Hey Thomas! I did not say that the marks were faces! I said they appear to be a crude attempt to make them look like faces and, I also said that it certainly is Not dirt placed to appear to be faces. I looked at them with a magnifying glass and it is just colored marks that resemble faces only when looked at with the naked eye! My husband does all of my pictures and he does his best but, he is not a professional nor very interested in it! Even, if they are not real faces, I sure love this bead!