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A hairstyle with bangs is a great choice for many of you

Hairstyles with Bangs . . . how many times have you labored over this question? It’s a big decision after all the time and effort it takes to grow bangs out. And, what if you hate them after cutting them in? Are your bangs just back to the grow-out stage again?

The most important thing a hairdresser looks at when considering if bangs are an option for you will be your face shape. Hairstyles with bangs, play a strong role in framing your face. Bangs have the ability of making you look younger, heavier, more severe or softer. Now that’s a lot of power in such a small space!

Here are a few thoughts about face shapes;

We aren’t all perfect ovals, hearts or rectangles however, we will fall within close range of one or two of these geometric shapes. The underlying bone structure of our face plays a role in the three-dimensional profile of our look. Even identical twins have some minor variations in face shape, and Hairstyles with Bangs make you look younger, heavier,
or softerthose who know them well can tell them apart.

So, one thing to remember in discerning your face shape is to keep it simple. What is the overall shape you see? If you vary between a couple of shapes, which many people do, which shape is the more dominant?

Smiling and not smiling can sometimes bring about a different shape to your face. When you smile does the weight in your face move to your cheeks? Or, does your jaw line widen as you smile? Does smiling change the overall outline or contour of your face dramatically enough that we see another geometric form to your face? On average, most of us are seen more often not smiling than smiling, so that’s the more dominant shape.

What you see is what you get . . . or is it? I learn over and over again, with each class I teach, how illusive it is to be objective about our own looks. I’m convinced each one of us, when stepping up to the mirror, has prejudices about ourselves that others just don’t see, and more often than not, can’t discern our own face shape. So, get some objective opinions from your hairdresser and others who are able to see your face shape and read on.

Britney Hairstyle with Bangs

Oval Face Shape — Britney Spears has your face shape. An oval face shape is an ideal shape to work with. An oval face shape is evenly balanced from hairline to cheekbones, as from cheekbones to chin line. Go with what suits your fancy when it comes to hairstyles with bangs; angled, wispy, fringe, blunt cut or no bangs, whatever suits your overall style!

Gwyneth Hairstyle with Bangs

Rectangular Face Shape — Gwyneth Paltrow has your face shape. Foremost, this shape is long, longer than wide. Secondly, a most prominent feature will be a squared jaw line. The square jaw line will also be about as wide as the width of the face at the temples. This creates straight lines–creating the look of a rectangle. This face shape is considered angular. Hairstyles with bangs work well with your face shape, especially if you are a long rectangle. They will balance well by giving the face a shorter appearnce. Wispy, fringe, angled, piecey, will all work well for you. However, stay away from a blunt cut hairstyle with bangs, which will mirror the jawline giving a more severe look to your angular face shape.

Isabella Hairstyle with Bangs

Round Face Shape — Isabella Rossellini has your face shape. Your face has soft, full contours with a rounded jaw and chin line. Your hairline may be softly rounded as well. Also, your face shape is more symmetrical; the width and length of your face are approximately the same. Your face gives the appearance of being more symmetrical. Generally, this face shape should stay away from hairstyles with bangs. If not worn, selectively, they can cut off your face and create an illusion of added weight. The exceptions may be, light wispy partial bang only over part of the forehead (as shown) and short short wispy fringe type bangs. Also if they should be styled asymmetrically and mostly off the face.

Michelle Hairstyle with Bangs

Square Face Shape — Michelle Pfeiffer has your face shape. Many times it is hard to differentiate between round and square face shapes. They have very similar characteristics, in that they are both symmetrical by nature. Your face shape is about as long as it is wide. Where these two-face shapes contrast is in the contours of the jaw line and hairline. A square face will have a distinctively strong square jaw line and then possibly a square hairline as well. Your face shape is considered more angular. You most probably have straight lines from temple to jaw line. The same rules apply to you as to round face shapes.

Jennifer Hairstyle with Bangs

Heart Face Shape — Jennifer Love-Hewitt has your face shape. Your face is characterized by a wider forehead than chin line. The chin being narrow and delicate and many times having high or dramatic cheekbones. Sometimes the underlying bone structure of dramatic cheekbones can give a heart look to an oval shape. Bangs are best worn off center. You can wear hairstyles with bangs or no bangs, wispy or fringe type bangs. Stay away from blunt cut bangs which will tend to exaggeration the width of your face.

Elizabeth Hairstyle With Bangs

Diamond Face Shape — Elizabeth Hurley has your face shape. A diamond face shape is really a cross between an oval and a heart. This shape has more dramatic lines and underlying bone structure than an oval face shape. Your cheekbones are the widest part of your face and usually prominent. From there you taper to a narrower chin line and a narrower hairline. Your face is considered angular.

Hairstyles with Bangs or no bangs, your face shape like the oval can look equally beautiful with or without them. But, the only type of bang you should be cautioned about wearing, would be the blunt cut. . . . which like the heart shaped face, can over exaggeration the width of your face at the cheekbone, eye area, making the chin line look longer and more narrow.

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