New Player to modding AND skyrim

[rayphoton]

Hello,

I have never played Skyrim, I knew it was a great game and I used to watch those MXR mod videos a long time and was always interested in the idea of modding. Recently I got a hold of a really good rig and suddenly I seem to have a lot of time at home ...how strange

So I downloaded Skyrim special edition, installed Vortex, and loaded up a few mods. I started the game and none of them worked

So I decided to do the deep dive on YouTube to figure out what I ACTUALLY needed to be doing. Man that dive got real deep real fast, I have a lot of respect for the modders and I’ve been doing this for the last 15 years. I didn’t expect this to get so technical so quickly

The real problem I’m running into is that I like many others wanted to make a super hot female character run around a super hot outfit.in a really nice looking world. But once I loaded the game and got past the intro I couldn’t get the face to change. I was stuck with the same (ugly) elven faces that the game uses. Even when I use the Console command 'showracemenu' it just auto crashed of the game. So I uninstalled EVERYTHING to start fresh

So what I’d like to do is start a brand new game with all the mods installed. I figure I can make my attractive female character the one time at the intro and then if I want to add outfits I can add or craft them later. And I can figure out bodyslide while I play

Based on this info... what mods would you guys recommend I load in what order? I already have SKSE successfully added and though I’d like to use the sevenbase body, CBBE seems to be super popular with lots of outfits that I’m gonna go with that.

Thank you in advance for helping a new guy out

Ray