NPC face replacement presets revert to "funny" face characatures

[Teddy48]

As the title suggests, First I replace a female NPC face, like Abernathy's wife or daughter using Looks Menu from any of my natural-looking presets from various downloaded mods. Then when I restart the game, the face has changed to a stupid looking characature version of the preset. I've tried disabling any mod which seems like it might have the ability to do that, but no success.

 

I use Vortex for mods, and I use the Fusion Girl body.

 

BTW, the Looks Menu 1-14 slots are all produced as characatures too. I don't know if a mod did that, but if so the change is permanent even when the mods are disabled. So I use the Preset button in Looks Menu to bring up the drop down list of downloaded and saved presets, and they look fine until I restart the game, then they become cartoon face versions with some similarity to the installed face.

 

Another note is that Piper, Cait and Curie are not affected. Their faces have all been replaced and they are stable.

 

I've been poking around in .ini files and data folders for a clue, but no success. Any suggestion on how to kill the funny faces or even where they're stored would be much appreciated.

 

 

 

UPDATE: On closer study, I found that it is only Connie and Lucy Abernathy who are affected. Looks Menu's 14 slots all produced the weird faces on them in a freshly downloaded installation from Steam after no gameplay except to get out of the vault and go straight to Abernathy Farm. No mods except Looks Menu were installed. I haven't tried all the NPCs, but June and Janie Warwick got natural faces, and so did the unnamed female settler at Tenpines Bluff. Very odd.