I love when Nicky sends me a message and says "I'm working on a gown, would you like to make hair to go with it?" My answer is always a resounding "YES!" Nicky is so great to work with. She gives me the complete freedom to come up with whatever my own personal vision for that particular gown is.
So naturally, several months ago when she said she was planning a special Spring release and was making it an all-out collaboration even down to the skin and wanted to know if I would do hair for it, I said, "of course!"
This time, the gown is the most amazing Baroque style gown I've ever seen. I've yet to see a picture do justice to the detail put into it, and unfortunately my pictures don't live up to the real thing either.
The mask by Siyu Suen of Illusions is one of the most beautiful I've ever seen. When I started the hair, I knew a mask would be forthcoming and did my best to work around the picture Nicky sent me of it. I actually, for the first time, have released a hair with sculpty! Yay me! Because of the mask, there needed to be no bangs and to get the clean, pulled back look of the Baroque era I had to employ a sculpt to accomplish that. I was really surprised when I started researching that it was very common for women to wear their hair partly pulled back, but long and loose in the back. They would pull it all back and up into elaborate styles. I wanted to somehow incorporate both styles, a daytime and an evening look.
This hair has the incredible Transitions style changing system. You
must see it in action. When you touch the hair your avatar does this cute little whirly-thing (tm) with her hands, like you're arranging your hair. Then the hair changes! It's really very fun, and somewhat addictive. AO's will sometimes interfere so if you're not seeing it try turning off your AO. Super thanks to Mya Heaney of Pazazz for sharing the Transitions system with me.
You can pick it up in the lobby at
Calla!
