What would you like me to do with this draft?
Editor’s Note
Eight years of watching women take this test, and the pattern I keep seeing is this: the people who nail their type on the first try are almost never the ones who spend the longest time analyzing photos — they’re the ones who stop looking at their bodies entirely and start noticing how fabric *moves* on them while they’re walking. A photograph flattens everything the system is actually designed to read. David Kibbe himself has said repeatedly that this work was never meant to be a visual exercise in the way the internet has made it. So I’m curious — when you tried this at home, were you working from stillness or from motion?
Okay so I literally just did this test using my bathroom mirror and a selfie stick lol — I’m in Austin and the natural lighting here is brutal for this kind of thing. I kept second-guessing whether my shoulders were “sloping” or just normal?? But the picture comparison method finally made it click. My main takeaway is photographing myself from farther back instead of close-up selfies. That perspective shift changed everything for me. Do most people find their vertical line trickier to assess than their facial features?