Vivi’s Fashion Finds and Accidents: Hair, Hair Fair, and Rants, oh my. Its not what you think.

I promised you my favorites from the Hair Fair. I will deliver and I also have for you a very cute outfit from DuckNipple.  I don’t know what odd twist of imagination caused a person to put together the words “duck” and “nipple” but I’m really happy its the name of a clothing store and not a fetish.  Because my mind fears to tread where a fetish so named might lead.  Besides, I don’t think that ducks even have nipples — which makes the combination both more unlikely and more frightening as a fetish.  However I digress and I haven’t even gotten started yet — frightening in and of itself.  Before I rant here’s a picture of me with a pot on my head.

Now I’m loathe to rant on an already dramalicious (isn’t that just the bestest made up word ever?) week but it so happens that trying on my loot from the Hair Fair has brought this issue to the forefront of my mind.  Here it is, Saturday morning, and as I try on hair, I run into a resize script which is less than adequate because I don’t seem to be able to resize the individual prims.  It is modifiable, however it is also no copy.  So if I screw it up, I’m out a hair.  But even worse than all of that, it talks to me.  It tells me, every. fucking. time. I put it on, that I should not rez it on the ground. No, it is not from Magika (as I have stopped shopping at Magika because they started this crap and now I will not shop at Bizarre Hair either).  Its not that I don’t like their hair – I do.  Very much so.  I would wear my old Magika hair that doesn’t have this no-rez script with pride — save that I deleted it all in disgust and so that no one could ask me where I got that fabulous hair.  Hell I’d wear my Bizarre Hair items with pride if their resize scripts were worth a tinker’s toodleoo — and they did not have a no-rez script that annoyingly talks to me every time I attach it.

Designers, let me tell you who you hurt when you add these scripts to your hair — your customers.  Your HUNDREDS of repeat customers who would love to shop at your shop and give you their lindens.  But you’ve made it difficult for us to fit the hair to our shapes and while doing so, made it only slightly inconvenient for those who wish to copy your work.  Who do you stop from copying your work?  NO ONE.  Who are you trying to stop?  What — maybe 5 people?  So do the math.  Is it really worth pissing off hundreds, if not thousands, of loyal customers to stop the probably less than 20 people who will rez your hair on the ground in an attempt to copy?  Furthermore, you can’t stop them.  Your no-rez script is a mere inconvenience — if that.  That’s right sports fans — If someone wants to rez your hair on the ground all s/he has to do is go to a sim where scripts aren’t allowed.  You can’t stop someone who really wants to rez your hair on the ground and you can’t stop someone from copying it.  Let me repeat that in bold, all caps, bright flaming neon pink letters so I can make sure you numbnutz can see it (yeah if you have a no rez, poor-quality resize script in your hair because you think it will stop someone from copying it, you are a numbnutz).

YOU CAN’T STOP SOMEONE FROM COPYING YOUR HAIR WITH THE ADDITION OF A NO REZ SCRIPT

The only people you hurt with this thing is your customers.  Think about that while you are not cashing out the lindens that I might have spent at your store but won’t because I can’t edit your goddam hair, I can’t rez it, it talks to me, and your resize script sucks ass.

And now a word or two about the outfit and hair fair goodness.  I cannot even begin to tell you how much I love the Ducknipple store.  Well, maybe I can begin but you have to go and buy their clothing and see for yourself.  The textures are wonderful and have shadows in all the right spots.  The prims fit perfectly the first time I put them on.  The skirts are skirts and not flaps (a rant for another time — maybe next week).

I didn’t want to overdo the Hair Fair stuff because the SL Fashion Blogsphere has been All Hair Fair All The Time lately.  But I so loved Ducknipple that I decided to put on yet another outfit from there.  I also promised you a look at the best Hair Fair freebie EVAR.  Here it is — the giant plungers made by Zyrra Falcone and HoseQueen Mclean.  I bet somewhere in the back of their minds, when they put these out, they might have had an inkling that the plungers would come back to haunt them.  And here they are.  I really miss Zyrra’s and Hosey’s whackiness and hair.  Wherever you ladies are, know that you are remembered and missed.  Any of you who want to take exception to my fashion with plungers should remember that I am well-armed and you don’ t know where these bad boys have been.  That is all.

As always, larger and better pictures can be found on my Flickr site.  You must be logged into Flickr to view.

What I am wearing (all hair is Hair Foot loot):
Outfit 1
Hair: Fashionably Dead – Stone Soup Tree (pot is part of the hair)
Skin: Curio- GP Sundust Dark Frex Breeze Robin’s Egg
Necklace: Caroline Apollo – Broken Long Strand White
Shirt: DuckNipple – Carrot 03 Sweater
Skirt: DuckNipple – Carrot 03
Boots: DuckNipple – Black Boots
Poses

Outfit 2
Hair: Argrace -  Fedora Hat “Glamorous wavy” (Red) (Hat has color change script)
Skin: Curio- GP Sundust Dark Frex Breeze Mermaid 2
Shirt: DuckNipple- Zwaffle 03.1
Boots: Shiny Things - Flower Biker Boots – black
Plungers: Freebie from Hair Fair One.  No longer available
Poses