Tips to make teenagers look more like teenager?

I use body hair CC, so hairy adult men definitely look different than teen boys in my game. It's harder for girls, I mostly try to use clothes and hair to make teen girls look different from adults.

pretty much every teen I have in Sims 4 goes suffers from the "goth" phase. Like 2006-2009 hot topic era goth/punk fashion. Then when they reach YA they get a more adult/mature fashion sense.

Height sliders are a HUGE help. Even if the animations don't always sync up, I still think it's worth it. Most of the time, it's not even that noticeable. I also tend to make my teen sims a little on the thin side (without looking emaciated). The real challenge are the faces. For girls it's not too hard to tweak. Usually making their faces a little rounder helps. But I've always found it more difficult to change the guys' faces without making them look like completely different sims (I try not to mess with faces too much because I wanna preserve the genetics)

I'm actually kinda proud of how these guys came out.
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I have a height slider in game, I just keep forgetting to actually use it. I also think, since I play in rotation, and the last two house I played only has little kids, it just slipped my mind.

But I do try to make my teens look young as best as I can, and once they start to become older teens, I'll switch up their clothing choices.

Jayden just turned into a teen.
https://i.imgur.com/6o8fVQZ.png

It's not the best pic because he got struck by lightening, but I have (I forgot his name) is a sports jersey. I tend to let teens where that style.
https://i.imgur.com/tNUSaw5.png

Here his older sister, Amanda, has more "adult" taste in fashion. She'll be a young adult soon.
https://i.imgur.com/J3Ajcww.png

My game-born Sim just became a teenager and for once the game gave me a teen boy that I personally think actually looks like a teen! Haha! Love this kid. His name is Athens. Unfortunately his twin brother just looked like an adult lol. (No CC, I do have a mod that makes freckles genetic but that just means I didn't have to add them myself)

Something I do; give girls long or coloured hair, maybe even really short hair if you want. Also, these days young girls typically show more skin or may wear colours that don’t go. With teenage boys, I see many that wear baggy clothes, once again the colours may not work together, hats is a big one with boys as well. Also as others said, braces and pimples work too.

I think the issue is that twelve through nineteen is SUCH a variation between ages that its hard to pick a look that labels them as "teen". What I'm going to try and do, is sort of split their lifestage into two. So a toddler is like 2-4 and a child is about 6-8 and then 9-11. So the younger side of being a child, they would be in things their parents would pick out for them to wear and they get a slightly "older" look later (just whenever in-game I feel like they've spent enough time as one "age").

So same with teens, start them sort of as awkward 12-14 year olds with no makeup or minimal, then move them into clothing style that's more 15-17ish. I even want to implement this on my young adults and adults. I always forget to make adults that look like they're in their 40s or 50s, they seem to always been young 35 year olds. So I've moved that age into the YA lifestage.

Another thing too (sorry if this is starting to not make sense), is that I sort of pick a style for their personality and modify it in each age. But there's also those people who never grow out of dressing like a teenager.

I second a lot of things said as well with crazier hair, colors/patterns of clothes & intense make-up or none at all. Braces, acne & bad style can also help. lol

I'm lousy when it comes to fashion, sims or RL, but try some people watching at the mall to see what the folks in your target age groups are in. Have noticed that the teens in this version are more like late teens, 17-19, rather than earlier. Technically still teens, but pushig hard on YA status. You do have the right idea, focusing on attire since the physical appearance is all but identical to YA.

"TOLKIEN;d-958963" wrote:
its very easy to mistake teenagers as adults by appearance.

Just like in real life.

So I'm wondering if any of you simmers can give me both fashion and makeup advice to help my teenagers LOOK like teenagers pls.

School uniforms.

"Netzspannung;c-17053334" wrote:

I made these teen outfits for my thread a few weeks ago. This is pretty much the styles the teens in my game wear. Sneakers, crop tops, skinny jeans, very little make-up and sometimes edgy, depending on the personality ... that's just some of my ideas behind dressing teens.

https://i.imgur.com/8UV13O3.jpg

These look like the outfits of young adults. :/