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Almighty Hat ([personal profile] hat_plays_sims) wrote2011-08-04 02:43 am

HAIR DUMP VIII: BRIDE OF HAIR DUMP



Behind the cut lurk twenty-one hairs for your downloading pleasure.

Since there are a zillion downloads inside the cut, the boilerplate goes outside the cut, so...

NO PAYSITES. Mesh creators' policies may vary, my policy says I want a cut (like that would ever happen), but Pooklet says no and these are Pooklet's actions. So no paysites.

PRAISE BE UNTO: Peggy, Raon, Flora over at XM Sims, and Helga for meshes, Nouk for curly and wavy textures, Ja for this one bit of a curve that I use ALL THE TIME, FantasyRogue for my go-to braid texture, Lyn for making sure I had a working copy of Photoshop, Pooklet for making sure Project Mayhem worked with my copy of Photoshop (and for their textures), my lovely donors who make sure I can keep my photos online (which lets me post hair dumps at all), and you lot for being patient with my long radio silence.

HEY LISTEN! Meshes are included unless otherwise noted. I think I renamed Rose's Taobao meshes so that I could tell what was what. Swatches are included in the zip files, everything is compressorized. Poly counts may vary; the XM and Helga hairs are on the low end, but I have very new AND very old Peggy hairs, so they could be all over the map. Elders go gray, but you also get Time Bomb in the custom bin, just in case Primer isn't platinum enough for you. All female hairs are maternity-wear enabled from teen and up, and all male hairs from YA and up, to stop the weird hair disappearing act that happens if you don't have a Pregnant Sims Wear Any Outfit hack (but why wouldn't you?).

ANNOYING THINGS I DO: Because I credit everybody in them, my folder and file names are stupidly long. Feel free to shorten one, the other, or both as you please-- better you edit them to suit your needs than I just name everything [COLOR NAME] and cheese everybody off, right? Also, each hair color has an elder gray attached instead of only black. Feel free to re-bin everything and cut out the extra grays, or only use one family but swap out textures so your elders have some variety, whatever. Likewise, I bin using Pooklet's original scheme, because it's a nice easy default. I totally do not care if you re-bin things to suit your own tastes (but hey, every hair has a gray attached in case you need it!), and neither does Pooklet, so do whatever makes you happy, binning-wise.

EVEN MORE ANNOYING: Everybody sees a hair dump, so...







Wanna help me feed my cats?


In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.

Yes, if you want to do the unnaturals, please feel free to do the unnaturals. I have no plans to do so. Just remember to credit properly-- I tend to use Nouk's waves, FR's braid, and a chunk of curve I stole off Ja's Uni ponytail default.

If you spot any broken links or other idiocy, please let me know!

There are twenty-one large pics behind the cut, cats and kittens. Dial-up users beware.




Carry A Big Stick
XM Sims Flora 068/Nouk textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Female
I love this mesh. It's simple, it's cute, it works for all ages, it's got a male version, it looks like Frigg's hair from Guilded Age (and I almost named it for her), and it looks like an easy DIY haircut. Retexturing it, however, was a stone-cold bitch until I said to myself, "Hey, don't the curls on Nouk's Valentines hair kinda look like... yeah!"
SIDE | BACK
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Don't Have Time
Helga 96 FtM by drpixelfan/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Young Adult-Elder
Male
Have I mentioned how much I like nice simple men's hairs that looks like they were accomplished using just a comb and scissors? Because I like them a LOT.
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share


Dreams of Adventure
Peggy 03246 FtM by No1zee/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Male
Fun with swoopy curly ponytails! I've done the female version of this one elsewhere, as Sweet Sister, but I like it on men, too.
TURNAROUND
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It's Alive!
Peggy 4434/Alfred Askew textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Male
Named because these look like the kind of curls you get if you've been working in the lab late one night every night this week. Goddamn, Alfred, I love your curls. They're delicious. Thanks for giving me permission to do the full Pooklet to 'em.
SIDE VIEW
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Lusty Month of May
Peggy 03201/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Female
I originally had this alpha-edited by Goat, and added some of the wispies back in. It's not exactly historically accurate, but who has time for historical accuracy when you're letting your beau wind wildflowers in your hair?
LARGER
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share


Mostly Harmless
XM Sims Flora 069/Nouk textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Male
See, it even looks good on men! Okay, not so much this man. He apparently only looks good in the hair he was designed to wear, and his eyebrows make him look anxious to be wearing this hair. See Carry a Big Stick for the side view-- they use the same textures.
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Needs A Trim
Peggy October 2007/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Male
It looks a little overlong and in-the-way on a grown man, but damn this mesh is adorable on kids and toddlers. Named because the "Did You Join A Boy Band?" was both too long and only would've made, like, one person laugh.
SIDE
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Never Been Cut
Peggy 0016/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Female
Hair does not just keep growing forever. Each hair grows to a length set by your genetics in a time set by your genetics-- usually that time period is about seven years-- and then it falls out naturally. The only way to make it look straight and even is to trim it. This is a lot like what my hair looks like.
TURNAROUND
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Petite Sirene
Peggy 080321/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler (inexplicably)-Elder
Female
It is really hard to name all these hairs.
FRONT | BACK
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Potential
Helga 88/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Teen-Elder
Female
Long, loose, low-poly. With an interesting hairline, too!
TURNAROUND
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Pretty Simple
Peggy 007596/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Female
I know this one has probably been done about six times, but I had to do it. Tweaked the highlights to my liking and made sure each family had a gray.
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share


Proud Of Myself
Helga 76/Nouk and Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Teen-Elder
Female
You bet your sweet bippy I'm proud of myself. I love this mesh, I always have, but when I went to retexture it, I found the painted curls a bit lacking-- and it just didn't look the same all straight. An unholy hybrid of Pooklet's textures, Nouk's Wavy textures, and Nouk's Valentine curls was the result.
FRONT | BACK
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Rags to Royalty
Helga 80/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Teen-Elder
Female
This hair is never out of style. Look at it. It's a tasteful bun. Works for peasants, merchants, beggars, queens, fairies, nannies, schoolteachers...
FRONT | BACK
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Real Hard Worker
Raon 27/Pooklet and Ja textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Female
This one, on the other hand... this is the hairdo of somebody who has been working. Working out, working in the garden, working around the house, working... somewhere. Just working. If I were going to do a default replacement of the maid's hair, I'd use this one.
TURNAROUND
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Scrubbed Clean
Helga 66/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Teen-Elder
Female
There are some hairs I make because they're a nice, low-poly option for the bath, the beach, or the pool. This is one of those hairs-- but it looks nice, all fluffy and clean.
FRONT | BACK
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Team Gil
Peggy 0339/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Male
I've done Team Tarvek (Helga M02, use Explosive) and The Heterodyne Girl (Nouk Tommie, use Comburent), so clearly it was time for a Team Gil hair. Use Safety Fuse. (I am currently on Team Oh God Please Let Them All Live Through This. Vole, you bastard, no wonder the Jaegers kicked you out.)
TURNAROUND
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Very Ladylike
Helga/Pooklet textures, Pinketamine alpha/Pooklet's actions
Teen-Elder
Female
Here's another hair that just sort of... works for women. Any woman who can afford a couple of hairpins. This would look okay on an ancient Greek or Roman, in the Middle Ages, in a Renaissance tavern, under a big broad hat with stays and a pannier or an Empire gown, on any Victorian adult with her day-clothes... Or, you know, now. This hair just works with stuff.
TURNAROUND
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Warrior Princess
Helga 96/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Teen-Elder
Female
I decided to start making note of which hairs are male or female when I realized Dame Sir was doing just what she was supposed to-- confusing people about what's under her armor. Warrior Princess is Dame Sir's hair-- it's what she looks most like herself in. The first girl in my Medieval game who rolls a want to pull a Fa Mulan Sweet Polly Oliver and enlist is probably going to end up in this hair.
SIDE VIEW
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Likewise
Peggy November 2009/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Female
This is actually a little bit teased for my game, but I've always liked it.
FRONT | BACK
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Contrariwise
Peggy Shop G F006/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Female
This one, on the other hand, is pretty easily possible without teasing, ratting, spraying, or gelling. I like both of them-- they give different shapes to the head.
BACK-ISH
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It's The Humidity
Peggy 05871/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Female
I cannot resist curls. Curls, or braids. This is not the curliest mesh I've ever recolored, but I like the sort of simplicity of it-- like the volume is natural, based on curls someone has tried to brush out.
BACK
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[personal profile] skywookiee 2011-08-04 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Great dump! I'm changing my Lilith-and-Angela-makeover hair to Petite Sirene.
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[personal profile] skywookiee 2011-08-04 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Pyrotechnic, or maybe Molotov...
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[identity profile] morgaine2005.wordpress.com 2011-08-04 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Hat! Hair!!

You're back! I'm so happy that you're back! And only you could choose to come back with a massive hair dump. Thank you so much!

*goes back to squeeing over both the hair and the Hat!*
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[personal profile] eefje00704 2011-08-04 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Hat is back in business! I've missed your hair dumps, but not as much as I've missed you. I hope you'll become more active at the Keep again sometime soonish!
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[personal profile] lovelyxwow 2011-08-04 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for these! :) A great lot of hairs. I'm taking Pretty Simple, thank you. :D
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[personal profile] columnar 2011-08-04 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Hooray! I snagged a few. Thanks for sharing!
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[personal profile] quinctia 2011-08-05 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Yay, there's a couple Helga hairs and that one PeggyG hair that I don't have to do myself, now! *dances*
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[personal profile] atulgeywood 2011-08-05 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Can I be the one person that laughed?
Also, as nice as it is to see you around again, I haven't even begun to pick and choose the ones I actually plan on using from everything I liked from your previous hair dumps. It's like 80 or so zips, and you're trying to add to that number. And you're not even done yet!

In short, please stop being so amazing. :D
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[personal profile] atulgeywood 2011-08-06 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
I have to be picky because I'm impatient with loading times and will stop playing altogether if I don't. If not, I'd have nearly all of the hairs you've done in my game already(and all the colors, too, not just five of them). It'll probably be well over a hundred by the time you're done. I'm not sure whether to smile or cry. :'D

Also, the laughing is in reference to this: "Named because the "Did You Join A Boy Band?" was both too long and only would've made, like, one person laugh."
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[personal profile] atulgeywood 2011-08-06 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahh, do you prefer one of the other greys, or do you simply never have elders? Time Bomb is my favorite, but for sims with silver hair rather than for elders. But most creators only make one grey, so...

I laughed at first, simply because I agreed with the sentiment, and then looked it up, because I thought I might have missed something. The sad part is, I used to watch that show. I just never saw that episode!
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[personal profile] metatwaddle 2011-08-05 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
So many pretty old meshes here -- hair that I used to use all the time, and then Pooklet's actions became popular and I abandoned them because they didn't match and I didn't appreciate the importance of low-poly. Now I can add them back! And they look gorgeous! Thanks so much! I'm going to stop using exclamation points now!

(Anonymous) 2011-08-05 08:32 am (UTC)(link)
Welcome back! I'm glad to see you around again!

And hair! Thank you so much! There are some of my all-time favorites in there. Especially Proud Of Myself! And the buns! And the male hairs! *bows and grabs*

I really like your female model for these. She's so unconventionally pretty!


~Ann

(Anonymous) 2011-08-05 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
Amazing¡¡¡¡¡
Thanks so
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[personal profile] laschifosavita 2011-08-05 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I'm downloading half of these, which is way too many. Your hair dumps are all that is keeping the fathers in my young adult lit hood from having the same three hair cuts.

Also, I've finally just added your dreamwidth to my bookmark bar, because I've been coming here all the time just to look at your swatch of colors. I only use half of them, and it's the only way I can figure out which ones I want when I download from other people. I'm kind of in awe of how organized your stuff is in general.
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[personal profile] dicreasy 2011-08-06 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Your hair dumps are always full of such lovely hairs. Thank you for sharing them. I've nabbed a load.
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[personal profile] nailtek 2011-08-06 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
/does a happy dance
Yes! Another hair dump! I love these so much, I always snag at least a few and they're all in the full spectrum oh yess. :D

(psst, if you don't mind me asking - what's the recipe for smoke bomb? i like the whole "every family gets their own grey" thing, so i kind of want to snag it for my own retextures, haha)

(Anonymous) 2011-08-06 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Although I have too much hair in my game, I couldn't resist to add some more.
Glad you're back!

Lady Lama
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[personal profile] silverbelle1220 2011-08-07 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much for doing those old Helga hairs. I've been searching for them Pook'd for AGES, and I don't have the tallent to do them myself. Glad to see you're uploading hair again. Your Pooklet'd hairs are some of the best I've seen.
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[personal profile] silverbelle1220 2011-08-19 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
I have managed to retexture and recolor a few hair sets, but I'm never fully satisfied with the results. Mostly, they're older meshes that I can't find Pook'd elsewhere, and I am determined to have only Pooklet's colors for hair in my game. Thanks for the advice, and I'll keep plugging away at it.

(Anonymous) 2011-08-11 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
"Did You Join a Boy Band?" totally would have me giggle.

They are all gorgeous! I think most of the hairs in my game are from you.

(Anonymous) 2011-08-15 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you are back, Hat, and thanks muchly for the hair dump! :) So many beautiful hairs and more hair dumps to come, yea! More of my old hairs are going to have to get dumped now. The Never Been Cut made me a little teary, that's what my hair used to look like before b.c. now it is partially shoulder length so your factoid about the seven years it takes gave me some cheer. I love your hair dumps and they make my game even prettier. :)

FyrDragon
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[personal profile] pebblerocker 2017-01-17 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
The Very Ladylike download currently links to Team Gil. (And it's gorgeous, I just have to have it!)