Does 顔をする mean to make a face or to have a particular type of face? When I
looked at the Japanese dictionary definition for する, it was quite confusing
since one had ある状態・性質であることを示す compared to
人や物がある形・色・性質である。また，人がある服装・顔の形・表情である。This gets particularly frustrating when I
see a sentence such as 顔していない because I cannot tell if it's progressive or
resultave if I don't know whether it means to make an expression or to have an
expression. For example, I was watching Saekano episode 6, and at the last
minute, there is a scene where the main girl sees a sketch of her and she
reacts.

恵：私、全然こんな顔していないよ

The official translation is "I don't make a face like that at all," but I am
not too sure how reliable the translation is. For starters, I don't know
whether it is progressive or resultave. If it is resultave and 顔をする means to
make a face, then the actual translation would be "I didn't make that face at
all." However, if it is progressive, then there are even more possibilities.
If 顔をする means "to make an expression" then it could mean that she doesn't make
that face habitually, but if 顔をする means "to have an expression" then she could
be speaking strictly about the present and not anything habitual (i.e. that's
not the face she's making right then and there).
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Meaning of 顔をする?
顔をする it is close to "make a face"
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Probably the official translation is wrong. 顔をする has two meanings.

人や物がある形・色・性質である。

> 私、全然こんな顔していないよ
>
> I don't look like this (picture) at all.
>
> 米国北部・ユーラシア西部の大型の皿型の顔をしたフクロウ
>
> large dish-faced owl of northern North America and western Eurasia.
>
> 酒を好み頭が長く、白髪で赤い顔をした長寿の神とされる。
>
> He was a long lived deity with white hair and a long red face who liked
> sake.
>
> かわいい顔をしている
>
> S/he is cute.

人がある服装・顔の形・表情である。

> 彼は妙な顔をした。
>
> He made a strange (looking) face.
>
> 山田さんは旅行社から出された見積もりに渋い顔をした。
>
> Mr Yamada frowned on the estimate presented by a travel agency.
>
> かわいい顔をする
>
> S/he pretends to be cute.
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