• MaybeALittleBitWeird@lemmynsfw.com
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    2 months ago

    I didn’t interpret the freckle vs mole thing negatively, but there is a difference between the two.

    Generally when people look at a face they see a few main features: jawline, browridge, chin shape/size, nose shape/size, cheekbones, and eye socket shape. Almost all of these are affected by the underlying shape of the bone underneath in the skull and don’t change, but there will be changes to the tissue on top. That’s really what you’ve got to look for.

    In the case of the brow ridge, if you feel above your eye socket a little below your eyebrows(it’s more pronounced in males and should be more prominent on you) that’s your brow ridge. It’s that bone that gives most of your forehead its shape and the eyebrows just frame it. You can change eyebrows though you can’t change bone without surgery.

    It’s one of those things that everyone knows on a subconscious level (you mention seeing attractiveness, which is what that is), but until you have the words to describe it you don’t really see it.

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      2 months ago

      See the thing is, I have the words to describe it and know what it is. I know from seeing all the skull reconstructions of other human species how the brow line looks in the various skull forms. I still don’t see it in faces at all as a defining feature I can pick out. I know what to look for, but I can’t picture a skull in a human face. I don’t know why, but a skull is like a thing with meaning separate from faces on some kind of level. I don’t want to associate them. It is not that I cannot do so, I’m more than smart enough for that. I can see the connections between the features if I care to try. It is like forcing myself to eat something I do not like though. I do not focus on these features for identity. I’m aware of the fact that the face is built on these element, but I simply want to enjoy sausage without making it on some kind of level of subconscious.