Unique features of skin of face

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Unique features of skin of face are:

It is very vascular and elastic.

It contains large number of sweat and sebaceous glands which is responsible for acne.

It is lax except on nose where it is attached to the underlying cartilages that laxity of the skin facilitates rapid spread of edema

 It is the sites of  insertion of  muscles of facial expression.

Superficial Fascia: It contains muscles of facial expression, vessels and nerves and varying amount of fat. The fat is absent in the eyelids, however it is more at the  cheeks especially in children for breast feeding  and is called buccal pad of fat.

♦ Deep fascia : It is absent in face except over the parotid gland and masseter muscle (parotido-masseteric fascia).The absence of deep fascia in the face facilitate  facial expressions to be seen.