Adding face-framing layers to long hair can give it an elegantly slimmed-down appearance while drawing attention to your features and showing them off. No matter whether it is thick, wavy, or curly – adding face-framing layers will give you a flattering layered style tailored to suit your personal preferences and style.
Shaggy Bob with Texturized Pieces
This shaggy bob features a middle part and texturized pieces around the front to draw attention away from your cheekbones and toward your eyes and cheekbones. This stunning, layered haircut looks beautiful, worn up or down.
Face Framing Layers for Fine Hair
An effortless, complete, and voluminous look is possible with the appropriate haircut and styling techniques. Face framing layers can help lighten up long locks like this blonde lob with dark roots and lived-in color transition. In addition, this feature highlights eyes while accentuating cheekbones for an aesthetic finish.
Long Face Shape and Hairline
“Your hairline can also help reveal whether or not you have a long face shape,” according to Atlanta stylist Dyana Nematalla. If yours is higher, more forehead exposure occurs, creating an oval-shaped face structure. Bridgette Hall, a trichologist, suggests using face-framing layers as part of your cut to add thickness and volume. To keep strands from becoming limp or lifeless, she offers volumizing products such as dry shampoo, mousses, and thickening sprays, which provide natural-looking control such as thickening sprays. A side part can make your forehead appear wider, giving your face an awake, fresh look.
Face Framing Haircuts for Thick Hair
Face-framing haircuts can be incredibly flattering for thick hair types, providing universally flattering styling that suits any style and face shape. Nematalla suggests starting by creating a deep side part with face-framing layers reaching at least up to cheekbone length – this helps shorten the face while adding height, ideal for thicker locks. If your style lacks face-framing layers, try adding them with a deep side plait, a la Joan Smalls, or a sleek genie ponytail. According to Petty, another way is adding blunt bangs that fall above your eyes for an anti-aging haircut for long faces that shift focus away from foreheads to cheekbones. Finish it off by spraying Bumble and Bumble Surf’s Sea Salt Spray into your locks for an instant beachy vibe while helping tame frizz and flyaways for a smooth base.
Hairstyles to Enhance a Round Face
A round face is defined by wide cheeks with fullness at their bases, an even width between jaw and forehead width, and a softly-rounded chin. To maximize this face shape’s potential, select makeup and hairstyles that accentuate its soft angles to balance its roundness and enhance it further. For a modern, feminine look, try opting for a layered pixie with longer layers at the front of your face that highlight eyebrows and cheekbones. When styling this look with thinning shears, ensure it blends harmoniously, then finish off your style using texturizing spray for additional definition. Long face-framing bangs are another great choice to enhance a round face. Consult your stylist about getting feathered bangs, which help taper down cheek fullness while simultaneously adding soft volume. Style them with a deep side part and hair gel for an effortlessly cool effect, or try incorporating one before a ponytail to draw attention upward.
Hairstyles for Long Faces
Long faces are classic facial structures that can look beautiful with all lengths and styles of hairstyles, though finding the appropriate haircut for yourself is critical to balancing out your features. Long-face haircuts should be easy to maintain while providing versatility as well. An unbalanced or broad forehead can be softened with bangs, and facial framing, volume, lift, or crop cut may all work to your advantage in creating balance in your features. A soft, rounded eyebrow shape may help make features appear shorter, too! Bangs can make any long face appear more feminine. From full fringes like Jane Birkin to more swooped styles, straight or angled bangs instantly flatter a long face and are easy to maintain! Side-swept or curtain charges can also work wonderfully for long faces, as these face-framing styles help balance broad foreheads or other asymmetrical facial features.
