My wood elf's head for some reason is a completely different color (greyish brown) than her body (brown). This is so unsettling. What gives?

Im on console. I didn't even mess with the face i just changes the whole skin tone.

Console or PC?

probably due to the options you picked during the char gen

Are you on PC and use face and body mods? Sounds like a mismatch there.

console. Looks like beth just didnt make it look good.

All i did was change the skin tone or whatever its called.

It's like this no matter what race and skintone you pick. I hate it and I hope they sort it out in future games.
It's also on Oblivion. On Oblivion I have an Altmer with a yellow body and a dull yellow face.

In Skyrim the characters body looks like it has never been washed but the face is perfectly clean.
My current character is white with a pink body and I hate it. http://i.imgur.com/63IloMk.jpg

It is an unfortunate side effect of the tone slider. It should have applied to the body also, but it does not. This is why I usually left mine alone and just adjusted the shape of the face.

I'd like to see more of her pink body . You know, so I can "hate" it too.

http://i.imgur.com/t9DK4IJ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/OMQif2n.jpg