Elizagrad

Hello! I'm a major newbie when it comes to editing or creating mods. The only time I've tried it was to make custom companions and I ended up giving up on it because I'm technologically inept and couldn't find a guide simple enough. It's bad, I know. I'm trying to edit KS Hairdos from Nexus because there's are just a ridiculous amount of hairs (like 900 for females!) and a whole lot that I think are redundant or just personally dislike. So far, I've gotten into the Creation Kit and loaded up the Skyrim main file and the KS file. I went through, chose the ones I liked, deleted the ones I don't. I saved it, went back in, saw the saved changed when I reloaded then started a new game. But all the hairstyles are still there. Please know I haven't been able to really understand what files such as .esp versus the meshes, so if you could explain those as if I'm in elementary school if they're important that would be the most helpful. I've looked at a lot of guides and wikis, but honestly, I still don't get it... I'm gonna keep struggling along here to see if I can figure it out, but any help would be much appreciated!

Yo. So I'm brand new to making my own mods, as in I just started today trying to make my own companions. It all went well and I even got it working the first time. So I went and made some more and did the exact same thing (I think) but now I'm having the issue of...no one is showing up. I did all the stuff, using the Creation Kit, went in, made my own character using the importing tool to put faces in and resaving and all. So it saves as an ESP, which honestly, I don't know what that even is because I am far from computer savvy. I use the Nexus Mod Manager and when I dropped the first file in, it worked, like I said. I did the exact same thing and now even the first companion isn't showing. I took them out of the mod manager and dropped the .ESP files directly into my mods folder, still nothing. So, what am I missing? There are no mods that are required, I just used vanilla everything. I'm going to keep messing with it, but any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.