Thursday, December 30, 2010

Geisha Hair @ Talon Faire!

The beauty of Edo Japan in InWorldz (http://www.inworldz.com/) has inspired a few creations that I will be available both in SL and IW.

Two styles of Geisha Hair with adornments and that beautiful mystery of the Far East.

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In the Edo sim in InWorldz you will find a lovely and restful space with various merchants and gardens to explore. You will also find a satellite store for Talon Faire. The main shop for Talon Faire is located in Animated Spirits sim, a part of the growing Magellan Colony. Come explore a beautiful world!

In SecondLife, Talon Faire is located in Misto Presto - same spot for four years now- The Geisha Hair and geta and tabi can be found there. Please visit Talon Faire in your either world for your shopping pleasure.

Friday, November 26, 2010

Long Time No See!!

OMG! Fans of TF!! Where have I been???

I don't want you to think I have given up creating- Oh no far from it! It is because of creativity that I have been so lost recently. I have new wings to fly and have been doing so many wonderful things (even if I do say so myself *wink*!).

Among all the newness to share there is Fashion, Architecture and even Animation!

A bit of Moorish allure:

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A sensuous sari:

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Some artful poses celebrating love:

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And a happy Bubble Ride!

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All of these things are available right now - in Inworldz! www.inworldz.com

As time permits, I will bring something to SL but seeing LL's latest blunder- the Teens on SL Main Grid, my home is firmly in IW. Hope you, my fair readers, will consider at least visiting the grid at some point. Best alternative to SL I have seen in my travels.

Friday, June 18, 2010

I have been remiss..

Hello Fans of Talon Faire! Long time no waving! You know how it is when you are setting roots in new places. Lately I have been rather consumed with InWorldz to be honest. Talon Faire has opened two new shops there and slowly we are getting set up. If you haven't visited InWorldz, do so. It's a beautiful new place that is growing daily. There has been a huge influx of Residents and even some big name Designers from SL you may recognize. The url for IW is (http://www.inworldz.com/).

Today though I bring you a twisted little piece of exotica for your SecondLife or InWorldz experience as it is available in both.

Talon Faire takes a walk on the wild side with this new release - Chained Heat - Horns From Talon Faire!

What the well dressed deamoness is wearing this season...
Over one hundred prims in this sculpted set of horns with touch on and off flames. Get your wicked little tail on in here!

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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Much Newness To Share!

Talon Faire keeps growing! We have had several new releases this past month. Apologies for not updating you sooner, faithful Fans! RL has a way of sneaking in no matter how hard we slam the door.

Meantime though I do have news to share. Talon Faire has an additional home! If you have not heard of InWorldz yet (http://www.inworldz.com/) you will! It is a growing new Virtual World with all the heady possibility of SecondLife.

If you have been a long time Resident, you will remember with fondness the wild frontier days of SL. InWorldz is currently in those 'olden days' and the prospects are endless! Talon Faire is there, helping new IW Residents 'de-noobify' and build the world of their- OUR- dreams. It's exciting being in nearly at the beginning- although, InWorldz did just celebrate its first Anniversary.

While Talon Faire has no plans to leave SecondLife that has been on our home for almost four years- we are looking foward to a bright future in InWorldz - Hope you will come along.

And now for our latest releases:

Soul's Caress is a mid length style with soft curls. It comes packed three gorgeous colors per box- Available now @ Talon Faire.



Next we have Morning Glory. This sophisticated and elegant style can be worn with two different adornments- hair sticks or tiny lilies - or plain! Comes packed two colors per box and three choices of 'look'.


And finally, our latest release, Scented Garden. Exotic and sensual, this long pony tail waves and flows with your every move. This one is packed four colors to each box. Sure to be a winner - come see it today @ Talon Faire~ We'll see YOU there!



























Saturday, April 10, 2010

The room lights lower... the sound fills the theater...

Myrna Loy, Greta Garbo, Betty Grable, Jane Mansfield... Are YOU ready for YOUR close-up?

In the tradition of the screen sirens of yore, Talon Faire presents - Silver Screen

(Includes Styling Card and extra hair ornament)

Silver Screen


Friday, April 2, 2010

Sonnet Hair From Talon Faire

Today we have the first in a new release series - Sonnet. Sonnet will be released in several colors and includes three options - Unadorned, Jeweled and Calla Lily.

This beguiling style features a mid length braid, some lose tendrils and your choice to wear flowers, rubies or nothing at all in it. This hair has so much flair! You will love it with most anything- the ribbon and flowers are tintable so you can coordinate to your hearts content!

Includes Style Card!

Sonnet Licorice


Sonnet Honey

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Slow Burn

Sexy, Flexy waves and curls. Slightly unkempt and deliciously sensuous, these riotous waves cascade over your shoulders as you walk. Packed in three exciting shades, Crimson, Merenge and Night - Fully Mod/Copy - No Scripts = Less Lag!

Includes Style Card

Get yours today at Talon Faire!

Available in world and on Slapt.me

Slow Burn

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Lashes & Hair - BIG Release @ Talon Faire!

Three New Eyelashes to get you in the spirit for St. Patrick’s Day – Come on – get your Irish up!

Dance A Little Jig features a happy little leprechaun and proclaim "Happy St. Patrick's Day!" as well as an on and off shamrock poofer - hidden in an Emerald - Of course!

Shine Forth has a prominent shamrock bedecked in sparkles and includes the same on/off poofer as the others.

Luck of the Irish has delicate shamrocks like lace framing your beautiful eyes and of course the shamrock poofer!

Dance A Lil’Jig in XStreet

Dance A Little Jig in Slapt


Luck o’the Irish in Xstreet

Luck o’the Irish in Slapt

Shine Forth in XStreet

Shine Forth in Slapt


New Hair @ Talon Faire!

This mid-length hair style features soft curls framing your face and a mound of elegant braids at the crown. Equally comfortable in jeans or a cocktail gown, this one is sure to please!

Fully Mod/Copy so you can fine tune, comes packed three delicious colors per box to match your every mood

Honeysuckle Wine

Monday, March 1, 2010

Two New Short & Sassy Styles!

I have two new styles to show you - both are short and playful, looking for the warmer months coming. The first, Life's A Breeze, is a short casual do that will look as nice on guys as girls without being too severe -



The second, Tousled & Free, makes me want to put my toes in the water and sit by the sea, a cool ocean breeze just messing a bit with my short hair. Easy, breezy, no cares. Features a blunt, square cut on the back and transforms from casual to elegant with a change of clothes.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

OMG!! Eye Tattoos!!!

Shooting Star

Henna Bloom

Flying Hearts


Subtle henna toned adornments - attach to chin so it won't knock off your eyelashes- Hah! as if I would!!

Three styles so far but more coming, these subtle tats frame your eye for the most exciting new development to hit the fashion scene!

See them today at Talon Faire!!






Thursday, February 25, 2010

After Sunset - Hair From Talon Faire In Three Colors


After Sunset is an elegant, Greecian styled up-do. This classic hair features multiple braids crowning you, while the coordinated hair band holds the style in place. Errant tendrils softly frame your face and masses of loose cascading curls fall to the middle of your back.


Packed in three popular colors, this style is fully Mod/Copy and sure to complement. See it exclusively at Talon Faire!


Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Are your Spidey Senses Tingling?

Come into my Parlor, said the Spider to the fly...

Perfect for when you are feeling a little Goth or just have a dark need, these new Spider Lashes will mesmerize....

Arachnaphobia



Lil Miss Muffet

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Steam: The Hunt- 2010


And here is the gentlemen's gift - Please note the band that holds the hair back; those little gears spin!

Hope you like it.

Monday, February 15, 2010

A 360 View of Talon Faire



It's a little fast and not everything fully rezzed, but I hope it piques your interest and you will come visit Talon Faire for yourselves.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Misto%20Presto/216/21/155

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Eyelashes! La Belle La Belle Époque

Our newest collection, La Belle Époque, is themed Art Nouveau. Close your lovely eyes and let your self be transported to a different time... hedonistic and bohemian, sitting in a dimly lit café. In the next table famous artistes and those that aspire, exchange ideas and gaze inside themselves through the doorway the Green Fairy herself opened...

Three lovely styles to choose from or a Fat Pack available inworld:

La Fee Verte

La Louche

Mademoiselle

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Steam: The Hunt- 2010



Last year's hunt was a great success! Fantastic for both vendors and Hunters - We hope you will join us again when the Hunt begins - March 1 thru the 31st.

And... guess what is the offering from Talon Faire - something completely different! I do hope you will like it - Here is a preview.

Coming soon to Talon Faire... Hair! The debut for now is the Hunter's Gift for the ladies, working on a treat for the gents.

See you there!

Thursday, February 4, 2010

LInden Lab Closes SL Official Forums - The Residents DO NOT Want That!

One Last Appeal...

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A Letter to the Lindens

Some of you may have read and laughed at Trout Recreant’s hilarious “Letters From the Lindens”, lampooning our Service Provider’s policies and the haphazard ways in which (it seems) they make decisions.

There have been a lot of those over the past year. The Homestead bait and switch, the introduction of themed, Linden-built mainland areas, the ghettoization of Adult Content, “Linden Homes”, the flirtation with FaceBook and Twitter, the purchase of a FaceBook clone, the abolition of the Mentors, and the abolition of the XStreetSL and the official SL Forums.

There’s more on the horizon. The imposition of script limits. A dumbed-down Viewer 2.0. Favored status for some, but not all, content creators.

And of course, some real problems remain unaddressed. Lag. Inventory loss. Failed teleports. Maximum stable concurrency. Content theft and its mirror twin, false accusation of content theft.

With all of that, I thought it was about time that the Residents wrote a letter TO the Lindens. It’s arrogant of me, I know, to place myself in the position of speaking for “the Residents”. We are a diverse group with a wide range of opinions. Still, I think that a great many residents will agree with what I’ve written here.

Dear Linden Lab,

We love Second Life, the virtual world whose infrastructure you created and manage. Although it has many flaws, it’s far and away the best virtual world platform in existence. We want to see it flourish and grow, just as you do. Because of that, we are passionate in our opposition to a number of changes the Lab has made, and is apparently planning to make. We are passionate because we, as the people who are in SL every day, see the damage that they have caused, and greatly fear what damage the new changes will cause.

We are also passionate in our desire for improvements. We see the problems with SL. We are frustrated by them every day. So it angers us to see you ignoring these real problems, and us, in a quixotic quest for “millions of new potential Residents.”

Let’s think about that one for a moment. At present, the grid can only support a maximum concurrency of between 70,000 – 80,000. Somewhere in there, things begin to break and either some functions (transactions, teleports, rezzing) become unstable, or the grid itself goes down. Until that problem is solved, it makes no sense to waste time with policy changes that might (you hope) bring in huge numbers of new users.

SL is a communications platform. As such, it shares some characteristics with MMORPGs, and some with social networking sites like FaceBook. These other platforms and virtual worlds like SL compete for the on line time of a large number of people. But, although they are similar, they are NOT the same, and they have distinctly different strengths and appeal to different segments of that potential audience.

MMORPGs are graphically rich. They have (and users need and demand) high frame rates. They appeal to those who want to play a game, to compete within a fixed and relatively limited rule framework. SL, in contrast, is largely user-created. And it is open-ended, with a very loose framework that lets users pursue the activities they choose. While the graphics performance of a video game would be wonderful to have, SL trades off some of that performance potential in order to gain its distinct advantages.

Social networking sites are all about facilitating connections between people. As such, they are a tool to enhance a user’s life and expand their circle of friends. Such sites are used by people to find potential friends, business associates, lovers, or mates. They are outward-oriented, and closely linked to the real world lives and identities of their subscribers. SL, on the other hand, features anonymity. While users can use it for social networking, and reveal personal information to either those they choose, or to everyone, many Residents use SL as an escape from Real Life. Their SL existence is quite meaningful and real to them, but it is largely separate from, and carried on parallel to, their Real Life.

As users of modern internet connectivity platforms in general, we see the advantages of all three of these types of platforms. MMORPGs are good for entertainment and escape. Social networking sites are good for making connections. However, it is only a true virtual world like Second Life that is usable for both purposes. There are necessary and unavoidable tradeoffs involved in creating such a multipurpose platform.

Because of that, we see it as a grave mistake for SL to try too hard to become either an MMORPG or a social networking tool. For example, in acquiring Avatars United, LL may be opening a door through which many residents will exit the grid in favor of a tool that better suits their main purpose. If LL were to go in another direction, and take control of content creation in order to dramatically improve performance, residents who are interested in creating, or running a business, will depart.

You must pursue the middle ground that you have already staked out. No single application can be everything to everyone, and it is a mistake to squander resources in trying.

What you have is an entertainment platform with (potentially) broad appeal. Instead of trying to force SL into a FaceBook mold, or turn it into WoW, make it the best of its kind.

SL has another unique feature: its economy. This is perhaps SL’s greatest selling point…that people can come here, and leave (if they are skillful and lucky) with more money than they came in with. But this economy is fragile. There are a limited number of products that are possible. By eliminating gambling, you cut off a whole segment of that economy (the fact that it was a legal necessity is irrelevant. It still harmed the economy). By restricting adult content, you are slowly strangling another, larger segment. There are really only three basic commodities in SL: virtual land, content creation, and entertainment.

Linden Lab has ultimate control over all of these. Each policy change or shift you make has an effect on the thousands of merchants who use SL. When considering policy changes, you must do a better job of discussing them in advance with a wide range of Residents than you have so far. We would suggest that you ask yourselves (and us) two questions of any new proposal: “Who will this benefit, and how much?” and “Who will this harm, and how much?” And the “who” that benefits should not be Linden Lab! Not directly.

Any time LL raises fees, or cuts services, it might seem that it’s good for your bottom line. But in the end, if it hurts the SL economy, it hurts LL. If we make money, so do you. If we lose money, or leave the platform, you lose too. Any time LL competes directly with Residents within the SL economy, you ultimately wind up shrinking the economy. Nautilus, Bay City, and Linden Homes are examples of this. Instead of competing with your SL merchants and land barons, you should be developing tools to help them, starting with a better and more robust permissions system and a better process for detecting, reporting, investigating, and resolving content theft.

Here is a short list of what we, the Residents, would like to see you concentrating on in the coming year.

1. Viewer improvements. The enormous popularity of Emerald clearly demonstrates the kind of features your Residents want…and it’s not a dumbed-down viewer, it’s one with more functionality.

2. Lag reduction. Upgrade your servers. Streamline the code. Deal with issues like the notorious sim freeze when Mono scripts arrive via incoming avatars. If you must impose script limits, target the worst offenders…like resizer scripts in every prim of an avatar’s hair or jewelry.

3. Improved content protection. More vigilance in catching and punishing content theft. Improved permissions system, especially for things like textures and scripts that are often incorporated in another product and re-sold.

4. Avatar improvements. We want a better avatar mesh. Better facial expressions. More versatile body morphing. True transparency in the mesh. More flexibility in clothing layers. And one you can do right now, with a simple XML file mod…duplicate Emerald’s secondary attachment points.

5. Improved resident to resident and resident – LL communications. Closing the XStreet forums and the SL VBulletin forums was a move in the wrong direction. The new blogs are not forums, and their format does not support the development of a dedicated forum community. Such communities are an invaluable resource and need to be nurtured and encouraged. You need a better way to collect Resident suggestions and feedback. I would suggest something like the old forum polls, but with the polls coming from you, LL. Office hours don’t allow a large enough cross section of Residents, and feedback via forum or blog threads is too cumbersome to wade through. And, when you talk to us, please learn how to speak in plain , unambiguous English. Corporate weasel-wording does not promote user confidence or trust. Case in point: Creating a new position of “Conversations Manager” immediately prior to eliminating the primary means of carrying on conversations.

6. Improved in world communication tools. In many cases, this means adding the ability to turn OFF communications when desired. Being able to temporarily disable group chat and notices. Improving “Busy” mode to allow content creators some peace and quiet. Add the ability to send a notecard to a group of residents by Shift+click selection in the Friends list or the Calling Card folder. Add the ability to open a conference IM by clicking multiple avatars. Add features like basic text formatting to Notecards. Make them directly exportable into, say, WordPad. Here’s a business-related improvement for you: add support for PowerPoint files.

7. Improved New User Experience. Take back the Infohubs! Develop and implement more community gateways of the caliber of Caledon Oxbridge, or Virtual Ability. Sites with real helpers present, 24/7. Sites that feature in world moderators, with eject/ban powers. Second Life is not for everyone. As a Mentor, I met many people who were really looking for an MMORPG, or a FaceBook. I knew they would not stay long. But I met countless others willing to give this virtual world thing a try. If you can show that audience what SL is all about, what it can be for them, you will see the user base grow steadily.

We need these things. SL needs these things. We need them a lot more than we need a FaceBook tie-in or a free cottage. Your bottom line will thank you.

Sincerely,
Lindal Kidd

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Eyelashes! Collection, Ghost in the Machine

The future awaits... and these lashes will give you a little glimpse of it in these enticing, Space Themed offerings. Five new lashes that will appeal to the sci-fi lover in you!

Eyelashes! Ghost in the Machine - Assimilate

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Two New Lashes @ Talon Faire

Delicate sweeping lashes adorned with tiny sparkling glass buttons along the lashline and curving upwards ever so gracefully. Coming in several styles, available now in basic Swept Away and Swept Away Swirl.

Eyelashes! Swept Away



Eyelashes! Swept Away Swirl


Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Gift Giving @ Talon Faire


As you know... St. Valentine's Day is around the corner, so be sure to plan ahead!


At Talon Faire we are currently working on some lovely Heartfelt Desires that will be ready for unveiling shortly.


Meantime, we have added a nicely clickable link to our XStreet page so that you can send gifts easily. The image above appears at the store in various locations to make gift-giving easy!
Of course you can also drop me, Amaranthim Talon, a notecard to have your gift delivered, in a pretty, ribboned gift box. If you would like to include a note, send that along as well. You can also email TalonFaire.Gifts@gmail.com anytime.


Thank you and Happy Shopping!


Tuesday, January 12, 2010

A Little Gifty For YOU!

I made a real cute set of hair sticks - they are gold with pink satin ribbons flowing from them and have a gorgeous, not to be missed, sparkling cut ruby topping each one. They are going to go on sale but right now are a freebie group gift for Fans of Talon Faire.

What's the catch? You have to go visit Talon Faire! Here is your shortcut - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Misto%20Presto/216/21/155

You will find them in the Jewelry Department. While you are there do browse the extensive offerings and take a walk into the Nail Bar where another nice group gift awaits you. Upstairs you will find eclectic choices for your home decor.

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Monday, January 11, 2010

The Kenji Collection

An Asian flair for your lashes in this latest collection from Talon Faire - Kenji Eyelashes.

Four styles available, Love, Destiny, Serene and Spirit.

Each has the delicate kenji writing on the top right lash and a small 'dangle' that proclaims "Joy", also in kenji writing. The left lash is adorned with a soft blossom symbolizing spring and renewal.

Eyelashes! Destiny Kenji




Eyelashes! Love Kenji



Eyelashes! Serene Kenji



Eyelashes! Spirit Kenji