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7 Basic
Face Shapes
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2. Determining Your Face Shape
Pull your hair back in a ponytail or wear a headband
You may also want to have a tape measure handy for precise measurements
Using your hairline and jaw line as a reference, what is the general shape of your face: wide, average or narrow?
Is your forehead wider than your jaw or vice versa? Are they the same width?
To get an accurate reading, use the tape measure. At this point, you will also want to note if your cheekbones are a prominent feature of your face.
Are your cheekbones the widest part of your face?
You also need to measure the length of your face and compare it to the width.
Using your tape measure, measure from the middle of your hairline to the point of your chin.
Look at your chin. What is the general shape: round, square or pointy?
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Oblong Face Shape
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4. Right Hair Style Heavy top layers fall into a rounder shape
Bangs almost have the vertical length making the face and chin appear shorter and more balanced
This same shape will work on any other hair texture.
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5. Right Hair Style
This is a very nice hairstyle shape to compliment an Oblong face
The bangs in the front help to make the face appear shorter
While the layered sides and back that kick out create needed width
Waves or curls would work just as well, even slightly shorter if required
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6. This is the wrong hairstyle for the wrong face shape!
The worst thing that an Oblong face shape can do - is to make their faces appear even longer, as is the case with this hairstyle
Height on top is the obvious culprit and should be avoided at all costs
This is the wrong hairstyle for the wrong face shape!
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7. While the flimsy sides do nothing to build width.
Wrong Hair Style
The middle part creates more vertical length
While the flimsy sides do nothing to build width.
This hairstyle lacks body and needs to be shortened in shape (not length).
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Square Face Shape
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Right Hair Style
Sides are soft and wispy - falling onto the jaw line and hiding the squareness
Side sweep of the bangs creates a diagonal illusion that loses any focus on the squareness
The graduated sides and back angle up creating a whole new shape that ‘frames the face’.
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10. The waves are opened and have curved lines that are softer to the eye
Right Hair Style
This long wavy hairstyle with side-swept bangs is just perfect for a Square face
The waves are opened and have curved lines that are softer to the eye
Bangs also help to create the perception of shape to the eye making it appear to be rounder rather than square
Another good choice would be to have a wispy framing layers in straight, wavy or a curly texture.
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11. Wrong Hair Style
The shape of this cut make the Square face look even squarer
The straight across bangs shorten the length of the face
While the chin length sides creates width and it draws attention to the jaw area
This shape should be avoided.
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12. Wrong Hair Style
This hairstyle looks very heavy and solid all over - making it a poor choice for a Square face
The heavy bangs create a very square shape
But once they are added to the straight sides and the back, the result is very square and angular
The sides need layers
The bangs need to be less heavy.
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Diamond Face Shape
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14. Right Hair Style Great style for a Diamond face shape
The bangs help to shorten the length of our models face
The side part helps make the face appear wider by creating the illusion of one larger shape which the eye focuses on
The sides are soft and wispy and curve into a round shape which is very flattering.
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15. The bangs help make the face and chin area appear less long
Right Hair Style
This a great cut which adds hair in all the right places and compliments the Diamond face shape
The bangs help make the face and chin area appear less long
While the wispy hair to the shoulders creates a squarer shape - creating width not length
This hairstyle will work on all textures and will look great with layers as they will make the appearance of the style even softer.
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16. Wrong Hair Style
The height created on the top - particularly in the middle - only emphasizes a Diamond shape face
The short bangs also only add to the illusion of the height
What we need here is ‘Width’ rather than height.
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17. Wrong Hair Style
The wispy long lengths only make our models face look much longer
While the absence of any bangs once again creates a longer shape this is not flattering
Avoid this hairstyle if you have a Diamond Shape Face.
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Triangle Face Shape
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19. While no bangs make the face shape appear longer
Right Hair Style
This short layered hairstyle is perfect in how it puts the hair exactly where it's needed
It makes our models triangular face shape look balanced and proportional
The heavy top layers allow hair to be rounder and fuller above the ears
While no bangs make the face shape appear longer
Bringing attention to the forehead and away from the jaw line is flattering.
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20. Right Hair Style
This is a very nice hairstyle shape which suits our models Triangular face shape to a tee
The sides fall softly onto and away from the jaw line creating cover in the right places
The side swept bangs work well to create diagonal direction drawing attention to the eyes
The zig zag part creates some height and builds length into the look
While an all over rounded shape frames the face nicely.
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21. This hairstyle is the worst possible shape for Triangular faces
Wrong Hair Style
Too wide, too square!
This hairstyle is the worst possible shape for Triangular faces
The sides only make the jaw area, which is already large naturally, look even wider and bigger
The heavy bangs make the face shape appear even shorter and wider which leads the eye to the sides and width once more
The hairstyle follows the actual shape of a Triangular face shape instead of compensating and adjusting it.
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22. Wrong Hair Style
Another good example of the wrong hairstyle on the wrong face shape!
Triangular faces are pear shape and are narrowest at the top forehead region and widest at the jaw line chin area
This hairstyle follows that same shape
This style kicks out at the bottom and sides and only draws further attention to the jaw region
While the heavy bangs, although to the side, still make the face look shorter and wider.
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Oval Face Shape
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Right Hair Style
This hairstyle has some height on top and features soft wispy bangs that accentuate and draw attention to the eye region
This hair style works well and has no negative effect on the length or width of the models face shape
Alternatively, no height or bangs would also look just as good because of her Oval shape face.
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25. Right Hair Style
This chin length bob cut with side swept bangs sits nicely on the models Oval shape face
Although the hairstyle itself has a rounder shape
The chin area on the models face brings the style back in proportion, balancing it out rather nicely
That is the benefit of having an Oval face shape!
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26. The small amount of height on top does create a somewhat round shape
Wrong Hair Style
This face covering look creates the illusion of squareness on the face due to the heavy straight across bangs
The small amount of height on top does create a somewhat round shape
But the fact that the hair is falling onto the face is where the eye focuses and draws its conclusion of squareness
Our model has lost her great Oval shape with too much hair on her face.
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27. Wrong Hair Style
From a face shape suitability perspective, this hairstyle does nothing to show off the models great Oval face shape
The feathered long layers don't work
The bangs shorten the overall shape of the face
Making it appear much shorter than it really is.
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Heart Face Shape
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29. It's simple but it is what is needed.
Right Hair Style
This is a great short hairstyle that really suits our models Heart face shape
The height achieved on top adds needed length that balances out what is known as a short and mostly wide face shape
The absence of bangs also gives the illusion of more face and more height
It's simple but it is what is needed.
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30. Right Hair Style
This beauty has everything that's needed to make it the perfect hairstyle for a Heart face shape
The top area has long heavy bangs swept to the side that shows off the forehead
This creates needed vertical length
The sides and back are layered and then kicked out through styling to compensate for the narrow chin that are customary with heart faces
A similar shape in other textures will work just as well.
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31. Wrong Hair Style Definitely the wrong hairstyle for Heart face shapes
This cut positions hair where it just isn't needed
The heavy bangs make our models face appear shorter and wider than it already is
Next, the long wispy sides promote width
Which is the opposite of what Heart face shapes require for balance
This shape in any texture will not work and therefore must be avoided.
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32. Wrong Hair Style
This wavy look shows what NOT to try if you have a Heart face shape
Firstly, the heavy bangs shorten the length of the face making it look wider than it already is
Secondly, the width achieved through the layers and waves once again adds width to the entire look
The result is a short, wide, fat, squashed look
Now you know - what to avoid!
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Round Face Shape
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Right Hair Style
This hairstyle adds height and makes our round models face appear longer than it actually is
People with Round faces need to add height not width, which is exactly what this hairstyle does.
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35. This hairstyle gives the appearance of an Oval shape
Right Hair Style
This hairstyle gives the appearance of an Oval shape
The sides help slim the face down, while no bangs show off more forehead and therefore a longer shape
The off centre part helps divide the face evenly making it also appear longer rather than wider
It's a nice look!
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Wrong Hair Style
This example shows how adding width rather than length to a Round face shape is ‘Disastrous’
The bangs shorten the face while the hair that kicks out - only accentuates width and roundness
This is a nice hairstyle but is definitely NOT good for Round face shapes.
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37. The bangs are a nice touch but cover the face up too much
Wrong Hair Style
This hairstyle shows how a round hairstyle and a Round face really don't complement each other
Although having this much volume at the crown can sometimes be a good thing
This style adds width to the sides which makes the face appear larger and incredibly round
The bangs are a nice touch but cover the face up too much
It is a lovely hairstyle - but it is just not suited to a Round face shape.
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7 TIPS
Best Hair Styles
1. Bangs are your friend.
2. Colouring is your best friend.
3. Don’t part your hair in the middle.
4. Find the BEST Hair Stylist and build a relationship.
5. Look after your hair.
6. Make sure that your hair moves.
7. Try something different - Hair Extensions or Synthetic Clip-ons
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Thank YOU!
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