Hey everyone. Sorry ahead of time for how long-winded I'll be. As an idiot with OCD, I've noticed a lot of little details changed across many face options and many races--but not all of them--that make this a bit difficult for me to organize.

I'll preface this by saying that I've been very much looking forward to the visual update, and I have several characters I do enjoy the changes for, but I feel like many others have details that were weirdly overlooked, or touched up too much for the sake of looking even more "conventionally beautiful" despite not needing it.

A stark, immediate example I can think of that apply to a large handful of female faces across several races: permanent makeup being applied on faces that used to have the option to be "plain".

I'm going to admit this right away even though it embarrasses me: I have thirteen alts of varying gender/race/clans (I've been playing for 10 years and like RP!!!). So, uh. I'll be using those for my examples.

ANYWAY, for example for real: Here's a Face 1 female Highlander with and without the eyeliner option in the current engine: https://imgur.com/a/7kJ5WFD

And here's the same face, at the same angle, with and without the eyeliner option: https://imgur.com/a/WUwL6tV

This isn't the only face this happens to, and I think it's an aggravatingly confusing choice when the option to put makeup on these already anime-styled faces has always been there. The vast majority of female faces, in general, get their own specific options in the Facial Features tab! So why get rid of the option to be just slightly plainer looking?

Hell, female Viera have been like this from the start, but, well, I didn't mind it since they were simply always like that. But for some reason they just...intensified their baked-in eyeliner? When they already have the option to intensify it?

What I mean is in this link: https://imgur.com/a/MBgzwqC
I currently have grey eyeshadow on her to make her eyes just a little less intense. In the 7.0 version, the baked-in eye makeup is darker and thicker for some reason, keeping me from being able to cover up the same amount. ...There's another change in there that I hate that I'll get to.

This is far from the only thing I mean by "beautifying." A lot of facial features aren't updated--they're straight up changed to be, I guess...better(?) (???) It's, again, hard to collect them all because it really does vary from face to face regardless of race. But a TON of lip shapes have changed, like with them making lips that didn't previously have an upward tilt, well, have one (Male Midlander Face 1 and fem Elezen Face 4 come to mind, & male Miqo'te Face 4 in some lighting, somehow). Or COMPLETELY changing the lip shape and emphasis. (Fem Viera Face 2 changes shape, and male Viera Face 3 and male Au Ra Face 3 has the balance of colors between its upper and lower lips completely changed).