Hey, after you complete corrupted storylines, you can buy cleansing consumables to turn characters back to normal. And later you can use lipstick again if you want. That's not a permanent transformation.
Not sure about the bug you've mentioned. Do you remember the quest name or something?
That's why is better to have an option to have x10 speed for combat, is a lot of farm if you start from 0, I used a v1.4.4 save and got direct the new shop into game, did one more main quest before but I don't find the save with it.



