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

Back in black...

OK...
Due to popular demand, I've gone back to the ESD03.2 and created the black version - now in-world, and yours for just 15L at Moonsong


Come get if you fancy... I'll get back to working on something new to me...

Until I eventually get it finished, or La Venta Eventa goes around,

Kalli

Tasche Dash - Day 26 - The return of the legend

The original of this style was created in the early days of 2008 - and each and every time I tried to get rid of it there was a backlash - quite simply it showed its age because - well - I wasn't that great a builder back then.

Even so, the Tasche in question gave rise to it's own inworld owners' club... on seing that, I felt I had no choice but to resurrect and rebuilt - BANDITO:


It's all there - the volume, the drop below the chin, the long fluffy bits - but this time the lines are smooth, textures are better and overall it's... well... Just look at it... :))

In other news, this weekend I'm participating in the Euphoria Black Friday sale with a double pack of Lotta and Hustle for just 50L and you can also find Charlie and Stampede in double packs for 90L at Men's Select on Fantasia... here are some samples:



Until tomorrow,

Kalli

Tasche Dash - Day 24 - Less is more

Announcing Gomez - a fine pencil mustache - by request!


There's still time to get your requests in should you fancy one being made - just IM me inworld and I'll see what I can pull off.

Until next time,

Kalli

Tasche Dash - Day 21 - Pierce spear and ingest...

Part of the point of the Tasche dash is to reinvent some old lines, create a range of stock so that the ancient, decrepit and generally lame can be removed - there - I said it... but on occasion, someone still asks for an old style that's unavailable.

One of those such long gone ones was Forkboy - a goatee with two braids in the bottom. I've had a handful of people inquire about it so I figure, what they hey... new Forkboy:


Until tomorrow...

Kalli

Tasche Dash - Day 18 - It takes chops...

Another request - this time for a new large set of muttons - Sure! This is Agnew:


It's been a while since I had a set in the main store... That's resolved now!

Until next time,

Kalli

Tasche Dash - Day 17 - One for the few

This one was suggested by Madagascar Few - hence the name... ;)


Fun, funky, and as a first for my 'tasches - flexi in places... Worth a look if you fancy running a Fu Man Chu tip...

Until tomorrow, when I promise to put my shirt back on... *blush*

Kalli

Tasche Dash - Day 13 - The practical cat

Change of plan - and as a Plurk friend pointed out, whiskers are mustaches... therefore, I get to call this a 'tasche Dash thing under that caveat... Macavity:


Something different for tomorrow... going to have to decide on what I fancy making... :S

Until tomorrow,

Kalli

Tasche Dash - Day 11 - Another knotty problem

Day eleven, and another braid - this time a solo tasche. Definitely a little on the outlandish side, but certainly with its uses... Lars!


More tomorrow... and I'd be happy to hear any suggestions, of course... ;)

Until next time,

Kalli

Tasche Dash - Day 2 - "Like my mother used to make"

Well, someone asked me whether I could make a soup strainer, so rightly I wondered why they were asking a hairmaker to make a kitchen utensil... so I did a little research, realised what they were on about and lo - it gave rise to the 'Minestrone'


...Might as well have a soup that's going to require some straining, after all...

Actually that sounds like a good idea for lunch... ;)

Until next time,

Kalli

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

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

Peer pressure will win every time you try to fight it

A quick note this one...

It was meant to be a limited group gift, but sales of the associated dollarbies are still spiralling on the Marketplace... So I've relented to persistent requests and made the "rest" collection of the EFB01 available on the SL Marketplace, for the price of a regular hair box... minus two Lindens, of course.


Not grabbed it yet? Now's your chance!

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

More new-textured goodness...

Coming soon, on the heels of Katherine, the Wild:Released stamp rally prize, is Heather...


Now - funny story behind this. Alice Hoyer has been asking me for a 'just got out of bed and sluched my hair up off my shoulders' style for the longest time... possibly eight months or so - but all previous attempts (and there have been some) with my previous bank of textures all looked naff. So... now that I had the new ones available I had to give it a go... and I must say I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. Alice certainly was, and agreed to model for the vendor shots in the new black.

Either way, coming out later this week!

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

So I was asked for a commission piece...

Strange request... not going into the finer points of it, but the long and the short of it was that after I made it, I was told I could do what I wanted with it.

Now - I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, but I've tweaked it slightly... changed some prims about to make it not 100% the same and am poised on a release for it. I've named it Mira, and all being well it should be on teh shelves by the end of the month... so Saturday. It would be out tonight but the OCD's kicked in and I'm looking at it, thinking a couple of prims are still not entirely to my liking - and my standards as they are now don't allow me to throw it out quite yet.

The vendor photo, however, doesn't show the two prims I felt obliged to alter, so it's as good to go as any... So here she is... Mira...


Furthermore, the initial commission was intended to have streaks in it... well... I like this idea, so am setting about, time permitting to release a few companion variations (probably at 75L apiece) featuring some interesting highlights. As things develop I'll be sure to keep you all posted... eventually...

Until next time,

Kalli

Somewhat unexpected...

OK... So things are still a little bit up in the air here, but at present I'm finding some time to build... which is always good.

Either way... I've now received the beta for the texturechanger for Rush and have added a few more prims to the new short men's do that I've still got standing on my platform.

In the meantime, however, I've been leaned on quite heavilly for a version of Layla without the headband... so basically Kaiba but beaded.

This proved to be rather straightforward... but typically, I've not just rebuilt... I've experimented with bullet shaped sculptie tips rather than flexis, which I think look pretty cool. It does mean that the hair is static... but there's little movement in the sculpted braids anyway. See what you think...



Now live... Demos going out to group in the next 24 hours... The beads are colorchange, of course, and instructions are supplied. If you like Layla or Kaiba, you're going to want to give this one a looksee...

Until next time,

Kalli

Back in the saddle...

Yes... another RL intervention has had me tied up for a few weeks, but right now, I'm back for a while at least, and can present a new release for your delectation.

Now for those of you who've seen me in-world (as my white-haired form) you'll know that I'm as good as the poster girl for Elixir fashions, owned, organised and managed by Khorus Magne... well... a few days ago I got a note from her asking me whether I would rework my Jordan style into something a little more... um... elaborate...

I asked was it a request or a commission... she said request (which of course, works out cheaper!) and in a few hours, I cranked out the new version, Sylva.



So there you are... out now, in the new braids section. Strangely enough, after showing it to a certain blogger, she directed me to a webpage where people on Flickr had been adding styles they were on the lookout for in SL... and one of them wasn't too far removed... so a third version may be in the offing.

Watch this space!

Until next time,

Kalli

The spirit of Frank

The number of times I've been told I need to make and sell a long realistic beard is... or has been borderline uncountable recently... So I capitulate.

This is Frank, so named after the one in ZZ Top without a beard. Go figure!



Bushy, more flexis than you can shake a stick at and an alarming number of prims at 87... but it's set for you now guys... come get some!

Until next time,

Kalli