hair styles that flatter your face shape!

7 Basic

Face ShapesLinda Ferguson Designs

Determining Your Face Shape

Pull your hair back in a ponytail or wear a headband

You may also want to have a tape measure handy for precise measurements

Using your hairline and jaw line as a reference, what is the general shape of your face: wide, average or narrow?

Is your forehead wider than your jaw or vice versa? Are they the same width?

To get an accurate reading, use the tape measure. At this point, you will also want to note if your cheekbones are a

prominent feature of your face.

Are your cheekbones the widest part of your face?

You also need to measure the length of your face and compare it to the width.

• Using your tape measure, measure from the middle of your hairline to the point of your chin.

Look at your chin. What is the general shape: round, square or pointy?

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Oblong Face ShapeLinda Ferguson Designs

Right Hair Style

Heavy top layers fall into a rounder shape

Bangs almost have the vertical length making the face and chin

appear shorter and more balanced

This same shape will work on any other hair texture.


Right Hair Style This is a very nice hairstyle

shape to compliment an Oblong face

The bangs in the front help to make the face appear shorter

While the layered sides and back that kick out create needed

width

Waves or curls would work just as well, even slightly shorter if

required


Wrong Hair Style

The worst thing that an Oblong face shape can do - is to make their faces appear even longer, as is the case with this hairstyle

Height on top is the obvious culprit and should be avoided at all

costs

This is the wrong hairstyle for the wrong face shape!


Wrong Hair Style

The middle part creates more vertical length

While the flimsy sides do nothing to build width.

This hairstyle lacks body and needs to be shortened in shape

(not length).


Square Face ShapeLinda Ferguson Designs

Right Hair StyleSides are soft and wispy -

falling onto the jaw line and hiding the squareness

Side sweep of the bangs creates a diagonal illusion that

loses any focus on the squareness

The graduated sides and back angle up creating a whole new shape that ‘frames the face’.


Right Hair StyleThis long wavy hairstyle with

side-swept bangs is just perfect for a Square face

The waves are opened and have curved lines that are softer to the

eye

Bangs also help to create the perception of shape to the eye making it appear to be rounder

rather than square

Another good choice would be to have a wispy framing layers in straight, wavy or a curly texture.


Wrong Hair Style

The shape of this cut make the Square face look even squarer

The straight across bangs shorten the length of the face

While the chin length sides creates width and it draws attention to the jaw area

This shape should be avoided.


Wrong Hair Style

This hairstyle looks very heavy and solid all over - making it a poor

choice for a Square face

The heavy bangs create a very square shape

But once they are added to the straight sides and the back, the

result is very square and angular

The sides need layers

The bangs need to be less heavy.


Diamond Face Shape


Right Hair StyleGreat style for a Diamond face

shape

The bangs help to shorten the length of our models face

The side part helps make the face appear wider by creating the

illusion of one larger shape which the eye focuses on

The sides are soft and wispy and curve into a round shape which is

very flattering.


Right Hair StyleThis a great cut which adds hair

in all the right places and compliments the Diamond face

shape

The bangs help make the face and chin area appear less long

While the wispy hair to the shoulders creates a squarer

shape - creating width not length

This hairstyle will work on all textures and will look great with

layers as they will make the appearance of the style even

softer.


Wrong Hair Style

The height created on the top - particularly in the middle - only emphasizes a Diamond shape

face

The short bangs also only add to the illusion of the height

What we need here is ‘Width’ rather than height.


Wrong Hair Style

The wispy long lengths only make our models face look

much longer

While the absence of any bangs once again creates a longer shape this is not flattering

Avoid this hairstyle if you have a Diamond Shape Face.


Triangle Face ShapeLinda Ferguson Designs

Right Hair StyleThis short layered hairstyle is perfect in how it puts the hair

exactly where it's needed

It makes our models triangular face shape look balanced and

proportional

The heavy top layers allow hair to be rounder and fuller above

the ears

While no bangs make the face shape appear longer

Bringing attention to the forehead and away from the jaw

line is flattering.


Right Hair StyleThis is a very nice hairstyle

shape which suits our models Triangular face shape to a tee

The sides fall softly onto and away from the jaw line creating

cover in the right places

The side swept bangs work well to create diagonal direction

drawing attention to the eyes

The zig zag part creates some height and builds length into

the look

While an all over rounded shape frames the face nicely.


Wrong Hair Style

Too wide, too square!

This hairstyle is the worst possible shape for Triangular

faces

The sides only make the jaw area, which is already large

naturally, look even wider and bigger

The heavy bangs make the face shape appear even shorter and

wider which leads the eye to the sides and width once more

The hairstyle follows the actual shape of a Triangular face shape

instead of compensating and adjusting it.


Wrong Hair Style

Another good example of the wrong hairstyle on the wrong

face shape!

Triangular faces are pear shape and are narrowest at the top

forehead region and widest at the jaw line chin area

This hairstyle follows that same shape

This style kicks out at the bottom and sides and only draws further

attention to the jaw region

While the heavy bangs, although to the side, still make the face

look shorter and wider.Linda Ferguson Designs

Oval Face ShapeLinda Ferguson Designs

Right Hair StyleThis hairstyle has some height on top and features soft wispy

bangs that accentuate and draw attention to the eye

region

This hair style works well and has no negative effect on the length or width of the models

face shape

Alternatively, no height or bangs would also look just as

good because of her Oval shape face.


Right Hair StyleThis chin length bob cut with

side swept bangs sits nicely on the models Oval shape face

Although the hairstyle itself has a rounder shape

The chin area on the models face brings the style back in proportion, balancing it out

rather nicely

That is the benefit of having an Oval face shape!


Wrong Hair Style

This face covering look creates the illusion of squareness on

the face due to the heavy straight across bangs

The small amount of height on top does create a somewhat

round shape

But the fact that the hair is falling onto the face is where the eye focuses and draws its

conclusion of squareness

Our model has lost her great Oval shape with too much hair

on her face.


Wrong Hair Style

From a face shape suitability perspective, this hairstyle does nothing to show off the models

great Oval face shape

The feathered long layers don't work

The bangs shorten the overall shape of the face

Making it appear much shorter than it really is.


Heart Face ShapeLinda Ferguson Designs

Right Hair StyleThis is a great short hairstyle that really suits our models

Heart face shape

The height achieved on top adds needed length that

balances out what is known as a short and mostly wide face

shape

The absence of bangs also gives the illusion of more face

and more height

It's simple but it is what is needed.


Right Hair StyleThis beauty has everything that's

needed to make it the perfect hairstyle for a Heart face shape

The top area has long heavy bangs swept to the side that

shows off the forehead

This creates needed vertical length

The sides and back are layered and then kicked out through styling to compensate for the

narrow chin that are customary with heart faces

A similar shape in other textures will work just as well.


Wrong Hair Style

Definitely the wrong hairstyle for Heart face shapes

This cut positions hair where it just isn't needed

The heavy bangs make our models face appear shorter and

wider than it already is

Next, the long wispy sides promote width

Which is the opposite of what Heart face shapes require for

balance

This shape in any texture will not work and therefore must be

avoided.


Wrong Hair Style

This wavy look shows what NOT to try if you have a Heart face

shape

Firstly, the heavy bangs shorten the length of the face making it look wider than it

already is

Secondly, the width achieved through the layers and waves once again adds width to the

entire look

The result is a short, wide, fat, squashed look

Now you know - what to avoid!


Round Face ShapeLinda Ferguson Designs

Right Hair StyleThis hairstyle adds height and makes our round models face

appear longer than it actually is

People with Round faces need to add height not width, which is exactly what this hairstyle

does.


Right Hair StyleThis hairstyle gives the

appearance of an Oval shape

The sides help slim the face down, while no bangs show off more forehead and therefore a

longer shape

The off centre part helps divide the face evenly making it also

appear longer rather than wider

It's a nice look!


Wrong Hair Style

This example shows how adding width rather than length

to a Round face shape is ‘Disastrous’

The bangs shorten the face while the hair that kicks out - only accentuates width and

roundness

This is a nice hairstyle but is definitely NOT good for Round

face shapes.


Wrong Hair Style

This hairstyle shows how a round hairstyle and a Round face really

don't complement each other

Although having this much volume at the crown can

sometimes be a good thing

This style adds width to the sides which makes the face appear larger and incredibly

round

The bangs are a nice touch but cover the face up too much

It is a lovely hairstyle - but it is just not suited to a Round face

shape.


7 TIPS

★ 1. Bangs are your friend.★ 2. Colouring is your best friend.★ 3. Don’t part your hair in the middle.★ 4. Find the BEST Hair Stylist and build a relationship.★ 5. Look after your hair.★ 6. Make sure that your hair moves.★ 7. Try something different - Hair Extensions or Synthetic Clip-ons

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Thank YOU!Linda Ferguson Designs

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