A brand-new set of body hair designs.
The first version of my body hair was created years ago, before the game even had a body hair category. Although I was happy with it at the time, I've been dissatisfied with the art style and wanted to update my body hair for a while now. This new suite of body hair offers a more realistic set of hair for your sims.FEATURES:1) Includes 24 Chest Hairs, 11 Back Hairs, 9 Arm Hairs and 9 Leg Hairs2) Enabled for the official Hair Growth system from EP12: High School Years3) 100% Hand painted for a unique, detailed Maxis-match style4) Arm hair includes armpits on all stylesHAIR LOCATIONS:There are four official growth areas: Chest, Back, Arm and Leg. I've grouped my hair as follows:Chest: all chest hair and pubic hairBack: all back and buttock hairArm: all arm and armpit hairLeg: all leg hairNOTES ON HAIR GROWTH:The HSY pack includes a hair growth system (enabled in CAS), which allows your sim to shave and re-grow body hair. Because I intend this style of hair to be my "default" body hair style, I've enabled it for the growth system.It mostly follows the game's three official growth stages (Light, Medium, Heavy).My Chest and Back hair designs include five coverage levels, but only three of each are enabled for hair growth: the first, the middle, and the last. I've made a note of which levels are enabled, and which stage they represent, in the preview pictures.DEFAULT HAIR HIDER:I've included a default hair hider file. The file is designed to completely remove the official body hair designs from your game, both in CAS and in-world.The game appears to be coded to recognize one style of hair for growth. If you use only my hair, the default hider should stop your sim from re-growing Maxis hair designs and cause them to only grow Simdulgence hair designs.If you have multiple CC body hair which are enabled for hair growth, the game may produce unexpected results when sims grow hair.AVAILABILITY:The hair is available for male sims of either frame (masculine and feminine). It is not available for female sims of either frame, because their UV is slightly different and will require some unique texture work.KNOWN ISSUES:Body hair can cause some transparency issues where it meets the edges of lighter clothing swatches (especially white). The issue causes visual "gaps" where the hair disappears at the very edge. Unfortunately, this is a base game issue that occurs with official EA body hair and clothing (as illustrated in the pictures above). I've tried to minimize the issue where possible, but if the appearance bothers you the only solution is to use a darker clothing swatch.FINAL NOTES:I've tried to make the hair as detailed as possible. In some places where a sim's body bends, or the texture space is small, the detail may be lower quality. There isn't much I can do about that, unfortunately.CHANGELOG:2026-06-18: Added a standalone armpit hair to the Arm Hair category. This version has no hair on the upper or lower arms, just the armpit area.2026-03-28: Updated the WW Body Hair Selector file with all existing male body hair designs. Also re-organized the body hair to now appear in alpha A-Z order in the list and fixed an issue causing some of the thumbnails not to display correctly in the Selector.2026-02-25: Added a new style with 6 stages. The new style is for the Back and is a match to my existing coiled chest hair designs for Black sims. The stages range from a small amount in the crack/back of the scrotum to full coverage across the back.In CAS, these new styles can be found in between my existing back hair designs, rather than at the end, to better match the existing order of the corresponding chest hair designs (straight, coiled, curly).There's a new preview image in the post showing off the new designs.2026-02-09: Added a new body hair style with 2 stages. The new style is available for the Chest and features a distinctive spiral pattern above the pecs. Disclaimer: I didn't remember I'd already made a chest hair with similar spiral shapes until I was nearly done painting this new one - whoops! But I like this new one too much to not share it. I also added some grey hairs to the salt-n-pepper swatches, which I might start doing more of for future designs. 2025-07-01: Restored the missing DefaultHider package to the zip file.2025-06-14: Added new curlier body hair styles, including 5 Chest designs, 5 Back designs, 3 Arm designs and 3 Leg designs. The new designs have been added to both the BodyHairMale and the BodyHairMale_FemaleSims zip files.These designs were intended to be curly, and especially to fill a gap in my existing arm/leg styles - but as I painted them, they eventually turned out less "full curl" than I intended. I like the set and hope it will help add some body hair diversity to your sims, but I still plan to create some designs that push the level of curl even further.2025-05-19: Added a separate file enabling my male body hair styles for female sims (to work with my recent release of the 2.0 Simple Penis for feminine-framed sims). Because the styles were designed for sims with a penis, they won't look their best on a female sim with a vagina, but it's up to you how you use them. To keep file size low, some of the styles in this package rely on the original textures from the male version - so you must install both the main BodyHair_Male package file and the BodyHair_Male_FemaleSims package file in order for the designs to correctly show on female sims!2025-01-30: Fixed an incorrect flag causing one of the latest designs to show up for feminine-framed sims. (Some real life stuff came up or I would have fixed this sooner - thanks to everyone who commented and emailed to let me know about the issue!)2025-01-26: Added four new chest hair designs - two new full-chest designs, and two pubic-only variants of those designs. You can see a preview of the new designs in the pictures above.2025-01-16: Added two new chest hair designs, one for the entire chest and one pubic-only variant of the same design. You can see the new designs in the preview pictures.I do plan to add more arm and leg designs in future, but they're more time consuming and a little trickier because of the UV layouts. I also want to add more back/butt hair designs.2024-12-16: Added new 'coiled' body hair styles to more closely match Black hair. There are five levels of chest hair, three levels of arm hair and three levels of leg hair, all shown in preview pictures at the end of the post.My plan going forward is to create more styles with fewer coverage levels (for example - 3 designs with 1 level of chest hair each, versus 1 design with 5 levels of chest hair) so your sims can look more unique and different to each other. 2024-07-22: Made chest and back hair available to female sims with a masculine frame.2024-06-05: Fixed incorrect flags that were interfering with the body hair growth system. All hair growth stages across all hair designs should now work correctly.2024-02-08: Added an optional file to add the body hair to WW's pubic hair selector in game. This allows you to add a body hair in Live mode. The add-on currently contains the "natural" colors available in WW; I may add the other colors in a future update, depending on other projects and user demand.2024-01-16: Added two new chest/pubic hair designs, as seen in the final preview picture. The first style comes in two levels of coverage and the second style comes in three levels of coverage, for five new chest hair options in total. Altered thumbnails for pubic-only styles to better show off those designs (you may need to clear your localthumbcache.package file to see the new thumbnails).2023-11-29: Made several changes, including:- Added hair to the upper backside of the scrotum to correct gaps in existing butt hair (shown in the last preview picture). This extra bit of hair will ONLY show on SimplePenis 2.0 due to the changes in UV maps.- Added a NEW body hair for the back, featuring hair just around the butt crack and taint but no hair on the butt cheeks. This style is designed to bridge the gap between the default hairless option and my first butt hair option (light hair on the butt cheeks).- Changed the thumbnails of two existing back hair choices to reflect that they have butt hair and no hair on the back.2023-05-03: Fixed an issue causing chest hair to incorrectly show up for female AND male sims.