Refers to the remembered or imagined appearance of a person, often tinged with nostalgia or resemblance to someone else.
Her face still lingers in my mind.
The boy bears a resemblance to his father.
Used for faint remnants of a past state, person, or thing; often in expressions like 面影がない (no trace remains) or 昔の面影 (vestiges of the past).
Hardly any trace of the old town remains here.
His face still has a vestige of his younger days.
There are still traces of his late father's looks in the son.
This town has been so developed that it shows no trace of what it used to be.
Looking at the photo, I fondly recalled my late mother's face.