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Skincare vs Complexion - What's the difference?

skincare | complexion |

As nouns the difference between skincare and complexion

is that skincare is the care and treatment of the skin while complexion is physical constitution.

skincare

English

Noun

(-)
  • The care and treatment of the skin.
  • :The saleswoman told her that her face would look older unless she bought this line of skincare products.
  • complexion

    English

    Alternative forms

    * complection (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The combination of humours making up one's physiological "temperament", being either hot or cold, and moist or dry.
  • *, III.10:
  • *:Ne ever is he wont on ought to feed / But todes and frogs, his pasture poysonous, / Which in his cold complexion doe breed / A filthy blood.
  • The quality, colour, or appearance of the skin on the face.
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  • *:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.
  • (lb) The outward appearance of something.
  • Outlook, attitude, or point of view.
  • *1844 ,
  • *:But the purely marginal jottings, done with no eye to the Memorandum Book, have a distinct complexion , and not only a distinct purpose, but none at all; this it is which imparts to them a value.
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