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Hair Length
How far visible scalp hair reaches down the hairline-to-chin span, read from an image segmenter rather than from landmarks. Long hair scores low and a shaved or buzzed head scores 10; hair worn up counts only its visible extent. This is an appearance signal, not anatomy, so it carries the smallest weight alongside face shape and it is the one signal a haircut changes.
By RateMyFaceAI. Methodology
What the reading means
Hair Length places a face on the same 0 to 10 spectrum as every other signal in this pillar: 0 is the softest, most feminine shape and 10 the strongest, most masculine shape. There is no ideal band and neither end is better than the other. The reading comes from a segmented image, so photo angle, expression and lighting all move it.
The pillar index combines all 10 signals, over whichever of them a face carries a reading for. A signal with no reading drops out instead of counting as a neutral 5, and the signals do not all count equally.
How well it separates
Across the 168 profiles with a reading, men average 6.55 and women 1.73. That is a very large separation: 1.79 pooled standard deviations apart, a statistic called Cohen's d. The two groups overlap on every signal here, so a single reading never identifies anyone's sex.
Male mean
6.55 / 10
Female mean
1.73 / 10
Readings run from 0.00 to 9.86, with a median of 6.18. 72 profiles carry no reading for this signal, so they are left out of every number above.
How much this signal counts toward the index follows the published evidence behind it, not the separation measured here. A photographed celebrity library is not a population sample, so read these figures as a description of this library.
How 168 celebrities read
Every profile with a reading, measured from AI-placed, hand-verified landmarks and ordered from the most masculine reading to the most feminine.
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Related signals
Hair Length is read alongside these, from the same front photograph.