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The Best and Worst Hairstyles for Your Face Shape

Oblong Face: Hot!

The oblong shape is possibly the most challenging face shape to style. Kelly Rowland gets it right with long side-swept bangs and volume at the sides, which together work to create the illusion of facial fullness while minimizing face length.

Oblong Face: Not

While bangs can work for oblong shapes, they should be soft and preferably angled to help create the illusion of roundness. Stick-straight bangs with stick-straight sides just flatten and further elongate Liv Tyler’s face in this photo.

Diamond face: Hot!

A diamond face is an oval with angles. Almost any style works for this shape, but soft draping bangs and gentle sweeping lines are great for countering the shape’s sharp angles. This bob is one of Rihanna’s best looks.

Diamond Face: Not

Diamond shapes should stick with graceful, flowing styles that avoid volume at the top and sides. This look is all top volume, which gives Rihanna a bit of a “Conehead” look.

Oval Face: Hot!

When you’re blessed with a symmetrical oval face, you should show it off. Halle Berry’s simple feminine updo lets her face do the talking.

Oval Face: Not

Compared with her simple updo, this tousled, face-hugging style with a lot going on manages to make even one of the world’s most beautiful oval faces look ordinary.

Round Face: Hot!

 

Simple lines with as little volume at the sides as possible, like this simple mid-length bob, are the best choice for round faces. Ginnifer Goodwin gets it right.

Round Face: Not

This center part emphasizes a full forehead, and the volume at the sides widens the cheeks. Clarkson would look much slimmer with volume at the crown and sleek sides.

Square Face: Hot!

The most famous square face in the world knows to keep the hair soft and flowing, with volume only at the crown. While hair should be sleek, it shouldn’t hug the face and flatten its contours.

Square Face: Not

Heavy bangs typically exaggerate a square face shape. Pulling the rest of the hair back makes Jessica Alba’s face look even more square, flat and ungraceful.

Heart Face: Hot!

A heart-shaped face like Christina Ricci’s can look like a work of art with the right hairstyle like this simple bob. Keep the bangs narrow (width-wise) in order to minimize a broad forehead. Length should be chin-length or longer with no volume on the sides.

Heart Face: Not

Heart-shaped faces should avoid styles that emphasize a bare forehead and open up at the sides, emphasizing the width of the face. All you see here is Ricci’s forehead. We think Christina should stick with the bangs.

Source: NZHairdressers

*Heidi Mitchell is a hair stylist that works out of a salon in Colorado Springs called Mateos Salon and Day Spa. Heidi specializes in mens and womens haircuts, color, highlights, and styling. Heidi is a graduate of Toni & Guy Hairdressing Academy and has been making people look amazing for the last 7 years. 

Celebrity Icon Hairstyles Setting Cultural Trends

Hairstyles of the Rich and Famous do not only serve to be their identity signatures. These may also signal cultural shifts and trends. A celebrity’s hairstyle is a statement to the world. And when that hairstyle is copied and becomes popular, it just might have affected peoples inter-relationships. Thus, we can say the possibility exists for a hairstyle to set a social trend.

Hairstyles of celebrities symbolize each generation, era. From a hairstyle we can say what decade it was. In the 50s, the hairstyles were held firmly in place; that was the era of reconstruction in the US. The 60s was a transition from the reconstruction to the boom. There was relative prosperity and it could be seen in the entry of the twiggy and the page boy. 

The cut or style of hair affects how people live. The 60s firm and structured hairstyles called for a lot of preparation which meant the women had to get up earlier to have time enough to fix their hair. This would make a working day more exhausting. The long flowing hairstyles or short cropped ones which are easier to maintain give people time for other tasks at the start of the day.

Source: NZHairdressers

*Heidi Mitchell is a hair stylist that works out of a salon in Colorado Springs called Mateos Salon and Day Spa. Heidi specializes in mens and womens haircuts, color, highlights, and styling. Heidi is a graduate of Toni & Guy Hairdressing Academy and has been making people look amazing for the last 7 years.