UG - Erik Unmasked

"Erik´s right cheekbone sat about an inch higher than his left, protruding out of natural plane of his face a sharp angle, creating dips and valleys that did not belong to a human face. It looked almost like someone had had taken a shovel and smashed it across his head, throwing off the symetry of his face.  (...) the unnatural bone structure created a deep recess around his eye, making it appear to be the dark socket of a skeleton. And the skin of the right side of his face only added his skull-like quality. Pale yellow like candle wax, his skin stretched over his face, appearing so painfully thin that along his forehead a spider web of tiny pulsing veins could clearly be seen." 

I think that Kay´s description of Erik´s deformity is far muuuuuch better than that silly make-up gerry Butler wore in the movie, which (as I said a thousand times before) looked like a burn, rather than a nature accident.

About why he looks so surprised or has beard growing... well, read chapter 55 and you´ll know.