facial

adj

1. (not-comparable, relational)Of or affecting the face.
2. (not-comparable, relational)Concerned with or used in improving the appearance of the face.
3. (not-comparable)(of a law or regulation validity) On its face; as it appears (as opposed to on a more probing analysis, as it is applied, etc.).

   “The facial constitutionality of the law is in question.”

   “Discipline is a form of counter-law, of dissymmetry and inequality, that operates under the discourse of juridical power to make possible the stated or facial claims of equality and rights characteristic of the French Revolution.”

noun

1. A personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the human face.
2. A kind of early silent film focusing on the facial expressions of the actor.

   “But in facials, moving picture technology also enabled an exaggeration of this performance tradition, bringing a new emphasis to the details […]”

3. (slang)(in some contact sports) A foul play which involves one player hitting another's face.
4. (slang)A sex act of ejaculation onto another person's face.

   “Long-Dong Chuck gave his co-star a creamy facial.”

   “For the piece she spoke to two women who said they enjoy facials, and who described the act as ‘the mark of a job well done’ and ‘really hot’. But Reid concludes that she herself finds facials deeply unpleasant.”