I made roughly 15 different illusion spells that do nothing more than add a shader effect to the caster. They're all low-cost, both in magicka and gold, so a starting character could easily pick them up and play the entire game with them (provided you can get into the College).

The glows last 8 days or until canceled by the Remove Glows spell, which removes all active glows. This is where I warn you that yes, you can have more than one active at a time, but I have no idea what that'll do to your video card. Some effects are more subtle than others, and a couple are easily over-written if you have others active at the same time.

This is all about visual effects. There are no actual mechanics affected, no sounds included, and the glows don't even create actual light sources(so it won't mess with your stealth). It's a tool to assist you in getting to know your character and helping with immersion - play a vampire and use the red glow after you've fed. Let your fire or lightning mage run around with those effects on them all the time.

I made new entries for the shaders and spells, so there shouldn't be any conflicts.

HOW TO GET STARTED : Download the file and put it in your data directory. Enable the mod, fire up Skyrim, and get glowy! Spell tomes are in a knapsack in the Hall of Attainment, and are buyable from Drevis Neloren. If you like, there's even a short lore-friendly explanation in there too.

I'll likely add more than a few more effects as time goes on. I don't do requests but if your idea is good enough I'll probably get jealous that I didn't think of it and implement it (and of course give you credit). I'll try to include later additions to the knapsack, but if they're not there then check with Drevis.

I'm a total mod n00b, but if you want to use my work in your own mod, GO FOR IT! Just credit me.

For those of you wondering, for the screenshots I used :
ADEC body by Acdale - http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=5390
ADEC armors (orcish with some daedric) - http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=7782
ApachiiSkyHair by Apachii - http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=10168
Coverwomen by mrLenski - http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3563
Craftable Helmet to Circlet by koryushin - http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=4014