I was fooling around in Sunset today and decided to make over a few Townies, I only did new hairstyles/colors, facial hair, sometimes eye color, makeup and "tans", but no facial features were tweaked ...
I have to agree that the quality of EA clothes is excellent and the ability to customize makes even a limited number of outfits (I don't have many EPs) seem more bountiful. I do, however, use some CC clothes because there are some things simply not available to suit my taste in some areas and no amount of recolouring will help there. For example, my simself could not find a decent formal outfit. She (and I) are old, not frumpy :p