Face appearance/Mukhi appearance: Face/Mukhi: Naturally grown groove or grooves, starting from the natural vertically or horizontally stalk point reaching the opposite point having a definite boundary wall on both sides of the groove can only be termed as Mukhi/Face. Any kind of artificial modification by any means to complete the natural incompletely grown Mukhi/face or deepening the groove cannot be considered as Natural Mukhi/Face. Mukh/face in every Rudraksha irrespective to its origin is always raised above the thorns level.
Most Rudraksha have a small opening* at the stalk point resulting from the extraction and cleaning process; which is further expanded by drilling to use the Rudraksha for its benefits. (*opening might be limited to the surface or it might be present like a drill-hole)
There are many examples of undeveloped, naturally joined, not formed faces in Rudraksha from all the locations. Fully developed faces are the easiest one to count but undeveloped faces, joint faces, partially formed faces and not formed faces creates confusion among traders while counting the numbers of the faces to qualify the Rudraksha as per their cells and actually toss the price of the Rudraksha to a lot. To support the trade till today there is not a single standard describing the method of counting the faces.
