At first I was very happy for the larger variety of skin tones, but after making a few POC families (ok like 20+ lol) - when I went to creating white families and found myself using the same 2 maybe 3 white skin tones (basically the same 3 I used before the patch) that don't make your sims look like Simpson characters (sims...simpsons? hmm....) and this hasn't changed since the skintone patch. Like why not update white skin tones too because they SERIOUSLY needed it. I'm not saying we needed 20 new white skintones - I'm saying they should have improved on their ORIGINAL white tones (and no adding sliders isn't a "fix" if the tone is just bad to look at) - because honestly does ANYBODY make their sims look like characters from the simpsons?I'm just wondering if I'm the only person that finds myself still using the same 3 skintones (with sliders) pre skintone patch?Also like after making 20+ POC families which is about 30-40 sims in itself and EVEN for them I found myself cherry picking from like 5-6 skintones because the rest just made them look weird. Like did we really need 10 new skintones that are grey or variations of? There just seems to be a LOT of new skintones that still don't look natural overall.I feel they should have been more selective and created more realistic colors for skintones aka quality over quantity.Anybody else feel the same?

I was worried about the same thing, but I was surprised to find that there is actually more variation in lighter tones than I originally thought there would be. I do feel that the problem lies in combining these new skin tones with the limited to no variation of natural hair colours.The highly saturated hair-hues make some of the skin tones appear duller, whereas if there were additional hair colours with hue & brightness options similar to the skin tone sliders, I believe it will improve the balance overall and both elements would look so much better together. Right now I think there is just an imbalance between natural skin tones and natural hair colour.

I’m happy we have a full variety of colors. I’ve known people of Indian (the country) descent whose skin had a grayer tone to it. Last night, I created a magical Sim whose skin was as red as possible while still looking fairly possible in nature. In general, I create a lot of Sims with extremely white or black skin because I think the extremes look cool. :) I’m loving this update! But I do wish there were more non-natural colors, like more blues and purples.

"Rouensims;c-17745845" wrote:I’m happy we have a full variety of colors. I’ve known people of Indian (the country) descent whose skin had a grayer tone to it. Last night, I created a magical Sim whose skin was as red as possible while still looking fairly possible in nature. In general, I create a lot of Sims with extremely white or black skin because I think the extremes look cool. :) I’m loving this update! But I do wish there were more non-natural colors, like more blues and purples.Actually on that note I really wish they HAD expanded on more "alternative" colors than the ones present on the bottom. Especially for my medieval fantasy world. But I also agree this game seriously needs a color wheel for hair now since your correct in saying u kind of have to match hair color to the skintone without the sim turning into some lego character.

Agreed. White skins never looked natural. Infact no skin in this game has ever looked too natural. The style is very cartoony which is why my sims hair and skin was all kinda red yellow and blue and orange before cc.Then everyone wanted "realistic" which is why the hair still doesn't match the skin. All in all yes I think we should have gotten more lighter variations as well. But it's not that big of a deal for me. I just enjoy the game regardless of my sims color

With the sliders I find I can get a lot more variation in skin tones, even the "white" ones. I can go from a reddish skin tone to pasty white quite easily. I've never used CC (mods are enough of a hassle to keep track of each patch!) so this has been a pleasant addition for me (though I'm spending a lot more time in CAS!).

New skintones didn't do much for white tones, still using same 2 or 3

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CAPTAIN_NXR7
Legend
5 years ago
I was worried about the same thing, but I was surprised to find that there is actually more variation in lighter tones than I originally thought there would be. I do feel that the problem lies in combining these new skin tones with the limited to no variation of natural hair colours.
The highly saturated hair-hues make some of the skin tones appear duller, whereas if there were additional hair colours with hue & brightness options similar to the skin tone sliders, I believe it will improve the balance overall and both elements would look so much better together.

Right now I think there is just an imbalance between natural skin tones and natural hair colour.
RouenSims
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I’m happy we have a full variety of colors. I’ve known people of Indian (the country) descent whose skin had a grayer tone to it. Last night, I created a magical Sim whose skin was as red as possible while still looking fairly possible in nature. In general, I create a lot of Sims with extremely white or black skin because I think the extremes look cool. :) I’m loving this update! But I do wish there were more non-natural colors, like more blues and purples.
EntityofDesire
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"Rouensims;c-17745845" wrote:
I’m happy we have a full variety of colors. I’ve known people of Indian (the country) descent whose skin had a grayer tone to it. Last night, I created a magical Sim whose skin was as red as possible while still looking fairly possible in nature. In general, I create a lot of Sims with extremely white or black skin because I think the extremes look cool. :) I’m loving this update! But I do wish there were more non-natural colors, like more blues and purples.

Actually on that note I really wish they HAD expanded on more "alternative" colors than the ones present on the bottom. Especially for my medieval fantasy world.

But I also agree this game seriously needs a color wheel for hair now since your correct in saying u kind of have to match hair color to the skintone without the sim turning into some lego character.
Babykittyjade
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
Agreed. White skins never looked natural. Infact no skin in this game has ever looked too natural. The style is very cartoony which is why my sims hair and skin was all kinda red yellow and blue and orange before cc.
Then everyone wanted "realistic" which is why the hair still doesn't match the skin. All in all yes I think we should have gotten more lighter variations as well. But it's not that big of a deal for me. I just enjoy the game regardless of my sims color
justme22
5 years ago
With the sliders I find I can get a lot more variation in skin tones, even the "white" ones. I can go from a reddish skin tone to pasty white quite easily. I've never used CC (mods are enough of a hassle to keep track of each patch!) so this has been a pleasant addition for me (though I'm spending a lot more time in CAS!).
alanmichael1
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
And now it looks like genetics are broken.
DoloresGrey
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
In my eyes there are only 3 light skintones. One is as pink as a pig and the other two are yellow ish. I can't basically create a sim with a light skintone. Only very tanned. Seriously. Not inclusive at all IMHO.
apotts
5 years ago
All I know is I have to makeover all of my 160+ Sims, because they don't look right anymore. A bit of a bother really.
DaWaterRat
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
There are several swatches, especially in Neutral and Cool that are much lighter on the sim than they appear from the swatch. Lighten them further with the slider, and many work just fine for my fair-skinned sims.

Sometimes it's worth it to poke around a bit.
VentusMatt
5 years ago
I don't have much issue with the lighter skins tones expect the light cool tones, they look too blue/purple. I get they are cool but I don't know anyone that looks blue. I don't the issue is so much that they skin is actually too blue blue but more that the saturation for those tones is too high. The same can be said for some of the dark warm tones since some of those look too red.