#detailing

Basic Adjectives for Eyes (without poetics)

How close/far: close set vs. medium set vs. wide set Lid shape: single lid vs. hooded vs double lid Eye angle: upturned outer corner vs. no angle vs. downturned corner eyes Overall size: large vs medium vs small Eye depth: deep set vs medium depth vs protruding Height vs. width: thin/narrow vs. medium roundness vs. round

But I want the Medical terms (you masochist)

That chart is from here which has all of the terms typed out:

https://www.visioncenter.org/eye-anatomy/

The above is an anatomy chart from: https://www.anatomystuff.com/products/eye-anatomy-chart-poster?variant=50289910776149

Re: Eyebrows

Eyebrow width: Thick v. Medium vs. Thin.

Where on the head: Heavy set vs. middle/relaxed vs. High on the forehead

Hair thickness: Bushy vs. medium vs. thin

Color: Is it the same as the hair on the head (if there)?

Grooming: Plucked/manicured vs. au naturel

Bonus: Unibrow, burned off

About Poetics

I suppose you could wax poetic, but if you do, please avoid food, especially colonizing food/products. Almonds come from Central Asia or West Asia. "Hypotheses [of almond domestication] range from an origin in the Middle East or Central Asia to a complex scenario involving recurrent domestications and crop‐wild gene flow." https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12399410// But I've gone over why food, especially food that was stolen/taken from colonized lands isn't that great. (NK Jemisin points this out brilliantly) When you're deliberately choosing words like cotton to describe white people and coffee to describe Black people, you have a lot of issues. Likewise, porcelain, almonds, Chinese cultural goods, tea, etc for East Asians, do a double take and think about it. "Well-brewed tea" should not be a skin color or eye color.

Spread it evenly except around love interests. In another words, equal opportunity except around POV reasons. Don't let people pin it back to the author.

Description vs. Detail

As always, you don't have to info dump it all at once. It can be noticed in segments. Description vs Detail. Most of the time you end up in detail land with physical features unless someone specializes in physiognomy or is a physical anthropologist. Just like you might really have a chef compare sausages and fruit when they talk about sex. But MOST people don't realize all of the features of a person in an info dumpy paragraph.

Reminder

If you have my Better Novel Scrivener template, you can add it to that in the Resources and Inspirations section:

I did, because I really don't want to go through those mental gymnastics again.