Hairfair 2010 is finally here!

Hiya!

Welcome to this years Hairfair, I am Helena Stringer, your Crazy Green Mohawk Wearing Space Tentacle Demoness Extraordinaire!

This year I bring you another round of 5 styles.

But there is a Twist! Always a twist!

I'm launching HALF of my new 2010 Hair Textures this year at Hairfair, so all the styles are all in lovely new colours. 2 of the packs, the Limited Edition Night Shines and the Special Edition Light Shines are up for grabs too and are 50% set to the Wigs for Kids Charity. On ALL hairs! The Limited Edition Night Shines will not be seen for these hairs again for purchase EVER, so grab those if you really want them. The Special Edition Light Shines will be going back to my Updated Trading Card Program, so wont ever be for purchase either, so grab them while it's easy, and you don't have to collect a bunch of point to get them.


I so got inspired while doing a lil robot hunt at a store, that I made this little number. I love my lil robo pets. Hope you enjoy them too!


Another of my "Inspired by shit laying around the house" pieces. This one of the discraded pearl earrings from my exploaded purse. No litterally, my purse exploaded, was not fun. Anyways I can see this piece on the catwalks for sure!


I did up a special colouration, just for Hairfair and only for Hairfair. So this is not only Exclusive, but Limited Edition too! I have it set to only L$100 with 50% going to Wigs for Kids.


The Frist of my Horoscope line, Virgo. This Unisex style has a "Wet" look and has a wing attachment for the head.


It can't be Hairfair unless The Stringer has a Mohawk! This bad boy is BIG! and has a fuckton of prims, but that is okay, you'll love it to bits once you see it's movement on your head!


This is my 50% Charity Item this year at Hairfair. It's my mens style, and I love it to bits. An awesome friend was making Ribbon/Knit textures and handed me tis one, and I've been sticking it on everything possible. I loved it on this hat, and just had to do soemthing with it. Might be a bit tame for The Stringer, but duuuuuude my man alt looks HOT! I want to nom on him, but then that is like self canabalisim isn't it?

Support a good cause, buy a pack(and it happens to look fab on the chics too, as with most male hairs, darn chicies!).

As always, you will find a giftbox in my Hairfair store, it has 2 styles in it, one Unisex and one for the Women.

Come to my Booth here:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hair%20Fair%201/90/127/27

Want to see what else is at the fair, but don't want to wait to tp in? Join the Demo group that was created just for that reason! all of us designers are sending our Demos into it, so it makes it easier on you. You can join thru my profile or type in search "Hair Fair DEMO Group".

You can also Preview ads in the Official Flickr Group:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/hair_fair_2010_hairstyles/

I hope you have a wonderful fair this year. I'm off to Sleep!

Helena Stringer
Designer/Owner of The Stringer Mausoleum
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Aurora%20Vale/74/185/552
Store Blog: http://thestringermausoleum.blogspot.com/
Fashion Blog: http://fringesocietysl.blogspot.com/
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/70278549@N00/
Flickr Group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/stringerfollower/

3rd Annual Starlust Pantie Raid

I'm lucky enough to yet again be in Starlust's Pantie Raid.

This year I did something special, and made both guy and girl items. They actually aren't even panties but Bathing Suits. I got awesome Board Shorts for the Men and BodySuits for the Women.

I have 6 clams in total, one on 6 of the 8 sims that the event takes place on. 3 for the men and 3 for the women.





The Event Starts tomorrow afternoon(Friday August 13th), so be ready for the craziness. Click on my link to the side of my Eliot Store tp to get you started.

Good luck guys!

The Stringer Mausoleum Says more Hair Please!

Hey guys got lots for you today!

There is all sorts of stuff coming up for you guys, straight from me to The Stringer Mausoleum. I have tried a few more attempts at clothing, the alternative fair is on it's way, I've got another event at the end of the month. But do you know what the biggest thing is?

HELENA'S ANNUAL BIRTHDAY BONANZA!

Ya it's that time of the year again, I get old and shit XP

But before all this can take place, I had to get hair out!

New Releases:

Womens



This is actually a redo, sans the daggers it use to have. I'll make new spiffy ones sometime and set them for L$10 or something. This hair is a good classic staple, I don't make many so enjoy it.

Unisex



This lovely piece was inspired by an sl artist. You can view some of her works here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cerdwin/. It's been a long time coming, but it's finally been made, hope you like it!



One of my many weird experiments, sort of reminds me of a helmet.



Another oddball hair, a friend said it looks very cool on nekos. So you can be like alien neko or something. I'm sure you'll figure it out.

As always new releases for the first little while(normally a few days unless I forget), have 3 packs priced down to 75% off. So nab some deals while you can.

Back by popular demand:



Keep getting this one asked about, so I dug it out, and it's uber cheap for the whole MEGApack. L$25!



Same here, so because you want it, here it is. This is a MEGApack aswell, and it's just L$50.

New Savoir Hair Samplers:





Savoir Hair has a newhome, and I was asked back after not being there for a long time. New to this location is the ability to have both a mens and womens style. Bigger, better and more desginers, what more cold you ask for to start a nice hair collection. Tell all your new player friends!

Here is the Slurl
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hairspray%202/125/72/27

I am also in the Crazy Arse Hair Hunt, and made something sort of alien and organic at the same time, so find the weird arse doll globe and claim your prize! Hint in my "Hint cube of HELL!"

And Lastly, I'm reintroducing my Limited Edition Mini Hunts for new releases. Some of my oldies will remember them, some of you new people will not, but they were always mega fun, and it's nice knowing you have one of only 5 on the grid, sitting right there in inventory!

Detailed info will be in my next Post.

Okay I think I'm done now, I can't see anymore new product, so I don't think I missed anything!

Enjoy!

H

New hair and another skin sneak peak!

Hey guys!

I got some goodies for you!

But firstly I'm going to get a few other announcements over with.

I finally got my 3DCC event items in the store. There is only one Special Edition dress left. Also I put 3 of the Hair packs down 75% for a limited time.

The Rezzable event is over, so Alien Flora is now home. I also put 3 packs of it down 75% for a limited time.

The Opium Show was fun, I enjoy the first one, which I was in attendance for. I have the 2 new hairs from that in the store now. I had made a New Female Hair called Troian Mystic. Troian is a demon god of cosmos, the hair is sort of horny, and the event theme was spacey, so thats is where the name came from for that piece. The other is a hair you have all been bugging me for since I gave you guys a sneak peak last year, so Loaded is finally out. It's a Unisex Dreaded Mohawk.





Mens Hair:

*New* Tank Master Flex



Yes, new male hair! I made this for fun one day, don't really know why, and the name is from something else in my personal history, so it just makes me giggle seeing it.

Retextures:





Unisex Hair:

*Redo*



I really wanted to wear this hair, so I dug deep into my oldie box, and redid a few things people were always bitching about on it. So it's a totally updated version of the old Quill hair, based off of a sea serpent character from a japanese Magna Book.

Womens:



Have no clue why it took me so long to get this Hairfair hair back out, all I can say is I'm a dip.



If your looking for the Scarabs, C&D Designs does not have them out yet. If you'd like a set, let me know, and I can get it arranged.

As always for new release day, all hairs above have 3 packs set down 75%.

I made this for the Haiti Relief Charity fund Yele.org. It was made to go with the Ozimals Alien bunny. So get your alien bunny look on, and throw a bit of cash to some people in need.



You can only get this bunny part set at my "Stringer's Bunny Sanctuary". It's a place I made for my own personal collection of Ozimals, as well as selling off the bunnies they seem to rabidly be making with all their bunny smexing.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lyashko/160/161/299

Also, I have instore, in a green giftbox, another sneak peack at my new skins. This probly wont ever actually be a tone, I was just fucking around, but you can come and get it and enjoy it! L$1 for a limited time.

Okay guys, enjoy!

H

New 2009 Hair Texture Launch!

Thats right, they are here!

I got 10 style ready for you. New ad style too!

2 are new, Ruina V1 which is a Unisex Style, even tho it's got a chic name, and Pincushion, a womens style, which you all have been bugging me about since HairFair. Both have 3 packs priced 75% off, as I always do for new Releases, this weekend only. The mini hunt wont be happening this time around, too many other hunts, too much lag on my sim. What I will do is put some limited edition packs up on XStreet in the next few days. These will be limited in quantity, as always.

You want to see all the new packs?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/70278549@N00/sets/72157622151797194/

There they all are, so far, hehe.

Here are the hairs, in their new lovely ad styles.

New Unisex Style


Made from a Sketch done by my Friend Ruina. She wanted hair that was a mohawk, but without all the glue and pulled back with whispy bangs. I think it can go well with warrior dudes too.

New Womens Style


This one I did a bit ago, and people have been wanting it like mad. It's my first of a series. This series will be hairs inspired by everyday object in my house. This one being my pincusion by my sewing machine.

Newish Womens Style


This hair was a limited release, made to go with Blue Blood's Bandit outfits. I have now brought it out, and it's in all normal colours.

Newish Unisex Style


My Swangsong hair is finally home. You might have missed the special colours, and the special attachments, but you got these lovely new colours to play with.

Older hairs redone in the new textures:













I have 3 packs of each of these on for 75% off too, to celebrate the new colours. Alse, from now on, all MEGApacks come with a Gift Voucher, which will get you any ONE colour pack in any ONE stlye of your choice. It's sort of like my gift to you for getting a MEGApack. Customer Appreciation is where it is at!

Do you want to test out some of the new colours? do you want to see them on a totally wearable hair? Well grab a tester pack. It's sort of like a tester and cheapie combined.





All the new colours are on the bottom floor of the store. Tp'ers are down, I got to rescript them, so just come on down the stairs. I'll be having more of the older hairs pop out now till the end of the month, and will let you guys know when more are out. Once I get enough out to fill the first floor, I'll switch the old ones out. Till then you still can get them at reduced prices. Only the bottom floor is not on sale.

This weeks VIP Group member to win any one colour pack of one of the new Releases is:

Onyx Sciavo

Contact me with your choice.

This weeks Hippogroup members to win any one colour pack of one of the new Releases are:

Luxe Helendale
Phoenix Chiantelle
stray Darkwatch

Contact me with your choice.

I also have the new Stringer Trading Card program going into effect today. The whole store is slowly getting switched over, at least all products that are staying. It's a customer appreciation program just for you guys! I'll make up a notice later about it, once I have some special gifts made.

Okay so thats it for now!

Ejoy!

H

HairFair 2009

Yet another year has gone by . . .

and here you are, again,

Battling lag, crowds and general sl mayham.

Your reward?

As always there is the quest of the inventory exploading freebies and dollarbies. There is the adventure of finding that new store, like mine last year. There is the joy of finding your favorite sl hair designers, all in one spot, setting out their wears they have been taunting you with, but keeping in secret for the last few months.

Want more info on this event?
Visit the Main Hairfair Website:
http://hairfair.wordpress.com/

This year I made 2 Bandanas for Bandana Day, which is on July 4th. All proceeds from these go to Locks of Love.









I'm also going to be chopping all my own hair this year, last year it wasn't long enough, so keep a watch out, I'll be taking pics of that and placing them on here.

Time for my hairs!

The "Locks of Love" Charity Hair

The Stringer Shrine Presents



Skittlepop Princess

Wow a Shrine hair! I'm going to finally be reopening the shrine line soon, so I thought what better way to promote it, then do a themed hair for hairfair! Funny story about this hair. I asked Sasy Scarborough about the theme for hairfair this year, a few days before it was going to be announced. She didn't want to tell me so what does she say? Think "What is a Skittle? and it has to do with earth". WTF right. Well I was thinking of lawn bowling cause it's played on the ground, and the thingies are called skittles, that you have to hit. I finally got it out of her, she never knew there was a game with things called skittles. So I thought why not do a skittle hair, it begged to be cutsie too. So it has sweeping sculpted bangs and some cute flexi in the back.

50% of all proceeds go to Locks of Love for this hair.

The Stringer Mausoleum Presents

Mens Hair



Believer

Okay, I really really hate making man hair, and the mens keep asking me, and it practically kills me. But I have one friend/fan I made last year at hairfair. He always believes in me, and I almost always feel put out if I think I'm going to disappoint him. So he is my little believer. This hair wasn't made for you you little buger, but you inspired me to set it out at the fair, so I hope you can do something with it!

50% of all proceeds go to Locks of Love for this hair.

Unisex Hair



Rocker Vines

Had to make a hawk, like duh! This one was sort of inspired by the Rock band Guns and Roses. Or I should say their album art. Or maybe just rock. Anyways there are thorns and skulls and roses, what more can you ask for?

Womens Hair



Hydra Priestess

I wanted to make a really crazy show stopper for Hairfair, something people could just look at and go wow. I didn't really get it right, but still popped out soemthing very cool in the process. Hydras are mythical beasties, a 2,3,5,7,9 or 12 headed critter, depending on the myth. Most often serpent-like or dragon-like in appearance. It, as you can see here, makes a very cool heapiece.



Cog Mistress

This one was sort of inspired by Ruina, a good friend on mine. She wanted Dreads that were uber long. I went off and stuck shit in them tho, as I happen to do from time to time.

We all know HairFair has awesome freebies, and this year is no different. We could do a few things differently this year, so they let us have not one, but 3 freebie boxes out.



Pincushion

This is a offer I have for L$1. It's a hair of a new sort of direction. I'm doing a line that is inspired by rl objects, and turn those common things into couture hair pieces. Big and bold will be all throught this collection.

I have for free a set of texture testers, called Fluffer. It's a wearable mohawk, basically just to let you see what colours you may like. So there is 120ish textures in the pack! Go Wild.

I have one other gift, which all proceeds will go to Locks of Love. This gift WILL be set to L$1, but all of it is for charity. You'll just have to come and see it!

Now for my final show and tell . . .

With all the past Hairfairs there has been a special silent Auction, with unique hairs made by all of use desigers together. This year they went a different route, tho not as fun, I did really enjoy watching the hairs grow . . . 20 designers making one hair? it was fun to say the least. Anyways this year they are doing a One-of-a-Kind Auction. These hairs are donated by the designers and can be anything from a style they made for hairfair, but modded in a special way, special colours, whathaveyou, or a totally unique hairs. This next pic is my style donated to the auction.



One-of-a-Kind Auction ~ Satin Fantail Mohawk

This is a Unisex style, with 12 colours. You get your normal Black, my special personal collection of shine hairs, which there are 5 and then my limited edition textures "Colour Bleeds" which fade from one set colour to the next in a darkened tone.

This style wasn't really started with an idea in my head per say. Originally my thoughts were of a lizard frill, and my Sister thought it turned out more Fishy. The style totally evolved into something I'm actually sad to see as only a One-of-a-Kind hair, which means I did something right!

This thing has mad flexi, which is something you can not see on an ad,so I took today to learn how to film in sl. This is my first attempt so be nice! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJwd3DK02Pk

I hope whoever gets the final bid, loves this thing as much as I do!

Hope you enjoy the fair! And congrates to the First Prize winner of the Hairfair 2009 flickr Contest, they used my hair in such a cool way! http://www.flickr.com/photos/finethanks/3631212334/in/pool-stringerfollower

Okay now I got to make some stuff for the store!

Helena Stringer
Designer/Owner of The Stringer Mausoleum

P.S. All last years HairFair Hairs will be 1/2 till the end of HairFair, so get them while you can!

Hairfair Store-http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hair%20Fair%202009/40/80/22
Mainstore-http://slurl.com/secondlife/Aurora%20Vale/126/90/30
Store Flickr Fan Group-http://www.flickr.com/groups/stringerfollower/

April Showers bring . . .

New Snazzy mohawks!

But more on that in a bit.

This Releases draw winners are:

Inworld Group

Belochka Shostakovich

HippoGroup

Willow Fairey
Rewbe Mulberry
Kurathra Ametza

They get to pick any ONE item, in any ONE colourpack of the new releases.

And here is is! A unisex hair. You get to see my new ad style. I'm updating cause well I've had the old ones for a bit, and I like to change things up.

In the Rain was simply inspired by just that, the rain. I was thinking about what a mohawk would look like in the rain, after all the glue started to bleed out.

I feel it turned out beyond what I originally planned for this hair. To me it seems like a hair everyone can were, it's not as extreme and I can picture all sorts of avi's in it.

As always 75% off the hair packs depicted in the ad for the first 24hours. Since now there are only 2 avi's in the ads, I'll randomly select one other pack, to keep it at 3.

Release Mini Hunt

With my new releases, I put out special packs hidden in the store. There are only ever 5 of each pack. Some are single colours, some are full packs. These are all textures that have been made for some reason, but aren't sold with my regular packs. The singles this week are L$25 and the full packs(6-8 hair textures) are L$75. They are original, so please pick up after you grab them.

I updated a oldie that was out only for a month or so way back in may last year. She is only L$1 per colour, and right now in the group there is a 5 colour pack!

I decided to put out some of my funky recolours I make for my personal use, in some lucky boards. These I randomly do up, and never sell. So they are not only special editions, but also limited editions, cause they will only be in the board, till I put something else in there.

So come try your luck!

Deal of the Week

Tenta

75% off all packs
50% off Mega pack
one random pack down to only L$10!

"Inspired by Crimson Shadow" items sale

I know this has been going on for a wee bit, but I keep forgetting to talk about it, so this is the last week. Then these go back up to normal price. All packs are 50% off.

Get on down to the store! http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lyashko/174/165/298

More news soon, there are a few things coming up. I'm probably going to post my oz fishies up on the blog tomorrow, for those of you that want to see them, and the new fishie ideas contesty thingy.

I'll leave you with some pics of me, in the new release!

Hair-In the Rain-Mini Hunt Colour-Red Shine
Skin from {Frick}
Eyes from House of Ruin
Outfit from Weird Designs
Tutu from a place that isn't around(sorries!)
Boots from Wrong(was a group gift)

I tend to keep my looks simple, I don't have time to find the perfect earrings or bangles. I do do that for events, but my everyday just me being me, I try to look as good as I can, with a minimal amount of primmage.

Till next time!

H