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Pretty Scale Test
How pretty am I? Upload a straight-on photo and get a pretty-scale percentage built from eight measured proportions: symmetry, golden ratio, facial thirds, face width, midface, eye corners, jaw and eye spacing. You see each line on your photo and which readings raised or lowered the number.
Drop a photo, paste one, or choose a file
Straight-on, whole face visible, even light. JPG, PNG or WebP.
Runs in your browser. Your photo is never uploaded.
How it is measured
Eight proportions, one percentage.
Each of the eight readings is scored against a published reference band: full marks anywhere inside the band, less the further it falls outside. The weighted total is the face score (1–10) used by the face rating tool, and the pretty scale shows where that score sits on the scale's own range: 0% at the lowest score any photo can get, 100% at the top. Because it is computed, the same photo always gets the same percentage.
- 85% and up
- Very balanced: nearly every reading inside its band.
- 70–84%
- Most readings inside their bands.
- 55–69%
- Above the middle of the scale.
- 40–54%
- Around the middle, where many straight-on photos land.
- Under 40%
- A few readings sit outside the common bands.
Sources
What this is based on.
The measurement and its reference ranges come from published research. Studies use different methods and populations, so compare your number with the range shown on this page rather than with other tools.
- 1.
Langlois JH, Kalakanis L, Rubenstein AJ, et al. (2000). Maxims or myths of beauty? A meta-analytic and theoretical review. Psychological Bulletin. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.126.3.390
Meta-analysis: people largely agree on who is attractive, across ages and cultures.
- 2.
Langlois JH, Roggman LA (1990). Attractive faces are only average. Psychological Science. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.1990.tb00079.x
Averaged composite faces were rated more attractive than most individual faces.
- 3.
Perrett DI, May KA, Yoshikawa S (1994). Facial shape and judgements of female attractiveness. Nature. doi:10.1038/368239a0
The most attractive faces were not simply average, so averageness is only part of the picture.
- 4.
Rhodes G (2006). The evolutionary psychology of facial beauty. Annual Review of Psychology. PubMed 16318594
Review of the main factors in facial attractiveness: averageness, symmetry and sex-typical features.
- 5.
Kartynnik Y, Ablavatski A, Grishchenko I, Grundmann M (2019). Real-time facial surface geometry from monocular video on mobile GPUs. arXiv. arXiv:1907.06724
The face-mesh model that places the 468 surface landmarks this tool measures from.
- 6.
Ablavatski A, Vakunov A, Grishchenko I, et al. (2020). Real-time pupil tracking from monocular video for digital puppetry. arXiv. arXiv:2006.11341
The iris model that adds 10 eye landmarks (478 in total), used for pupil-based reference lines.
Our own data: how much each reading moves when the same face is photographed again is published on the methodology page. How we choose sources.
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FAQ
How pretty am I?+
No measurement answers that by itself. This test measures one ingredient, proportion, and leaves out skin, hair, makeup, expression and style, which change how people see a face as much as bone does. Read the number as how balanced your proportions measure in this photo.
Is this the same as a beauty score?+
It is a proportion score. It is the same measurement as the face rating tool, shown as a percentage instead of a number out of 10.
Why did I get a different result on another site?+
Many pretty scale sites use different points, different ideal values or an AI model that guesses. This tool publishes its bands and draws its lines on your photo, so you can check what was measured.
Does the photo matter?+
A lot. A close selfie with a wide-angle lens widens the nose and narrows the face; a tilted or turned head shifts every reading. Take the photo at arm's length or further, straight on, eyes level and face relaxed.
Is my photo uploaded?+
No. Everything runs in your browser and nothing is sent to a server.
One reading here.
Nineteen in the app.
A controlled scan, every reading against its ideal band, bone vs trainable, a plan, and a 3D model on Face ID iPhones.