| Have you ever spent weeks combing magazines | | | | hand, trace the shape of your face in the |
| for a new hairstyle, searching for looks that | | | | mirror. Match the shape you scrawled to one |
| would work with your hair type? Upon finding | | | | of the following descriptions: |
| one, you take the picture to your stylist who | | | | |
| duplicates it down to the last layer. You | | | | Oval is considered the perfectly balanced |
| stare at your new self - the style is | | | | face, making it a beauty ideal. Featuring a |
| gorgeous and works so well with your hair | | | | softly rounded hairline and a jaw line that |
| type. So why does it look so bad? You | | | | is a smudge narrower than the temples, it can |
| probably didn't take your face shape into | | | | handle any hairstyle that works with your |
| consideration. A hairstyle chosen without | | | | hair type. If you'd like to show off your |
| your face shape in mind can distort your | | | | lucky shape, avoid on-the-face looks that |
| features by changing the balance of your | | | | hide your features. If you've got a round or |
| face. A simple rule is that hair should be | | | | square face, avoid center parts, which can |
| wide where your face is narrow and vice | | | | emphasize the face's fullness. Instead, try |
| versa, and hair should have length where your | | | | parting your hair deep on the side to slim |
| face is square and vice versa. | | | | the face. |
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| There are several methods you can use to | | | | Round faces are, well, round. If creating a |
| determine your face shape. The easiest is to | | | | slimmer look is important to you, try to keep |
| ask your stylist. The next easiest is to pull | | | | fullness away from the sides (no Farrah |
| your hair off your face and simply look. | | | | feathers or curly bobs) and create length at |
| Often, your face is noticeably square, or | | | | the top or bottom (or both) of the style. |
| oblong, or oval. If it's not, grab a bar of | | | | Styles to make a round face look longer |
| soap, a tube of lipstick, or an eyeliner and | | | | include short or long cuts with ultra-short |
| stand at least 6 inches (15 cm) from a | | | | bangs, French twists, long-layered cuts with |
| mirror. Using whatever you've got in your | | | | sleek sides, and side-swept bangs. |