Black Women Create Themselves In The Sims: No Mods vs. Mods (ft. EbonixSims)

six years for skin tones so you're telling me the aliens could have a skin tone the purple skins the vampires could have skin tones but i couldn't even be black [Music] hi i'm imani hey i'm nadia hi i'm taylor simone and i've been playing sims for around i'd say like four years since four for four years i've been playing the sims for an embarrassingly long time about 13 14 years i've been playing sims since i was a kid so if this i'm really about that life that seems like i usually don't make myself in the sims just because i find it difficult to make a sim that looks like me like there's like not a lot of texture within the hair they don't have a lot of edges you know they're starting to bring the baby hairs but you know it'd be nice to have some more options i have to say not just in the sims but in many games they tend to stick to two default styles for darker skin tones either braids or an afro i like my sims to be very diverse so that's why i want to get custom content because for me i want to see people of all sizes of all colors in my game base game ea doesn't really let you do that i just use custom content because a lot of the black content creators they know like what we like so if i want to have my sim wear a bonnet she can go to bed wearing a bonnet and it's lit so today we're going to try to make ourselves in the sims without any custom content and then we're going to send it to a custom content creator to see if they can hook it up judge it and make it look cute [Music] all right let's get started i would say it's kind of hard for me like just matching my skin tone they're coming in clutch with all the varieties which is very nice this is my first time actually seeing the skin tone pack and i'm so glad that they have undertones i wish i knew what undertone i actually had no no we'll get there i have thicker bushy eyebrows i'm just trying to find eyebrows to look like my eyebrows right now i don't want to be that person but the eyebrows in this game kind of makes me sad i feel like we need more options it's kind of hard finding my brow shape oh she got good brows she cute yeah when i use custom content i usually have a lot of nose presets that are for black people or for other people just because these these noses like they're just not very diverse nowadays in the cusp in the mods world they have a lot of different sliders usually there's certain like skin tones that kind of like customize the nose shape so i would use those with the noses i wish there were more presets available i feel like even now it's like slim or wide but like it's kind of hard to make my slightly button-ish nose usually when i have to make a nose from these presets it takes a very long time just because i don't look like this let's give these lips some flavor there's a size restriction you can only go but so big or so wide they're just very small just finding my lip shape is like the hardest part it's not going to have my lip shape but we're going to get as close as we can now i'm going to work on the hair the hair the hair is the this is the fun part let's see texture there we go afro textured okay i love seeing for afro textured hair it's afros mostly afros that's comforting they have the texture pretty down i guess like just adding like baby hairs would be like a extra plus look at the edges oh no i mean hairstyles for other races they give a lot more variety you can have it short long layered also i feel like they're color range for like the hairstyles aren't very diverse the hair color variety is absolute trash like my hair is technically dark brown but it's either this weird brassy brown how do you make brown brassy or my skin tone or black why are the eyebrows blue black and then the hair is a straight black like that blue black thing whose hair is like that these eyeshadows are kind of a mess why is that so light oh god i've noticed that they added into the game is that you can customize your makeup which is also another cool feature i'm using it right now and i'm not seeing nothing i don't think it makes a difference i think they tried did they succeed i mean let's ask the audience the makeup is a bit ashy on my skin tone oh god yeah i just need to hire a content creator like cc people at this point blush on brown skin always gets on my nerves where are the berry shades like even though you don't always have to do that but even like the corals the oranges the purples like all i see is pinks here and like that's okay we can still use pinks but we still need the option the pinks like in the game they just don't they i just don't like them it just looks i don't know it looks flat and just ashy to me so that's why i usually use custom content because they'd be having a pop of lip gloss like i'm trying to be popping out here in these same streets i think i'm all set all right and that is mwah i tried it's somebody is the somebody me no hi everyone my name is danielle i also go by ebonics or ebonic sims online what i do and what i have been doing for the last five going on six years is enabling players to be able to see themselves in the game so i taught myself how to 3d model and now today i'm making hairstyles which kind of more accurately represent black and pse backgrounds what inspired me to become a cc creator was essentially i i literally wanted a dashiki one day um and i realized that unfortunately there wasn't a dashiki and then it clicked that there wasn't much of anything that represented us you know i looked around and i found some tutorials on how to recolor custom content and i thought okay if i can do this what else can i do so the first lovely lady is imani okay so i think you know this is a hair that i i think they it came with island living so this is an example of a hairstyle that i think would have been great to be patched in and something that would be good to have as the base game so that you don't necessarily need to buy a pack for but you can still see that there's a kink and a curl and it's quite big and bold and i love i love this kind of hairstyle if we're talking custom content though i think a hairstyle that would look really great on her is by a creator called xx black sims she's also very dedicated to you know bringing about more kinks curls afros braids all of it you know i i love the diversity within the community and how every that no hairstyle is the same and i'm gonna add some makeup actually so there's a really lovely uh lipstick by a creator called orange samosas and they have pretty much matched x miramira's skin tones in order to um i guess bring out the beauty of kind of black lips and full lips and i mean of course i'm going to shout out my girl x mirror mirror who who's a melon impact i'm about to use so i mean definitely the sims has have added a whole bunch of you know there's over 100 skin tones but you know i feel like mira did essentially start the conversation like get the conversation going because we didn't have 100 skin tones to start with and it was very hard the sims were very ashy and it was really difficult to make a sim of your complexion so i've got some really nice eyelashes by brandy sims so i'm going to add those on and brandi sims is another black uh custom content creator in the community again someone who's been working really hard to fill the gap to ensure that we are being seen especially at more like the urban and uh like into the body style of things as well like they you know they've definitely got that side covered and i've got a really lovely blush that goes actually perfectly with amani skintone i don't know if i can add an overlay on her okay so imani this is you gorgeous now going to move on to taylor all right so this is the hairstyle that i've made and i think it goes really well with taylor simone's um current look and it would be i guess an updo if she were to have one see if she likes like a natural gloss if i'm if i'm looking correctly it seems she's looking more at a natural gloss that's a little bit bright and when you put an ea blush on let's say like a darker skin tone sim it just doesn't it doesn't look right or it doesn't come up at all um i think the mac lashes that they added in like i've got them on i'm trying them on taylor right now and the matte blushes you can barely see them and so you know the makeup definitely needs an overhaul riri my good sis if you're listening the sims need your help so my hair uh well this i get a face mask by estrogens and a really nice uh skin overlay why this is them um and it's completely changed the dynamic of taylor's sim cell nails are very very very much a popping piece of accessory that i am so glad has come about for the sims feeling a little bit bougie today so we're gonna put on some louis vuitton nails that i made so finally we have nadia you know i've always loved playing with hair and changing it up and making it look different and fun and so i wanted to also bring that to the sims just being able to change up your hair and give us a little judge little brother not everyday not everyday afro and braids going back you know i'm tired of those being our only options so this hair is by a creator called she speaks simlish so what i'm going to do is i'm also going to add an overlay as we've been doing she looks so lovely and i'm gonna slap my good sis x mirror mirrors uh skin tone on there as well so we are going back to the melanin pack because i see that nadia has got a very warm undertone so that is something that mira's uh melanin pack can definitely help bring out more of i'm gonna throw on a estrogens overlay as well or face mask as well community and nadia i think we're good i think we are good to go all three of you ladies are exceptionally beautiful um it is even an honor to create recreate you in the sims so thank you for giving me the opportunity to do so wow okay period okay this is a baddie okay she is a bad i'm sorry you're gonna bleep that out but yes like wow i've never tried to make myself in the sims before because that's just not my thing but this is cute the hair is cute i also like the hair it's like a textured updo it's not really falling into the two standard hairstyles of braid or afro how do you feel about the hair um hello it's it's giving it's getting what's supposed to gave very much so look at it it looks exactly like me not exactly like me but it's giving it's giving imani and ooh she gives me a lip gloss yes the nose has a little more dimension it's not just flat yeah i really like how they have nails like ea usually doesn't have any nails and especially that the nails are long and they look really trendy and cute after seeing my new and improved sim me it not only highlights what modders and creators of color can do but it also shows the shortcomings that ea has if i could tell ea one thing like do better like we would never get this from the sims we would never get a goddess knotless moment we would never do that and it's not because they can't it's because they don't want to or they don't know about it y'all i am in love with this character i love what ea's doing so far but maybe if they implemented some of the things that these custom like modders are doing then it would be great and we would have a great experience in the sims community [Music] you

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Id: fZhi2bSdXnQ

Length: 14min 35sec (875 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 21 2021