AI-powered face shape detection using 478 facial landmarks. Use your camera or upload a photo — your image never leaves your browser.
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Our free face shape detector uses Google’s MediaPipe Face Landmarker, a machine-learning model that maps 478 precise landmarks across your face in real time. Unlike quizzes that rely on guesswork, the tool takes actual measurements from your photo or camera feed and compares them against the geometric proportions of the seven recognized face shapes.
Start your camera or upload a clear, front-facing photo. Everything is processed on your device — your image is never uploaded to any server.
The model measures your face length, forehead width, cheekbone width, jaw width, jawline angle, and chin taper in pixel-accurate detail.
Your measurements are scored against all seven face shape profiles, and you instantly see your best match together with a confidence score.
Every face is unique, but nearly all faces fall into one of seven broad categories defined by the relationship between face length, forehead, cheekbones, jawline, and chin. Knowing your category makes choosing hairstyles, beard styles, glasses, and makeup dramatically easier, because most styling advice is written per face shape.
An oval face is about one and a half times longer than it is wide, with a forehead slightly wider than the gently rounded jaw. It is often called the most balanced face shape because the proportions sit between all the other categories. Styling: almost everything works — experiment freely with short or long hair, most glasses frames, and any beard length. Avoid heavy fringes that shorten the face if you want to keep the natural balance.
A round face is nearly as wide as it is long, with full cheeks, a soft jawline, and a rounded chin. The widest point is at the cheeks. Styling: add height and angles — volume on top, side parts, layers that fall below the chin, angular or rectangular glasses, and beards that are shorter on the sides and longer at the chin all add flattering definition.
A square face has a strong, angular jaw that is almost as wide as the cheekbones and forehead, with a relatively flat chin line. It reads as bold and structured. Styling: soften the angles — round or oval glasses, textured layers, waves, and side-swept styles work beautifully. Circular beards and light stubble soften the jaw without hiding it.
An oblong face is clearly longer than it is wide — usually more than 1.6 times — with fairly straight sides and a gently rounded chin. Styling: add width, not height. Side-swept fringes, chin- to shoulder-length cuts with volume at the sides, and tall or oversized glasses frames visually shorten and balance the face. Avoid very long, flat hair and high pompadours.
A heart-shaped face is widest at the forehead, tapering through high cheekbones down to a narrow, often pointed chin — sometimes with a widow’s peak hairline. Styling: balance the taper with weight at the jawline — chin-length bobs, side parts, and bottom-heavy or rimless glasses. A fuller beard adds width to a narrow chin.
The rarest shape: dramatic cheekbones form the widest point, while both the forehead and jawline are narrow, ending in a delicately pointed chin. Styling: show off the cheekbones or soften them — cat-eye and oval glasses, fringes that widen the forehead, and styles with volume at the chin all work well. Avoid extra volume at the cheekbone level.
A triangle face is widest at the jaw, with a narrower forehead — the opposite of the heart shape. Styling: draw the eye upward — volume at the crown and temples, top-heavy or browline glasses, and shorter sides with fuller tops. Keep beards short so they don’t add extra width to an already strong jaw.
Don’t want to use the camera? You can measure your face shape the old-fashioned way with a soft measuring tape and a mirror. Take these four measurements:
Then compare: if length is noticeably greater than width with balanced features, you’re likely oval or oblong. If length and width are similar, you’re round or square depending on how angular your jaw is. A forehead wider than the jaw points to heart, the reverse points to triangle, and cheekbones far wider than both suggest diamond. Our detector runs exactly this comparison — just with pixel-level accuracy and no measuring tape.
Your face shape is the starting point for almost every personal-styling decision. Hairstylists use it to choose cuts that balance your proportions, opticians use it to recommend frames that complement rather than repeat your features, makeup artists contour based on it, and barbers shape beards around it. Knowing whether you’re round, oval, or heart-shaped turns vague advice like “get layers” into concrete choices that actually suit you. It’s also just fun — face shape is one of the most-searched beauty questions in the world, and now you can answer it in seconds with real measurements instead of a guess.
The fastest way is to use the free detector at the top of this page: start your camera or upload a front-facing photo, and the AI measures your face length, forehead, cheekbones, jawline, and chin to identify your shape in seconds. Alternatively, you can measure your face manually with a tape measure and compare the ratios yourself.
Yes, completely free. There is no sign-up, no watermark, and no limit on how many photos you can analyze.
No. All processing happens locally in your browser using on-device machine learning (WebAssembly/WebGPU). Your camera feed and photos never leave your device, are never uploaded to a server, and are never stored.
The tool uses Google’s MediaPipe Face Landmarker, which tracks 478 facial landmarks with high precision. Accuracy depends mostly on your photo: a straight-on, well-lit photo with hair pulled back and a neutral expression gives the best result. Tilted heads, heavy shadows, or hair covering the jawline can skew the measurements. Many faces are also genuinely between two shapes — that’s why we show a confidence score alongside your result.
The seven commonly recognized face shapes are oval, round, square, oblong (rectangular), heart, diamond, and triangle (pear). Each is defined by the ratios between face length, forehead width, cheekbone width, jaw width, and chin shape.
Oval and round are generally considered the most common face shapes, though distribution varies by ancestry and sex. Oval is often treated as the “reference” shape in styling because its balanced proportions suit almost any hairstyle or frame.
The diamond face shape is usually cited as the rarest. It requires cheekbones that are distinctly wider than both the forehead and the jaw, combined with a narrow, tapered chin — a combination few faces have.
Yes, to a degree. Weight gain or loss changes cheek fullness, aging redistributes facial fat and can soften the jawline, and orthodontic work can subtly alter the lower face. Your underlying bone structure stays the same, but your apparent face shape can shift between neighboring categories — for example from round to oval.
Use a sharp, well-lit photo taken straight-on at eye level, with your hair pulled away from your face and ears, a neutral expression, and no glasses. Avoid selfies taken from below or above, strong side lighting, and tilted head angles — these distort the ratios the detector measures.
Yes. The tool is fully responsive and works in any modern mobile browser (Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Edge). You can use your phone’s front camera or upload a photo from your gallery.
As a rule of thumb: round faces benefit from height and long layers; square faces from soft, textured cuts; oblong faces from width and fringes; heart faces from chin-length weight; diamond faces from forehead-widening fringes; triangle faces from volume at the crown; and oval faces suit almost everything. See the detailed guide above for styling tips per shape, including glasses and beards.