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I got tagged by @ellisimis to do this challenge by @ts4boytique! I used this opportunity to debut my boy Ozias and his love for anything sweet n coffee-related as he’s not much of a tea lover!

TS4 Boytique presents: Tea Moods Lookbook Challenge 

Hey everyone, Eli here. I wanted to thank everyone who has followed @ts4boytique already, and as a thank you I wanted to offer a lookbook challenge! There are no winners here, I just want to challenge everyone to do their best at making some sims and getting creative.

What do you mean “Tea Moods Lookbook”?

In this challenge I want you to think of your favorite tea (or other hot beverage) and make a sim lookbook based around that! 

In my example that I provided, I made a sim named Akio who is enjoying some sencha green tea in a Japanese garden. 

What are the rules?

The only rule other than basing your look on your favorite tea is to make/use a male or masculine sim. I want to encourage people to get out of their comfort zones when it comes to making sims! You can use alpha, maxis match, or a mix of cc!

When you make one please use the hashtag #teamoodsLB and tag @ts4boytique to get featured! Feel free to message me here if you have any questions.

Akio is wearing CC by: @darte77, @mathcopesims, @s4simomo, @wistfulpoltergeist, @remussirion, @xldsims Thank you so much!

To get this started I’m going to tag a few folks I adore, literally anyone from the NSFT discord, and you! Please feel free to tag your friends when you make yours!

- Eli @nougat-sims 🍵

TEA MOODS LOOKBOOK CHALLENGE

I have never participated in any challenge with Sims 4 other than my personal ones of designing #NoCC lots, which I must say is a VERY challenging thing for me to do with all of the CC that I have created and all that I have by others who are much better than I am at creating CC. That said, I also want to add that just a small tag or mention such as the one that @wistfulpoltergeist did in tagging me for this challenge can make in one's day and general outlook on things. It is a VERY lovely thing to be thought of, no matter in what manner. Thank You @wistfulpoltergeist!

Since I don't Social Media very well, I took the lead from them and made two Sims for my two favorite teas. Having read the suggestion made by @ts4boytique for the challenge of getting out of one's comfort zones, I summarily dismissed such a crazy thought, and hastily retreated right into my comfort zone as per usual. What I discovered while making the screenshots for the pair is that I really want to update my CAS trait replacements so that I can have ANY other poses to capture in CAS than the default 'idle' one, which has so few frames/variation to it, it becomes a challenge in and of itself to capture the Sim in different poses and not 5 variations of the same posture... o_0 My computer, while being solid (knocking on wood) and allowing me to play Sims 4 on Maximum settings does NOT allow for me to use Re-Shade successfully, and I have never been one to use Sims 4 as a posing/rendering program as I have DazStudio for those needs. I never the less very much appreciate seeing how much effort some people put into their screenies! The two Sims are pulled from my Tray files of two different butlers that I had altered in-game, featuring five choices of outfit - formal, athletic, party, swimwear and cold weather. I believe that one of the facial hairs comes from the talented @golyhawhaw, otherwise the CC used is of my own creation.

The first one, top photo, is of the first tea that I fell into Like with while living in New York and going to my favorite Dim Sum place on Mott Street - Zhu Cha, or Gunpowder Tea [wiki]. Living in New York also gave me the bonus of being able to shop at Ten Ren (ditto for #2), so there's that as well. (Gunpowder tea is in NO way red, I maybe should have gone with Hibiscus tea for that - really, but I took the 'hot beverage' thing too seriously and never drank self-made hibiscus tea hot... OK, let's just pretend that I did go with that, alright?)

The second photo is of my 'mainstay' Favorite tea - genmaicha [wiki]. I was introduced to this tea while living in San Francisco and eating at the first and subsequently also the last restaurant that I ate in while there - the much lamented and long gone 'No Name' (officially Nippon) sushi restaurant. So many great memories of so many Amazing sushi meals prepared by the head chef there, who got great amusement of watching me sitting at the counter while I would stream Happy tears from the 'wasabi orgasms' that I would get from the maguro nigiri that he made for me!!! He was a marvel to watch, made even more so as he looked as if he were an ancient samurai who stepped right out of a ukiyo-e by Sharaku [wiki]. I did not try to replicate his visage for the Sim , as he was so unique that I would not want a watered-down version of him.

Thank You for this challenge, however I do not really know anybody well enough to tag them. o_0