Makeover stories.... hair.

"Give me down to there hair, Shoulder length or longer. Here baby, there mama. Everywhere daddy daddy"

OK, so, I needed new hair, and this is what Luna recommended for a casual look....

...to me that's a very Fabio looking pose, so I took one with the shades down... after all those modeling lights are bright!

And then I just lost it and decided that I'd be completely silly:

For those who care, the hair is called Outsider and it's by Naughty Hair. They actually have some of the best styles for male avatars I've seen. My old hair was by Calico.

OK, so hair like that in the pictures is called prim hair. This is different from the hair provided by the default avatar you get when you first log into Second Life. Or at least it was when I started, now I believe they have starter options that do have prim hair. Prim hair is so called because it is built like any other object in Second Life and then worn like a wig.

I'm not really great at designing hair so I usually buy it, it's a very specialized skill. However it does use flexi prims which I've spoken about before. The interesting thing with flexi prims is that the flexible part is animated at the client level, so your hair or skirt won't nessecarily appear in the same place to you as it will to everyone else, each client does it somewhat differently. Also flexi prims can be pushed around by wind and movement, so they dynamically adjust to the dynamic wind that is part of Second Life. Some people have done very unique art installations with Second Life wind.

If you want a full tutorial on making prim hair you can find a very good one here. Additional resources have been collected here.

If you make your own, let me know, after all, I may end up opening my own barber shop eventually. Happy cuttings.