Hair Fair Gift Tour: Chapter 1

Greetings from Hair Fair!!! Hair Fair is all about new hair and new hair only!  This year is really special as all hair are donation items, which means that at least 15% of proceeds will benefit Wigs For Kids, though I saw many designers donating up to 50% of the purchase price to charity.  Wigs For Kids has been the charity cause for a few years now and it's purpose is to provide hair replacement for children who have lost their own hair due to chemotherapy, alopecia, burns and other medical conditions.  The official website for Hair Fair '11 is an invaluable resource as it has slurls for all designers and as well as an exhaustive list of suggestions to make the trip more enjoyable and a lot less laggy.   The sims were designed and built this year by the Hair Fair Committee, a dedicated group of folks who have been doing this for years, so they know what does and doesn't work.  It's a beach theme (think The Deck ;) and if you stay on the path you will eventually hit every booth at the fair.

My Free*Style posts are going to show some of my favorite gifts from Hair Fair '11. It isn't an exhaustive showing of everything there; I wasn't crazy about all the gifts and Hair Fair is not about gifts...it's about charity and new hair.  In spite of that there are at least 60 gifts at Hair Fair that are free or 1 L, which is a WOW that deserves a big thank you to the generosity of so many talented designers. Lots more on Sim 1 to find and worth grabbing!

I totally dug this hair gift from Gauze. Gauze has 2 fun, funky styles in their gift as well as this separate hair ornament. Toast Bard of fashionably dead gave this great purple leopard body suit as well as the necklace and earrings AND sunglasses of awesomeness.  I paired them with some denim gauchos from Mocha that are on sale this week. I've been eyeballing these for awhile and was amazed when they weren't already in my inventory and forgotten (but we won't talk about my inventory).

LeLutka had my top gift hairstyle this year.  It's called Pinned and is a wonderful fatpack that shows roots that are so popular this year. It reminds me some of a tamed down version of Rykiel, that is hard to remove from my head.  The barrette is not color change but if you have some texturing talent the hair is mod so you can make changes as needed to this accessory.  The skirt outfit is from pr!tty who also has some great hair feather headbands and accessories, which didn't work with this hair but are awesome!  The cuffs and collar are part of a very large gift from !DERP.

I love great looking retro hair and Pocket Mirrors has an awesome cut in Melinda.  It comes in two colors.  I usually am a blonde in SL but for some reason I seem to prefer dark colors when it comes to retro styles.  The lovely hair bow is a gift from Donna Flora.  It is impeccably textured and detailed with lovely filigree gold detail wrapping the pearls. It's truly a sensational little piece.

Details:  Look at the HF blog for slurls for the stores with HF gifts but you might want to wander as there are so many great ones.
p1: Hair/Hair Accessory: Gauze: Nephra - Blue - Accident: HF gift
Bodysuit/Jewelry/Glasses: fd: HF Swag Bag
Skin: MOCK: Kennedy: New Release: Not Free but works great with all those fab MOCK makeups
Pants: Mocha: Denim Gaucho: not free but on SALE!
p2:
Hair: LeLutka: Pinned - Popcorn: HF gift
Outfit: pr!tty: Indie Chic: HF Gift
Collar/Cuffs: !DERP: Part of a huge box of HF Gifts
p3:
Hair: Pocket Mirrors: Melinda: HF Gift
Hair Bow: Donna Flora: HF Gift
Eyes: KMADD: Nature - Ocean Deep: Part of HF Gift
Skin: Glam Affair: Layla Light - MSW01-steal of the day at the new My Second Wardrobe shop

Cute and Silly Things

I know it's been a little while but I have some cute and silly free things to show you today. I don't know if you have heard of Priss, it's an adorable and very affordable little shop. The headband and top are group gifts in the subscribo. Just join and check history (numbers 1 and 6).

The silly thing I have here is the tongue. It's a current group gift from December, which is free to join (search for MandyMandy McMillan in the groups section of search, or join instore). Just check notices after joining. There's two versions of this tongue, one that I'm using below, and another one with the snails in your mouth.

Others:
-Hair: [kik] Rena I
-Skin: Adam and Eve Yolande Expresso
-Tattoo Lashes + Lip: Mock Cosmetics
-Jeans: Pink Outfitters Eighty Four Denim - black
-Pose: estetica: pencil skirt 3

Mystic Sky Valentine's Lucky Cupcake

You can win this fab Belladonna gown in the Lucky Cupcake at Mystic Sky through Sunday.  Here is the deal:  The gown requires two parts to be won.  You are looking for Belladonna Gown Box 1 and Box 2.  The dip is set on a 3 minute timer and there are more prizes than gags so your odds of winning are better than average.  I really like this idea as it could go faster than a lucky chair.  And if you are really impatient, like me, there is a 50% off sale on all Red and Pink clothing items in the store and this gown is included.

You can also win a matching accessory for your hair and a set of red checkered eyes.

Also for pose lovers, FD Poses has included 2 couples poses for 50% off.  You can also pick them up at Mystic Sky.

Thank you, Skyler John of Mystic Sky and Foxx Demonia of FD Poses, for your generosity!

25ans gifts

You'll find beautiful gifts in the 25ans sim. Join the group and touch gift panels in store.


Dress - 25ans gift by Azul
Hair accessory - 25ans gift by Gabriel


Dress - 25ans gift by AOHARU



Outfit - Kyoko Couture 1st anniversary gift. Available until Sept 15th.

non free items
Hair - Uncle web studio
Skin - D-skin

Hair Fair Goodies

Yes Hair Fair 09 is upon us, and once again the designers have pulled out all the stops for the most worthy of causes. If you havent had a chance to get there yet, you can check out some of the full price hairs on my blog and Ach's blog.



I thought I would show you just a couple of the amazing dollarbies/gifts you can snag over the course of the 2 week fair. The gorgeous, whimsical dress is a gift from Miu. Perfect for a long summer day, and could be totally taken into the night with a change of shoes and hair.



And speaking of hair, the one I'm wearing is a dollarbie from Discord Designs, with 100% of the proceeds going to Locks Of Love. This people is why we do it bigger and better each year, and if I hear one more person whining about not getting in early to the fair, I'ma slap someone. Priorities, srsly, as long as you donate/buy a donation hair, what is the big deal? Dun make yourself look like an asshole, please. That being said, the hair is amazing, loads of new to me designers and many old favies, it's soo worth the deprim. Ash Out.

Dress
Miu @ Hair Fair
Hair
Discord Designs Dollarbie @ Hair Fair
Choker
P/A

Welcome Mystic Sky!

My dear friend, Skyler John, has opened a new store called Mystic Sky. It is devoted to Medieval style gowns and fantasy roleplay clothing. All the designs are original. They are so impressive. Her textures are rich and the prims are perfect. The Ella gown in lavender is exclusive to the lucky chair. It includes the cape, which is so wonderfully dramatic. The floral hair garland is a dollarbie.

I can't wait to see more of your work, Skyler! All the best to you!

Dare To Be Different.

Dare from Dare Designs must be one of those all seeing undead types, cos literally as I was about to shuffle off to PS to process the first pic, he dropped a preview on me of next week's releases! We have lucky chair goodness, as well as stuff not in the chair.



This set is shown in my favie colour of Dare's, Blood/Red. The set in the chair is Coffee, as shown here. The Wilhelmina set is a huge folder of goodies, corset, panties, jacket, hat, cane, cape stockings, leggings, boots... oy! Time is about to run out, it will be removed from the chair pretty soon, so you know the drill. The amazing skin shown you can thank Loli for. While it's not free, the only hard time I had was not buying all the sodding fatpacks :P You'll find this beautiful, stitched up bit of dewy goodness at Atomic.



Shown here is the Papillion set, in pink, fuscia (lucky chair exclusives) and my fave again red. They won't be released till next week, but once they are, the pink and fuscia will only be in the chair, not avail to buy. Isn't my hair the absolute cutest. Named after our Loli, and available for a linden, along with 5 other equally pretty styles from Tiny Bird. Although on wearing the hair, I had the strangest urge to yell things IN CAPITALS and also had an odd attraction to mudkips........hmm, wonder if that's coincidence? Ash out.

Outfits
Dare Designs
Skins (not free)
Atomic
Erin By La Sylphide (retired now, more's the pity)
Hair
HCT
Tiny Bird (thanks Autumn xoxo)

Ssshhh, spot the green!!

As I've mentioned before on the blog, if you're a hard core RP type, finding "your look" can be terribly hard on a budget. Recently there have been some incredible packs floating round the grid, covering all sorts of looks/avatars. So today it's the turn of the vampire. Fitting as one of the terribly good looking undead has joined our ranks :P



Lunas Boutique is a store I've blogged a few times, discovered through Fashcon around the New year. Do a search for the LL group, there are some super cool gifts in the archives. Including a pose hud stuffed full of poses, total must have. But these outfits are what I'm stoked about, a gift from Candy Shop (in the Lunas Boutique group archives). They are complete vampire avs, including skins (not shown) shapes, teeth, emote hud and all the clothes shown. So many options and stunning pieces, to say I'm blown away is an understatement! Skins! The skins worn with the red outfit are from the Imagen hunt. You're looking for 20 teeny shamrocks, and you'll get 19 skins and some eyes. If anyone needs a hand, drop me a line inworld and I'll be happy to help. None are hidden in walls or anything like that, lets just say that sometimes the most obvious hiding places are the hardest to find :P The skin worn with the black outfit is a gorgeous dollarbie from Domestic V. There's a huge sale going on also, and loads of freebs on the ground floor (you'll find the skin shown upstairs).



I had to sneak a wee bit of green in here!! This beauty is a group gift from Fairytails. You'll need your group tag activated, then snag this for an L. The skin I'm wearing here, and for the rest of the post are part of the Rockberry gift for the most random hunt ever. I love love love them!





I saw a small post about this store on the Freebie Telegraph, and had to go have a nose for myself. Nah! is a new to me store, and all these outfits are free from there, unbelievable! The brown dress also comes with super cute cowboy boots, not sure if you can see them too well. I can't wait till the store is fully stocked so I can go spend, as at the moment, everything is free. Now I'm off to try and give mini Ash a bath, hard at the best of times, but the little princess is sick, so I anticipate much sadness! Ash Out.

Non Free Awesomeness
Hair
Gritty Kitty
ETD (still closed?)
Dejavu (some avail to buy, 2 are old group gifts)

Hoofies
Lazy Places

Ballet Boots
DXD

Totally Twisted

Firstly, a hearty welcome to all our new guest bloggers, especially Ms Eden who I have pestering for months to start blogging! Now you all can appreciate her razor wit as much as I do, yay!



I'm gonna start things off quite sedately with this gorgeous, classy number from A Piece Of Candy. A store I haven't blogged for ages (shame on me!) You'll find this, some skins and 2 other outfits in the latest subscribo gift.



And here we have "Jazz Baby" from the ever generous Ms Lemania. Shown here with the stunning "Kept" choker I picked up from Sable Rose as part of the massive Twisted Hunt. There's a lock and key version in the folder and both are my new sloves.



And speaking of the Twisted hunt, I thought I'd show a few of my faves. I know it's been all over the feed, but hopefully my faves don't clash with anyone else's!! These silks are from Subtle Submission, and I adore them. They come with the wrist and ankle chains shown, and cover quite a bit more than regular silks, perfect for shyer wearers!



This is the gift from Blueblood, shown with the most amazing hair from Burning Chrome. Apart from the yummy hunt gifts, you'll also find mucho goodness at the main store, and hit up the group too, a little bird tells me there's something waiting for you :P



I love love this dress from Skinzor, shown with incredible stompers from Self Expression. I'm only up to 20 something out of 103 pressies, so far some have been easy to find, others really really hard. Best advice I can give is de prim, take your time and above all have fun with it. If you can't find a gift, move on to the next. There's a list of the stores participating on the blog, and it's not the end of the world if you have to leave a gift till later. And for the love of all things holy, don't be an asshat kthnx :P Ash Out.

Amazing Shtuff That Ain't Free
Skins
Curio
Ti'ko

Hair
Maitreya
HOM

Goodies

I spent most of the weekend either in PS or decorating with Kenlee, oh then there was the getting griefed in a sex sim, but that's a bedtime story for another time :P



In between travels, I was TP'd twice to Silent Sparrow to grab the Valentines newness from the chair. Luckily enough, one was for the boy's suit and the other was for the girl's. First time in ages I've actually won it not bought it so I'm stoked! Thanks Eden ;) CHECK OUT THE SHOOZ!! Oh Nonko could quite possibly be the slove of my life. Their shoes are unique and detailed and gorgeous. These are called "Alice Stepped In Chocolate" and they will keep me out of my beloved hoofies for a bit! Join the JAPAN SOUL NONKO.com group, then touch the box in the main store for your amazing footwear.



I haz cupcake on my head, and it's part of my hair!!! Violet Morellet, the yummy designer from inorite dropped these on the group this morn. Even the names of the colours are fecking imaginative, "Suicide Blonde" "Morphine And Chocolate" "Pot Kettle Black" I could go on, but I won't. Back to PS I go. Ash out.

Exxessive Xmas

Hey people! I'm getting all Christmassy on yo' ass, hope you don't mind.

It's just I received the most gorgeous Chrismas outfit yesterday from Exxess, I have never been to this store before but WOW, I don't usually dress in a fantasy style, but this store is going to change all that. I was drooling over the sexy outfits, I think I want to be Egyptian girl.

This outfit is the Chrismas free gift and really the photo's don't do it justice, it has to be seen in virtual reality to see the way it moves, it is stunning. The boots and earmuffs also come with the outfit.

The hair worn below is not free but it is AWESOME so I had to have it, I have never seen anything like it, it comes with this spider like crown. There's loads more beautifully designed unique hairstyles at Exxess if you like something a little bit out of the ordinary.



Free boots, check out the heel.
I personally wouldn't like to be kicked in the sphincter in these, but I'm sure there are many who would, going by the freak show Zuzu, Gattina, Valentine and I took part in at the bukake place yesterday (on Elizabeth Hallstrom's recommendation XD)



This beautiful hair and toy are also free in the Exxess store. You will find the free items in the hair section.



ARgghhhhh, SL is being a tool at the moment *sighs* I see a few people are having trubs logging on. I did manage to log on but only as my account which has payment info on file, not sure if this is the reason I could log on.

This is Freestyle...

Meet Freestyle Adamski. ..Oh yeah, I know she looks like all my other alts :D.



I have created her as my admin alt for the group, so I can keep all my notecards and group info in order. Creamy's inventory is terrifying.

So, if you have any queries about the group, would like an invite to the group as a designer or would like me to review something for the blog, anything Free*style related really, please send a NOTECARD or FOLDER (no IMs please) with all your info to Freestyle Adamski and hopefully I can keep on top of things more easily.

I only log on as her once a day for a short time if I can, just to reply to notes and stuff but please give me up to 5 days to reply to you, if I haven't replied after 5 days please contact me again, your note may have got lost.

I'll put my latest favourite new stores, along with old favies in Freestyle Adamski's profile picks, so keep checking because it will probably change often. Today I stumbled across a wonderful place called Christmas, which funnily enough, is mostly Halloween themed. There are not many stores here yet but many of the stores here have fun free gifts (mostly Halloween inspired at the moment)

Look at this amazing bat hairband from Edelweiss, it's only available at their Christmas location.



I was sooo surprised by what happened when I took to the skies...the wings open up and flap beautiful, like they are carrying you off.




The photo's were taken on the Christmas sim, the sweetie filled pumpkin house is right at the top of the hill. Also check out the Pure Angel Mall right next to this sim (at the bottom of the hill). Lots of yummers stuff there too.


Bat Hairband: Edelweiss (0L)
Jacqueline Hair: Diversity (bought with new player voucher - under 30days old - remember to pick up your free new player skins too)
Skin: Sin Skins Group Gift (click the sign in store to subscribe and you will be given these skins)
Dress: GHOST at Free*Style (1L - or pay what you wish)

Orangy Group Gorgeousness

Oh my poor aching head......again! And to make the hangover even more perfect, my darling, wonderful daughter got up at 5am this morning. Oy. I'm just waiting for daylight savings over the weekend, then I can maybe get an extra hour of sleep in!





First up, this super cute outfit from the Happy Happy Update Groupe. I luff Mayuki Nozaki's clothes, such an eye for detail. Look at the tiny pumpkin buttons, delightful! And check out the shooz, a group gift from Shoe Fly! The group topped 2000 members and lookee, we gots pressies!





The hair! Another awesomesauce afro from Mayamaya Creations. You'll need to join the group, and go to the main store, as you did last time to get this. It won't be up for long, so grab it now. The adorables dress is from Parallel Love. There's all sorts of yummy Halloween goodies there, including Pumpkin hair, which I'll show you in a future post.



This skin's one of mine, one I'd been working on for awhile. I'll be sending this out to my group over the weekend. The subscribe kiosk can be found hurr. After that I may put it out at Free*style. Ooh if you do happen to go to our main store, we're currently undergoing a facelift, so it's a tad messy!! Designers, Creams will be in touch soon to get you to move your bits and pieces again!! Ash out, to search for a Redbull IV or something similar ;)

The Q Quandry

While stalking a few lucky chairs recently, I noticed they had a love for the letter Q. Course I don't have a Q on my friends list, and after trying to get the girls to make one, I decided to give it a go myself!! Here she is, a brand new Q, looking quite spiffy already!!



And of course every lucky chair I went past today had a sodding A on it!! Wouldn't you know!! All of these gorgy outfits are from Girls Style. If you haven't been to this super cute store, now's the time to start!



How awesome is this?! Chuck on some pigtails and roll round in a field of corn or some such!!



The bangles are from Girls Style also, pink, pink and did I mention theyre pink?! I know you wanna know about the hair. The stars are attached to this afro *sighs* joy!! It's a group gift from Mayamaya Creations, you need to join the group and pick up the gift from the main store. Now back to lucky chair stalking!! Ash out xoxox

Outfits
Girls Style

Hair
Mayamaya Creations

Intergalactic Planetary

Hurry up!!! Today is the last day to get some wicked freebies from the Juicy Bella sim. For a super duper detailed post on other outfits you can find there, check hurr!! The shoes are from Unique Needs, The Death Dolly Goth Mary Janes, All Colors. Another triumph from Ann O'toole, with a nifty colour change script thats easy peasy to use. Click and change!! Even I can manage it. They're not free, but so worth the lindens IMHO. The hair is a freebie from Magika, that can be picked up from Hair Fair.





It was checking Adi's post that led me to the title of mine!! Once again, I'm running round the house singing badly, while my daughter yells "shuddup mummy I'm trying to watch the Wiggles"!! Well excuuuuuuse me! Katatonik has put a new dollarbie out at the Free*style main store, the Ghostfire dress in blue,it's out of this world (punny pun punnnyness)!! I'm wearing it with the amaaaazing Wish hair, which at the moment can only be picked up at Hair Fair







And bubbles!!! I stalked the HPMD lucky chair till I was triumphant. I saw off many other a's including mermaid Ach!! You get 6 different bubbles, each with it's own super kyoot pose, and the poses seperately, in case ya wanna stick em in some other random piece of furniture! I have furniture and houses in general on the brain, having just packed up my store and moved, and found one of the best sky boxes I have ever seen!! I will be taking lotsa pics in my new home woot!!! A massive thankyou to Suri Christen, who helped me more than I can say in terms of decorating my home, with some pretty unique and quirky items. Heart yooooo xoxo

Shtuffs You Need To Know
Pic1
Outfits
Juicy Bella

Shoes (not free)
Unique Needs

Hair
Magika Gift @ Hair Fair

Rest Of The Pics
Dress
Katatonik @ Freestyle Main Store

Boots (not free)
Lazy Places

Hair (not free)
Katatonik @ Hair Fair

Evil Betch from Hell

I have gone hair insane over the last week, and it's the best insanity known to man!! Sixty-Nine's releases have melted my heart, and now they have put a special edition of the gorgy doll hair in a lucky chair!! Unfortunately, I was one of those terrible people who tp'd in yesterday, and my letter came up instantly, go on, curse me now, I know ya wanna!!



The beautiful dress is a gift from the Ewing group. It's now open enrollment, and well worth giving up a space for, as you get all sorts of yummy goodness from fashion shows, openings and other such special occasions!! Search for Ewing in the "All" tab, join and check the notice history.



As you all know, there is a wicked hunt going on at Freestyle at the moment, as mentioned HURR and HURR and HURR.





One of these beauties is one of my prizes. I can't remember which one I put out, and I can't log into the grid to check either!! So if and when I ever get back to the grid, I'll update the pics as needed!! Now I'm gonna join the girls in the chatbox for a party......I haz cocktails baby!!!

EDIT
It's the blue one XD!!!