We want information..

Hi all - survey and prize draw time - to enter, just come to the main store - or any for that matter - and buy something! While you're there, touch a sign for a Survey,. Spend a minute filling it in (just eight questions; nothing personal) and return it to Kallisti Burns to double your chances of winning upwards of 5,000L worth of hair.

Can't say fairer than that.

Surveys instore now, and the draws start tomorrow...

Until next time,

Kalli

Fade out again... times nine...

Hi all - due to there now being some very closely related styles in the -dD- and -dDx- wings of the old main store, I've taken the decision to have a bit of a sale and finally cull nine three year old (in some cases) styles from the remnants of the older -dD- lines.


Both the old and new styles will be discounted until the 22nd - then the -dDx- lines go back to full price and the -dD- ones go.

See you instore,

Until next time,

Kalli

Neguinha Eventa

Hi all - La Venta Eventa comes around quickly, doesn't it?

Well, this week I'm happy to offer a pre-release of Neguinha (named after Neguinha Darcy of Kurka's blog), which is a set of medium length braids on the new pineapple hairbase...

Five colors, 90L and available till monday morning.

Short but sweet, this entry...

Until next time,

Kalli

Put a hat on it and call it a thing

So I distracted myself last week with thoughts of trying something non-hair related... and what happened? I made a hat... apparently the apple doesn't fall far from this here tree:

This is the Bakerboy - now live instore and priced the same as a regular hair fourpack... a little steep for a hat on its own, you might say, but I got carried away. It was, after all, supposed to be an exercise in texturing, so I made a few variations... all selectable by touching the hat and clicking the relevant button:

I like it... a lot... and am yet to take it off... :)

Well - not true. I took it off long enough to shoot some vendor ads today for two new Savoir Hair freebies - Aura and Julius:

Both are out now in the four limited "Miscellany colors" - Discord Red, Raven Black, Ash Blonde and Milk Chocolate. Aura you've seen before, but Julius marks something different - new twist sculpts, and a new hairbase - the pineapple - that's set to make something of an appearance towards the end of the month - watch this space!

Until next time,

Kalli

One new, One updated, One out for La Venta Eventa

Does what it says in the title - just a short one to let you know of three new styles:


Khrystina - medium length messy braids with black roots - think Lux, but you've had it a few weeks and slept in it;) Available this weekend for La Venta Eventa in 5 shades - Ash Blonde, Discord Red, Raven Black, Milk Chocolate and Pearl for just 90L


Aly - the first set of braided pigtails since the now discontinued Seraphina - released two and a half years ago(!) - yeah... I took my time :$


Jocasta's another old one initially, released January 2009 - built December 2008, but one that's proven to be inordinately popular. It's high time it was revamped and has been - although the inherent details remain the same. Same back, updated headband and finally a better front...

4x4 day 3 draw results...

Congratulations to Tea Panhandle for nabbing the hair gift for day 3, and 25Cents Carter for grabbing the beards!

Last draw tomorrow. All you need to do is buy a -dDx- style in any store, or even a pack on the marketplace (what ones there are there) and you too will be entered for the draw.

Seven hours in today and I can vouch that nobody has, as yet, bought a beard... so that might be a good place to start.

Also, at the end of today the mobvends go down. If you've not got your cheap on so far, now is your last chance to do so. These colors will NOT be available after today... and also, if you buy from a mobvend, it also qualifies you for the prize draw... so get to it!

Until next time,

Kalli

New dollarbies... and day 2 draw results

OK... big exciting title... what are they?

As you can probably imagine, my hairmaking is a little experimental from time to time. I try a lot of things... some I'm happy with... some I'm not. I tend to big u-p the ones I'm happy with, gloss over the ones I'm not and generally only blog when I've got something I'm pleased with to go.

This leads me onto the two styles I have here. Unnamed... unloved? we don't know for sure.


The ESB01 - "experimental sculpted braid #1" - was the precursor to some of the "Turtle base" braids that followed... Omri, Lux, Brandon... those sort of styles... in fact I did actually picture this one earlier in this blog; but I decided not to launch it as it didn't seem thick enough, and the joins to the head seemed rather arbitrary.

Looking back at it, though... it's not too bad... Just not my best work - so I'm not going to offer it in all 36 colors; but I do have it complete in Cool Brown... so in Cool Brown it goes live.


The EFB01 - "Experimental flexi braid #1" is a recent attempt to see how braids would work as textures... not sculpts. Yes - I know this flies against all that I've stood for over the last two years or however long it is I've been making braids, but they're quick to get out, and right now, I need styles in store and to rebuild a returning client base once again. Don't get me wrong... it works... but as Alice and I both said on seeing it, it looks as though I've fallen out of 2007. It's wearable... Just not necessarily how *I* see a braid looking. Again... it's live... and this time in Auburn - the color I initially built it in.

Competition news: Today's winner of the hair is Therwakee Tomasso; and the beards go to Chaz Wickentower.

Public Service Announcement

Excuse the delay - Hunt runs April 2nd through April 30th. Apologies for not posting before now, but RL has been as RL does. I only got back inworld a few moments ago...

Anyway... Nethead 5e in Rainbow... free instore as part of the excellent Crazy Arse Hair Hunt. Be a part of it... Spread the word... Spread the love... and go get yourself some fantastically original hair from some of the best avant garde makers in SL... oh... and this Discord Designs lot, whoever they are...

Until Next time,

Kalli

Latest announcements...

Good grief... I'm actually remembering to blog!

I mentioned an as yet unnamed high pony a couple of posts ago... well... it decided to go with Elise.


It's live now... along with Heather... and a couple of limited Heather colors in the subscribeo...


Until next time,

Kalli

Born to be wild... and the beginnings of a new product line

Felicitations on this fine antemeridian of a Friday...

I'm going to come clean and let slip some details of the new development I've been so cagey about now that the time has come for me to start publicising.

Back in January, my good friend, and sometimes accomplice Faery Sola approached me with an intriguing offer - a stamp rally, involving a number of stores that do a really nice collection of out of the ordinary clothes, gowns, accessories, poses, skins and all the rest of the sort of thing to need to function in-world as an avatar who doesn't sit in the middle of the road. Anyway. As it happened this coincided with a long thought out plan I had (initially thought of it in October 2009) to give the brand a boot and hopefully draw in new people. How? Basically I look at my textures and realise they were OK in 2007/2008, but things have moved on drastically.

Why has it taken me five months? Well... I tell people this repeatedly, but they simply don't believe me... When it comes to 2D digital artwork, I suck. What I know about Photoshop is writable with a wedge-tipped sharpie on the back of a postage stamp; so there's been a bit of a learning curve at my end... including a month set aside to create JUST THE ALPHA MASKS...as I had to do it by hand... well.

If you look at the pic that follows, you'll see something rather unusual for SL (hey... this is me... what do you expect?) Rather than go for the conventional "dodge shine" in horizontal stripes across the base prims, I've decided to pick out the highlights in the hair to give some depth and variety... basically it shines verticaly rather that horizontally (and on a more technical note, my alphas are at the top of the textures rather than the bottoms... ;) Its been a ride, but they're working for me... even if it took nearly a month, over 200 uploads and a lot of swearing, crying and teethgnashing just to get a workable alpha(!)

The new textures themselves are only, for now, available in limited colors - 8 in fact; but of the shades I sell instore, there's no denying they're the eight most popular so I hope not to disappoint too many of you.

So... what are we looking at? For Faery's event, I'm unleashing Katherine as a prize... score enough stamps and you can claim all eight colors for free.


When the event kicks off on the 20th, there'll be two more new styles under the new dDx banner to choose from... a messy low slung bun, tentatively called Heather, and a simple ponytail which has yet to name itself. In short, look out for some new stuff next weekend!

Until next time,

Kalli

This blog post has nothing to do with a certain movie...

Just covering my butt from a legal standpoint... this isn't about new releases... it's about the repackaging of some styles that have been in-world for 15 months in some cases. It has just come to my attention that in the wake of a certain, unnamed movie, there has suddenly become a large fanbase of avatars, all of whom are dressing the part, RPing and so forth... what's more, they have descended en masse to -dD- in search of braided hair. Now this, from my perspective, is very cool indeed; and actually giving me the well needed boot up the fazzoo to get on and build some more braids.

In the mean time, I have been watching the transaction history; and have noticed that a lot of these folks are not just buying one style from me... they're often buying several... so; to make life easy for them, I've boxed up two packs of four styles and am selliong them (in black only, admittedly) as a four for three bundle.

Imagery...



So there you have it... Box the first contains Sylva, Kaiba, Taylor and Laetitia... while Box 2 has Jocasta, Rush, Jordan (in both variants) and Nox.

Have at it, you tall blue people... or anyone else who has the need for several braided styles. There for the taking in Synchronicity, and also in Arborea

Until next time,

Kalli

Movement...

Have been breaking out the tinter again and have decided to give away one of my sculptie experiments as a group gift... The Longhorn mustache...



Check the subscribeo if you like... will put up the full color range in due course...

Until next time,

Kalli

A little housekeeping...

Ramona now live, with a dozen colors lifted into the subscribeomatic for this current freebie cycle. Ragnar finally live up amongst teh beards after 5 weeks in the freebie box.



Panic ye not if you missed the Ragnar giveaway - it's still a steal at 60L a double...

I heard Ramona sing...

...and I heard everything

Well slightly grandiose a statement; but I'm taking a short break from Hair Fair panic to work on the 4th in the hood line of hair reworks. Basically I'm still prototyping, because with 237 wonky prims this one is a swine to texture reliably. Either way, the name Mona flew through my head for it, but it didn't seem right... Ramona (from the title of a Frank Black song from his eponymous debut album) did... so without further ado... a shot of the new work in progress...


I'm also going to add it in 12 colors to the group subscribeo when it's finished as the fifth free hair of the year... So look out for it...

You may notice that this differs from my usual routine again by being the first curly style I've thrown out since Joss in July 2007... or arguably Edea in April 2008. I see now why people resort to texture planes for curly hair... but I cannot be doing with the alpha troubles there... That and it would require me learning to use a graphics package... :S

Anyway... not going there again... especially not at this time of night...

Until next time,

Kalli

The girl from fifteen years ago...

Just so you know, the March freebie in the subscribeomatic is a reworking of Avril, entitled "1994"...


Back then.... 1994; several of my friends did this with their hair... always takes me back when I see it, and Avril seemed perfect for it... so I recreated...

I've given it a more contemporary twist with the slight pink tint on the tips, played with the prim layouts a little to accommodate, graduated with a dark brown intermediate band and added roots. Love it... Hope you will too... Free to subscribeomatic group members until April first... after then, it dies...

Come get...

Until next time,

Kalli

The statement and the resolution...

I mentioned that I would be giving away a free short men's hair... I did... and I will... Announcing the hairstyle in the Subscribeomatic for the month of February:



Harvey will be dug out and stuck up for sale at the usual rate, to be replaced by Craig either late on the 31st, or first thing on the 1st. Existing group members will, of course, be given the heads up and an inspection copy then and there...

Enjoy!

Until next time,

Kalli

Harvey now live AND FREE!

It's this simple... Turn up instore, join the update group... get Harvey in ALL COLORS.

Offer good until the 31st of January 2009.

Until next time,

Kalli

It's funny how things come together...

...and often not in ways you expect.

I started work on a new braided style for guys, slightly longer than Kaiba, that drops in front of one eye and is flicked over the other. I planned to call it Kazuo.

But, unwritten SL rule #304a kicked in. This is not a guy's style, now it's all pieced together and all is said and done it's defintely unisex.



Oh dear...

One other thing as well, I better come up with a slightly less manly name for it too... :S

This puts me in a rather unfortunate position, insofar that I've got quite some way with Paige, and a photo is likely to be up soon, once it's tinted. It is defintely a girly one (and targetted at a good friend of mine, if she only knew it)

I've promised two freebies to the update group in the new year, and they were supposed to be Paige and Kazuo... but neither are sufficiently manly enough to make it entirely fair; which means I now need to think of something else. I was planning a couple of proper, accessoried dreaded styles in the next few weeks based on the work that went into Ahab (sans hat, this time) so I might bring one or two of these forward and create something, that while long is more masculine.

Who knows... could even put it to the public vote... We'll see how it goes.

Until next time,

Kalli

It's full of piratey goodness...

Was asked whether I would consider making a dreaded pirate style... well... I have.

It meant making 73 new textures, but that's all part of the territory; or you would have thought. It was, typically the first time I've made new textures since the store refit... but it went OK, and the result isn't awful! ;)



Oh... and in other news, I've decided to give away my next two styles to update group members, so you might want to consider joining. The first style, tentatively entitled "Paige" is nearing completion, and is a cute choppy feathered bob with a braided detail. The second, a men's do, will be tackled as and when I get teh first done.

Pics of both to follow.

Thirdly, I've expanded the Burns store from 4 to 10 beard styles. Worth a nose if you've not been quite yet!

Until next time,

Kalli

Capitulation - and words of a release...

Ok, I did it... Nick is now live...

But I stand my ground, it's NOT overpriced yuletide merch. I'm selling Nick for ONE LINDEN a double for the next couple of weeks, then setting it up at the usual full beard rate of 60L instead.



Now I know some of you would tell me that it's a little ... well... neat and tidy, or even too short for a Santa beard... but it's all about culture how 'Santa Claus' is perceived. Hell, where I'm from, he was traditionally a redhead dressed in forest green before the Coca Cola company struck with the red and white fat guy.

Anyway... enough about pop-cultural history. Back to your lives citizens...

Until next time,

Kalli