Recoloring Hair

I keep seeing that diff. hair styles are "recolorable" but when I actually tried to do this, the piece (a bang piece in this case) was ruined as far as I can tell. It was white, and I did manage to turn it red but now the frayed end pieces are gone and it looks like a bunch of very boxy prims stuck to the front of my head.

Is there a recoloring tutorial or a word of advice on this?

Sounds like you got rid of the texture that had an alpha channel that gave it those nice frayed bits. If you poke around in "Library" instead of "My inventory" there are a couple of greyscale textures with alpha channels. One of those should "fix" your hair and bring back the frays. I can't give a more specific location for the files in Library until the game comes back up but i hope this helps a bit.
Another handy habit to get into is to automatically make a backup copy of prim hair if it's copyable. I can't tell you how many times I've screwed up my hair and wished I had known to back up the original first.

-Sun

Oh this is a lifesaver - can't wait to see if it is there - I did the same thing with hair I bought yesterday.

Yarrr! It's what I do -- Lost, one of my fave hairmakers, usually has COPY/MOD/NOTRANS permissions on his hair, and for the times it's been NOCOPY/MOD/TRANS instead, I've had to personally ask him to set it "the other way" and give many thankyous upon arrival of said repermed hair (that sounds so funneh).

I wish it was easier to make backup copies of folders that had the proper permissions, however -- it's a pain to grab all the bangs and right-click and copy and paste and then do that for the folder name too, which I label thusly:

Cool Hair (BACKUP)

Handy indeed tho!