While carrying out your style among the peers, it has become necessary to understand your body figures and an appealing face to represent it, has become a trend. The question arises, what type of hairstyles, beard, jewellery or even makeup would suit your face? For that, one needs to be aware of their face’s shape.
Important features of a face while determining it’s shape: –
1) Forehead
Its area starts below the hairline and ends above the eyebrows. Measure this length either with a ruler or a flexible inch-tape and record the reading.
2) Jawline
The sharp portion below the ears, if the angle of the jaw is highlighted naturally or through makeup then it does enhance the shape of the face. Measure it from the tip of your chin to below the ear such that you can get the wide measurement of your jawline.
3) Cheekbones
The area below your eyes and this bone is the main reason for the puffiness of your cheeks. Cheekbones are usually highlighted in red colour as them being popped out, gives contoured look to the face. You can check their size but measuring the pointiest part of your cheek.
4) Chin
The tip of the face and usually used to measure the length of the face. Chins can be too pointed or round hence we get different shapes of face. Put the flexible measuring tape at the forehead and record the inches till the chin.
Now, let’s try to understand different face shapes and see in which category does the shape of your face lies: –
1) Square
All forehead, cheekbones and chin are proportionated. The jawline is sharply visible and the angle of the chin is wider than the diamond and heart shaped-faces in this case.
2) Oval
The jawline of the face is barely noticeable and the forehead is wide. The chin is not very pointed. The length of the face is more than the width of the cheekbones.
3) Oblong/Rectangular
The face length is maximum and the rest of the features are well-proportionated. The jawline is well-defined but has wider chin angles like the square faced-people.
4) Round
The length of the face and cheekbones is more than the jawline and forehead. Also, the angle of the jaw is not very sharp but visible than the oval shaped-faces.
5) Diamond
The face has a pointed chin and cheekbones. Cheekbones and jawline are a most defining feature in this type of face and the forehead can be narrower. Face length is maximum.
6) Heart
Wider forehead and the angle of the chin is smaller in comparison of diamond shape face.
So far, we have understood the shapes and features of the face but how can we determine the right style according to our face’s shape?
Which type of beard would be suitable for a men’s face?
For square-shaped faces, men should keep trimmed beard at sides or below the cheekbones and slightly grown beards on the chin. This type of style would give a sober look to them and would highlight their face’s shape as well. Here are some examples: Circle, Royal, Goatee and Petite Goatee beard.
Rectangular faces better do the opposite of the square-shaped face’s styles, that is, they should grow longer beard around the cheekbones and shorter beards at the chin would be more suitable and would give a sharper look to the face. Here are some suggestions: Chin strip, Mutton Chops Beard and Chinstrap style beard.
Round-shaped faces can keep long beard with angular shaved sides along their cheekbones. This will give the sharp look to their faces and make them look slimmer. Short boxed beard, Balbo Beard, Anchor Beard are some good suggestions for round faces.
Oval shaped faces have the advantage to go with any beard style. Even clean-shaved faces or moustaches can suit this type of face. Chevon, Original Stache, Horseshoe Mustache are some well-known moustache styles followed by many men.
What kind of hairstyle would be suitable with different shapes of face?
Long layers swipe bangs and textured shags which soften the corners of the jaw suits the best to the square-shaped faces. Curls and wavey texture can give the flattering look to square shape face.
Similarly, for rectangular shape faces, Soft waves, long layers or chin-length bob-cuts would be the cool choices. Volume in the hair would add the beauty in the look. According to Nathan Rosenkranz, one should avoid the jawline further with blunt lines hence strong fringes are not recommended. Stay away from adding to much on the top as it would make the forehead look wider and face might look disproportionate.
Round faces should choose curly hairstyles instead of straight as their highlighted feature is cheekbones and curly hair-strands looks more gorgeous with Rosey cheekbones. Although Oval-shaped faces can go for any hairstyles yet Angular bob styles, beachy waves are some recommended hairstyles for such gifted people to try.
Diamond-shaped faces should try layers with textured hair and side-swept bangs. Soft fringes and long hairs would be best for diamond-shaped faces.
Pixie cuts, brow-grazing fringes, side-swept bangs and long layers would focus more on the sharp jawline and the nape to balance the width of the forehead of Heart-shaped faces. One should avoid those styles which accentuate the width of the forehead or cheekbones.
Conclusion :
The short hairstyles on the faces possessing well-defined jawline can make such shape feel masculine but it looks attractive as well. Long hair does give feminine feel but it is only likeable when the style is chosen carefully.
Similarly, the overgrown beard may hide the actual shape of the face hence some face’s shapes are recommended to remain clean-shaved and some are recommended to keep long beard styles. That’s how the shapes and the key features of the faces help a lot to clear all these confusions and organize such problems properly.