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>>48176762
Depends on art style. If eyebrows are drawn as thin lines then black is good as you can see them in contrast, but anything thicker or pronounced should match her hair color. Ditto with eyelashes, if detailed and not just an outline, they should be matching or at least shaded with a tint of yellow. She's still cute whichever way you do it.

>>47884977
>>47884993
This is my philosophy. I think modesty is incredibly sexy, and since Ran's usual fare is exactly that it makes any extra skin lewd. She can pull of an incredible amount of eroticism with just her normal robes and leave it to your imagination; it's so simple but it can do so much with a flattering and body-hugging silhouette. With minor alterations like how it rests on her hips, or how much her bust and ass is pronounced, she can control where you're looking by just highlighting her charm points with nothing but cloth. Like her sprite in UDoALG was just lewd showing her arm up to her elbow like that, ZUN knew exactly what he was doing. Outfits such as picrel that reveal a little more skin like her shoulders and nape are far more explicit, though when she's showing cleavage it's less teasing and more of a prelude to get you in the mood and worked up.

I think full nudity should be reserved for bathing and sex, being too casual with it has its downsides; you cant go any further than skin and it pairs nicely with the intimacy of the former since that's also a natural limit, so by cheapening nudity with overexposure it cheapens the rest. Exceptions being swimsuits as illustrated by >>47881563 which going by the above rationale may cause some mixed signals. Fortunately there's no beaches in Gensokyo and recreational swimming is a fairly private affair with rivers and lakes, the SDM pool not withstanding.

>>47166288
Ran is like opening a Christmas present and finding out it has no visible bottom. She's neat and tidy on the outside, taking her time to open up and show you—and only you—what lies beneath her carefully tied wrappings. Then when she's fully unveiled to you there is a blissful period of discovery over new feelings and bonds that neither of you knew about. It's exciting and a joy to learn these things together, then you reach in deeper and unwittingly flip a switch: the results were nothing either of you could've prepared for. It's a part of her that wouldn't have been known if it weren't for your efforts, so you better take responsibility for opening Randora's box and enjoy a level of intimacy not a single other soul is privy too.