Someone left a comment on my blog about hair and I thought I would answer it, cos actually it’s a very good question!!
Gogo,you always post a bunch of hair from truth,exile,lamb and fri.day…why dont you try other stores…i dont know why the whole of sl fashionista brigade is stuck on hair thats more ahem ‘popular’…granted the fact that these stores do actually have great hair textures and all…but really what about a little bit of oldies like analog dog,jolie femme,bishwear,cake,shop sue,magika and i mean stores that make hair actually look like hair?
Hi Anon! You’re totally right, I do wear Exile, Truth, LeLutka, Friday and a few other brands more than others because I love their Blonde textures and their hairstyles. These brands are undeniably good, and they have mass appeal.
In the past, I have worn ALL of the other oldbie brands that you have mentioned in your comment. I still wear Cake hair from time to time, and also go back to “oldbie” brands when they release new stuff. Cake, for example, has evolved and stayed pretty up-to-date. I won’t wear my very old Cake hairstyles (3 yrs old) but I will wear the newer releases because Stumbelina has incorporated sculpts and updated her textures. That’s the key for me, and I think for a lot of people in SL, especially fashion bloggers. We like NEW. We want our hair to match our skins. Skins have drastically improved over the past years and so, we want our hair to look just as good. If an oldbie brand does not evolve, it just becomes well, old.. and outdated.
I’m not hating on any of the brands you’ve mentioned in particular.. just saying, perhaps you don’t see them featured more prominently is because they just don’t look that great. People want VALUE for their money. Why buy “new” hair that looks outdated from brands that have not evolved?
Btw, I have a lot of oldbie brands in my inventory, some I haven’t worn in years. I’m just too lazy to box them up and too sentimental to delete them.
I’ve deleted a few hair brands from my inventory cos they’re too old but I’ve kept almost everything that I might still wear from time to time.
These are amazing! love love love! im going to buy a few of the new colours for sure.
I have a question though about hair, do you ever cover mens hair? I know its mainly about women, however, I’ve been having a hard time finding quality mans hair (other than truth mens hairstyles) Im always looking to shop for my boyfriend in SL 😛 and I’m sure many other girls also do…. just a thought.
Some of the current hair brands that I do cover have men’s hairstyles! Exile, Truth, Shag, etc!
Your eyelashes always blow me away – I keep playing with different varieties but can never achieve anywhere near the same effect as you *sad sigh*. Do you edit each lash prim, by the way?
In this post I think she is using flat lashes printed on two prims, not the no alpha lashes that are individual prims each. So if that is correct she surely does edit the prims to fit her eye. 🙂 I agree they are great lashes.
Those hairstyles look super cute on you 🙂 And omg the new eyes are amazing right! I haven’t even touched my Redgrave eyes since discovering Aphotic Gloom. I have & love all of them 😀
These eyes aren’t up for sale in BOOM yet. 🙁
Hey there Gogo! I have been searching the whole Boom store fir quite some time now but I couldn’t find any eyes. Then a very nice girl went out of her way and asked the owner of Boom and she said there wasn’t a sale on the eyes… Did I read something the wrong way maybe? (English is not my native language, I get things mixed up easily haha)
Anyways, love your Blog!
I can’t find the Aphotic Gloom eyes at BOOM 🙁
I also tried to follow the picks from the creator’s profile. I found a vendor in a hair shop – the other pick was to a place so messy, it was impossible to look there. Anyway, the vendors in Curl up and dye had no eyes.
And the Marketplace has a Special edition pack, but not this #2 pack? 🙁
Must..have..eyes!
I can’t find them anywhere! 🙁
They’re heeeeere 😀 http://slurl.com/secondlife/Existence/128/89/22
When I tried the slurl, it took me to an empty wall. So I assume it’s some technical issues, maybe the sim owner needed a restart and that kicked off the vendors.
The #2 collection is up on the Marketplace. I bought it there, but I am not a total fan. Good enough though. I found some items missing according to the enclosed notecard. The alpha mask and a set of textured eyes, to use when you want bicolored eyes.
I stand corrected, all parts are there. No problems with the pack. I assumed it was an alpha mask instead of no iris eyes.
This was actually pretty cool, so much that I need to buy a new pack. The no iris eyes gives a really eerie ghost/zombie eyes effect on their own!
Yeah, maybe that was a temporary place. They are there, but at this location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Existence/147/25/22. Glad you found them on the Marketplace. They appear to be the same price. I love them, but I don’t find much of a difference between the colors in the set I bought.