For some reason I couldn't find my save file on Skyrim so I restarted the game (I wasn't very far, just at Alvor's house) , it didn't occur to me to exit the game and reset so I began an entire new file and attempted to design a new character that looked somewhat like my original one, took an hour.. still didn't look right to me...then that wouldn't save... I exited out of it and loaded the game again and found my original file!! Very happy it was still there even though it was frustrating, I like they way my original character looks [emoji846]