Tips to make teenagers look more like teenager?

I’ve noticed my in game born teens are super skinny most of the times. So I just dress them like teens and they look like teenagers to me. Once they age up to YA, they get more mature figures automatically , I dress them in more mature styles. This works for me to separate teens from adults. NPS sims is another story.

"GalacticGal;c-17055196" wrote:

"izecson;c-17052697" wrote:
Dress them as teenagers? as I play the sims 4 more It's easy to spot a Teenager, they have different facial structure than an adult, more pudgy faces, though with female it is pretty hard to differentiate.

In RL girls tend to look like young women even in their teens. This is where the term "jail bait" comes into play. A girl can lie and say she's older, because oftentimes she will look older when in all actuality, she may only be sixteen. I was well into my twenties when I overheard a friend of my mother say I hadn't changed at all.

I've said it before; Sims 4 is the first Sims games with actual realistic teens.
I know a LOT of Simmers want them to be shorter, because that's the convention in media (it sure has been in Sims). But to me it sounds like they are really talking about 12-14 year olds, while the majority of teen years look far more like the teens in Sims 4. And even in Sims 4 they still do changes just to make them look more childish (like a lot skinnier, often, which can look odd. The Sims 4 teens basically have a body mass of a 12 year old on a 16 year old body frame, which means some look... almost slender man like. But they still look much more realistic than Sims 2 or 3 teens.

With Parenthood clothes, hair and acne :3

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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.
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Here his older sister, Amanda, has more "adult" taste in fashion. She'll be a young adult soon.
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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)

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.