What’s your face shape?
AI disclosure: the written guidance on this page was artificially generated. The face shape tool itself measures your photo in your own browser and creates no images.
Upload one photo and get your face shape in seconds — measured, not guessed, with the cuts that suit it.
This face shape detector measures four things on your own photo — forehead width, cheekbone width, jaw width and face length — then works out which of the seven face shapes yours is closest to. You get the shape, how strong the match is, the numbers behind it, and four haircuts that work with it.
Free, unlimited, no sign-up. Your photo never leaves your device for the face shape reading — the measurement runs entirely in your browser.
A guide to what suits you, not a verdict on how you look. Adults only.
How the face shape detector works
Most face shape quizzes ask you to pick your own jawline from a set of drawings, which is exactly the thing you came to find out. This one measures instead. It maps the outline of your face and takes the same four measurements a stylist would take with a tape measure:
- Face length — hairline to chin. Compared against width, this is what separates a long face from a wide one.
- Cheekbone width — the widest point on most faces, and the reference every other measurement is compared to.
- Forehead width — whether the top of your face is broader or narrower than your cheekbones.
- Jaw width and definition — not just how wide the jaw is, but how it turns. A jaw that stays wide and turns at a corner reads square; one that curves steadily reads round.
That last one does most of the work. Two faces can have almost identical width measurements and still be square and round respectively — the difference is the jaw, and it is the measurement people find hardest to judge in a mirror.
The seven face shapes
- Oval — about one and a half times longer than wide, cheekbones widest, jaw softly rounded.
- Round — roughly as wide as it is long, with a soft, curved jawline rather than hard corners.
- Square — forehead, cheekbones and jaw close to the same width, jaw turning at a defined angle.
- Heart — forehead widest, narrowing through the cheekbones to a delicate chin.
- Diamond — cheekbones widest, with forehead and jaw both narrower.
- Oblong — clearly longer than wide, with forehead, cheekbones and jaw at similar widths.
- Triangle — jaw widest, narrowing up through the cheekbones to a narrower forehead.
Face shape sits on a spectrum. Most people are a blend of two, and the detector says so when your top two results are close — “mostly oval, with some square” is a more useful answer than a confident single label that happens to be wrong.
Get an accurate reading
The measurement is only as good as the photo. Four things help:
- Face the camera straight on. A turned head foreshortens one side and skews every width measurement.
- Keep your head level. A tilt throws the eye line off and the measurements stop lining up.
- Fill the frame. Move closer or crop tighter — a small face in a large photo gives the measurement less to work with.
- Pull your hair back if it covers your forehead or jawline. Those are two of the four measurements.
If any of these are off, the tool tells you rather than guessing. A confident wrong answer is worse than asking for a better photo.
What happens to your photo
It depends which part of the studio you use, and the difference is worth spelling out.
The face shape reading never uploads your photo at all. The measurement runs in your own browser, on your own device, so no copy of it reaches us. Close the tab and it is gone. That is not a policy promise — it is how that part of the tool is built.
The try-on and ageing studio has to send your photo, because a new picture has to be drawn from it. We store no copy of your photo or of the result on our servers, we never build a gallery of visitors' faces, and your photo is never used to train anything. Your photo is sent to our image provider only to create the picture, with its storage switched off. Its safety systems keep a short-term log to check for misuse, and then delete it.
We say which of the two applies before you upload anything, not afterwards. A face is not an ordinary piece of data.
Frequently asked questions
How does a face shape detector work?
It maps the outline of your face from a photo, measures forehead width, cheekbone width, jaw width and face length, then compares those proportions against the seven recognised face shapes. This one also measures how the jaw turns, which is what separates square from round when the widths are similar.
Is the face shape detector free?
Yes — free and unlimited, with no account and no sign-up. Because the measurement runs on your own device rather than our servers, there is no per-use cost to pass on.
Do you store my photo?
No. We never store your photo. The face shape reading does not even upload it — the measurement runs inside your browser, so no copy of it reaches us at all.
How accurate is it?
It measures rather than guesses, so it is more consistent than picking your own shape from a chart. Face shape is a spectrum though — where two shapes score closely, the tool reports the blend instead of forcing one label.
What are the seven face shapes?
Oval, round, square, heart, diamond, oblong and triangle. They are defined by how forehead, cheekbone and jaw widths compare with each other and with the length of the face.
Can I use it on a photo of someone else?
Please only use photos of yourself, and only if you are 18 or over.