Skin features
Dimples, freckles, beauty marks and laugh lines. 8 face guides on EveryFaceShape so far.
Skin features are the marks and textures that make each face its own: dimples, freckles, beauty marks, laugh lines and wrinkles. Some are inherited, some come with sun and age, and many come and go over a lifetime. They are normal, and many cultures prize them: dimples are admired in songs and films, freckles are painted on in some fashions, and the beauty mark was imitated with silk patches in eighteenth-century Europe.
Dimples and freckles
Cheek dimples are often linked to a split in the zygomaticus major, a smiling muscle; they are frequently called a dominant trait, but their inheritance is irregular. Freckles are clusters of skin cells that make more melanin; they darken in the sun and are linked to variants of the MC1R gene. Both are found in people of many backgrounds.
Marks of time
Laugh lines at the corners of the eyes and the nasolabial folds from nose to mouth deepen with years of smiling, and wrinkles form as skin makes less collagen and elastin. Everyone gets them. Moles that sit near the lip or cheek are called beauty marks. Any change in a mole is something to show a doctor; EveryFaceShape gives no medical advice.
Famous skin face guides
Still to be written: Wrinkle.
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Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Beauty mark: Ian Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Dimple: C. Szeto, CC BY 2.0, source
- Nasolabial fold: Mikael Häggström ,, Public domain, source