Find Your Fade
Answer four quick questions about your face shape, hair type, and styling habits, and find your fade — the specific mid drop fade pairing that actually suits you.
Find Your Fade in Four Questions
This tool weighs your face shape, hair type, and how much time you actually want to spend styling each morning, then matches you against the twelve sub-styles covered across this site. There's no single "best" version of a mid drop fade — the right pairing depends on what you're working with and how much daily effort you're willing to put in.
Your answers also unlock direct links to the dedicated face-shape and hair-type guides for your specific combination, so you can dig into the reasoning behind the recommendation rather than just taking the result at face value.
None of the twelve sub-styles covered here are objectively better than the others — they each suit a different combination of face shape, hair type, and how much daily maintenance someone is realistically willing to put in. This tool exists to shortcut that decision rather than scrolling through every page hoping one jumps out.
What we ask, and why
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Face shape
Round and square faces often benefit from styles that add height, like a quiff or pompadour, while heart and long faces tend to suit styles that add width or length at the front, like a fringe or comb-over. Oval faces are the most flexible and score evenly across most options.
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Hair type
Straight hair holds structured styles like a comb-over or pompadour cleanly, wavy hair leans naturally toward waves or a fringe, and curly or coily hair almost always looks best left to do what it naturally does, whether that's curls or a wave pattern.
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Styling time
Some sub-styles need almost no daily effort, like a bald fade or a simple line-up. Others, like a pompadour or comb-over, need a few extra minutes of combing and product every morning to look right. This question weighs the result toward whichever end of that spectrum matches your actual routine, not the routine you wish you had.
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Beard preference
Pairing a mid drop fade with a beard is common enough that it gets its own question. A yes here weighs the result toward that specific pairing, since blending the fade into a beard line is a distinct skill worth flagging.