Location: In search of dubloons & long hair

Well, having hair in Second Life has been quite an experience.  Since I’m still wearing my dreadlocks, I must be enjoying them.

Tempest called in some favors (for the columns she’s done for me) to have me model as a pirate for an outfit she designed.  I volunteered (knowing I’d get a free outfit) but Temp had her revenge by insisting that I have long hair.  So I went shopping.

It was easy to settle on a set of dreads. My student Mikhail wears them, and they seemed to be the sort of Second Life accessory for that mash-up of styles and eras in a world where almost anything goes.  Other types of long hair did not do—I tried some demo versions at the shop, but wisely avoided “sensitive pony-tail guy” and, reluctantly “bad comb-over.” I may have to get that one for Halloween…I am thinking of going as Donald Rumsfeld.

I regret that these snapshots vanished.  I plan to go back to the hair store for more…

After I finished shopping, Temp and I posed in the rigging and at the wheel of a pirate ship, as well as on a beach by an outrigger canoe.  My modeling work was a first; I got a lot of instructions such as “turn right” and “stop moving” and “look menacing” and even “arr matey, toss me over your shoulder.”

The dreadlocks are “flexi” which means that they move as the avatar moves; they are not a one-piece helmet of hair that many SLers have when they begin. Flexi hair is not universal; many great non-flexible hairdos are out there and look almost real.  Long flexi hair presents its own problems, too: the strands of hair bisect the avatar’s body and clothing, which creates some bizarre effects.

When I cover SL’s “Hair Fair 2008” I will be sure to go with locks of hair on my head.

I’d like to thank Tenchi for the loan of the tattoos.  I gave them back but I kept Tempest’s pirate outfit.  The eye-patch will be part of my wardrobe for the foreseeable future.

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