Hairstyle voting begins!

[SakuraMidori]

And that's the point. I'm quite sad that it looks like they only or rather most of picked Japanese entries. Why bother including NA/ EU in such a contest anyway.
Still, it's a matter of taste. Oh well.

Well they want NA/EU to feel like they had a part to play :P but anyway i do really like some of them

[NorthernLadMSP]

Because the drawing is good/cute.
People fail to realise how it will actually look ingame and on different races.

That's exactly why I posted the Roegadyn picture just above.

No, it's because they actually look like women's hair.

No. 16 = Jane Fonda in the 80s

No. 22 = female layered hair with headband

No. 23 = modern female you might see on the runway (actually reminds me of a style Halle Berry has had in the past)

[Vercelia]

Weren't these designs supposed to be original? Female 9? That's from one of YOUR games, guys. Female 20? Misa from Deathnote. Then we have hairstyles that look almost exactly like one another and somehow are considered unique? Seriously. How did some of these get through?

[Fyce]

No, it's because they actually look like women's hair.

No. 16 = Jane Fonda in the 80s

No. 22 = female layered hair with headband

No. 23 = modern female you might see on the runway (actually reminds me of a style Halle Berry has had in the past)

I don't know what the heck I did when I quoted, but I was thinking about answering why female #8 is so popular. Hence my "because the drawing is good/cute". Please forgive my inability to correctly click a quote link.


But since I don't want to waste this answer... well.

Male#16: the color is very misleading. Besides, it's so close to #15 that I don't know why they picked both.
Male#22: you probably never saw a guy with mid-long hair with a headband. I've seen plenty. So it's probably cultural difference here.
Male#23: agreed on that one. It looks boyish at most (which is why I put it on a Roegadyn). It will be probably okay on a Lalafell or a Midlander at best.

[myahele]

It's a bit disappointing that the styles for men with lots of votes are very long and covers half the face :-\

[MyKotoShi_ALT]

Female entry #1 is the best, objectively.

Wish more people could see that. Also 8 and 21 are only in the lead because of hormones.

[Roseyrosho]

Screw the contest, SE just give us Ysayle's and Yugiri's hair, thanks.

#8 is another stupid bob cut and is a leading one, it makes me unreasonably upset.

[Nadirah]

Some of those are absolutely*awful*...

[Tyla_Esmeraude]

Weren't these designs supposed to be original? Female 9? That's from one of YOUR games, guys. Female 20? Misa from Deathnote. Then we have hairstyles that look almost exactly like one another and somehow are considered unique? Seriously. How did some of these get through?

Yes I thought so too. That hairstyle screams Quistis all over. Perhaps we misunderstood the rules that clearly (or vaguely?) said "your design must be originally made by you". If I had known I'd have just drawn the hairstyle of my favourite FF character. :P

To be honest, I did my research on the forum before designing my hairstyles (made 12 sketches of different styles based on what the community was asking for and a bit of what I would like to see in the game) and one of the things I remember writing down was "no more ribbons/accessories" and "more free hair flow, curly, wavy or messy hair, also as long as it can possibly be made within the template" but I can't seem to see any of that in the entries. The closest one to that concept I was striving for is #4. Albeit mine was very different but was going for that flowy wavy messy hair look. Definetely not very inspired by any of the female hairstyles and as for the male ones, I actually liked two that were shown in the live letter that were short ponytail. I think they were fantastic. Was hoping to see at least one of them in the final selection but they are not there. Humbly and honestly, I am disappointed in the final selection for both categories. Now we are kind of forced to vote for one but it doesn't mean this expresses accurately what the community was looking for in hairstyles which I thought was the point of the contest (besides saving the Devs time in having to design one).

[Shikiseki]

so we decide for best female hairstyle and best female hairstyle... right.... right???

jokes aside, the only real gems lie at the female side, some of them would definitely make me switch back to my female char, namely 1,8,16 and 21

14,19 and 25 look quite decent to me on the "male" side but unsurprisingly have very low votes... short hair seems to be out it seems lol