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How to describe APPEARANCE in English

Hello everyone and welcome back to english with lucy.

Today i’ve got a slightly longer video lesson for you. We’re going to be talking about vocabulary and more specifically how to describe people’s appearances. now this is a really, really important topic. It’s normally one of the first things that you learn when you start to learn English. But I want to go a bit more in depth normally people are able to describe basic appearances. I want to teach you slightly more advanced vocabulary so that you can really give an accurate description of people’s appearances. If you find understanding me slightly difficult. you can switch on subtitles and so you’ll be able to see the words at the bottom of the screen.

So firstly we’re going to talk about people’s bodies. And I think I’m going to start by talking about height. How tall somebody is. So might already know these basic terms, short and tall, short and tall. But what about if somebody is a normal height. Well, there are a couple of ways that you can express this.

You can say they are of average height. They are of medium height. If you want to be more precise and say their actual height in centimeters or feet and inches, you can say, around. So I would say, I am around 5FT6. I’m actually 5FT5.5 but sometimes I say I’m 5FT6. Other words that you can include are very and quite. So he is very tall. Or she is quite short.

Next we have body type and weight. Now you have to be a little bit careful when describing somebodies body type or their weight because you can hurt their feelings. So firstly I’m going to give you some positive adjectives to describe somebody’s weight, and then afterwards I’ll give you the more negative ones. So, that you can understand when or when not to use them. But, I will warn you wait in the UK especially and many other places in the world is a very sensitive subject so if you think you might insult somebody. It’s often best not to say anything at all but that’s not my role here I’m teaching you words. So, let’s get started. so, we have thin and fat. These are generally considered to be negative words. So, let’s talk about some positive alternatives for thin.

You can describe somebody as slender or slim. They are really nice words if somebody called me slender or slim I’d be flattered. Another word is lean and this means that they’re just skin and muscle it’s a positive word. Because, it means they’re in shape. They’re muscley. There’s no fat on them. They’re lean. You can also call somebody petite and this is when somebody has a small build. It’s normally used to describe females who have small shoulders. They’re quite short they’re just like a woman. Only smaller. A petite.

If somebody is very thin you can call them slight. They’re very slight and another one is lanky. This means that somebody is tall and very thin it means they’ve got long limbs. Lanky if somebody has got a bit of meat on them you don’t want to call them fat. But, some nice words you can use are curvy. this means that women has curves. Curvaceous as well womanly voluptuous. This means normally that they’ve got quite a big bomb and big boobs. they’re normally flattering when used in a non-creepy way.

For a man stocky, well-built, muscly. Okay, now to touch on the negative words some quite soft ones for somebody who is larger plump chubby round. This doesn’t mean fat or big it just means that they’ve got a little bit extra on them. You can also say overweight, large, big, heavy and if somebody is very thin. You can call them underweight, skinny, bony if you can see their bones one word that’s often used to describe very thin people that shouldn’t really be used is anorexic. It’s a medical term it’s not actually an adjective to describe somebody’s physical appearance. So, try to avoid that one.

Okay, let’s move on to hair. Now there are two ways in which you can talk about somebody’s hair color. You can say to have adjective hair or to be adjective - head for example: I have blonde hair. I am blonde head. The second one’s a bit of a mouthful actually to be blunt head. I am blonde head. You can also just say I am blonde. But that’s better to use for colors that are very specific to hair colors like blonde and ginger and brunette.

So, I am blonde. I am ginger. I am brunette. that’s fine. But if you say I am white or I am black it could be confused with skin color so it’s best to say I am black-haired. Have white hair. So, we’ve got a huge spectrum of colors that you can be. I’m going to talk about the most common ones but they are quite specific and you might not have heard of them all before .So, let’s start with the lightest and move to the darkest.

So, we have white, then we have gray, then we have platinum, blonde and this is white blond hair it’s normally not a natural color but some people are lucky enough to have naturally white blond or platinum hair. It’s a really interesting color. Then, we have blonde if it’s a bit darker it could be called golden and then, if it’s a bit darker than blonde there are two ways you can describe it.

If it’s blond almost brown you can say dirty blonde. If it’s blond almost ginger you can say strawberry blonde. Then we have ginger which is more orange and red which is like a darker red color .Obviously after that you have mousey Brown which is a light brown color then brown then brunette as well which is another way of saying brown hair it’s normally a bit darker then dark brown and then black.

Now if you don’t want to specify a color of hair or skin or eyes and you just want to say light or dark you can say fair for light or dark for the darker colors so I am fair. I have fair eyes fair hair and fair skin. This means I’m just light. somebody else might have dark hair dark eyes dark skin so we normally use fair or dark so what about her length well if you have no hair then you are bald I am bald. In a video that I did on Ali’s channel papa teach me English I was bald. if you would like to see me with no hair and well no feminine makeup. Different makeup. Then you can click up there see if you recognize me. I look slightly different and then you have short hair long hair but then in between you can have a bob. I have a bob haircut in my first videos. I had very short hair and a bob haircut.

I didn’t ask for that haircut it was a surprise. Shoulder length hair. Medium length hair. Long hair. If you want to say how long your hair is you can say my hair goes down to my so my hair goes down to my armpit. My hair goes down to my waist. As far as hair texture you can have straight hair, wavy hair, curly hair, afro hair, which is really, really dense curls. the quality of your hair can also be described if your hair is very soft it can be silky or shiny if it’s not soft if it’s quite damaged you can say you have dry hair or you can say it’s straw like. so, let’s move on to the subject of skin this again is a more difficult one so we have the spectrum of white and black. but different people like to be called different things. So, I would call myself white I have a lot of friends with darker skin.

Who were often called black. But they would actually prefer to be called Brown. I would say when in doubt use fair or dark to describe somebody’s skin tone. Now in the middle we have tanned and this means that you’ve been blessed by the Sun. You’ve caught a Sun Tan. you’ve gone brown in the Sun and in British English.

We say tanned and in American English. They say tan. if you’re not turned then you are pale and that is what I am all of the time. I am always pale even when I go on holiday. Now let’s move on to eye color again. You can use fair or dark fair eyes, light eyes ,dark eyes, so you can say to have objective eyes or to be objective - I’d so I have grey eyes. I am grey. I am dark I’d most of the colors are pretty simple. blue, brown, green, black, gray, brown, I said Brown have an eye.

But one color that is used quite frequently is hazel if you have a sort of brownie green eye. It can be called hazel. so, they have hazel eyes .now lips you can have thin lips. But, if you want to talk about somebody with big lips you can say they have full lips so somebody has big kissy pouty lips you can say they have very full lips. If somebody has really sticky out lips and speaks like this you can call them pouty lips.

But, yes, full or thin really next you can talk about noses. So big or small obviously are the basics if somebody has a bend in their nose. It can be called a crooked nose a crooked nose if they haven’t got a bend in their nose it can be a straight nose. If somebody has a small nose you can call it a button nose. If they’ve got a hook, a hooked nose. If somebody’s nose is like this. It’s a turned up nose or an upturned nose face shape.

I looked online and apparently there are nine different face shapes. But we’re going to talk about four today you have oval round. Heart-shaped send in a point and square. somebody has a square jaw. What about general appearance? I did do a video with Anna from English like a native, about compliments and we discussed some of the ways in which you can compliment people. So that’s the positive adjectives.

I will cover them in this lesson. But if you’d like to see that you can click up there .But it’s quite good to separate them into male and female. Because one objective that might be really, really flattering and positive for a male might actually be quite insulting for a female. adjectives that could be used for both the positive ones attractive, beautiful, stunning, which means somebody is just amazingly beautiful. But, then just for men there’s handsome, and just for women there is pretty.

Now, if you described a woman as handsome you might be insinuating that she has manly features in the same way. That if you described a woman in the same way that if you described a man as pretty you might be saying he has quite feminine features. Which is not always something that somebody wants. Negative ones you can have ugly or plain. Other ways of describing people you can describe them as masculine or feminine, boyish, manly, girly, womanly, right your homework is to describe yourself in as much detail as possible.