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Face Rating

Free face rating that measures canthal tilt, jaw angle and facial thirds from 478 points on your photo, in your browser, and gives a total from 1 to 8 in steps of 0.5. Your photo never leaves your device.

Front-facing, one face

Measured on this device. Nothing is uploaded.18+ only.

How the face rating works

  1. Choose one photo of one face, looking straight at the camera in even light.
  2. A face model in your browser places 478 points on it. The first visit downloads the model once.
  3. Canthal tilt, jaw angle and facial thirds are measured from those points and drawn on your photo.
  4. The measurements are combined into a total on a 1–8 scale, shown to the nearest 0.5, and placed in one of four bands against a reference set of 35 portraits of 14 people.

The photo is read within 5° of straight and the face must be at least 160 px wide. A photo that does not pass is turned away with the reason, not scored.

Example of a face rating

The card is a generated face, not a real person. It reads 4.0 on the 1–8 scale, in the Balanced band, with canthal tilt +6.0°, jaw angle 143° and facial thirds 20 · 41 · 39 %. With your photo, the same drawing is what you get, and the image you can save is made the same way.

EXAMPLE

Example face: a woman looking straight at the camera, neutral expression, plain wall behind

4.0

Balanced

Second of four bands. 1–8 scale, measured from 478 points.

Light, camera height and expression can move this score by about a point from one photo to the next.

  1. Rising
  2. Balanced
  3. Sculpted
  4. Striking
Canthal tiltouter corners sit above the inner
+6.0°
Jaw angleangle at the corner of the jaw
143°
Facial thirdsupper, middle, lower, in percent
20 · 41 · 39 %

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The four bands on the 1–8 scale

Cut points are z-scores against a reference set of 35 portraits of 14 people; each band covers a quarter of that scale. They are not percentages of the general population. The band is read from the unrounded score, so a total shown as 3.5, 4.5 or 5.5 can fall in either of the two bands next to it.
BandPlaceOn the reference scaleOn the 1–8 scaleShare of the scale
RisingFirst of four bandsbelow −0.67below 3.725%
BalancedSecond of four bands−0.67 to +0.003.7 to 4.525%
SculptedThird of four bands+0.00 to +0.674.5 to 5.325%
StrikingFourth of four bandsabove +0.67above 5.325%

Questions and answers

How attractive am I really?

A face rating cannot answer that. FaceTiers measures three things on one photo, canthal tilt, jaw angle and facial thirds, and places the result on a 1–8 scale and in one of four bands. That describes geometry in the photo you chose. It says nothing about your character or how the people who know you see you, and it is not medical or cosmetic advice.

How accurate are AI face rating tools?

It depends on what the tool claims. Some are trained to predict the average of human ratings, which measures agreement with an average opinion, not a fact about a face. FaceTiers makes no such claim: it measures angles and ratios. In our tests on 35 official portraits of 14 people, canthal tilt and jaw angle varied less for the same person than between people, while the other proportions we tried varied about as much within one person as between people. Those were studio portraits, so a selfie will vary more.

Why did two face rating apps give me different scores?

Because they measure different things and put the numbers on different scales. One may use another list of measurements, another compares you with an ideal, another is a model trained on ratings. A total from one site cannot be converted into a total from another. On FaceTiers the total runs from 1 to 8, and photos of the same face can differ by about a point.

Does a smile or a head tilt change my face rating?

Yes. Expression, a few degrees of head turn and the lens all move the points the model finds. A published study of face width-to-height ratio found that it varies with expression (PeerJ, 2016). That is why the page asks for a straight-on face within 5° of straight, and why another photo can give another total.

Is it safe to upload my selfie to a face rating site?

On FaceTiers nothing is uploaded: the photo is opened in your browser, the face model runs on your device, and no photo or face points are sent to a server. The page keeps a copy in this tab's memory only while your result is on screen, to draw the picture you can save; choosing another photo or closing the tab drops it. On any other site, look for where the photo is processed before you upload it.

Can I rate my face if I wear glasses or have a beard?

Glasses and beards are not tested on their own. The page checks that there is one face, within 5° of straight and at least 160 px wide. In our checks one portrait with glasses, turned and small, was not detected at full size. Anything that covers the eyes, jaw or forehead can move the points the measurements use, so the numbers may be off. If a photo is refused, try one without glasses.

Is face rating the same as a looks rating out of 10?

No. There is no standard 10-point scale for looks; sites define their own. The total here runs from 1 to 8 in steps of 0.5 and comes from measured proportions, not from asking people to vote. Totals on different sites, or on the PSL scale, cannot be converted into each other.