I always found it fascinating how sometimes people really take after one parent or the other, and sometimes they’re a perfect combination of both. Where I’m from we called it being “marked” by the parent you strongly resemble. And is it just me, or do daughters tend to take after their fathers, and sons after their mothers? Or maybe the similar features just pop out more when you see them on someone of the opposite gender.
Me and my mother look so much alike in the face that everyone comments on it. But I got my coloring from my father. My mother also swears up and down that me and my half-brother are eerily close to our fathers in personality. I say eerily because neither of us were raised by our bio-fathers, so it’s not like we modeled ourselves after them. Mom says she’ll be talking to both of us, and that just for a moment it’s like she’s talking to our fathers.
My brothers (3 of them) and I all closely resemble our father in the face. When you look a baby pictures of them and baby pictures of our father, it’s almost impossible to tell them apart. Mainly, though, it’s the eyes and the cheeks that give us away as related. Small eyes and chipmunk cheeks. Yeah.
I so strongly resemble my dad that I’ve had people I don’t even know come up to me and ask me if I’m my father’s son and my paternal (half) sister and both her daughters look like him as well, only with narrower feminine features.
I have a Singaporean-Chinese mother and an blond-haired blue-eyed English father. I look somewhat Mediterranean. I don’t look at all Asian, except for my lack of body hair.
Both my brother and I look very much like my father. Fortunately (I think), I look like a female version with his features, while my brother looks like his clone.
However, I have all my Mom’s mannerisms, quirks of speech, boby language, etc, which makes resemble her in more subtle ways. Most people think I “look like” my Mom, because I act like her, until they see me standing next to Dad.
Me and my siblings all look like our mother. Same eyes, same nose, same mouth. Several of our children take after her as well. People have come up to me on the street where they live and said, “You have to be Shirley’s son.”
A few years ago I came across a picture of myself and got confused thinking I don’t remember ever being in a dinghy like that … it was my Mum of course ! There’s almost a 40 year age gap so I’d alw
:smack: Dang now how’d I do that ? Sorry. As I was saying
There’s almost a 40 year age gap so I’d always just smiled and nodded when people said how much I looked like her but in photos of Mum at my age *she is me * .
On that side of the family we females all seem to have the same nose - seen in profile, I say all there’s me, Mum and an aunt but they had a cousin with the same nose too.
My brother is a tad podgy and thanks to time spent playing rugby - as often as not in the middle of a scrum or melée - his nose isn’t what it once was but he tends towards my father. It’s the cheeky sparkle of faux innocence in their eyes when they’re winding you up.
Mannerisms wise the males mirror each other very obvioulsy but I think I share bits from both sides.
Both my sister and I look almost nothing like our father. I look a little like his father though. I think my father looks more like his mother’s side, while the genes he passed on to his kids more closely resemble his father’s side.
But we both look like our mother. The resemblance there is pretty obvious.
My brother is absolutely dead-on my father. When he was sixteen they pulled out some old photos of my dad and they even had the same haircut. It was truly, truly disturbing…
As for myself? I look more like my maternal uncle at this age, but I inherited my dad’s cheekbones. No one’s quite sure where I got my eyes, since no one else has bright green ones.
I looked so much like my mother, that when we were the same height
(I would have been about 14), my grandmother couldn’t tell us apart.
We had the same haircut and similar glasses at the time.
The scary part is that we are not the same sex!
We look somewhat different now. For one thing, I have more grey
hair that she does. I guess I should be glad I still have hair at all.
I am a mirror image of my father. I’ve got a crooked tooth on the left, his is on the right. He’s got veins that stand out on his left leg, I’ve got them on the right. If we can’t tell if an old photo is of him or me as a child (It can be harder than you think telling old childhood photos apart, especially when they were taken on the the same farm with the same camera) we look for the tooth.
My sister and I (a girl, in case you didn’t know) both take after our dad in hair-eye color and general looks, while my brother takes after my mom…and his daughters looks more like him than their mom, but I think they look a bit like me, too.
My kids, boy and girl, have many of their dad’s features…body type, nose…but they both have my hair and eyes, and everyone tells us we look alike, even though my nose is turned up and theirs are classically straight. But I have confused many of my daughter’s and my pictures. In fact, the older she gets, the more she looks like me at that age. And my son is now way taller than his dad…about 7 inches taller, in fact.