I cant tell/remember or do i have a mod that removed it. Creating a male altmer or breton and the last complexion setting doesnt look like old Skyrim

Have you clicked through all of the complexions to see if it's there, but in the wrong order?

I don't have SSE installed right now, but those lists (at least when modded) seem to get generated dynamically, without sorting--the slider position moves around. Sometimes I'll see the old texture in the middle rather than the far right.