Glasses project overly visible shadows onto the player character's face

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Date & Time: June 28th 2024, since 7.0 began at 5:00 AM Eastern US time.
Frequency: Whenever there is a strong enough light source
World name: Ultros
Character name: F'lawless Jesse

Steps:
1. Equip headwear that is glasses (here I am using Oval Reading Glasses) or equip one of the new facewear options (most visible on Oval Spectacles, Classic Spectacles, or Contemporary Pince-nez).
2. Stand where your face will be lit by a bright light source. Most importantly, this includes being lit by the sun (and this can happen in cutscenes). Because sunlight changes over the course of the day, this will not always be visible. I have had the clearest results reproducing it with sunlight when the weather is Clear Skies, it is within 3-5 PM Eorzean Time, and I am facing West. Similarly you can also face East in the morning in the same conditions; I know I saw it around 8 AM Eorzean time.
3. Observe distractingly visible shadows of the glasses on the face.

I understand that this might not be a "bug" exactly, but I also really don't think this is intentional. I believe this is a result of how the glasses in this game hover in front of the character's face rather than being as close as they would be in real life. The result looks very unnatural and it's very distracting when it happens, and it happened to me during an MSQ cutscene.

Here are a variety of examples from me standing in different areas, including while trying to change my hairstyle and confirming that it also affects the faceware items:








And these are specifically from an MSQ cutscene, which was what prompted me to reproduce and report this:




As someone who was already hoping that the facewear system would be more substantial than it currently is, I would really appreciate if this could be fixed. Currently I am going to avoid wearing glasses and facewear entirely due to the risk of this happening during MSQ cutscenes again. And if it is decided the shadows will not be reduced, offering an option to only disable shadows from head/facewear instead of the entire player character would be appreciated, as disabling all of the shadows looks very unnatural too.

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