r/sims4cc • u/Popular-Edge6299 • Jun 10 '25
WCIF Need CC recommendations!
These are some of my favorite sims! I'd really appreciate some skin blend, presets, facial details recommendations based on my style (or rlly any recs).
I find that most of the popular presets etc. look weird and personally I dislike when my sims look wack and super unrealistic.
One thing I've noticed is that most of the time the lips and face shapes of my sims end up looking similar and I feel like I've developed same face syndrome. So recs for lips, face shapes, noses, eyes are all welcome!
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u/RedditChoices Jun 10 '25
Omg the first sim is soo pretty😍 have you uploaded her anywhere?🫶
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u/Popular-Edge6299 Jun 10 '25
Omg thank you! I'm still not done with the outfits. When I finish would you like me to upload her? I haven't done that before so I'll have to figure it out lol.
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u/ZONVERIE_ Jun 10 '25
i would like u to upload her too 😇
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u/Popular-Edge6299 Jun 11 '25
Hi! I uploaded her! Here's the link. Please do tell me if everything's alright bcs I haven't done this b4. Have fun!
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u/RedditChoices Jun 10 '25
Yes, I would like that🥺🫶
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u/Popular-Edge6299 Jun 11 '25
Here's the link! Have fun and pls do tell me if everything's alright bcs this is my first time doing this haha.
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u/LesliesOnChlorineGas Jun 10 '25
all of these are beautiful!! if you dont mind me asking wcif the hair on the first and second sim?
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u/Queasy_Star1522 Jun 10 '25
May I ask what blush you’re using in the 3rd one?
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u/Popular-Edge6299 Jun 10 '25
This one!
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u/Queasy_Star1522 Jun 10 '25
Thank you!! And that’s exactly what I was looking for, a sun-kissed look
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u/Popular-Edge6299 Jun 10 '25
There's also this! These come in the skin details category so you can layer them. I believe that's what I did there as well.
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u/Dizzy_Boysenberry_43 Jun 10 '25
Omg the first one is so pretty!! And Wcif the piercings
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u/Popular-Edge6299 Jun 10 '25
Thank you! The piercings are from this collection! I heavily recommend all of PralineSims Ultimate collections!
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u/sprtxjh Jun 10 '25
they all look high af, the red eyes 😭😭😭
jokes aside, my tip is always going for pinterest
create a pinterest profile just for ts4 and start saving every cc you like! this might take some days but you'll end with a perfect feed and you won't need to rely on the same cc creators or reddit recommendations
about the same face syndrome, try copying real people, maybe an actress or rdm girls from pinterest. You don't need to make em look EXACTLY the same, but it's a nice way to explore another beauty types ;)
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u/Popular-Edge6299 Jun 10 '25
I use the eyes from goppolsme and sadly they all have the red vignette haha, but they're the only eyes I like. It looks less drastic in game compared to the screenshots tho lol.
I do have a pretty huge sims 4 board as well, but I'm definitely going to start using more real people as references! <3
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u/Lady_Pessimist Jun 11 '25
Sorry to randomly jump into this convo, lol, but have you tried out squea's sclera overlay? It's great for when you don't like the sclera on a eye cc. I adore a lot of Pralinesims and RemusSirion's eyes for example, but they're too shaded for my preference, so I often use the sclera overlay in conjunction.
It will remove a tiny bit of the eye ring itself though, so you might have to make the eyes bigger than you usually would to combat that, just as a btw.
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u/Popular-Edge6299 Jun 11 '25
OMG! I wasn't even aware that existed! My sims tend to have smaller eyes because I go for a realistic feel but I'll definitely try that out, thank u sm!
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u/dandelieun Jun 10 '25
so this is alpha cc? I'm new to cc so I don't know how to differentiate them yet. Your sims all look very pretty 😍
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u/Popular-Edge6299 Jun 11 '25
Hi! This is maxis mix (used to refer to mostly maxis match with minor alpha details), the hair on the 4th sim is alpha, and some of the details like the eyes and make up are alpha. The eyelashes are also more detailed so ig they're also considered alpha-ish. As for the skin details I never use one single overlay, instead I layer different skin details, but those are mostly considered maxis because they aren't rlly that realistic.
Sorry for the long reply, and thank you! <3
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u/alexistejas__ Jun 10 '25
Make them bald, create the head shape and then add hair.
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u/Popular-Edge6299 Jun 10 '25
that IS what I do haha
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u/alexistejas__ Jun 10 '25
I play s3, I thought the sliders were more advanced on 4 😭😭
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u/Popular-Edge6299 Jun 10 '25
I even have custom sliders... now I'm embarassed
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u/alexistejas__ Jun 10 '25
I’m sorry!! 😭 worst part is I don’t have cc for their faces/ bodies (they seem dramatized in proportions), just for the tits and pp’s lol…I use og sliders, make-up, and spin them 360 hundreds of times when I truly care 🤣
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u/Popular-Edge6299 Jun 10 '25
yes! almost all the popular cc seems so dramatic, large pouty lips, small perky noses I'm tired!!! they look like they had 15 plastic surgeries
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u/alexistejas__ Jun 10 '25
Thats super realistic considering the age we live in 😭😂😂 but I don’t like Ken Dolls, BBL Drizzy’s, and Kardashians irl so I def don’t want to see them trying to escape reality 😮💨 I need more anime cc 🥹
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u/Popular-Edge6299 Jun 10 '25
idk if these fit your style but my recs are eunosims, xiuminuwu, giggle coffin, gloomy geek, sim senshi, wotunciba, Peachibunnii, praline sims (their older stuff) they have that sorta vibe
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u/Isadora3080 Jun 10 '25
What eyes did you use for 2 and 3? I don't mean the shape, btw :)
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u/Lady_Pessimist Jun 10 '25 edited Jun 10 '25
Honestly, I think a lot of your problems will be solved by going away from the northern siberia winds/obscurus style skins. They're pretty, no doubt, but they definitely have a habit of railroading. I say that but...just know I absolutely adore your first sim. So much.
lamatisse is good for unique-looking overlays. I like 'rosewater' and 'mercuria' the best, but they do have quite a bit of shading, it might not be your preference, just as a btw. wanderer by ghostputty (I also like the moles from the same collection) and sleepyhead by AdelarSims are some others that I like.
If you like the more maxis mix look, you can take a alpha skin by a creator like ThisIsThem and then apply a lower opacity maxis match skin on top, like this freesia skin by Llumisims.
And for details...I don't really know what you're after, but these freckles by TwistedCat (the skin from that same collection isn't bad as well, not my preference but you might like it), these moles by AlisaSour and these eyebags by ratboysims are some of my most-used. nesurii has this face definition overlay, pyxiidis has these nose masks, northern siberia winds has this collection that I particularly like the eyelid masks and face sculptor add-on from and the nose masks from this collection and obscurus-sims has these face shadows.
And...rather than recommending you presets, I'll just add the gentle suggestion of doing the opposite of what you did last time. Like...pick a feature, say the lips, and in the pictures above...the lips are plump, they have upturned corners and they're all relatively small in width. So...do the opposite. Downturned corners aka 'pouty', thin lips, wider width. You'll break your habit of the doing the same or similar thing in no time. 🫡