New styles at D’Pelos ZC

Recently i launched my line of hair D’Pelos ZC. The name came from a friend of mine that is Mexican. She told me that when ppl in Mexico think that something is great and looks fabulous the use the phrase : Está de Pelos. So she advice me to use that phrase as part of the hair line name. That is the story behind the name.

I started after a short period of launching my fist styles to work on some textures in Photoshop and came with like 63 different colors. I just selected like 42 to  be used in the game for the hairs. I created then an Elegant Updo but with a punk messy touch in the front. That is how Rebellion (Rebelión in Spanish) born. A nice detail about my textures is that when you use them at full bright they turn into gorgeous and even more realistic ones. Here are some pictures that show the bright side of the regular color. For Rebelion I did not use all my textures; just a few because I was still working on them when I started with this style.

  

Here in the front pictures the black color is at full bright. See the lines strikes at the side of the most closer picture? They look pretty realistic. They turn in a black colors with white highlights. In the little picture at the right top corner you can see the black texture but regular, Very natural as well.

 

For reasons regarding illumination and lights in SL the blonde regular textures don’t look exactly how I would like. I am not a photographer so I don’t master the lights when about to those the issue come. Nevertheless, when i use the full bright, then i can see the real texture color which if you look closer looks very realistic. Even though the regular color looks more whiter I do love my blondes over tons of other blondes in SL.

Realistic browns are another colors hard to find in SL. So I worked very hard to obtain the precise ones good enough for my taste.

 

This is one of the darkest browns. Using it at full bright makes it looks even more gorgeous.

 

This is the brownblack color. It will look nice no matter how you wear it; regular or at full bright.

 

I love this burgundy.

 

 

I know that lots of you love pink hair. I tried to create a pink look but more natural than simply the fake one that a lot of hair presents in SL.

Dark Grey.

Dress and jewelry wore in the pics are part of my collections and can be found at my stores.

 

After working with Rebelion (Rebellion in English) I started creating a piece of hair for my boys but I like it that much that ended up making it for girls. That is how Moruza born. Moruza is a very Spanish- puertorican word to describe the hair when it is all mixed up and you can not even determine what is the real style or don’t find a name to describe it.

When working Moruza I upload to the game all the textures I will use for my hairs for now. So, I realized that I needed to go with a setting like the rest of the hair makers. One picture and the color textures below or beside it offering several options inside one box. If I don’t do it that what I would ended up doing was uploading like 40 something pics every time that I create a hair which mean tons of money just to upload the textures to the game. Now I already have all the textures in the game and will just have to take one picture with some of the colors to place it on the top of the color packs. But because I realized this just in the middle of the process I have some pictures of Moruza in some of the colors. I will show you them here.

 

The first one is the demo box; that picture I talked that goes at the top of the colors boxes. I will not show here the color boxes to avoid ppl trying to download the picture to their computers to just copy the textures but I think that if you want to see all the available choices, please pay a visit to my main store. I only have Moruza at Main store. other stores are already at my prims limit so I need to decide how I will reorganize them to always have there the latest releases.

 

The next pictures where the first I started working with so these colors are part of one of the packs at stores. Moruza offers 4 colors per pack. Plus 4 more if you make copies and use those at full bright. You are then getting 8 pieces of hair for the price of just one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At first and quick sight maybe some or you will think that some of the colors are the same; they are not. if you looks carefully there is a difference among all of them. Some a small difference; but it is there.

Some of the colors repeat in some packs; for example the there are two packs that have the brownblack color; also two packs have the brownblonde color. Why? because I am just using 42 or 43 colors and the odd number in some of the tones make me to include some repeated options to complete the 4 pack. So if you like one color but don’t like the other three that comes with it, looks carefully to see if that color you like is available in another pack.

There is a pack with a white color. That one gives you flexibility to makes copies and color it as you wish. But careful; to obtain nice looks you need to play with the color palette a little bit unless you don’t care to wear violets and oranges and yellows and greens, etc. as they appear in the palette.

I already started another set of hair textures with some already finished so I will play with them shortly to see how they look. Some will have tipped ends.

I pay my respect to those hair makers because the work is exhausting. For some people jewelry is exhausting; for me it is but hair in my case is more. Specially when retexturing the flexi prims.

 

Hugsss see ya later and remember with Zaph Creations you have to Dare to be different.

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Introducing the new Zaph Creations Hair Line; D’ Pelos ZC

Since I began Second Life I spent money on hair. That is one the most important pieces in an avatar look. I cant tell you how many pieces of hair I have but are more than 300. From Analog Dog only which is my favorite I have like 33 styles. I do like others designers as well but she is my favorite. From Armidi like 12, from bewitched like 22, from ETD like 30 something cus I took advantage of the L$25 sales, plus all the friebies, I also has some cake styles, some Taunt Style, Some SS styles, some pazazz , some Calico styles, Sirena, all Naughty, 0, CC, etc and such and such.

Since I started creating I knew that hair was one of the creations I wanted to do. Just that I suspected the hard work behind it and leave it for after doing other stuff less complicated for me. For a lot of people, jewelry is complicated due to the use of very tiny prims. Nevertheless, for me those are the easy ones. Shoes were another one I needed to start and I did it. So now was the time to start with Hair.

While creating and working with special hair textures in Photoshop; I decided to give a try with the Textures available in-world and start. First to have an idea how to handle the hair prims and some styles and 2nd to see how hard the work really is. Believe me is hard. But what is hard is not what I thought would be.  Making a style is easy when you know how to handle prims. The hardest part is the texturing one. Specially changing textures once you have the style all done and every prim on place. Why? Because some of the flexi prims cover the entire back part or you hair prims base and are hard to reach to retexture. In addition, the flexi prims are another issue when you use a lot and some behind others. It is hard to get to them for retexture and you need to be careful cus part of them are transparent. So you need to select to change some part of the prim textures. Going beyond that, comes the shooting phase. Taking pictures and try to position your model in the same way every time trying to have the same shooting for all the hair. That is so boring to me. I hate to work with the same type of picture over and over again. Then come the clothe and the look you want to create for each hair style. uff finally another problem when you have more than one style in like, lets say 19 shades or tones. SL gives you the chance to name the first picture but the 2nd, 3rd and so on uses the same name with just a sequential number. When you get into your hard drive to work with the photos; you need to open SL and wear the hair to remember the name you use and the name you gave to each particular texture. All this is the hardest part. Exhausting and boring to hell. All this pictures phase is harder when you are not a photographer and don’t know all the tricks to make your life easy.

Anyway, I started with the hair creations with like 6 styles. But i just released 4 of them. I was so exhausted that stopped at one moment and decided to go with what i had so far. Here is the logo of the hair line:

  A nice silhouette that I worked a little bit and added the rest to make it look unique and different. 

I will show you some pictures of the hair already on sale in-world. But want to let you know that I will post here some of the textures I have been working with for the next hair styles I will be creating. Textures very realistic and colors very natural that I haven’t seen in SL until now. Let start with the already in stores styles.

Romance – flexi

This is a very nice style that is different from all the hair I have from other designers. Nicely worked and textured to create amazing shades within hair. It looks fantastic with my wooded set of necklace and earrings. I decided to use flexi prims just in the back to avoid the avatars costs which produces lag when we use a lot of flexi prims. So the sides were worked twisting some prims and placing them in a way that did not required to use flexi prims.

Alana – Flexi and non flexi

 

 

Both really looks good. I create these two choices due to a recent posting on SL Blog about Avatar Rendering Cost. ( “…Who me? Yes you! Couldn’t be! Then who?…” INTRODUCING AVATAR RENDERING COST). They published this blog and a lot of concern raises in the residents about the potentially dangerous this knowledge could be due to the fact that maybe a Sim owner or parcel owner can ban a person just for being the cause of the lag. I will not place here my opinion on this but just in case, i wanted to give choices for you not becoming so laggy . Nevertheless; flexi prims are wonderful and I love them and will continue to use it; just that I will try to use it wisely.

 Donna Long flexi

 

I do really hope you enjoy these 4 styles for now. 

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Illusions

This last week I decided to go back to my jewelry creations and came up with some nice stuff. I was looking for a garter for my friend wedding and was quiet hard to find one that really she likes. So finally i decided to make one based on the fact that there are a lot of place selling wedding stuff but no so many selling nice garters. So check my first one below. It has flexi feathers.

All ladies in SL knows that the use of flexi prim skirt is wonderful until it is time to sit. uggg the flexi skirt just go all the way down and u just have to deal with it. Now Zaph Creations will put the solution on some of the skirts we sell. For doing the test (see how the customers receive the new addition) we launched a simple little black dress and put it on sale for just L$75 with a complete instruction notecards. Until now; we haven’t received a single question about how to use it so I understand the instruction are clear enough so the customers can deal easily with the scripted skirt. Here is the dress pic.

See? I am sitting there and the skirt is in the right position. This is something you can adjust based on your AVI.

Illusions were the name that came into my mind when i started creating this beautiful set that can be used for a wedding or any formal activity. Just take a look.

 

These illusion set is already available in Gold, Silver Gold and Gold Silver Touch.  This week it is coming in red, burgundy, black and more.

For my  boys I created a chain necklace in silver and in gold with a sculpted cross that I made using tokoroten.

Ok so this was all for last week so tomorrow the new items are coming out. Here a sneak preview:

 

New Boots and a pair of shoes

Finally I could make it through closed shoes. That was quiet a challenge. A friend of mine (Marisa Yip) and I joined to put this to reality. She worked the shoe and me too. So finally we came up with this and decided to put it on sale with the same name a price. So enjoy.

Plus 4 nice pairs of leather boots.

 

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Zaph Creations Biggest Release Ever

This past week I have worked as a crazy bitch just making tons of clothe and shoes with a fabulous texture (Sequin) that really looks great in clothe and shoes. The prices I have set for all these items is amazingly low.

Some of the dresses are kind of multi dresses where you can mix and match to create different looks of the same dress. All in one box for a price that you will not believe and cant be compared with anything else.

Here are the huge set of pics and I hope u enjoy this collection. I will only post a pic of each color but each style is available in almost all colors. The shoes is the same; two styles with a copy in each color. Enjoy the festin!!!! Check the prices.

 

 

 

 

My Group Members Received the Pink Sassy Dress as a gift a few days ago. The VIP members received this dress but also the Shoes that goes with it. See Pic below.

 

 

 

These were some of the pics of the Sequin Collection. You can find these items on the 2nd Floor of Zaph Creations Main Store or at Tacones ZC located in Kaemi Sandbox Sim.

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