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Personally, I preferred the old style, where you can't tell them from the Vulcans, and I'm thinking about keeping to that in my writing. Part of it is that I like that the differences between Romulans and Vulcans are purely cultural, not biological.

How do you prefer to see them?

I have to agree. I like the duality of the "cool" logical Vulcans against the "heated" emotional Romulans. And having them look as close to each other as they did them makes it a bit more fun to muck around with.

Why can't there be both? A group of Romulans who inter-bred with the Remans or some other native spieces on Romulus and Remus, and a group that didn't? Either way, it's never really mattered to me.

No bumps. I definitely prefer no bumps. Of course, I prefer smooth-headed Klingons, too, so I guess I'm weird.

In addition to reducing the threat of confusion with Vulcans, the bumps make a previously diabolically attractive group of people quite unappealing.

I'm fine with bumpy Klingons, though. They really went to town with them, and I find them a lot more convincing than the cheapo bumpy Romulans.

The bumps make no biological sense considering how recent the Vulcan-Romulan split is. So no Rommie bumps for me.

Klingon Bumps - Yes
Rommie bumps - a seeming artificial construct. Did they all start banging their collective heads against the wall on the trip from Vulcan??????
not really a fan of the haircuts or uniforms either, but I digress.

Best thing to do to a rommie,

Choot 'em Clint, Choot 'em - Troy Landry Swamp People

Mais, ya cher! Dem Rommies be wors'n rou garou, dem. Choot 'em all dead.

Bumpy ones, please. I like to be able to easily distinguish between my Vulcans and my Romulans. Kinda like distinguishing between the heroes in white hats and the villians in black hats. I like life to be simple.

Actually I prefer life to be complex - it makes for more interesting plot lines. But I still want my Romulans bumpy, peace-loving challenged, telepathically challenged, and sexually charged up at all times instead of horny once every 7 years - under their flat forehead disguises so they can spy on Vulcans in their attempts to annex the old home world.

Oh, on reading the other posts here about perhaps the forehead bumps are artificial (like tattoos or something, for effect?), and others saying there wasn't enough time since they left Vulcan for this to be an evolutionary development - I have always thought the Romulans were a separate race who had those ridges before they left Vulcan. I think they left because they were treated as an inferior race by flat foreheaded Vulcans who also despised them for their lack of telepathic ability. So the differences could have developed over a million years on the home world.

It is interesting, really interesting to see how the explanations that each of us can find for what we have seen on the screen are so different from one another and, at the same time, all equally valid.
For me, for example (but, wanting to use a closer look, it is perfectly suited to my way of being and thinking) the Romulans embody quite simply the most true essence of Vulcans, what Vulcans are in reality, and that, maybe, just maybe, they wouldn't like to be.
I see the Romulans identical to the Vulcans, physically and, on the whole, even in the soul.
If they are, if they appear, different, it is because they think (want to think) in a different way.
It is their curse, the curse of both.
Not very different, if not equal, to the curse that haunts the different ethnic groups of Humans.