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Shoes are a very important element in any outfit. Shoes

I don’t make that many hair items any more is that,

can work as a statement, and you can tell a lot about a

like you said, it stands out between my other products,

person from what kind of shoe’s they’re wearing.

and the time it takes to create a good looking product

Seeing people wearing my designs warms my heart

page and icon compared to how much these products

and makes me happy. There are so many women who

sell, makes it less attractive to make. But it happens

don’t utilize their full potential which makes me a bit

sometimes that I’m in a creative mood but don’t know

frustrated. I wish more women would be more aware

exactly what to make, so I’ll make some hairs or heads

of and concerned about their own style and looks.”

to satisfy my creative “needs”.

The New Republic label also carries the loveliest set of

Almost every creator starts out with the desire to

heads, I particularly like Nina, it’s the one I use and

design but lacks the skills. Learning doesn’t happen

practically never change, I just love how it fits well

overnight, it takes a while to master the programs and

with my tall avatars and provide the symmetrical

develop a style. “I’ve been on IMVU since 2007, but I

quality I look for when taking pictures. The large

didn’t start developing until 2008. It started out as a

bubble head era is over and forgotten. Thank the

hobby and past time for me. I started out making

virtual gods!

stickers, then hairs. When my skills improved I started creating shoes and other clothing items. In January

NR also has the most natural looking hair texture,

this year my sales went up several hundred percent,

genially named realistic which I find comes off well

mostly because of one single shoe design, the

when editing images too. Andre has used the texture

Dramatique collection. They’ve sold thousands, and

on both male and female hair styles …though there is

I’ve made quite a few other designs based on that

variety in his catalog, and these items do stand out on

same mesh. So the credit income from my sales here is

their own, his strong and undoubtedly trademark is

a nice side income for me now, and it’s a nice

shoes. “I’m quite picky when it comes to fashion and

incentive to keep creating new shoes.

expression of style, and items that I’m not happy with I’ll just hide in the catalog. I’m pretty happy with how

I use Adobe Photoshop CS3 for the graphics work,

the Nina head turned out, and it’s my favorite as well.

other than that it’s just notepad for the html coding

When I started creating smaller symmetrical heads

needed for the product pages. When I started out, I

they didn’t sell that well, because it was still in the

didn’t know how to use CS3, so I’ve learned as I go. I

“bubble head” era as you so conveniently called it.

didn’t have any previous experience with graphical

But now it seems slimmer more natural heads are

work except simple photo editing.

selling more. I have to admit, my hair texture is a real hair texture that I’ve altered and changed in

I like creating virtual products on IMVU, but it can be

Photoshop so it would look good on IMVU. The reason

hard to understand how things work in the beginning.


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