Short hair for a chubby face is a savior if cut in the right length and flattering shape. This time the stylist shows us how pretty a short French bob can look with a round face and glasses.
Quite often, you'll hear beauty advice that says women with round faces should not wear their hair short. That's simply not true. You can wear short hair no matter the shape of your face; you just want to make sure to find the right cut and style.
Long hair is perfect and universally flattering on round faces because it lengthens the face. If you have a round face, your ideal cut will fall a few inches below the chin or longer.
Does short hair make you look thinner or fatter? Well, it depends on how you style your hair. Adding some height to the crown with wispy layers makes your face appear longer. Layering short-to-medium hair definitely slims down a chubby face.
Classic layers can keep your hair looking on-trend and stylish, while also flattering the soft angles of round faces. "A medium-length, shaggy hair style accented with side bangs that hit at the cheekbones is a great look for a round face," says Nunzio Saviano, hairstylist and owner of Nunzio Saviano Salon.
Deep Side Part. Switching where you part your hair doesn't seem like much of a style, but it's a quick and easy way to elevate your look and make your face appear slimmer. Like side-swept bangs, creating a deep part gives your face a slimming effect as it sweeps diagonally across your face.
An asymmetrical long bob, or lob, is the absolute best hairstyle if you want to make your face look thinner. Opt for a lob at least three inches below the chin in the front, and angled shorter in the back.
To make your face looks longer—a long bob or lob, below the jaw is ideal haircut for chubby face because it helps to frame your face, make you face look thinner. Choosing a hair cut that falls over the cheek and bordering close to the chin also helps the face to look longer.
It is believed that the thicker hair will give the illusion of a fuller, more robust figure. This is not always true because sometimes people with long hair can look even skinnier than those with short hair.
Texture and movement tend to make your face look sllimmer, while blunt cuts make the face look fuller and rounder. Long hair tends to look more slenderizing than short hair.
Short hair can be slimming as well, as long as you have tons of texture and fullness, which make your face look smaller in proportion.
Take a ruler and place it perpendicularly under your ear. The ruler and pencil will now create a “T region” with each other. If the reading where the pencil meets the ruler is less than 2.25 inches, then short hair will suit your face. If it is more than 2.25, it is ideal to stick to longer hair.
There's a totally bogus assumption that curvy women can't rock short hair, but we're here to prove that false. Strong, body positive celebrities and influencers have shown off their hairstyles, and it completely debunks that myth.
A sleek long pixie with side-swept bangs gives instant shape and offers effortless styling. Side-swept bangs help lengthen the face, which is ideal for round face shapes. Long pixies work best on thick coarse hair types. Keeping it sleek and long in the front is perfect for thick overweight cuts.
A butterfly haircut combines short layers with long layers to give your hair dimension, movement and body. The short, wispy layers hit around the chin to frame your face, highlight your features and even contour a round face shape.
There's an easy, and we mean easy, way to decide if short hairstyles are in your future. We call it the 2.25 rule. Practically fool proof, this rule states that if the longest part of your chin is less than 2.25 inches from the tip of your earlobe, then short hairstyles are for you.
A cropped cut can be a way to show the world how strong you are. "A woman with short hair is perceived as confident — not having to hide anything,” says Jo-Ellan Dimitrius, author of “Reading People: How to Understand People and Predict Their Behavior – Anytime, Anyplace.”
All you do is place a pencil under your chin horizontally and hold a ruler under your ear, vertically. If the intersection of the two measures less than 2.25 inches, your face is made for short hair a la Halle Berry or Audrey Hepburn.
Ultimately, short hair can make you look older, but it doesn't have to. “The way you style your short hair has a bigger impact on how old it makes you look rather than the actual haircut itself,” she says. This leads us to the importance of texture in a short haircut, and its instant de-aging effects.
It's actually easier to appear taller if your hair is short. 'However, that doesn't mean that women with long hair cannot create the illusion of having grown a couple of centimetres over night.
Bluntly cut bangs shorten the appearance of your face, making it look wider than it truly is. They also highlight the fullness of your face, making the roundness of the cheeks and chin more apparent.
With curly or wavy hair, going too short may add more width to the cheek area. Short styles that add volume on top can elongate your face. Square Face: You may want to play down a strong, angular jaw. Texture, in the form of curls or choppy ends, does a brilliant job at this.