This is the video I've been waiting for. I've got a very dramatic face and much softer body, lol. I tend to fit in the classic category the most, but I always need a mix of ying and yang in my clothing to bring my face and body together.

“Every woman is from a fairytale “ yes!!!

This is so interesting because little things can really throw people off on types. Charlize was always dressed & photographed as more Romantic so people would never think she was Natural. Madonna as a dancer has always been muscular so people never thought she was Romantic. I think models & actresses in general sometimes get cast as a different type/vibe than they really are.

Aside from everything I learned from the video I also learned Reese Witherspoon has pictures with everyone lol

Head size and “perceived height” always throw me for a loop!😂

In my opinion, the reason we get confused by one or two opposing characteristics in the face compared to the body - is just because of that - because they are obviously opposing to the rest of the body and will stick out. Think of a completely blue painting, with two tiny dots of red placed somewhere on the canvas, you're definitely going to notice it immediately, but that doesn't suddenly make the painting into a red painting, or a purple painting. The painting is still blue, with two small dots of red. I think it's very rare for a person to have a body, face and essence that fits into one category or type. I think those types of women that fit completely into one type are forefronted by Kibbe because they are great visual examples to illustrate the archetypes. One or two characteristics that differ from your type, doesn't make you into a different type instead, or into a "hybrid" type, it's just essence or a vibe that needs to be included in your style to illustrate your personality. Not every classic will look like Grace Kelly. Being a classic means that on the yin/yang scale your combination isn't tipping the scale in any direction, it is a perfect blend between the two. Colouring also plays a big role. For exampel, a spring will probably be thought of as more yin because bright, animated and warm colours are by definition more yin in essence. Winters will appear to have more drama or yang in them, because their colours are darker, cool and brilliant, even severe. Autumn colours will give a natural vibe, because they are colours found in forests, or in greenery etc. Summers might look more balanced because their colours are cool, soft and mellow and give a calm impression. Love the video! This is just my take on it all! Love from Sweden~

I think it’s also important to add that until recently, there wasn’t much diversity with kibbe typing. I feel like most POC get typed in the natural category. I feel like I’m a pure SC or even DC, but because some of my features are labeled “exotic” I get sort of lumped in with the wrong types often.

Hi Aly, I also loved hearing your phylosophy/take/opinion on "personalities".

You truly inspires me, Aly. I love how you encourage women to embrace their features and find ways to improve themselves without having to fit in certain standards. Love your approach on Kibbe and other beauty topics. Hugs from Brazil.

Aly said "own your vibe" and I'm here for it!

Just like so many of the other comments - this is the video I needed! I’m 5’ 2.5” and absolutely 100% theatrical romantic from my collar bones down, but from my shoulders up, I’m too angular to wear ornate or frilly. It’s a total disconnect with my face. I’ve landed on Soft Classic as what works for me.

Nicole Kidman should have played Lady Diana and Naomi Watts would have been a better match for Grace Kelly (even though not completely accurate). Blythe Danner had always seemed a misfit for SC to me. Glad, Kibbe re-typed her. Helena Bonham Carter seems like a Soft Gamine to me.

Could you do a capsule wardrobe for the body types? 🥺😍

Could it be that our body’s frame should direct us toward certain lines/silhouette, and our facial features should direct the yin/yang balance of the *details* of our clothes?

There is this amazing runway clip from 2yr ago were Gigi, Anokyai and Vittoria all wore Versace down the runway. That image is imprinted in my head on how varied FN spectrum can be. When I observe someone who is dressed in their lines in motion, they elude a level of confidence, easy beauty and authenticity that is harder to achieve when they wear other lines. The only exception that I have found is when the person is wearing their colours. I find radiant skin very alluring.

Love your views.... Love your description of each individual character and how unique it is and how we must find that in ourselves 💗. Good to remember to include this in our fashion choices.

Every time you upload it makes my day. Love what you're doing 😍

I think this is part of why I’ve struggled to type myself. I’m pretty certain my body is romantic type, but my face, especially my nose, and eyebrows are sharper. I started trying romantic clothing recommendations, and I could really see a difference. I felt like my clothes just matched me.

Face is soft classic. Body is dramatic classic. My clothing style fits more dramatic classic, but I style my hair and makeup for soft classic. ❤️

Absolutely love your perspective and Outlook. You're amazing.

Great video as always Alyyy

Very interesting - my face (Not Sharp, wide nose, large lips) always disturbed me, because my body is definetly a flamboyant natural. But I also think that's what makes persons also interesting, not fitting in one particular "ästhetic" category and it also gives the opportunity, to try quite diefferent clothes and look good in diverse styles.

THANKS! I am feeling at home in your channel! (I was one of those who asked that question and got the answer that this could not be).

Great video, as usual. I feel incredibly fortunate when I watch videos like this & also read comments. When I first discovered this system, I thought I was a soft gamine for about five minutes. Then I let someone help me with the quiz & overall assessment & TR became very obvious. Now that I understand the system better it’s obvious anyway. I have a TR face. I have a TR body. I look extremely better in TR clothing lines than other lines. I have gradually made my wardrobe TR & I look much better & feel happier & get more compliments. Pure R lines clearly don’t suit me as well, so even that doesn’t cause confusion. I didn’t realize right away how hard this can be for people when the right type is so much less clear. I’m seriously rooting for everyone to reach their point of clarity with their type & have the fun I’ve had with mine.

Hi Aly, I really appreciate your insight and contribution to the world of esthetics! Your interpretation of Kibbe body types is outstanding! I have a personal question for you and the followers: my face is classic and according to the test I’m dramatic classic. But since my body is very elongated and frame dominant ( large shoulders) , I believe I’m flamboyant natural. What style recommendations should I follow?

Great selections and food for thought. Merry Christmas Aly!

I’ve thought I am every different type so far. I kept coming back to the natural family because of my shoulders and some width, but I always drowned in natural clothes or soft/flamboyant natural. How could this be? Then I would go back and forth between dramatic, romantic, natural, classic… no lines seemed right. I figured I can’t be a gamine because I’m not narrow. But then I read kibbe’s description of flamboyant gamine. FGs are broadly angular. That’s me! That’s why my face is all over A and D/E answers and my body doesn’t seem to “match”. It’s because I’m flamboyant gamine. I just have to add some little bit of femininity to that, and then my look is good. But at the end of the day, I learned that we shouldn’t get too far down the kibbe rabbit hole. I think it’s good to be aware that straighter features look best in straighter lines and rounder features look best in rounder lines and it’s a continuum of that, but if we get too far into it then that’s where we run into these issue of “what if my facd doesn’t match” or “my cheeks are puffy even though everything else is A so I can’t be dramatic”. I think it’s best to have this kibbe framework and then put it to the side and just use good judgement from there. For example, Taylor Swift is a dramatic. She looks best with long lines in her clothes. So then why does the straight bob not suit her as much as slight waves and curls? Because her face has some sweetness to it. If we live and die by the kibbe law, Taylor would be stuck with stiff lines which doesn’t work over her entire face/body. However, because we understand kibbe, we would know not to give her Marilyn Monroe curls. That would make TS look hard. We know to accommodate her sweet face with straighter soft waves and curls. I hope this makes sense. This is how different types in the same exact category differ because a dramatic like Kiera Knightli, while she is also flattered by straight lines, doesn’t have that sweet look so she should be styled more edgy whereas TS can’t pull that off even though she’s also dramatic. They both need straight lines, but different touches here and there within that. At the end of the day, this is why I am happy to understand Kibbe but then toss it to the side as use loose rules and good judgement with my looks personally.

I feel like this hair color is your perfect shade, gorgeous. Thank you for your fun informationam videos 💕

Super interesting! I really love your look Aly, so fabulous!

I always love your videos. Commenting on face types and ageing: Charlize Theron for example, I think she lost some muscle mass after starting ageing, when she played in The Devils Advocate (1997) she was younger and had other hair style, she looked very soft, but look at her at the movie "The Old Guard" (2020), she is really sharp and has a more "boney" face - which I also love... Other examples on your video that changed face type a lot with age (or weight loss), but specially age. The amount of "flesh" on the face makes a huge difference I guess. I myself was always so skinny and had huge cheeks, well now I am 42 and lost a bit of face muscle/mass, but gained some body weight. When people who know me see only my face on photos or video calls they say I didnt change, but my face stayed almost the same, but the body went from Zendaya to Beyonce, specially the lower body part, legs and hips. Madonna kept that shape with age, she just got a bit stronger. If I decide to "improve" my features with age, (or just retard the effects of ageing), for me the most important thing is trying to go closer to your young self, not change the face into a completely different person (like Madonna). Someone who did it in a great way is Halle Berry, and there are other great examples like Jenifer Lopes and other +50 people... By the way I am not against plastic surgery and don´t mean to shame anyone. I love Madonna anyways, no matter what...

Great Examples! Wow, I love especially the examples of women with the childlike, and round full faces, how they had different bodies, SO intresting..

I always find these interesting, and I'm always excited like maybe I'll finally figure out how to dress myself. But I'm just forever confused and helpless.

Thank you Aly! Really need this videp glad to know this is a common topic

Listen, what you said about that we dress according to our character, is really interesting (and not according to our personality) 🤔 It’s would be great if you will make a video about this topic ✨ maybe a review of the different characters style that exists P.S. It’s the first time I’m leaving s comment on your channel (although I’m watching all of your videos for over an year), so it’s a good opportunity to say that I appreciate you and value that you are giving. I’m learning a lot thanks to the amazing content that you are creating! 💓

face descriptions for SD made me doubt my type, cause my nose is not very long and prominent, and my eyes are rather small too however my body just fits the descriptions perfectly i was thinking maybe i'm a natural of some sort, FN or SN, but now i see that this would obviously be an even greater stretch thanks for the video, interesting and well-prepared as always!

@Aly Art Excellent, as per usual.

Thank you for this video! Because of such differences & Because I do not look like celebrities I could do not tell if I am dramatic, Flamboyant gamine, or Natural/FN what made things worse for me is the fact that some dressing recommendations for FN look AMAZING on me but also some recommendations of both dramatic or FG look AMAZING on me! So I could not box myself which is the good news here I guess. The thing that I came up with is that I have to mix Yin & Yang qualities in my look otherwise I would look weirdly long or too obviously skinny...for example if the fabric is lightweight (Yin), the edges be sharp and it's details should be minimal (Yang) and it better fit me (Yin) and so on

Thank you for this video. In Kibbe, my face (romantic) doesn’t match my body (soft dramatic), so I have to choose clothing and colors to blend both types.

Hi Aly, I would love to see a similar video on when the bust and body don't match, particularly larger busts.

As soon as I saw the Cloe Sevigny case I saw myself in another coloring. You have helped me to understand better why Kibbe wasn't working for me!

It was sooo helpful! I'm sure nobody would mind more videos about not matching face and body.

A short video that was packed with so much information- it is absolutely vital to "marry" the face to the body. Aly, please try to make a part 2 to this video with more examples :)

You'd "read" me in a heartbeat. I'm enjoying watching your videos same as the first day I found your channel...and that was sooo long time ago. Love from Croatia 💙

You're very talented! I hope I can get a style consultation by you some day. It'd be an honor. I wonder your thoughts on Kitchener essences including ethereal essence.

Maybe make a whole video on the topic of character and how to embody your character ❤️❤️❤️

Comprehensive and brilliant ❤️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🏆

Thank you for much for this video Aly! After asking others what they think I get a lot of FG and SD it's very confusing. The FG I think works for my face and some parts of my body but I have vertical too and so SD seems to fit as well. I'd love to know if you have any typing services available.

I love this channel :)

I’m having a hard time choose between SC, DC and SN. Analyzing the results of the entirety of my Kibbe test would place me as a soft classic. I did my test using a dead on photo in underwear, multiple photos of me over the years, and using a variety of image consultants pictures references w/ Kibbe descriptions). My body is well balanced between yin-yang with a slight tendency towards more yin. I have some narrow length to my arms, hands and feet, ankles and wrists… and have more muscular thighs. This gives me 2-3 A/B answers (even though musculature is confusing, because it’s only my lower body and Kibbe seem to look for muscular in the shoulders and arms). What tips me towards “soft” is actually my face, as it is very yang leaning. If Kibbe is all about wearing our lines, shouldn’t I give more weight to the results of my body than those of my face? Perhaps I am DC within my body, but SC in my face? The SN comes from me not understanding how the musculature in my lower body plays a role, though I do not have wideness or broadness in my shoulders or arms at all. Ultimately, I always end up ruling out SN because the natural beauty in my face and body is brought out in classic lines and I tend to look underdone in natural lines. If I gain weight too fast, I can begin to look broader because I gain fat in my abdomen first and then my lower body second (typical for a DC); if I gain weight slowly, I become more pear shaped from the start and never look broad. Pear-shaped weight gain is also typical for DC. From this, it seems like I’m obviously DC but my face throws me off!

Thank you for this! I'm a FN, but my face are soft. Big round eyes, broad nose, soft cheeks and big lips.. First, I thought I was a SN, but I'm 5'11! This really helped!

I have a friend, who's like 5'8-5'10, I think, a woman, but her face is round and childish, I thought "well, she must be around the same height as me". Until I went to an event, where I wore 10 cms high heels, yet, she still was visibly higher. I'm 5'5 and with me, it's usually the opposite. People see me and think "Oh, you must be around 5'6-5'8" and then I stand next to them, they're like "see, I've told you, you're tall"-then, I step out of my heels & they're surprised how "short" I am.

I'm glad I found this video because I tried to do Kibbe tests multiple times and was joking because I basically have most of my Yin in my face (w exotic facial st), and the rest of my body seems to be more Yang, but short. I told my mom I had a mismatched head and body but now I see you need to try to feel out the "total vibe" and essence with how the structure looks. This has helped me narrow it down to either a Soft Natural or a Flamboyant Gamine.

At first I was going really deep into trying to match face and body for clothes and accessories recommendations. But that's the thing: my body is pure R, and my face is G (also essence-wise, no one ever said anything other than G). I started choosing clothes that are tapered, with waist emphasis, light fabrics... But nothing too womanly, to match my vibe (kinda tomboy-ish?). I add some spice with patterns in my purses/backpacks and shoes. And I would say I look really lovely like this! I finally don't look like I'm trying too hard

Great look, btw 😍

2:48 How did he even think she was TR in the first place 🤣

Hi Aly could you please make a video about brands for body types! Like what body types does Free People cater to, etc

I am not sure, if she has already made a video about this, but I would be really interested in what kind of materials would suit the body types. I know that she mentioned this in her videos before, but a seperate video would be so great. For example if you want to wear a headscarf, it would be really helpful to know which materials I should be choosing from. I would be immensly thankful for this!

I have a soft natural body but my face falls much more into the theatrical romantic category (quite small features, sharper nose, very almond eyes and full lips). I think SN styling suits me very well.

Tysm! I've always had that question. My face is very SD but my body is a SN and it gives me opposite vibes

Yeeeeeessssss! This is the one for me!

I just post a question on your Facebook community and I feel like you are answering it! Thanks!

Yesss I lean towards romantic body type but im half peruvian meaning I have cheekbones for days.

Thanks for this. My face is dramatic (a lot of my features are somewhat androgynous looking), but I'm under 5'3" like a gamine and have the shoulder width of a natural. I look a bit like I was made of spare parts, but what can you do?

You have such a pretty face shape. You are very talented-thanks for your videos.

Yup,that's what I needed,my facial structure, features are very classic type,and my body is veryyyyy romantic, although I do look a little taller than i actually am(around 5'6 or something)

"I don't wanna say '[has her own] personality', because we pick up so many personalities on our way.." Ha! Genius quote, Lady! This a topic to really ponder. First, because We Moon have 3 hormonal shifts per month.. I feel that this justifies a minimum of 3 "operating modes", on a physical or chemical level. & of course there are the Who We Are's that we have intentionally invented.. :D

Lately Taylor Swift has reaaally went for the dramatic clothing she looks amazing in! For example the velvet suit she wore to All too well-premier.

"Every woman is from a fairytale." I love this!

This was so helpful, I'm romantic but my face is on the sharper side and my friends would say "maybe you're SG or TR" but I knew I'm still valid as a romantic

Beautiful flowers! 💐

It would be amazing if you did a video with examples of different women as fairytale characters! I love that analogy you do🎀🌹👑🦋

This helped! My face is way too round/soft to be dramatic, but I'm tall and not curvy with wider shoulders than hips. My trouble has always been that I don't feel I look very feminine in most clothes, just kind of like a teen boy.

yess thank u for this i have a very soft classic vibe and body but my face sometimes i find to be gamine

Is there a place where one can pay to get body typed/face typed? :) I think I am finally getting closer to what I could be, but then there are always something in the other body types that makes me doubt it. Love the series though, it gives so much inspiration!

Very interesting. I had settled on soft classic for myself body-wise and I have that classic Grace Kelly type of face or even a Gwyneth Paltrow natural type of face (when my granddaughter was about 3 she saw a headshot of GP on the back of a magazine and said "Grandma, your picture is on here!") LOL! BUT I am just 5'1" so would I be gamine simply because I am so petite?

My face is underdeveloped due to mouthbreathing and retractive orthodontics in childhood 😢 watch "growing your face"

I was confused for the longest time with my kibbe body type because I'm a tall romantic kind of SD, but I just couldn't see myself in SD because even though Kibbe says that the face is not used anymore, I just saw myself so different from all verified SDs because my face is 100% romantic and gives me an ingenue essence that makes me look way younger than most SDs who look more womanly I was so thrown off by the fact that certain details are not supposed to look good on me when they fit me very well, because there are romantic details that match my face and my essence, but it was very difficult for me to reach my decision and come to terms with the fact that I'm a SD

I think this is your best video about kibbe typing

@alyart, can you also explain essence?

Zendaya is such a good example, I was shocked when I found out how tall she is! I always thought of her as a perfect gamine example.

I would LOVE to know more about piercings for the body types☺️

How Can I get personal pieces of advice from you Aly ?!

I've always felt as if I was put together of what was left of different body parts in the genetic warehouse. 😁

I can relate to this since I type myself as FN but I don't feel like I'm belong to that type because of my rebellious prep/teenager boy face, and my body looks more narrow but has some bluntness and more softer-looking than a Dramatic (slightly sloped shoulders, wider hipline, moderate waist etc.) and I can't even pull off wide silhouettes unless if it's slightly defined on the waist or draped.

I have been waiting for this video. My face and character is dramatic but my bodt is softer and curver

I love your hat! Where is it from?

Makes a lot of sense

People who’ve only seen pictures of my face always assume Im petite and are shocked when they meet me because I’m 5’10 and have very long limbs. It’s taken me a long time to figure out what looks nice on me and what doesn’t because I have so many prominent and competing traits. I don’t know why but very short hair really helps in my case.

I have a classic face....(I have modeled for art classes). My body is rather top heavy and finding tops that fit the bust with a smaller waist and slim hips is HARD.🌹🦋🌸🥀🌺🌷🌺🥀🌸🦋🌹 Perhaps flamboyant natural. Thankyou for this info!

I'm wondering about when vibe/character and body type don't match. I've taken the quiz and came out as theatrical romantic. I think my body silhouette and even facial features match this category well. But wearing fou-fou ruffles and bows does not match with my vibe, which is more a combination of classic and natural. What is your advice? Do you think I've typed myself incorrectly, or do you think I can learn to be comfortable in more "feminine" styles of clothing?

I was always confused whether if I have a dramatic face or soft dramatic face because my nose is quite narrow and long but I have full lips and exotic looking (red-brown) eyes with high cheekbones, but my body fits pure dramatic.. it’s confusing because I know how to dress, but I struggle sometimes with makeup looks. Contour can make me look too angular. I wonder since I’m racially ambiguous that could cause some of the mystery..

I feel like flamboyant naturals tend to have this situation a lot. I know of many celebrities and real life examples where the faces have a LOT of softness and yin and then the body surprises you. I think is part of their exotic and free nature vibe, they brake the rules! Since we are told Naturals are a soft yang and flamboyant naturals are even more yang you wouldnt expect such soft faces. The same happens when you find curvy flamboyant naturals! You cant make a lot of assumptions with them.

I was just wondering about this! I feel like I have this difference. My face is slightly softer than my body, and what I noticed is that your recommendations for soft natural makeup/hair look better, but natural or flamboyant natural lines look better on my body.

I have a SN face and SG body. I just go for the SG look overall because I find myself looking frumpy in natural lines. I keep my hairstyle and makeup SN though.

Are there any tips on using the kibbe method on yourself if youre overweight?

I'd love to see Brigitte Bardot in your icon series. I think she is some sort of romantic--maybe ingenue from McJinsey system

I'm a soft natural. Although, my face has some "gaminish" traits, so much that people think I'm shorter, even though I'm 1,68 (a regular to tall height in my country). I kinda suffer with that. "Cute" things get better with my face, not by body :/ I try to marry both traits.

I have noticed that, a lot of women, seem to “grow into” their face. As I have gotten older, my face has changed to fit my full figure and softer (“motherly”) body shape.

Yes! I followed your makeup tutorial for flamboyant gamine and it does not suit me at all, same with short hair does not suit me but my body is very flamboyant gamine, my face is very soft natural though.

Please post link to body type quiz, thanks!