Where there's hair, there's that hat...

Two new ones today, on the back of requests for hat and hat combis - Amanda and Mai.

Both are based around the Bakerboy hat that shipped last week. They're a little bit more than usual, at 225L a four-pack. The hat is still for sale separately (at 180L), but is included as a separate with both styles

That said, both styles and the hat are available in a treble pack for just 300L a fourway - can't say fairer than that...



If you bought the plain hat, and would like a free upgrade, just IM me inworld (Kallisti Burns) and fling me the transaction details, style and fourpack color choice and I'll ship you an update ;)

Amanda, Mai and the multipack are out now at Moonsong.

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

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

Exclusivity comes at a (reasonable) price

Greetings again after something of a break. This time out I offer you a little inside info on two styles available exclusively at Le.Look and Euphoria. The Le.Look exclusive -dDx- style is a set of long cornrows (that people have asked for) called Kaycee - five tails behind, one over the shoulder.

The Euphoria exclusive is a short, masculine cornrow pony, named hustle (remember our old -dD- style Rush? now you see where the name comes from ;) )

Both of these styles went live today. Topping that, of course, La Venta Eventa has cropped up again this weekend for me, so BOTH of these are available in the 5-pack of Discord Red, Milk Chocolate, Raven Black, Pearl and Ash Blonde for 90L. The boards, however, are not in the main store but in Le.Look and Euphoria respectively. Fear not if you're missing a landmark - TPs to both are available from the info board at the enterance to the main store.

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...

Another job to add to the pile...

Another release for you to have a look at - this is Arianrhod - a set of tight scalp hugging braids with an open ponytail...

In other news, it does seem that the images in the blog are indeed shot... I'll fix as soon as I can face it...

Until next time,

Kalli

It's here... Hair Fair 2011

Yes - it's that time of year once more. So without further ado - the reveal:

Lola - based loosely on Lulu from Final Fantasy X - A set of flexible braids on our new Urchin hairbase

Charlie - a ponytail with braided sides and floppy front - a softer variant on Stampede. Intended to be male, but works well on the girls - to the point that its the one I've been wearing for weeks :$

The original Urchin style that gave rise to the rest - Lotta is a short-ish, braided pony in the style of our old Laetitia do. This one, like the others, incorporates a few flexi braids for added life

Lilith - longer and fuller than Lotta - with the falls on the chest attach so that they don't spend their lives clipping through your shoulders. Really happy with this one, although a little disappointed that the animation of the pec attach points doesn't seem to allow hair to be mounted to it and still move with the body reliably... oh well... I'll keep trying... (sorry Jeela!)

In the words of Monty Python - And now for something completely different. Yes - this is inspired by Michelle Laine's headdress from the Katy Perry ET video. Somebody had to, and since it's braided, who better than me? Skin and face gems available from Nuuna's. She put it together especially for me - Thanks girl - you rock! :))

Discord Designs can be found on the Osmium sim (Hair Fair 4). Best way to find us, land anywhere and head South West. We're the last booth you hit before landing up in the water...

Doors open to the public on the 2nd of July, and demos going out to the -dDx- subscribeo and Hair Fair Demo group later today.

See you at Hair Fair!

Kalli

Lax or sorely lacking...?

OK - I suck and have left this WAY too long. Yes I have been working, and updates have been coming, but I've not blogged them because I either simply couldn't log into Blogger or I was otherwise predisposed.

Anyway, I'm posting now as there's a new one out today - Celene


This one features a mix of sculpted and flexi braids for what I believe is the first time. If it sells I'll look at developing more along these lines - so do come by and give it a try. It's on the practically-ubiquitous Turtle base again... but recent releases haven't been.







So these half dozen are on the new Skunk hairbase - allowing for some fun with straight cornrows - we've got Freija, a Jordan replacement and featuring a long loose drop and a bandana (colour-change, of course), Stampede - a mohawk with braids up the sides, Briannon - a Paige replacement with a little flick, Devon - a set of cornrows with tails (to replace Deshaun), Anansi, a set of rows without the tails (as a Sol replacement) and Mackenzie - like Shelly but braided instead of just tied.

And if that wasn't enough, finally there's Karina - initially built for the Little Big Shop event, that's now for sale in the main store and is a loose floaty ponytail.


...and by popular demand, a prim version of the turtle hairbase for those who want to use the tatt layer for something else:


OK... so that's you guys up to speed on the last seven weeks of releases. I *promise* it won't be so long next time, because if it is, I'll be announcing my Hair Fair releases on the last day of the show... don't want that now, do we...?

Anyway,

Until next time,

Kalli

No fooling - just releases...

Since I last blogged, I've knocked together three new ones for you to take a look at - John, Loki and Sascha.

John has been out around a week now - but its taken me a while to get to blog. This was actually the requested style by Garnet Neutron, who's photo of her partner StrayDog Loxley was a prizewinner in the Discord Designs Flickr competition just before Christmas. Short, sensible and wavy with just a few loose hairs. I like this one because, unlike any of the others,the primary bulk of this one was created out of world and imported in. New developments and long may they continue.

Loki is a replacement for the ever popular, but now Discontinued Odin style. A ponytail with braided elements. While this one works well on men aiming for that Norse look (waving at you Viking RPers out there now...) my petite female av looks lovely in it... and then there's Sascha:

Relatively short, swept back mini-pomp with a little flick over the back. Conversely this one was intended for the girls, but George, my ever suffering Male shape that I use for modelling (seen above in Loki, just FYI) certainly looks respectable in Sascha...

Either way, all three are now up for your inspection, so do drop by, have a gander and see if I'm joking with you regarding the unisex accessibility of these ones!

Until next time,

Kalli

Relocation, fundraising and development

Hi all - two... well, nearly three weeks away from the blog while everything shifts.

We're now based on Moonsong - Synchronicity has gone and the range in Moonsong is increasing as I retint old -dD- lines and add more stuff.

The inaugural new release at Moonsong was a set of flexi braids in the style of the EFB01 - called Alana:


Part of the retexturing gave rise to the discovery of the apocryphal 7th geometrics style - the sideburns - which, of course, have been launched.


The next release wasn't even at Moonsong, but instead part of the Pacific Crisis Fundraiser; organised in the wake of the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami last week. The style at that event, Ren, will only be available during the run of the event, so if dreads and a headscarf are your thing, you're going to want to brave the (surprisingly low) lag and get your hands on it.


And finally... new beard - five months in the offing for those who've seen it on Flickr. Vlad is out now and marks a paradigm shift in our prim beard developments.


So come by and check it out... but DO visit the PCF fundraiser and grab some remarkable stuff from over 400 creators.

Until next time,

Kalli

2011 arrives with a new set of dreads

So here we are... I was supposed to be launching a beard but due to some software issues at this end (read crashing and wiping of files) I've lost a glob of the textures I made... but ah well... They'll get there soon...

In the meantime I got into a conversation that led to an idea being bandied about that I had to do something with... the result is Khafre; which I must confess I'm kinda happy with, bearing in mind the turnaround time!


OK... it has a girl in the shot... well... me... but it works on guys too, like most of my dreads.

Hope you like it - and it's live now...

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.

4x4 day 1 draw results

Thanks to all of you who attended day one of the -dDx- 4x4 event. As we're giving away the entire range of hair to one lucky buyer, and the entire range of beards to another, we figured it would only be fair to publish in the blog who won on each day - soo...

...The envelope please, Kimberley... Thank you...

The winner of the -dDx- Hair for the 6th of December was

Dana Starsider

And the winner of the -dDx- Beards for the 6th of December was

Reka Heartsdale

Thanks again to all who bought a qualifying style. Tune in tomorrow for the announcement on the winners of the draw for the 7th of December!

Until next time,

Kalli

Four by Four

Alice turns four this week... So do I... so we're giving stuff away!


what we've actually said in the notecard that's gone live to all group members is:

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Announcing the Discord Designs 4x4 event at the Discord Designs Main Store:

December 6th marks my 4th Rezday in SL... December 9th marks Alice Hoyer's 4th Rezday

Seeing as we can never agree on the music to play at a joint party, we have decided to go a little silly instore and run not one, but four separate events over the four days between the 6th and 9th (inclusive of course)... hence 4x4!


Event 1) - PRIZE DRAW TO WIN ALL -dDx- HAIRSTYLES INSTORE

Come into the store and buy any -dDx- hairstyle to stand a chance of winning the rest of the range. Every day we'll be awarding one lucky person who buys a -dDx- hairstyle the fatpacks of all our -dDx- hairstyles instore.... yes... ALL of them

We'll be collating all daily purchases and selecting the winner randomly (using a random number generator); so the more you spend, the greater chance you have of winning!

One collection will be awarded every day, so do come back if you're unlucky at first!


Event 2) - PRIZE DRAW TO WIN ALL -dDx- BEARDS INSTORE

Come into the store and buy any -dDx- beard or mustache to stand a chance of winning the rest of the range. Every day we'll be awarding one lucky person who buys a -dDx- beard or mustache the fatpacks of all our -dDx- beards and mustaches instore.... yes... ALL of them

We'll be collating all daily purchases and selecting the winner randomly (using a random number generator); so the more you spend, the greater chance you have of winning!

One collection will be awarded every day (on the following day), so do come back if you're unlucky at first!


Event 3) - Discord Designs Flickr Competition -
Get the chance to help design a style and have it named after you (or someone else)

Buy a -dD- or -dDx- hairstyle, beard or mustache... Take a photo of yourself in it, and post it to the Discord Designs Flickr group:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/discorddesigns

...before midnight SLT on the 18th of December. We'll then go through all the entries, and pick the one we like the most, who will then get a hairstyle, beard or mustache named after them instore (or named after a friend, if preferred), have a hand in the design specification of it. They will also receive the fatpack of the completed style as it goes live. We'll also award three runner up prizes: a fatpack of their choice.


Event 4) - LIMITED EDITIION COLOR PACKS in MOBVENDS


Four mobvends, containing fourpacks of limited edition colors of four recent releases have been sequestered in the main store. Usually 180L each (aside from the beards which would otherwise be 90L) they have been set to drop in price to as low as 4L apiece. After the 9th, these colorways will no longer be available, so make sure you grab them while you still can.

Hope to see you instore!

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Now what we haven't said are the hair packs are for Omri, Donna, Colleen and Olaf; and all are in Discord Red, Milk Chocolate, Ash Blonde and Raven Black.

So get involved... tell your friends, distribute liberally..!

Until next time,

Kalli

24 hours of frantic activity

The last 24 hours has seen the release of four new styles. None of which existed prior to December the 1st. What's more, 15 hours ago two didn't exist at all... But anyway. I've been busy - and here's what's happened. Two hairs, two beards.






*sighs*

it's taken a fair bit out of me to get them out today; but I'll just let the pics do the talking and say they're live instore now... the main one, that is...

Oh yes... and Donna and Colleen are available at 33% off until Sunday night - so do come by and exploit this early-bird offer... ;)

Until next time,

Kalli

Made with someone in mind...

OK... I've thrown together another style - it came to me pretty much out of the blue; and it also occurred to me that it might appeal to a certain someone who's been a friend since Hair Fair 2008... the same person who helped me with my first copybotting issue... and the person who introduced me to Plurk: Shelly Toonie of Moonshine.

Woman... you are evil... but in a good way - :P

Why this style? Well... Of the ones I've made in the past, she's made the most use of Paige - a style from January 2009 which comprises a loose back with a tied up section on the crown. I always intended to remake Paige because - well - I think I can do better now. So with that in mind - this is Shelly.


The top shown is one of Moonshine's Dulcet ones, just out of interest... ;)

Colorchange hair accessories (scripted if you feel like it) and fully moddable; it's live now in Synchronicity. Four-packs are 180L each.... 12 packs are 360L and include a bonus color each: Milk Chocolate in the Darks, Ash Blonde in the lights and Raven Black in the unnaturals. The fatpack is 720L; and features a total of forty color combinations - the same as above, plus Discord Red.

So now you know! Come and have a go!

Until next time,

Kalli

In the not too distant future...

Hi all... plenty going down over the next few days... and speaking of going down - so will my access to SL for the next month. Why? NaNoWriMo... It's become something of an institution for me, and I've got a novel to write as I've started dishing them out at Christmas to family and friends and last year's finished on something of a cliffhanger.

But anyway - News:

31st of October sees a one day sale at Second Style Island. I'll be taking part - naturally - with 33% off all styles there, and an exclusive - Esther.


not only will Esther be going live in time for the sale, it'll also be discounted by 66% - that['s a standard hair pack of four colors for just 60L for the duration of the sale. Ester will also be exclusive to Second Style Island until well into November.

Speaking of November, MoMoSL is happening starting on the 1st:


When I heard about this I had to take part. I've created a new 'tasche for it which is now available in the standard color configurations in the main store. I've dubbed it Heraldo:


The hunt gift will be in four "not for sale" colors - and marks a reappearance of Discord Red, Milk Chocolate, Raven Black and Ash Blonde. Look for the fake mo instore from the morning of the 1st of November.

And on the 5th of November, Discord Designs will be featuring in the Shopping Cart Disco "Disco Deals" event for November, featuring another exclusive fourpack - this time of Brandon, in Raven Black, Milk Chocolate, Ash Blonde and Discord Red, once again...

Further information through the subscribeo, and up here in due course...

Until next time,

Kalli

Variations on a theme (not by Paganini)

Greetings one and all to the 301st Discord Designs update... Never really thought I'd get here but... there you go.

Stuff to add - I've made a couple of short braided affairs that I threw out in the wee small hours local time. These themselves have a lot of similarity to the old Kaiba style from way back.

If asked, I've always said that if I could have only made one style I sell - it would have been Kaiba. Unisex, short, braided, and just a little out of the ordinary. Discord Designs to a tee, one might say.

Ryu was an attempt at recreating this in time for HF09... and after HF10 came Omri; which if anything was potentially another stab at a kaiba replacement, but was a little too rigid; maybe...

Now comes Brandon:

OK... Now I may have got it... sculptie fluffy bits, short braids and long messy ends. When I took the pic of my avatar (on the left) I had to stop and stare for a moment. In short - I like it. More than I should otherwise admit.

The other new one out today is a rework - well, retake on Nox. This is another relatively popular unisex braid dating back to a couple of months after the Kaiba appearance in January 2009. Initially designed as male, but failing to be exclusive; it's slightly longer, loose and forward on the right, dragged back on the left. I've called it Lux - Latin for Light, as Nox was Latin for dark.


So there you go... Both currently live at the main store, and in time, doubtlessly, will be populated to the satellites.

Come have a go.

Until next time,

Kalli

Today I shall wear purple...

Recently the media has been full of stories of young LGBT people committing suicide as the result of relentless bullying in high schools across the USA. To highlight the problem, to campaign both for the cessation of this hateful bullying, and to empower those going through it with the message that "it gets better", October the 20th has been designated "Wear Purple Day".

I will admit to feeling close to the issue on this one... back in the nineties I went through years of bullying at school, but eventually got through the other side, embraced who I was and discovered that yes - it did indeed get better.

I want to spread the word about this campaign, so I'm making an offer to you all... Join me.

For the next 24 hours, all -dDx- hair, dreads and braids - even the Nethead cables in purple have been discounted to 1L a pack in our primary satellite locations - so you too can wear purple and spread the word.

The discounted hair is available from the -dDx- satellite store on Second Style Island, in the Moonsong Caves and in the Vertigo Shopping centre on Medallion; just to the left of the club entrance. Check out the latest post in the subscribeomatic in any store for the list of SLURLS.

So come by... grab yourself some purple hair for a Linden... and spread the word.

Until next time,

Kalli