complexion

Her face is too thin; her complexion has no brilliancy; and her features are not at all handsome.

“Father,” said Mercédès, stopping when she had reached the centre of the table, “sit, I pray you, on my right hand; on my left I will place him who has ever been as a brother to me,” pointing with a soft and gentle smile to Fernand; but her words and look seemed to inflict the direst torture on him, for his lips became ghastly pale, and even beneath the dark hue of his complexion the blood might be seen retreating as though some sudden pang drove it back to the heart.

She’s got a beautiful complexion and curly brown hair and she does it up so elegantly.

“How handsome is the Crow,” he exclaimed, “in the beauty of her shape and in the fairness of her complexion!