Looking for good "child-sized" hair for adults

It seems like all the SL female models are around 6 ft tall or more. I am only 5'8" with a very small frame. Consequently, my head is smaller than most female avatar heads. I have a very difficult time buying hair as a result. I was fortunate to find a Tami McCoy style that she also made in a child-sized version. the adult-sized version of the same hairstyle was much too large for me. There doesn't appear to be much in the way of child-sized, or smaller avatar-sized hair, especially in adult styles. If you have a good source, please post it here.

Thanks,
Princess Ivory

I dont actually have a source, but a majority of the hairs you are going to purchase are copy/mod so that you can attempt to resize them. I am pretty sure some of the major hair designers would even assist you in doing the resizing. Good luck finding that right set of hair!

Are you not comfortable with scaling the hair with the edit menu? I think most hair (at least what I have) is copy/mod, so you can make a copy and then alter it in order to fit your avie.

Also, all the hair I've bought from Gurl6 comes with three sizes (small, medium, large), so if you're uncomfortable with scaling, you might consider buying hair from there.

My av is only 5 ft with a small frame. My favourite hair is by Launa Fauna (I'm wearing one of her styles in my profile pic), but I can't say I've run into problems with other hair I've worn.

Celestial Studios has quite a few hairstyles that look good on smaller women or younger women.

If you need to re-size prim hair, it helps to check "streach both sides" in edit, and to scale it slowly using the white corner handles while you're wearing it. The hair should remain centered on your head if you do it that way.

*laughs* As a furry, I usually have the opposite problem. I need to scale a hairstyle larger to fit a furry avatar's prim head. But some of my forms are petite, so I know what you mean.

At 4' 4", I know whatcha mean.. I have had great fits with Deviate Kitties, ETD and Kin's hair. Those almost always work with no adjustments needed, and all three make the bestest colors available. (I like pinks, greens, purples, violets - the flower colors!)

Hit n miss. My av is 5'8 too (hardly short) - that's measured height, it's 5'2 by those pointless and wrong "av height checkers". My head is size 30.

I wear Deviant Kitty hair, and mostly it's pretty good for resizing (and I like the styles which is important) though hair with clips or other details hit limits of shrinking sooner than ideal.

I did buy hair from somewhere else recently, and even trying to resize individual prims to get the thing down sized, it was a nightmare and I had to give up.

It's easy to scale upwards- nobody I know has a 10 metre head!

What do you mean, measured height? How do you determine that in feet and inches? I've only used a height checker. Why are they pointless and wrong?

All the "Avatar Height Rulers" and the like use an LSL script call to determine your height. But what they report is the height of your eyes, not the top of your head. This is a very useful number for figuring out where the camera needs to be for mouselook, to give a 'first person view' of the world as someone of your height would see it. But it's off by several inches for determining "real height".

The good news is, almost everyone just accepts the incorrect height values as good enough, so we're all proportionately too big.

The bad news is that if you want to build something "to scale", based on precise metric measurements of prims, you need to scale things up by roughly 1.25 to 1.5 times, so it fits the average avatar's distorted height.

My alt clicked on one of these height checkers and was astounded to find she's six feet all!! Most of her friends tower over her! Then she walks through her home doorway and yes, she's pretty close to the lintel. I think probably most people create disproportionately tall avatars. Very difficult to gauge accuracy.
Gurlywood 6 good for boxes of three sizes, s,m&l but I have certainly resized modifiables from ETD

Yep, sat on my PVN pose stand in a static pose with a straight back, and rezzed a prim over myself from top to toes.

What was more problematic was getting proportional arm lenght- i've upped them to 80 and they're still not what I'd call correct. I don't know how it is for the giant people, but 80 seems a lot for an SL short-arse like me. I saw some comments in topics about other virtual worlds where people say "the arms are too long" but I think it's the reverse- in SL everyone's arms are too short- seriously, you should be able to reach past your jeans pockets!

I second the Launa Fauna recommendation - my AV has a size 50 head and LF hair has typically been a bit too small for her out of the box. So it might fit a smaller AV head without resizing. Also, UFOnly hairstyles seem to fall on the smaller side.

you may also consider proportionally scaling up your avatar. I know, it's not a popular thing to tell someone. The simple fact is that the basic avatars that people start with are about 1.3 : 1 scale. (there's some flext to that)

most buildings, cars, and props ALSO seem to work better at about that scale. For this purpose, I made a "get real" avatar ruler, that does a little division on the "technical" height of the avatar, and reads back your "scale" height based on the reality that most avatars are technically nearly 7m tall. (for this, I used the calculation 1.15 : 1.. combined with the camera distance, if buildings are 1.3 and the avatar is 1.15, things seem to work out very well.

Let's see... Asian female... not wearing shoes at the moment
[6:51] Avatar Ruler (AV Ruler) - works correctly: Winter Ventura is 1.79m (5ft. 10in.) tall.
[6:52] Avatar SCALE Ruler (modded to SL scale): Winter Ventura is 1.55m (5ft. 1in.) tall.

While you may TECHNICALLY be 5'5".. I think you'll find that you APPEAR to be shorter than 5 feet.

You may as well use the av height checkers- it's not that far out from your calculations.

I refuse to grow taller!

Have to agree with the Gurl6 reccomendation. The three sizes should come in handy or would at least reduce the amount of resizing required