Hey everyone so in todays video I want to talk about how to get the perfect haircut for your face shape
And I think from very early on, with my passion for hair I could easily look and see
what would look good for that person and for that shape
I didn't however know what the formula was I could just visually see like, that's wrong
they should be doing this instead I remember thinking that all the time
and once, even before cosmetology school I saw a chart laying it all out, I'm like -
oh thats why it makes so much sense and this is why you need this and all of that
So anyways, it's actually very easy, very simple
so the first thing obviously is finding out what face shape you do have
not exaggerating, probably 90 percent of women and girls that sit in my chair at the salon -
will tell me like, I can't have short hair because I have a round face
and it's actually a very small percentage of people that have a round face
there's nothing wrong with having a round face
but I think honestly every woman thinks she has a round face, So
If you're one of those people that think you have a round face, please do this to figure out if you really do or not
so the best way to do it is to get a dry erase marker
stand in front of a mirror, tie your hair completely back
bangs, everything, hair completely away from the face
and draw the outline, be at least arms length from the mirror, and draw out your face
then obviously step back and you will see that, obviously the shape of your face
in a perfect world, ideally what you want is an oval face
now that doesn't mean that if you have an oval face you have a prettier face than say a heart shaped face or a diamond face or a square face
it obviously has nothing to do with that. It's obviously your features and everything else.
Your face shape doesn't determined anything obviously
So Oval is the ideal, and if you have this you can wear any haircut, any style, and it suits your face shape
So thats the easy one
Now for the first two, which most people think they have
and that is the Round, or the Square.
so obviously no one has a completely symmetrical round perfect face
but that just means that your jaw is about the same width as your forehead
and your cheeks are about the same, so theres no real definition.
Square are for someone that has a bit more of a square jaw.
And at the top, the forehead is also pretty square and broad but not necessarily long
alright, so the Heart and the Diamond are pretty similar.
They have a pretty narrow slim jaw
The only difference is that the Diamond, the forehead tapers up a little bit too
making your cheek bones the widest part of your face
and in turn, creating that Diamond effect
where as the Heart shape is more of an angled kind of pointier chin
and then the rest is basically oval, But
but your jaw here is slightly slimmer than your forehead is up at the top
Alright, So now i'm going to go over for each shape, which haircuts are the most flattering
and what you can wear for these face shapes that are going to enhance and make you look more beautiful
So for the round face, you want to - Another thing people think is like, I can't have a bob or anything short
because it will just make my face rounder
And that's not necessarily the case because if you're wearing your hair down, kind of like
to the sides, it's actually kind of slashing off each side of the face so your left with a kind of narrow oval looking face
so that's actually ideal
anything at least up till the jaw is fine, anything shorter then your whole jaw is exposed
and then that's when it starts to exaggerate the look that it is really round
around the face, you want to avoid layers coming at the face
So imagine a blowout with the layers coming towards the face
so if I have hair coming in here, again, because the hair grows up here and kind of does that
again, you're exaggerating a round, or kind of a big ball like shape, so you want to avoid that
so having the layers coming down and away from the face, that's super flattering
now for the square face
what you want to avoid is Pixie cuts,
something really short, something where all you're doing is adding volume to the top
because all that does if you add just more to the top , it makes this top part look even boxier
and then when theres nothing supporting the bottom or the sides, it just adds more of a bigger box
And that's what you want to avoid
You want some waves, again, a side part to break up that symmetry
if you have bangs coming in this way and then a little bit this way, see you already forget and don't see a square
You see a pretty shape, kind of peaking through the side swept bangs
As for length, again.
for this one you want to kind of stay away from the jaw
so a little bit longer, just because you don't want the eye to make that horizontal line from the jaw all the way to the hair
So a little bit longer, it breaks up that line and it kind of minimizes and makes this look a little bit smaller
Alright so for the next one, the Heart shape
The only thing you want to kind of avoid with this, is lots of volume on top
or cuts that kind of ends around the ear
what you don't want to do is add more volume to the top and leave your very petite part showing
Just because, again, then it kind of exaggerates. it's already small and there's no hair around it so you exaggerates that this is even pointier and smaller
What you want to do obviously is to always create balance
So again, waves and long Hair looks good with this
also, layers coming at the face is great, so if it's kind of coming and hugging your chin, that looks really beautiful
someone who's famous who has this face shape, is Jennifer Aniston
And thats why she rocked the Jennifer Aniston haircut
and thats because she had all those choppy layers coming at the face
and that's extremely flattering
So for the Diamond shape, you want to avoid side swept bangs, because if you see that's already what it's sort of doing.
And so for the Diamond shape, because it is such a tapered chin,
such a tapered forehead
What you actually want to do, is add volume to the top.
So imagine like a very voluminous blowout.
So that kind of adds fullness to these corners that are somewhat missing here
And then here you want any length again at least up to the chin, having volume here too
whether you add soft bouncy curls or just add fullness here, and fullness here
Any length again, long hair looks great
When hair is long, it's normally covering these side pieces that are creating your Diamond shape
And all that looks like now is an Oval face shape
So for the last part, and that is Bangs
So the first thing for straight across bangs
If you think about it, straight across bangs basically ...
slice off half of your face, or you know, they cover it
So all you're looking at now is this
So the eye when it looks at the face it doesn't see "oh look, thats the face shape"
You see only what's exposed
So now, for this example here I showed a square face
and actually adding bangs, especially if they're kind of rounder and soft actually makes the face appear half it's size so that's really good.
Theres a lot of people that think "I have a really round face, or I have a really big face, let me just add bangs"
That's not always the correct way.
because, again if you slash it off this way, it will make it look wider as well
So if you want to avoid width, then you want the side swept.
the thing with the side swept is that it tricks the eye, it's a little more forgiving to the eye
because you don't see that, features aren't completely perfect because what looks imperfect, is the hair
and nobody sees like "oh my god, her part is completely off, its on the side"
Obviously it's a fashion thing and it looks good so you don't see it as the face having a flaw if that makes sense.
Also what it does is it creates length
so even thought you're covering off a lot of the face, because there's this high point here
It's lengthening to the face, where as this kind of smashes and makes your face look more compact
So for the Round face shape, I don't recommend any bangs
But, say you do have bangs and you are growing them out,
You can push them off to the side this way so they're not necessarily side swept so they're covering the least bit of your face as possible
But it is covering the corners a bit, so again it slashes off a bit of the face
And with leaving that really high point, it gives length to the face, so that's what we want obviously for the round face.
So about what i'm wearing and my jewelry I keep getting ask and I keep forgetting to mention it in videos
So if it's not like a fashion video I tend to forget to mention what I was wearing
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