Guides

Tool · 6 min

The rest of the toolbox

The Protocol, 2D Simulation, Cope or Not and Surgeon Finder — what each one is for, and when to reach for it.

A scan tells you what your face is. Everything below is for deciding what to do about it — and they are meant to be used in roughly this order.

Protocol

Your personalised plan, generated from your own measurements rather than picked off a list.

It separates soft maxes — non-surgical, usually reversible: skincare, grooming, body composition, habits — from hard maxes, which are surgical or otherwise permanent. Both routes are offered for anything that has both, and the soft route is presented first, because cheap reversible changes usually win on return anyway.

Everything is ranked by what would change your face most, first. There is a timeline, a budget estimate, and a projected score.

2D Simulation

Edit your own photograph and watch the measurements move.

It is anchored to your actual landmarks, so it is not a filter — pull your chin forward and the projection ratios, the convexity and the profile lines all re-compute against the change. Sigil re-scores it live.

The honest limit: it is a flat image. A change that reads well head-on can read differently in three-quarter view, which is the reason the 3D head exists.

Cope or Not

The free one, and the one to open before you spend money on anything.

Every method people push in this space, graded on the actual evidence behind it: whether it does what it claims, what it realistically achieves, and whether it is worth your time. It covers the clinical mainstream and the social-media fringe with the same standard, which is the point — the grading is the product.

It works without a scan and without an account.

Surgeon Finder

A directory of real, named surgeons, each scored on safety, credentials, results, pricing and aftercare.

Two things to be clear about. Coverage is genuinely uneven — not every entry publishes a location or a price, and where we do not have something we say so rather than estimating it. And "verified" here means we hold credential entries on file; it is not an endorsement, and a listing is not a recommendation.

It is a starting point for your own research, not a referral.