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/

"Meet me at the Beach" Aurora Vale Sim Wide Hunt

My sister is holding a hunt on our sim and this is what she has to say!

"Meet Me at the Beach"
Aurora Vale Sim Wide Hunt

Sun. Aug 15 - Tue. Aug 31

Hello everyone and welcome to Aurora Vale's summer hunt held by C&D Designs. This hunt is a camp/beach themed one, meant to be fun & give you time to explore the sim. It's also in celebration C&D Design's 3rd year anniversary. So put on your sun screen and hat and let's get going!

There are quite a few prizes from various designers. Some are paid ones, since the designer's have taken such good care in creating many great items. You are looking for seashells and these range from L$0 to L$50. They are hidden all over the sim, including sim tunnels and in the stores themselves. You have 2 weeks to find them all !

Here's a preview for some, as part of the hunt sign.



Prizes/gifts range from Camping gear, tents, campfires, inflated rafts, rainsticks, to beachwear, camp t's, & hair. More will be added as the hunt goes along and announced in the C&D Designs groups.

Starting Point
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Aurora%20Vale/127/91/30

Store signs at TP point to teleport to individual stores.
In order to collect all the "C&D Designs" shells you must visit these stores as well. 1 per store minimum, including Actuate Eden.

Designers participating:

C&D Designs
The Stringer Mausoleum
House of Ruin
Schismphrenic
The Black Canary (TBC)

Enjoy and you may be surprised at what you find.

Cherelle Capra
Owner/Designer for C&D Designs

End of Cher talky talky.

So here are my gifts



7 Oldschool gothy beachwear sets. I also have the 7 hair in the ad that match each Swimset in the hunt, so you can be all matchy matchy.





6 Hairs for the dudes in special colours.

I've set all my items to L$5.

Closer to the end, if you were having issues, I'm going to be releasing hints. so keep a watch on the blog.

Have fun!

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

Phase 2 complete-Ultimate Hair Meltdown!

September Week 5-Phase 2 Complete . . .

That Demon from outerspace brings you humans and critters alike more hair, so much hair you are going to cry!

What is new to the 2009 Colour Launch?

Womens:

*NEW* Hoodoo


This hair was a request by Isabeau Reinard, to go with an Witch Doctors outfit, also being released today, by Reasonable Desires. It is not the outfit in my ad. Anyways she came to me wanting something sort of witch doctory, and I sort of got this New Orleans highclass lady in my head, who weaves "Majik' you could not believe. Bones are a special part of their process, and this dear Hoodoo lady chooses birds as her medium.

*NEW-ish* Sacrifice


This was part of a hair released for hairfair 2008. The original, Yearly Sacrifice, was a limited edition hair, with a whole sacrificial headpiece. I've gotten many requests for this hair, over the year, and when new texture wer starting to roll in for this september, I was getting a few people asking if they could grab this hair in them. So I poled *most* of the buyers of the original, and they were not only willing, but wanting it in new colours aswell. To keep the other original, I did some fixes, changed how the texture sat on the hair(the old version had a more tribal feel) and knocked off the headpiece. I also gave it the shorter name.

Retextures





Unisex:

*NEW* Sprout


Finally released after a teaser at Hairfair 2009 for Charity(there was a mini pack for L$1 and all proceeds went to charity), and a ffew requests, this hair is finally out. It's one I made just for me for the hey of it. It is odd for sure, I went to a party dressed up as alfalfa in it(giggle). Fully Sculpted, this will get you a few looks for sure. As a sort off incentive to be odd, I set the "Stringer" pack to L$1, and invite you all to take some picks, trow them up on my flickr group, and have a chance to win a Hair Voucher(basically you get to pick any one colour pack of any hair you want). Here is the Flickr link: http://www.flickr.com/groups/stringerfollower/

*NEW* Ruina V2


You can never have enough of Ruina, weither it be her eyes, her horns or hair inspired by her vision. When we hashed out the original idea for her hair, she drew me a picture, and I went with it, well Ruina #2 was sort of my take on it, and I figured leather is always a good thing, so these ties are all nicely worn in. As we really haven't taken the hair off till we loaded it in that vendor for you.

And yes guys, it is unisex, don't let the name throw you off.

*NEW* Tonic


This hair was a beta for Allegory actually. I felt that hair needed more "POW" and so I changed it up. I've had Tonic in my inventory, randomly giving out onesies every once in a while. As I was sorting hair, I looked at it, adn tweeked it, and said hey, no reason why this can't go out. It's the more mild, realistic version of Allegory. Shorter and more "Rounded".

*NEW-ish* Insanity


This hair wasn't out for very long the first time around. I released it, then moved to the sim, and found out I wasn't happy with the texture stretching. So I took it off the wall. It was up for redo, but I just never got to it. So when it came time for new textures, I could not resist.

Retextures











Mens:

Retextures



So 14 hairs, for you to browse thru. As always, 3 colour packs of the new release hairs are set to 75% off. In the celebration of my new colours, all hairs above have this deal! I also did one other crazy thing! You want to just see what some of my new textures are like, but already have the Wearable texture testers?, Well I set all the "Stringer" Packs to L$25! They are each unique, as each is made up of 8 of my fav textures for that specific hair. So try something out! These deals will only last for the next 3 days.

I also finally got some of my new eyes out! No pics for you, but you can walk on down to the 2nd floor and check them out. I have once of each set to 1/2 off. Some as low as L$5.

"Futuristic Series" Digital Era Eyes-6
"Futuristic Series" Plasmatic Eyes-12
"Futuristic Series" Gazer Eyes-16
"Painted Series" Within Eyes-6
"Painted Series" Nymph Eyes-10
"Creature Series" Digi Eyes-12

The Pumpkin Prints hunt Starts tomorrow. I made a horn set, which is called "Don't Peck on me!" Horns. You'l see why when you wear them! hehe. Also a special eye in the same little pumpkin. Want some info? o to my hunt wall, and click on the poster.

Okay it is time for me to get back up to my space ship filled with Ozimal Bunnies. They are needy little bunnahs. Phase 3 of new hair textures should be coming shortly, tho I think next week will be for all you critters, new demon sets, horns, Bunnah parts, maybe some other random things.

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/