I have been creating a new vampire sim using the tattoo function from Businesses & Hobbies. I have created a tattoo that I only want the sim to wear in his dark form, and it allows me to do this in CAS, but as soon as I go to live mode, it has either disappeared, or shows in both the dark form and the normal form!
Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted title a bit to reflect that there might be multiple issues with occults and tattooing. Not adding pack tags as it would be > 3
Having this issue today as well, have an alien sim. Tattoos appear separate in CAS but do not stay separate for disguised and alien form in-game. One set always overwrites the other, unsure of the order but it's happened both different ways where the alien form gets the disguise's whole set of tattoos and vice versa. 😔
* On PC *
Have all expansion and game packs installed.
Just discovered this issue in CAS with the new fairies today. I have some tats for a sim's normal form and different ones for her fairy form, but it keeps putting tats from 3 categories onto her each time I switch outfits it seems like. This is a shame considering there's some new tattoos only available when in fairy form...
On PC, all expansions & game packs
Jul 16 2025,
Still having this issue, Xbox series X, when I tattoo a normal form of a occult, and they are Unlinked, upon loading that household they are relinked but unchanged except the tattoos are copied from the normal or disguise form into the occult form. Happening for fairies, and vampires at least. Completely ruins the look of the character when it happens.
I also have this issue with my vampire sim. I just want the dark form to have a tattoo but once I hide dark form, my vampire sim in their normal form also has a tattoo
Basically what the title says. I'm having a huge issue with any custom tattoos I put on my sim fairy's fairy form disappearing. I've had this happen on 3 different sims now. I'll add the custom tattoo and throw the sim in game and any custom tattoos I put on them will disappear and I have to go back into CAS and re-add them. Then they proceed to disappear again anytime I switch between their sims form and fairy form. I even had one where the tattoo disappeared when I switched from the fairy form to the sim form in CAS. With one I even had an issue with the tattoo copying over to the sim form even though I did not put the tattoo on the sim form.
Could you please provide the following information
I am using Mods, it does still preset itself when I remove mods. I'm playing on PC with the EA App. By custom tattoos I mean tattoos I created with paint mode
Jul 23 2025,
This is still an issue and I have noticed the custom tattoos that I put on my fairy form will copy over to human form every time I reload the game. It is very frustrating to go in and remove the tattoos every time
Sounds a bit like the opposite of this issue: Tattoos don't work well for occults with two forms | EA Forums - 11994160
Do you only have issues with fairies or other occults too ?
This specific issue so far has just been with the fairies, but I haven't tried it with Vampires or Mermaids yet so not sure if it's presenting with them or not.
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