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# Touch up your appearance with skin smoothing
> The skin smoothing effect touches up your appearance with an adjustable strength slider and region controls for targeted fine-tuning.
Skin smoothing is an AI touch-up for how you look on camera: Descript finds your face and softens targeted areas, at a strength you control.
## Apply skin smoothing to a clip
1. In the scene editor, select the video layer with the face you want to smooth.
2. Click **Effects** in the hover toolbar, then select **Skin smoothing**
3. Drag the **Strength** slider between low and high. Click the Regions icon for fine-tuning specific areas.
Skin smoothing is also available from the Properties panel. For general steps on adding, adjusting, and removing effects, see [Apply and adjust effects](https://help.descript.com/hc/en-us/articles/10327783443213-Applying-and-adjusting-effects).
**The skin smoothing effect does not require biometric data**
Skin smoothing works by detecting general facial location (roughly where the forehead, eyes, and jawline are) so the blur gets applied in the right places. It doesn't use or store any biometric information that identifies you individually, like a faceprint
## Known limitations
* **Skin smoothing may not work as expected with small faces, or with video that includes three or more people.** The smaller a face is in frame, the trickier it is to detect.
* **Avoid obstructions.** Hats, glasses, hands near the face, face coverings, and turned angles can all throw off detection.
* **Low light makes faces harder to detect.** Brighter footage works best.
* **Illustrated characters, statues, photos, and pets** may not register as faces, or might get picked up in unpredictable ways.