» Mon Jun 11, 2012 11:23 pm
When you open the race menu, your color sliders are reset to defaults, which are easy to reset. I've never had any other slider change, and I've never had any other weirdness as long as you don't touch the race. I've used it literally hundreds of times. The sliders do like to move around, but nothing will change unless you fiddle with it. Different races have different stats and the game chokes when it tries to recalculate, which is why changing your race is bad. It doesn't need to recalculate anything when changing gender. I've changed gender on characters without any weirdness, though I've only done it a couple of times, so don't quote me on it.
More here: http://j-u-i-c-e.hubpages.com/_esforum/hub/How-to-Change-Your-Characters-Appearance-and-Name-in-Skyrim.
If you decide to make a new character, there are plenty of example http://www.truancyfactory.com/mods/skyrim/skyrim_characters.html on my website.