Heart Face Shape

By Najmus Sayadat, Co-Founder & Product Lead, FaceAuraAI · Last updated 7 October 2026

A heart face has a wider forehead and cheekbones that taper to a narrower chin.

How to recognise a heart face shape

A heart face is defined at both ends at once: a wide upper face and a narrow chin. You need both. A wide forehead over a broad jaw is not heart, and nor is a narrow chin under a narrow forehead.

The mirror checklist

Look straight at a mirror or a front-facing photo with your hair pulled right back off your forehead and temples. Then check four things.

1. 1Your forehead and temples are clearly wider than your jaw.
2. 2Your cheekbones are wide, close to the width of your forehead.
3. 3Your face narrows noticeably below the cheekbones.
4. 4Your chin is narrow and comes to a point.

If all four hold, heart is your likely shape. Pulling your hair back matters more for heart than for any other shape: a fringe, or hair falling over your temples, covers the very width this shape depends on, and the upper face then reads narrower than it is.

How the face shape detector reads a heart face

The face shape detector places 468 landmarks on your face and turns the distances between them into ratios. Its published heart rule centres on the chin: a chin angle of 100° or tighter is the strongest heart condition, and a smaller chin angle means a narrower, more pointed chin. Temples at least 1.14 times jaw width add points. A separate route adds points when the temples are at least 1.15 times jaw width, the forehead is at least 0.70 of cheekbone width and the chin angle is 115° or wider. A strong triangle score sets heart to zero.

These are scoring rules, not a pass mark. Every shape collects points for the conditions your face meets, and the highest score leads. These are ratios between landmarks on a photo, not tape-measure readings; use the face shape calculator if you're measuring by hand, because it has its own reference numbers.

Two ways a face can read as heart

The rule gives a face two different ways to collect heart points.

• The chin route. Your chin narrows to a point, at 100° or tighter. Temples at least 1.14 times your jaw width add to it.
• The wide-top route. Your temples are at least 1.15 times your jaw width and your forehead is at least 0.70 of your cheekbones, even with a broader chin.

A narrow chin is the usual way in, but not the only one. This is why two people can both read as heart for different reasons.

Heart or diamond? Heart or square?

Heart is most often confused with diamond and square. Each mix-up is settled by one measurement.

Hair direction for a heart face

Balance a wider top with a narrower chin: fullness at the jaw, and frames wider at the bottom. For hair, that means weight low and lightness at the crown. Every cut below either adds weight near the jaw and chin or shortens the forehead with a fringe.

Women's cuts

• Chin-length bobWeight at the chin balances a wider forehead.
• Side-swept bangsAngled bangs take width off the forehead without covering your cheekbones.
• Pixie with side-swept bangsThe bangs shorten a wide forehead, and a tapered nape keeps weight off a narrow chin.
• Chin-grazing cropA little length at the jaw balances the wider upper face.

Photos, lengths and styling notes are in the women's haircuts for a heart face guide.

Men's cuts

• Crop with fringe. A fringe across the forehead shortens a tall upper third.
• Tapered sides, fuller front. A fuller front and tighter sides balance a narrower chin without widening the temples.

The men's haircuts for a heart face guide covers fades, fringe lengths and longer styles.

What to avoid

Avoid extra volume at the crown with a tight chin; it widens the forehead. Avoid height only at the temples, too, which stacks width where a heart face is already widest. If you want height, pair it with some length or texture near the jaw.

The hairstyle recommender ranks these cuts against your own measurements, including how wide your forehead reads against your jaw.

Glasses for a heart face

Choose frames that are wider or heavier at the bottom than the top, or light enough not to add weight above the brow. All four families below are unisex.

• OvalA wider lower lens balances a narrower chin.
• AviatorBottom-heavy teardrops even out a wider forehead.
• RimlessLight frames keep a pointed chin from looking smaller.
• RoundA circular lens adds width through the lower face.

Skip heavy top-bar frames that widen the forehead. This is where heart and diamond advice part: diamond faces skip frames that are widest at the cheekbone line, while heart faces mainly avoid a heavy top bar.

For bridge fit, sizing and every frame family side by side, see glasses for your face shape. To rank frames for your own face, use the glasses finder. Our guide to glasses for a heart-shaped face has more examples.

Beard direction (if you grow one)

A beard is one of the most direct ways to add weight under a narrow chin. Fuller chin, lighter cheeks puts density where the face is narrowest, which balances a wider forehead. A circle beard connects chin and moustache, adding lower-face weight without bulk at the sides. Avoid heavy cheek volume with a sparse chin; it widens the forehead further. The men's face shape guide covers beards for every shape.

Celebrities with a heart face

Seeing how stylists cut hair and choose frames for public figures commonly described as heart-faced is a practical source of ideas. Browse celebrities with a heart face shape.

Earrings and hats

Wider drops and chandelier styles that sit at the jaw balance a wider forehead, because they put width where your face narrows. Skip heavy, top-heavy ear climbers, which add weight near the temples. For hats, side-tilted brims and newsboy caps add width lower on the face. Avoid tall crowns, which widen the forehead.

If you're between two shapes

When your forehead, temple, cheekbone and jaw widths sit close to the line between two shapes, the face shape detector names both and shows how close you are to each.

Heart's neighbours are diamond, which has a narrower forehead, and square, which has a broader chin. A result that reads mostly heart with some diamond often means a narrow chin with a forehead near diamond's limit, so the diamond guide's soft fringe is a reasonable borrow. A result near square means the chin angle is the deciding measurement. Heart is also the opposite taper of the triangle face shape, which is widest at the jaw.

Not sure if you have a heart face shape?

Upload a front-facing photo with your hair off your forehead and temples. The face shape detector compares your forehead, temple, cheekbone and jaw widths and measures your chin angle, then tells you whether you read as heart, with a confidence label and the reasons behind it. Landmarks are found in your browser first, and your photo isn't stored.

Check with the face shape detector