Hair
From SLIS Second Life Wiki
One of the interesting things about SL is that fresh "noob" hair (which comes standard with everyone's avatar) is easily recognized by SL old-timers right off the bat. It's like seeing wide-eyed frosh wandering the quad during the first weeks of class on any university campus.
To avoid that, get some cool hair from Body Basics at the Free Stuff warehouse and play with your do!
Notice that you can use a texture as part of the hair settings by simply clicking on the texture box. Just for jollies I used an SJSU metal bench texture as the basis for this hair setting on top of a free hair style copped from Body Basics called "Derek hair" which makes my avatar's head look something like an ad for the Honeycomb Hideout.
Given that this is hideous, I clicked the revert button to go back to my usual "Storm" hair.
But you should get the picture: change your hair and even upload some textures of your own to give it some wild appeal. Like this style where I uploaded an asphalt layered TARGA file from Photoshop and used that as a basis for hair.
This I thought was more appealing than bench hair, but still not enough to keep it...
