New 7.1 hairstyle looks nothing like the winning hairstyle from the 2023 contest

[slingbees]

Please forgive me if this has already been mentioned - I ain't going back through 40 pages - but are we even sure this is supposed to be Curls? When a winning entry was implemented into the game in 7.0 it was actually called a winning entry in the patch notes. The 7.1 hairstyle is just called an "entry". Curls won so why isn't it also listed as a winning entry?

I wondered myself if it could possibly be an entry that wasn't a winner, but after looking at it myself and after someone later drew over both images to show which sections match up, it lines up very well with that entry, down to how some of the loose curls fall around the sections of hair, and it's parted similarly.

img embed isn't working so https://imgur.com/a/Sw15cJk
(sorry it's sloppy i made it in paint)

Even with the crunchiness, it looks to me to be very clearly meant to be the same style as in the entry

Honestly? If it's not the same hair then there's no real issue - all they have to do is address the concerns by saying as much and showing us the non-winning entry it's actually based on. Without any proof that it isn't supposed to be Natural Curls, its presentation is frustrating at best.