Find your face shape. and the haircut, brow, and frame that work with it

Oval faces are longer than they are wide with a gently rounded jaw and forehead of similar width. Round faces share a similar width and length with soft jawlines. Square faces have a wider, more angular jaw with forehead and cheekbones of comparable width. Heart faces taper from a wider forehead to a narrower chin. Long faces (sometimes called oblong) are visibly longer than wide. Diamond faces have narrow forehead and jaw with cheekbones as the widest point.

Real faces sit between these categories more often than they fit them exactly. The Beauty Report reads your face shape descriptively. "a softened heart with a slightly squared jaw" rather than "category 3". because the in-between reads are usually the accurate ones.

Most of the styling choices that flatter a face turn on its shape rather than on any rating or score. Round faces tend to gain definition from longer layers and angular brow shapes. Square faces are softened by curtain bangs and rounded glasses frames. Heart faces balance with chin-length cuts and lower-set jewellery. The mapping isn't dogma, but the patterns are reliable enough that good stylists work from them.

Online face shape detectors are useful for a first pass and often wrong on the edge cases. The Beauty Report's bone structure read names your shape in prose, describes where your face deviates from the textbook version of that shape, and gives you grooming notes that work with the deviations rather than against them.

Hair is the highest-leverage face-shape decision most people have. The right cut can warm up an angular jaw, lengthen a short face, or balance a wide forehead in ways that no makeup or skincare ever will. The wrong cut can do the opposite.

We publish a separate Hairstyle Analysis read for that. It uses your photo to suggest specific cuts that suit your face shape, hair texture, and density. bobs, layers, fringes, lengths, partings. and renders sample images. The Beauty Report tells you your face shape; the Hairstyle Analysis tells you what to do with your hair given that shape. They work well together, and they are sold separately.

Pull your hair back. Stand square to a mirror in even light. With a soft eyeliner pencil, trace the outline of your hairline, jawline, and cheekbones in the mirror itself. Step back. The shape of the outline you've drawn is your face shape: a clean oval, a wider-at-the-cheekbones diamond, a stronger-at-the-jaw square.

Then measure if you want to confirm. Forehead width, cheekbone width, jaw width, face length. Whichever measurement is widest tells you the shape. cheekbones wide is diamond or oval, jaw wide is square or round, forehead wide with a narrow chin is heart. Or skip the measurements and let the Beauty Report do it.

The face shape section sits inside a larger read of your proportions, bone structure, skin, eye area, smile, and symmetry. The grooming notes connect your face shape to specific choices: brow shape, hair length, fringe versus no fringe, beard line if relevant, glasses frame shape, earring length and weight.

It is the kind of read a stylist friend would give you over coffee if they had been watching faces professionally for a decade. $4.99, one photo, one read. If you want to take the hairstyle thread further, the Hairstyle Analysis tool picks up from there.