Repost: KUJIKENAIKARA! My Heart

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This Tumblr post by asimplevampire (and Pooklet's delighted response) inspired me to see what I could do with this delightfully ridiculous mesh from 2007. And it was an EPIC journey, so it deserves its own glorious post.



Wicked_Sims Lolita Curlz
(shown in Haunting)
F / YA-Elder / 3532 polys
Textures by Pooklet (V3) and Anto (from Helen hair)

Kujkenaikara! means "Never give up!" and let me tell you, I almost did with this thing. The mapping was an ABSOLUTE dumpster fire. When I tell you I spent several hours over the course of three days in a battle to the death with this monstrosity, I'm not exaggerating. I didn't even consider trying to put Io's edit of Pooklet's texture that I usually use anywhere near it because it would be utterly destroyed by the extent of warping I knew was needed. So I used Pooklet's original V3, with heavy adjustments and blending the wavy texture from Anto's Helen. Doesn't sound too bad, right?

WRONG. The scalp mapping was similar to a lot of Maxis hairs, and was an advanced course in Photoshop's warp tool. And the bangs. Those fuckers were curved in a manner that crossed dimensions. Just putting a new texture on them wasn't enough, either. They looked like somebody Pookleted a piece of paper, cut out some jagged shapes, and stuck them to the sim's head. So I did some serious alpha editing using bits from Newsea and Rose hairs, because I suck at hand-painting hair alphas.

With the scrunchie things I decided it needed some cute patterns, and one of my friends on Discord wondered if it was possible to make them lacy, which turned out to be a fantastic idea. So the naturals each have pattern/lace combo scrunchies and the unnaturals have black lace ones.



So... why the hell would I do something like this? Simple: 1) as a test of my abilities and 2) out of pure spite, because even though I'm generally a doormat I can be petty af. And honestly? I like how this came out. A LOT. I plan on attempting more old hairs in the future, because I enjoy transforming them with new textures, though I pray that their mapping will have more mercy on my soul than this one did.

I highly doubt anyone else will even use this hair, let alone recolor it, so I haven't included any texture resources like I usually do. However, if your taste is as questionable as mine and you really want to for some unfathomable reason, I'll be happy to provide you with the means to create your own personalized versions of this monster.

DOWNLOAD Wicked_Sims Lolita Curlz
SFS | Google Drive | Mega

Additional credits:
Hair colors by Pooklet, Io, Lilith, Digi, & Furbyq
Fabric texture from Textures.com, lace texture by amidnighteaparty @ DeviantArt
Patterns by:
banozac & sunni-fabric-designs @ Spoonflower
-HolleyTeaTime
-Miss Jediflip