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
latest hair colors and styles, 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 my nail polish is morgan taylor and it's after dark my ring is from h&m and my long pendant necklace is from stella and dot i'll leave links down below so if you have any other questions, please leave them down below so i hope that was informative, i hope that was easy to follow
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