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Face shape, hair, beard and style guides

Start with your face shape, then choose a haircut, beard and glasses that balance it. These guides cover each step with free calculators, tables and the exact words to use at the barber or optician. LEVEL is an AI face analysis app that recommends reversible changes and never gives a score.

Start with your face shape, then the haircut, beard and frames that balance it. Every guide says where its advice stops holding, and they do not invent research, diagnose conditions or promise appearance outcomes.

Updated · About LEVEL

These guides cover the reversible choices that change how a face reads: the haircut, the beard, the glasses and the routine that keeps them. Start with your face shape, which you can find with the free calculator or the photo detector, then read the haircut, beard and glasses guides for that shape. Each guide answers its question in the first lines, gives the exact words and clipper numbers to use at the barber or optician, cites its sources, and says where its advice stops holding. The looksmaxxing guides separate the changes that work from the claims that do not, including mewing. None of them rates faces. LEVEL, the AI face analysis app that publishes them, applies the same rules to your own photos and shows the result on your face.

What face shape am I, and which haircut suits it?

8 MIN · EDUCATIONAL

What face shape am I? A free 2-minute face shape test

Find your face shape in two minutes: oval, round, square, oblong, heart, diamond or triangle, with a free calculator and no photo upload.

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10 MIN · EDUCATIONAL

Best haircut for your face shape (men): all 7 shapes

The haircut that balances each face shape, from round and square to oblong and heart, plus the exact words and clipper numbers for your barber.

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8 MIN · EDUCATIONAL

Taper vs fade: the difference, and which to ask for

Taper vs fade, low, mid and high, and the taper fade in between: what each looks like, which suits your face and hair, and what to tell your barber.

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6 MIN · EDUCATIONAL

Haircuts for thinning hair (men): what works

Which haircuts make thinning or fine hair look fuller, what to ask your barber for, the styling that helps, and when to see a doctor rather than a barber.

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7 MIN · EDUCATIONAL

How to prepare for a professional consultation

How to brief a barber, stylist, optician or dermatologist so you get the change you want: what to bring, what to say, and what to ask.

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Which beard and glasses suit my face?

9 MIN · EDUCATIONAL

Beard styles for your face shape, and where to trim

The beard that suits a round, square, oblong, oval or heart face, where to set the neckline and cheek line, and what to do if it grows patchy.

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9 MIN · EDUCATIONAL

Glasses for your face shape: frame width and shape

Which glasses suit your face shape, how wide the frame should be, where the top edge should sit, and how to read the numbers on your frames.

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7 MIN · EDUCATIONAL

Patchy beard: how to fix it with length and lines

How to make a patchy beard look full: the length that hides gaps, where to set the cheek line and neckline, which styles work, and what oils cannot do.

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9 MIN · EDUCATIONAL

Beard styles for men: 14 styles and who each suits

Fourteen beard styles, from stubble and the short boxed beard to the Van Dyke and the full beard: what each looks like, who it suits, and the upkeep.

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Does looksmaxxing work, and which apps are worth using?

8 MIN · EDUCATIONAL

Umax alternative: face analysis without a rating

A Umax alternative without a face rating: what Umax gives you, what it collects, and a plan of reversible changes instead of a score.

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8 MIN · EDUCATIONAL

Qoves alternative: a reversible-change plan from $19

Considering Qoves? What a face analysis report should include, what to check in the privacy policy, and how LEVEL's $19 Preview and 12-week plan compare.

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7 MIN · EDUCATIONAL

Mewing: what it is, does it work, and what to do instead

What mewing is, what the evidence says about changing an adult jaw, why the before-and-after photos convince, and the changes that do sharpen a jawline.

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9 MIN · EDUCATIONAL

Does looksmaxxing work? Softmaxxing vs hardmaxxing

Softmaxxing (haircut, beard, glasses, skin, fit) changes how a face reads. Hardmaxxing claims are loud and weak. What holds up, and what to skip.

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8 MIN · EDUCATIONAL

Using looksmaxxing without it using you

The same attention that produces a haircut that suits you produces compulsive checking. What separates them, and the signals worth taking seriously.

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How do I get the most from a face analysis?

7 MIN · EDUCATIONAL

How to take comparable progress photographs

How to take progress photos you can actually compare: the same distance, light, camera height and expression every time, in three minutes a week.

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7 MIN · EDUCATIONAL

How to read confidence and limitations

What a confidence value on a face analysis finding means, why low-confidence findings are withheld, and what a photograph can and cannot show.

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8 MIN · EDUCATIONAL

What an identity-preserving preview may change

What an AI hairstyle and beard preview on your own photo may change, what it must keep, and how to tell a realistic preview from a fantasy.

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7 MIN · EDUCATIONAL

How to build a grooming routine you will keep

Start from the time and budget you really have, remove what is redundant, change one thing at a time, and plan for the days you miss.

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THE PRODUCT BEHIND THIS PAGE

LEVEL turns seven private photographs into a plan, not a score.

A confidence-aware presentation profile, a preview of your best look and a twelve-week plan. No rating, no ranking, nothing surgical. Photographs are destroyed after twelve months and never train a model.