high complexion BrE
high colouring BrE

Sitting by the fire in a high-backed chair was Lady Grimstone, a formidable figure, her stoutness well corseted and clothed in purple velvet an unfortunate choice, thought Jane, with that high complexion.

They had a deal of difficulty making him understand, but eventually he led them to a portly fossil of a man with three chins and a high complexion who said they could rent, for a modest fee, two small basement rooms in Killcanon.

Besides the grim female two schoolgirls had joined the party, the elder a bouncing young woman with a high complexion, and her father's rather protuberant blue eyes; the younger a sallow girl too bashful to speak above a whisper or without blushing fierily from neck to brow.

Tone down high colouring by using a green moisturiser or under-make-up base before applying foundation.

Pale blue eyes underneath thick sandy-coloured eyebrows only served to exaggerate his high colouring.

Bright, bird-like eyes, sharp as a magpie's, stared at me out of a Jewish face that had the high colouring of blood pressure.

'Nor has Tory, have you Tory?' he presented the girl, a golden-haired child with the high colouring of a Joshua Reynolds portrait.

In Hawthorne we have none of the violence, the daring, the high colouring, the intense dramatic sense, the cosmic malignity, and the undivided and impersonal artistry of Poe.

Still I said nothing, only glanced up at this tall and splendid man standing above me in his fine clothes, for he was richly dressed as the fashion of the time went, with his high colouring, broad shoulders, and face full of health and vigour.

According to Rossetti's brother William Michael Rossetti, Howell was a skillful salesman "with his open manner, his winning address, with his exhaustless gift of amusing talk, not innocent of high colouring and actual blague - Howell was unsurpassable".