el cutis Englisch:

You can have fair (pale) or dark complexion.

She has a fair complexion.

Her girlish complexion belied the fact that she was over forty.

The sunshine improved his complexion.

It was her fearfully pale complexion that caught his eye.

The girls wore no make-up, and had the ruddy complexions of those who thought nothing of jogging for miles through icy conditions.

It puts a different complexion on the situation.

She's got a fair complexion while her brother is very dark.

a clear complexion

Her complexion was smooth and natural.

Nothing is as detrimental to your complexion as smoking.

I like fair-complexioned women.

She was a young woman with dark eyes and fair complexion.

dark complexion

This soap will improve her complexion.

Tom has nice skin.

All of the longing and wishes for good fortune are wrapped up in the fragile skin of the dumplings.

She was born just a generation past slavery. A time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky, when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons: because she was a woman, and because of the color of her skin.

For example, chameleons can change the color of their skin and blend with the trees and leaves around them.

Short-term effects of smoking include unfitness, wheezing, a general vulnerability to illness, bad breath, bad skin and so on.

Recently, I've been suffering from lack of sleep, so my skin is crumbling.

My insurance coverage is too limited, so I guess I'll just have to live with my arm bones jutting out of my skin.

Including responses up to 'It bothers me a bit', over 70% of respondents said that they were concerned about their pores and skin texture.

Near the bed, the composite aluminium robot, with a human shape and with a rubber skin, cleverly painted to resemble human skin, glued to its body, was standing naked.

Hey you, skinhead! Could you be so kind and put some cap on? You're blinding me!

Are you creating for us a future world where there is a greater danger of skin cancer, weakened bodies, less food and fewer plants and animals?

The fat woman, the young couple, the sleeping Indian and the tall man in black, but now skin and flesh and hair had disappeared, and empty eye sockets stared from gleaming white skulls.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Far from irritating my skin it was better than before I used it.

True democracy makes no enquiry about the color of skin, or the place of nativity, wherever it sees man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights.