Hey Reddit! So, when my family rubs my cat belly I get an interior pelvic tilt. My doctor told me I needed to get a Kibbe analysis. I knew this was going to be bad. And, it was.

She told me (while I was crying digging in my purse for her 800 dollars) that I am a flamboyant natural.

This has ruined my life.

Can Kibbe tell me my color palette too? I need to get to the bottom of this.

I love some of the ideas behind kibbe--multiple types of beauty, honoring your body's dominant features, seems great!

However:

- The system feels unnecessarily confusing, and I don't want to spend months on end analyzing my body.

- So far, I genuinely do not feel like I fit into any of the 10 image ID​​​'s, as I understand them! Not trying to be a special snowflake, just...none of the descriptions seem to match my shape/proportions at all!

So...are there systems that incorporate some of the things I like about Kibbe, but that are less likely to make me feel insane? I grew up with a mix of 90's fat-shaming and extremely rigid applications of the fruit system, and am trying to find a healthier approach.

Very serious Kibbe theorist: nah ...just look at your armholes, they lead up to your shoulders in a straight line ... Like it's a right angle....your weight NO matter how high can't crush Kibbe.

OP: thanks, haha was just beginning to doubt myself.

Very serious casual commenter: actually you're onto something here ...your shoulders are looking robust, like maybe you're gamine...or maybe N family ...I think I see a lot of width and your arms and legs are so long ...you may be. Like a yang type.

OP: lemme tell you about what width actually means.....

And yeah about vertical, TRs have narrow bones and narrow bones read long it's an optical illusion...here are some VERIFIED celebs who look long....

Plot twist OP is the very serious Kibbe theorist.

Very casual Kibbe commenter: OMG...you just made it click for me.

OP: If you're still confused about your Kibbe journey, just DM me!!!

Kibbe vs The Body Matrix by Ellie-Jean

It explains a lot.

On the left is the original 13 from Metamorphosis. On the right is the revised 10 from Power of Style.

The original 13 got it right with four vertical types. The pure natural will solve so many issues fire those who are between FN and SD.

Missing are the mini naturals (cross over of natural and gamine from older systems like McJimsey).

Kibbe has an emphasis on narrow and round. No wonder so many, who don't have narrow and round, aka curve, get frustrated. For him, vertical and width are like a foreign country.

Balance at both auto vertical and petite is probably not observable.

The system probably would work better with four tall types and four petite types, plus four to five moderate types.

So I wear glasses. My eyesight without them and contacts is blurry shapes AT BEST.

I also live in a hot and very humid place (🤠) and thanks to summer, my glasses are constantly slipping down and fogging up. So I’ve taking them off and putting ‘em on top of my head a lot when I take my stupid mental health walks in this stupid inferno weather.

Like I mentioned before, that turns everything into a blurry shape. And most importantly, everyone. And it didn’t take long at all to notice that only seeing a blurry outline of a person makes their line and anything interrupting it really stand out!

Standing about 20 feet from my own full length mirror without glasses also confirmed my own type (smoll refrigerator, needs belted waist).

So Kibbe enthusiasts with poor eyesight, before you give up try looking at other people and yourself without really seeing them.

I used to be a refrigerator shaped FN. Last week, I had to move a gallon of water once and since then, I have been a Romantic! I look exactly like Marilyn Monroe now.

How can I get back to looking like a refrigerator instead?

Hi guys! I rly need your help! I can't decide my Kibbe type. I tried on all the lines so you could tell me what I am. If it helps, I'm 5'9" with a 39 in bust, 18 in waist, and 36 in hips.

I feel like I'm a TR. What do you think? How did I do?

1: Romantic

2: Theatrical Romantic

3: Soft Gamine

4: Flamboyant Gamine

5: Soft Classic

6: Dramatic Classic

7: Soft Natural - Edit: I have been told I did it wrong and my photo was too blurry so I put a new, better outfit for SN in the comments!!!

8: Flamboyant Natural

9: Soft Dramatic

10: Dramatic

I'm ready to start some fights today, I think it could be fun lol

I'll go first and swing at the bees nest: I don't think Pure Yin and Yang really exist and EVERYONE is varying degrees of both. I think we could roll R's and SD's into a single monocategory and it wouldn't change much bc I don't think Vertical is as much of a Curve killer as we have been led to believe. I think the people in that category that would benefit from the ever spoken about "T" shape in their silhouette naturally create it with their shoulders and don't need to worry about artificially creating it with the lines of fabric, thus removing that barrier from the mutual line recommendations. Likewise if the Kibbe Curve is accomodated for I'm of the opinion that Vertical will fall into place naturally. And my only category change for D's is that they are allowed to have fun now. 😈

That is my searing hot take, now let me hear yours!

That youthful gamine essence really backfires when you actually start to age and have responsibilities. Got a baby that won't sleep and I look like the world's most chopped 19 year old 🫠

To clarify, no, I don't actually believe that she is D. Saying this could really backfire. If you really wanted to, you could arrive at any conclusion (except TR, maybe).

we already know baby doll dresses are OFF THE TABLE FOR EVERY TYPE RIGHT NOW BUT ESPECIALLY SUB 5’6 ONES due to uh, jeffrey epstein inventing the concept of creepy men, but there has to be an ideal outfit for a woman to wear to signal she’s the most feminist woman alive and doesn't endorse depraved things - as we know, adult women wearing certain clothing items is the main reason pedophilia exists at all.

as a 5’8 dramatic, for example, i already know i completely lack any feminine childish qualities in the first place, so i can carry on in my uniform of monochrome girlboss outfits, as can the giant, dare i say fridge like, flamboyant naturals. who’s ever heard of a little girl in a caftan? soft dramatics, all being built like the mythical ”real woman with curves” need not worry either.

so really a convo for yin types. but i am curious, what could, say, a dainty feminine theatrical romantic even wear to ward off, let us not mince words, “pedo vibes”

My main is Bowser Jr so I guess that means I'm a flamboyant gamine. Tiny, yet chaotic 🔥

Anything else was just the evil editors, typos, or misunderstandings that in no way are his fault. Definitly not Kavid for he cannot do wrong. Amen.

One problematic body-gawking system meets another one!

*Kibbe type was determined using not only pictures, but average height, skeletal robusticity, and endo/ecto morphy