Physiognomy · 面相 · Mian Xiang

Face reading, without the photograph

Every face-reading tool you have used asked for a photo. This one does not, on purpose. You look at your own face — a mirror, or a picture on your phone — and answer nine questions about structure you can actually see. What comes back is a reading of proportion, officers and palaces, including the places where your own features disagree with each other.

Why no photo upload. A face image is biometric data under the GDPR, and treating it like a newsletter signup would be a lie about risk. Sending it to a server also means trusting a server. So the photo you open below never leaves your browser — it is read locally by your own device, it is not uploaded, and there is nothing on our side to store, leak, or delete.

What that costs you. This is not machine vision. Nobody is measuring your face from a picture. You are the measuring instrument, which means the reading is only as good as your answers — and there is a short section at the end telling you which answers people get wrong most often.

Optional: open a photo to look at while you answer

Stays on your device. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is sent anywhere, no account needed. Close the tab and it is gone.

Local preview, never uploaded
Judge the outline, not the flesh. Squint at yourself in a mirror if that helps.
Measure with two fingers rather than by eye. Eyes are unreliable on proportions.
If you groom them, answer for the growth underneath, not the trimmed line.
At rest, not while smiling. The resting shape is the one being read.
Nine answers. Nothing uploaded.

Want the part that comes from your birth date rather than your face? Your Four Pillars chart is free and takes a date. Or read the hand next — palm reading works the same way, nine observations and no photograph. If you want to understand why the Chinese systems discount single features, this guide explains the method.