I am not keen on those sausage style long corkscrew "curls". Never was, never will be.
Every time I see another hair with a flat block or corkscrew type where people gush how "wonderful" the hair is, I look at something like Bliss Vision hair in comparison and shake my head.
BV looks real. It renders fantastic and it's a hair item I have never regretted getting.
I also like the Ricardi hair very much, because it looks very realistic when rendered.
That kind of hair I will happyly pay $20 for, because I will get a lot of use out of it.
Something that looks flat and unrealistic, I will not buy.
There is a trend of weird styles too, as if the creator ran out of patience in mid creation and thought "That'll do."
Sure, there is a place for that hair, too. Some people like it, and obviously if I don't like it, I don't have to buy it. (And I don't.)
But I'm seriously sick of side parting hair.
I'm sick of corkscrews that look stiff and flat, not to mention it looks like someone glued it around a curling iron and it kept the shape. It doesn't flow.
I don't mind well done hair, even if it's not to my taste, but a lot of the time... the hair for sale looks like straw. Now that may be the texture on it, I don't know, because I don't buy them.
Then you get hair that is completely inflexible.
Luckily at Daz I can return that stuff. I was bitching about the Mark hair, because it looks so thin and flimsy, you had to load it twice to get any kind of body in it. Then I realized there were no sideways morphs.
So if my character tilted it's head at a 15 degree angle, the hair could not be adjusted to compensate for those 15% to allow for that little thing called... gravity. Instead, it also tilted 15%, in line with the head, instead of going down straight, the way real hair would.
It went back after that discovery, because I am not going to mess around with magnets every time. (Sorry, Creator, good effort, but unworkable for me.)
Hair is a minefield as far as I'm concerned.
And I've become a lot more wary about what I buy.
I didn't like the Quain Hair, the other hair that comes with Hiro, that almost-bald short fluff thing I saw, that weird long style that originally came with M4 Pro... in fact... The only hair I kept was the Wild Style hair I think. Everything else I either didn't buy, or returned it.
Considering how many hairs have come out lately... that's a pretty poor show.
(And I don't mind paying full price for something I like. If it's quality, I don't expect cheap. If it's quality, I'm willing to pay for it, because then I support the content creators who really put in the extra effort and I think that effort has to be reflected in the price, and rewarded.)

Silke