Hairstyle dilemma and suggestion for a possible hairstyle system update

I have come to find the selection to good hairstyles in the game very lacking as of late, and I feel like the system is in sorely need for an Update. I have no doubt that there are other people who are in my boat and feel like me on this topic, and there might be some who probably may be willing to help in finding/selecting a new hairstyle for my character that actually looks good and fits, for as of now in my humble opinion there a very few hairstyles that fits and look great as most have some flaws in them.


Short explanation on my situation:
Ever since I created my Miqo'te character I've had the same hairstyle albeit in different hair colours until quite recently, as it's the only one I'm mostly happy with, the standard braided one that became Fourchenault Leveilleurs hairstyle.

https://i.imgur.com/ts7UFYfl.png


But after years it's started to feel old and outdated and I am now starting to try out a new one: 'Modern Aesthetics - Practical Ponytails' as I like the front of that hairstyle, but I'm really struggling to get used to the back part of the hair. It's sitting far higher up in the back then I would have liked, and the hair sort of seems thin by the knot. Not to mention that the hair crossing with the Miqo'te ears look somewhat wrong, and to smooth sidewise making it look like a painted rubber swim cap rather then... well hair.

https://i.imgur.com/o7xOT98l.png
https://i.imgur.com/yaRSImAl.png
https://i.imgur.com/54qLq4Rl.png


I have also been eyeing the other hairstyle: 'Modern Aesthetics - Adventure' as well, as I tend to like the style with the hair over one shoulder like this have, but that hairstyle have a horrible problem with the front part with the split in the middle bangs. It just don't fit my character at all...

https://i.imgur.com/XcwuAh1l.png



Suggestion to a possible system solution for this problem:
And there in comes a suggestion of alteration that the hairstyle system could benefit from without revamping the entire system that is in place now.
What if we could get to a point where hairstyles can be split into 2 separate sections, one front part and one back part. That way we could mix and match up the hairstyles we have available and unlocked to make our characters look even more unique then they do now. We could also still have the 'Modern Aesthetics' books unlocking new full hairstyles, but instead of only getting one full hairstyle you could get to choose to either have the full hairstyle or mix the new front/back one with an old back/front one you liked more. And when it comes to hats they, like today, overrule how most of the hairstyle is visible, for example where you don't get the back part of the hair:

https://i.imgur.com/saEoYKil.png


If anyone have other suggestions let's discuss them too.

If you like the hair over the shoulder look try Lightning’s hairstyles on the other hand Miqo’te and lalafell have access to the cutest version of the twintails hairstyles

There’s also the style design contest results to look forward to as that will add 30 new styles the adventurer style you listed above is the winner of a previous contest

Don't really mind most of these issues. I just take issue with the fact that most hairstyles clip really badly.

From my own personal experience, I have a lot of different accessories and hats that I enjoy using, but because the majority of hairstyles suck I can't use them. My main character uses the same hairstyle that the character I attached to my forum account uses because a lot of new hairstyles have clipping issues. Both island sanctuary hairstyles are good examples but basically half the hairstyles in-game have the issues too.

They should stop banning the ones creating hair mods and bring them on staff they can pull off ass length hairstyles with zero clipping

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Originally Posted by Tersi82

If you like the hair over the shoulder look try Lightning’s hairstyles on the other hand Miqo’te and lalafell have access to the cutest version of the twintails hairstyles

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Hmm, thanks for the advice! I guess now is the time to buy it from the store and test it out considering it's on sale at the moment. I have been hesitant to buy it as the over the shoulder part have looked quite thin in most pictures I've seen, and the bangs part is a little short.

As for the twintails, I don't really feel like it fits my character that well as I feel like because she has scars on her face she would try and hide them with as long bangs as possible, I tend to use headgear that does it for her but now I'm levelling dancer and thought the flower looked nice on her, hence the band-aid over her nose. But I agree it looks quite cute and it fits lalafells alot, I have it coloured pink on a alt-character for meme shenanigans.

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Originally Posted by Tersi82

There’s also the style design contest results to look forward to as that will add 30 new styles the adventurer style you listed above is the winner of a previous contest

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Oooo :eek: Now this is something to look forward to indeed!
Is there a place where I can see the styles that will be added?

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Originally Posted by Tersi82

They should stop banning the ones creating hair mods and bring them on staff they can pull off ass length hairstyles with zero clipping

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When it comes to hairstyles, I feel like Square is in need of an update on how they do things here. And considering there are a lot of people risking bans to use mods for new hair designs, I'd say they would be wise to take inn the people who are so passionate about it that they created those mods to help the playerbase get the looks they want. It'd be a win-win in my books, Square would not condone modding but they would take advantage of the people who may have found a solution to a lot of good hairstyles.


Thanks for the replies! :)

Sadly there’s no place to view the design entries yet and this time it will be staff picking the winners

Oh I forgot to mention the winners will be announced in November

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Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

Don't really mind most of these issues. I just take issue with the fact that most hairstyles clip really badly.

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That is true, there is a lot of hairstyles that do clip badly :(
Which is also why I feel like if we had an update to the system splitting hairstyles into 2 sections we could all choose the front and separate back part that would fit the outfits we would want to wear and therefore also have the chance to remove the clipping problem on glamours.

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Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

From my own personal experience, I have a lot of different accessories and hats that I enjoy using, but because the majority of hairstyles suck I can't use them. My main character uses the same hairstyle that the character I attached to my forum account uses because a lot of new hairstyles have clipping issues. Both island sanctuary hairstyles are good examples but basically half the hairstyles in-game have the issues too.

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That's why I used the braided style for soooo long, as I felt it both had the length of bangs I would want for my character and no harsh clipping on outfits in the back. But I did find a mask though that I use when playing on my main job BLM, the 'Beech Mask of Casting' one. While the bangs do clip the mask, it makes it look more like a mask feature then hair-clipping.

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Originally Posted by Tersi82

Sadly there’s no place to view the design entries yet and this time it will be staff picking the winners

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Oh, that is sad :( I would have loved to see the different entries. Are you sure then that there will be 30 sets added, or will it be only 1 out of the 30?

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Oh I forgot to mention the winners will be announced in November

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Oh that's not that far away! Months tend to fly by for me, before I know it it's jul-time :)

I’m pretty sure the details in the announcement said 30 winners

Ok, thanks for the intel Tersi! :)

But an update about the Lightning hair, I have bought it and is currently trying to get the colour I want.. Buuut this hair do not lend well to wanting black highlights, it's not showing at all :( Same with other darker highlighters, especially when I want red hair with a darker highlight. Guess it's because the hair has so much already built in darker highlights... Guess I'll try for a while the: 98,26,19 with a highlight of: 116,75,110. While I would have like to use the darker purple: 84,64,90 as I can't have black, it suffers from the same problem of not really showing up in the hair.

As for the thinness on the shoulder part of the hair, it is as thin as I feared if you look at it from the sides. But while looking at it from a frontal view it's not that bad. Only three gripes left with it, outside the lack of darker highlights and the thin shoulder hair, is
1. it clips a lot on shoulder parts of glamours :(
2. there are a lot of people using it already, making it not feel so unique.
and 3. when looking from the side the hair is hovering like crazy, at least 10 cm hover over the chest.

https://i.imgur.com/8ESCLtr.png


Will test it out over a few days to see how I feel over-all, but I might change back to the old reliable while waiting for the new styles to be added :(

Viera have a much better variant of the style but it’s exclusive to them there are several styles I’d like to be made available to more races Au-Ra have 4 of them

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Originally Posted by Schmittius

Hmm, thanks for the advice! I guess now is the time to buy it from the store and test it out considering it's on sale at the moment.

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Just wanted to quickly mention that you may not need to buy it to test it out, depending on what exactly you want to test. If you go to your bed in an inn room, you can try on Mog Store items. I think it's called "Dream Fitting" or something like that.

Edit: oops i was too late :X

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Originally Posted by LilimoLimomo

Just wanted to quickly mention that you may not need to buy it to test it out, depending on what exactly you want to test. If you go to your bed in an inn room, you can try on Mog Store items. I think it's called "Dream Fitting" or something like that.

Edit: oops i was too late :X

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:p
I were aware that I could do it, I have used it at times for attires but never when it comes to hairstyles, but this time I simply forgot about testing with it first. And I'm unsure if I could have tested it with different hair colours, gess I could try it out now on something else.

But thank you for the reminder :)

I mean with how detailed and nice Vierra hairstyles are (WITH VOLUME EVEN) we know they are capable of making nicer hairstyles. I just don't know why they don't implement that volume and texture into new hairstyles.
Or maybe if we're lucky, they will with the new hairstyles that are coming out with the contest. I would really love atleast 2 new long hairstyles with volume/waves and cute bangs, and then a ponytail similar to Hilda's if not just give us Hilda's pony already :<

Idk I'm really hoping they actually look at these forums and listen to their fans for the winners of this hairstyle contest.

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I mean with how detailed and nice Vierra hairstyles are (WITH VOLUME EVEN) we know they are capable of making nicer hairstyles. I just don't know why they don't implement that volume and texture into new hairstyles.
Or maybe if we're lucky, they will with the new hairstyles that are coming out with the contest. I would really love atleast 2 new long hairstyles with volume/waves and cute bangs, and then a ponytail similar to Hilda's if not just give us Hilda's pony already :<

Idk I'm really hoping they actually look at these forums and listen to their fans for the winners of this hairstyle contest.

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I’d love Hilda’s ponytail or Omega F I’d also like Gaia’s Ryne’s Nanamo’s and Krile’s

Hairstyles have been lacking for a long time now...I wish they would just unlock all races and then there would be more diversity but I guess that might be too difficult for them to implement and some might look bad on other races.

I love long hair and I also hold out the hope for Hilda's hair. Viera even though are lacking do have some of the prettiest hairstyles while the older races are kind of forgotten about.