Results from the tenth... and another dollarbie

I should have said earlier - mea culpa... but recently I've been tied up with an RL side project that has a deadline of today. Anyway. The prizewinners forthe 9th were as follows:

Arely Latzo was the lucky winner of the hair, and Oberyn Firethorn nabbed the beards...and has already blogged them... ;)

On another note, I've gone live with a natural white version of the EFB01 hair as I've added a few pics of me in it to my Flickr account and it's generated some interest.


It's available exclusively on the SL marketplace, and so far seems to be going down quite well.

So there you have it... 4x4 has been.. Alice and I are both a year older, inworld and we're still stunned that it's been this long...

Until next time,

Kalli

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.

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

Right on the tail...

Three releases out Tuesday, a satellite store refit yesterday and now another release. It's been a busy week so far...

This is Athena:


More braids with a hairbase; and a scripted colorchange bandana... and seeing as the script is open source, the entire hair - and script - is moddable at all times.

Fancy something different? come and try it out. Now live in the main store.

Until next time,

Kalli

Under a singing moon...

Just to let you know that the Moonsong Caves store has had an expansion and a refit (with thanks to Flippa Stella of 'Flipside' for her assistance.)

Gone are the old -dD- lines, but instead is a (more or less) complete range of -dDx- styles, including all three of the Hair Fair 2010 styles; yesterday's newly released braids and more.


Interested? Come and visit!

Until next time,

Kalli