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Disaster Averted

Okay, believe it or not, I have to tell a quick real-life story: as you may have garnered, I try to sort of tell a cohesive story when I write these Sims guides. As I finished the last section, I was trying to figure out how to change their careers to cover the rest of the guide… do I start giving them kids? Do I switch back to the original Schultzes, with Samson’s cousin Dannie?

Then… I was hit with Save Error 12 (check the Bugs Q&A section for details), and wouldn’t you know it? I lost IGN Guide Town!!! My last backup is from six months ago, so I’ve had to come to a tough decision… we’re going to let the Schultzes rest in peace, only to live on in pictures and downloads from the official Sims 3 site.

Instead, we’re going to move to New IGN Guide Town, in the new Twinbrook neighborhood. Our NEW stars (hopefully for the rest of the guide series) are a trio of Sims, and we’ll meet them one at a time. First up, is Destiny Carwin…!

Getting Started

Destiny, clearly, is not your typical Sim who wants a conventional career. She wants to paint the world—or at least the neighborhood—using other Sims’ bodies as her canvas. She calls a taxi and heads over to Drea’s Salon, which is already placed because this is the Twinbrook template. She signs up for the job with no problem.

As with other interactive jobs, there are three responsibilities for Destiny to pay attention to in order to get promoted. However, unlike the other careers, being a stylist does not require any job skills. Destiny gets promoted by successfully fulfilling styling requests, by earning tips as a result of those requests, and by building her portfolio of successes. That third one is probably the one that’s not self-explanatory, so we’ll get to that one eventually.

Styling hours are Tuesday through Saturday, and it’s currently Sunday morning, so it’s going to be awhile. That’s fine, though: this is a new family, which means I need to get their cooking and so on developed, and put her two roommates into part-time jobs for now. And I’m sure none of you need to see any of that.

Okay, now… once Tuesday comes around, Destiny gets this message in the corner…

Ah, Destiny automatically gets a contract to do a styling job. By clicking the button, Destiny hops in a taxi and heads down to the salon. There, she meets the client, as well as a little mini storyline behind the contract. Turns out that Pattina Knack wants some new threads for her athletic outfit because she wants to look her best for a gym opening. Not the most prestigious order in the world, but it has to start somewhere.

Destiny heads over to one of the makeover stations, which looks like this…

The two cabinets, the mirror, and the platform in front of the mirror collectively is a makeover station. Destiny interacts with the platform in front of the mirror, but can interact with any of the four objects to start the process. She picks the “Offer Makeover To…” command, then selects Pattina from the selection box that pops up. While she can offer a makeover to anyone on the lot, until she builds up some trust, random strangers might refuse her. Because Pattina has offered a contract, Pattina will guarantee to accept the offer. By the way, a copy of the contract as it were is on the left side of the screen, just in case Destiny forgets who contracted her or what the contracted Sim wants. (Destiny is a blond, after all!)

Making Over a Sim

We come to a modified Create-A-Sim screen. Destiny can actually affect everything here: hair, clothes, and makeup; everything except facial structure. However, because Destiny is contracted only to do an athletic outfit, that’s what we need to concentrate on now.

There is a lot of freedom here: Sims typically don’t care what they look like, oddly enough. There is no reason you can’t give all your clients the same outfits, or a butt-ugly outfit, or an outfit that is completely hideous to look at. Destiny decides, what the heck, let’s give this elder something that will attract the eyes…

Oh yeah: that will turn some heads!

Destiny hits the check mark, and… uh… it didn’t turn out so well. Hm… perhaps giving her an outfit that can cause video epilepsy may not have been the best choice? Destiny makes the offer again for a makeover… Ah, I see the problem. See, Pattina wanted a new athletic outfit, and what I did was recolored her outfit. Here’s the magic button you need to click…

That’s the “add an outfit” button, and remember that any given category of clothing can have up to three outfits. You probably won’t come to that limit when dealing with Townies, but your own Sims might get up there if you switch up their clothes often enough.

Now, remember that Destiny is just giving a random makeover here: she only gets one chance per contract, and she already failed once. However, she goes ahead and makes a new outfit for Pattina anyway, something a bit more conservative. Because this is a freelance makeover, Destiny earns a tip.

Or rather, she would have, but according to a message that pops up, Pattina refuses to pay. Sims have a 24-hour cooldown when they get made over, which means that Pattina won’t pay again for a makeover for one more day. The makeover “takes” in the sense that Pattina now has a new athletic outfit, but Destiny doesn’t have anything to show for it. This is to keep you from abusing the system, so to speak, by making over only one Sim a million times per day.

No matter. Destiny starts offering her services to anyone on the lot, giving quick hairstyle changes and color changes to existing outfits. Each one earns her a little cash, plus job experience. The cash she earns from styling far outweighs her weekly stipend: she gets about $100 per makeover and makes a measly $178 weekly, meaning she earns more with just two makeovers than from a whole week of doing nothing. (Elementary math FTW!) Clearly, Destiny is on her way.

All is not perfect: because she is a poor stylist (level 1 remember), she has a rather strong chance of failing a freelance makeover. Failing one basically randomizes the client’s makeup and possibly their clothes, making them look like something out of a horror movie, or perhaps a Marten Jansen painting.

The next day, Destiny gets a new contract, and vows not to mess it up. Her client, Penny Pincher (seriously?!), wants a new hair color. Well, there is no option to “add a hair color” like there is to add an outfit, so just recoloring Penny’s hair should do. Naturally, nothing can possibly go wrong with this.

Ugh. Well, Penny likes it, which is all that really matters. With a successful contract completed, a popup box insists that Penny gets her picture taken. You don’t even have a choice here: the game kicks you to picture taking interface. Your Z and X buttons change the zoom, and your C key takes the shot. For some reason, you can’t pause the game, and Penny keeps dancing around in various poses just to annoy me. Oh well… I get a half-decent shot, and the picture goes into Destiny’s portfolio.

This is a good time to talk about the portfolio, actually. As soon as Destiny got her job here, she got a PDA, which went right into her inventory. Destiny can check it out through her inventory, and view all the pictures she’s taken. Now, the way the portfolio works is that there are different contracts needed to fill it up. For example, Destiny’s first picture here is “New Hair Color.” If she encounters another Sim who wants their hair redone, Destiny will still earn the job experience and the cash for doing so, but her portfolio will not get better. However, the next time Destiny gets a new contact type, her portfolio will grow.

When you open the PDA, you can pull pictures out of it, and the picture becomes a standard item. That means you can hang the picture on the wall or put it on a desk, or even sell it (though they always sell for $0). This doesn’t really help you out at all, and in fact for Destiny, it would be counterproductive: she wants pictures in her portfolio to help with her job progress and experience, and removing the pics removes the progress of the portfolio. Still, she can unload the pictures if, for some reason, she wants to change careers.

On her third day, Destiny gets a pretty large contract: she is to give Jenni Jones-Brown a new everyday outfit, two new sleepwear outfits, two new formalwear outfits, and a new swimwear outfit. This one will take awhile…

Once Destiny finishes, she sadly doesn’t get paid in scale to the task; in fact, she’s only paid a measly $60, despite making six new outfits. She does however get a new entry to her portfolio and some job experience, both of which are arguably better than petty cash.

Working From Home

After finishing with that client, Destiny gets a bit hungry for lunch, and she decides to go home… and is still on the clock! That’s right, Destiny can work from home, except for contracts. At the moment, she’s made over everyone else at the salon, so she decides to just go home for now and have lunch.

While she’s there, Destiny decides to make a quick purchase. She drops $750 on a drafting table, which can be found in the Hobbies & Skills subsort of the Study sort, plus a bit more for a special stool, which you can buy from the same subsort. Her room gets a bit cramped, but they can’t afford much more at the moment…

Man, this is the whole reason why I kept the Schultzes around is so I wouldn’t run into money problems like this for the sake of the guide. Bah. Well, I promise, when The Sims 3: Late Night comes out, the Carwins will be ready to roll. Oh sure, I could throw in a “rosebud” or two, but heck, what fun is that? And you get to see how my poor Sims can claw their way to the top!

AAANNNYYYway… The whole point of the drafting table is to give Destiny a way to flesh out her skills. By interacting with the drafting table, she can increase her painting skill, as well as new fashion concepts or architectural designs. Hm… Valerie might want to steal the drafting table for her purposes, so Destiny decides to just lock her door. Hey, they may be sisters, and they may love each other, but Destiny has never liked sharing. I heard once that as a toddler, she beat Valerie with the arm of her own teddy bear.

As with all skills, a progress bar fills as she works on the drafting table. Regardless of what she picks, Destiny is gaining experience toward her painting skill. However, there is a key difference among the various options. Because Destiny is employed as a Stylist, every moment she is studying fashion concepts, she is gaining job experience! This makes learning the actual painting skill a bit slower, but it helps get her promoted up the ladder a heck of a lot faster.

Destiny hits Level 2 of the Stylist career track before the end of the week. On her fifth workday, she is not alerted when it’s time to go to work… yet there is a contract waiting for her. This goes to show you that the message alerts for contracts don’t show up once your Stylist gets past being a newbie. There is a hint here: if Destiny goes to her job panel, she sees the phrase “On the clock” in red rather than the usual dark navy. When “On the clock” is red, that means a contract is waiting for her, and she needs to leave the house. When “On the clock” is navy, she can stay home and just work on her drafting table.

No problem though: she drives over to the salon, takes her contract, and gets some job experience. Note that this is a new contract type, one that includes the client getting a new hairstyle and a new accessory in addition to a new outfit. “Accessory” can be anything from new earrings to a pair of glasses or even socks: just something new.

Freestylin’

Starting the next week, Destiny is at Level 3 in her Stylist career track. At that point, she’s allowed to give “freestyle makeovers,” which really is a fancy way of saying that she gets to go to other people’s homes to do the makeovers rather than the salon. I still need to open her job panel and, if “On the clock” is red, I need to click the “Go To Work” button that’s there. Rather than going to the salon, Destiny takes the taxi to the client’s home. This time, it’s Phoenix Prudence, who just wants a new hair color. I click him, and we see this…

“Imply client looks like a llama”? Ouch! Well, Destiny is a nice girl and wants to climb up the ranks of being a Stylist, not smack away clients. ‘Twould be fun for a Sim with the Evil trait, I’m sure, but not for our pink-tipped hottie. Destiny goes ahead and fulfills the contract, then heads home to work on her sketches some more.

Once Destiny hits Level 4, things get a lot more active. Now, she’s getting multiple contract offers per day. She gets three contract offers immediately, and takes them in turn, as she’s not on a time limit to get them done, other than the 7pm deadline of her work hours. This allows her to gain job experience rapidly, not to mention the increased cash from the promotions, and manages to cram in even more once she’s free to work on her drafting board.

Destiny eventually hits Level 6. In her job description, one line reads: “Keep your portfolio overflowing with the latest looks, and weed out images of yesterday’s trends.” Despite what that might imply, the game doesn’t care about what your portfolio has in it: all that matters is the portfolio being as full as humanly possible at all times. You might want to remove photos of Sims who are dead if you use the PDA to solicit your styling services, but otherwise, you may as well keep them in.

The final Stylist milestone is at Level 9; though technically you can do it anytime before then, it seems to gain some effectiveness if you wait, and besides, she wasn’t able to afford it before now. Destiny purchases her own salon stuff, which is located in the Hobbies & Skills subsort of the Entertainment sort of Buy Mode. Note that she can buy a makeover station (the two cabinets and a mirror with a platform), as well as her selection of tattoo chairs. She can only afford one due to purchasing a brand new beautiful hot pink car, so she goes for the makeover station.

She can’t invite any Sims directly with the makeover station, but now, whenever she invites friends over, she can immediately force them to have a makeover for some additional money. Again, this is a good excuse to have a makeover party, sort of like those crazy Mary Kay and Avon saleswomen that all you ladies out there know about.

By the way, one advantage to having her own car is that Destiny can now interact with it and use a special “Perform Job: [Whatever]” command to go to a lot and do a freestyle makeover, just in case you accidentally close out the message center window and are too lazy to go into Map View.

It’s pretty much the same routine from here on out: Destiny does contracts when she’s got them, and works on her drafting board when she doesn’t. At this point, her Painting skill is maxed out, so her sketches are fetching over $300 each, making her an additional $750 or more daily in addition to her weekly stipend and her styling fees. She’ll definitely be carrying the family for a bit… at least until we get to the next subsection of the guide, anyway!

Stylist Q&A

Do Sims care about what they look like?

Not really. Unless a Sim has a specific request (which will be listed in their contract on the popup box on the left side of the screen), you can do whatever you want when you makeover a Sim. You can make clashing colors, Mohawks for elders, or any texture for any surface you want. The game basically detects that you did something, leaving the actual makeover’s quality in the eye of you, the gamer.

Gaining promotions seems to take forever, especially because there are no required skills for being a stylist! Any tips?

A simply routine will net you tons of experience points for the Stylist career. Basically, the routine is a simple if/then statement loop: if you have a contract waiting, then go do it at the salon. If you don’t have a contract waiting, every second you’re on the clock, stay home and do the “Research Fashion Designs” command at a drafting table. Your job experience will rocket upward, and you’ll find that you get far more experience and progress just sitting on your butt than actually working. It’s just like being at the IGN offices!

That’s not to say you should only practice your research while you’re on the clock. You’ll gain job experience every so often as long as you’re working on the drafting table (provided you’ve chosen “Research Fashion Designs”) regardless of whether you’re on the clock or not.

I got multiple contract offers in the message center, but I closed them before I accepted them. Can I see them again? …Wait, let me guess: I can see it with the new map tags from Map View, right?

Right, good guess! Just head to Map View, filter the tags by “Jobs and Opportunities,” and you’ll see where all your potential clients are located.

How many possible pictures are there for the portfolio?

Forty. Every picture adds 2.5% completion to the portfolio, though it’s rounded down when you check the reports. Simple math tells us that there are 40 different contract types that you can take.

Okay, speaking of the portfolio, does it have any other use other than a picture collection device?

“Picture collection device”? You mean a “camera”? Man, I thought I was the only one who used awkward phrases under the guise of a more sophisticated vocabulary. Anyway, one thing the portfolio does is guarantee you customers. Say you makeover Pete Falkon and take his picture for the portfolio. Now, any time Pete is on the same lot as your stylist, you can use a special command from the PDA called “Solicit Styling Services…” This lets you basically force a previous customer—Pete in this case—to pay you to make him over again. He still won’t pay if you try this more than once per 24 hours, but once you make over the town, you could throw a party some day and solicit your talents on all your party guests for some serious cash.

I took a contract that says I need to give my client new shoes. Which outfit do I apply that to?

It doesn’t really matter, but I always apply new shoes to the client’s every day outfit. Same deal with new hair styles, new hair colors, new makeup, or anything else: I just do it for the everyday outfit by default, but it doesn’t matter. The important thing is doing the new shoes (or whatever) and not doing anything else.

My client wants three new outfits, but she already has one, and I can’t add a fourth! What do I do?

Remember that if it says “new outfit,” it means you can change their current outfit, you just can’t merely recolor it. Recoloring an outfit counts as not giving them anything at all, strangely enough, so you’ll want to change up the top and bottom of an outfit to get your contract fulfilled.

Why is my client yelling at me when I’m visiting him?

You go to clients’ houses to work, not to socialize. Doing literally anything that isn’t related to making over the client is flagged “inappropriate behavior,” and you’ll be warned to stop. Keep it up and you’ll lose the contract and booted from the house. The AI is your enemy here, because if your Sim is on High Free Will, your Sim might run around and serve themselves food or watch TV or something; you’ll want to keep your eye on your Sim’s commands and cancel anything that shouldn’t be there.

If you have a high relationship with the client, you might be able to get away with more, especially if he invites you to do something. Still, it’s better to err on the side of caution: if you go to a client’s home to work, then work, and you can socialize later (or even just go to the same lot on your own later).

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Sims have been able to have careers since the first Sims game. However, with each new version (and The Sims 3 Ambitions expansion pack), Sims have been able to have more advanced and fun career options.

Basic careers like the music or business career means that your Sim goes to work at their set time and you don’t have to do anything while they are working. Much like when the kids go to school. However, with the profession careers you get a weekly stipend and also earn additional money from completing jobs around town in your profession.

The Sims 3 fashion or stylist profession is one of the new professions introduced from the Ambitions expansion pack. It is a highly involved career path, but one that is quite enjoyable and fun for those who are interested in fashion.

Sims need to have either a profession or career in order to make enough money for their bills, food, and other expenses without the use of cheats.

Love Fashion?

Does your Sim love fashion and often laugh at the other Sims around town for their lack of style? If so, this is the perfect profession for your Sim! You can either choose to give Sims fantastic makeovers or give them a bad makeover (especially funny for your Sims’ enemies).

In order to be hired as a stylist, your Sim needs to head over to the salon and apply. The salon is a new building available with The Sims 3 Ambitions expansion pack. Once it is in your town, your Sim can apply there.

Sims start out in this profession path as a Fashion Fledgling. No skills are needed to be hired, but it is a good idea to have some high painting skills ready so you can practice your work skills at any time and also to have good relationships already built with other Sims so you can soon solicit your fashion services to them. Also, a love of Sims 3 fashion in real life will be a big plus for yourself because some makeovers can become heavily involved (especially if using lots of custom content) and perhaps take a long time to finish.

How To Get To The Top

Getting to the top of The Sims 3 fashion profession takes time but is well worth it. Here are some tips to reach your Sims’ goals of becoming a Fashion Phenomenon:

Painting skill. Reach the highest tier you can in the painting skill before applying to be a stylist. This will help tremendously.
Artistic trait. Having the artistic trait for your Sim will help them to reach the level 10 painting skill much faster and sketch better on your drafting table.
Buy a drafting table. Buy a drafting table for your Sim to use at home right away. This will allow your Sim to raise their stats in the stylist profession faster and at home – even during non-job hours.
Build your portfolio. Have your Sim place each job finished as well as their fashion sketches from the drafting table into their portfolio to show other Sims for freestyling makeovers around town for extra cash.
Discuss fashion to clients. If you choose to Discuss Fashion and Compliment Fashion Sense to your clients before giving them a makeover, they are more likely to like their makeover and improves your relationship with them.
Keep stylin! After your Sim reaches level 10 in this profession, they can continue to get profession skill points by doing makeovers and sketching, so keep it up. Each time the experience bar is full, your Sim will make more money per job!

Stylist Profession Track

The stylist profession in The Sims 3 is quite profitable and fun for those who love fashion and want to makeover the town’s fashionably clueless Sims. How much your Sim can earn is entirely up to you. If you want to earn lots of money, perform each job available and constantly seek out others while you are out on the town for freestyle makeovers.

The Sims 3 fashion profession path has 10 levels from Fashion Fledgling to Fashion Phenomenon:

Fashion Fledgling