Tools
Face shape
detector
Six shapes, four measurements, one photograph. Measured in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
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Take or choose a photograph facing the camera, and this will measure it.
The photo is measured inside this page and is never uploaded. Nothing is sent to us, and nothing is stored.
What is actually being measured
Every face-shape chart in every magazine comes down to four numbers: how long the face is against how wide, how the jaw compares to the cheekbones, how the brow compares to the jaw, and how sharp the corner of the jaw is. This finds sixty-eight points on your face, takes those four measurements, and names the shape whose definition they fit best. When two shapes fit almost equally well, it says so — most faces are not a textbook example of anything.
For a better measurement
- — Face the camera straight on, not at an angle.
- — Hair off your face, so the jaw and the brow line are visible.
- — Even light, with no hard shadow down one side.
- — The whole head in the frame, from above the hairline to below the chin.
The six shapes
Oval
Longer than it is wide, with a jaw a little narrower than the cheekbones and no hard corners. It is the shape most makeup instructions quietly assume, which means almost everything works — so choose by what you like rather than by what corrects.
Round
About as wide as it is long, with a soft jaw and full cheeks. Contour and blush placed slightly higher and angled towards the temple do more here than anything applied straight across the apple of the cheek.
Square
As wide as it is long, with a jaw that turns a clear corner. The strong line is the feature, not the flaw — a softened edge along the jaw and a rounder brow keep it from reading severe.
Heart
Wide at the brow and cheekbones, narrowing to a pointed chin. Weight at the lower half — blush kept low and wide, a fuller lip — balances a face that carries most of its width up top.
Diamond
Widest at the cheekbones, narrower at both the brow and the jaw. The cheekbones are already the event; softening them and bringing attention to the eyes and lips tends to read better than sharpening them further.
Oblong
Noticeably longer than it is wide, with sides close to parallel. Horizontal placement — blush across rather than up, a brow with a flatter arch — shortens the face more than any amount of contour down the sides.
Wondering about your undertone as well? The undertone finder works the same way, from the same photograph.