Describing People's Appearance

DESCRIBING PEOPLE'S APPEARANCE: She's not very tall, with dark hair and blue eyes

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DESCRIBING PEOPLE'S APPEARANCE
Body

She's of medium height.

She's a woman of average height.

She's quite tall.

She's a woman of average height.

She's a woman of below average height.

She's not very tall. (→ She's short.)

He's slim.

He's of medium build.

He's well-built.

He's rather plump (=not slim).

He's broad-shouldered.

He's quite muscular.

He's a bit overweight. (→ He's fat.)
Complexion

He's dark (=with dark hair and dark skin).
He's fair (=with blond hair and pale skin).

Hair

She's got

long

blonde curly

hair.

(=Her hair is long, blonde and curly.)

red

She's got
She's got

(Also suntanned, olive-skinned, pale-skinned.)

wavy

hair.

(=Her hair is red and wavy.)

straight

hair.

(=Her hair is short and straight.)

spiky

hair.

(=Her hair is dark and spiky.)

short

She's got

dark

She's got shoulder-length hair.
He's blond. (=He's got blonde hair.)
A blonde = a blonde woman.
He's got a receding hairline. → He's going bald. → He's bald (=he's got no hair).
Hairstyle: neat, untidy, with plaits/braids, have a fringe, swept back, in a bun, in a pony-tail, etc.
Eyes

big

brown

small
More or less

She's got

eyes.

He's got long eyelashes.

blue

bushy / thin eyebrows.

She's tallish. (→ She's more or less tall.)
He's got greenish eyes. (→ I'm not sure if his eyes are green .)

Other features He has a moustache / a beard / a goatee.

A mole, a scar, side-burns, freckles, etc.

She wears glasses.
Age

Unshaven, clean-shaven.

He's in his early forties. (→ Probably between 40 and 43; also in his mid sixties, in his late twenties.)
She's thirty-something. (→ She's between thirty and forty .)

Your opinion

He's quite handsome| good-looking | attractive.
He's not particularly attractive. (→ I think he's ugly.)
She's very pretty (or