6.35 hairstyle

[ronibosch]

He looks like an angry baby.

[Remish]

Man I wish I Could find these long hairstyles everyone keeps saying we have 8 billion of for females because when I open up to change my hair I just see the same hairs we have had since ARR and another hair here or there that I never use because it doesn't look good on my character in any capacity. (Nor do I really see anyone else wear them). I get the feeling our definition of long hairs isn't one and the same.

[Yencat]

It literally looks exactly the same on every other race (that isn't Hrothgar.) So sick of people pretending Viera are the only ones with big forehead syndrome. I've gone and compared countless hairstyles and there's genuinely no visible "extra forehead" difference between Viera and the other races - their natural hairstyles just have extremely low hairlines so the dichotomy is more readily visible.

Looks great on Highlander with the eyebrow facepaint as well, despite what the printed out picture in the LL lead us to believe!

I don't know if there's actually the same amount of visible forehead space on all races down to the millimeter, but I don't think anyone would deny that for whatever reason certain hairstyles just look better on some races than others so it would be nice if they took that into account more.

The features on the individual humanoid faces aren't so drastically different that a single custom fit wouldn't work for all of them, right now you can go from Teresa Giudice to Dooneese Maharelle just switching between hairstyles and it's a bit jarring.

[Caro178]

Comparatively of course it will look better on a more grizzled, aged looking race (Highlanders, arguably Hrothgar) and less good on the "anime face" races (Viera, Miqos). That's just the norm of hairstyles - different designs suit different faces. It still has a massive forehead on that male highlander, it just appears more natural because they're designed to look more rugged and the receded hairline thus makes sense. Highlanders tend to look more middle aged than any other race and many middle aged men have this hairline.

[Arrius]

Comparatively of course it will look better on a more grizzled, aged looking race (Highlanders, arguably Hrothgar) and less good on the "anime face" races (Viera, Miqos). That's just the norm of hairstyles - different designs suit different faces. It still has a massive forehead on that male highlander, it just appears more natural because they're designed to look more rugged and the receded hairline thus makes sense. Highlanders tend to look more middle aged than any other race and many middle aged men have this hairline.

As said, a complexity issue - The faces are mostly super smooth without anything like wrinkles or light shading around the brows, eyes and nose for depth. So when you draw attention away from the hair that complements such smooth faces, then you get such results.

[Caro178]

As said, a complexity issue - The faces are mostly super smooth without anything like wrinkles or light shading around the brows, eyes and nose for depth. So when you draw attention away from the hair that complements such smooth faces, then you get such results.

Yeah, definitely a complexity issue. Which is arguably not an issue and just differences between the different races in the game. You can see right here that this femroe has the exact same hairline as the Viera to a T while wearing this hairstyle:

[Yencat]

Comparatively of course it will look better on a more grizzled, aged looking race (Highlanders, arguably Hrothgar) and less good on the "anime face" races (Viera, Miqos). That's just the norm of hairstyles - different designs suit different faces. It still has a massive forehead on that male highlander, it just appears more natural because they're designed to look more rugged and the receded hairline thus makes sense. Highlanders tend to look more middle aged than any other race and many middle aged men have this hairline.

I agree that it's weird that people single out Viera like they're the only ones with a problem here, but I don't think "almost everyone else looks bad in it as well" is a great thing when it comes to new hairstyles being released.

Not everything is for everyone but I guess my point is that with a bit more effort I think it could look good on every race, provided you like short hair and this particular style of course, but as it is it looks like a tiny toupée on an egg on everyone but maybe 2 races?

[SweetestLily]

All im gonna say is.....

[Caro178]

I agree that it's weird that people single out Viera like they're the only ones with a problem here, but I don't think "almost everyone else looks bad in it as well" is a great thing when it comes to new hairstyles being released.

Not everything is for everyone but I guess my point is that with a bit more effort I think it could look good on every race, provided you like short hair and this particular style of course, but as it is it looks like a tiny toupée on an egg on everyone but maybe 2 races?

Which is exactly my point, I guess? This is a problem that should be addressed on every applicable race, arguably even the races it looks better on. The hairstyle is poorly fitted and should be edited on everyone, not just Viera. I don't want to pursue the narrative that it's a Viera only problem even as someone who predominantly plays Viera because it absolutely isn't.

More evidence of it lining up exactly with a catgirl's forehead.

[Yencat]

Which is exactly my point, I guess? This is a problem that should be addressed on every applicable race, arguably even the races it looks better on. The hairstyle is poorly fitted and should be edited on everyone, not just Viera. I don't want to pursue the narrative that it's a Viera only problem even as someone who predominantly plays Viera because it absolutely isn't.

More evidence of it lining up exactly with a catgirl's forehead.

I guess it's just more fun for some people to dunk solely on Viera because it plays into the "this is what you asked for, isn't it????" narrative, but who knows.

I guess the silver lining in it looking bad on the majority is that there's some more noise about it now, I don't like where we're headed when you not only have to wonder if you like the style of a future hairstyle but also if it actually looks right on your particular race.