Skin Metaphors, Analogies and Similes

Skin

His cheeks were like an ancient statue corroded by tears.

His skin looked like a child's sandpit after heavy rain.

A Costa-del-Crime villain with the complexion of crushed tenners.

The lines on the teacher's face reminded the boy of a marionette.

You know you've been in the bath too long when you get out and you look like Bruce Forsyth.

Her make-up routine resembles icing a mouldy cake.

Skin as grimly lined as a blighted northern terrace town.

She was smeared in an omelette of make-up.

Parchment-like skin denied sunlight for thirty years.

Deep parenthesis round the mouth made him look his fifty years.

Vivienne has a pair of quotation marks wrinkled around her eyes.

A brown sugar spillage of freckles.

His skin was like a street before they lay the pavement.

Skin as mottled as a tablecloth in a cheap cafeteria.

Groucho Marx

His facial skin was like a window cleaner's sponge.

Her cheeks are smooth, like expensive writing paper.

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