Reference
The Complete Looksmax Glossary.
Every term you need to read your own face report — defined plainly, with how Fazly scores each one.
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Canthal Tilt
The angle from your inner eye corner to your outer one. Positive tilt (outer corner higher) reads as more attractive across cultures. Neutral is fine. Negative tilt drags your face score down.
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E-Line (Ricketts' Line)
A straight line from the tip of the nose to the most projected point of the chin, named after orthodontist Robert Ricketts. The upper lip should sit ~4 mm behind it, the lower lip ~2 mm behind it. Used by orthodontists worldwide to evaluate side-profile balance and decide if a patient needs jaw surgery, lip work, or no intervention.
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Face Shape Test
A face shape test classifies your face into one of 6 categories using length-to-width, jaw-to-cheek, and forehead-to-cheek ratios. Used for picking haircuts, glasses frames, and beard lines.
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Face Symmetry
How closely the left and right halves of your face match. Roughly 95-99% symmetry is the perceived 'attractive' band; nobody is truly 100% symmetric. The single most consistent predictor of attractiveness across cultures.
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fWHR (Facial Width-to-Height Ratio)
Bizygomatic width (cheekbone to cheekbone) divided by upper face height (brow to upper lip). Adults average ~1.9. Higher fWHR (>2.0) correlates with perceived dominance, aggression, and short-term mating success in men — and is one of the most-studied facial metrics in social psychology research.
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Golden Ratio
1.618 is the proportion that shows up in the most aesthetically harmonious faces. Fazly uses ~12 ratio measurements — width to height, eye spacing, mouth to chin — but no real face hits 1.618 perfectly. Closer is better; perfect is impossible.
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Gonial Angle
The angle formed at the corner of the lower jaw, where the vertical ramus meets the horizontal jaw body. ~110-120° produces a sharp, masculine jawline; 125-135° is the softer feminine range. It's the single biggest geometric input to any jawline score.
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Hunter Eyes
Hunter eyes combine a positive canthal tilt, deep-set sockets, low brow ridge, and minimal upper-eyelid exposure. The result is a focused, predatory look that dominates male facial attractiveness scoring. Bone structure is fixed, but grooming, sleep, and angle can recover most of the visual effect.
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Intercanthal Distance
The horizontal distance between the inner corners of your eyes (the medial canthi). The classical aesthetic rule is that it should equal exactly one eye width — so the face reads as three eye-widths across at eye level. Deviation in either direction costs points on most face rating systems.
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Jawline Score
A 0–100 measure of jawline definition. Combines gonial angle (corner of the jaw), bigonial width (horizontal jaw breadth), submental softness (under chin), and chin projection. Fazly's jaw model is the highest-correlated sub-score with overall rating.
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Looksmaxxing
A self-improvement framework focused on physical appearance — skincare, grooming, posture, fitness, style, and sometimes cosmetic procedures. Has a 'softmaxxing' (low-effort) and 'hardmaxxing' (surgical) wing. Fazly is built for the softmaxxing path.
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Mewing
Resting your tongue against the palate (roof of the mouth) full-time, plus correct lip seal and teeth posture. Real long-term effects on facial structure are debated, but short-term posture and jaw definition gains are well-documented.
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Mewing Chart
Visual reference for correct tongue-on-palate posture. The roof position (suction-hold) builds the midface; hard mewing damages teeth. Visible bone-level change: 2-5 years in adults, weeks in kids.
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Midface Ratio
The vertical proportion of the midface (from brow to nose base) to the lower face (from nose base to chin). Ratios below 1.0 — i.e. short midfaces — read as neotenous and consistently score higher in attractiveness research for both sexes. Long midface ('longface syndrome') is the most-discussed hard-to-fix complaint in the looksmaxxing community.
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Negative Canthal Tilt
Outer eye corner sitting lower than the inner one. Reads as tired, sad, or 'puppy-like.' Penalized in most attractiveness algorithms, but readable as warm and approachable in social contexts.
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Neoteny
The retention of juvenile facial features into adulthood — large eyes relative to the face, small nose, full lips, round forehead, short midface, smooth skin. Strongly correlated with female facial attractiveness across cultures. Considered unattractive in adult male faces, which gain dimorphic features through puberty.
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Ogee Curve
The S-shaped, double-curved line that runs from the front of the cheekbone down through the under-cheek hollow and out to the jawline. A well-defined ogee curve — convex up top, concave below — creates the 'high cheekbone' look that dominates fashion photography. Mostly bone, but body fat and lighting move the needle hard.
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Philtrum
The vertical groove running from the base of the nose to the upper lip. Ideal length is roughly 11-13 mm in women and 13-15 mm in men, with two sharply defined ridges flanking the dip. Short philtrum reads as neotenous and female-attractive; long, flat philtrum is an aging marker that pulls scores down for both sexes.
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Positive Canthal Tilt
Outer eye corner higher than the inner one — usually 5-10°. Reads as attractive, alert, and high-status across nearly every culture. The single biggest eye-area score on most face-rating apps.
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PSL Score
A 1–10 scale developed on the PSL forums to rank facial attractiveness. 6 = average, 8 = top decile, 10 = model-tier. Fazly outputs PSL-equivalent on the 100-point scan, so 80 ≈ PSL 8.
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Sexual Dimorphism
The physical differences between male and female faces — jaw width, brow ridge, gonial angle, philtrum length, midface length, eye and lip proportions. Driven by puberty hormones. Higher dimorphism (more masculine males, more feminine females) generally scores higher on attractiveness research.
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