>>19290476>>19290458>>19290447>>19290439under natural light, certain facial points have naturally darker shades, such as nose, lips, cheeks edge of eyes and ears. Depending on the person health and skin color they can change between a slighty redish color to brownish. The other soft pale areas are often softened with yellows and greens.
For some reason it became popular to extremely exaggerate those tiny color differences, and there was born the extremly red tumblr noses where all characters have a cold
note that pictures taken under flash or artificial studio projected and reflected lights, such as most stock photos, can smooth those color differences to almost indistinguishable tones
