Natural Redhead Project: Wispy Bangs Alpha Edit of Rose Sims2 Ponytail in All Colors

An alpha edit in nine colors to add wispy bangs to the long ponytail mesh by Rose Sims2. The wispy bangs replace the long strands of hair that originally framed the face. I have edited Rose's original five colors and four of my recolors. Thank you, Rose, for allowing me to recolor and modify your textures.

There are two different types of downloads. They both have the alpha edit for wispy bangs but they are different in other ways:

1) Rose's Original Colors: The file MTS2_RoseSims2FreeHair0034_KaneoFringeORIGINAL_SET contains Rose's original colors with the wispy bangs alpha edit. The five colors, black, rose brown, blonde, platinum and a delicate wine red are color binned. The ponytail comes in child through elder. Rose's original colors don't have a toddler version and the elder versions use the non-elder shades. This is the only download with the black and blonde shades.

2) Recolors: There are also four recolors with the wispy bangs edit: a dark chestnut brown recolor and three red recolors in dark auburn, copper and ginger which are also color binned. The complete recolor set is in MTS2_RoseSims2FreeHair0034_KaneoFringeRECOLORS_ALL. The four recolors are also available as individual downloads. The recolored elder hair comes in two shades: the brown and auburn have a silver brown while the ginger and copper shades come with a silver beige. The recolors have a toddler version that uses the boy-cut Maxis hair style with bangs and has been colored to match the shades of the other ages.

The recolors were done for the
Natural Redhead Project to make more hairstyles available in the many beautiful naturally occurring shades of red hair. The recolors are available without the alpha edit. It may seem odd to put shades that range from orange to deep brown red in the red bin but the goal is to make the full spectrum of red shades available to genetic redheads.


Mesh Information: The mesh comes with 5 colors at Rose Sims2 in Download > Hair. It is currently on page 12. The file to download is rosehair_0034.zip The name of the unzipped mesh file is MESH_RoseHair_0084.package.

Terms of Use: These recolors may only be used in Sims distributed by 100% free sites. Do not distribute or include the mesh in any uploads! Link to the www.rosesims2.net and provide directions on how to locate the mesh in the Downloads > Hair.

Learn more about why redheads are unique:
Red hair is a simple recessive
Intensity of hair color

FYI - the custom content in the models are free downloads:
Freckles: the freckle and eye set is from Alkaloid at MTS2 as is the freckle "blush" at InSim.

Skin: JWilson5's Hairy Skins for Redheads is a modified Louis (SimScribbing) skin with AllenABQ body hair. The skin for the normal Maxis body type doesn't require any additional meshes, just download the Norm-HairyRed-Barbie.rar file for hairy, SKN-Norm-XhairyRed-Barbie.rar for extra hairy and SKN-Norm-XXhairyRed-Barbie.rar for extreme hairy (Not to worry, only the males come with body hair ).

Eyeliner: eyeliner is the 0036 makeup file from RoseSims2.

Clothing: The moss green outfit is from Peggy Sims.

Last but not least, the textures used for the ponytail elastic are from the amazing Elements Library created by SimSpore, a free resource available to all Simmers.