What Shape is Your Face?
The best way to determine your facial shape is to pull up your hair, take a few steps back from a mirror, and find out the general structure and contours of your face and head. There are seven common and primary face shapes. Below, you can find which glasses may work best with yours.
Oval
Oval faces have balanced proportions that look great in a variety of different types of eyeglass frames. Try ones that are as wide or wider than the broadest part of your face, and avoid ones that are deep and narrow.
Heart-Shaped
Heart-shaped faces embody both wide and narrow traits. To help reduce the wider top part of the face, choose frames that are wider towards the bottom, like rimless frames that aren’t heavy in appearance.
Oblong
Oblong faces are longer than they are wider. To make them appear shorter and more proportional, you can choose frames that have more depth than width to balance out the shape of your face.
Diamond
Diamond-shaped faces feature broad cheekbones and narrow foreheads and jawlines. This is a rare facial shape that can benefit from choosing frames that have distinctive brow lines or are rimless.
Round
A round facial shape lacks angles. To give more sharpness to the facial structure, choose a frame to lengthen the face, such as rectangular frames that can help widen the area around your eyes.
Base-Down Triangle
Base-down facial shapes have wider cheeks and chins and narrower foreheads. To help balance out the top portion of your face, you can choose frames that are detailed or heavily accented around the brow line, like cat-eye frames.