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Husbando Modding

updated August 10, 2021

So, you wanna learn how to make a hand sum husbando eh??? Well you've come to the right place. This guide will show you what mods to get to make a good looking husbando.  This quick guide was made by one generous anonymous poster who took the time to find these mods! I had nothing to do with this guide. -Guardly
 

Body

Before we begin, I must tell you to read the waifu guide first to grab a which slider mod you wish to use and hairs. Many of the hair packs in that guide also work for males which is pretty weird. In any case we're gonna start out with some body meshes.

Better Males

These are the only good body replaces there are right now. A higher quality body mesh with high quality textures to go along with it. There are 2 options for bodies, one is made by Sundracon and the other by FavoredSoul. It's up to you which one you want to use. Both come with nude and underwear versions just so you know. They also come with a few different face textures as well.

HPM - High Poly Male Meshes

A high poly version of the Vanilla Male Body Mesh including feet and hands, as well as high poly SOS, Sundracon, and FavoredSoul-compatible Male body Meshes.
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SoS version can be found here.

SOS - Schlongs of Skyrim

Uhhh... yeah. This mod allows you to customize and dynamically enhance your dick. I'm fucking serious. I don't want to get into too much detail so uhh.. just go on and check the mod page if you're really interested. Oh, and your junk is animated and has physics so uhhh..... go have fun with that.
Now like female texture mods, the textures must be compatible with the body or else it's not gonna look good or it will look glitched. Here are a free body mods, these usually do not come with faces.

Smooth Male Body

Hairier Male Texture

Face Textures

Face Textures

Now comes the strange part, male face and body textures usually don't cause clipping or have seems so you can customize the body and face with different textures and still look presentable.

High Res Face Maps

Probably the oldest and one the most used male face mods out there. It's simple and it comes with some really good normal maps to make your face less blocky.

Skysight Skins

New ultra high detailed textures for males. Includes face and body textures with options for chest hair.

Fine Face Textures

You wanna give every man a baby face? Then this texture pack is for you; you crazy bastard!

Realistic Male Face

Also known as DCE. This is sort of a combination between the first 2 face textures. Making faces firm but gritty and more like young men instead of babies.

The Veteran Skin 

Skin mod based on Skysight Skins, made for more tough and war torn males.

SOS Fair Skin men retexture and bonuses for males

Overhaul humanoid male textures for Schlong of Skyrim mod. Clean & dirty textures for quality looking characters on ENB and Vanilla lighting.

Vitruvia - Skin texture overhaul for males 

This mod adds new detailed body and face textures for not-beast race males.
Men won't be too muscled or hairy as if they are on steroids.
And for beast races...
Dragonic Argonian Textures Male

Dragonic Argonian Textures Male

Snake like skin for Argonians.

Masculine Khajiit Textures

Masculine Khajiit Textures

New textures for male Khajiits.

Masculine Argonian Textures

Masculine Argonian Textures

New textures for male Argonians. It also comes with an extra variant that adds Chameleon colors or even extra scales.

FAR - Forgotten Argonian Roots

FAR - Forgotten Argonian Roots

It's a new texture mod for argonians which comes with a massive amount of customization and compatibility options. All body types are accounted for.

Drachis Argonians Mod

Drachis Argonians Mod

A retexture for Argonian males for a more badass dragon look to them.

Miscellaneous

Finally, we have a bunch of extra mods that we recommend you use.  Things like high quality warpaint and eyebrows can really make a difference.  Also, if you want high quality facepaint to work, you must type this into the SKSE.ini file which should be in /skyrim/data/skse.  If you don't have a SKSE.ini, make one and add this line:
[Display]
iTintTextureResolution=2048
Expressive Facial Animation -Male Edition-

Expressive Facial Animation -Male Edition-

This mod replaces "tri" files for human and elf male face animation.

Expressive Facegen Morphs

Expressive Facegen Morphs

This mod replaces the morphs for the vanilla human and elf character creations and adds a morph for Racemenu.

High Poly Head

High Poly Head

Does what it says

Beast Race Bodypaints -Khajiit and Argon

Beast Race Bodypaints -Khajiit and Argon

Adds additional customization options for Argonian and Khajiit characters, to allow for a more unique feel. Provides 54 Face paints and 101 Body paints designed to fit in with the beast races (Argonian and Khajiit). Includes Facepaint as both Warpaint and Face paint. Also, Foot and Hand paints are now implemented as well.

SVBeards

SVBeards

This mod adds about 113 new beards for males. These beards are mixtures of different beard meshes to make something new for any type of husbando. Works with any beard texture mod too.

Vanilla Footwear For Better Males

Vanilla Footwear For Better Males

This mod fixes the broken mesh you will find on males when using Better Males foot mesh with any vanilla shoes. Works for Schlongs of Skyrim too!

SOS Schlongs of Skyrim Fur Shoes Fix

SOS Schlongs of Skyrim Fur Shoes Fix

This file makes the fur shoes usually worn by bandits compatible with Schlongs of Skyrim.

Unmasked Faces - no green detailmaps

Unmasked Faces - no green detailmaps

This mod gets rid of green tint from detailmaps. Detailmap is a kind of skin texture which is used for rendering freckles, roughness, aging, and clearness. If you are annoyed by neck color seam or head color difference from torso despite using the same color/tone textures(diffuse map, normal map, and specular map), try this.

Hirsute Beards

Hirsute Beards

More facial hair options for male characters by recombining base game beard models.

Consistent Older People

Consistent Older People

Isn't it weird when some old people have wrinkly faces but their bodies are COMPLETELY fine? This mod fixes this issue so that old people are wrinkly all over.

HD Argonian Hairstyles

HD Argonian Hairstyles

New textures for the Argonian hairstyles, which includes both horns and feathers.

KM Big Smile

KM Big Smile

Improves the smile emote for men!

HD Agonian mouth

HD Agonian mouth

Improves Argonian teeth and mouth textures.

Improved Eye Reflections

Improved Eye Reflections

Adds a new high-res cube map that makes the reflection in eyes look more detailed and not just a bunch of dots anymore. You can actually see Whiterun in the reflection!

Eye Normal Map

Eye Normal Map

Replaces the normal map textures for eyes so that they don't have weird looking reflections anymore.

Odontaphobia

Odontaphobia

A high quality teeth retexture made by Eiries!

KS Hairdos Beast Races

KS Hairdos Beast Races

Adds new hairstyles and horns for both Argonians and Khajiit. REQUIRES KS Hairdos for Khajiits.

Argonian Fins

Argonian Fins

Adds a fin hairstyle to Argonians like in Morrowind and Oblivion.

Hair Workshop for Argonians

Hair Workshop for Argonians

This mod adds new horn and headpieces for argonians who DEFINITELY need the modded variety!

Brows

Brows

Beards

Beards

Dwemer Beards

Dwemer Beards

Battle Hardened warpaint

Battle Hardened warpaint

Weathered and Worn Warpaints

Weathered and Worn Warpaints

XCE Warpaint

XCE Warpaint

More Beast Race Warpaints HD

More Beast Race Warpaints HD

Makes khajiit and argonian warpaints HD!

XCE Morrowind Warpaint

XCE Morrowind Warpaint

Improved Eyes Skyrim

Improved Eyes Skyrim

The Eyes Of Beauty

The Eyes Of Beauty

Covereyes

Covereyes

Iridium Eyes

Iridium Eyes

Northborn Scars

Northborn Scars

Gizmodian Scars

Gizmodian Scars

XCE Scarface

XCE Scarface

Unfortunatly, there's not a lot of male hairs out there that are actually good. Hair Variety Plus is probably the only one that has some decent looking male hairstyles. Kijiko Hair has some good ones but it's mostly just anime hairstyles.

Hair Variety Plus

Adds a range of new hais that are meant to mimic the vanilla style.  4 male hairs and 4 female hairs are in this mod.  Perfect for anyone who wants a simple character.

Kijiko Male Hair 

Adds 16 hairstyles that were imported from Sims 3 mods. Most of the are anime styles however, so this hair pack might not be for everyone.

Hallgarth's Additional Hair

Adds a lot of vanilla-style hair to the game that should fit in with what already exists. All hair uses vanilla textures, so any mod that changes vanilla hair textures will also affect these.
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