If you switch from a skin on the store to a custom skin on your device, it will switch the skin, but it will not save it if you exit and reopen Minecraft. It always switches back to the previous store skin.
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[Mod] Celesian
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However, this issue has been closed as a Duplicate of MCPE-45476.
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