Would be nice to finally get some Curly/Afro hairstyles included into the game

[Imora]

IDK why the OP decided to list "Curly/Wavy/Messy/Afro" and then reiterate that twice more (like, wtf are you even saying? Trying to equate these textures with being "messy"? Cause, there are "messy" hairstyles in this game when you look at the "Anime protag bed head" styles like Saintly and Early to Rise ... so wtf you mean?) but I'm not gonna bother trying to unpack w/e "that" is.

Anyway, Black and would love to have Black hair options. I think Highlanders are the best looking females in this game body wise, but the fact that they don't get the 1 okish looking black hairstyle that's race locked to middies AND their lack of black facial features makes them turn out looking like brown PoC instead of black. More black hair would def do a lot to fix this. (I mean, going by what the murals and Concept Art show, I'm 100% going for Hrothgal when they come and hoping they have shared hairs, so I've prob never gonna try Highlander again. But either way, playing a Viera or Hrothgal that can have good-looking black/ cury hair would be great!)

Being realistic, the only way I see it happening is via the old hairstyle contest. Over the years, the devs have only made non-hair contest hairstyles as either fan service (the NEIR raid hairs/ stuff from other FF games like Windcaller or cutter or w/e) or to give people long straight hair cause done of the winners were long hairstyles.

The hairstyle contest had a grand total 3 black hairstyles (The Femroe braids aren't REALLY black but "it'll work")

Given the rate at which they release hair, and the fact that they've only recently started doing non-winners ... we could see them in the next big patch or "not even in 7.0" :/

EDIT- IDK what the person above me is talking about, but Elezen females can be bald. They are the only females who can be bald as it's a racial hairstyle .... not many Elezen Females, and I've never seen 1 use that style, so I guess that may be why most wouldn't know that..

We can? I don't recall seeing it.

[reivaxe]

We can? I don't recall seeing it.

Here ya go.

[Azebra]

I never use the forums because of stuff like *gestures at the last 5 pages in this thread* but I came on here today specifically to ask for the exact same thing. I'd love some curly hair, especially for viera, it sucks that the only distinctly curly hair is that mohawk looking thing? thats locked to male hyur only. And that the dreadlocks are only for some of the girls.

The hairstyle contest had a grand total 3 black hairstyles (The Femroe braids aren't REALLY black but "it'll work")

Yeah with those hairs being included in the list the dev team compiled I'm gonna call bs on anyone saying stuff like curly hair is "too hard" or just not possible with FFXIV's tech or graphics, as others have mentioned, gw2 did it just fine. I love this game I just wanna be able to give my character a cute hairstyle that has a similar curl pattern to mine please.

[Jolaseinde]

IDK why the OP decided to list "Curly/Wavy/Messy/Afro" and then reiterate that twice more (like, wtf are you even saying? Trying to equate these textures with being "messy"? Cause, there are "messy" hairstyles in this game when you look at the "Anime protag bed head" styles like Saintly and Early to Rise ... so wtf you mean?) but I'm not gonna bother trying to unpack w/e "that" is.

Anyway, Black and would love to have Black hair options. I think Highlanders are the best looking females in this game body wise, but the fact that they don't get the 1 okish looking black hairstyle that's race locked to middies AND their lack of black facial features makes them turn out looking like brown PoC instead of black. More black hair would def do a lot to fix this. (I mean, going by what the murals and Concept Art show, I'm 100% going for Hrothgal when they come and hoping they have shared hairs, so I've prob never gonna try Highlander again. But either way, playing a Viera or Hrothgal that can have good-looking black/ cury hair would be great!)

Being realistic, the only way I see it happening is via the old hairstyle contest. Over the years, the devs have only made non-hair contest hairstyles as either fan service (the NIER raid hairs/ stuff from other FF games like Windcaller or cutter or w/e) or to give people long straight hair cause none of the winners were long hairstyles.

The hairstyle contest had a grand total 3 black hairstyles (The Femroe braids aren't REALLY black but "it'll work")

Given the rate at which they release hair, and the fact that they've only recently started doing non-winners ... we could see them in the next big patch or "not even in 7.0" :/

EDIT- IDK what the person above me is talking about, but Elezen females can be bald. They are the only females who can be bald as it's a racial hairstyle .... not many Elezen Females, and I've never seen 1 use that style, so I guess that may be why most wouldn't know that..

First of all chill lol i’m not equating anything, when i said messy i meant as in loose curl hairstyles (if you google “messy curly hairstyle” and check the results that’s pretty much what i had in mind). Basically anything slightly curly after all there are tons of different types of curly hair in the world which is what i was trying to highlight. Of course the chances of them actually adding all of them in is unlikely which is why i said i would be fine with just dreads on male characters for now.

[Minsue]

Full support more stuff the better!

[DamianFatale]

Was the first part really nesscary? I never got the need to announce such things.

On topic aye more curly hair please and thank you.

Wow, to think I'd find racism in FFXIV, and the Lalafell being the racist. The irony in that is surreal.

Can we please just treat non white races with the same kindness? They absolutely do deserve to be heard. They absolutely can and will be proud of their heritage, and they don't need you to tell them if you think its necessary or not. FFXIV is a game for all people of every creed, and the world over. Secondly, this game is literally developed in a country that isn't predominately white. Hate for real world races does not belong here. Period.

[Vav2021]

Wow, to think I'd find racism in FFXIV, and the Lalafell being the racist. The irony in that is surreal.

Can we please just treat non white races with the same kindness? They absolutely do deserve to be heard. They absolutely can and will be proud of their heritage, and they don't need you to tell them if you think its necessary or not. FFXIV is a game for all people of every creed, and the world over. Secondly, this game is literally developed in a country that isn't predominately white. Hate for real world races does not belong here. Period.

I'll bet you'd call someone racist if they didn't like chocolate ice cream, wouldn't you?