Free tool · runs on your device
Face shape detector
What is my face shape? Find out in about 10 seconds, measured instead of guessed. Your photo never leaves your phone: the analysis runs in your browser and nothing is uploaded.
Step 1 · Your photo
Measure your face
- Hair back: off your forehead and tucked behind your ears.
- Neutral face: mouth closed, eyes open, looking at the lens.
- Not too close: about 1 m is ideal. Prop your phone up and use hands-free, or have a friend shoot with 2× zoom.
- Even light: face a window or lamp. No hat or sunglasses.
Nothing is uploaded. Your photo is measured right here in your browser and discarded when you leave. The only download is the face model itself (about 4 MB, once).
How it works
Measured, not guessed
- 01
Map
An on-device model places 478 points on your face and checks the photo: one face, straight on, neutral expression, good light, hair back.
- 02
Measure
Your iris (about 11.7 mm across in adults) is the ruler. We level the head, correct for lens distortion, then measure widths, length and the jaw angle.
- 03
Compare
The proportions become a face-shape mix and percentiles against reference ranges, plus three cuts that suit those proportions.
What we measure
Six measurements, one ruler
- Face length
- From the bridge of the nose to the bottom of the chin (the robust anthropometric length).
- Cheekbone width
- Across the widest part of the face at the cheekbones.
- Forehead width
- Across the forehead, about a third of the way up from the brows.
- Jaw width
- Between the corners of the jaw (the gonion points).
- Jaw angle
- The angle and sharpness of the jaw corner, scored 0 (curved) to 1 (angular).
- Forehead height
- Hairline to brow line as a share of the full face, when your hairline is visible.
Why a mix
Face-shape labels are fuzzy. We score on measurements.
The seven shapes are a stylists' convention, not a validated classification. Charts draw the lines in different places, and judging by eye is unreliable: in one study, visual face-type calls agreed with caliper measurements at a kappa of just 0.19.
The best published face-shape classifier reached about 85% accuracy on noisy photos. So we don't hand you one label. We show your shape as a mix, like 62% oval and 25% oblong, and our scorer never uses the label at all.
Proportions are also only part of the story. Your texture, density and hairline decide what a cut can physically do, so they carry more weight than face geometry.
Your photo never leaves your phone
The detector uses an open-source face model that runs inside your browser. Your photo is measured in memory on your device and discarded when you leave the page. We don't upload it, store it or see it, and there's no account or email gate. The only download is the model itself, once, from Google's model server.
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