Explore seven common contours with visual comparisons and practical hair and glasses ideas. Most faces share features with more than one shape.
Find my face shape →oval
round
square
Moderately long, with the forehead a little wider than the jaw and a softly rounded chin.
Measurements & style ideas →Similar in length and width, with a soft jaw that curves instead of turning a corner.
Measurements & style ideas →Short and wide like a round face, but with a jaw that turns a clear corner below the ear.
Measurements & style ideas →The longest of the seven profiles, with widths that stay fairly even from forehead to jaw.
Measurements & style ideas →A wide forehead narrowing to a pointed chin, often with a widow's peak.
Measurements & style ideas →Widest at the cheekbones, with both a narrow forehead and a narrow, pointed chin.
Measurements & style ideas →A jaw wider than the forehead — the inverse of the heart profile.
Measurements & style ideas →Start with the feature that best separates two close matches.
Start with the jaw corner. Both profiles can be short and wide; a round outline curves through the corner, while a square outline turns more distinctly.
Width measurements alone can leave these two close. Our shape matcher also uses jaw and chin angles.
See the difference →Look at length relative to cheek width. Both contours taper softly, but the oblong profile is longer. Our reference length/width values are 1.44 for oval and 1.64 for oblong.
Those values describe this tool's profiles; they are not hard boundaries or population norms.
See the difference →Compare forehead width with cheek width. Both can taper toward a pointed chin. A heart outline is wider at the forehead; a diamond is widest at the cheeks.
Keep the temples visible. Hair can hide the width that helps distinguish these profiles.
See the difference →The photo tool compares face length, forehead, cheek and jaw widths, plus jaw and chin angles. These are visible landmarks, not direct measurements of bone or an exact hairline. A manual measurement option is available in the detector.
The guides offer styling conventions and choices, not rules about how you should look.
