Women’s Face Shape Series: Long Face
Followed by hairstyles best for round and angular face shape, here is the last one of the series: hairstyles best for long face shape.
There are many more types of face shapes, but to begin with, we would like to cover these three facial types that are most common and can include a variety of trends. About the long face type: this face shape usually gives you a sharp, mature, and sophisticated image. With the various hairstyles and styling tips below, let’s find out the best way to emphasize the beautiful features of long face shapes!
Long Hair Without Layers
Long face shape has longer vertical length than horizontal width. Long hair without layers flatters this face shape because it accentuates facial vertical line. This style is best recommended if you want to create a mature look, since it brings out the length of your face shape.
See-Through Bangs
Here is the tip for creating a soft look, which is usually difficult for those with long face shape.
See-through bangs became a huge trend in Korea since 2012. Just like the name, it literally means your forehead is seen through your bangs. It’s a great way to frame your face, because it taper downs length, while also creating an effect of slenderness and delicacy.
Not every type of bang is suitable for everyone, however. Denser bangs, which were more common in traditional cuts, creates a heavy look, and choppy bangs give more definition to the long face shape.
Add Volume to the Sides of Your Head
The following is a styling tip, rather than a specific hairstyle. We mentioned that the long face shape is a face with longer length than width. We took care of making your face look shorter in the above, and now it’s time to make your face look wider — by adding volume!
The most important thing to remember is where you add those volumes. If you add volume to the top of your head, the vertical line will be emphasized, eventually making your face look even longer. You need to add volume to the sides of your head.
Add curls to the sides of your face by perm or a curling iron. The volume at the sides takes away the attention from the vertical line to the horizontal line of the face. This softens the long look of your face. Make use of this tip when you tie your hair, too — take out some hair strands and curl them to add volume to the sides of your head.
Make Use of Your Side Hair
With the same way that adding volumes to the side of your head works, you can make use of ‘side hair’ that is currently very trendy in Korea. Side hair is long hair strands that are cut to fall naturally around your face.
Short Hair Perm
Last hairstyle is a bob style. This is the most recommended style for women with long face shape. In order to balance out the vertical length, you need to avoid cuts that add height to your hair. In this sense, short hair is better because long hair can elongate your entire head length.
Adding a bit of thick perm at the bottom is also helpful because it breaks up the length of your face!
