Hardest Part of Creating a Sim?

I have a bad habit of giving all my characters the same fashion sense, I end up with a lot of sims who either wear monochrome or all-black so I'm trying to give people more colourful outfits. Also I'm trying to use skirts and dresses more, since I always end up putting everyone in skinny-jeans and boots. I realise lately that a lot of my Sims end up looking like randomly-generated townies, but I just roll with it. : P

Also when I have a specific idea in my head of how I want a character to look, and it takes ages trying to edit the facial details to get it right. Recently I've been moreso just coming up with an idea of the personality first, and going from there, not being too specific about the looks.

I also agree with naming. It's very rare that I have a name in mind for a character. I usually look at baby-naming websites for ideas if the randomiser isn't coming up with something I like.

I see that a lot of us have similar problems! Naming used to be hard for me but I overcame it by googling baby names. As a result, some of my ads were about baby products which are kinda weird since I'm still so young lol but maybe the algorithm thought I was pregnant. Styling is still hard but thanks to the randomiser option and people on YT, it got easier. Usually, I would gravitate towards the same makeup styles etc but now I'm utilising different styles. If I get lazy, I would just use the pre-styled outfits lol. Now, the hardest for me is making a sim from scratch & more diverse... I suck at that so I'm very grateful for the gallery TT.

"Gamer_34567544;c-17966397" wrote:
Adding personality with only 3 trait slots.

If you're on PC, there's a mod to increase the number of trait slots, but I do agree, it is hard with only 3 slots.

Finding decent/appropriate jeans for male adult/elder sims!

"GracieO312;c-17966469" wrote:
Finding decent/appropriate jeans for male adult/elder sims!

Yes, this. Out of all the jeans there's only 2 pair I like.

Usually just not going too dolly or eternally repeating same looking boring sims

I love when sims don't look like they all went to same plastic surgeon but I truly lack imagination

which is why I love having premade sims so i can just style them and play with them and their offspring never having to bother with genetics again :lol:

only ones i really make now from scratch is occults if i lack some

and/or recreating premades from older games... for which its usually really just lack of correct hairstyle or clothing options...

oh and yes naming. always problematic. my phone be thinking im having my 100th baby by now judging from things i google

The hardest part for me is crating the face, I find it hard to make different and unique faces, and lots of times for that reason I end using the same features like brows, eyes, hair, and the other features
And like others said, I struggle with names too, lol

Choosing outfits. I have to give them five outfits for each category and it takes a while to coordinate outfits suited to their personality.

Not having the ability to copy/paste between outfit categories, especially with regards to makeup. Or to create our own presets.

Adding
or
removing
the
glasses
to
every
outfit

And
then
adding
or
removing
the
facial
piercings
from
every
outfit

too.

Designing of facial, hairstyle, and body.

Makeup for all outfits. First I have to remove, then apply what I want.

Outfits.

Name.

I always forget voice, so a lot of my sims' voices don't match what I want them to sound like.

Then I start playing and the sim has aged a third of the life expand because it took me so long to finish making them.