I tried in beta

im sorry they didnt listen
as for vampires not looking pretty, false. (twilight excluded) vampires through lore are suposed to look handsome and charming (dracula, lestat, etc) they generally dont chase there prey down, they lure them with charm and beauty. thats part of the reason they are scary.
dont confuse vampires with zombies, two different things.
and yes, bethesda dropped the ball with the vampire apearence.
Bram Stoker's version of Dracula had him looking monstrous but passable as a really ugly man. Even in his stage production, Dracula looked monstrous. It wasn't until Hollywood got the rights that they came up with the Bela Lugosi look. The "sauve, good looking" vampire. That's stuck with pop culture because pop culture is fail.
You mean the movie that was originally supposed to be a screenplay based on Bram Stroker's Dracula but they couldn't get the film rights? Let's look at the facts:
1.Vampires in Skyrim can blend into society. They can't realostically do that if they look like corpses
2. Serana, Harkon, and some of the generic vampire enemies look decent enough.
3. In their true form, they already ARE monsters. Seems redundant that their mortal form would HAVE to be just as ugly
4. Not everyone who wants the face changer wants to he prettier. Some want to change their hair. Some want to look SCARIER.
The only vampires that blend in with society are the Cyrodillic clan, and the other clans we have not seen yet.

Actually, according to lore there are many strains of vampirism that can blend in, like the ones in Valenwood. And do you really think people knew everything about every vampire clan 200 years ago? Even now? Of course people wouldnt know volkihars can blend in. They've only seen them in their true form.
I don't know, I thought the whole LED eyes thing would be a dead give away that the person is a vampire...but what do I know?

And no. That's not true. Vampires have taken different forms in different folklore. In European folklore they're demons who possess the recently dead. Therefore they haven't even decomposed yet. This is because people were buried before they died without the buriers knowing, so they saw "dead" people walking around and screamed "VAMPIRE"!
Dracula is traditionally portrayed as a charming, handsome man who seduces his victims.
In Eastern European folklore they are evil spirits that svck your life force. They didn't really need blood, they were also blamed for the causing of disease which was used to "drain the life force".
Female vampires don't look dirty from turning into the VL, they get dirty, burnt faces from being a vampire and then loading that save. With patch 1.5 or 1.6 the fix for it doesn't work anymore. It all has to do with the make-up shaders from face creation (eye liner/shadow, blush, etc). This happened to my character so before I became a vampire I went to the face changer and removed all of that and now I don't get a burnt looking face every time I play.
And I hate the wrinkly Breton foreheads too. That's why I always wear a circlet lol.
The burned face glitch can be fixed by transforming into a Vampire Lord and then Reverting Form. This happened on my female Breton, then I transformed and she went back to looking pretty again!.
