Determining the Shape of Your Face
1. Know the basic face shapes.
While everyone's face is different, there are seven general shapes: round, heart-shaped (base-up triangle), triangular (base down), square, rectangular, oblong and oval.
• Round faces tend to have full cheeks and rounded, full forehead and chin.[1] Celebrities with round faces include Kirsten Dunst, Chrissy Tie gen, and Leonardo DiCaprio.
• The phrase "heart-shaped face" can be a bit misleading; a heart-shaped face is really more like an upside down triangle, with a wide forehead that narrows to a pointed chin. A heart shaped face can be long and graceful or more rounded, but both tend to have high, angled cheekbones. Celebrities with heart-shaped faces include Reese Witherspoon, Christina Ricci, Jennifer Aniston, Ryan Gosling, and Bradley Cooper.
• Triangular faces tend to have narrow foreheads and a wide, strong jaw (the jaw itself is often angular). Examples of celebrities with triangular faces include Queen Latifah, Minnie Driver, Kelly Osbourne, and Chris Pine.
• Square faces have strong, wide foreheads and equally strong, wide chins. They are also proportionate to the length and width of the face.[3] Famous square faces include Olivia Wilde, Rosario Dawson, Josh Hutchinson, and Nick Lacey. Rectangular faces are very similar to square, but with a longer length than width, such as Demi Moore, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie.
• Oblong and oval faces are very similar as well; they are both rounded and proportional, but an oval face has a more pointed chin. Examples of celebs with oblong faces include Kim Raver, Sarah Jessica Parker and Jude Law; examples of famous oval faces include Liv Tyler, Kim Kardashian, and Adam Levine.
2. Look in a mirror to determine the shape of your face.
Pull or pin your hair back away from your face so that you can see your face clearly.
Many faces do not fit clearly into only one specific type, but have features that resemble two or even more types. In that case, you're lucky! You will more options as you look for eyeglass frames.
3. Use a dry-erase marker to outline the shape of your reflection.
Tracing carefully around the outline of your face in the mirror, with your face relaxed, outline your forehead, down each cheek to the end of your chin. Don't include your ears.
• Now, without moving your face from its outline in the mirror, do it again but with your biggest exposed-toothed smile. Put these lines directly over the lines you've already drawn.
• The two sets of lines will show you if and how your facial shape changes when you smile. For instance, some people with oval faces in their relaxed state might have more heart-shaped faces when smiling broadly (such as Kim Kardashian). Others, like Jennifer Lawrence, might have a strong rectangular face when relaxed, which changes to a heart-shaped face when smiling broadly.
4. Determine if your face is angular or soft.
In many ways, this is more important than the exact shape of your face when it comes to choosing glasses. Using the lines you've drawn on the mirror, you should be able to tell if your face has hard edges and angles, or if the lines are more curvaceous.
• Many people with strong angles will have them at the temples and jaw, but a strong pointed chin is also an angular face. Rectangles, squares, hearts, and some ovals will fall into the angular category.
• Round, triangular, oblong, and some ovals will fall into the more soft, curvaceous category.
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