Aesthetician: Skin and Eye Colour Modification

I've been hoping to see this implemented for quite a while now and sad to see it hasn't.

I think it may not be something that's difficult to incorporate technically into the current aesthetician system, while magical spray tans/tanning beds and contact lenses would work as reasons to explain how the modification takes place. (Though I'm not sure how reverse tanning would work, haha.)

I can fully understand spending however much money in purchasing a vial of Phantasia to modify the basic structure of your character. However, I personally can't justify having to spend said real life currency in order to adjust something as simple as colour.

I hope if there are any of you reading that agree, that you please support this, so we may get some sort of official response!

Thank you! ♥

This is semantics. Your skin color in a video game is a permanent thing...a tan feature that occurs wouldn't be permanent and you'd be going back to the aesthetician every few hours to get back that golden skin tone. But that's not what people are asking for. They are asking to change their skin color for free. Contacts is another way to say changing your eye color. This is a character feature and is permanent. Like it or not, the basic structure of your character does include eye color and skin color.

^IT'S A FANTASY GAME.

Plenty of fantastical ways pigmentation could be altered.

You can always imagine up your own anyway, not everything has to be lore-illustrated.

Id be cool with this but i fig they won't do it since they make real cash off ppl who want it

I remember a Dev. post a long time ago saying eye color would be changeable through the Aesthetician. I hope they stick to their word and implement this. I would love to be able to change my skin color too without having to buy a Fantasia.

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Originally Posted by BigPapaSmurf

^IT'S A FANTASY GAME.

Plenty of fantastical ways pigmentation could be altered.

You can always imagine up your own anyway, not everything has to be lore-illustrated.

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Yes like a magical potion that you can drink to magically change not only your appearance, but your race and gender as well.
Oh wait...

I doubt they will as this would also undermine some of the function of fantasia's.

Changing your race or gender is a complete do-over, so it makes sense to milk the wallets for that, since its such a radical change over. But to change your eye & skin color? Come on, no need to charge for that. Pure greed. Those should be added to Aesthetician, plain and simple.

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Originally Posted by DenariusJay

Changing your race or gender is a complete do-over, so it makes sense to milk the wallets for that, since its such a radical change over. But to change your eye & skin color? Come on, no need to charge for that. Pure greed. Those should be added to Aesthetician, plain and simple.

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The main issue is changing skin color using an aesthetician has feasibility problems: What sense does it make to go from pale skin to BLUE with just a few beauty treatments.
Basically, it's the Duskwight elves, Roegadyn, and Keeper Miqo'te that keeps it from making sense.
Also, because yes they want money. But this isn't something you gotta pay for or you never get it, you DO get a free fantasia. If you want to change it again, you gotta pay. I personally think this is quite fair.
Plus, uh, be patient...I get the feeling that because of a certain thing coming for Heavensward, we'll be getting another free fantasia.

There is no way SE will give any more options for free when they can charge you for it. Just like how they removed old event items to put them in the cash shop. Also, notice how there is a seperate item to change names instead of just adding that ability to the regular fantasia. Now if you want to change name/race, you'll need to pony up the cash for 2 items.

If anything, its a miracle that they didn't add new faces and other options to the character creator so we would buy fantasias for them.

There was a thread on this the other week, it had the same conclusion.


People asked for Fantasias, there's not going to add in a skin-colour adjustment.


The only semi-confirmed one was Yoshi said "That could work" to eye-colour changes via the Aesthetician.

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Originally Posted by BigPapaSmurf

^IT'S A FANTASY GAME.

Plenty of fantastical ways pigmentation could be altered.

You can always imagine up your own anyway, not everything has to be lore-illustrated.

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Fantasia. Duh.

Like said in the other thread, it probably wont happen, people decided they wanted to pay for those features and SE delivered.

So far I'm glad they implemented the aesthetician before the cash shop or we wouldn't even have an aesthetician right now.

As far as we all know, the Aesthetician is not a magician nor is he well-versed in hyper-advanced garlean cosmetic tech (if that even exists). Ergo, this would break lore. I mean, unless you believe that a pair of scissors and some makeup is all it takes to permanently change one's skin and eye color until it's changed again.

This is half of what Fantasia is for (the other half being race/gender change). I'm all for new hairstyles, new makeup designs, even the introduction of body tattoos if that ever becomes a thing. But skin color change and eye color change? I don't really think that can be done.

Want to change my mind? Lore me and be reasonable about it.

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Originally Posted by HakuroDK

lore excuse

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Yet somehow this pair of scissors is able to change my hair from completely bald to luscious locks in fractions of a second.

Or grow me a beard in the matter of a second.

And add or remove tattoos in the matter of a second.

And change completely black hair to pure white hair in the matter of a second. (Have you ever tried bleaching hair? It is HARD and LONG and does not work proper half the time)

Please find a better excuse.

Again,

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Q: What features will we be able to change in the barber shop?

A: You will be able to change your character's hairstyle, hair color, eye color, scars, face paint, and face paint color. The barber shop will be released in patch 2.1, so don’t worry too much about not being able to change aspects of the character you initially created.

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From: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...808-23-2013%29

Nothing about skin color, but they said at least we can do the eye...but we can't, devs, what is goin on? :( Contacts are easy, takes me 1 min to change my eye color RL, don't see why you can't do it in game ; ;

As for the lore with the skin color, people can get tans, or use body paint...I've done it enough times RL.

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Originally Posted by Titor

Yet somehow this pair of scissors is able to change my hair from completely bald to luscious locks in fractions of a second.

Or grow me a beard in the matter of a second.

And add or remove tattoos in the matter of a second.

And change completely black hair to pure white hair in the matter of a second. (Have you ever tried bleaching hair? It is HARD and LONG and does not work proper half the time)

Please find a better excuse.

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LOL I was going to say this too...thank you. XD

I would also like to be able to change buffness (or whatever the other races/genders have for that slider). Over time my character can gain muscles (Especially more than he had when he was level one haha) or lose them. I would like to reflect that.

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Originally Posted by Titor

Cheap debunk

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Hair Extensions.

Wigs.

The fact that time in a game is hardly ever consistent with anything ever. Cooking deviled eggs from raw ingredients in less than a minute? All aboard the Salmonella train!

You can't use time as a factor in this debate when the time it takes to do anything is so unbelievably skewed from real life.

Now explain to me how the aesthetician would change skin color or eye color. Do contact lenses even exist in the world of FFXIV?

You might be thinking that I don't want the aesthetician to have these abilities. I actually would. But until it can make in-universe sense, I can't stand for it. Convince me that it can be done in the world of Final Fantasy XIV and I will support you.

I like the idea, actually. It's not a good thing to spend money just to change the colour of your eyes. Also, OP, your videos creep me out. >.<

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Originally Posted by Cyrus-Wallace

I like the idea, actually. It's not a good thing to spend money just to change the colour of your eyes. Also, OP, your videos creep me out. >.<

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Originally Posted by HakuroDK

Now explain to me how the aesthetician would change skin color or eye color. Do contact lenses even exist in the world of FFXIV?
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Well glasses exist. Makes sense contacts would follow

But in a world where I'm hurling stones, casting fire and ice from a broomstick and raising people from the dead - I don't think its far fetched lore wise to assume contacts exist somewhere in Eorzea

http://www.dualshockers.com/2013/11/...t-screenscaps/

The devs themselves said this...

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You’ll be able to change face paint and its color, hair, facial hair and tattoos. Eye color is being considered as there are colored contact lenses in real life after all. Even more hairstyles will be available in every new patch.

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Taken from the live letter. You'll have to wait and see about the lore when they release it. (If ever at this rate)

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Originally Posted by Cyrus-Wallace

Also, OP, your videos are the absolute best!!!!

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FTFY ^_^V

On topic, yes I do endorse the idea of having the aesthetician giving the option to change eye/skin color. To me, Fantasia should really only be useful for race change.

Stay cool, Rou!

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Originally Posted by HakuroDK

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If you don't agree just say so, shielding behind lore as an excuse is the most idiotic thing someone can do, lore has never stopped the implementation of new things, they are the ones writing the story and they can change it anytime they want.

The next person who mentions lore is gonna get a lalapunch to the head.