What would you like me to do with this draft?
Editor’s Note
Eight years of watching women take this test, and the pattern that surprises me most isn’t which type people land on — it’s how many get tripped up by the photos they choose. Mirrors lie less than cameras, cameras lie less than selfies, and yet selfies are what 90% of people use to make this call. The angle, the lens distortion, the arm stretched out holding the phone — all of it compresses and warps the very lines you’re trying to read. If you walked away from this article feeling uncertain about your result, I’d gently ask you to consider the source material before questioning your eye. Which raises something I’m genuinely curious about: when you did your assessment, what kind of images were you actually working from?
Okay so I literally spent an hour in front of my mirror this morning with a measuring tape trying to figure this out — and I was SO confused about the difference between blunt vs tapered bone structure until I read this. Game changer. I’m in Austin and honestly the heat here means I’m in tank tops constantly, which actually makes this easier to self-assess lol. Going to compare my shoulder vs hip width in natural light tomorrow instead of bathroom lighting. That one tip alone changes everything for me.