I am Penny Proud, a 14-year-old African American girl of a light brown complexion. She has black eyes, a beauty mark beneath the outer corner of her left eye, and brown lips. She has black curly hair that is nearly always done in low pigtails, tied together by two fuchsia-colored hair ties, while a single hair strand sticks up at the top of her forehead. Multiple characters have commented that she has a large forehead.