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Update: Panache textures stolen!
By Celebrity Trollop | August 26, 2006
Update 2: Karina’s name has been fixed. Also, she gave approximately L$7,000 to Zyrra. Zyrra says she will be putting it to good use — probably on money trees for newbies.
Update: Zyrra tells me that the hairs have been removed from the store and the creator admitted she stole the textures. Also, I hope Antonia doesn’t take this too hard on herself. Mistakes happen.
Earlier this afternoon, there was a post on PXP highlighting a new hair creator with several interesting and inexpensive hairstyles. It later turned out that the textures the creator Karina Popinjay used in these hairs were stolen from the super talented Panache duo Zyrra Falcone and HoseQueen McLean.
If you purchased any hair from Karina Popinjay or the Gin ‘n’ Juice store, it’s worth a try to get your money back by contacting the creator.
It’s a sad situation all around — sad for Panache because having your things stolen is such a blow — and they’ve already had this happen before, sad for the people who purchased any of the hairs, because now they have no guaranteed way to get their money back, and sad for the designer too — she had several really interesting looking hair designs — she didn’t rip off those prim for prim like some other cases that have recently surfaced.
A larger question to me is “Why?” Why steal Panache’s hair textures when full perm hair textures are available for sale? Clearly, this designer had some talent — at least looking at the ads I saw I was pretty interested in shopping there — so why go and screw that up? It just doesn’t make any sense that you’d sling prims around — create your own original work, and then steal someone else’s textures to sell it.
At this point, I have decided not to feature any new hair creators until I can personally see and verify that the textures that are used have not been stolen from some other source. I’m sorry to resort to such a drastic step, but I feel like I owe it to my readers, and especially the talented content creators who work so hard to keep us in style, not to reward theives.
Another update. Katarina’s not giving refunds now as she gave her money earned from the hair, around 7k Lindens to Zyrra. Zyrra confirmed this and will apparently be putting it into a money tree. I’m glad Katarina backed down and resolved things quickly, though it is dissappointing.
Posted by: Iris on August 26th, 2006 at 12:00 amThis makes me very sad :(… I just dont understand why she stole the textures… Being a “new” hair designer myself, this makes me a bit mad because now there will be a prejudice possibly or more like a cautiousness from some ppl about buying hair from someone that is not as known. I understand completely why you would not wish to post about any more new hair designers, it is just unfortunate for any new and talented creators. Keep your head up Celebrity!! We are not all like that!! :) hugs
Posted by: Aleri Darkes on August 26th, 2006 at 7:38 amJust wishing to let you guys know, to make sure if you need a refund or to ban her, that the name is not *Katarina* but *KARINA*, there was a mistake at PXP. And yeah, how sad was that whole episode uh? Very sorry for Zyrra :(
Posted by: elka on August 26th, 2006 at 10:54 am