How to Choose the Proper Haircut for Your Face Shape

How to Choose the Proper Haircut for Your Face Shape

You go to the salon with your hairstyle magazine in hand, hoping to have your locks transformed into the latest trend featured on the front page only to have your stylist tell you that you do not have the right shaped face to wear the style, or worse yet, your stylist puts that exact haircut on you and you look nothing like the model wearing it on the front page? This happens to a lot of people.

We've all had a bad encounter in the stylist's chair at one point or another. In most cases, they are not technological blunders but rather mistakes in terms of selecting the appropriate style to compliment our face form and build.

When selecting the ideal hairstyle for your individual appearance, stylists should take your physical build into consideration. Close cropped styles, for example, would not be appropriate for a person with a big frame, and a full-bodied style would not be appropriate for a person with a tiny frame. The most important thing to remember is to keep your style and frame balance in mind.

When picking the finest appearance for you, stylists should take your face shape into consideration as well. There are five primary face shapes: oval, heart, round, square, and triangle. Oval is the most common face shape.

All of these forms are attractive, but one, in particular, is ideal: the oval. The key to attaining the ideal appearance no matter what shape your face is is to choose the proper cut or style that will make your face seem more oval.

The perfect symmetry of certain facial features, such as the distance between the hairline and the bridge of the nose (between the eyes), the distance between the bridge of the nose and the lips, and the distance between the lips and the bottom of the chin, distinguish oval face shapes from other types. If you have an oval-shaped face, you might consider yourself to be really fortunate. This is the only form that can be complemented by practically every hairdo possible, making it the most versatile.

Heart-shaped faces are often wider at the top of the head and taper to a point at the bottom of the chin. You may make this shaped face look more oval by wearing bangs in shorter styles or by setting the weight of the haircut at the chin level. Keep in mind that the objective is to reduce the prominence of the forehead while increasing the prominence of the chin.

Faces that are round are simply that: round. It is common for them to have broad cheekbones, although their faces are generally smaller across the forehead and chin. The idea here is to make the cheekbones seem smaller. Styles with height in the bang and sides that are cut toward the face are often the most flattering.

Square faces are distinguished by a prominent forehead and an angular jawline. Hairstyles that have soft edges and a lot of texture that is oriented toward the face are particularly well suited to this form. While the length should be maintained somewhat longer than the jaw length in order to detract attention away from the jaw, it should also be layered. When it comes to hairstyles, straight and sleek will only help to highlight your angular features.

Faces with a triangular form are angular at the jawline and thin at the middle of the forehead. Treatment for round faces is similar to that for square faces, with the distinction that greater height and fullness are required across the crown and bang regions in order to make this portion of the face look bigger.

Now that you know what your stylist knows, you may use this information to your advantage when you next visit the salon. Now, when you flip through the pages of style books and magazines, you will be able to hone in on the ideal new haircut for you. Wishing you the best of luck!