Am I Pretty? Pretty Scale Test (1 to 10)

Your pretty scale score is your measured facial harmony, placed on a 1 to 10 scale. The test finds 478 points on your face and scores four parts of your geometry: symmetry (35% of the score), the balance of your middle and lower thirds (25%), facial fifths (25%) and face length to width against the golden ratio (15%). The weighted sum is a harmony score out of 100, the same one the attractiveness test reports.

Symmetry compares six mirrored pairs of points, from the corners of the eyes to the edges of the jaw, across the midline of your face. Thirds compares the height from your brows to the base of your nose with the height from there to your chin. Fifths checks how evenly the width of your face divides into five bands, each about one eye wide, the classical canon for the upper face. The golden ratio part compares the length of your face with its width.

The harmony score is then read through the PSL scale, so one face gets the same answer on every tool on this site. Harmony 72, the middle of where most faces land, is a PSL of 4 and a pretty scale score of 4.9. Every 8 points of harmony is one PSL point, and the PSL range of 1 to 8 is stretched onto 1 to 10, so each point of harmony moves your pretty scale score by about 0.16.

The PSL score test rounds its number to the nearest half point; this test does not. Two faces that both read PSL 4.5 can score 5.5 and 5.7 here, because the pretty scale keeps the difference the rounding hides. A change of a tenth or two is still a small difference in harmony, not a different face.

The am I pretty test takes under a minute and needs one clear photo of your face from the front. The photo is read in your browser and is never uploaded.

For a reading you can compare later, take two photos the same way and look at both. If they differ by more than half a point, the photo setup is the variable, not your face.

Each score falls in a tier, the same tiers the PSL scale uses: 4.5 to 5.7 is average, 5.8 and up is above average, and 4.4 and below is below average. Most well-lit, straight-on photos land between 4.2 and 6.0, and the top of the scale needs every measured part close to its target at once.

The tiers come from the PSL scale, a forum convention rather than research, and they describe geometry only. Faces people call beautiful turn up in several tiers, because skin, coloring, hair and expression do much of the work in real life.

For the part a photo can measure, most people are neither: their geometry lands in the middle of the range, between 4.2 and 6.0 here. Pretty and ugly are judgements people make from a whole face in motion, and geometry is only one input to them. If you want the question asked the other way round, the am I ugly test reads the same measurement and answers it directly, band by band.

The same harmony score is reported out of 100 on the attractiveness test and on the 1 to 8 PSL scale on the PSL score test. All of them read one face the same way, so running the same photo through each will not find you a better number.

The score measures bone structure, the part of your appearance you can change least. Most of what changes how pretty people find a face sits outside it: even, clear skin; hair that frames the face; brows shaped to your eyes; body fat, which sharpens or softens the jaw and cheekbones; posture; and expression. Research on attractiveness finds those move how a face is rated as much as geometry does.

Skin is the one you can measure and change on a schedule. The SkinPal app scans your skin from a selfie and tracks it week by week, so you can see whether a routine is working.