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Some possible answers are:

To find out about someone’s looks, you


She must be over 30.
could ask:
She’s of average height.
She has hazel eyes.
What does she look like?
She’s on the chubby side.
Can you describe her? She’s got freckles.
She wears glasses.
She’s fashionable but elegant.

When describing people’s appearance, there are several aspects you could refer to:

Oval Thick Dyed Tall


Round Bushy Dark Medium-length Short Dimples
Square Greasy Blue A fringe Average Spots
Thin Balding Hazel In a bun Well-built Scars
Long Receding Round A pony-tail Underweight Glasses
Double chin Thinning Bright Pigtails Overweight Tattoos
High cheekbones Dark Dull Plaits Plump Make-up
Freckled Fair Sunken Crew-cut Fat Sideburns
Wrinkled Grey Permed Chubby Pimples
Small forehead Curly Spiky Slim Beard
Wide forehead Straight A side parting Thin Moustache
Bushy eyebrows Wavy Slender Piercings
Long eyelashes Shiny Skinny Eye bags
Long Average height Large ears
Fair-skinned Stocky Warts
Dark-skinned Muscular
Teenager Black Stout
Adolescent Oriental
Middle-aged Tanned
Young Pale Casual
Elderly Olive-skinned Scruffy Smiling
In his 30’s Well-dressed Expressive
In his early 40’s Conservative Attractive
In her mid-20’s Turned-up Fashionable Cruel
In her late 50’s Straight Elegant Full lips
In his early teens Hooked Old-fashioned Thin lips
Baby Wide Neat Pouting lips
Toddler Crooked Trendy

Which of the following adjectives


apply to men and which are for
women only? Which are for both? IT’S YOUR TURN NOW!

Can you describe her?

Attractive
Unattractive
Good-looking
Hadsome
Pretty
Beautiful
Cute
Gorgeous
Glamorous
Ugly
Plain
Stuck-up

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