Women have long been advised to cut their hair short after the age of 60 to rejuvenate themselves, but a short cut is not always the best hair length to adopt! A hairdresser gives us his opinion to help you find the right one according to the shape of your face.
Changing your haircut is a very effective hairstyle tip for rejuvenating your facial features in your sixties, but if you don’t choose the right transformation, the effect can be counterproductive, warns us. Gianni Coppa hairdresser and founder of the R Factory Paris salon. “We tend to advise people over 60 to cut their hair short, but this can also give an aging side” to the hairdresser, assures the expert.
To find the ideal hair length to adopt at 60 and over, there is no universal rule, recalls Gianni Coppa, who even takes the opposite view of this golden rule which affirmed in the past that only short hair was able to rejuvenate a look. For the hairdresser who has a much more modern and personalized vision of “rejuvenating” effect hairstyles, the ideal hair length after 60 years “depends on the morphology of the face and body”, not just the one who “will be the most flattering for the face” but one which will also take into account corpulence. “A short person should not have hair that is too long otherwise it will tend to clump” and not to give a modern look, he adds. Despite everything, the hairdresser revealed to us how to find the right hair length after 60s according to the shape of your face, the best for your body type.
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Haircut after 60: here is the right hair length to adopt to rejuvenate your face according to your body type
To help you rejuvenate your features intelligently, here is how the hairstylist recommends that you adapt your hair length according to the shape of your face. If, according to him, “Everything is allowed” in terms of length to give a facelift to your cut when you are 60 years old and have an oval face, because he gives different advice depending on whether your face is round or square, or rather long.
- the best hair length after 60 if you have a round face or a square face : according to Gianni Coppa, it is essential to avoid hair that is too long or too short, it is better to opt for an intermediate hair length with a bob cut or mid-length hair. “It can be on a square with a slight dip or an intermediate length reaching the collarbone”specifies the hairdresser, who encourages more precisely to “favor gradient lengths on the contour of the face which will dress and therefore break up the square or rounded side of the face and provide softness”. With this body type, you can also wear “a fringe or a lock to dress and frame the look” he adds.
- the best hair length after 60 if you have a long, elongated face: for Gianni Coppa, it’s the perfect body shape to try “the short cut that will break this length”. And whether you try short hair or don’t dare to cut it all, “you can also be tempted by bangs to reduce the length of the face, ideally slightly curved on the side to frame the look”.
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