With a square face shape, your main aim should be to soften your strong jawline. Hairstyles To Try: Wispy forward falling hair onto your face will soften your jaw line, while wearing bangs swept over to one side will create diagonal movement to minimize square shapes. Short to medium length hair will also suit you, especially if the style is rounded in shape or has wispy ends. Styles with height at the crown will work in your favor also. Hairstyles To Avoid: Avoid blunt bobs, especially sitting at chin length with straight heavy bangs as this will accentuate your jaw line and squareness. Middle parts with solid bangs can also work against you.
The Right Short Hairstyle: This short concave bob is a great looking hairstyle for our models square face shape. The sides falling forward soften the jaw line, while the falling across diagonal bangs also are ideal for minimizing squareness. The hairstyle has an overall rounded appearance making it the right choice for framing square face shapes. Other short styles that will work include looks which have soft wispy side parted swept across bangs in wavy or curly textures.
The Wrong Short Hairstyle: This short cut illustrates really well what to avoid on square face shapes. Firstly, the top area, although wispy, has a very square shape about it. Secondly, the short tapered sides accentuate the squareness coming up from the jaw line, and the square hairline only adds to what is doomed from the very start. Definitely the wrong cut for square face shapes.
The Right Medium Hairstyle: This hairstyle has all the right ingredients to suit and compliment square faces. Firstly, the sides are soft and wispy falling onto the jaw line hiding squareness. Secondly, a side part and side swept bangs help create a diagonal illusion or deception that loses any focus on squareness. The graduated sides and back angle upwards creating a whole new shape to frame this face. Other variations in different textures and slight length adjustments will also work keeping to this theme.
The Wrong Medium Hairstyle: If a picture tells a thousand words, what does this say to you? Terrible in capital letters! The shape of the cut only makes our models square face shape look even squarer. The straight across bangs shorten the length of the face, while the chin length sides create width and draw attention to the jaw area that is not needed. Even the middle part makes the entire shape appear square. This shape should be avoided.
The Right Long Hairstyle: This long wavy hairstyle with side swept bangs is just right for our models square face shape. The waves are open ended, meaning that they have curved lines that are softer to the eye, not angular ones as in straight hair. The across bangs also help to change the perception of shape to the eye making it appear rounder rather than solid or square. Other good long looks include wispy face framing layers in straight, wavy or curly textures.
The Wrong Long Hairstyle: This hairstyle looks very heavy and solid all over making it a bad choice for square face shapes. The heavy bangs create a very square shape by themselves, but once they are added to the straight one length sides and back, the result is very square and angular. The sides need layers, particularly around the face, while the bangs need to be less heavy and more across. This is a good example of the wrong cut for the wrong face shape.
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