How much do you edit your born in game sims?

Usually hair, clothes and makeup. Most of the time I don't change the hair colour they are born with, just the style.

Like many others have said, I don't usually touch the genetics, as in the things you can't even change without cheats, except when a couple has too many children that look too much alike, but with my playstyle, that doesn't happen often. There's also the issue that one of my mods (although I don't know which one, or why) causes some born-in-game or randomly generated sims to look like this with their mouths closed:

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Sometimes I keep it, but usually not. When I change the hair colour (either because I want unnatural hair colours that children can't be born with, or to simulate a phase, etc.), I often imply that it's dyed by leaving the eyebrow and/or facial hair in the original colour. I may sometimes add or remove body hair, well, the latter most of the time, because ever since we got body hair, every other random female sim tends to spawn with it.

Oh, and of course I always create their outfits, or use the premade styles when I'm not feeling creative. You can't trust the game with properly clothing sims, especially if you're using cc, because you'll end up with something like this:

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Mostly just hairstyles and clothing, although I will occasionally change hair colour, but generally to a colour I know is genetically possible for the sim.

Oh, I forgot I did edit Patchy's child. Since he didn't inherit his skin tone, eye or hair color from his mother I changed them to what I thought suited a scarecrow's child. Gave him straw colored hair, a skin tone that resembled a wood tone, and I would have given him orange eyes but that wasn't available for toddlers so he has green for now.

If I am successful in having children with the flower bunny (oooh I wonder if the science baby will help with that) I will edit the skin tone to one that looks more bluish or reddish or yellowish than the usual human range and name the baby after a similar colored flower or plant.

I always go into CAS and age them up through young adult and look at how they turn out. In the past I almost always had to play around with their chins because it seemed like every one of them when they got to teen would have this weirdly tiny, pointed chin. Like 80-90% of them had this. Lately though it seems that the genetics have gotten a tweak and now I rarely have to edit facial features. Clothes are another story. Even if the game gives them decent looking outfits I give them head to toe makeovers.

I change only eyebrows, hair styles and clothing. Usually I don't make major changes, but only then if there is something that bothers me, like for example if the eyes are too small then I edit the eyes to make them little bit bigger.
I love the genetics in The Sims 4, and now it seems that there has been some improvements made so that the genetics work better and there are rarely cases where I feel like I need to make bigger changes to my born-in-game sims.

I’m trying to remember how many born- in -games I’ve had over the past 7 years…



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I had 2 boys, which I didn’t tweak at all, bar hair and clothing. In both cases the game auto- generated CC skin-details, so I kinda ran with that.

I also have a girl. When I aged her up from a baby object into a wee toddler, she had this CC birthmark on her face. I was absolutely delighted! I’d rather not use CC at all you see, this is why I‘m looking forward to getting all these new skin details in the upcoming patch. I love moles and freckles and acne and birthmarks and scars and…friggin’ hair. We need some ear and nose hair, just for grandad (and dear nana too).

Anyways, I made this little girl’s eyes slightly bigger and rotated her ears a bit, only to enhance what was already there, NOT to make her look like a completely different person. I don’t like altering sims’ genetics in ways that make them look unrecognizable. I will however almost always replace hair and attire. I even have this kid’s mom knit cute onesies for her. The one with the happy frog on it is the best. ?
She’s still a toddler, and one of my favorite sims, mainly because I gave her the angelic trait which really helps if yer a sensitive guy like meself.

Oh wait, I suddenly recall another child…also a girl. So 4 in total.
Gosh… my sims have been busier than I thought. Rogues. ?

Recently a sim toddler who was born in game ended up with the palest blonde hair, yet her dad has black hair, and her mum medium brown. Both parents were created in CAS. I was tempted to switch her to a darker style but decided to leave her as she is.

Only hairstyle, make up, eyebrows (if they look ridiculous) and clothes, but I never touch their face or body. I don't like doing plastic surgery on my Sims. I just love them for whatever genetic features they have.
I usually try to keep their "style" even for the clothes that they get when they age up. If a Sim has eyeglasses even on one outfit category when aging up I'm going to add them also on other outfits.
I like randomness on Sims. I care more about their personality than their looks.

"Kimmer;c-18239854" wrote:
Only hairstyle, make up, eyebrows (if they look ridiculous) and clothes, but I never touch their face or body. I don't like doing plastic surgery on my Sims. I just love them for whatever genetic features they have.
I usually try to keep their "style" even for the clothes that they get when they age up. If a Sim has eyeglasses even on one outfit category when aging up I'm going to add them also on other outfits.
I like randomness on Sims. I care more about their personality than their looks.

Easier to quote than type all the same :)