I love this hair, and I wanted a version of it without the metal rings. There was another one like this on Tumblr, but from what I could see, the hair texture looked like it still had the shadows of the rings.
So I did my own mesh edit, along with an altered texture.
Original mesh and texture
Edited mesh with original texture
Mesh edit and texture with shadows removed.
I plan to do some recolours too, so watch out for that!
