LAST UPDATED: 28 Aug 2015
Welcome to my list of essential Skyrim character creation mods! If you’re like me, you spend more time in the character creator than playing the actual game, so I hope you enjoy this list :D
Best Character Editing Mod (Sliders)
Enhanced Character Edit – I cannot live without this mod! It lets you alter so many tiny details about your character’s face and body that the vanilla character editor doesn’t let you touch. It also lets you set the expression on your character’s face. LOVE THIS MOD.  I like it better than Racemenu – I think it gives you a lot more flexibility.
Best Female Hair Mods
KS Hairdos Renewal – This is by far the most expansive and wonderful Skyrim hair mod pack out there! Â There are over 400 hairstyles to choose from, and it also comes with a ton of hairstyles for men!
SG Hairs 268 – This adds 268 gorgeous hairstyles ported over from custom Sims hairs. Sadly, the original author took down the mod but this is 100% hands down one of the best hair mod for females and I refuse to let it die, so download it here :)
Skyrim Special Edition Hair Color Mod Sims 4
Apachii Sky Hair – These are also beautiful, unique hairs that you cannot live without. Download them!
Showracemenu Precache Killer – This mod is absolutely essential if you’re using hair mods, otherwise your game will likely CTD every time you go into the character creation menu. Must. Have.
Best Male Hair Mods
KS Hairdos Renewal – Like I mentioned before, it comes with a ton of hairstyles for men … and they don’t all look like weird womanly anime hair!
Apachii Sky Hair – Make sure you download the male versions of the hair (v. 1.5 AND v 1.2) as well!
Best Female Face Textures (for a full breakdown, see this post)
Univision Face – I like that this texture makes your characters look very Final Fantasy-esque, but I know that’s not for everyone so …
SG Face Textures Renewal – I love this face texture for a more realistic effect. I think it’s a great balance of realistic yet not too worn.
Best Male Face Textures (for a full breakdown, see this post)
Better Males – Beautiful Nudes & Faces – There are several different face texture packs for males in this mod, but I prefer the Younger Faces Combined with Geonox version – gorgeous!
Best Eyebrow Mod
True Brows – These high def eyebrows show each strand of eyebrow hair and come in dozens of shapes and sizes for both males and females!
 Best Eye Mod
The Eyes of Beauty – This is my top eye mod because it adds tons of different eye textures and colors that look hyper-realistic and range from natural to supernatural. I especially like that there are so many multi-colored eye options and even the dark eyes look bright and beautiful.
Mikan Eyes – I like that this includes mismatched eyes, too. Â There are a ton of pretty colors to choose from!
Skyrim Special Edition Hair Color Mod
Best Warpaint Mod
RAWR-paints – Ok, shameless plug for my own mod that adds some video game themed warpaints for male characters hehehe.
Ravens Warpaint – I love these warpaints – they’re so varied and beautiful! There is something for everyone, whether it’s tough bandit stripes or delicate florals.  This is for females only.
Battle Hardened Warpaints – This is the best warpaint for male characters! Â You can mix and match from each set to create your own ideal palette of warpaints.
Best Lips Mod
Seductive Lips – This mod gives your character a pillowy soft looking set of lips. I like to install this mod over the face textures I use!
Want to read more about Skyrim modding? See my other posts here!
Which female face texture mod is your favorite? Let me know in comments!
The definitive special edition of Skyrim has been out all of a day and already has racked up nearly 300 Xbox One mods at Bethesda's website now that the developer is allowing console mods on newer games.
That number is sure to skyrocket further, considering the untold thousands of mods in existence for the original PC edition. For those who finally got in on the mod action with Fallout 4 on the Xbox One, you may have noticed a lack of certain type of hyper-popular mod.. yep, that's right, there's no console nudie mods for Fallout at all.
It's not clear if that was Bethesda's call or Microsoft's, but either way its not going to be changing for the remastered Skyrim on current gen systems either. Occasionally a nude mod does sneak by under the radar using a different name, but it always get culled eventually as moderators notice and ban them.
Sadly, that does greatly reduces the Not Safe For Work (NSFW) opportunities for Skyrim console mods, but don't fret: it doesn't eliminate them entirely! There's plenty of mods that make things just a bit more racy without going fully nude or sexual, and there's loads of options for making this latest Elder Scrolls entry more mature and violent than was originally intended.
Enhanced Blood Textures
An absolute must for a gritter, gorier version of the Elder Scrolls universe, this mod doesn't just make the blood look better, it ensures there will be plenty more of it on the screen.
New decapitation and death spasm animations are added, in addition to varying levels of blood spurting out depending on how much damage any given attack actually deals. Basically, this is essential day 1 downloading - when and if it finally becomes available for Xbox One / PS4.
Seraphim Female Body Replacer
This one actually already made it over to the console mod realm due to some dedicated (or maybe overeager?) fans who like their female characters to be of the more voluptuous variety.
While the original PC mod had bared breasts, this one obviously doesn't, but everything else appears to have come over to the console version. Seraphim Female Body Replacer is essentially a suite of mods all meshed together, combining some of the best character model changes into one package for more attractive female NPCs across the game.
Caliente's Beautiful Bodies Edition
Perhaps even better than Seraphim's Female Body Replacer, this mod definitely won't make it in its full form as there's a good deal of nudity involved, but it also tweaks all the character bodies in non-nude forms, making them appear better than they did in the vanilla version of the game.
Essentially this modder made custom textures based off photographs of real women to make the bodies appear more realistic, and while the Skyrim Special Edition does get a graphical upgrade, it could always use even more of an eye candy boost.
Better Males
The male equivalent of the Seraphim and Caliente mods, this one has a very strong nude focus, but it does also drastically change the appearance of faces, chests, and hair for all males NPCs. The hanging jumbly bits will obviously have to go, but everything else should be kosher for a console mod one day in the not-too-distant future.
FNIS Sexy Moves
Rather than replacing textures or body shapes, this mod changes how characters move and react when you walk near them. Instead of the typical stiff and mechanical animations, FNIS makes all the female NPCs move more lithely and frequently flaunt their various assets – which you should have improved with the previous mods already, of course!
Relationship Dialog Overhaul
This one's not exactly NSFW, but it's a highly recommended mod that does add in a ton of new insults for rivals to hurl at you, if you like to take a little abuse while playing Skyrim.
It also rather increases the quality of the dialog and offers a more mature approach across the game – and this one has actually landed on consoles already!
Non-Essential Children
Of course the most divisive mod would make this list, with some loving it and others finding it to be too disturbing to contemplate. For a more immersive and dark world, modders quickly got rid of the old Bethesda standby of weirdly making children invincible and unkillable.
With this PC mod that has yet to make it to consoles (and probably won't if Bethesda has anything to say about it..) children can not only be damaged and killed, but also pick pocketed just like any other adult NPC you come across.
Sadly, there's never going to be those Schlongs Of Skyrim or Lover's Lab style mods for consoles (sorry folks, we know how much you like that) until developers and console manufacturers get less uptight about nudity and sexuality in gaming.
That being said, there's plenty of room for NSFW content to arrive if modders are smart about what they include and skirt the line of actual exposed breasts and genitalia.
A full list of currently available SkyrimSpecial Edition console mods can be found right here - what NSFW mod do YOU want to see arrive for Xbox One or PS4 soon?
Published Oct. 28th 2016