The Best Hairstyles For Your Face Shape
1. Diamond
Huffnagle recommends a style that reduces the width of your cheekbones, while increasing fullness at the forehead and chin. And she notes, “Sometimes tucking hair behind the ears will accentuate the diamond shape more.”
Long bob with bangs
The beauty of the lob is that you have enough length to work with no matter your texture — curly, straight, wavy, you name it. Adding a fringe element emphasizes attention on top.
Long layers with volume on top
Draw the eyes up with movement and volume at the crown, while evening things out with long layers. Bonus points for adding in curtain bangs.
Curtain bangs
Seventies-inspired curtain bangs come down to cheekbone level before opening up like a curtain, offering more dimension and texture than a blunt-cut fringe. They’re also relatively easy to DIY at home.
2. Heart
The goal here is to create width through the jawline and wear your hair forward around the face.
Side-swept bangs
Making this long, dramatic fringe the central focus provides an ideal face frame.
Long, choppy bob
Going for a long bob that feels a little more undone than sleek adds extra emphasis to the jawline.
Pixie with side bangs and soft curls
Soften a traditional pixie with texture and a face-framing fringe.
3. Oval
“Oval is the most balanced face shape, so many hairstyles work well naturally,” Huffnagle says. In other words, it’s time to play around.
Long layers
If low-maintenance hairstyles are your thing, long layers are an effortless way to keep your mane polished.
Pixie cut
Oval face shapes offer an opportunity to experiment. If you’ve been itching to go short, why not go really short with this style that keeps things trim on the sides and back, with a little more length on the top and front.
French bob with bangs
Channel Amélie in a chin-length bob accented with a chic fringe.
4. Rectangle
With a rectangular face shape, the chin and cheekbones are clearly defined but the long shape means cheeks can sometimes look a little hollow. Styling some fullness into the sides will help balance your look.
Medium-length hair with layers
Incorporating a little natural volume on either side can draw attention in all the right places.
Curly bob
A short style with some texture and movement adds softness to a rectangle shape.
Side bangs
Side-swept and curtain bangs work well here. The point is to accentuate the cheekbone area with a little volume.
5. Round
“Some people with round faces feel their face is wide,” Huffnagle says. “To create an illusion of a more slender face, a hairstyle that has height up top to lengthen the forehead vertically, with less volume on the sides around cheeks and jawline will help.”
Voluminous or inverted bob
Incorporating layers that emphasize volume draws the eye up and around.
Short, voluminous pixie
Stick with the short, but maximize that volume on top, like a dramatic bang.
A long shag
Soft, feathery, and a little rock-n-roll, a multi-layered shag with long hair keeps the visual vertical, with volume on top and length to the bottom.
6. Square
“Try a hairstyle that can round out the square features around the jaw and forehead,” Huffnagle says. “Bangs with soft edges close to the face and creating volume or roundness between the temples and jaw works best.”
Layered long bob
This has texture, volume, and movement in one hairstyle. All those elements keep the look soft and help offset the linear features of this face shape.
Shag with piece-y bangs
Like the layered lob, a shag complemented by an intentionally choppy fringe creates volume in all the right places.
Side-swept bangs
A long, sweeping fringe gives the illusion of a slender face shape, complementing your more angular features.
