Face Shape Detector
Free face shape detector. Find your face shape — oval, round, square, heart, diamond or oblong — from your real jaw and cheek ratios. No sign-up.
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What a face shape detector actually measures
Answering 'what is my face shape?' comes down to four measurements, and doing them by hand with a tape measure is fiddly and easy to get wrong. This detector maps 478 landmarks on your photo and reads the same ratios a stylist would, but from coordinates instead of guesswork:
- Face length: hairline to the tip of your chin.
- Cheekbone width: the widest point across your cheekbones.
- Jaw width: the distance between your lower jaw corners.
- Chin shape: how pointed or rounded the angle at the base of the chin is.
The length-to-width ratio is the dominant signal, and jaw width relative to cheekbones plus the chin angle separates the shapes that share similar ratios. From those numbers the detector classifies you into one of six categories.
The six face shapes
- Oval — face noticeably longer than wide, with a gently rounded jaw. The most balanced baseline shape.
- Round — length and width close, full cheeks, soft jaw with no sharp angle.
- Square — length and width close, but with a strong, angular jawline.
- Heart — broad forehead and cheekbones narrowing to a pointed chin.
- Diamond — narrow forehead and jaw with the widest point at the cheekbones.
- Oblong — face clearly longer than wide with a straight cheek line.
Plenty of faces sit between two shapes, and that is normal. The detector reports the one your measurements fall closest to rather than pretending the categories are airtight.
What to do with your face shape
Face shape is mostly a styling tool. Once you know yours, the guidance for haircuts, glasses and beards stops being guesswork:
- Glasses — contrast your shape: round frames soften a square face, angular frames add structure to a round one.
- Haircuts — the aim is usually to bring the face toward oval, so a long face avoids too much height on top and a round face adds angles.
- Beards — a square face can keep a shorter boxed beard, while a narrow chin benefits from more length at the bottom.
Taking a photo the detector can read accurately
A face shape detector depends on width and length you can actually see, so the photo has to show the real outline of your face. Pull hair back away from the cheeks and jaw, face the camera straight on with a neutral expression, and frame from just above the hairline to under the chin. A turned head or hair covering the jawline will skew the ratios toward the wrong shape.