I want a mod that changes and enhances the NPCs of the game to make them less ugly. I am currently using Beautiful People and it is ok but I would like to know what else is out there. what other kinds of NPC enhancer mods are out there and what are your opinions?

BP is a cosmetic mod. It mainly let the user make NPCs prettier or whatever. Tamriel Npcs Revamped (TNR} is a good mod for changing NPCs faces. For improving facial textures, I recommend Improved Facial Textures (IFT). I also throw Enayla's New Face Textures on top of that last mod.
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16843

I like Cobl Races over just TNR by itself. Cobl Races includes all of TNR's faces and also adds many new hairstyles and eyes to all vanilla NPCs.

Yes this one! This one!!

I prefer Natural Faces + Danis Natural Faces Patch over the IFT and Enaylas. You could look at them all and see what you like; there are comparison pictures on some of the mods.

One of the big differences here is that Cobl Races is a racial rebalance as well, not just a cosmetic mod. The TNR incorporation is optional too.

The balancing is optional. It will add a few new races, but you have to use a separate plugin to re-balance the vanilla races and birthsigns.

I forgot about that part too. Okay, so just about everything but the relations and the new cosmetics is optional. Any other things I've missed, no Elaborate Eyes support or something...?


Edit: I need to go to bed, good night...

Actually, now that I think about it, I'm not sure you even have to use the Cobl Races plugin if you don't want too. So you could just use the Cobl TNR plugins to add the faces, hair and eyes to NPCs and not make any additions to vanilla's race selection.

I have a related question -

I am using RBP (which I understand is a superset of COBL races). I am using the beautification.esp (also in Wrye Bash tags) as part of RBP. Can I use Beautiful People or another cosmetic mod with that? Will Wrye Bash take care of them working together?

I think yes, you could deactivated BP and only merge RBP. You would have to use the EE support plugin; however, you are better off sticking with RBP and tossing in a mod that just adds hairs and/or vanilla eye mesh additions.

Would there really be much of an addition by using BP? one of the optional NPC diversity plugins has : BP's facial structure, new eyes, and new hairs, so I can't really think of what BP would add besides conflicting with that.

Also http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?showtopic=1072579 category for 7 topics liket his one.

If you're into anime/manga style characters you can also try XEO5.