Photos of a beautiful Nigerian lady with extremely deep facial dimples have gone viral on social media.
In the viral photos shared online, the lady showed off her facial dimples and it generated many comments from surprised netizens.
While some people loved her dimples and the way it looked, others, however, opined that it was too deep for her cheeks.
Deligh55 said: “Is this pothole or dimples? Too much for those cheeks if u ask me.”
Sandra_hiibe noted: “I used to like dimples until I saw this.”
Jennifer added: “Hmm this is not nice o.”
Dimples—indentations on the cheeks—tend to occur in families, and this trait is assumed to be inherited. Dimples are usually considered a dominant genetic trait, which means that one copy of the altered gene in each cell is sufficient to cause dimples.
However, some researchers say that there is no proof that dimples are inherited. Little research has been done to explore the genetics of dimples and it is not known which gene or genes may be involved.
A dimple is an anomaly of the muscle that causes a dent in the cheek, especially when the individual smiles. Some people have dimples in both cheeks, others in just one cheek.
Babies are likely to have dimples caused by baby fat in their cheeks. When they lose their baby fat as they get older, their dimples disappear. Other children do not have them at birth but may develop them later in childhood. In some people, dimples last only until adolescence or young adulthood, while in others they are a lifetime trait.
Dimples that have a similar appearance can occur in successive generations of a family. For example, in one family, it was observed that the siblings, their father, uncles, grandfather, and great-grandfather all had similar-looking dimples in both cheeks. In other families, dimples may occur in a child but are not seen in more than one generation.