Stylist Profession

[Leto85]

I havent touched the stylist career yet, (partly because of the many bugs I am reading about here, and those will probably annoy me too much) but what I was wondering about: can you hire people when you own a stylist building to work for you? That way the job will get a bit more interesting for me.

[Saltypaws]

Unfortunately you cannot hire people.  It is just random on who works there.  Christopher Steel worked in one of mine.  He looked really funny strutting around the makeover station.

[NancyJ]

My Sim had 3 or 4 sims dislike their makeovers all the way to level 10 (I suspect Artistic + Perfectionist and a decent painting skill may have played a role in that) and then I had a run where 4/6 hated their makeovers and I think the other 2 weren't massively impressed but I didn't get the negative friendship thing with them (they yawned instead of doing the butt sizzle thing). So even at level 10 with 52% complete portfolio you can still get a real run of bad luck. Speaking of portfolios, has anyone got theirs to 100% yet?

[Leto85]

Unfortunately you cannot hire people.  It is just random on who works there.  Christopher Steel worked in one of mine.  He looked really funny strutting around the makeover station.

Yeah well, the point is that you can buy out a community lot and when you own it you could change the name of the lot if you like and fire who does not work as hard as you think they should.
I thought that you could hire people that way, too.

[Pam]

Christopher Steel worked in one of mine.  He looked really funny strutting around the makeover station.

That made me laugh! He's normally unemployed in Sunset Valley.

[ik]

Christopher Steel worked in one of mine.  He looked really funny strutting around the makeover station.

That made me laugh! He's normally unemployed in Sunset Valley.

Looks like he took his chance with this new expansion . In my game, he turned up as a firefighter.

[Saltypaws]

In another game I started he was in medical career, go figure.

[kaykay]

He was in the military when I was trying to get my sim to marry him, he was always working, my poor girl could never find time to flirt.

My head stylist just died at the salon, in the middle of the work day too it was very traumatic lol. I'm hoping they hire someone else soon. To be 90 though and still have your wonderful sense of style, the salon just lost a very good lady haha.

[sims96fan]

My Sim has almost reached level 10 of the stylist career, but then I think she's going to quit.  Working 5 days a week of the same thing gets old and too much like real life!  She's only 50% done with her portfolio at level 9, and it's a real grind.  Even though all of her clients have been happy except one or two, whenever she gets the wish to give fashion advice, it almost always goes over very badly, and the client ends up dropping from a good friend or friend to merely an acquaintance.  This is with a Sim with has all of the charisma skill challenges and charisma related lifetime rewards (long distance friend, etc.) completed, too.

[AriaGirl77]

Something strange that I just experienced with my Stylist sim.  She decided to do makeovers on her 4 teen aged daughters.  After the make over ALL of the daughters were either days older or younger than before the make over.  The youngest two girls are twins, and after the makeovers it made them the oldest, and the other two girls are now 14 days until age up when before they were just 5 and 8 days until age up. 

I'm kind of annoyed.  Why would having a makeover so dramatically alter your age???  I've noticed the same thing happens when a sim gets a tatoo, but at least then it's only a few days less.  This was a whole bunch of days less!

[Saltypaws]

This has me wondering now.  I have noticed since ambitions, that people seem to age differently.  What I mean, compared to playing previously, I had not played this new game very long and got a message that one of the regular townies was getting old and to pay a visit.  I thought that was kind of soon and then thinking back, some looked older early on in the game, some took forever to age.  Maybe to many are getting makeovers, lol.

[Pam]

I'm kind of annoyed.  Why would having a makeover so dramatically alter your age???  I've noticed the same thing happens when a sim gets a tatoo, but at least then it's only a few days less.  This was a whole bunch of days less!

That's got to be a bug.

[AriaGirl77]

This has me wondering now.  I have noticed since ambitions, that people seem to age differently.  What I mean, compared to playing previously, I had not played this new game very long and got a message that one of the regular townies was getting old and to pay a visit.  I thought that was kind of soon and then thinking back, some looked older early on in the game, some took forever to age.  Maybe to many are getting makeovers, lol.

In one of my games my sim married a townie, once he turned elder he kept getting the message that his brother was about to die and to go visit.  I got that message EVERY DAY for like 3 sim weeks before he actually kicked the bucket! 

I'm really wondering how all this will effect future challenges, because obviously it will have an impact if we ever decide to do a generational challenge of some sort.  It certainly effects my Legacy challenges!  Sheesh, no tattoos or make overs for them from now on!

[LlamaMama]

I'm so confused! I just started a sim on this career path and when she tries to talk to people who enter the shop, she only gets 3 options under Fashion: compliment, insult, or discuss. How exactly does she get a job in the first place? And once she does, how does she go about it?

The Bayless woman came in and chatted with her, but then went over to another stylist and stood on the pedestal. She came out looking hawt!

[masonk]

I'm so confused! I just started a sim on this career path and when she tries to talk to people who enter the shop, she only gets 3 options under Fashion: compliment, insult, or discuss. How exactly does she get a job in the first place? And once she does, how does she go about it?

The Bayless woman came in and chatted with her, but then went over to another stylist and stood on the pedestal. She came out looking hawt!

You click on the styling pedestal and you're given the option of offering a makeover to a list of people in the salon (or standing right outside on the sidewalk, I've noticed).