I found the hardest thing for me as a writer is describing someone beyond myself noses and facial features are all different and when I describe mine I use terms like Nubian, small, round and I get why what works for me won't work for everyone so here are some positive terms to describe non-button noses.
Describing Wide Noses
First and foremost as long as you're keeping negative associations "away" from the character's nose, like people who associate black women being connected with masculinity is almost always rooted in misogynoir or even animalistic terms you're typically in the clear but it still can be a little scary so here are some words to guide your way.
Adjectives for wide noses
AmpleBroadButtonFullProminentRoundShortShort-bridgedSmallSoftWide
Noses might be depicted as:
A to C
alcoholic, aquiline, arrogant, askew, bent, bibulous, bold, bony, broad, broken, bubbling, bumped, childlike, chiseled, classic, cleft, coarse, colossal, comical, commanding, conspicuous, craggy, crooked, cruel, curved
D to H
delicate, dimpled, distorted, droopy, elegant, flat, foot-long, freckled, frostbitten, garish, glowing, granite, grimy, haggish, haughty, heavy, hooked.
I to O
imperious, impish, imposing, impudent, insignificant, intrusive, jolly, keen, knobby, lean, long, lopsided, lumpy, magisterial, meaty, miniscule, misshapen, monstrous, narrow, neat, needle-sharp, nodular, nondescript, off-center.
P to R
petulant, pert, petite, pickled, pinched, pious, pixie, pliable, pliant, pockmarked, pointed, pompous, porcine, portentous, powdered, prodigious, prominent, protruding, proud, puckish, puffy, pug, pugnacious, refined, regal, rubbery.
S
scarred, scary, scorched, sculpted, serpentine, sharp, skeletal, skinny, slender, slippery, sloped, small, sniffly, snobbish, snotty, soft, spongy, squat, stately, straight, strong, squashed, stubby, stuffy, stumpy, stupendous, sunken, supercilious, superior, sweat-beaded, swollen.
T to Y
thick, thin, tiny, twisted, wavy, waxen, weak, wide, wooden, wrinkled, wry, yielding.
Noses Need Shapes
A to H
arched, aristocratic, bulbous, bumpy, cauliflower, concave, conical, convex, diamond-shaped, fleshy, funnel, Grecian, hawk, Hebraic.
N to W
Napoleonic, Nixon, Neanderthal, Nubian, patrician, Pinocchio, plebeian, Romanesque, scooped, serpentine, snub, square, triangular, turned-up, upturned, wedge-shaped.
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Write Diversity
Non-FictionWelcome to Write Diversity, a Book of BIPOC Face claims, feature descriptions, and tips on character authentication from real people of color.
