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How to Determine Your Face Shape
Many people have a distinct face shape.
The same applies if you don’t have an obvious face shape.
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Maybe your personality or the length of your hair is more important to you.
The basic rule of finding a great haircut for your face shape is to highlight your best features.
Both are flattering options that will help to soften your features.
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Bangsare really more an issue of hair texture than face shape.
Round Face Shapes
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Round facesare vibrant and have a healthy look.
“A hairstyle with longer layers will make your neck and face appear more slender,” she explains.
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This does not mean that you cannot go short with a round face.
Pixies with plenty of volume and long bobs are also very flattering.
Square Face Shapes
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Square faceslook great with side-swept bangs and shoulder-length hair.
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Both of these can soften some of the stronger features of this shape.
Long Face Shapes
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Long faces are lean and offer many style possibilities.
Consider adding bangs if you feel your hairline’s too high.
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They not only shorten the face but will also highlight your eyes.
Oblong facesare best complemented with styles that have width at the cheekbones to distract from the length.
Potempa suggests side-swept bangs to shorten the face.
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Says Angileri, “A shoulder-length haircut is the most flatteringsomewhere between the chin and shoulders.
You want to create width, which you might easily do with waves.”
Potempa sayslong layersallow for movement, especially when waving your hair.
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Additionally, adding volume to the sides rounds out an oval face by adding width.
These include a big bun, a teased updo, or a spiky short cut.
Shorter styles like bobs or lobs are great for softening a more defined jawline.
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You’ll also find that many hairstyles naturally look very romantic with your shape.
It can also be styled to fit your personality and lifestyle.
Thisuniversally flattering cutfalls between the chin and shoulders.
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It looks good straight, wavy, curled, air-dried, or blow-dried straight.
Bangs
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Bangs can freshen up an ordinary cut.
They can take years off a face and they bring attention to the eyes.
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Better yet, bangs are flattering on almost all face shapes.
Again, your goal is to get bangs that make your face appear more oval.
While these are guidelines for flattering haircuts, they are really just suggestions.
The secret to looking gorgeous is really in one’s attitude.
The last thing you want to do is get a haircut that makes you feel unlike yourself.
The good news is that almost all of the trendiest hairstyles can look great on all face shapes.
Bobs do.Shoulder-length cutsreally do.
Even the pixie works on most face shapes.
How you feel about yourself always trumps what the beauty industry thinks is flattering.
And if you have your heart set on a certain cut, tell your stylist.
