here is the best long bob to wear based on the shape of your face, according to a hairstylist

While the trend of square cuts does not weaken from year to year, the bob is establishing itself as an ever more essential haircut in hair trends for spring-summer 2024. Versatile as you wish, the bob cut can also be played at several lengths and embellished in multiple ways (straight or layered cut, bangs, highlights, etc.), which means you can always find a perfect bob cut to enhance the morphology of the face whoever she is. That being said, our tastes don’t always match the ideal haircut for us. This is why, when you fall in love with a bob cut of a particular length, like the short bob or the long squarewe often find ourselves helpless to make a good choice of square cut. Something we never want to face again!

This is why we recently revealed a guide to help you find the right short bob for the shape of your face, a very trendy bob cut this season. Also present in the season’s hairstyle trends, the long bob can also be perfectly adapted to your characteristic features. So that he always manages to sublimate them, we have entrusted the task of describing to us the long squares ideal for each face shape at Élodie Comtesse, hairdresser for Schwarzkopf. She explains to us how to adapt this square cut whose lengths play as extensions at shoulder level, depending on whether your face East oval, round, square Or elongate.

Which long square to wear if you have an oval face?

Naturally balanced and harmonious, oval faces are lucky enough to be able to be combined with all types of bob cuts, from the most sober to the most daring, including long bobs. “If you have an oval face, you are truly lucky” notes Élodie Comtesse, who invites you to adopt absolutely all your desires, because they “will go wonderfully on this face shape with the square”.

More or less pronounced gradient, long plunging bob, long bob with bangs or embellished with a lock on the forehead, everything is possible. “But if I had to choose” nuance the expert, “I would suggest curtain bangs to my client” she assures, before reminding that this type of bangs is “very very trendy” in addition to perfectly enhancing the oval shape of the face.

Which long square to wear if you have a round face?

Perfectly suited to this face shape which is as long as it is wide, the long bob is even a hairstyle tip to rebalance it thanks to your haircut. As the expert Schwarzkopf points out, with this round face shape “we will adapt to a rather long square line” or even outright “mid-length”, because so she “will not accentuate the effect of roundness of the face”.

To personalize this cut and avoid accentuating the roundness of the face, the hairdresser advises to soften it by coming “bring a gradient starting at the height of the nose”, what “will give a length effect to it”, she specifies. To go further, you can even combine it “with a very slight taper on the tip” hair, a detail that allows you to obtain “a very soft cut that will fit the shape of the face”as the expert assures.

Which long square to wear if you have a square face?

Characterized by its angular jawbones, the square face is a morphology with which “we would prefer a cut with a plunging effect” when we adopt a long bob, warns the hairdresser. Élodie Comtesse also emphasizes that this is a rule to adopt “whatever the length of the square” that you want to wear.

For those who do not like this hair bias, she however offers an alternative likely to please most people: “if you want to do something more classic you can really consider embellishing the cut with curtain bangs which will considerably soften the angular features of this face shape”. A way to soften square jaws other than by adopting a cutting line sometimes considered too original for its long square.

Which long square to wear if you have a long face?

With a face that is much longer than it is wide, long hair is not the most appropriate haircut. A long bob is therefore a perfect alternative to keep a little length at shoulder level. The challenge of the cut will not lie so much in its line seen in profile or its gradient, but rather in the way in which we will use bangs or a section of hair to rebalance it and break up the length of the face.

To create a long square capable of enhancing this elongated face shape, we will rather opt for a long square cut “with straight bangs which will be perfect for enhancing the face”. This type of bangs is exactly what is needed to break up the slender appearance of the face. But if you don’t want to commit to bangs, you can also choose “a tapered or full bias strand” advises the hairdresser. Whatever your choice, this detail will allow “to balance the length of the face to have an impression of an oval face which is the ideal shape” recalls the expert.

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