Tips to make teenagers look more like teenager?

"TOLKIEN;c-17059129" wrote:
I'm not huge on the height slider, the animations never line up and creates havoc with auto generated sims or pregnancies. I WOULD love to see the game auto implement a height change to teens though and based on the BILLION dollar revenue the Sims 4 announced - I don't see why they couldn't use some of that revenue to work on it. But you know, got to pay your shareholders instead rather then re-invest it into the game.

Who knows maybe they will overhaul teens one day but i doubt it.

I second a teen overhaul. I personally feel the requested preteen stage would fit in teen if they actually looked younger and shorter than just being skinny adults.

I don't use height sliders. I'm pretty much the same height as an adult as I was a teen so to me it's a bit silly. I've always been shorter than just about everyone else since I was 12 and I often got mistaken for a teen until I was in my mid 20s. :D For me, it's down to clothes, hair, makeup to make them stand out from adults and look more like teens.

A lot of the teens I see in real life these days look like adults. I don't really see a problem with it in the game. I'm not gonna ugly up my teens with bad skin just to make them look younger. Generally I just dress my teens with a younger style than I would my adults. Height is no indication either as a lot of teens are actually taller than I am. :D

"I know a LOT of Simmers want them to be shorter,"

I'd still like them to be shorter. Not every teen in real life is tall. Their height in TS4 is about 1.74 m tall. Like someone posted above, all the sims posted in this thread look like young adults. That's why I really like the height slider, it makes a real difference.

https://i.imgur.com/i4k81tU.png

https://i.imgur.com/3sHzVzG.jpg

No one will ever be satisfied with height unless the game allowed for random heights. Teenage years are such a growth period for most kids that it’s impossible to represent all variations and stages with one height.

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

"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. :/

Ya, I agree that you really need to make teenagers very slim without looking bad/skeleton like otherwise they look old regardless. And tone down the bust/butts and less muscle definition. More or less fill them out "less" overall.

Basically I start with my adult sim then teen them, then shrink every part I can just a tad from shoulders to calfs and everything in-between.

Basically less of everything in CAS lol...

My teens tend to have a carefree look and playful looking hair