FacemanFACEMAN / Face shape
How to find your face shape from a photo
Face shape describes an outline, not a beauty grade. Faceman can suggest a category from the height and widths of a marked front-view face. The result is a two-dimensional heuristic with limited confidence, not a clinical classification or a hairstyle recommendation.
Start with a usable front photo
A profile alone cannot supply the paired widths needed for this result. You can still analyze a profile in Faceman, but face shape needs a front view with visible outline landmarks. Before comparing categories, check the source photograph:
- Face the camera without a strong head turn or tilt; keep a neutral expression.
- Use even lighting and a clear image without beauty filters or face reshaping.
- Keep the hairline, cheek outline and chin visible where possible.
- Avoid a close wide-angle selfie: camera perspective changes apparent widths and height.
Which landmarks define the outline?
The calculation uses eight points: left and right cheek landmarks, temples and mandible-start landmarks, plus the hairline point and chin. Review those points in the analysis flow. A point on hair, background or a shadow does not become a reliable anatomical boundary merely because detection placed it there.
Four ratios, not a guess from one feature
The outline heuristic compares several distances in the same image. These are dimensionless ratios, not physical measurements in millimetres:
- Hairline-to-chin height divided by cheek width.
- Temple width divided by cheek width.
- Mandible-start width divided by cheek width.
- Temple width divided by mandible-start width.
Which face shapes can appear?
Faceman’s outline rules can return elongated, diamond, heart, square, round or oval. The rules use thresholds and a fixed order of comparisons. A label is shorthand for how these particular ratios fit the rules; it does not establish one universally correct category, an ideal face or a validated population ranking.
Why might face shape be unavailable?
A missing front photo, an unmarked hairline or another missing outline point can prevent the calculation. Degenerate distances can also make ratios unusable. Check the reason shown in the report and the saved landmarks. Do not invent a hidden hairline just to force a label: an unavailable result is preferable to a misleading one.
Why do different photos suggest different shapes?
Turning the head changes projected widths; a close camera changes perspective; hair can hide the boundary. Small landmark adjustments can also move ratios across a category threshold. If two photos disagree, first compare pose, crop and point placement rather than assuming that your face has physically changed.
Does the category choose a haircut or glasses?
No. This result describes a marked outline. Faceman does not turn it into a guaranteed hairstyle, glasses or makeup recommendation. Personal preferences, hair, expression and the rest of the photograph are not captured by one shape label. Likewise, face shape does not determine attractiveness or indicate a medical condition.