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Face Shape Guide

What is your Face Shape

Everything you need to know about selecting optical frames. Whether you are a first time user of spectacles or an experienced buyer looking for suggestions – we have got you covered.

Oval Face Shape

The oval face is considered the ideal shape because of its balanced proportions and frames should maintain natural balance of the oval face. Frames selected should be wider than the broadest part of the face, avoid low swooping temples which will unbalance the frame and make the face look smaller. The frame selected should be proportion to the face.
Diamond Face Shape

These shapes are narrow at the eye line and jawline with a relatively small forehead and chin with high cheek bones, making this shape the rarest of all facial shapes. Frames for these shapes should widen the forehead and jaw, minimize the temples and cheekbones and should be heavy on the top – avoid low temples. Frame sides should be straight or round. Rimless frames in square would be an option along with straight top and curved bottoms.
Round Face

The round face is full with few angles and the width and length of the face are roughly in equal proportions, the frames suggested should make the face appear longer and thinner. Eyewear that creates engles or horizontal lines will make the face appear more angular, slight angular frames will narrow the round face, avoid excessively rounded or square styles which will exaggerate facial roundness, Higher or mid height temples will create a longer profile and a clear bridge widens the eyes along with coloured temples and larger size frames.
Square Face

This shape is characterized by a strong jawline a broad forehead and a wide chin and cheekbones, frames suggested should make the face look longer. Gently curved and narrow styles will minimize squareness and lengthens the face, frames suggested should be more horizontal and vertical, select frames with weight on top, oval shapes with mid level to high temples, color or ornamental engravings on the frames temples will lengthen the face.
Base Down Triangle Face

These faces has a narrow forehead that widens at the cheek and chin areas, frames should add width to the forehead while softening and narrowing the appearance of the jaw, chin and cheek, the suggested frames should accent the eye area and be wide enough to balance the jaw line, the top of the frames should be slightly heavy and bottom should angle inwards . Avoid low temples styles, use square, straight top aviators or metal frames with rimless bottoms.
Base Up Triangle Face

This is characterized by a very wide forehead and high cheek bones which narrows gradually to the chin, the frame chosen should add width below the eye line to offset the narrow chin, a challenging face for eyeglasses, however the more appropriate frames are those that are wider at the bottom, suggestive shapes include aviator, butterfly, or low triangle styles, frames with rounded tops and square bottoms can be suggested along with very light colors, delicate metal and rimless styles are effective.
Oblong Face

These faces are longer than its wide, the frame selected should be deeper than its wide to create an illusion that the face is shorter, the suggested frames should break up the length of the face to make the face appear shorter and wider, frames with decorative temples can add width to the face.