ashley,

Maybe it is time for you to become a sculptor/modeler/painter. If you want to stay in Poser for a while, why not work with the Morph Tool Brush   -- it is just that, a tool to "paint" a face's underlying mesh into a new structure, liberating you from the constraints of the dials.

If you like it, you can move up to one of the modeling programs. While, yes, max costs $3500 and Maya $7000, you can get other modelers for a lot less.

There's more to it than warping the mesh, however. There's the 'painting' aspect.

My favorite Poser guy for going deep into character is carodan

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?username=carodan

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