I hadn't played the game in months but i was curious to see what changes were available w/ the 1.5 update. upon logging in and going to my inventory, the first thing i notices was that my character's skin color which i created as a black character was changed to a white character. i went to the safehouse and tried to change my appearance but every option to modify the character is available EXCEPT an option to change the gender and/or skin color. this is extremely upsetting. is there something that can be done to change this? when given an option to make a character that represents me, i refuse to create my character to look any other way.
Possibly a change in the ID's for the various skin shades from the latest patch causes your save to call a different skin tone than it did originally? Obviously this is a bug and not intended. Your best shot might be to see if the Arasaka Save Editor gets updated.
For changing skin color and other stuff right in the mirror of your apartment and if you are playing on a PC, check out Appearance Change Unlocker.