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Picture this out, that cute girl walks straight at you and asked you if the seat next to you is taken. Suddenly, your cheeks turned red. Then you feel the crimson washing over your face, but, there is nothing you can do. Why? You’re blushing!

This cheek coloring reaction is a universal human response to social attention. Everybody does it. The common blushing trigers include meeting a very important person, receiving compliment and experiencing a very strong emotion in a social situation.

Here’s the biology of blush: the veins in the face dilate which causes more blood to flow into your cheeks and thus, the rosy color forms.