Styles to Flatter Your Oblong Face Shape

Your face is longer than it is wide with a rounded jaw-line. You may also have a rounded hairline.

Your main style aims are...

...To make your face appear shorter and broader.

Hairstyles for Your Face Shape

Go for...

• Styles that add a little height and width at the temples and cheekbones

• Length medium-short to medium long

• Short styles are best when tapered in from the eye-line into the nape of the neck

• Longer hair needs volume in the neck area

• Hair off the sides, either short, or swept back or behind the ears

• Soft, natural looking layers

• If your forehead is high, wispy or open bangs (fringe)

• Off center parting

Avoid...

• Long hair all the same length

• Very short hair

• Center parting

• Hair close at temples

Eyeglasses for Your Face Shape

Your best styles have the following characteristics...

• Frames with depth as well as width to make your face appear shorter

• Decorative or contrasting temples

• A low bridge to shorten a long nose

Hats

• Full or upturned brims

• Not too much height in the crown

Makeup Tips

• Apply darker foundation at the hairline around the forehead

• Apply darker foundation over the chin

• Apply darker foundation in the hollows of your cheeks

• Apply blush on the apple (ball) of your cheekbones and blend out towards the top of your ear

Earrings

• Your best earrings have more width than length

• Round, square and fan

• Teardrops

• Small hoops

• Drops no longer than the chin, better with some width

Examples of an Oblong Face Shape

Celebrities with an Oblong Shaped Face

These famous people have an oblong shape face...

• Sarah Jessica Parker, Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslett

• Michael Parkinson, Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe

More Examples of Oblong Shape Face

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