What is my face shape, and what does the answer mean
Face shape is styling shorthand for the outline made by the forehead, cheekbones, jaw and chin. It is not a medical category and not a judgement about attractiveness. The useful question is not whether a face matches a perfect geometric shape but which named profile best describes its proportions, because that makes haircut and frame ideas easier to compare.
This face shape test uses seven labels: oval, round, square, heart, diamond, oblong and triangle. Real faces often share features with two of them, so the result carries a confidence level and names the runner-up when the ratios sit near a boundary. Treat the first answer as a starting point rather than a verdict.
How this face shape detector works in your browser
Choosing a selfie runs Google MediaPipe Face Landmarker inside your browser, which returns a mesh of landmark positions. The tool reads points at the top and bottom of the face, the temples, the cheekbones and the jaw, then turns face length, cheekbone width, forehead width and jaw width into ratios. Ratios remove the need to know how large the face is or how far it sat from the camera.
The pixels are handed straight to the MediaPipe task in browser memory. Nothing is posted to a server, tied to an account or kept by this tool, and the model and its WebAssembly files are served from this site. The classification compares those ratios against published editorial profiles, which are a repeatable styling heuristic rather than an anthropometric standard.
How to take a photo the face shape analyzer can read
Face the camera rather than turning or tilting, keep the whole forehead, cheeks and chin visible, and move hair off the sides of the face. Even light beats a strong shadow across one side, because the tool needs to find the visible edge. Keep the camera near eye level and at a comfortable distance, since a wide lens held close exaggerates the centre of the face and a high or low angle changes the forehead to jaw relationship. If no clear face is found, use a different photo rather than re-running the same angled one.
Oval, round, square, heart, diamond, oblong and triangle
An oval face is longer than wide with a jaw narrower than the cheekbones. A round face has length closer to its cheekbone width and a softer lower outline. A square face is also short but keeps forehead, cheekbone and jaw close together, giving straighter sides. So round against square is not simply about length; the jaw relationship decides it.
A heart face is wider at the forehead and narrows to the chin. A diamond face is widest at the cheekbones with both forehead and jaw narrower. An oblong face has clearly more length than cheekbone width with balanced upper and lower widths. A triangle face is wider at the jaw than the forehead. These are whole-outline descriptions, so one feature such as a pointed chin should not decide the answer alone.
Why a face shape result can be borderline
Pose, hairstyle, expression and natural asymmetry all move a ratio slightly. The classifier ranks all seven profiles rather than asking one yes or no question: a wide gap to second place is high confidence, a narrow gap is reported as a close call. If repeated front-facing photos alternate between two shapes, use both. An oval and square pair can take the broad oval suggestions while testing the curved frames usually offered for a stronger jaw. The explanation under the result prints the actual widths, which says more than the label does.
