Know Your Facial Shape to Get Great Hairstyle Ideas

Have you experienced going to the salon with a very exact hairstyle you want but then it doesn’t look good on you after it’s done?  It is because the hairstyle you want most probably doesn’t suits your facial shape.  You have to know your facial shape before choosing hairstyle you want so it will be more suitable to you and you won’t end up looking for bad hairstyle solutions afterwards!

Know your facial shape first and then choose hairstyles that suits your facial shape before telling your hairstylist what to do.  Or you can just suggest to your hairstylist what you want and let him do what will be the best for you.  They know their job and the basics, just trust them. 

TIP: Good relations with your hairstylist have good outcome as well.  Treat them good, and you’ll look good.

There are ways to know what facial shape you have to determine your next hairstyle.  Read more below for helpful tips to find out what facial shape you have. This is in relation to one of my readers’ question: “Which Hairstyle Will be Best for Me?”, coming from Harpreet Singh Gill comment on the post Men’s Hottest Hairstyle for 2009.

Facial Shape to Determine Your Hairstyle

Drew Barrymore

ROUND SHAPE - You have round shape face if you have wide as long face with soft jaw lines.  This facial round shape should avoid short haircuts like bob cuts, and cropped.  Short haircuts will make your face appear bigger.  Recommended haircuts are the ones with height at the crown, it will balance  out the width of your face.  Tied-back hairstyles are great with this facial shape.

Sandra Bullock

SQUARE SHAPE - This facial shape is the same with round shape, although square shapes have angular features specially visible on jaw lines.  Short to medium length hairstyle will look great on this facial shape.  Most hairstyle would look good in this shape with precaution.  Long hair is okay, but avoid straight long hair, I recommend layered if you do want to have longer hair.  Fringes will help balance the angles, and bob cuts are cool but making it sure that it wouldn’t fall on your jaw line which will make your face appear more angular, bigger, and wider.

Niki Taylor

OBLONG/RECTANGULAR SHAPE – Oblong and Rectangular are the same, having longer face than it is wide, except jaw lines will determine which is which.  Rounder jaw lines fall into oblong shape and angular jaw lines to rectangular.  Layers creates the illusion, tricking eyes to make it look great balancing the angles.  Do not grow your hair too long as it will make your face appear longer than it is.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

HEART SHAPE - This facial shape is easy to determine, having narrow jaw pointed chin like with wider cheekbones or forehead.  Often heart shaped face has a distinctive hairline on their forehead that really emphasize their heart shape face.  A bob cut falling on to your chin will be perfect, giving your narrow jaw the illusion of a wider one.  Long hair suits this shape as well, but avoid height on the crown as it will make your face look long with your pointed chin.  Avoid super short hairstyles like cropped bob.

Madonna

DIAMOND SHAPE – Diamond shape face have its cheekbones the widest with narrow forehead and jaw line almost at the same width.  This facial shape have the most freedom in hairstyle, everything works for this.  Highly recommended is a short hair cut emphasizing cheekbones, ask your stylist to put weight on your nape to give a dramatic diamond face hairstyle.

Julia Roberts

OVAL SHAPE - You have oval face if the length of your face is one and a half the size of your face width.  As much as the diamond face shape, this has a freedom to have any hairstyle you want, so experiment as much as you want!

Now that you know what shape of your face, you are ready to choose the hairstyle that will look great ad amazing to you without wasting all your money and whining about the bad haircut you’ve had.  More equipped in looking good and feeling good!