Pet peeve: Classic female skins with baked-on make-up
If you go around freebie sims that are old enough to still have classic skins, and you're looking for female skins, you'll stumble upon a phenomenon: Almost all of them have firmly baked-on make-up that can't be removed.
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Okay, I somehow get it. It's easy for newbies to make a "sexy" avatar without having to hunt down make-up tattoos which are hard to find anyway. It's more convenient anyway for those who always want to wear make-up. And the classic system avatar has only got four tattoo layers, one of which is almost always occupied by a hairbase tattoo, and the skin makers probably wanted to save the other three for actual tattoos.
But it's utterly inconvenient for those who don't want to wear make-up all the time, the same make-up even. If it's hard to find a skin without make-up, it's next to impossible to find a good one without make-up. And as everyone baked their make-up onto their skins back then, hardly anyone made separate make-up.
I had that problem in my early days: I wanted a good skin without make-up which at the same time didn't look like I had silicone boobs or a tanning bed to sleep on at night. It was eventually solved by Jupiter: He built skins without make-up. Lots of them.
I've also found make-up tattoos, both complete make-ups and separate elements such as lipsticks or eyeshades. Also, I don't have to worry about how many layers it takes up: Bakes-on-Mesh offers me theoretically more tattoo layers than the system body has layers altogether. But they would be impossible to use with a skin that already has make-up on it.
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