So I finally bought Skyrim some months ago, only to find I allowed a mod I wasn't happy with to bake in on my first playthrough, and my laptop to die.

Fast forward another few months, I got a new laptop, and started a new playthrough with a very light modlist that I only loaded after exiting the tutorial vanilla, and I still get blackface everywhere. What's going on? The NPC's can't have been generated yet, and there are no conflicts indicated in the mod manager. This is my load, from lowest priority to highest:

[olist]
[*]Mod Organiser II
[*]Achievement Mods Enabler
[*]SMIM
[*]Vanilla Hair Remake (no conflict indicated, and tried both with and without)
[*]Vanilla Hair Remake optional NPC's (no conflict indicated, and tried both with and without)
[*]Real Mountains 1k
[*]Cathedral Water Overhaul
[*]Azurite Weathers II
[*]LeanWolf's Better-Shaped Weapons SE
[*]Bijin Wives SE (blackface result, and no alteration of model. Tried AIO as well, with same result)
[*]Bijin NPC's SE (blackface result, and no alteration of model. Tried AIO as well, with same result)
[*]Bijin Warmaidens SE (blackface result, and no alteration of model. Tried AIO as well, with same result)
[*]Aela alternative version (tried with this disabled too, but this needs to overwrite)
[*]Lydia alternative version (tried with this disabled too, but this needs to overwrite)
[*]Seranaholic 1.1 model (tried with this disabled too)

Anyone have any idea? Everyone seems to run Bijin, and which much heavier loads too, so I am absolutely clueless.