..but in a GOOD way. You may be wondering why I haven’t covered Hair Fair as I promised, well there’s a reason for that which is probably going to make me very unpopular, but here goes…I don’t think it was as good as last year. Now, don’t get me wrong- I appreciate all the effort that went into producing it; for starters I loved the sim styling and all that walking around surrounded by candy sure made me hungry for hair, but alas I didn’t find anything that made me squeal with delight like last year. I felt there was a lot of similarity in the styles on show, and some were just plain awful. Last year I spent a small fortune- this year I was cautious and apprehensive when I approached the sim as I knew I was going to have to watch my pennies and to be honest that wasn’t a challenge that I relished at all…but I bought one style. ONE. Perhaps it’s me..my tastes although not set in stone do tend toward shorter to mid-length styles, sometimes curly, and often based on a bob-shape, but I just felt that Hair Fair 09 wasn’t as challenging, as exciting and as innovative as 08. But this IS a post about hair. A notecard popped in from Vanity Hair to advertise their new style and I immediately fell in love with it – wanna know why? Well, who does it remind you of? It’s practically the bastard love-child of A Flock of Seagulls and La Roux isn’t it? It’s so not my thing at all, but with the current zeitgeist for all things 80’s in full swing I knew I had to try it and I think it looks excellent. The texture and colour are lovely, and the style features choppiness and irregularity in all the right places. This is a great style for photography work, although if I’m honest it looks a lot better in profile than it does full on..which means you’ll have to keep striking lots of poses while you wear it. (It kinda reminds me of a combover when viewed from the front!) Other than that it’s a great, fun, funky style which is really on trend and I’m sure we’ll be seeing lots of fashionistas styling this one across the grid. It looks great with killer shades by the way….