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Introduction | Avatars in the Entropia Universe can practice body sculpting, face sculpting, hair styling and make-up application. This allows any avatar to adjust and customize their appearance with the help of other avatars that have specialized in these Beautician disciplines. Avatars may however apply their own make up.
As with other professions, the more Hair Styling, Body and Face Sculpting are performed the more proficient an avatar becomes. As a potential customer searching for these services, don't forget to ask your friends for referrals or check the community forums for ads, special offers and discounts that may be available at the various beauty salons on Calypso. Services are often advertised on the In-World ad display boards also.
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The Beauty Salon
|  A complete beauty salon will include three main furniture items (left to right):
A Body Sculpting Unit for making changes to an avatar's body.
A Hairstyling Chair for changing an avatar's hair style.
A Face Sculpting Unit for making cosmetic changes to an avatar's face.
Equipment
As a beautician other tools are also necessary to practice this profession:
A Body Sculpting Toolkit.
A Hair Stylist Toolkit.
A Face Sculpting Toolkit.
Face Masks and cosmetic products for Make Up Application.
Raw Materials
A range of raw materials are also necessary when performing these tasks including:
Body fat for increasing the mass of an avatars body or face.
Basic skin color set.
Hair spray.
Hair gel.
Basic hair color set.
Basic eye color set.
Metallic bone replacements.
A range of cosmetic products including foundation, eyeliner, eye shadow, lipstick, rouge, powder and face paint.
As a customer, once you've chosen the procedure you wish to have performed, its time to take your place in the appropriate piece of furniture (make up application does not require specific furniture equipment, see below for make up details). You can sit down on/activate the furniture by clicking on it or by marking it with the cursor and using the 'Sit Down On' action from your Action Library. To get out of a chair use the 'Stand Up' action. |
Hair Styling, Body Sculpting & Face Sculpting Procedure | 
Once seated, the beautician will approach you with the appropriate toolkit and a Beautician panel will open (right). Use the 'Entries' and 'Info' buttons to expand the panel to display different procedure areas on top, as well as the Price and Success Rate for the procedure on the bottom.
As a customer the panel will initially appear 'grayed out'. This is because control of the procedure begins on the beautician's side. This will change later on in the procedure.
For this tutorial we will describe hairstyling. Body and Face Sculpting follow a similar procedure. Make up application is described below.
Using the Beautician panel, the beautician will begin performing the tasks you have requested. Once satisfied, the beautician will add necessary raw materials e.g. hair spray, hair gel etc., and set a price.
The beautician will also see the success rate (SR) for this procedure. The success rate is based on the beautician's skills and the amount of raw materials added for the procedure.
Once the beautician is satisfied with the procedure, he/she will transfer control of the procedure over to the customer by pressing the 'Propose' button.
The customer now has control and may continue to adjust the procedure and review the price and success rate. As a customer in control of the procedure and making changes, it is important to 'Propose' the changes back to the beautician before 'Accepting'. The beautician does not see the changes made until the 'Propose' button is pressed.
Should changes have been made, the customer may 'Propose' new changes back to the Beautician, or press the 'Accept' button to accept the beautician's original proposition.
Don't be afraid to use the 'Propose' button. It's a good way to show your beautician what look you are aiming for, and maybe ask for his/her opinion. Control can be shifted many times between both parties using the 'Propose' button, and it is the customer who has the final word by pressing the 'Accept' button. |
The New You | Once you set up all the changes and propose the procedure, the beautician will set the price of the procedure, add any additional raw materials, and then hand control back to you. At this point all you have to do is press 'Accept'.
Next the system will show you a confirm panel with the price of the procedure. You can choose to accept by pressing 'Yes' and once the procedure attempt is performed, another window will appear around 10 seconds later asking you of you would like to keep the current look.
Unless you beautician tells you not to, Always Press YES to the Keep Look Question.
The price of the procedure is then transferred from the customer to the beautician's account.
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Make Up Application |  Initiate a make up procedure by targeting another avatar and using the 'Start/Stop Make Up' action from the 'Beauty' section of your Action Library. If you want to target yourself as the model, hold down the 'Alt' key while initiating the 'Start/Stop Make Up' action.
The Make Up panel now appears and the avatars face comes into focus. |
 Place an unused Make Up Mask in the designated area in the Make Up panel (right).
Drag the cosmetic product you wish to apply from your Inventory and drop it on the avatar's face.
Press and hold down the left mouse button and move the mouse to apply the cosmetic to the avatar's face.
Use the 'Increase Brush Size' and 'Decrease Brush Size' actions to change the size of your application brush. You may also map a 'Toggle Brush Size' action to any key, which while depressed allows you to increase or decrease the brush size using your mouse wheel.
Select further cosmetics and repeat the process as desired.
The Materials Value (value of cosmetic materials used in Make Up Mask creation) and Transfer Cost (transfer cost of completed Make Up Mask to Entropia Universe servers) are displayed in the Make Up panel through out the procedure.
Make Up Masks are created locally on your computer and transferred to the Entropia Universe servers when satisfied. More detailed Make Up Masks will incur a higher Transfer Cost. In order to avoid the loss of cosmetic materials due to a failed transfer which may be caused by firewall settings, poor internet connection or security software the Materials Value is always transferred to your avatar's account.
Once satisfied press 'Accept' to proceed.
You will be asked to confirm your choice and approve Materials Value and Transfer Cost. By choosing 'Yes' the finished Make Up Mask will be transferred to your inventory, the Materials Value transferred to your account and the Transfer Cost drawn from your account.
Other Important Notes about Make Up
In order to avoid problems when uploading your completed make up mask, it is very important that your security settings allow the procedure and that port 30583 (TCP Outbound) is opened in your firewall/router. If the upload fails, no upload costs will be charged, but the materials will be consumed i.e. the Materials Value will be transferred to your account and the materials cannot be retrieved.
The different cosmetic materials i.e. foundation, eye shadow etc. have different values and application costs.
Different light settings will effect how make up appears. For example lip gloss will be more sensitive to different lighting conditions.
Make Up Masks are unisex and can be used on both male and female avatars.
Make Up Masks cannot be edited once created and transferred.
Make Up Masks have a condition limit of 90% and are deteriorated each time they are placed on an avatar's face.
A make up model can always abort a make up session using the 'Abort MakeUp Session' action from the Action Library.
Cosmetic material amounts are always decreased by one unit following their use on a Make Up Mask regardless of the amount they are used on the particular Make Up Mask. |
Support | If you have any further questions about Beauty in the Entropia Universe, please contact the Support Dept..
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