The lab

Test 032 min

Your frame, in two minutes.

How crisp your edges are and how far your details read. Ten questions, no photo.

Tall, wide and oval ivory paper frames overlap a navy ribbon.
Plate 03

How this works

Your result is a dot on a bar, not a box.

How the score works

Line and scale are two old ideas from stylists: how crisp an edge is, and how far a detail reads. Each answer is a number from 1 to 5. Questions one to four on each side count in full, and question five counts half, because it is about what you choose and what people say.

Skipped questions are dropped and the rest are averaged. If two or more of questions one to four are skipped on one side, that side gets no score and the fifth stands alone. A dot near a cut between two zones is near the line, and a side with answers pulling both ways says mixed signals.

A working method

A method in testing, not a diagnosis. It describes how pieces read, not who you are, and nothing here is a grade.

How sure each part is

The cuts between soft, middle and defined are provisional, and readers have not tested them yet. Almost everything on line and scale is Tradition: a useful way to look at pieces, not a fact about you. One part has a study behind it, Moderate: makeup can change how large eyes and brows read, and in one study it did not change the mouth.

If a result makes you feel worse about how you look, close the page.

"Your face shape decides your style."

Myth It ties advice to anatomy and stereotypes. This quiz asks about edges and objects.

Questions
Is this a face shape or body type quiz?

No. It asks how crisp an edge is and how far an object reads, such as a collar, a chain or a print. It does not ask about your face shape, weight, height or size, and neither end of either bar is better than the other.

What does echo mean?

Echo means your pieces repeat your edge and your scale. It is the easy default. Contrast means choosing the opposite on purpose, one piece at a time. Both are valid, and no study says one beats the other.

Can I skip questions?

Yes, for any reason. A skipped question is dropped and your result comes from the rest, so skipping does not count against you. If you skip two or more of questions one to four on one side, that side gets no score and the result says so. Some days the light is tricky, and lips and brows can be tattooed, shaped or changed.

How sure is this?

Honestly, not very yet. The method comes from stylist tradition and its cuts are provisional. Treat the result as a starting map that changes when your style does.

Does the quiz save my answers?

No. Your answers stay on this page and are gone when you close it. The page only reads the season saved by the free test, if you took it, to show two of its colors.

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