Can someone look exactly like you?

Millions of people live in the world. Not one of them looks exactly like you. Your look is truly special.

No one else has precisely your nose or exactly your skin colour. No one else has a smile just like yours, or the exact same fingerprints. You may look like a little-or even a lot-like someone else, especially someone in your family. But there is no one, not even if you have a twin, that looks like you do in every way. You are really one of a kind.

Face to face

Look at your face in the mirror. What do you see?

You see two eyes, and nose, and a mouth.

What else do you see?

You see eyebrows, and you see eyelashes. These tiny hairs keep dirt and dust out of your eyes.

Look deep into your eyes. The coloured circle is your iris. What colour is your iris?

Look closely at your nose. Your nose has two holes in it called nostrils. The air you breathe and the scents you smell go in through your nostrils.

Below your nose is your mouth. You use your mouth for eating, drinking, breathing, and talking.

On the sides of your head are your ears. The parts of your ears you can see catch sounds and send them inside your ears.

In many ways, your face is like everyone else face. Everyone has a mouth, nose, eyes, and ears. But yours have shapes and sizes all their own.

Put them together, and they make your own unique face.

One you, two sides

Your head has two sides, right side and left side. Each side has an eye, a cheek, an eyebrow, an ear, and a nostril. So, do both sides look the same? Take a closer look and see.

Look at yourself in the mirror.

Are your eyebrows exactly alike? Or is one more curved than the other?

Are your ears in exactly the same place on each side of your head? Do they have the same shape?

Does your nose have the same shape on both sides?

What about your hair? Does it look both sides?

Do your eyes have the same shape?

Now you can probably see that each side of your face is a bit different. This is okay. Everyone has two different sides.

Other parts of your body do not match exactly, either. Look at your hands. Is one bigger than the other? How about your feet? Do the toes on each foot have different shapes?

Let’s talk teeth!

When you were a newborn baby, no one could see your teeth. They were just little tooth buds hidden in your gums. There they waited to grow. When you were between six months and one year old, your baby teeth begin to break through your gums. By the time you were about two years old, you had all 20 of your baby teeth.

Your permanent teeth start to show after your baby teeth begin to fall out when you are about six. If you do not have them yet, you soon will. One by one they will push out your baby teeth.

When all your permanent teeth come in, you will have 32 teeth. That may seem like a lot of teeth for your mouth, but your jaw will grow to make a room for them.

Your teeth all together make a great smile. Each tooth also has a special job. The teeth at the front of your mouth are shaped to cut food. The pointed teeth next to them are made to grip and tear food. At the back of your mouth are flat teeth for chewing. All your teeth work together to break food into little pieces that are easier for you to swallow.

Here’s to hair

Your body is covered with the hair. Tiny hairs grow over most of your body. Thick hairs grow from your head. The only places on your body where hair does not grow or the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet.

Each hair grows out of a tiny sac, “a little pocket” in your skin. The sac is called a follicle. At the bottom of each follicle is a supply of blood for the hair. The blood makes the hair grow. Around each hair there is a little supply of oil. The oil makes hair soft and shiny. And each tiny sac has a muscle that makes your hairs on end when you are cold or scared.

Have you ever wondered why some hairs grow long while others never do? This happens because hairs grow for only a certain amount of time. Then the follicles take a rest. When a new hair starts to grow, the old hair falls out. The hair on your head grows for a long time. Other hairs grow for only a short time.

The skin you are in

Look all your body. What do you see everywhere you look? The answer is skin! Skin covers your entire body, and it protects your body in many ways.

Your body needs certain fluids, such as water and blood, to walk. Your skin keeps these fluids in. Your skin keeps out harmful things that can make you sick. It also helps keep your body at a certain temperature.

All skin is made up of three layers. The outer layer is about as thin as a piece of paper. This is where most of your skin’s growth takes place. The middle layer is much thicker than the first layer. It contains blood and hair follicles. This is also where sweat is made. Under this layer is another layer. It contains fat and blood vessels.

Your skin has tiny holes called pores. When you are hot, sweat comes out through your pores. As the sweat dries, you feel cooler. When you are cold, your pores close and no sweat gets out.

Sometimes when you are cold, you shiver. Shivering helps to warm you. It is caused by muscles moving in your skin.

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