Features:
eyes can be:
large, small, deep set, slanted, round, thick lashed, watery, well spaced, protruding, rheumy, heavy lidded, dark circled
Hair can be:
curly, straight, wavy, coarse, lustrous, thin, thick, thinning. Of course, one can be bald!
Mouth can be:
slack, thin/thick lipped, wet, smiling, grinning, toothy, puckered, large, pouting, rosebud, stingy
Complexion can be:
fair, olive, dark, sallow, pale, flushed, healthy, sickly, choleric
Nose can be:
long, short, narrow, upturned, crooked, with flaring nostrils, flat, bulbous, roman, beaky
Body can be:
fat, thin, obese, skinny, muscular, stocky, willowy, long/short legged, paunchy, portly, rangy, wiry, plump, statuesque, lissome, svelte, gross
Some more Hany ideas if you dont know how to describe things in particular or if you need more things to describe:
Ear
Facial expressions
Eye
Facial hair
Mouth
Nose
Physiognomy
Buccal fat pad
Cauliflower ear
Cheek
Chin
Cleft chin
Cleft lip and palate
Coarse facial features
Cupid's bow
Dental anatomy
Dimple
Diprosopus
Double chin
Epicanthic fold
Eye color
E cont.
Eyebrow
Eyelash
Facial cleft
Facial hair
Facial resemblance
Facial symmetry
Forehead
Forensic facial reconstruction
High cheekbones
Human eye
Jaw
Lip
Nasal bone
Nasal reconstruction using a paramedian forehead flap
Nasion
Nasolabial fold
Nose
Nostril
Philtrum
Prognathism
Facial skeleton
Supraorbital ridge
Triangular face
Tubercle of the upper lip
Unibrow
Widow's peak
Wrinkle
Zygomatic bone
(Found on http://www.kidlink.org/drupal/node/115)
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