My daughter didn’t understand why everyone says we look alike so I made her this

And hair color, but y'know, the face

And, looking at the hair above her ear, it seems possible she dyes her hair

I think that’s because daughter still has baby fat. In 10 years she’ll look a lot more like mom

You have no sense of subtle similarity, do you? You know, general shapes and such? They very much look alike, and very obviously related. It would be wild if that were the mom’s younger doppelgänger.

You're kind of both right. Its because of the way your brain processes faces. For the most part it uses face ratios, the height, width, & distance between features, not the shape of individual features. Then if that ratio matches someone in your memory or if you're consciously studying a face, it analyzes feature shape. That's why the more you look at the pic, the less alike they look. If you look at each feature separately by covering up the rest of the face you can more easily see how different they are. But, because they have almost identical facial ratios they look very similar and you can definitely tell they're related.