Square, round, oval or elongated face, discover the best bangs to adopt to enhance the shape of your face, or transform it as you wish with a few strokes of scissors thanks to the advice of a hairdresser.
To be sure to find the right haircut, the one that will enhance us, we must rely on the morphology of our face. It is she who will dictate what will be the best bob cut to choose to highlight the features of our face or the ideal short cut for our round, square or elongated face… This also applies to finding the right mid cut. -long or long, but also the details of all these haircuts trendy like highlights or fringes.
Yes, it’s not enough to adopt the most trendy bangs of the moment to find the right bangs ! So no question of asking your hairdresser for curtain bangs without ensuring that they will suit you perfectly beforehand. Especially since bangs can also allow you to rebalance a faceofsoften its angles orrefine her cheeks well rounded just like a full haircut. To make your life easier, we asked Gianni Coppa for advice, hairdresser and founder of the R Factory Paris salon, to know what type of bangs to go for based on the shape of your face. But before discovering his wise advice and give in to the fateful cut of the scissors, the hairdresser reminds you that you will need to maintain this key detail of your haircut “every 3 to 6 weeks depending on hair growth”, whatever one you wear to enhance the shape of your face. So take this prerequisite into account before having it cut!
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Which bangs to choose to refine a round face?
We sometimes hear that we should avoid bangs when we have a round face, because they tend to accentuate the roundness of the face, but Gianni Coppa has his own trick so that they have the complete opposite effect. “We will choose it curved on the sides”and cut it “a little longer on the sides” he explains to us so that we can use this frontal hair to good effect. Since she goes like this “be shorter above the bridge of the nose”it has the advantage of “break the rounding” round face andcomes to look around” which will frame and enhance them, as the hairdresser points out. With the right way to cut your bangs, the hairdresser assures you, the bangs “allows you to refine” round faces.
What bangs to wear to soften a square face or angular features?
While square faces should be careful not to accentuate this effect with too graphic straight bangs, they can definitely use bangs to soften their angular features. The perfect fringe to adopt with this body shape is curtain bangs according to the hairdresser. More specifically, he advises opting for “a curtain fringe that will reach the jawbones”. This type of fringe which opens in 2 in the middle of the forehead is perfect for “break the square appearance of the face and soften its right angles”. A long curtain bang therefore goes both refine and soften square and angular faces. For styling, the hairdresser recommends styling the strands of this curtain bangs “outwards”so that the two parts of the bangs are swept to either side of the face.
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Which bangs to rebalance a long face?
With this face shape that is much longer than it is wide, the bangs are a dream cut detail. “to break the elongated side” morphology, assures Gianni Coppa. But to obtain a truly satisfied rebalancing effect, the hairdresser encourages “come structure the cut with straight bangs on the eyebrows”. A length which will be particularly harmonious with this face shape which needs a clear fringe which plays the extensions to flirt with the eyes. To style it in the morning, it is best to style it “straight and full” as suggested by the hairdresser, to fully benefit from the effect of straight bangs. On the other hand, there is no question of falling for the curtain fringe trend, because it lengthens the face and risks accentuating this feature rather than erasing it as it can do so well according to the hairdresser.
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Which bangs to choose when you have an oval face?
With this perfectly naturally balanced face shape, bangs are one option among many others because “everything adapts to this type of face whose shape is perfect” reminds the hairdresser. And when it comes to bangs too, “Everything is allowed” specifies Gianni Coppa. The Parisian hairdresser therefore recommends taking advantage of it to adopt the season’s hairstyle trends. “The current trend for bangs is rather long on the eyes and tapered” he explains, before adding that it’s precisely the type of bangs “ideal for an oval face”. For the most daring among us, he advises “a smiling fringe, that is to say which goes up a little on the sides” and whose form is more original. He assures that it is a variation of the long and tapered bangs “ideal for personalizing a small square when you have an oval face”.
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