Hi friends! Welcome back and thanks for clicking. Well, I am Niharika and I have a great news
for you. My cousin is getting married! She called me last night and she said that she
has found her prince charming and she’s getting married, so I was like Wow! Could
you send me a picture and she said sorry I don’t have a picture. So I was like, how
does he look like? And she’s like, well she had no words. So that brings me here to
do a lesson. Well, in English we have lot of words to describe physical appearances
of people. And that’s what we are gonna look at, so this lesson is for my cousin and
of course for all my students out there.
Now the very first thing that we noticed is of
course the physical appearance of a person. And if we have to describe it to someone,
How are we gonna do that? Well, let’s begin with the height. Now you’re gonna tell someone
you know that, how tall he is or how short he is , so you’re gonna have three words,
if he’s short then you’re gonna say, he’s really short and average. Average can be used
for someone, who has medium height. Medium height or he’s just normal, not too short,
not very tall. So either you can use, he’s average or you can say medium height, and
then you have tall, he’s really tall. So if you’re describing someone and that person
is really tall, just use the word tall. Then we talk about the build. Now build is basically
you talk about the body weight. So now what are the words that you’re gonna use? Well,
for the girls. If the girl is extremely thin, you’re gonna say she’s very skinny. Now
skinny is a negative word. The girls are not gonna like it, if you are gonna say skinny,
so that’s a negative term. You can say you look thin or you are slim, slim is like okay
the girl has nice perfect figure. So you can use the word slim or slender. So three words
skinny a little more negative, slim and slender are just perfect words for the girls who are
thin. And what about the people who are a little fat? What are the words that you can
use? You can use the word plump, she’s a little plump or he’s a little plump, chubby,
if you are fat then you have fat everywhere, so you are chubby, like your face is really
full and you can say chubby. Obese is a term used for very fat people, so that’s obese
and then you have stout. Now stout is used for someone who is short and fat. So if i
have to describe someone, who is a little short and fat, I’m gonna say, Oh he’s
a little stout. That’s the word that you can use, just write it for you, short and
fat. So you can use the words plump, chubby, obese, but don’t just directly say he’s
fat, he’s really fat. That’s gonna be mean, so don’t use that word. Now let’s
move to the complexion, now of course when you’re describing peoples appearances, you
are gonna talk about the complexion as well. So whitish, well I am whitish. Well, most
of the Asians are whitish, so whitish is a better word for brown, like usually people
say she’s a brown or he’s a brown. But a better word is whitish. Tanned, now tanned
can be color of your skin, when you get tanned, when you go out in the sun, you get tanned
or if you are using the tanning machine then you get tanned. So that’s tanned. Dark skinned
is when you’re a little black, but do not use the word black that’s mean. It’s not
the right word to use, so you can use the word, he’s a little dark skinned or he’s
white. So most of the Americans, Europeans are whites. So you can use the word white.
Then let’s move to hair. Now how do you describe someone’s hair? We have three categories
under that, you talk about the length, you talk about the style and you talk about the
color. So let’s look at the words that you can use. Someone who has no hair, he’s a
baldy. Baldy is a slang term, but you can use the word bald. So he’s bald because
he or she has no hair. The next one short, now if someone has really short hair, then
you’re gonna say that she has short hair. Shoulder length, so shoulder length is medium
length, so mine is kind of shoulder length hair. And then its long, well she’s got
real long hair. So long is when you have like real pretty long hair. I wish I had long hair,
unfortunately I don’t, but yes this is one of the type of hair. Now in English please
make sure you just say hair. Many people make a mistake by saying hairs, that’s completely
incorrect. It’s just gonna be hair. Now let’s look at the style, so some girls or
even men, they have straight hair. Which are like straight, like mine are straight, mine
are little wavy and straight. Then wavy is you know something like mine. Well, I’m
sorry, I’m confused. Well, mine are kind of straight and wavy. So wavy are not tight
curls, but you know loose curls, that’s wavy and curly is you know someone who has
real tight curly hair, that’s the style of hair. And then the color of hair, now blonde
one of the color type. There are number of hair colors, but I’ve just taken the most
common ones here. We have blonde, we have red head,so red head is a term used for women,
who have red color hair, she’s a redhead. Grey is you know the salt pepper look or someone
whose aging, they have grey hair. And then you’ve got brunette, she’s a brunette
or he’s a brunette. Brunette is a term used for someone who has brown hair. So that’s
the term that you can use rather than just saying the color of her hair is brown. You
can say she is brunette. So these are some words that will help you to describe the physical
appearance of a person. And now let’s have a look at some more words. Now let’s have
a look at eyes. Well, how would you describe someone’s eyes? Of course you’re gonna
talk about the color. Now color we have people who have blue colored eyes, people who have
grey colored eyes, brown and even green. That’s a beautiful color; I wish I had green colored
eyes. And I think women who have green or blue color eyes, they look so pretty. So you
can talk about the color of the eyes, now do not say she has a black eye. Black eye
is an expression that is used, when someone is punched in his eye, so your eye turns black.
It’s like a wound on your eye, so that’s a punched eye. Well, that punched eye is called
as a black eye. So don’t say she has a black eye, just say the color of her eyes are black,
you can use that , so talk about the color, then talk about whether they are big, they
are small or they are tiny, you can talk about the size of the eyes. And then we have a term
called squint, so squint is used for a person whose eyes are not aligned. So basically they
do not look at the same direction. So one eye would be over here and the other eye,
the direction of the eye would be here. So it doesn’t go in the same direction, people
who have these kind of eyes, well they are squint. Then we have facial features, so we
spoke about eyes, we spoke about height, built and everything. Now let’s look at facial
features. So for men if they have beard, that’s their facial hair. Then it’s called as beard,
we have mustache. Now mustache is facial hair above your lip, that’s mustache. Then we
have pimples. Well, pimples are those ugly red marks, they just pop out of nowhere. Even
men have pimples and even women. And especially for teenagers it’s a big problem. So that
woman has too many pimples on her face, so pimples are those red pop ups on your face.
Now we have mole, mole is a black mark. Well, many people call it as a beauty mark as well,
but the right term is the mole. Mole is like a black mark, you can get anywhere in the
body, not necessarily on the face, but yes that black mark is called a mole. And then
you have dimples. Well, dimples I think it looks really cute, especially on women. Now
dimples is a small depression in the flesh. Many people have it either on the cheek or
on the chin, and as I said, I think that it kind of looks really cute. So these are the
words that you can use to describe a person’s physical appearance. The next time you are
trying to do that, I hope you will not fall short of words. Hope this lesson is helpful
to you; I’ll be back with a new lesson. Till then take care.