Big hair

One of the things I want to change about City Chic is the hairstyle. She begins with this big hair sticking out to both sides. Of course in good old "editing appearance" there are umpteen options for hair, including color, where you want the part, length, body, spikes, ponytails, etc. But as I tweaked those, it seemed to affect the hair closest to my head, but not the big poofs on either side. In the mini-pictures in the hair section it looked fine, but Voces still had the poofs. I haven't yet figured out how to change that.

I changed a little bit with the clothes...went from a bright red to a royal blue, but more remains to be done there. And apparently you can buy clothes and such within SL.

When I started up again at home, I noticed that the place where I had first landed actually had tutorials. In each of four areas you were assigned a task--learning to move around, learning to communicate, learning how to interact with objects, etc. I successfully picked up a torch out of my inventory (which brought back fond memories of Zork and lessons in grue avoidance), but that little tutorial never told me how to get rid of the thing.

Once I had completed all four tasks, however, it told me that I could go to Help Island where I could find out more. The on-screen prompts assured me that lots of SL guides would be on Help Island to...ummm...help. I would know them it said because all of the official SL helpers have the last name of Linden...for Linden labs that invented Second Life.

So, torch in hand...trying to keep it from igniting my big hair...I clicked to go to Help Island.