Do you use default skin replacement mods?

I've been a nightmare when it comes to choosing defaults, seriously I add one to my game and eventually I find myself swapping it out for another! Right now I like the look of Luumia's 'Smoothish II' (hopefully this one will stick with me for a while, lol).

it took me a long time to find a default maxis match skin because most are matte which I hate. but I finally settled on Summer Skeletons shiny by pyxiidis and I've been using it ever since :) this is what it looks like ingame; the lipstick is also by pyxiidis.
https://66.media.tumblr.com/a735ef7b6f0349284e1608a6685312a8/tumblr_pnlc5lIZ3m1xti1m0o1_540.png

No way. I hate the way CC looks in the game. I literally cringe when Let's Players use it because it just looks so wrong compared to the Maxis defaults.

I used one, male sims looks ugly without default replacement mod, idk why female was fine though. but I only picked one that little bit similar to maxis-default without the ugliness and shiny that is in a male default skin's face.

Thanks guys!

Hey, @Cogshell, what are the eyes used for the Sim in your signature photo? They look really nice! I was thinking of going for Heliantheas super bland comic eyes or Maxis Eyes Overhaul (both from modthesims), but the ones you have are really pretty! Also... what skin is that lol. I guess I really just love the look of your Sim!

I'm using Lumias Vanilla Default Skin with the Whisper Eyes and the face overlays from heihu and viiavis amaretto one.

https://up.picr.de/34708148oh.png

Even though I have tried several replacement skins - including Luumia's new skin blind, Vanilla - I stuck with Smoothish II by Luumia. I have also tried to go back to no skin replacement at all, but I just missed it. I only use MM CC and I think it goes very well with the overall style of the game.
Below a comparison (background also by Luumia):

https://i.imgur.com/eUp61yv.jpg

Not in the present game - I don't use CC or any mods until a game is finished being developed. Hoop jumping is not my thing nor is waiting to update - so I only use those kind of things in finished games.

I have skin defaults or default replacements and CC in Sims 2 and 3 - only. I rarely ever use mods.

@Netzspannung

I had the exact same experience. I’ve used Smoothish II for awhile and when I tried out Luumia’s new default skin I didn’t like it as much.

I don't. It's too much work for me to try and keep things up to date. But I also don't like the inverse affects of using them. I think that's my biggest problem, if that makes sense? Like I've seen some sim youtubers use them in CAS and it sort of...glosses over any problems they couldn't fix. And there was one who took them off her adult aged Sims and yiiiikes. They got old fast lol ?

Obviously I don't think everyone who uses them does so in this way, it's jus the stark difference between with and without that causes me to not want to use them. I prefer the Sims 4 style over the hyper realism of some cc, but I really enjoy subtle cc when I can be bothered to download it. ?