Pick a face or add your photo, place 8 dots, and see how your face compares with 1.618 and with real people's faces.
Free, and your photo never leaves this device.
Drag any dot to fine-tune it.
Dashed box: where the chin would sit if this face were 1.618 times as long as it is wide.
Example face
About 1.5× as long as it is wide (golden ratio 1.618).
Between most people in person (1.3 to 1.45) and the golden ratio. Photos read a little longer, so this is common.
Mouth and nose
The mouth is about 1.5× as wide as the nose (golden ratio 1.618).
In the usual range for real faces (1.35 to 1.6).
Real people. In person, most adults measure about 1.3 to 1.45 for length to width, and about 1.35 to 1.6 for mouth to nose.
1.618 won't tell you what suits you. Your face shape will.
Free: your face shape, your strengths and first tips, plus how many more tips are waiting.
Start free scanDrag a pin, or select it and use the arrow keys.
See what suits your face, free
Start free scanYour bone structure stays the same. Hair, a beard and makeup change how long or wide your face reads.
Smooth hair off the sides: the face reads a little longer.
Short sides, height on top: the face reads a little longer.
Bangs cover the top of the forehead, so the face reads less long.
Short sides take width off the temples, so the face reads a little longer.
CEVO's 169-test reports show this on your own face.
Start free scanProp your phone at eye level, about 1.5 m away. Too close, and CEVO asks for another photo.
Free: your face shape, your strengths and your first tips, in plain words.
See how many more tips are waiting for you. Unlock them only if you want them.
Start with one selfie
Your face shape and what suits you, free.
Every point of your face mapped from one selfie, plus a side photo for your profile.
Twelve regions of your face measured, from brows to jawline, plus the age your face reads as.
Hair, brows and skin changed on your photo. Your bone structure stays as it is.
The cuts that suit your face shape, side by side.
Brow shape, beard length and makeup picked for your features.
Hair, skin and grooming steps to follow for 90 days, made for your face.
$29
$59 Recommended
$119
One payment, no subscription. Every report is checked by our team and ready within 24 hours.
Two ratios, each set next to 1.618: face length (hairline to chin) divided by cheekbone width, and mouth width divided by nose width.
No. Real faces sit below it: most adults measure about 1.3 to 1.45 in person, and photos read a little higher. An average face would need to be about a sixth to a fifth longer to reach it.
A close phone widens the nose and makes the face look narrower, so it reads longer and the mouth reads smaller next to the nose. CEVO's scan reads your iris size and asks for a retake if the photo was too close.
We measure two ratios from 8 dots: face length (hairline to chin) over cheekbone width, and mouth width over nose width. Below: how real faces compare with 1.618, what a close selfie does, and our sources.
Craniofacial researcher Leslie Farkas (1985, 2005) measured real adult faces, and researchers at the University of California and the University of Toronto (Pallett, Link & Lee 2010, published in Vision Research) tested which proportions people prefer. Neither found faces built on 1.618. People preferred faces where the eyes-to-mouth distance is about 36% of the face length and the pupils sit about 46% of the face width apart, not 61.8%. Here is how the four example faces on this page measure in their photos: all four sit well under 1.618 for length to width. The table below gives in-person averages from a tape measure. A close phone photo makes a face read longer and the nose wider, so a selfie's numbers can drift from them.
Length and width about 1.5 · Mouth and nose about 1.5
Length and width about 1.4 · Mouth and nose about 1.4
Length and width about 1.4 · Mouth and nose about 1.6
Length and width about 1.4 · Mouth and nose about 1.3
| Ratio | Classic rule | Real men (average) | Real women (average) | Why the 1.618 rule fails |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Face length ÷ cheekbone width | 1.618 | 1.38 ± 0.07 (typical 1.31–1.45) | 1.35 ± 0.06 (typical 1.29–1.41) | A 1.618 ratio requires a 223 mm long face on 138 mm cheekbones, which would look stretched and narrow. |
| Mouth width ÷ nose width | 1.618 | 1.46 ± 0.11 (typical 1.35–1.57) | 1.48 ± 0.10 (typical 1.38–1.58) | Healthy nostril width varies by ancestry (32 mm to 43 mm). A single 1.618 target doesn't fit that range. |
Even if a website measures your pixels accurately, an arm's-length front-camera selfie shifts every horizontal ratio on your face:
Your nose sits closer to the phone lens than your mouth corners, so the nose looks about 4% wider and the jaw about 3% narrower at 30 cm than at 1.5 m (CEVO's selfie study; measured against the cheekbones, Ward et al. 2018 put the nose at about 30%). The mouth doesn't widen by as much, so the mouth ÷ nose ratio comes out lower than it is.
Your outer cheekbones sit further back than your nose tip, so a close selfie shrinks how wide the face looks, and face length ÷ width comes out higher. CEVO's scan reads your iris size to tell how close the camera was, and asks for a retake if the photo was taken too close.
Pallett PM, Link S, Lee K (2010). New "golden" ratios for facial beauty. Vision Research, 50(2), 149–154.
Farkas LG, Hreczko TA, Kolar JC, Munro IR (1985). Vertical and horizontal proportions of the face in young adult North American Caucasians: revision of neoclassical canons. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 75(3), 328–338.
Milutinovic J, Zelic K, Nedeljkovic N (2014). Evaluation of Facial Beauty Using Anthropometric Proportions. The Scientific World Journal, 2014, 428250.
Farkas LG, Katic MJ, Forrest CR, et al. (2005). International anthropometric study of facial morphology in various ethnic groups/races. Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, 16(4), 615–646.
Swift A, Remington K (2011). BeautiPHIcation: a global approach to facial beauty. Clinics in Plastic Surgery, 38(3), 347–377.
Ward B, Ward M, Fried O, Paskhover B (2018). Nasal Distortion in Short-Distance Photographs: The Selfie Effect. JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery, 20(4), 333–335.
