I finally got around to making my Hair Fair picks and sorting through quite literally HUNDREDS of hairs to do so. I had some basic priorities – they had to have decent textures, decent prim work, great concept. They also had to NOT have a black or silver hair in the demo. The reasoning behind this is that black and silver tend to hide major prim mistakes.
I’m also including my own personal notes so you can see if I had a comment about the hair or not. A few of them really stood out. Hit the jump for the .gif and list. Pay no attention to the numbers, but in case you’re interested, there ended up being about 40 hairs.
Remember, Hair Fair is open until JULY 6TH.
1-3 Dark Mouse: Nadzia, Pale Blonde
4-5) Dark Mouse: Alicja, Pale Blonde
6) BooPerFunk Freaky Friz
7) BooPerFunk Rock the Deimos in Noir
Dernier Cri – Michelle – AWFUL load time
9) Medley – Emily in Blonde (Freebie)
10) Mirada – Melody
11) Posh – Alice is Emo
12) Posh – Elle Loves Bows
13) Curious Kitties – Nyanotech: Reith
14) Fuel: Miki
15) Ingenue: Diva Deux
16) Ingenue: Myrna
17) Truth: Esme
18) Truth: Sophia
19) Truth: Twiggy
20) Curio: Betty Boop
21) Curio: Paper Tiger
22) Decoy Hair: Katie
23) Aoharu : Rinna
24) Milestone Creations: Dragon Nest (WTF? Pebbles?)
25) Milestone Creations: Moon (No Mod! 
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26) Raspberry Aristocrat : Adora Hair
27) Vignette: Cinder
28) Bryce: Holmes
29) Bryce: Wonder (Seems to have a particular windblown effect; lots of prims to each piece.)
30) Dark Mouse: Eva
31) TekuTeku: Tiara
32) Draconic Kiss: Achariya (hate the shade of blonde)
33) Draconic Kiss: Demona
34) Flavor! Designs: Dreadz II
35) Groovy Girl Designs: Siana
36) Calico Ingmann Creations: Megan
37) Miasnow Hair: Special Day
38) Tea Lane: Half-Juiced (Points for creativity. Not for everyday wear whatsoever unless you’re one of those fantasy punk rock type characters)
39) Curio Obscura: Lampshade
40) Same as above, Lit… MAJOR points for creativity. Not for everyday wear.
41) Jolie Femme: Elizabeth
42) Head Mistress: Beautiful Disaster (What a great shop name!)
43) Kin: Bria (Sculpties are kinda crinkly?)
44) Mela’s: Crown of Thorns
45) Miau Haus: Saeya
46) Philotic Energy: Ishiko (MAJOR points on creativity here)
47) Redlic : #529 (WTF? Phallic!)
48) Tiny Bird – Velma (Makes me LOL)
49) Heading To Dreamville: Lux w/Feather Accessories
50) Heading to Dreamville: Serene (Love the military hat)
51) Tea Lane: Evangeline
52) Adam n Eve : Cristina (Adam and Eve really takes the cake this year!)
53) Adam n Eve: Ophelia (LOVE!!!)
54) Adam n Eve : Darci
55) MADesigns Hair : Jude
I desperately tried for a week to find the FOAM booth but to no avail. Apparently there is a mystery surrounding these designers – if you do a people search for them, they do not show up. Rumor has it they were banned for being minors. This makes Tenshi very, very upset. I was really getting addicted to Foam hairs.
62) Maitreya, Moon
63) Tiny Bird, Hayden
well shit your picks are like my picks only you have more. i guess i should find something else to do on wed.
how’d you do that changing pics thing?
Animated .gif file Viv – can’t be done with .jpg – There are animation builders out there.
Thanks so much for including my Siana style in your picks. I still haven’t had a chance to explore all the hair stalls and def see quite a few styles here that I need to pick up!
) Great idea on using that pic viewer. Stay lovely!
Wow I could see that your prim eyelashes are miles away from your avatar’s eyelids in some pictures, while aligned perfectly with your eyes at other angles. You might want to try some new ones or just start over on fitting these, if they are your favorite.
Some of the sculpties in your screenshots also looked extra blocky (Dernier Cri’s Michelle, Kin’s Bria) , which I think could look better with higher graphics settings. If not then that is the sculpty map’s fault and I apologize.
Other than that, a lot of the hairs look great, but I wonder why so many have “handles” on either side that look like the 21st century equivalent of princess Leia buns.
wasnt there a hair that was like Demonia but with the horns on top of the do, instead of the sides?
Yuvi: I was actually experimenting with eyelashes while taking pics. There are a couple different ones shown. The ones that are NOT fitted to my face were trashed out of my inventory after I got frustrated trying to publish them.
Kin’s Bria looked super blocky to me too, and I had my settings up as high as SL will go. Pretty sure it’s the sculpty map.
(which makes me sad.)
I saw so many damn pigtails and Leia buns that I actually culled several styles because of it. As I said, I gave points for creativity… constantly seeing pigtails doesn’t seem creative to me. :\
Oh, also: I didn’t edit those pictures in PS whatsoever beyond adding text and putting them in the .gif.
I’m still pissed about Foam though.
I was just getting addicted and they had to go and be UNDERAGE!!!! *tantrum*
The amount of time you must have spent on this amazes me. It is a great way for us challenged ones to be able to see many of the style offerings. Thanks for the work you did in this.
WHAT?!? Foam is Underage? Oh. Hell. No.
No more Foam?
*sighs*
Nuuuuuu!
Foam was one of my fav new places! :’(
Have the Foam kids been kicked off the grid yet for that? Fingers crossed.
Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if a large number of designers / bloggers are actually children. Great to see children with talent, but main grid SL isn’t the place for it.
I was a member of FOAM..We only opened up a shop to you guys because it isn’t worth it to release them on our grid.. We had no idea how big of a reaction it would cause. It was fun while it lasted… and yes.. We are teens
WL! I think if you want to play on secondlife you should! You guys are talented, never seen or heard of you guys causing trouble and I love FOAM! I cant wait untill you turn 18! I was playing and creating clothes on secondlife at 16, so I can’t talk. Its once I turned 18 I started being a shit disturber and bothering sims such as gossipgirl.