I'm really happy with the outcome, like really really happy. Of course, this is not the hairstyle this character usually uses as you can see to the left what the forum avatar pulled from lodestone, but I had to pick something that is available in the benchmark character creator. The only tweaks I made were that I dropped the lighter eye by 1 shade and tweaked the lip colour a shade darker and a shade more purple than the original slot.

This is probably best case scenario, compared to a lot of other people whos WoLs look more significantly different from before. Of course, there are some differences here like eye shape and size and stuff like that, but I feel like it's an improvement in my case anyway.

I have tried my best to match lighting between old and new here, and in some lightings the difference is less flattering, but the original tended to look a little iffy in certain lighting angles anyway, and I feel like there are more photogenic angles now than before even if some scenes, like the blue character select screen zone is unflattering.

I really do want to see some adjustments for all the rest of y'all who are much less satisfied. I feel for you honestly and I'm truly not here to be contrarian. I do hope they can satisfy people while not causing much of my result to change, I could foresee being disappointed if further tweaks came in and undid this for me.