MyHeritage.com: Celebrity Look-alike Site Matches Your Face to the Stars

One time, someone at a bar said I looked like Melissa Joan Hart from Clarissa Explains it All. Wait. I am dating myself. I meant to say, from Sabrina the Teenage Witch. I think in a drunken goofy moment I autographed a napkin and said I was visiting my cousins in Wilkes-Barre. But then I told the truth. (I still got a beer out of the deal!)

I’ve always gotten the “you look like someone” but before and after the “Clarissa incident,” I was never compared to a celebrity. So, when I heard about the celebrity-look-alike website one morning on a local radio show, I just had to try it. MyHeritage.com is a site that allows people to post family pictures, I think for the intentions of finding out who you look like. But, they added a fun feature- photo recognition with the stars. They will scan your facial features and match them against 3200 different celeb and notable people pics.

I got Joan Cusack as my #1 match. In this particular picture, I also looked like Avril Lavigne (71%), Kelly Clarkson (70%), Kristen Kruek (Lana Lange, 70%), Meg Ryan (66%), Whoopi Goldberg (63%), Jamie Lyn Spears and Elisa Cuthbert. I did dorkily try a pic of my boyfriend and one of his look-alikes was Tom Welling, Clark Kent of Smallville. And, I looked like Lana Lang. Woah. Freaky. But, he also looked like Shirley Temple and Kirstie Alley.

I was having so much fun, I tried it with every picture I had on my computer. In drunk shots where my eyes were squinty, I had different results (Lucy Lui). It got addicting. But the bottom like is, you aren’t likely to find your long lost twin. It doesn’t really scan for sex, race or nationality. And, of course the way you are smiling and tilting your head can throw off things. All in all, it’s very entertaining to sit around with some friends and get some laughs. Hint: it can scan multiple faces in one pic so try a two-shot (like I used for the Clark and Lana pic) or a friend shot, too!

One question. Where the heck was Melissa Joan Hart on my results? Maybe she wasn’t in the database. Or, maybe the drunk guy had beer goggles on.