Working from the bottom up, begin carving Hitty's features with the chin and lower lip. The lower lip is rounded and carved back to be just a little bit underneath the upper lip. (This is visible in profile in step 7.) The chin is carved back enough so that it extends out no farther than the lower lip when viewed in profile.The lower lip is deeper than the upper lip at the outsides/corners, and the face has shallow, vertical valley-like curves from the corners of the lower lip to the bottom of the face, on either side of the chin. These deeper areas help define the lower lip and chin and do NOT extend into the upper lip.

Sometimes the 'valleys' will extend to the bottom of the face on a finished doll, and sometimes the borders of the 'valley' will largely be smoothed out in later cuts on the cheeks and jawline. Either is nice and this develops in the next few steps based on the shape of your particular doll.