...nose human nose regular nose average nose unremarkable nose nose within standard parameters functional nose From the side it's difficult to say, even with shading... The most extreme naming convention might be a button nose. Kinda. But damn, look at the flawlessness of that skin!
I wouldn't. If there's nothing specifically identifiable about the nose from other people, I wouldn't waste a second describing it. I would only spend time describing at most three distinct items about a character and let the reader come up with the rest. Let the reader dictate the minutae.
A fleshy facial protuberance supported by cartilage, with two orifices for ingress and egress of air.
Katie had the small, pert nose of a belle of the ball. Missy hated her for it. She'd like to snip it off with sewing shears.
EFMingo is dead on. Unless there is something about the nose which has bearing on the plot or character, as in seven crowns' suggestion, then describing it will slow the narrative flow and bore the reader. Only describe important things, things that, if omitted, would leave the reader scratching her head.
A narrow mountain range that rose in the middle of her face, peaking at the end and flaring into two bulbous, fleshy hills, each hosting a single cavernous cave. I couldn't resist hehehehe
Her husband spent thousands on plastic surgery only for it to be a Whitney Houston and/or Tim Allen cocaine chamber. "You're disgusting," he muttered.
It's just a nose. But maybe she thinks it's a snub nose or something and has a hangup about it, or maybe her boyfriend thinks it's cute because he comes from a family where everyone has a big nose. I don't know your story to give your query context.
"Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike that of Jamie Farr." Spoiler stolen from a Hitchhiker's book description of the Nutrimatic Drink Dispenser product's comparison to tea
I don't know if you've ever read The Nose Book, OP, but you might find it helpful. It deals with the taxonomy of noses.
Her nose was the epitome of every rhinoplasty - the pert ski-jump to which every clinic demanded - gimme that.
He played Cpl. Klinger on M*A*S*H. edited: I apologize to anyone who saw the intemperate response, it was carried over from elsewhere and didn't belong here.
Wow, by this point the ears rival even that shnozz!! They must have grown since his days on the show.
It was perfect, pert and pretty. As she stared at herself in the mirror she wondered whether it would be so girlish after five rounds with the mangler in the pit.
Agree with EF Mingo. If it's not distinguishable as different from the norm then it's not worth describing.
