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Face shape test
Eight questions, four of which you answer by looking, and two of which want a tape measure held across your forehead and your jaw. They score four axes and place you among seven shapes.
You will need a mirror, and for two questions something to measure with. Hair pushed back, straight-on view, and if you want to compare widths honestly, a straight-on photo taken at arm's length rather than above eye level.
Nothing you answer leaves this page. There is no upload and no face detection: the scoring code is part of the page you already downloaded, and your answers stay in this browser tab. Disconnect your network after the page loads and the test still finishes.
Your result
The Dossier · $19
The reading above is free, including which of the seven shapes you came out as. What $19 buys is the rest of the picture: a face shape on its own decides very little, because what to do with it depends on your coloring and your line as much as your outline.
- Your color season, your body type and your skin undertone alongside it
- The complete reasoning table — every question, every axis, every weight
- How the four cross: frames, necklines and hair read against your palette
- A permanent private link to it that keeps improving as the guides do
Where you are so far:
One payment, no subscription, no account. You get a permanent private link, and a full refund within 14 days if it is not useful.
What the eight questions measure
Four axes, two questions each, every one scored from −3 to +3. Each question feeds exactly one axis, which is what makes a result traceable: one answer moves one axis by a known amount and nothing else.
Proportion — Wider than long against Longer than wide
- Face length versus face width
- Overall impression of face length
Jawline — Curved against Angular
- Angle of the jaw at the ear
- Chin shape
Top-to-bottom balance — Forehead wider against Jaw wider
- Forehead width versus jaw width
- Direction of taper
Cheekbones — Flat against Widest point
- Cheekbone width versus forehead and jaw
- Cheekbone definition
The seven shapes, and where each one sits
This is the whole table the engine matches against. Your answers score four numbers, and the shape nearest to them wins.
| Shape | Proportion | Jawline | Top-to-bottom balance | Cheekbones |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oval | +1 | −1 | 0 | +1 |
| Round | −2 | −3 | 0 | +2 |
| Square | −1 | +3 | 0 | −2 |
| Heart | +1 | −2 | −3 | +1 |
| Diamond | +2 | −1 | 0 | +3 |
| Oblong | +3 | −1 | 0 | −2 |
| Triangle | +1 | +1 | +3 | −1 |
Top-to-bottom balance is zero for five of the seven: only heart (wide at the brow, narrow at the chin) and triangle (the reverse) are decided by it. Round and diamond share a wide cheek reading — one from flesh, one from bone — and are separated by proportion and jawline instead.
These coordinates are our own calibration, not a published rubric. Seven shapes is the common division, but nobody publishes the numbers; where each one sits on these four axes is a judgement we made and checked against profiles written independently of the table. It is the part of this test most likely to be wrong, so we print it rather than hide it.
What high, medium and low mean
Confidence here is about the stability of the decision, not about how neatly you fit a shape. Faces sit on a continuum; several of the seven are two steps apart, and a single answer can be the whole difference.
| Grade | What it means |
|---|---|
| High | No single answer, moved one step up or down, changes the result. |
| Medium | At least one adjacent answer would change it — you are sitting on a border. |
| Low | Two shapes sit exactly the same distance from your answers, or nothing in the table is close enough to your reading to be called a fit, or every answer was the middle option. The page says which. |
Why there is no photo upload
Most face shape tools ask for a selfie. We ask you instead, for two reasons. A phone camera taken above eye level shortens the chin and widens the forehead, so the picture disagrees with the mirror before any software sees it. And a photograph would have to leave your device to be processed, which would make every claim on this page about privacy untrue.
The cost is that the answers are yours, so the result is only as careful as you were. The benefit is that you can see exactly which answer moved which axis, redo one question, and watch the result change — which no detector will show you.