[Graphics Update Feedback] The lips

[Ridaine]

Want to start out by saying I recognize not all changes will appeal to everyone, and that characters looking a little different is the point. I'm not here to throw a fit and demand they redo all their work, as much as I'm pointing out something I feel was overlooked/left behind in the update.


So as everyone has noticed, the lips are in a State. The cupid's bow seems to have been removed from everyone's lips, along with any contrast to separate the upper and lower lips.
Additionally the edges have been softened in ways that change the shape/make them less defined.

One of my biggest disappointments is also the lip colours.
There's little to no shine (again, lending to it looking more like a blob of colour on the face than defined lips) and the colours are still very weak saturation.

The darker tones just go grey immediately and lack any saturation. Any attempt to do, for example, a red lip, gets you a warm taupe colour instead. The darker the lips the less saturation, which leads to you looking just kind of goth.
This is a long-standing issue I hoped they'd address with the graphics update, like they did for the face paints.
It'd be nice to get more actual lip colour options/variety than pastel unnatural, light pink, and dark muddy taupe.

Another post addressing this issue here: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ncern-and-eyes

However it doesn't mention the unfortune lip colour range so my post still stands imo