Hair Styles For Different Face Type

By Suparna Chakaraborthy

Friday, May 20, 2011, 14:10

Your hair style has a great affect on your look and one can manipulate their look by trying different hair styles. Your hair is the best concealer of features you wish to hide and it also is the best prop to highlight your most cherished features. Lets see, which styles suits your face the best -

1.Round Face – Round face generally has a round chin which makes the face look small. Thus, our aim should be to make it look a bit elongated. This can be achieved by adding height to your forehead. Round face people should never let hair fall on their forehead. It makes the face look even smaller. Your hair should fall flat beside your ear and is best if it is pulled behind the ears. Curls at the side of your face will also make your face look wide. Round shaped faced people should never go for very short hair cut. Shoulder length hair looks the best.

2.Square Face – The typical feature of a square face is strong jawline. The best hair style for this face cut is layers. Though the forehead can be left free, we need to make sure that the jawline are hidden. This can be done by letting the first layer fall over the cheekbone, the next over the jaws, the third covering the sides of the neck. The layers placed this way will hide your prominent jawline and give your face an elongated look. For square face, one should make sure that the hair falls on the side of the face.

3. Heart Shape – The typical feature of heart shape face is broad temples and cheekbones with narrow or pointed chin. The hair style for this type of face should be that which will add width to your jawline. This can be done by keeping the hair fuller on the top and letting it fall around the face as a layer which does not hide the jawline but points towards the chin, thus, making it look broad. The layer which runs around your jawline, highlights it.

4.Rectangular Face – Rectangular face is the one which has narrow face structure and flat chin. This face needs to have a hair style which will add broadness to the side of the face which automatically enhance the shape of the chin. Fringes should dress your forehead which will make your face look small and the hair should fall straight by the side of your face to make the lower half of the face look broad.

5.Oval Face – This is the most ideal shape for a face. This shape can flaunt almost any type of hair style. One needs to keep it mind that the shape of the face should not be hidden by hair. The best way to wear your hair would be to tie it up into a pony and let few loose strands of hair enhance the oval shape.

So, next time you want to decide on a hair cut, recognize which facial structure category you fall into. A hair style which best suits your face cut, is the best for beauty statement.