There's a Nouk retexture of that mesh at Sims2 Supernova.  http://www.sims2supernova.com/showthread.php?t=1610.  I haven't seen many recolours of that mesh, which is a shame because I love it. 

I love this thread!  It's nice to see bad pay crap next to free stuff. 

Those are so gorgeous that I wish that I was more into Anime sims.  I really want to download them. 

I wanted curly haired sims, but there aren't that many meshes that are really curly.  I remembered that there were these old meshes by Sshodan that were curly but had shitty textures.  And there was a peacock feather.   So I thought...Why not replace the textures and get rid of the feather?  So using the beauty that are Nouk's textures, I made these.  I did a half-assed job but, I like them all right. I especially like the red.  Just Bodyshop pics, I'm afraid. 

Those are so pretty!

But you know, the thing I like best about the dress is that there's finally something to go with that short hair with the flower. 

That's hair is really pretty and best all the red isn't FUG. 

*hearts non-fugly reds*

I really like the wavy Rose hair.  I'm downloading it now.

I don't know if this exist or not, but there should be someplace where you take the pay hairs and then show free hairs of a similar style.  I've always thought that something like that would be helpful along with links and a quality report (e.g.  mentioning any gappiness, animation problems, etc.).

I think this really is the heart of the problem.  I make sims of characters from stories I write and I usually have a very specific style in mind.  Quite a few times I've found that the pay hairs were closer to what I was looking for than a lot of the free hairs (though if there's a "duplication", I go with the free).

That's absolutely beautiful, Nouk!

I love Helga's hairs, even if some of them are a little high on the forehead I like the textures and my only real complaint is the lack of naturalistic reds but that's something of a community wide complaint so I don't hold it against her.

The thing about XM hairs is that I just download the mesh and wait for somebody to do a recolour.  But it's usually worth it, even the hairstyles I don't care for are usually well animated.



That's pretty much how I feel.  That's one of the reasons I love her Afrocentric hairstyles so much, they're beautiful but not shiny.  I went through so much trouble to get her new dreads and I loved them

I used to not mind paysites and I even subscribed to some.  But since I've read up on the debate and actually began playing the game with my pay hairs instead of just making and seeing the problems with them, I've come to realise that paysites just aren't worth the money.

I have to say, those hairs scared me just a little bit (not as much as the BeardHair but close).

You know, every time I came to this forum I would wonder "Who is Carla Niven?"  I mean this is pretty much the longest thread around, so she must be something interesting right.  It was a surprise to find that the length of the thread came from irritation over the crappiness of the work that she was wanting to be paid for and I found myself liking this thread.  Indignation rocks.

Honestly, that thread is fascinating to read.  And somewhat encouraging.  I learned the error of my ways, I'm sure other people can too.