So, it appears the 'grey sickness' that I've seen in Fallout 3 and New Vegas is back, despite this 'whole new engine'. This just kind of proves it's not, again. But this isn't going down that road. In New Vegas I had no fix for this beyond 'make a new character'. But I just finally got a good ways into the MQ, I don't want to start over. Is there any cure for this? It's very distracting to see every damn person with a sickly ash grey head. :/

Never heard of anything like that.

I had it happen to just me on New Vegas, but on Skyrim it seems it's affected EVERY NPC. They have a palish grey face. It's very annoying. Not game breaking in the sense of gameplay. But graphically it ruins the fun and immersion.

Somehow you've managed to lose the exported face data, which either means you've installed a number of mods that didn't include that data, or your Textures.bsa is corrupted.

Are you certain it's all NPCs?

Yes, and it's not mods. I play on PS3. They arent grey as in no textures. It's more like.....their skin is paled or greyed. It's really annoying. I'd take a pic, but imagine them to have a normal skin texture, but instead of that healthy imperial skin tone, it's a sort of bleak grey skin tone.

Edit: It may not be ALL NPCs. I've noticed some females still have their healthy default skin tone. It's mostly males and some females.