How dare you complain about this, when you clearly haven't spent countless attempts at creating the character you think you're creating in Skyrim, like I have. :S
I swear, I created my character and thought I got it right, then entered the game, ran through the dragon attack and got up close to a brazier. Only to find I was blind on one eye, evil grinned under the beard or simply deathlike in skin tone when I wanted tan.
Thankfully, I was wise enough to save the game right before character creation.

Like the others say, browsing the 4 different background settings in ARR will help you a lot. Also remember that you can toggle night/day view there!