Hair Fair 2024 – Designer Information and Application – Hair Fair Second Life

This year is the 18th annual Hair Fair event in Second Life. We are very excited to be at this milestone and looking forward to you joining us. Hair Fair is a charity event collecting donations for Wigs for Kids through purchases made from our participants, and donations made directly to kiosks.

All items sold at Hair Fair by participants in the event donate a minimum of 15% up to 100%) to Wigs for Kids. Items sold by the Hair Fair committee (bandanas and Hair Fair Hares) donate 100% to Wigs for Kids. Kiosks at the event donate 100% to Wigs for Kids.

We have made changes most years to accommodate the needs of our participants, and the community as a whole. This year we have taken into consideration requests made in the past few years. We always want to hear what you have to say, and when we can, make the policies that promote an excellent event experience for everyone. We have also lowered the fee to participate in Hair Fair to 2500L.

Hair Fair 2024 timeline:

Applications open – March 4th
Applications close – March 20th
Acceptance notifications sent – March 21st
Payments & group Invites – March 22nd – 29th

Booth Set up Starts- May 25th (Saturday)
Booth set up Ends – May 29th (Wednesday)
Early Access & Demos – May 31st (Friday)
Hair Fair Opens – June 1st (Saturday Morning)
Hair Fair Closes – June 16th (Sunday Night)

Set up period is 5 days. You have from 00:01 am Saturday morning until 11:59 pm Wednesday night. Everything is provided in advance. All you need to do is arrive and place your items. We will make sure you know in advance that it is coming to that time.

More Information:

Scripts

This is a charity event! You will have to either set up your own vendor system to split to the charity account we provide information for, or use the scripts we can provide — one or the other not both.

IMPORTANT! You must also turn off store credit and gift-cards as an option of purchase. Otherwise there would be no donations!

If you need a split script with a partner, contact HairFairSl Core well in advance of the event so that we can customize a donation vendor script for you. Do not leave this until the last minute! We will only do a split for you, one partner and the charity.

You must not use scripts for demos. Every script even for give items is extra scripts we do not need on the regions. Set the demo to buy for 0L. All demos must be 0L/Free.

Please do not use scripted furniture or other scripts in your booth. Any animation scripts, etc. must be removed.

Booths

NEW! Open Faced Booths
In the past to minimize lag, we have made the booths to hide the items within so that people did not load everything at once. Due to changes in performance over the years, we have decided to change that this year. Booths will have a large opening in the front, so you will have a choice of having all your items on display right in the opening, or creating a walkable interior. The booth interiors will be provided in such a way that you can expand or contract the depth as needed.

We will provide a booth inner well in advance of set up. All items in your booth and part of your booth will need to be phantom and G rated.

Items

NEW! and NOT compulsory: Previous Releases
Each year we have been asked by newer participants if they could put more items out other than their exclusives to donate even more to Wigs for Kids. We have decided to give this a chance this year. This is not compulsory. You will be provided with EXCLUSIVE NEW signage to distinguish between those and previous releases, but this gives you the opportunity to show a bit more of your brand at the event.
There will be rules if you do proceed with this:
1. You must still have 1 – 6 EXCLUSIVE never before released/sold item/s in your booth for the duration of the event.
2. You can only display up to 5 previous releases.
3. All items must donate regardless of whether they are exclusive.
4. Any additional items must also be hair related. Whether it be hair – styles/facial/bases, hair accessories or hair poses &/or props, they must all be hair themed.

NEWish (as of last year) – New and exclusive items minimum is now 1 the maximum is 6

We lowered the minimum because there is a lot more involved now in one hairstyle than used to be the case, and we found that some were not able to achieve more than and were not participating because of it, we never wanted people to not be able to participate so it is now one (make it a fabulous one) and those of you that can do more than one, that is awesome.

All items must be packaged and priced exactly the same way they would be sold in your stores. Please do not offer items cheaper or combine packs into one if that is not how you usually sell them.

Gift items do not count against your total items, and must only be FREE 0L or 1L maximum, you can only put out one Gift per store, and you cannot set it to any group, it cannot be conditional of getting the gift.

Hair Attachments/Add ons

Attachments (mohawks, ponytails, buns, pigtails, braids, etc.) can be sold with or without a hair base included. If you are showing a hair base in your vendor ad, but it isn’t included, be sure to make that clear on your vendor ad. If you have any questions on this please contact HairFairSL Core.

Items released by your brand must be created by your store designers. You cannot release full perms mesh styles or content purchased from 3D markets.

Full Hairstyles

Hair bases included with a full hairstyle do not have to be new to the event if just providing a hairline for your styles that you always include with every pack, as these are not a selling point of the style and not sold separately.

Hair Bases

(This will include stores that create hair bases only.)

Hair bases must be created by your brand; they must not be commissions or purchases outside of SL or inworld/marketplace as full perms.

Hair base creators
Hair bases being sold as a separate item must be new for the event to count as your exclusive item.

Facial Hair Creators

Mesh facial hair is allowed and will need demos so that customers can be assured of fit before purchase.

Facial Hair Appliers and Bakes on Mesh
Must be hand drawn by your brand, not commissions or purchases outside of SL or inworld/marketplace. You must include a bakes on mesh BOM layer in your product along with any appliers.

Hair Accessories & Props etc.

Not only are hair accessories allowed, but hair props – hairdryers, curling irons, salon decor/backdrops, hair focused poses are all something as hair lovers we would like to see at Hair Fair.

The item must add to the beauty and or functionality of hairstyles. Tiaras, hair-sticks or accessories that adorn, hair flowers, jewelry, hats and horns are all items that partner so well with the hair community and what Hair Fair wants to be.
If you make a jewelry set that has more than the hair accessories portion, even if sold separately it would count as one release, Example : Tiara, Necklace and Earrings would be one release. The same with props or pose sets etc,

You can now also collaborate with a clothing brand to do clothing that has hair as part of the clothing such as a hoodie/cape with hair built into the style for a perfect look. If curious about a style in that way, please contact HairFairSL Core so we can discuss, Hair does have to be the attention grabber of the items though as it is Hair Fair.

Thank you for reading. If you have any questions please contact Sasy Scarborough/HairFairSL Core.