
Male · age 30 · frontal neutral
Engine v2 · 7/10/2026
The read
A notably long, diamond face — and a short list that would sharpen it.
44 measurements from your capture, each weighed against published population norms. No composite score, no rank — a ruler, not a rating. Every metric below carries a deviation meter showing exactly where you sit against the average, so you can see your face rather than be told a number. · Sample — synthetic reference subject
Projected outcome
The plan, on your own face
A conservative, identity-locked projection of your non-surgical protocol — skin clarity, tone, under-eye and grooming only. Bone structure and features are never altered; any projection that drifts from your identity is rejected and replaced with the honest metric deltas instead.
This sample is generated for a reference subject, so there is no personal photo to project. Run your own analysis to generate your identity-locked before/after.
Executive read
Your face measures a length-to-width of 1.50 against an oval reference near 1.50, with a facial index of 93.8 — a notably long face on the Martin–Saller scale. Much of what is distinctive about your face follows from that one proportion, and once you can see it every recommendation below reads as one coherent strategy rather than an arbitrary list.
The good news is front-loaded: 8 measured features sit at the favourable end of your demographic reference. These are things to protect — much of the plan below is simply not undoing them.
Your protocol below is built from the evidence-based skin, grooming and lifestyle steps your questionnaire supports — each item anchored to a specific finding rather than a generic checklist.
What's already working
Start here — because most of your face already is.
Before a single recommendation, the honest headline: these are measured, not flattery — and they are the foundation everything else builds on.
Your under-eye tone shows the mild, normal contrast most faces have against the cheek — nothing that reads as tired at conversational distance.
Your lower-lid-to-cheek transition shows the mild shading gradient typical of adult faces; it does not read as hollow at normal viewing distance.
Your brow axis runs close to level with a natural rise — the orientation most faces carry — which frames the eyes calmly.
Your measured cheek redness sits in the typical range — the normal warmth most complexions show under neutral light.
The brightness around your eyes sits in the normal relationship to your cheeks — the mild periorbital shading nearly all adult faces show.
The model’s estimate of your photographed age tracks your stated age closely — your skin and features are reading true to your years.
Your outer eye corners sit modestly higher than the inner corners — the gentle upward tilt most faces carry — which gives the eye area an alert, rested look.
The line from your chin back under the jaw sits in the typical range, keeping a clear separation between jawline and neck in profile.
The measurement map
Where the numbers come from
Overlaid on your own photograph: the horizontal thirds, the vertical midline, and the cheek-width points every downstream metric is built from.
Facial proportions
How your face divides top-to-bottom and side-to-side — the ratios every other reading is weighed against.
Your forehead, midface, and lower face divide the face into three well-balanced vertical sections, which reads as harmonious in both photos and person.
Your eye width sits close to one-fifth of your face width — the classical horizontal proportion — which is why the eye region reads as well-placed within the face.
The distance from your eye line to your mouth sits in the typical range relative to your eye spacing, giving the midface a balanced vertical presence.
Your facial width-to-height ratio sits in the typical range: the face is neither notably wide nor notably long through the midface.
Your lower face divides close to the classical one-third above the lip line, two-thirds below — a balanced lower-third that supports both smile and jawline.
Your overall face height-to-width proportion sits in the typical oval range, which pairs well with most hairstyle and eyewear geometries.
Your jaw width sits in a balanced relationship to your cheekbone width, producing a smooth taper from midface to jawline.
Your forehead occupies close to the classical one-third of face height, keeping the vertical thirds in comfortable balance.
The eyes
The region observers weight most: spacing, tilt, openness and the brow line above.
Your outer eye corners sit modestly higher than the inner corners — the gentle upward tilt most faces carry — which gives the eye area an alert, rested look.
Your eye height-to-width proportion sits in the typical range, balancing openness with an almond contour.
Your eye spacing relative to face width sits in the typical range, which keeps the upper face evenly weighted and makes most eyewear geometries work without adjustment.
The visible band of upper eyelid above your lash line sits in the typical range, giving the eye area a rested, defined look.
Your under-eye tone shows the mild, normal contrast most faces have against the cheek — nothing that reads as tired at conversational distance.
Your lower-lid-to-cheek transition shows the mild shading gradient typical of adult faces; it does not read as hollow at normal viewing distance.
Your brows sit at a typical height above the eye line, framing the eyes without crowding or distancing them.
Your brow axis runs close to level with a natural rise — the orientation most faces carry — which frames the eyes calmly.
The nose
Width read from the front; bridge straightness and tip angles read from your profile.
The angle where your forehead meets your nasal bridge sits in the typical range, producing a smooth, well-defined upper profile line.
The angle where your nose base meets your upper lip sits in the typical range, giving the nose-to-lip transition a balanced, relaxed profile line.
Your nasal base width sits in proportion with your eye spacing, anchoring the midface the way the classical canon describes.
Your nasal bridge tracks close to a straight line from the top of the nose to the tip in profile — an even dorsal line.
Your nasal tip rotation sits in the typical range, giving the profile a balanced tip position that photographs well from level angles.
Jaw, chin & lower face
The lower-third frame — definition from the front, corner and projection angles from your profile.
The corner of your jaw sits in the typical angular range, giving the profile a clear but soft-edged transition from ear to chin.
The vertical and horizontal portions of your jaw sit in typical proportion, giving the profile a balanced ear-to-chin frame.
Your chin sits close to the facial reference line in profile — a balanced projection that supports both the jawline and the lip line.
The line from your chin back under the jaw sits in the typical range, keeping a clear separation between jawline and neck in profile.
Your jawline shows typical edge definition in the capture lighting: clearly visible without being severe.
Your chin height sits in the typical range for the lower face, supporting a balanced transition from lip to jaw point.
Your lower lip sits just behind the nose-to-chin aesthetic line — the classic harmonious relationship between lips, chin, and throat in profile.
Lips & mouth
Balance between the lips, overall fullness, and the line your smile follows.
Your upper and lower lip volumes sit near the classical relationship — a fuller lower lip balanced by a defined upper lip.
Your overall lip volume sits in the typical range for your facial scale, keeping the mouth in easy balance with the surrounding features.
The distance between your nose and upper lip sits in the typical range, keeping the nose-lip-chin column evenly spaced.
Your smile arc is consonant: the corners lift comfortably above the central lip line when you smile, which is the configuration that reads warmest in photos.
Symmetry
How closely your two sides mirror across the facial midline.
Your face shows the small left-right differences virtually all faces have; none of them is large enough to register at conversational distance.
Your eyes sit within the normal band of levelness; the tiny vertical difference most faces carry is present but visually silent.
Your nasal tip sits within the normal distance of the facial midline; the nose reads as straight at ordinary viewing distances.
Skin & surface
Tone, texture, redness and under-eye — the most changeable panel in the report.
Your skin texture variance sits in the typical range: normal pores and surface character without patterns that read as rough on camera.
Your measured cheek redness sits in the typical range — the normal warmth most complexions show under neutral light.
Your skin tone is typically even across the measured patches — small local variations, but nothing that reads as patchiness at conversational distance.
The brightness around your eyes sits in the normal relationship to your cheeks — the mild periorbital shading nearly all adult faces show.
The model’s estimate of your photographed age tracks your stated age closely — your skin and features are reading true to your years.
Your measured fine-line density is typical for an adult face — early expression lines in the usual places, reading as animation rather than age.
Feature character
Where your features sit on the measured masculine–feminine axis, plus cheekbone projection.
Your measured features balance angular and soft elements in roughly equal measure — a versatile middle position on the masculine–feminine continuum that adapts well to different styling directions.
Your cheekbone width sits in typical proportion to your facial outline, giving the midface visible but understated structure.
Your hairline follows a rounded arc across the forehead — the most common frame shape, and one that pairs easily with nearly any hairstyle.
See it on your own face
Switch between every overlay and toggle all 478 landmarks to confirm the tracking is real.
This sample is generated for a reference subject, so there is no personal photo to annotate. Run your own analysis with your six photos to see the measured lines drawn on your face.
Face shape → the styling strategy
What your proportions call for
Horizontal widths normalised to your cheekbone (bizygomatic) width = 1.00. Length-to-width 1.50; mean jaw angle 150°.
Morphological facial height over cheekbone width — a notably long (hyperleptoprosopic) face on the Martin–Saller scale. That number is real anthropometry. The seven-way lay shape bucket it feeds is an industry heuristic, so we show the runner-up and cap confidence.
Hair
- Fullness at the forehead and at the jawProfessional standard · C
Adding width to the two narrow zones equalises them with the dominant cheekbones.
Milady Standard Cosmetology 14e, Principles of Hair Design
- Keep hair close at the cheekbonesProfessional standard · C
Flattening the widest zone reduces its dominance.
Milady Standard Cosmetology 14e, Principles of Hair Design
- A fringe to widen the foreheadProfessional standard · C
Forehead width offsets the narrow upper face.
Milady Standard Cosmetology 14e, Principles of Hair Design
Works against you
- Volume at the cheekbones
- Tight styles that expose and emphasise cheek width
Facial hair
- A beard fuller at the jaw and chinStyling convention · D
Lower-face width balances the pointed chin against the dominant cheekbones.
Grooming reference convention (Gillette/Braun/Harry's)
Works against you
- Pointed or narrow chin shapes that sharpen an already-narrow chin
Styling module — included with Complete, or +$29
Brows, frames & finish — on your measurements
The styling layer is built on the same numbers as everything above: brow mapping from measured brow and eye geometry, eyewear keyed to the face shape, and hair guidance for the hair you actually have. Here is the measured readout it starts from — the guidance itself ships with the paid report.
In the full module: brow mapping with guidance, eyewear & frame recommendations (including what works against you), and hair adaptation for your situation — every item carrying its honesty tag.
Why facial hair is on this page at all
The evidence, graded honestly
The masculinity and dominance signal is well replicated. The attractiveness signal is weaker and peaks at heavy stubble — we say so rather than sell you a beard.
More facial hair (clean-shaven → stubble → full beard) monotonically increases ratings of masculinity, dominance and age — replicated across a European and a Polynesian sample. This is the strongest, best-supported facial-hair finding.
Dixson & Vasey 2012, Behav Ecol 23(3):481–490
The attractiveness effect of facial hair is weak and inconsistent: several studies find it peaks at heavy stubble, and one cross-cultural study found no attractiveness benefit at all. We present masculinity/dominance as evidence-backed and attractiveness as "peaks around stubble, otherwise mixed."
Dixson & Brooks 2013, Evol Hum Behav 34(3):236–241
Objective-morphometric work shows a beard adds the "masculine lower face" signal without needing a large bony jaw — the one scientific anchor under the styling idea that a beard builds the jawline.
Dixson, Lee, Sherlock & Talamas 2017, Evol Hum Behav 38(2):164–174
The plan · sequenced over twelve weeks
What to actually do
Three phases, each item carrying its evidence grade and the finding that put it there. Nothing here is structural or clinical unless you choose to pursue it.
Phase 1 — FoundationWeeks 0–4
- ADaily broad-spectrum sunscreen (applied as directed on the product label)sun protection
Sun exposure is the single largest controllable input to skin texture, pigment evenness, and fine lines — and daily protection is the highest-evidence, lowest-cost item in the entire catalog.
Shop a facial SPF → - CSkincare routine sequencing (thin-to-thick, actives separated, sun protection in the morning)grooming
Your current routine has the right pieces but sequencing them correctly is what makes each one work.
Shop a gentle cleanser →
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How to read the tags
Follows from your own measured geometry — real anthropometry.
A published, peer-reviewed perception study, graded on its strength.
Codified cosmetology standard (Milady). Consistent optical reasoning, not clinical proof.
Widely-taught grooming heuristic. Sensible, but no controlled study tests it.
The honest line. The measurements and the facial index are genuine, taken against published norms; the direct metrics are landmarked precisely, the proxy ones lean on soft-tissue approximations and are confidence-capped, and the profile ones are held until you add a side view rather than guessed. The seven "face shapes" and every hairstyle rule are professional convention wearing anthropometric clothing — internally consistent, widely taught, but not clinically validated, and the premise that an oval is "ideal" is itself an aesthetic assumption grounded in the real finding that average, symmetric faces tend to be rated well. Facial hair reliably reads as more masculine and dominant; its effect on attractiveness is weaker and peaks around heavy stubble. Every claim is tagged so you can weigh it yourself.
Kanon provides educational appearance analysis. It is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. All clinical-grade options are flagged for discussion with a licensed provider; Kanon never prescribes. Measurements are estimates from 2D photographs and carry the confidence levels stated per metric. This service is for adults 18 and over. Kanon provides educational appearance analysis. It is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
Kanon · a ruler, not a rating · report rep_7b3dcc5bbe174ce18b8e · engine v2 · Farkas 1981 · Martin–Saller · Milady 14e · Dixson & Vasey 2012 · Dixson & Brooks 2013 · Dixson, Lee, Sherlock & Talamas 2017 · every report passes an automated safety gate before delivery.