April Fool's 2019: Hair Stylin' Day

Happy Hair Stylin' Day! Welcome to Smoothie Salon. Our assistant Totoro is sitting her final exams for hairdressing school, and needs hair models! Free cut, color, and blow waves will be provided to any pets left unattended. Thank you! Share your post-salon snapshots!

On April 1st, Chicken Smoothie players discovered that Totoro had decided to try out her hairstyling abilities on some of the pets. Pets from all areas of the site were revealed to have new wigs added over their images, much to the surprise of users. A new dress up challenge was created, letting users display new dress up projects done with their newly bedazzled pets. It would be left up for eight days, until the celebration of Chicken Smoothie's 11th birthday!

The Avatars

Upon inspection of their account, users discovered that their usual avatars had been changed! Instead of the usual, custom images, users had set for their profile picture has been changed the pictures of classic Chicken Smoothie pets, with glorious afros on their heads.

After the event these pictures were added to the Free Avatar Gallery, and also became available as stamps.

Team members could use customized avatars created on the same line art, or use the randomized default.

The Forums

As per usual, there was a chat filter put over the forum, changing a few words to be specific to this year's theme: the salon. This created some funny confusion for users who had word censoring enabled. This is a common tradition for Chicken Smoothie's April Fool's day events.

To give users a place to discuss the events, Tess created a few new topics in the event board. These included fan art for the event, and event discussion thread, and a casual chat. This is the first April Fool's event to be hosted in the event board, as the board was only created in the summer of 2017 and there was no April Fool's event in 2018 (due to the fact Easter was the same day).

Beyond the word filter and the switched avatars, the prank also changed the role displayed on team member's profiles. While the role colors stayed the same, it was the description on the profiles which changed.

Afro Comber, Beard Groomer, Bald Head Polisher, Weasel Hair Specialist, Rat Hair Specialist, Hair Colorist, Dog Hair Specialist, Mohawkist, Beard Braider, Hamster Hair Specialist, Afro Comber, Hair Sweeper, Knot Detangler, Hair Sprayer, Mane Specialist, Hair Dryer, Cat Hair Specialist, Facial Hair Trimmer, Shampooer, Hair Stylist

The Items

On April 2nd, all returned to normal, but Totoro gave out some diverse items to commemorate the occasion! They were made available in the CS Store as a free item pack.

Tails
White Tail	Grey Tail	Dark Grey Tail	Black Tail	Tan Tail
Brown Tail	Rainbow Tail	Pink Tail	Baby Blue Tail	Blue Tail
Sunset Tail	Magenta Tail	Lavender Tail	Sunrise Tail	Red Tail
Orange Tail	Yellow Tail	Lime Tail	Green Tail	Teal Tail

Surprise Wigs
White Surprise	Grey Surprise	Dark Grey Surprise	Black Surprise	Tan Surprise
Brown Surprise	Rainbow Surprise	Pink Surprise	Baby Blue Surprise	Blue Surprise
Sunset Surprise	Magenta Sup-rise	Lavender Surprise	Sunrise Surprise	Red Surprise
Orange Surprise	Yellow Surprise	Lime Surprise	Green Surprise	Teal Surprise

The Pets

Here's just a small sample of the pets who got make overs for this special day!