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It is our front—our face. The same basic shape underneath with unlimited variations. Just muscle on bone covered by skin. Some stationary openings and some movable. Noses and Lips of an amazing variety of shapes and colors and thicknesses and settings. The whole lit by eyes of many colors, shaded by brows and lashes, colored and shaped and affected by emotions controlled by hundreds of muscles. Extremely sensitive yet the most exposed portion of our bodies. Cut by creases vertical and horizontal and diagonal, some appearing only at certain times and with certain emotions and becoming more permanent with the years. Laugh lines and frown lines and sun squint lines and blemishes and moles and hair. Tanned, weathered, pale, ruddy and of many hues. All framed by ears and hair with one, two or more chins. Some we count beautiful, some pretty ugly, most somewhere in between. All of our considerations of beauty affected and molded by our culture, race, age, sex and a hundred other factors, most of which we cannot articulate. The wonders of the human face.