If you want my new Style Inspirations Notion Template, go HERE: bodyandstyle.gumroad.com/

I for one am very happy Kibbe got rid of the link between face and body because I don't think it accounted for race/ethnicity at all. Whenever I saw quizzes which discussed the facial features, they were focused on European features have very little in common with my strong African features. I would have gotten typed as a Romantic in the face based on those quizzes when my features are just typical for a west African.

Still don’t know which type 😂 my face confuses me. But thank you for these kind of videos, I love them!! ❤️

Hey Ellie-jean, i struggle a lot with dressing myself. I often get made fun for it. See, i am overweight so it’s hard enough to find nice clothes that fit me and even if they have my size it doesn’t look right. Any chance you’ll do another video talking about body types/essences but with plus size models? I really like your videos but it’s hard for me to see myself in them.

My personal mix: Kibbe: soft natural 🌿🍃 Kitchener: natural+ingenue 🌳🌸 Root Essence: flower+sun+earth 🧁🌈🍀 Thanks a lot for the help!

i'm also a soft classic with a soft classic face. it's a pretty recognizable face type, even across different ethnicities! everything so dead in the middle, body and face-wise, that it took me ages to figure out my kibbe type bc nothing stood out.

Thank you for this breakdown! I get a little lost between the Kibbe types and essences, especially since there’s so much overlap in the nomenclature. This video was very helpful in explaining the types more clearly! I love what you do; keep it up! 😊

If we have a face type that differs from our body (ie SN face, FG body) how does this impact the way we should dress/ outfit decisions? Any advice lol

Thanks so much for the explanation of these face types! I recently have been getting into the Kibbe-Kitchener types and your channel has been a valuable tool in learning about this! I'm still trying to figure out my face type, I definitely feel like I have a soft dramatic body type but I feel like my face falls under soft natural or natural.

This video is very helpful! I can see why facial focus can skew your body type results. Faces are so important for finding color season, so you have to switch gears when trying to determine your body type. Edit: I have a dramatic classic face, imo. Everything is balanced, but I have some sharpness in my lips, nose, and cheekbones, and I have large eyes, a slightly blunt but angular jaw, and moderate forehead. My face shape is square. I am pretty sure that I am a dramatic classic body type as well. My test results are pretty even between dramatic and classic. Essence is a tough one for me, but from what others have told me, I think that may be classic too.

I was really confused about types and essences but the Taylor example was a perfect explanation for it.

Just so you know that we are interested: please make more style roots content ❤️❤️❤️❤️

You are so right with Soft Natural faces! I have one and it is very recognizable! Love your content :)

It's amazing because my body type is dramatic classic, and I REALLY look like the picture you used for a dramatic classic face when I smile haha

I think I have a soft natural face. Strong, square jaw and rectangular face shape, but soft and somewhat full lips, very rounded and somewhat dominant nose, moderate eyes, moderate cheekbones and high forehead. Still have to look into my body type. This stuff is fascinating! I am also still unsure of my coloring. When I was much younger, I had some kind of professional try to determine my color season, and they and everyone else that was with us had a really hard time. If I had to choose now, I would say somewhere around a muted autumn or muted summer.

Thank you for your content so much! I'd be very very thankful and interessted in a quiz similar to the one for your style roots in which by asking questions about your facial features ( rather sharp/soft etc) you can find out about your face type...idk why, it's so freaking hard to tell for me! Sometimes I feel like I have some yang dominance, then again I find it kinda in the middle (classic)....ahhh help! :D

I'm Theatrical Romantic body type, and I have the same facial features for the TR type of the lush softness combined with the sharpness; sharp jaw line, large eyes, and lush lips. I'm not sure what my essence is though, would love to know! :)

I find myself between a Flamboyant Natural and flamboyant gamine. I find I have some larger features than others but I do have a high cheek bone with a sharper jawline. I have never found a way to look at my face and understand it for makeup, so this was very helpful !

I would love the same thing for men!

Body type is flamboyant natural, which I do resonate with the flamboyant natural face bone structure but I really relate to dramatic or soft dramatic in bone structure!!

I’m still confused as ever regarding my Kibbe body type and face type 😭. I honestly don’t see that I fit into any of them. Anyone else on the same boat?

i think just like Christina Ricci i’ve got a romantic body & face that can read as gamine. get compared to her a lot tbh. super helpful video!!

Now I'm sooo confuse. Cause I have quite short limbs and don't look long at all, but my face matches quite well with the soft dramatic examples (in the profile picture not as much as in real life) I'm also confuse with the body tipe thing, since the general description matches soft natural, but I look overwhelmed im things like puffy sleeves or other boho styles

I used to debate my body type all the time cause my face is either flamboyant gamine or dramatic (honestly I can’t tell) Pointy chin long face, small lips and small almond eyes. Only my nose is round but it’s small. Based on my face people usually think I’m younger than I am. But my body is def flamboyant natural. I have ethereal/ natural essence so that’s how I’ve found harmony with my face/ body

My body type is soft classic but my face is soft dramatic, which I think is why I had a hard time finding my type. I have a diamond shaped head with high cheekbones, big wide set almond eyes, a roundish but straight nose, and a sharp Cupid’s bow. My features are pretty angular but people always notice my bone structure/cheekbones first. Very Scandinavian/Eastern European looking.

Not all gamines have big eyes, I think it's more about the mixture of different features and compact size. For instance, I'm a soft gamine and I have small sharp eyes and small but lush nose and lips- it's what made it so difficult for me to put myself into that category. I thought I was theatrical romantic for the longest time, but I realised that fully glamorous makeup and hairstyles are a little much for me.

I agree. I think if you’re unsure if you’re one type or another, the face can tip the scale for you. Or if you are clear on your body type but still feel like theres just a hint of something you cant quite put your finger on, your face and hair can be the source of that essence you’re trying to identify. I was sure I was a natural and yet I felt some tension in certain areas and found I didn’t really like what would be prescribed for a natural. For a while I thought maybe I leaned towards a classic somehow …. Anyhow. After studying the essences more closely, I realized that while I am not especially tall or long, I have more dramatic essence in my face that pulls my overall best style over to the flamboyant natural end of things. I need that extra bit of oomph in my style. I need a little bit more yang. Something in my outfit needs to be quite strong and while I cannot carry off wild patterns, when I have some touch of the dramatic somewhere in my outfit, suddenly it all makes sense and pops. If I try to do a purely classic look, I look strangled by my clothes and oddly proportioned. The minute I untuck the shirt and dishevel my hair, BAM, now we’re talking. The classic bit I detect in there has to do more with the colour palate and the need for a bit of tailoring in every outfit. A dramatic line with a touch of classic tailoring all in an easy natural way is the magic mix for me. It’s all really fascinating to see it work.

I’m so happy that the connection isn’t there anymore because that was the thing confusing me for a long time. My body is a clear soft dramatic my not my face. I have normal/small eyes and normal/thin lips, but sharp and prominent cheekbones and a small nose. I don’t know what my face is really, maybe classic or soft classic? This has been such a ride. And I don’t know how to dress haha Body- soft dramatic Face- classic/soft classic Essence - romantic and classic Colours - light spring 😅

After much consideration, I have definitely come to the conclusion that I am a Dramatic Clasic! thank you so much for your videos, they're nice to watch and so explicative!

So cool but so hard to know which one is my type

Thank you, this is so interesting!! I’m a FN and have struggled to figure out my face type and essence SO much. I feel like I hit a lot of the FN face points, but I have a very sharp chin, especially in profile. My face is an elongated diamond shape with large and rounded eyes and lips and a soft at the tip, slightly hooked, and elongated (Italian) nose. I thought maybe dramatic but think I’m too fleshy and features-forward. I related to some of the shapes in the TR section but am not sure if that’s possible considering my features are quite large? 😅 maybe it’s just my essences. Someday I’ll save up and have you type me! Thanks for another great video!!

I’m definitely a gamine but deciding which kind is one of my biggest struggles. There are so many opposites and I feel like each day or on each outfit I can see them in different ways in myself. Comparing myself to others doesn’t really work because no two people are alike, especially gamines. 😅 I lean toward soft because I think I look best with waist emphasis and I don’t have any especially sharp or boyish facial features but I also have some elongation to my arms and legs and very sharp knees, wrists and ankles, so it’s a little hard to tell. I just go with dressing how I like and kind of take from all of these advice tips with a grain of salt. 🤷‍♀️

Could you make a video about the makeup styles for the different essences?

I think it's Soft Gamine? I still get war flashbacks to when my grandmother would force me into a pixie cut because my face was "too small" 😂

Great video and helpful with the lines💗I need direction as I’m quite confused on my Kibbe face type though. I’m a 5’4 delicate petite with fleshy arms. In my face and body I see both Gamine and Soft Natural.

I totally agree with what you said in the beginning I have a very innocent looking face but a very curvy mature body

People always tell me I look like Demi Moore (and my iPhone thinks we are the same person!) but I think I have larger eyes (or perhaps a different essence). Any suggestions on which face type Demi Moore has? Thank you!

I'm confident that I am an SD body type. After watching your video, my face type ticks all the boxes for flamboyant natural. Very interesting mix as both 'types' are neighbours.

Hey Ellie-Jean :) are you going to add more photos to each aesthetic category?

I’m such a soft natural! I have the soft natural face ( long, with high cheekbones and soft jawline),small eyes and soft delicate nose. I think it’s the proportions which are similar ( Jane Fonda, Molly, Katy Perry). Once I saw their faces i was like no way I’m not sn

I have a long face, round eyes, and a tall nose what kind of face type would that be considered? Also love your content.

I feel like I relate to the soft classic type the most but I still don’t know

You correctly typed me as a soft natural! Honestly, I begrudge that and have struggled to accept it. But I have a romantic face and a romantic essence.

Hi! Nice video :) I think, I have a soft classic body and Ingenue face. I always get compliments on how sweet, girly and dainty(but still very proportional) I look.

Thank elli

Hello, Ellie! First of all, I want to say I really like your Kibbe body type videos. I have a bit of a weird question about the white not-quite-overall outfit you wear in the intro at minute 0:38, the one that's pretty much in the middle of the picture. I've been trying to type a friend for days now and I am really confused (we do have some ideas, but none of us is 100% sure). She owns an outfit that's pretty much identical to this one you are wearing and it's wildly regarded as one of her best looks ever. Is this a gamine outfit? Or a classic or a natural? I would be very grateful if you could solve our little dilemma, thanks.

I feel I’m a soft dramatic for both body and face !

I'm a dramatic classic but I think my face is closer to a flamboyant natural. I have big eyes, a wide button nose and blunt jawline. I usually wear my hair neat and straight but when it has volume and movement people tell me it looks much better.

I thought DK dropped the faces bcos ppl are particularly bad at analysing faces for his system. It’s too nuanced- so he still uses them but suggests ppl just to focus on bodies. Fun video though. I have such a typical SD face. Sharp high cheek bones, sharp Nordic nose. Slightly rounded almond eyes and lush lips lol. It’s very textbook

I’m still so confused :( I have a small head but large eyes, a long nose and fairly soft lips but a rounded, slightly pointed chin. I think out of these I fit soft gamine in my face? Soft Dramatic seems to have more angles that I don’t have in my face.

I'm confused because I have a round face, soft nose lush lips, and a pure romantic body type as well the only thing is that my eyes are not round I have a natural cat eye shape so does that change it ?

I have a Romantic body type very clearly but my face seems to reflect Soft Dramatic a lot. I always feel like the structure of my face ruins the looks I try to do so that makes sense.

Ohhhh this was so rivealing! My face is not "literally" G or I, but I still give the impression to look younger and cute. So I think that I have G or I essence, but they are not my kibbe face type :) (Still I look very good in both FG and DC outfits. Maybe I have DC body type and face with G essence?)

The face type has always been a mystery to me. I've got a mix of elongated and soft facial features, but my nose and natural brows are blunt. I know for a fact I'm not FN though, I found Kibbe because the FN lines I spent most of my teens and twenties following didn't work for me.

Christina Ricci has had a nose job augmenting the gamine affect. Her face didn’t look as gamine when we were kids. She’s my age and I used to get told I looked like her all the time before the nose job. I’m romantic with a little gamine in my face but not as dramatic as it would be if I had a nose job.

Hmmm... I think I'm a soft dramatic with flamboyant natural essence, which I think is why my casual look tends towards bohemian.

Please do Gwendolyn Christie next!

I think I have a Gamine face and a soft classic body type- how should someone with that dress/style?

I think I'm a flamboyant natural(1,80 cm, blunt bones in the body, in my face I have a iregularity, my face is asymetrical). I actually have very big features, big round eyes, blunt nose, my jaw is kind of blund( I think I tend a bit twards dramatic, but very slightly), but I have a very tiny waist and tiny feet and tiny hands, but blunt, which is wierd ) :))) I really like your theory on root style, I think I have a stone, earth, masroom( and I sometimes, depending on the ocasion and season, combine with a bit of flower and fire, even tho it's sounds contradictory, it's not I swear :))) ) . Thank you for your work. It's amazing! ✨🙀❤️❤️

It's funny for me that my upper lip is very similar to Taylor's, with the cupid bow very sharp and I have always tried to make it look a little softer with makeup. I guess we all like what we don't have 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thanks for a great video. I've been trying to figure this out for the last 2 years. Every time I take the Kibbe Test I am a Theoretical Romantic. However I don't feel or look glamorous or sexy. My friend and I are trying to figure out her type. She is 5'4" and 180 lbs. This makes it very difficult to figure out what bone structure she has. We can't see or feel the bones. Please explain what body type someone can be if obese. Thanks again.

Kibbe always leaves me more confused. Lol is that a hint in itself? I hover between FN and SN…but maybe some classic essence is throwing me off? So confused. My face is more FN and honestly I do look better when dressing for my frame, but the curve on the bottom makes that tricky sometimes. 😂

pretty darn sure that i am either a shorter FN or DC for body, but my face seems to lean a bit more yin i think. possibly a classic or theatrical romantic? face typing is harder for me!

I’m pretty convinced I’m SN! I have a blunt jaw and soft features, and I have curve and width in my body, but I think I’m just at the cut off with height at 5’7, which I find confusing, because I’m definitely not a FN.

This is kinda confusing for me now, I have a heart shaped face, with a full bottom lip, and thin upper lip, I have an indent in my chin and my nose is definitely not small, but it’s also not prominent or large. I have a bit of a jawline, but people tell me I have a baby face. Please someone help me

Am i a soft natural? Can someone tell me their opinion of my face type and essence please

The thing with using celebrities as examples is that plastic surgery is almost always present With all the jaw and cheeks implants even those that are customize the changes in the structure are quite evident

SD body with a romantic face. Is it possible to mesh two types into your style that are so far apart?

I have to say when looking at the pictures i would assign myself to more than two of those types and i feel like that kinda here nor there. Is that because I myself cannot see what defines my own face or is it possible to fit into more that 2?

What is a person with an oblong face , rounded downward eyes, sharp nose and semi full lips ? Would this be a dramatic classic ?

Kibbe types have really helped me in my character design for a story I’m writing, so all of my characters don’t look the same!

I definitely think I have a romantic body type (short height, curvy hourglass, always 'fleshy' even when thin, rounded shoulders etc.) but ive often been told from certain angles I look a lot like taylor swift (and not just because I have curly hair like she had back when she was starting out!) Similar high, prominent cheekbones, similar sharp nose, and almond eyes though i have larger eyes but smaller, thinner lips (with that cupids bow!). So if I'm anything like Taylor, it's possible I have a romantic body and a soft dramatic face-- not exactly a harmonious match 😆

Now I’m confused because it might just be my face that is soft Classic and not my body 🙈🙈

So I know this isn't about Kitchener's essences BUT if I am a Kibbe flamboyant natural but have a more soft natural face (high cheekbones but full cheeks, blunt chin and jaw, rounded and slightly wide button nose, almond eyes, fuller lips) would that be a combo of natural and romantic essences or natural and ingenue?

Aaaaah I’m so confused. I’ve been told that I look like Audrey Hepburn but idk if I’m gamine cause my face is more soft and round compared to her. I definitely have cheeks even at my thinnest. But I don’t have full lips. So my eyes tend to be the focal point of my face. I also don’t have defined cheek bones

I can’t decide if I’m a gamine, soft gamine, or romantic since I have large eyes, dark long up turned lashes, but my eyes go up from the ends and sharp inner corners (similar to cat eyes) small and soft nose, I have a jawline and shape but I also have a baby face, and my lips are not full but not small they are puffy and have a natural pinkish color…what do you guys think?!

Im soo in doubt about my face type between soft natural and theatrical romantic! I have sharp cheekbones and jaw but my body type is soft natural soo im confused what do u think?

I know my face is more FN/D even though I'm SN :) which is why I wear quite a lot of D essence clothing with slight cut modifications for my height + curve.

I have a question. What kibbe type is Nicole Kidman and Renee Russo. Thank you 😊!

All of this is so confusing to me lmao I think I’ve figured out where I fit, but then I come across another video and get confused again 😅

I think my face is either Soft Dramatic or Soft Gamine??? Ive a small face and big eyes and cheebones but my nose and chin are very straight& sharp like a dramatic.

I'm a flamboyant gamine, my facial bones are more on the blunt and round side, so small blunt chin, high cheekbones, round eyes, lush lips and my nose is rounded with some sharp and blunt angles.

I think my body is some classic type with ingenue or natural face

I feel like my face is soft dramatic but my body was a dramatic classic. Though that’s just a guess, I don’t know for sure. It’s hard to tell but I did a very in depth analysis online to get the body type and even they said that you can’t know for sure unless you get “typed” for real. It’s hard for me to grasp. Someday I’ll try to get typed by a professional!

Id like to buy your style root templates but I don’t have a credit card :( will or can you add PayPal or any other payment method ?

I've been trying to figure this out for a YEAR and everything I learn is just more confusing. When I post in groups specifically for Kibbe or Kitchener, no one has been able to help me with it either :((

I always thought that I had a romantic body type/face type but after taking a deep dive I now know that I’m a soft natural face and body type

I’m either SN or TR.

I'm a tall dramatic classic With a gamine face, is that possible?

Mmmh I'm confused I don't really know what kind of face type will i have based on this sistem ..... I have large eyes, mouth nose and brows for my face pad but still I feel there is a little sharpness peaking through..... the only way I can describe it or compared it will be kind of similar looking to the Olsen twins facial features ( before surgery) but making them the tiniest bit sharper except in the bones structure 🤔 🤷‍♀️ 😕

This is helpful. I’m pretty sure that my body leans more Romantic than Theatrical Romantic (I don’t have narrow shoulders and I never select the Dramatic options on any of the quizzes); however, my face is much more Theatrical Romantic.

Разликата между тяло и лице може да бъде много объркваща! Преди време бях попаднала на една френска актриса в сериал, която имаше лице като на Одри Хепбърн, но пък беше много висока и атлетична с фигура като на Синди Крауфорд. Всеки път, когато сменяха кадъра от лицето към тялото, леко се сепвах. Но пък именно това я правеше толкова интересна според мен :)

I think I’m Flamboyant natural in the face. I like it! It makes me feel good about myself 😅

I think my face and body are bang on soft dramatic

I think I’m a theatrical romantic face and body. I hope you’ll do some content for theatrical romantics!

My face types are ethereal and natural and my body type is dramatic. In my opinion it all checks out.

Hi Ellie-Jean. I'm new to kibbe typeing and am having a hard time with face lines. I know you probably have a busy schedule and get many comments, but would you be willing to asses my face features. I think you would be able to be more objective than i can, and i need some help please. Thank-you for your time and videos either way.

I think i have theatrical romantic body and face and a slightly romantic essence! Thank you so much for your videos 🥰

can you do a video on face essences on asian facial structures(specially southeast asian)? idk if it will make a difference but i am having slightly a hard time comparing my facial charactertistics to western faces 😅

I'm TR, but I think I have a SN face. Full glam looks so over the top on me. But maybe that's just my own preference and style essence. I just don't feel like myself all glammed up.