that part always gets me. I don't know what to name hair half the time.
The next style will be named devotion. I still haven't started it but I think it will be like April but with mega curls.

Bree and then Bounce styles complete

2008-02-18T04:56:00.000-08:00

Bree is pictured first, and Bounce is pictured without the poster complete because I was rather excited to post this.
So hairstyle 2 and 3 are now complete for the hair fair. I'm sure they will be organizing it fairly soon.
Bree is base on a style someone was wearing the other day and I just had to make it. It's sort of a messy bun and it kind of bounces too when you walk, tough to explain.
Bounce as I named it for now, it just great. Rarely do I like the hair styles I make. The textures turned out really well. That's fine but sometimes they don't work as well as I had hope and sometimes its a bit of working on hair for 5 hours and not getting what you thought you would get. This time it worked much better than I was thinking it would. It's long and lots of hair. I can't wait for April.

Hair Fair 2008 and day 8

2008-02-10T04:08:00.000-08:00

Well the hair is finished and pretty much boxed up. Thing is I need 5 hairstyles for the Hair Fair and until I make 5 hair styles, I can not release any new styles until I finish. So may hold this style back for a while.
I started working on an updo tonight. Spent about 5 hours on it and it will be ready soon too. Hopefully more info on Hair Fair soon but it is still very early. Last year was awesome and I can't wait! It was such a great way to talk to other hair designers even though it wasn't that long it was fun. The organizers of that event put in a ton of work!!!

Day 7 - Hair Complete but......

2008-02-09T03:14:00.001-08:00

It is complete, whew! I made a poster but it is still not packed up and ready to go. I still don't know if I'm going to put this style up or not because the hair fair is coming up and I'll need 5 new styles for that. It's been taking me over a week to make a hair style now that by the first week of April I may only be able to make 8 styles if things go well.
Anyways, last night I spent some time on this style to make the flexy prims in the back blend in a lot better with the main piece of the hair or main prims on top. You can probably see the difference just from the photo compared to the last post on my blog.
I also added a touch-to-size script. At first it took my a few tries to get it right. My first attempt ended up with only the main prim resizing itself while all of the other prims of the hair just sat there and did nothing. I did finally get it. I think this is really neat because with one touch the hair can be sized in increments of 1%, 5% or 10%. With that all that would need to be done it positioning it with the regular SL tools.
I kind of like this style but there are issues that always bother me with styles. Everyone loves the Destiny style but I still see issues even with that style. I like the new texture I made, but I wish the ends were a little more finer. This may be something that customers like anyways. Some may not even care how the ends of the hair look and maybe I'm being really, really picky. It is very difficult to make these textures by hand. So sometimes what I think I may get in a hair style totally comes out different than what I imagined.
Well depending on the hair fair, this style will be coming out tomorrow unless I hold it back. So I'll probably write one more day on this style. Alas, it is time to sleep. I spend 5 hours on this tonight. 11 to 12 hours so far. I used to make hair probably in 5 hours. Things have changed, hopefully for better and that will make customers happy I hope. Good night.

Day 3, 4, 5, and 6

2008-02-08T22:38:00.000-08:00

Ok Monday I just poofed out. Sunday nights I work and by Monday morning I said I need a break and went to bed earlier.
Tuesday I worked on the hair. I threw some things together and by Wednesday morning, I totally redid the back of the hair. I didn't like the back. It seemed to straight. So back to work and I layered it a bit more trying to make it look more natural.
Thursday and Friday morning I worked on this hair another couple of hours. Mainly just tweaking individual prims. I attached it to the head and wanted to see how it moved and took a couple of photos. I still don't like it. Then again, I never liked the Destiny hair style even though that one has sold like crazy the past year.
So I'm going to work on this Friday night for several hours tweaking it a bit more.
One last thing I'll need to do is try to add a script to it I bought. This script is going to be a touch to size script. This is supposed to make it easier for customers to size their hair. It will also make it easier on me because I won't be making 3 sizes of hair anymore if this works out well.

Day 2

2008-02-03T10:35:00.000-08:00

Spent 4 hours working on the hair textures last night. I made the normal 42 colors uploaded them and then created the normal script that will produce the different hair colors. That's about it. I really wish I had a faster computer or maybe its the way I make them. Now I will begin modeling the hair.

Hair Timeline - Day 1

2008-02-02T22:45:00.000-08:00

Thought I would write a timeline on how I make my hair by starting with Day 1 and continuing until I finish the hair style.
This style I'm going to work on is a request from about 3 weeks ago. I told this person that I was finishing up a few projects and then would begin working on this style the first week of February.
Starting with tonight. This night I would begin working on a new hair texture in photoshop. I opened up one of my older textures and tried to see how I made some straighter textures like in the style Memories. I didn't like how blurry they were so I decided to restart from scratch and get more resolution. It finally started working well then I uploaded to SL to see how it really looked and it looks ok. I'm going to need to reshape it a little bit. I spent 3 hours tonight on it which isn't a lot of time but its been a long day already and I'm falling asleep.

Back to hair

2008-01-31T05:19:00.000-08:00

I've made clothing for the past two months. I know I've only made 5 outfits I think it is but I'm really slow at it. I just finished putting some stuff up on Onrez and now this weekend I will begin some more hair adventures. I don't know what to do with all of the hair in the store now. There is just so little room now. I would hate to just remove old hair. I really would like to keep the old hair and discount some more of them since the newer hair is always improved and better.

So if anyone has any requests this is the time because I'm currently looking for ideas. I think I'm going to experiment more with sculpts and see what I can do with them as far as making more curls with prims. Some of the hair I've made the past year uses a lot of alpha prims. I think I would like to try to mix standard not flex prims with alpha prims a bit more and see if it can look better even more than before.

So much to think about. I start working on hair tomorrow night. Hopefully it doesn't take much to get back into the groove. The last style I made was Christina and that has done wonderfully and received many great comments. thank you all. I really do try to be creative by doing new things and trying to be so perfectionate. Ok, I made a new word that doesn't exist. It's my blog!
Later and enjoy more hair soon!

In time for Valentine's Day!! Whew!

2008-01-28T03:33:00.000-08:00

Another project that seemed to never end. I tried several things and ended up with four options as shown in the poster.
The transparent babydoll as shown, has hearts that are scattered throughout the skirt and top. These hearts really pop out and aren't transparent themselves.
The marabou works well as there move along with the skirt once again. Not always perfect in high-lag environments. I think the skirts with the marabout run around 90 plus prims. If thats the case, the non-marabou skirts will work just as well.
Well I'm tired. This will be the last of the clothing I make for the next two months. Hair fair is a couple of months away, but I really want to be prepared for it and start making some great hair. Enjoy the new clothing from the past couple of months. It's not much, I'm just so picky.

New detailed sweaters, lots of them

2008-01-28T03:29:00.000-08:00

Now I spent much time on these testing out baking and texturing. Finally after a week or so spending a couple of hours here and there on this project, I got it. The seams match from the top to the bottom perfecting and the texture is really nice looking and pops out really well. It just looks snug!
15 colors are available and also a demo just to look at to see how good they might look.
To see if anyone reads these posts, I will offer one of these free color of your choice if you IM me in world that you've read this post within the past week. No longer otherwise I'm sure I'll get to many requests.
Onto the next post, gotta catch up.

Finally done New Dress

2008-01-12T01:51:00.000-08:00

This took a while as I tried a number of things to create my best dress to date.
This dress comes in 8 colors and are priced at 300L each. The mega pack is 1000L for all 8 which isn't too bad.
The bodice is highly detailed with some star shapes and flower shapes. The prim dress has some more flower and leaf like shapes on it also.
The prim dresses are available in two different options. The one I wanted to be used has more prims on it. I used the regular set of prims and then added another two sets to create the pattern in more 3d-like way. In other words the pattern sticks out some instead of just a flat texture. The other dress is the traditional texture on prim.
Issues with the first prim dress is lag and sometimes I would like to call it bad rezzing of the flex paths. The flex paths should usually be the same but sometimes they seem to not rez correctly and the pattern will be off from where it should be on the dress. Lag usually pulls this dress apart from the pattern a lot more than a low lag area. So that is why I included the traditional dress.
I made 8 colors but I could make more. I will start on my next project for now. I really feel the need to make some casual clothing now.

Thanks for looking.

It's Winter I don't care I want Summer!!!!!

2007-12-26T04:30:00.001-08:00

I spent a lot of time on these. First off, each skin is priced at 125L and the big pack of 19 is priced at 500L. The demo is free and each suit comes in different layers for flexibility if needed.
I spent a lot of time on these. I needed to learn how to bake better in Maya. Now they look good for that. I added some shading underneath the suit so it stands out a bit more on the top of the skin and the wrinkles are just right.
Overall I'm happy with those and I think that is why I made 19 suits. I could make more but I think enough is enough. I'm tired! Maybe I'll make a different type of suit/bikini next with the same patterns. Those wouldn't take as long then. Enjoy!!!!

Ok, this is really neat!!!!!!

2007-12-15T06:27:00.001-08:00

After a couple of experiments it is finally done and I'm very happy with this outfit. To make this skirt work took a lot of testing out to make sure that all parts of the skirt moved in synch.

This outfit comes in 13 color choices and a bundled pack. Each color is 300L and comes with two different sizes, small and large. The bundled (mega pack) can be bought for 1000L and includes all 13 color choices. All clothing in the photo is included in the outfit.

Also available is a 2 for 1 Christmas special, see photo

A demo is also available to try out.

Maintenance, argh!

2007-12-11T06:57:00.001-08:00

So there's SL downtime today. I was starting to get really excited about this outfit until they shut SL down. This color set is complete, but I plan on making more. The red and white is for Christmas and the other colors I'll be making will be for all year.
This skirt is something really neat. I didn't think this was possible ever. I made it so the marabou trim moves with the skirt. I also cut down on the prims. My first try for the skirt ended up being somewhere around 180 or 190 prims. Now the skirt is down to 121. Which is much better. So hopefully by tomorrow morning SL time, I can get some of these up. For now, SL downtime and rest for me.

Belle Sleeved Santa Set

2007-12-02T03:23:00.001-08:00

For the Holidays. This set includes the Hat, all 42 colors of Shelly 2 hair, and the shirt, shorts, and skirts. There are two skirts in this pack. One is made of prims and the other of the SL mesh for higher lag areas. Both skirts come with the trim and without. The belle sleeves are sculpted along with the hat. I put a lot of work into it and there are plenty of options for the skirts.
I tried something new with the prim skirt when adding the trim to it. They move along with the skirt except its not quite to perfection. Not sure if its entirely 100 percent possible but it was pretty close except during faster movement. Either way, for 500L it is worth it. The mega pack of Shelly 2 all 42 colors alone is 700L. So the outfit is free or vise versa. Enjoy.

Last one for the month

2007-11-21T07:37:00.001-08:00

The last style of the month. Had issues with this style that I dealt with over the weekend before I was going to release it. Finally up to my standards. Hopefully those standards are ok. This style has so much hair in it. It is 105 prims which isn't awful but isn't light at all. Tried completely different type of texture and it has its good effects I think.
I'm really tired out from making hair for a while. I'm also running out of room which I can't believe. No more room for hair at my store. Plus Christmas is coming up and I will be trying to make an outfit for Christmas. I haven't made clothing in almost a year now. I do have some ideas, sculpties will help out a lot too in what I will be making. Well for those who read this blog, if anyone does, thanks for looking.

Two new now I'm tired from hair creating

2007-11-10T22:14:00.001-08:00

Two more for this weekend. I like Mischief the most out of both of these. Though they both turned out well. Sometimes what I like most doesn't sell the most so take a look at both. Once again put a lot of time into them. I usually take 6 hours for each style to make and box up. I tend to experiment a lot too with Maya and the sculpts and textures in Photoshop. None of the hair I've created lately has been rush at all. Well I'm babbling too much.
Thanks for looking once again. I plan on one more hair for this month and then I'm going to be working on a Santa outfit that will warm things up for the Holidays.

Working hard

2007-11-04T13:32:00.001-08:00

New hair again this weekend. I get a lot of requests for more bangs all of the time so this time I worked hard on getting the bangs to look better. I used sculpties on the bangs and more new hair textures to get them to look better. To me this style looks great overall. I named it bubbly, not sure why. I was very tired by the time I put this up last night. Enjoy

New style named Ginny

2007-11-03T04:34:00.000-07:00

After experimenting with Maya all last weekend, I needed to do what I do best and make some hair. This did turn out very well. I made a new hair texture once again. In fact, a lot of times each hair style gets a new hair texture. Which means I need to create 42 of each of them. It takes a while to do and thats why I don't put out more than 2 hair styles in a weekend.

New Updo Pony tail

2007-10-21T02:13:00.000-07:00

On a roll this month so far. This style I made here has new textures for the flexy hair again. The textures really turned out nice this time and I twisted the prims to make it look even better this time. Check it out at the store!!! Thanks for looking.

Wow

2007-10-14T13:40:00.001-07:00

Well I focused on only one hair style this weekend. It's like Illusions but but with less hair in the front and more sculptified prims that just work really well in my opinion. I really like this style.

Another new style

2007-10-07T13:16:00.001-07:00

Wow two styles in one weekend. It sure helps when I don't need to work 6 days a week at my job for overtime. October is usually slower so I can work more on Second Life creations.
This style almost uses only 2d alpha prims and sculpties. I used a few tori for the bangs. The bangs are separate and can be attached or removed.
Packages are 200L and 699L for the mega pack.
What next??

Curls Oh My!! Illusions new hair

2007-10-06T18:36:00.001-07:00

This style I made uses all sculpty or 2d alpa prims once again. I seem to like this one much more than Patience.
This one I priced at 200L per pack and 699 or 700L can't remember for the mega pack.
Going to try to make another hair style tonight. I don't now how some people put out so much hair at once. Illusions took me two nights to make, maybe 8 hours to put out. I guess I'm to much o a perfectionist and need to relax a bit.

New Long Hair

2007-10-02T05:09:00.000-07:00

Wow, I made hair without any Torus. All sculpty and 2d alpha prims. I redid this one two times. I've been just getting to picky and I think after this one I need to simplify again.
This one is priced at 219L for the regular packs and 699L for the mega packs. 42 colors available as always. Demos always available. Available in 3 different sizes to just make things easier.
Now onto the next style. Not sure what.

Big 50 percent off birthday or Rez-day sale. I'm now 2!!!

2007-09-17T05:10:00.001-07:00

At this time, all hair and the Sophie skins are now 50 percent off the regular price including the newest releases!! This is going on now through Saturday. This means the Sohpie skins will be priced at only 500L with 16 mega packs of skins at 3000L. Hair around 100L for about 7 colors in each pack. 42 colors packs averaging 250 to 300L.
As you can see I'm excited to make it to 2 years today. Enjoy!!

Ends Saturday Night.

New Updo

2007-09-15T23:02:00.000-07:00

Radiance is made from one prim base sculpty and flexy curls. This style comes in 42 colors total and is available in 3 different sizes for easier fittings.

Radiance hair packs are priced at 199L for about 6 to 8 colors or the Mega Pack at 629L which contains all 42 colors.

Oops

2007-08-29T15:42:00.001-07:00

Here's the photo for the Morgan hair style.

More hats and more hair.

2007-08-29T15:40:00.000-07:00

This style is named Morgan. The hair is made up of a sculpty base and 2d alpha prims in the back. The hat is a one-prim sculpty and other hats will be available separately soon.

"Morgan" is available in 42 different colors. The smaller packs of hair run at 229L and the mega 42 packs is priced at 699L. Each pack contains 3 different sizes for easier fitting, small, medium and large.
Thanks for looking :)

To find the hair either search my profile in-world and click on one of the hair classifieds or use the slurl below.

I also plan on putting out all of these hats very soon. I'm just not sure how to have them laying out in the store. They shouldn't be much in price either.

I make mistakes but.....

2007-08-26T03:55:00.001-07:00

I figured out something really messed up last night. Someone bought a demo in front of me for hair and took it apart and had brand new hair. These demos are meant to be unmodifyable but for some reason the permissions were messed up. It is kind of my fault as I missed this. The demos were no mod in my inventory but once rezzed they had the modify permission. This made the hair basically free.
Now this must've been happening for a while. This person last night who bought this and did this in front of me knew this right away. They bought the demo, sat down, and pulled it apart. I IM'd them and politely asked them if she bought the hair because I wasn't sure if SL was slow with transactions cause sometimes its borked. No response until too late. She spoke french.
This must've been happening for a while cause she new she could do this. Someone told her.
I will make it very clear it is very difficult making sure everything is priced right, permissions are all set and I make mistakes. If people point out my mistakes, I thank them and even give them a nice freebie even though I don't need to. I work very hard at this and to those that understand this, I appreciate it. Thank you to my good customers.