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One's Facial Features Describe Face Skin Person Describing

Id ESLPod_0286_CN
Episode Id ESLPod 286
Episode Title Describing Facial Features
Title Describing Facial Features
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When we describe someone's facial features, we usually begin by talking about their eyes, nose, and mouth. But there are a lot of other facial features that we can describe when talking about what people look like.

For example, to describe noses, sometimes we talk about "nostrils," which are the two holes in one's nose that one breathes through. Someone might have very small nostrils, round nostrils, or hairy nostrils.

We can also talk about someone's "forehead," which is the top of one's face, above one's eyebrows and below one's hair. Foreheads can be high or low. And many foreheads are "wrinkled," meaning that there are lines in the skin.

A "chin" is at the bottom of one's face, below one's mouth and above one's neck. If someone has a "jutting chin," it means that his or her chin sticks out from the rest of the face. Fat people often have "double chins" meaning that there is extra skin under the face and above the neck, so that it looks like the person has two chins.

"Dimples" are small indentations that can appear on one's "cheeks" (the areas on the sides of one's face, to the right and left of the nose) or chin. Many children have dimples when they smile, and some adults have dimpled cheeks, too.

The skin covering one's eye is known as an "eyelid." If the skin under one's eye is dark, usually because one hasn't slept enough, we say that the person "has bags under his/her eyes," or we say that the person "has dark circles under his/her eyes."

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