Here’s the Best Way to Wear Short Hair with a Round Face, According to an Expert

As long as they are wide, the round faces are characterized by rather thin and narrow jaws and curved lines. This face shape, which does not display sharp angles, also sometimes sports prominent cheeks. To highlight these features, it is advisable to choose a haircut adapted to this face shape, which benefits from being ovalized by the hairstyle. Wearing your hair short is not the easiest way to do it, because “if we highlight the contours of the face” by cutting it short, “we will amplify the rounded effect” of the face, warns Gianni Coppa, hairdresser and founder of the R Factory salon.

This is why, if you have chosen to cut your short hair, the hairdresser advises favoring a bob cut for ultra short hair. This haircut, which we know is rejuvenating, flatters round faces wonderfully when you choose it well. “If we want to break up the roundness of the face, we will prefer cuts that will dress the contours of the face”, also tells us the founder of the R Factory show. In this game, “the ideal will be a square that is slightly plunging” assures the hairdresser, who recommends this rejuvenating bob cut to women aged 60 and over who wish to rejuvenate the oval of their face and wear short hair.

The ideal rejuvenating cut for a 60 year old woman with a round face who wants short hair

If Gianni Coppa advises opting for a square cut so as to be slightly plunging, “with rather degraded locks” on the contours of the face in the front, it is because this detail of the cut will come “dress and refine the cheeks”. This will “break the rounding” wonderfully round face. For this bob cut to rejuvenate the face, the hairdresser recommends “come and play with a placement on the forehead, with a rather tapered strand on the side” which will dress the forehead and the eye contour, camouflaging the most marked wrinkles on the face.

The expert recommends favoring a plunging square whose cut line has a slight inclination to the more graphic plunging squares (which are very degraded at the nape) displaying a radical difference in length, to avoid the “old school” effect that can have this kind of haircuts with marked asymmetry.

Haircut after 60: how to style your short hair for a “rejuvenating” effect

To make this square even more modern and capable of flattering the roundness of the face and hair thinning with age, the hairdresser specifies that we will “avoid developing volume on the sides of the face” when styling your hair, otherwise it will amplify the rounded effect of the face. To avoid this problem and make the hairstyle an added asset, Gianni Coppa recommends placing the volume on top of the hairstyle instead, to “bring amplitude” with fine hair and visually go from the rounded face to an oval.

According to the expert, it is better to abandon ultra-voluminous and very brushed hairstyles, in favor of a tousled effect hairstyle which will be very “dynamic”. He explains that it’s easy to achieve using texturizing sprays and styling powders, because these styling products “will be able to give targeted volume” in this location.

Short hair after 60: hairdresser’s tips for a rejuvenating short cut that enhances round faces

If, despite everything, you prefer to cut your hair shorter than a bob, keep in mind that very, very short hair is not best suited to rebalancing your face shape. “Keep a minimum of length on top, in layers, to be able to break the roundness of the face and give fullness to the hair on top” of the head, first advises the hairdresser. He also explains that when opting for this short hair, it is best to play with a lock or bangs at the front, in order to dress the forehead and break up the roundness of the face. “We can be tempted by rather tapered bangs” to avoid having this too “lined” appearance that certain full cut bangs have, specifies the hairdresser.

Gianni Coppa specifies that this fringe can be styled as a straight fringe or placed slightly to the side, curved to frame the look, but that you should avoid making it too rounded when blow-drying. Here again, the expert advises not to create too much volume on the sides of the face when styling. Instead, add volume to the back of the head to break up the round look. He also explains that a stiff, straight blow-dry won’t be the most flattering. Instead, keep a dynamic tousled effect, more modern and rejuvenating.

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