Hair Styling Tips For Face Shapes

Whether you want to rock bangs, wear a pixie cut or embrace your curls, your hair can do wonders for your appearance. However, it’s important to keep in mind your face shape. Seeing a great style in a magazine or on your favorite celebrity chameleon flaunting their latest trend-setting hair color can be a major inspiration for making some major changes to your own tresses. But the right haircut or style can also help highlight or hide certain features and characteristics of your face shape, such as the nose or cheekbones.

In different cultures, people have dyed and styled their hair to represent social classes, marital status, age or political beliefs. Styling is a process that helps to define one’s personality and is influenced by aesthetics, culture, fashion trends and practical considerations such as weather conditions.

The styling process starts with hydrating the hair. For this step, you can use leave-in conditioners, detanglers and other products that add moisture to your strands. Depending on your personal taste, you can move on to drying and styling with blow dryers, flat irons or using heatless techniques. People with fine or wavy hair may need to add a texturizer (your salt sprays and gritty creams) or mousse to their styling routine to give their strands more structure. Once you have your desired look, don’t forget to finish it off with hairspray or a hair gel for hold and shine. Then you’re ready to show off your new look. You can even apply a touch of makeup for added effect.