Square Face HairStyles

Your face is slightly longer than it is wide. The shape of your face is…Square

 

 

The Right Hairstyle For Your Square Face Shape


TheHairStyler.com Hair Feature
By Roy Caccamo, THS Consultant


With a square face shape, your main aim should be to soften your strong jawline.
 

Hairstyles To Try: Wispy forward falling hair onto your face will soften your jaw line, while wearing bangs swept over to one side will create diagonal movement to minimize square shapes. Short to medium length hair will also suit you, especially if the style is rounded in shape or has wispy ends. Styles with height at the crown will work in your favor also.
 

Hairstyles To Avoid: Avoid blunt bobs, especially sitting at chin length with straight heavy bangs as this will accentuate your jaw line and squareness. Middle parts with solid bangs can also work against you.

Your jaw line is about as wide as your cheeks and your forehead tends toward the square. You must work to add height, soften corners with curves and lengthen your face slightly.

 

Do…

  • Draw the eye of the beholder upward to make face seem longer.

  • Wear a diagonal part. Or try a bouffant top swept from a low side part.

  • Look for styles with rounded movement.

  • Break into forehead corners with fringed bangs or waves. Try swirly or divided bangs.

  • Wear soft, full waves but keep them close to the head.

  • Affect swirling side wings which move out and up to balance square jaws.

  • Try sleek but buoyant crown rising to enough height to lessen width. But keep it head-hugging at sides.

Don’t…

  • Style hair too severely or pull back at temples. Both accentuate a square chin.

  • Wear a flat top style.

  • Use small, tight curls.

  • Part hair in the middle.

 

Makeup…
Brows can lift the heaviness of too many straight lines by sweeping up and out. If necessary, pluck. Avoid thinbrows too highly arched. Round your face by subtly deepening foundation shade at temples and sides, while keeping forehead light. To draw eyes up and away from prominent jaws, spread foundation in semicircle on center of each cheek. Blend back to ears and down to jaw. Blend carefully to leave no more than the impression of a shadow. Draw lower lip as full as possible but draw almost square to detract attention from jaw.

Hair Color…
Softly round your face and elongate it by coloring hair lighter at forehead and keeping it darker on temples and each side.



Now that you know your face shape and how to choose the right hairstyle, why not take a look through TheHairStyler.com's hairstyle library? We have 1,000's of different styles for you to choose from which can be viewed on your own photo or on one of our THS models. You can even use our"Find Your Perfect Style" consultation to find the hairstyles that match your face shape!