I agree, would be nice to get hair salons so we can change the colour. And also every colour for every race available.

They've been taunting us with black hair on high elves since before the game launched on PC...

Also had the problem with hair styles... originally you couldn't use the 'Short Imperial' hair style on Bosmer, even though male Bosmer NPCs had that hair style! Finally when they gave us the hair style pack I was able to give my male Bosmer that style.

OP I agree, we should be able to have ALL hair color options for every race, except for Argonians and Khajiit as they each have separate colorations.

They keep teasing us with black-haired High Elf NPCs. It's so not fair.

ZOS, can we get an answer to this? Don't know if i missed it, but why isn't the Black/Dark hair option available on Altmer?
There must be a reason on why it has not been included in the first place, and why hasn't been included later on.

tomofhyrule wrote: »

As has been pointed out before, there are other 'non-collectable' cosmetics that players don't have access to, it's not just dark hair for Altmer.

We can see that there are also Altmer with deep blue eyes (Erwurlde the guild trader in Mournhold), which are designed correctly as Altmer-style eyes and just not available for players. NPCs of other races also have access to unavailable hairstyles (the shade of ginger Trynhild uses is not available for playable Nords). There are also a few skintones that NPCs have that we cant - the one that makes me really salty is the number of green Orcs we see (Mighty Mordra, Captain Graalug, or Brulak to name a few), and yet my playable character can only be grey or brown. He's supposed to be green!

I have a feeling that it's mostly that the PC interface uses the 10x2 color grid, so they cut some colors to keep the grid tidy. But I think Console UI has a slider instead. I'd give up my clean grid for a slider so I could make my Orc green like he's supposed to be..

If I remember correctly it looks like a slider but has only 10 or 12 different skin colors.

katanagirl1 wrote: »

tomofhyrule wrote: »

As has been pointed out before, there are other 'non-collectable' cosmetics that players don't have access to, it's not just dark hair for Altmer.

We can see that there are also Altmer with deep blue eyes (Erwurlde the guild trader in Mournhold), which are designed correctly as Altmer-style eyes and just not available for players. NPCs of other races also have access to unavailable hairstyles (the shade of ginger Trynhild uses is not available for playable Nords). There are also a few skintones that NPCs have that we cant - the one that makes me really salty is the number of green Orcs we see (Mighty Mordra, Captain Graalug, or Brulak to name a few), and yet my playable character can only be grey or brown. He's supposed to be green!

I have a feeling that it's mostly that the PC interface uses the 10x2 color grid, so they cut some colors to keep the grid tidy. But I think Console UI has a slider instead. I'd give up my clean grid for a slider so I could make my Orc green like he's supposed to be..

If I remember correctly it looks like a slider but has only 10 or 12 different skin colors.

Yeah, it's the same 20 colors for each we have on PC. My point was that a slider makes it so that if they wanted to add more, they could without redesigning the UI. If they went to give us a 21st color (or 25th, or 37th) on PC UI, we'd need a different element.

Not that I think that's likely. I'll just have to sit and imagine my Orc's biceps greener than they are

This was my first letdown when I bought the game many years ago.

Then I was let down by how hard it is to make a handsome male Altmer.

Other popular MMOs have had character upgrades/ revamps, but ESO is stuck looking like the oldest game when it comes to character creation.

I love so many things about ESO. I'd rank character creation as the worst among all the MMOs I play.

You can make something hideous so fast (looking at you, Bastian), but trying to make a decent looking male of any race is rough. Not impossible, but it takes patience, skills, and maybe a few rounds of cash shop purchases to re-do the character because they never look the same in game as they do in the character creator.

Black Desert Online spoiled me. All character creation re-dos are unlimited as part of the subscription.
ESO is a better game overall, but it really could use some graphical upgrades and more hair color options. Improved hair textures as well. I'm not incentivized to buy a hair style if hair textures look bad in ESO.

I think mine looks pretty good

Damn, posted this in 2018 and still nothing. Unfortunate.

I still want black hair on my altmer :c

Please let us buy a bunch of hair colors. We can switch between them like we do with hairstyles.

I would love to have an overhaul of the character creation that would allow far more options, or having the ability to change your looks in game, using styles/whatever you can find in game world (such as a process on how to dye hair black and make it look natural, something like that)

TaSheen wrote: »

Really need a barbershop like in RIFT....

Wow has one too. You can change everything down to gender. They got rid of their appearance change service a number of years ago.

I'd at least like to be able to change my hair color. Heck I'd even pay a few crowns for it, like in GW2. I just don't always want to buy a full appearance change just to change hair color.

Clearly these npc's dye their hair and ZOS haven't added them in game