Add a photo and tap six points — it is read by your own browser and never leaves your phone — or type four measurements, or answer five questions at the mirror. You get the shape, the haircuts, glasses, earrings and contour that go with it, and the four ratios we read, so you can disagree with us.
Your face shape
Add a photoThen tap the six points. It is read by your browser and never leaves this device.
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Shape descriptions and advice quoted from beautyblender, L’Oréal Paris, All About Vision, KAY Jewelers, Charlotte Tilbury and All Things Hair. Checked 2026-09-20. The ratio bands that turn measurements into a shape are ours, not a standard.
Quick answer: your face shape is decided by four numbers — how long your face is, and how wide it is at the forehead, the cheekbones and the jaw. If your cheekbones are widest and your face is about 1½ times longer than it is wide, it reads oval; about as long as wide with soft edges is round, with a corner at the jaw is square; a wide forehead over a pointed chin is heart; cheekbones widest with a narrow forehead and chin is diamond; much longer than wide with even widths is oblong; and a jaw wider than the forehead is a pear.
How to use it
Three ways in, and they all end at the same answer. Tap a photo is the quickest: add a selfie and tap six points — the centre of your hairline, the tip of your chin, then your forehead, cheekbone, jaw corner and the corner of your chin on one side. The photo is read by your own browser and never leaves your device. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is saved, and closing the page forgets it — the maths behind this tool never sees a picture, only six dots.
Type measurements if you have a tape measure and would rather not take a photo. Answer 5 questions needs nothing but a mirror. Every answer has its own link you can save or send; a link made from a photo carries the four ratios, never the picture.
Why only one side gets tapped
The first two taps — hairline and chin — draw a line down the middle of your face. Each side point after that is measured across to that line and doubled, so a width is a real width even when your head is slightly tilted or turned. It also halves the tapping. Faces are not perfectly symmetric, so tap the side you can see most clearly, and if one side is very different from the other, measure both and use the wider.
What each shape is, and who says so
These are the published descriptions, quoted. Nobody publishes numbers for any of them — that part is ours, and it is in the next table.
| Shape | How it is described | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Oval | “More elongated than wide”, and “longer in the lower half than at the top”. | beautyblender |
| Round | “Nearly equal width and length”, “symmetrical with soft, rounded edges”. | beautyblender |
| Square | “Forehead, cheekbones, and jawline are nearly the same width”, and it is “as long as it is wide”. | beautyblender |
| Oblong (rectangle) | “Longer than it is wide, with a high forehead and a square jawline”. | beautyblender |
| Heart | “Widest at the forehead and cheekbones”, tapering to “a narrower, more pointed jawline”. | beautyblender |
| Diamond | “Cheekbones are the widest part of the face”, with “a narrow forehead” and “a small chin”. | beautyblender |
| Pear (base-down triangle) | “Narrow forehead and widens at the cheek and chin areas”. | All About Vision |
The numbers this tool uses — and they are ours, not a standard
Every guide describes a shape in words. None of them publishes a range, so we wrote one, and here it is in full. Each row is the band a ratio has to sit in for that shape to score its best; a ratio near the middle of a band scores higher than one at its edge, and a face is usually somewhere between two shapes. If you disagree with a band, you can see exactly which one moved your answer.
| Shape | Length ÷ cheekbones | Forehead ÷ cheekbones | Jaw ÷ cheekbones | Chin ÷ jaw |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oval | 1.35–1.70 | 0.85–1.00 | 0.80–0.95 | 0.35–0.60 |
| Round | 0.95–1.25 | 0.85–1.00 | 0.82–0.98 | 0.45–0.75 |
| Square | 0.95–1.30 | 0.95–1.06 | 0.95–1.06 | 0.60–0.92 |
| Oblong (rectangle) | 1.45–2.20 | 0.92–1.06 | 0.90–1.04 | 0.55–0.88 |
| Heart | 1.25–1.70 | 1.02–1.22 | 0.70–0.90 | 0.26–0.50 |
| Diamond | 1.35–1.85 | 0.76–0.93 | 0.74–0.92 | 0.28–0.56 |
| Pear (base-down triangle) | 1.10–1.65 | 0.76–0.94 | 1.00–1.22 | 0.55–0.88 |
One warning about the word “triangle”
Guides do not agree on it, and it is worth knowing before you read anyone else’s. L’Oréal Paris calls a face whose “forehead is the widest part of your face and your chin is more narrow” a triangle. All About Vision calls a face that is “narrow at the forehead and widens at the cheek and chin areas” a base-down triangle. Those are opposites. This tool calls the first one a heart and the second a pear, and never gives you the bare word triangle as an answer.
Three worked examples
A face 7.4 in long, 5.1 in at the cheekbones, 4.7 in at the forehead, 4.5 in at the jaw. The ratios are 1.45, 0.92 and 0.88: longer than wide, cheekbones widest, jaw narrowest. That is an oval, with diamond second — the two overlap a lot, and the chin measurement is what separates them.
A face 6.0 in long and 5.4 in wide everywhere. Length ÷ cheekbones is 1.11 and the forehead and jaw both match the cheekbones. If the jaw turns a visible corner it is square; if it curves round softly it is round. The tool cannot see the corner, which is why the chin width matters: a wide flat chin pushes it to square, a narrow one to round.
A face 6.9 in long, 4.8 in at the cheekbones, 5.3 in at the forehead, 3.9 in at the jaw. The forehead is wider than the cheekbones (1.10) and the jaw much narrower (0.81). That is a heart, and no other shape comes close.
Common mistakes
- Smiling. A smile widens the cheeks and shortens the face, and will turn an oval into a round.
- A tilted chin. Looking slightly up or down changes the length more than anything else you can do. Chin level, camera at eye height.
- Measuring the jaw at the chin. The jaw width is measured corner to corner, just below the ears — not across the chin. Measuring the chin instead makes almost every face read as a heart.
- Hair in the way. The hairline tap and the forehead tap both need hair off the face; a fringe hides the very thing being measured.
- Treating the answer as a verdict. Two shapes within a few points of each other really are close. Read both sets of advice and take whichever you like the look of.
More on Needle Style
Once you know your shape: does the butterfly haircut suit your face shape, how to choose sunglasses for your face shape, slimming bob hairstyles for round faces, curtain bangs that grow out without a regret phase, dangling earrings and bronzer versus contour, and when to use each.
Sources, all checked on 2026-09-20: beautyblender, L’Oréal Paris and its haircut guide, All About Vision, KAY Jewelers, Charlotte Tilbury and All Things Hair on triangle and oblong faces.
FAQ
What is my face shape?
Measure four things — your face length, and its width at the forehead, the cheekbones and the jaw — and compare them. Cheekbones widest and the face about 1½ times longer than wide is oval; as long as it is wide is round or square; a wide forehead over a pointed chin is heart; a narrow forehead and chin with wide cheekbones is diamond; much longer than wide with even widths is oblong; a jaw wider than the forehead is a pear. Tap a photo above and the tool does the comparing.
Does this face shape detector upload my photo?
No. The picture is opened by your own browser and drawn on this page. It is never sent anywhere, never stored, and it is gone when you close the tab. The part of the tool that works out your shape only ever receives six co-ordinates.
How do I measure my face for a face shape?
Forehead: across its widest part, roughly midway between your eyebrows and your hairline. Cheekbones: from just below the outer corner of one eye across to the other. Jaw: from the corner below one ear to the corner below the other — or measure from below one ear to the middle of your chin and double it. Length: the centre of your hairline straight down to the tip of your chin.
What is the most common face shape?
Guides generally treat oval as the most common and the easiest to suit, which is why so much advice is written as “make it look more oval”. Nobody has published a reliable count, so this tool does not claim one — it tells you which of the seven your own numbers fit best, and how close the runner-up was.
What haircut suits my face shape?
The tool gives you the cut for your shape with the name of whoever recommends it. In short: an angular chin-length bob or long layers for oval; height at the crown and angled cuts for round; layers and soft edges rather than blunt ones for square; a fringe or a piecey pixie for heart; a middle part and textured waves for diamond; a bob or a brow-grazing fringe to shorten an oblong face; and width at the crown, nothing shorter than eye level, for a pear.
What glasses suit my face shape?
All About Vision’s rule is contrast: angular, rectangular frames on a round face; narrow ovals on a square one; frames wider at the bottom on a heart; distinctive brow lines or cat-eyes on a diamond; more depth than width on an oblong face; and colour and detail on the top half for a pear. On an oval face almost anything works, as long as it is at least as wide as the widest part of your face.
What earrings suit my face shape?
KAY’s guidance, in one line each: anything on an oval; dangles rather than circles on a round face; curved shapes — hoops, round studs — on a square one; wide-based teardrops or chandeliers on a heart; sleek dangles without sharp angles on a diamond; and studs or short drops rather than long thin shapes on an oblong or pear face.
Can my face shape change?
The proportions of the bone do not change much after your twenties, but what sits over them does — weight, swelling, age and even how you are photographed. If you measure yourself twice a year apart and get a different answer, the second one is not more correct than the first; look at which ratio moved.