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Helen Braided Hair with Ribbon Accessory

My work in progress is finally out in the open ;) at some point I doubted I could make it work, and I’m very pleased to say I was wrong. It’s not perfect and it will occasionally clip (especially with busty and plumpy sims), but all things considered it’s acceptable. In the end everything came out even better than I expected so I’m reasonably happy :D

Helen Braid

Base Game Compatible

Female, Teen-Elder

24 EA colors

hat compatible

custom maps

not allowed for random

Ribbon Accessory

find under RINGS (middle finger of right hand)

@pastry-box Saccharine Palette (16)

my neutrals (16)

@wildlyminiaturesandwich Neutrals (20)

@wildlyminiaturesandwich Naturals (20)

@wildlyminiaturesandwich Unnaturals (35)

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Pyretta | Hair

🎵 You are the first will be my last 🎵

Gothy shaved deathhawk with sideburns!

38 swatches - 24 EA (hair update compatible) + 14 bonus, slightly modified since last time

Hat chops

BGC

Teen to elder

Feminine

Custom thumbnail

Disabled for random

Reference

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❝Yujin❞ Hair

My first hair mesh completely from scratch! I thought I’d never join the dark side but my curiosity got the best of me.

Short wavy hime cut with bangs that kinda resembles a mullet

Teen to elder

BGC

Hat chops

Feminine, enabled for all genders (however there’s clipping on male sims T_T)

30 swatches; 18 EA + 12 bonus

Egirl strands overlay in facepaint (slider compatible!) and tattoo categories

Inspo

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«enchantment» cc pack

bgc

all lods

shadow maps & normal maps

DOWNLOAD (patreon early access, public: october 24th)

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3D eyelashes ☆*:｡Part 1

Hello! First batch of 3D eyelashes done (*´ᵕ`)

The Sims 4

Base-game compatible

Hand-drawn "alpha" style eyelashes

3 types x 4 colors

More eyelashes coming soon 💙

❗ One file is in the glasses category and will conflict with the eyeglasses textures, and the other file is in the brow ring category and will conflict with the textures of earrings and most rings ❗

I hope you like them 💙

Available for early access [free Oct 17, 2021]

🌙 MY CC 🌙 3D LASHES PART 1

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«Meadow Winds» by SIMANDY x CLUMSYALIEN

🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷

bgc

all lods

shadow maps & normal maps

DOWNLOAD (patreon early access, public: october 10th) download Simandy’s side⭐HERE⭐

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CLASSIC SHORT FRENCH NAILS | URBAN

This SIMPLE but CLASSIC set of nails is a must-have for any sim! This SET FEATURES 6 Skin Tone Friendly SHORT FRENCH TIPPED nails with a lower OPACITY VARIANT as well. (So Technically 12) If you want a SOFTER LOOK. I do plan on creating a LONGER LENGTH French Tip WITH THE SAME Matte/Gloss Combo SOON!

BASE GAME COMPATIBLE

Two Variants (Gloss and Matte) Choose one or BOTH!

6 Skin Tone Shades, 12 Variants.

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Sheer gloves

Hello! I'm enjoying and clinging to this cottagecore trend for as long as I can 👒💕🌱 Today's DL is a pair of sheer summer gloves in patterns & solids 💙 They are also available for kids and toddlers!

The Sims 4

Available for all genders and all ages

Base-game compatible

12 swatches

I hope you like them 💙

Available for early access [free Oct 5, 2021]

🌙 MY CC 🌙 SHEER GLOVES

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Hey, folks! I'm a simmer who loves me a well organized CAS/CC/mods folder, so I figured I'd share some resources to help you out in achieving such a thing yourself.

A well organized Mods folder as well as organized CC in-game IS possible! Click through the cut to read more!

Table of Contents:

Getting Started

Essential Programs

Essential Mods

Useful Programs and Utilities

Other Useful Things

A Word of Caution/Caveats

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Getting Started

1. @nynsimmer's Completely Empty Organized Mods Folder

When I first started getting serious about CC I went looking for something to help me get started, and I'm so happy I found this. It takes a lot of the effort out of figuring out these category trees yourself! It's not a mod, it's just a simple collection of empty folders to help you organize your CC more effectively. It comes in a couple different flavours based on what your CC-hoarding game is like, and of course, you can make any changes/edits to it you like. Use it as a starting point, then build your perfect Mods folder from there.

For those who are curious, here's how my Mods folder looks right now after using this to start:

I added a "Defaults and Overrides" folder to make those easier to find, and to separate them from non-default CC so I can more easily run batch fixes without harming my default files.

I have a lot of Gameplay mods; since many of them are script mods and can't be more than 1 subfolder deep in order to work, I organize them by creator to make it easier to keep track and update them. Any miscellaneous mods go in the "Gameplay/Build/CAS Mods" folders.

2. @sparrowcc's Tidy Details & Tattoos

Though recent game updates have made this not work so well for original Maxis items, it still works for CC items and makes it so much easier to figure which slots everything is listed under so you can more effectively make use of the various skin detail/tattoo/accessory categories. It adds an item thumbnail to the beginning of each Skin Detail/Tattoo category to tell you where that category begins, making the CC in that category appear after it; no more long list of thumbnails and having no idea which skin detail slot they're hiding under!

There are also versions available for accessories, occults/Get Famous, and acne, which could be useful depending on what EPs you have.

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Essential Programs

1. Sims4Studio (Windows Version | Mac Version)

Sims4Studio (S4S) is an essential program for any Sims 4 player who dabbles in CC, whether you're creating it from scratch or simply downloading and using other creator's CC in game. S4S allows you to make simple edits to fix problems or make your CC life easier, and comes with a TON of useful batchfixes to fix some of the more common problems that occur with CC. (The "Disallow CC for Random" batchfix is essential for me; I run it periodically to catch new CAS CC that isn't tagged properly.) The UI is pretty friendly, and it's fairly simple to get started.

You can find the official S4S Tutorial List here.

Some more tutorials to get you started:

How to Clean out CC with S4S by @srslysims

How to Run a BatchFix with S4S by @srslysims

How to Edit/Change Skin Detail Categories using S4S by me

How to Change the Sort Order of CC Eyecolours by @oydis

2. CmarNYC's S4 CASTools (Windows Only)

CASTools is another program you can use to make CC from scratch, and it comes with a lot of options to make that easier depending on what you want/need to do. It's a little more complicated and difficult to get the hang of, but once you do, it gives you a ton of control over your CC.

For example, you can easily hide an item from appearing in CAS by unchecking this box and saving the package:

Which is useful if you have some recolours/hairs that require a mesh to show up, but you'd rather the original mesh didn't appear in-game. (I have some Maxis Match texture edits of Alpha hairs that require the original meshes to work, and this way only the MM edits show in CAS, not the Alpha hairs.)

You can also easily use it to change the sort order of CC, changing where it appears relative to other items in the CAS categories in game. To do that, you just change the values of this option here:

(Changing the Sort Order in S4S is slightly more complicated, so I often use CASTools for this instead. It applies the sort order to all swatches of an item in one go, which saves a lot of time!)

CASTools is also required for the CAS Sort CC Alphabetically Utility I mention later, which has been an essential tool for me!

(I am not an expert on CASTools, so please don't ask me for help or support using this program! Please reference the original creator's page or search for tutorials to help you learn how to use it.)

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Essential Mods

1. @twistedmexi's Better Exceptions

I didn't know how badly I needed this until I found it. This mod does a LOT of things to help you keep a healthy Mods folder, such as letting you know when mod errors occur, and telling you about any issues such as duplicate CC or possibly outdated mods. Super useful, I recommend it to anyone who has a heavily modded game!

2. @twistedmexi's Better BuildBuy: Organized Debug

Super useful if you have a lot of BuildBuy CC, or if you do a bunch of building! Adds a bunch more filters to your BuildBuy menu so you can more easily find the CC you want, and also indexes and adds Debug items to your BuildMode catalog and makes them searchable/filterable. Read the mod's download page for more info.

3. @twistedmexi's Expandable BuildBuy Catalog

This is included in the Better BuildBuy mod, so don't download it if you decide to use Better BuildBuy. Otherwise, it's a simple mod that allows you to expand the size of the BuildBuy item picker window, letting you see a much larger number of items at a glance. Super useful if you have a lot of BB CC, or if you're an avid builder.

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Useful Programs and Utilities

[Note: All of these are Windows Only. Apologies, Mac users!]

1. Barteke22's CAS Sort CC in CAS Alphabetically Utility

So you've downloaded a bunch of CC, and it's all working great, but your CAS categories are still a chaotic mess; hairs from different creators are all mixed together, and it's impossible to find that One Hair you're looking for in amongst all the others. How do you fix this horrible situation??

If you're me and this bothers you to no end, you end up spending hours changing the Sort Order for each piece of CC yourself by hand using CASTools. You put on a podcast, zone out, and start opening packages, changing numbers, and saving files. It takes forever, and you wonder if it's really worth it. 😵😩

Thankfully, Barteke22 came to my rescue with this amazing tool! It does pretty much exactly what I was doing by hand before, except it automates it, allowing me to eat lunch or play my Switch while it organizes all my CC exactly where I want them. It does make your computer unusable while it runs, but that's a small price to pay for the piece of mind of having a nicely organized CAS, imo.

You can go from this:

To this:

All your hairs sorted alphabetically and easy to find! What a relief!

(Please refer to the original download page for information on how to get this tool set up and for how to use it. You'll need to download AutoHotKey for it to work.)

Keep in mind: This tool doesn't read sub-folders, so you have to organize each sub-folder separately. It's a good idea to keep a .txt file around with info on what sort numbers you've used where, so you know what you're doing and don't accidentally reuse any.

Also: It WILL screw up Merged packages. Make sure you're only sorting individual packages with this tool, not merged ones (You can use S4S to merge/unmerge package files).

2. Bulk Rename Utility

A small Windows utility program for bulk renaming files. Extremely useful if you have CC from a creator that doesn't put their username at the beginning of the filename, making it difficult to find their CC in your Mods folder when sorted alphabetically. I haven't used this much myself, but @ilovethesims2cc gives a quick overview of it here and how to use it to remove special characters from filenames.

3. S4Pavir by @margosims

I haven't used this myself, since my CC has already been categorized in subfolders for a long while, but if you have a large, unorganized mods folder this may help you organize and make some sense of it. As I understand it, it checks each .package file to see what category the item is listed under in-game, then it can move them into subfolders based on that category. (Like I said, I haven't used this myself, so I can't help you make sense of it; please contact the original creator for support!)

4. Sims 4 Mod Assistant by EgorBlagov

A small program used to find duplicate packages and possible mod conflicts. Useful if you have a lot of CC and you know there are dupes in there, but you're intimidated by going through all your subfolders and finding them manually.

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Other Useful Things

1. More Columns in CAS by Weerbesu

This mod gives you more columns to work with in CAS, allowing you to see more items/CC at once! Comes in a few different flavours, use the one that works best with your screen resolution. (This mod regularly breaks with the bigger patch updates, so make sure you check to make sure it works with the patch version you're using.)

2. Various Maxis CAS Item Hiders

If you're serious with your CC and would rather not have the original Maxis items cluttering up your game (alpha players might appreciate this!), or you just want to hide some of them because they're not to your taste, there are some options available:

@starbearysims CAS Hiders (For everything up to Journey to Batuu/Nifty Knitting)

@plumbobsandcowplants CAS Hiders (For the Hair Swatch Update and more recent EPs/GPs/SPs/Kits)

MAC Cosmetics Hider

CAS Makeup Hider

Feb2021 Patch Custom Content Hider by @teekalu

3. @amicurl's Catalog Overhaul

Amicurl's been working tirelessly to reorganize and clean up the BuildBuy menus to make more sense. Check out the Introduction to the project to see if their mods are something you'd like. They also have a mod for hiding the pack icons on BuildBuy items, and a subtle CC wrench icon override.

4. @maxismatchccworld's, Well, Everything

@marvell-world at @maxismatchccworld has been tirelessly supporting the Sims 4 CC/modding community for years by sharing posts featuring Maxis Match CC for your perusal. It's extremely well organized and searchable, making it easy to find exactly the CC/Mods you're looking for. I highly recommend taking a look through their navigation categories to see if there's anything you're missing!

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A Word of Caution/Caveats

As always when using mods and programs that edit files, always be prepared for mishaps and mistakes; keep backups of your CC and important game files before editing them if at all possible, and know that Mods/CC are not officially supported by EA/Maxis. You use them at your own risk.

I am not an expert in any of these programs, nor am I responsible for how they affect your game. Please contact the original creators for support and more information, and make sure they're all updated to the newest versions and working with your game patch version.

If you have other suggestions for useful tools/resources on how to keep an organized and healthy CC/mods folder, please reply/reblog and add them! What works for me won't work for everyone, and I'm sure there are tons of things out there I've missed!

Take care, and happy simming! <3

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today i have for you all of adiec and stretchskeleton's eyebrows updated with the new swatches! it was driving me crazy to have them mismatched. i know these are really popular maxis eyebrows + these creators are no longer active* so i thought i'd share!

-credits to @adiec and @stretchskeleton of course-

thank you ♡ @maxismatchccworld @mmfinds​  @mmoutfitters

download below ↓

download separate + merged [sfs] or [dropbox] NEVER adfly

if you have any requests for recolouring hair/facial hair/eyebrow cc in which the creator is no longer active (1 year+ or indefinite haitus stated) i'd be happy to help.

buy me a chai latte?

*if either creator decides to come back and wishes for me to remove these files, i will do so ASAP

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Cottage Living Add-on Pack PART 1

This absolutely amazing pack was gifted to me by my friend Emma and I haven’t been this inspired to create in a while and I went so overboard I created so many add-ons to this pack that I had to separate them into TWO packs of add-ons! It’s a fantastic pack for sure, and I’m really excited to share with you fully base game compatible additions to the epic CAS items this pack brought us. I hope you’ll like these and the ones from pack 2!

Base Game Compatible

8 items: 1 hat, 2 bandanas, 2 tops, 2 earrings, 1 turtle recolour

ALL original EA colours/patterns

20 solids in the Hibiscus palette

13 patterns

All LODs

👉 Download on my Patreon (Early Access!) 👉 (Public Access on 25 August)

Your pledge as my patreon helps me so much and every single penny goes to rent, food, and sims packs to make more CC. Thank you so very much for your support, truly, and I wish you a lovely day!

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16 Pastel Skin Colors

Sixteen skin colors that match my pastel hair colors and the pastel colors of my glossy eyes. These skins have been in a work in progress for a while, but I went through today and tried to get them to about where I though they were just right. There are some that I’m still a little shaky on, since I wanted them to look good no matter what skin overlays you use. I prefer them with the rising sun overlay, but of course it is up to you. I hope you enjoy them! 

ooo smooth | summer skeletons | rising sun

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UPDATED WITH MORE COLORS HERE

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got a request from @birrnan to share some of my favorite makeup/skinblends/skin details, so here's part 1 of that! these are 5 of my fav eyeshadows and 5 of my favorite eyeliners ♡

eyeshadow: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |

eyeliner: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |

requests for lists like these are always welcome! @s4lookbookgallery @mmoutfitters

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SIMSIE SAVE VERSION 10 DOWNLOAD (Eco Lifestyle)

The world might be ending, but I finally finished updating my save file for Eco Lifestyle!

I “fixed” the entire Sims 4. I went in and renovated every community lot, filled every empty lot with new homes and locations, and created new CC free townies to fill every empty house in the game.

My original intention was never to renovate all the lots, it was just to update community lots, fill empty ones, and create more Sims. I’ve decided to start going back and updating the rest of the lots from earlier packs, so stay tuned for more updates!

What’s included?

50 brand new lots

Renovated versions of every EA community lot

Renovated versions of the worst of the EA houses (the iconic ones remain!)

78 new families (all with skills, careers, relationships, & stories)

What’s new in this version?

Renovated all of Evergreen Harbor

New basketball court lot

6 new families

Moved Carrie and her family from StrangerVille to Evergreen Harbor (the perfect fit)

Requirements and download instructions under the cut.

Watch a tour on my YouTube Channel!

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«vellichor» cc pack

bgc

all lods

shadow maps & normal maps

DOWNLOAD (patreon early acces, public: september 9)

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Andrea Hair

BGC

Hat Compatible

24 EA Colors

Custom Thumbnail

Terms Of Use

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DOWNLOAD  (free on patreon)

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The Brow Set | greenllamas

I needed a few more modern eyebrow styles for my sims since they seemed to be lacking so here they are. They are each inspired by a different celebrity. Can you guess who’s who?

Download details:

24 EA Swatches

Base Game Compatible

Tagged as masculine

Found in facial hair

Custom thumbnails

DOWNLOAD (free) | DISCORD