News Finding: I wonder if we'll look back at the keyhole pout and experience similar skepticism.
Paper Finding: Estradiol may increase blood flow to blood vessels close to the surface of the skin, increasing skin redness .
News Context: To me, the keyhole pout seems like another blip on the timeline of women mutilating their bodies to adhere to our society's bizarre beauty standards. I wonder if we'll look back at the keyhole pout and experience similar skepticism. It's a small hole, but ample enough for the average gnat.
Paper Context: For example, female rhesus macaques' ) and mandrills' facial skin becomes redder during the fertile phase of their ovarian cycles, complementing findings for similar changes in the color of female hindquarter skin also become darker during the fertile phase of their ovarian cycles ( . Estradiol may increase blood flow to blood vessels close to the surface of the skin, increasing skin redness . For example, increasing red, yellow, and light skin coloration increases the perceived health of white European and black African women's faces Re et al., 2011) .