DARK/DISCOLORED FACE BUG FIX:
(The tutorial below is meant for Special Edition, but it might still work for Skyrim LE and the LE CreationKit. It's super easy and effective, so I thought I'd share it here even though I'm literally a decade late.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10vmDf2EAJc

Hey, Learnado!
I love this mod and have used it back in the days before modding Special Edition was good. However, due to all the advances in SE modding, I've been updating my modlist for a new SE play-through and I ended up porting this mod manually because I couldn't find a Lydia mod I liked as much! Would it be alright if I posted the SE port of this mod to the Nexus and giving crediting you as creator? I'd love to keep it updated and available for the next generation of players! ( ( : )

does this still work? Do you just subscribe?

now she looks kinda like Evie from Assassins Creed :D nice^^

Try turning off all your other mods except this one and seeing if it still happens.

This happens with all mods linked to Lydia's face change, when you give her a 1hand weapon/take it from her shes in an endless loop of Drawing the weapon, the noise is annoying as hell, it looks stupid- If possible fix it please It will make me install such things

Great mod. I avoid helms that cover her face now

The only bug I've experience is when she equips a 1h and shield. Lydia gets stuck in a loop of the draw weapon animation after I draw my own. It happened after exiting one of the mountain passes and continued to happen afterwards. I armed her with a 2h weapon and no bugs so far.

That's most likely a conflict with another mod that's chaning Lydia's appearance, you can try loading this mod last and see if that helps.

I got the mod, but Lydias face is just darker than the rest of her body :/

It works without that mod, it just wont look exactly like the screenshots above.

Real skin and Improved Chargen Women isn't a mod anymore, so this doesn't work :/

Never mind.....she fixed herself and is now roaming the house like she should.

She is still wearing armor and a shield. The only way I can get her to change to fine clothes is to make her a follower and take away the armor and shield. When I do that, I lose one of my other followers. Is there anyway to get her out of the armor without making her a follower?

I created a version without the tattoo: http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=125868302

cool^^

I'll see about doing a version without the tattoo next time I'm playing around in Creation Kit.

Nice job but is it possible to do a version without tatoo ? or with an other tatoo ?

You sir are a scholar AND a gentleman. Those two commands cleared up my issue and I am now thinking about adding them to the Elder Scrolls Wiki. Thank you Leonardo for helping me restore my game to default.

Give this a try: Talk to Lydia and trade with her to get back all the items you can from her inventory. Then open console (~) and click on Lydia to target her. Type "removeallitems" in console to remove any remaining items she might still have on her and finally type "resetinventory" in console to reset her inventory back to what is hopefully the proper defaults.

I ran into an issue when disabling this mod. When I turn it off, along with all other mods, it seems my save game shows Lydia carrying no weapon despite having them in her inventory. No weapon animations appear and when she goes to draw a weapon a broken sound loop starts and she holds an invisible two handed sword. I feel like this is due to the changes of her default inventory. Would you be able to explain how to set her inventory back to default or what file to replace in the skyrim.bsa in order to fix this glitch?

Thanks! Glad you like it! That's weird that it's not working right. I'm not sure what would cause it to revert like that, especially if you've moved it all the way to the bottom of the load order so that it's the last mod to load.

My Lydia keeps reverting to vanilla. :( Any time I subscribe or add or unsub or remove any mod she reverts, and I have to come here and resub her. I tried moving her to the bottom of the load stack, but that hasn't helped. Still, she's MUCH better your way! I very much like that you made her look better without making her a cotton candy sex kitten the way most Lydia "improvement" mods do. Also, why does everyone seem to want Lydia to be a pale white girl? *lol* I love your version!

Hmm..well.right now this mod conflicts with Ashara'a Faces mod..still working on a way around it.

it is brilliant it worked very well and now the only thing i want to change about lydia is a bug that has nothing to do with this, i just found a bug the first time i got lydia which is i can't trade things with her i click on it and it doesn't work but of course this has nothing to do with the mod i just wonder if anyone knew how to fix it.

It worked, thanks!

Usually when you lose a follower like that it means they got stuck trying to follow you somewhere. They should return home on her own after a day or so in game. Give this a try:

1. Open console (~) and type "prid 000A2C94" and press Enter. This is Lydia's reference ID (RefID) and the command will set her as the target for the next command.
2, Now type "moveto player" and press Enter to move her to your location.

She disappeared when I was questing, got a command to bring her back to Breezehome?

Hmmm...looks good..but can you have her without the war paint ?

I like it! She's a real comfort to have around now!

U did a great job. Congrats. :)

well di vinci was a great artist and so are you great work

thanks :)

You get Lydia after killing the dragon at the watchtower outside Whiterun, which is the quest "Dragon Rising". If you haven't done that quest, go to Whiterun and talk to the Jarl.

where do I find her sorry if I missed it where I can find her

Ok...

Sorry, that's not a part of this mod so I can't help you with that.

She looks great now, but how do I give her female walking animations? Please help!

Great! Thanks for the speedy update. I'll give it a try after work tonight.

@Bullfrog - It does now! I've updated it so she should now level up all the way to 81 with the Dovahkiin. I tested it successfully with a new character.

However ...if you've already gotten Lydia, she seems to get stuck at her default level cap of 50. You can fix this using the console by doing the following:

1. Dismiss Lydia from your service.
2. Open console (~) and click on Lydia so she's selected.
3. Type setlevel 1000,0,6,81 and hit enter.
4. Close the console and reopen it. Lydia should still be selected, if not, select her again.
5. Type getlevel to confirm that she's now the same level as you.

Hopefully that works for you, let me know if it doesn't!

Does this mod raise Lydia's level cap? I love the changes you've made, but I'm having trouble finding mods that make her essential AND fix the level cap problem, or don't conflict with other mods that do.

LOL, I was about to say "she looks like Lena Headey" when I noticed the top comment said exactly that haha.

Haha, yeah she does! I love Lena Headey.

She reminds me of Cersei from Game of Thrones actress (Lena Headey)

I don't know if it is conflicting with another mod but she evaporated... in Riverwood

@Capt Dave Have you tried unsubscribing to this mod and then seeing if she'll use the weapons? What other mods are you using? I've had no issues with Lydia using weapons that I give her. Getting followers to use certain weapons can be buggy in general, but I want to see if it's only happening when this mod is loaded. Maybe her fists are more powerful than the weapons you're giving her?

Thanks

I gave her a variety of weapons and although they show up on her back she doesn't use them to fight with

Thanks for pointing that out, I had originally made the mod before they fixed that in patch 1.5 so Lydia still had the old marriage flag. It's updated now so she should be marriable again!

Cool mod I just wish this mod made her marriable, I can't find another mod that JUST makes her marriable. :P

Thanks for letting me know, I added that to the Conflicts. Unfortunately as far as I know there isn't a way around that.