Does anyone know how I can make it so my character does not have a 5 o'clock shadow. No mat\ter what I do, all my female characters have the shadow

I don't know for sure if it's caused by the same thing that causes the skin tone issues like an african-american NPC having a white body. But I believe converting your plugin to a master file through Master Update fixed those issues, so it might fix their faces too. But I found it to be more of a pain in the azz that it was worth to convert to master files. Plus it dumps a crapload of other junk in your data folder. It's also a pain to have to turn my plugin back into an esp to edit anything, so I hated it, lol.

But now, the downside is that all of my NPC's are unfortunately lilly white, lol.

What i've done is edit the NPC record of the preset, under advanced, then texture. There's a bunch of settings for beard. Just adjust the sliders on those.