Complexion

Faces, lips, etc. are blue and purple. Cyan is also known as cyanosis, because the blood has a type of non-oxygenated hemoglobin and a reduced amount of hemoglobin, and the result is that it passes through thinner skin around the lips, because the color of this reduced hemoglobin is dark purple. After showing through the skin, it shows bruising.

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