"I think I invented it based on my feathers, but I don't actually remember for sure. I did the earrings first and copied everything after the earrings."

"But you didn't look it up in a book, right? If you did you could get a boost tweaking it to not be plagiarized."

She thinks back. "Yeah, I've heard about the plagiarism penalty... No, I definitely made them up from scratch. I remember now, because it was a pretty big boost."

"Okay. Is there anything you did look up?"

"I got the idea for the colored pearlescence from this one girl with lots of opalescent inlay, but I don't think that counts."

"Yeah, okay. Let's talk hair, what else have you tried?"

"I tried having it all stiff, that didn't work. It got better when I matched it to the wings, brown-blonde-red. Used to be just brown. I tried a few different braids, all pretty simple, and this was the best one I hit. Adding the feathers helped a bit too."

"All right. Did you do basic hair cleanup making sure you didn't have any split ends or any hairs that end earlier than the others without serving a specific purpose in so doing?"

"I covered split ends, but I don't think I changed the length of any individual strands... I'll do that now."

She starscapes, and starts doing that.

This helps; now she no longer has stray hair peeking out of her braid.

"There are some hairstyles that are difficult to do neatly by hand but magical girls can do easily," he says. "I have a reference."

He provides his reference; it includes dizzyingly complicated braids, and twists that need cross-section diagrams to see how they're constructed, and buns that need more hair than naturally grows on any human head.

"Wow, yeah, some of those are crazy. I like that one that twists and looks sort of like a corkscrew- I think my priority in a braid is that it'll stand up to a little damage without tanking the look, so, tight ones that hold close to my head are probably best for that?"

"You can also mimic the effect of hairspray, but in high winds like you get flying, yes, that helps a lot too."

"Do you mind emailing me this one, too? I think I can try out a bunch of these on my own time later, is all."

"All right, I can do that. How'd you pick your cut of shirt?"

"I had it really covering and kinda snug at first, all the way up to the neck, for padding between me and the armor. I took off the neck bit and made it a bit more comfy and made it short-sleeved, but nothing since then."

"Mkay. How hard are you optimizing for flight, are you gonna nix any ideas that add drag?"

"Adding some drag is fine as long as it's not ridiculous, I think. Flying is awesome but I don't need to be the absolute best at it."

"Try ruffling your sleeves like - lemme find my picture." He finds a picture. "Here. And repeat your red pattern around all the ruffles."

"Ooh, neat."

She loosens the end of the sleeves and tries the ruffles. Three ruffles from the end of the sleeve at her elbow for a total of four iterations of the pattern, with the highest ruffle a few inches down her shoulder. She tries just two, too, and shortening the spacing a bit.

Three ruffles is better than two, and the ideal spacing is riiiiight - there.

"Yeah, that helps, like that. I'm really glad I decided to go for styling now, this is good stuff."

"I'm glad I could help! We're coming up on time, here."

"I've still got to poke around with colors, hairstyles, and pockets some on my own - Hm. Any ideas to improve my skirt, for the last thing?"

"I'm not confident in this but have you tried more kind of pleats?"

"Nope! I tried fewer pleats at first, and they had armor on 'em, but I can try that later, too. I'll google it. I guess that's that, time to go?"