What do Somalis people look like? Hair, eyes, skin, nose, lips and face in 57 observed portraits

6 trait families measured across 57 documented portraits of Somalis people. Each family links to its full distribution.

Catalog portraits for Somalis are AI-generated adult subjects; the measurements on this page come from documented photographs of real people, not from these images.

Somalis hair

n = 41

Somalis: hair texture (andre walker) 1C — straight, coarse in 27% of 41; hair color Black in 59% of 44; hair density Thin in 36% of 42; hairline shape Rounded in 66% of 38; graying pattern None in 74% of 43.

Somalis eyes

n = 51

Somalis: iris color Very dark brown / black-appearing in 69% of 49; eye shape Almond in 96% of 51; upper eyelid crease type Double, low (~3-5mm above lash line) in 78% of 50; epicanthic fold Absent in 100% of 51; palpebral fissure slant Slight upslant in 73% of 51; eyebrow shape Soft arch in 98% of 53.

Somalis skin tone

n = 56

Somalis: fitzpatrick skin type Type V — brown in 63% of 56; skin undertone Warm (yellow / golden) in 63% of 49; pigmentation pattern Uniform in 100% of 56; freckling density None in 100% of 55.

Somalis nose

n = 54

Somalis: bridge profile (sagittal) Straight in 89% of 54; bridge height Medium in 91% of 54; bridge width Medium in 48% of 54; tip shape and definition Bulbous / round in 83% of 54; nostril shape Oval, horizontal in 78% of 54; alar base width Wide in 83% of 54; nasal length (proportional) Balanced in 93% of 54.

Somalis lips

n = 54

Somalis: overall lip volume Moderate in 78% of 54; upper-to-lower lip volume ratio Balanced (~1:1) in 81% of 53; cupid's bow morphology Soft / rounded in 100% of 53; philtrum definition Defined columns in 64% of 53; mouth width Balanced in 78% of 54.

Somalis face shape

n = 53

Somalis: overall face shape Oval in 45% of 53; cheekbone (zygomatic) prominence Moderate in 83% of 54; cheekbone width (bizygomatic breadth) Balanced in 76% of 54; midface morphology Balanced in 67% of 54; forehead shape (sagittal) Rounded / convex in 81% of 47; jaw width (bigonial) Narrow (tapered) in 50% of 54; mandibular angle (gonial angle) Soft / obtuse in 61% of 54; chin shape (frontal) Rounded in 87% of 53; chin projection (sagittal) Balanced in 100% of 54.

Where these numbers come from

57 publicly documented portraits of notable Somalis people were assessed by a vision model against the full 22-vocabulary schema, one value per dimension. Values are what the photographs show, read by a model, not population measurements. Each table counts only portraits where the value could be assessed; covered, obscured and unclear portraits are reported separately.

Notable-people corpora skew older, so hair color over-represents gray and white, and image quality varies. Treat shares as a description of this sample.

These rows are not yet in the published catalog dataset, which currently carries the earlier single-row analysis; see the methodology. A family page exists only when at least 10 portraits carry an assessable value.