{SOLVED} Alpha Hair Fix?

Edit: Well, it was an easy fix after all. Someone told me that all I needed to do is increase my graphic settings back to what they were before. I did not realize they got reset when I updated. That's for the gloss. The invisible hair is unavoidable. 


Hello, 

I have not played the game in several months but I finally updated the game and got several packs. I had not updated since Get Famous. While testing, I noticed that my alpha hairs now had a very glossy highlight on them, is there a way to fix that? This used to not be the case before I updated. You can see the gloss effect in this picture:




Also, alpha hair does not show up underwater. Alpha hair also used to not have this problem with water unless you were looking at it from the top down. 




(notice the intense gloss in that picture, too)

I understand if there's no way to fix those things, but if there is please let me know! I really do wish MAXIS supported alpha hairs since such a large portion of their users use them. 

Also, since I had not updated in such a long time I did install the latest version of S4S and did all the batch fixes. So as an addendum, is there anything else I should do to my cc before playing again?

thanks <3