Canthal Tilt.

What canthal tilt actually measures

Draw an imaginary line from your medial canthus (inner eye corner, near the nose) to your lateral canthus (outer eye corner). The angle that line makes with the horizontal is your canthal tilt.

• Positive tilt — outer corner sits higher than the inner one. Roughly 5–10° is the aesthetic sweet spot. This is the “hunter eye” or “almond eye” look.
• Neutral tilt — both corners on the same horizontal line. Reads as balanced, common in classically symmetrical faces.
• Negative tilt — outer corner lower than the inner one. Often perceived as tired, sad, or “puppy eyes.” It’s not bad — it’s just penalized in most attractiveness scoring rubrics.

Why it dominates face ratings

Eye area gets the most attention in any face — eye-tracking studies confirm it’s the first thing people look at, and they spend the longest there. So eye geometry has outsized weight in any rating system, including PSL and the model Fazly uses.

Three reasons positive tilt scores well:

1. It signals lower brow ridge prominence relative to cheekbones — a young-adult signal.
2. It creates more negative space below the eye, which photographs as openness and energy.
3. It pairs naturally with high cheekbones, which is itself a separately-rewarded feature.

How Fazly scores it

Fazly’s scan estimates the canthal tilt angle in degrees and grades it on a curve calibrated against attractiveness research. Your eye area sub-score combines tilt, eye spacing, and brow position — so even a neutral tilt can score top-tier if everything else is in proportion.

Practical note: angle, lighting, and even how rested you are change apparent tilt. Take three scans across different times of day to find your baseline.

Can you change your canthal tilt?

Without surgery, no — bone structure is fixed. But you can change how it reads:

• Brow shape and height — a slightly higher arched outer brow makes neutral eyes look more positively tilted.
• Sleep + hydration — under-eye puffiness tilts your visual line negative.
• Camera angle — slight chin-down, camera-up adds 2–3° of apparent positive tilt.

Surgical options exist (lateral canthoplasty, almond-eye surgery), but they’re the deep end of the looksmaxxing pool. Most people get 70% of the visual win from brow grooming and sleep.