Hair today, gone tomorrow (Patreon)

Once again, a new hairdo has caused quite a stir!

As I've mentioned on many occasions, I played a handful of other VNs before deciding to make my own. My biggest issue with the ones I did play (which were generally well-regarded) was clothing that looked like body paint, with it apparently having been sprayed on to mammoth mammaries. That possibly went some way to explaining the other issue I had which was that the girls would have needed industrial strength paint stripper to remove their outfits and therefore rarely, if ever, changed their clothes.

I put in a huge amount of time, effort and expense to have the main characters appear in different outfits; even the reception staff uniforms have some variety with the option to wear skirts instead of leggings and little things like Chloe wearing a grey t-shirt because they're supposed to be waiting on delivery of more of the uniform polo shirts.

Of course, there's also Casual Fridays which exist for the sole purpose of seeing the reception staff in a variety of outfits.

I took that a step further with Aria and Kara, who switch between having their hair tied back or loose and then the more dramatic changes of style for Lois and now Kari.

Both of those were intended to reflect profound changes. In Lois's case it seemed logical that she would go with a more groomed style when she got promoted to COO. I tried a number of options before settling on the look she has now. To give you some idea of how much work and thought went into that, I had to take the hair as it was originally made and reverse not only the base model but the accompanying morphs to keep the parting side consistent with what it was before. I also incorporated that little strand of hair from her original hairstyle that would sometimes fall into her face. Furthermore, she has occasionally worn her hair in the informal loosely-tied style that was previously the standard look for her.

In Kari's case, the new look is supposed to reflect her growing self-awareness and confidence that she is actually attractive. She's gone from someone that was bundled up in jeans and a chunky sweater at the start of the game to consciously putting "the girls" front and centre!

But the most recognizable element of her previous look (the pronounced forelock) is retained, so her everyday look will be somewhere between the old and new. Although it's not obvious, my thinking is that the back of Kari's hair is pinned up so while it would be shorter than it was before at the back, it's not supposed to be shaved/tapered.