Custom skins--yea or nay?

So I thought I would consider getting some custom skins into my game.  A large part of this has to do with Appius.  He inherited his grandmother's custom skin, which in the male version defaults to the hairest hairy you have ever seen, and it's a sad bit of fugliness on an otherwise attractive sim.  I'd really prefer for his skin not to become spread through more genetics. On the other hand, he doesn't look normal without shiny skin--he makes it work.

( The good and the ugly. . .  )

I already use default eyes--icinitos' from MTS2.  I honestly don't know why nobody else uses them.  They certainly get around that ugly flat Maxis brown, and I needed a set that had contact lenses in addition to defaults (most importantly, a set with red eyes.)  But I don't know what I think of the set with Enayla skins.

So, question #1:  can I safely delete Appius' skin tone from Bodyshop?  I'm not sure what the file # is, so getting rid of it from my downloads folder might be tricky. Would it just default to skin tone #1?  Remember, I can't edit it in Sim PE, or I would.

Question #2:  Do you like the Enayla skins?  And do you think they work with the icinitos default eyes?

Here's a few sample pix:

( Maxis vs. Enayla-- )

If I do change skins, I'm going to do it after the University years chapters.  That way it won't be distracting.  Let me know what you think, and also how to deal with Appius' skin safely. 

PB

Take two

Continued foray into custom skin land.  Because with a big pile of grading and laundry, it's not as though I have anything important to do. This time I tried Lyran's custom defaults.

No surprise--it looked better on some of my sims than on others.  It also looks way better in the photos than it originally did to me in-game.

( Adventures in custom skin. . .  )

I may decide to use the Lyran defaults  some time in the future, but not immediately: it would look really weird to change skin tones mid-chapter.  I don't think it would be so noticeable in between chapters, as long as I wasn't going to use older photos, and it might be nice to change something up between all those weddings. . not as though I'm going to be getting Celebration Stuff, after all (kicks Aspyr.)

PB