If you get nothing else recommended here, get this! Buhudain's You Are Real - Adds realism to the normal map.

AWT's HQ Mod - I use the maximum settings.

If you download the skin but do not get all of these additional items, the skin will not look the same in your game as in mine. The screenshots are shown with certain mods which are intended for use with this skintone. If you have a weak computer, please don't download this - it probably won't make your graphics card explode, but it's not good for it, and it won't look as pretty as my screenshots. It is made to be used with an HQ mod to allow for higher texture rendering.

This skintone is made with 2x size (2048x2048) face and body textures. What you see is exactly as they look in my game. Screenshots are completely unedited (except for necessary blurring of nipples/genitals/buttcrack, rotating images, and a little bit of resizing) - no filtering or actions applied whatsoever. Sims in the screenshots are shown completely without makeup, though this skin is meant to be used with S-Club's 3D eyelashes (there is an overlay included that mostly removes the EA eyelashes). The tone ramp is labelled 'HP Idola3' and the skintone 'spot' shows up teal, so you should be able to find it easily. The tone ramp goes from lighter-than-EA-default in a very pale tone to quite dark, and varies somewhat between tones, from olive to pinkish, more saturated and less saturated, so you can get a wide range of tones with a single addition to your custom skintones. Due to the way this skin is made, it's not ideal as a default. If you would like them for other age groups, feel free to convert. This works for teen, young adult, and adult only as those are the only age groups I ever play. This skintone is an attempt at approximating my 'Idolatry' skintones for Sims 2 - detailed without being photorealistic, simmish without being dull, complex without being overly-shiny.

Mts sims 3 empty world