Logging on today, I was surprised to see my custom skin is showing up as Steve. Thinking it was an issue with my skin format (the old 1.7 one), I updated my skin to the new 1.8 skin format (the advanced customization one). I uploaded it to my profile and waited a while before opening the Minecraft Launcher and booting up Minecraft 1.7.7.
I have tested this on both Single Player and Mulitplayer mode, and I have made sure I am not is the "Play Offline" mode available in the Minecraft Launcher.
Any Help would be apperciated!
Environment
Windows 7, Up to Date Java
Up to date skin (using the 1.8 format for the skin)
The same issue has been happening to me... I have tried to download my skin a lot of times, but it didn't work...