CC Hair: Alpha or Maxis Match?

All of my hair is maxis match. Alpha hair looks weird to me.

I used to use alpha but now I can't use anything but maxis match.

Alpha hair seems out of place. I have clayified hairs, but no alpha.

I'm not playing with any CC right now, but when I do I only use Maxis Match hair. Alpha looks out of place in the game and it's jarring to me. I don't really like clayified hair in my game either, but it's not as much of an eyesore as alpha is.

Most of my CC is aimed at adjusting the art style of the game more towards something that looks like The sims 2 with more realistic and detailed textures as well as object meshes. So I am not holding to matching the original art style.
I have quite a bit of TS2 textures converted for The Sims 4. It doesn't bother me to have clays and alphas in the same world.

Alpha Hair just seems out of place to me. You have realistic hair with a non realistic body.

Alpha just doesn't go in this game well without changing a lot of other things around it. There's been a few select alpha hairs I like, which seem pretty soft and not too out of place with the game, but I find Maxis match to be far better. Not to mention a majority of alpha hair is always so high poly I find it not to be worth it in downloading them anymore. Wish some creators would learn how to get that poly count down because 20k poly for one hairstyle is ridiculous. Highest I've seen one is 60k. No thannnnksss.

Anything else alpha that isn't hair just seems so fake with little to no texture on most of them. Didn't think photoskinning was still a thing. It's still terrible and probably the laziest way in making skins and so called 'realistic skins'.

Know it's just a matter of what you like more, but that 'hyper realistic' skins just creeps me out.

I actually already expected Maxis Match to have a lead, but not such a big one! I'm actually surprised that this vote is so unanimous considering that no matter where I'm looking for cc, I always see so much alpha hair that I have to search for maxis match specifically, so I thought it's much more popular than the vote would suggest. But we'll see.

@LadyKyn I can't agree more! Every time I see sims with hyper-realistic looking cc, especially skin tones, I get totally creeped out. It's uncanny valley for me like nothing else. I don't know why, but something about it just seems "off".

Yeah uncanny valley and anything close to it is just weird. Usually most skins look too dry or oily, but I just don't like CC like this in particular.


Photoskinning just shouldn't be a thing. Thought that method would of died out. It feels like the head is photoshopped on except it's a photoskinned CC. Anytime I see this it always celebrity related.

Edit: Chucked the pictures under a spoiler in case someone doesn't like looking at them. :#

Mostly MM. I say mostly, because I do have three female sims to whom I gave alpha hairs. They've had them for so long now that they blend in well to me. All the other sims use MM, though. (no, I don't feel bad about mixing the two, the hairs are so pretty :p )

I think clayified is like the worst though, it's like some strange medium inbetween that just doesn't work for me