Quality Over Quantity - KS Hairdo's Reduced Plus HG
⚪ Last updated 2022⚠️ Install Order · 5 steps
Install in this order, then this mod last — most mods fail to load without their framework and dependencies in place.
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 0.3% endorsement rate
- 🏆 #1 of 220 Body, Face, and Hair mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
I needed to make this for a future project and thought I would share. Nothing extraordinary with this one, just fewer KS Hairs to scroll through.
I’ve provided two options for both hair mods, one drastically reduced and a less reduced option. The current hair counts are 215 female hairs and 77 male hairs for the drastically reduced option. The less-reduced option contains 349 female hairs and 99 male hairs. As for criteria used to decide what to cut, basically, it boiled down to redundancy, practicality, uniqueness, and lack of torso clipping. Meaning there’s enough variety offered in both options to satisfy most casual character creators.
Some differences from the previous iterations of KS Hairdos Lite are that all hairs were selected from scratch, meaning older hairstyles weren’t prioritized over recent additions. Longer hair options have been retained as I tested clipping extensively on my own personal UUNP preset. Compatibility is retained with mods dependent on KS Hairdos, similar to KS Hairdos 1. 7 Salt and Wind. Meaning it should be easy enough to re-enable a hairstyle if you feel its exclusion wasn’t warranted. Lastly, HG hairstyles were chosen to reduce overlap and synergize with KS when using both together.
Otherwise, yeah, just another version of KS Hairdo’s Lite. Download if you need it or want to check out the hair choices.
Oh, yeah, in regards to the mod image, it was just because I didn’t want to post another image of the default Nord lady in her prison clothes. Lastly, the user-submitted images (if you can see them as Nexus is being weird) are of the original version of HG Hairdos without my plugin replacer (links to that version can be found in the stickied post in the comments).
KS Hairdos by Kalilies and Stealthic
HG Hairdos 1 & 2 by summerdew
Quality Over Quantity - KS Hairdo's Reduced Plus HG trims the KS Hairdo's and HG Hairdos packs, removing hairstyles that clip into the body for a more immersive look. With 496 endorsements and over 145k downloads, it's a popular choice for Skyrim players who want fewer, better-fitting hair options.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Community-approved with 496 endorsements and over 145k downloads.
- Solves the immersion-breaking clipping issue in popular hair mods.
- Works for both KS Hairdo's and HG Hairdos in one package.
⚠️ Cons
- Reduces the total number of hairstyles, so you lose some variety.
- Last updated in March 2022, so it may not be compatible with the latest game patches or other mods.
- Potential conflicts with other hair mods that modify the same records.
For Skyrim players who prioritize immersion and hate seeing hair clip through armor or bodies. If you're tired of scrolling through dozens of hairstyles you'll never use, this trims the fat. Skip if you want maximum hair variety or use other hair mods that might conflict.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Make sure to load this mod after the original KS Hairdo's and HG Hairdos so it overwrites them correctly.
- Use a mod manager like Vortex or MO2 to easily see which files are being overwritten.
- If you notice missing hairstyles, check that no other mod is overwriting this one's changes.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Skyrim Mods
- Author
- MiTelefonoBroken7
- Version
- 1.00
- Downloads
- 145,412
- Endorsements
- 496
- Category
- Body, Face, and Hair
- Created
- 7/3/2021
- Updated
- 3/18/2022
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