The two Viera base game options shown look quite good and I think those braided pigtails will be popular. No weird bangs stretching. I'm sure not everyone would agree but in general the hairstyles that have wonky 5head already had wonky 5head on other races (Gold Saucer ponytail being the most notable example). Check it out on any other race and you'll realize it always looked like that and the problem did not start with Viera, it was just exacerbated on them. Hairstyles with bangs or ones that already look fine on the other races will port perfectly fine over to Viera, although I'll be hard-pressed to change off the Lyse hairstyle which actually looks best on Viera out of the entire lineup of races. Talk about stretched bangs; the Lyse style looks very off on Au'ra in particular.

Safe bet there will be a few more hairstyles for Viera once the patch drops because there were 5 or 6 in 6.1 and only 2 shown in the original patch notes. I would personally like Great Lengths, Form and Function, Styled for Hire and Gyr Abanian Plait with Great Lengths and Styled for Hire being at the top of that list. With these I expect we are also slowly running down the list of base game hairstyles available to all races. If they continue at this pace Viera probably will have every Modern Aesthetics and base game hair by the time 7.0 drops.

In other news I am happy to see Hrothgar are getting their ears back even if it's a patch too late and the hairstyles themselves are still not particularly suited to them. The Snow hair already looks okay and it should actually look good with ears. As a Viera player I am disappointed at how we have been treated but I am appalled at how Hrothgar players have been completely overlooked and borderline ridiculed. Obviously while they are in the same boat Hrothgar have it worse and I was personally on the side of Viera getting minimal attention this patch if it meant more bodies could be put on resolving the Hrothgar problems. Of course it is easy to say that and I am still happy to see Viera get new options.

As for the new "everyrace" ponytails I'm optimistic but not holding my breath. This is the first opportunity to see if the boast they made about changing the Viera head shape to accommodate new styles was all nonsense.