Does Your Face-Shape Matter When Considering Highlights? Yes!!!!

If you have ever been around a Girl Friend, Wife, Mother, Sister, or even some Men, you have seen or know about contour with make up.  Contouring gives your face clean lines and dimension, but that same concept can be used when considering your face-shape and the type or placement of highlights. This week we are going to talk about exactly that, what should you and your stylist think about when considering highlights. So lets dive in to what works on each of the 6 face-shapes.

Heart-Shaped Face: If you have a Heart-Shaped face a balayage is going to be your friend.  So we want to soften your wider forehead and narrowing chin think about adding highlights/balayage to the bottom of your hair, leaving the top of your hair/root darker.  We want to bring the eye away from the wider section of your face. 

Round-Shaped Face: You will find that the Round and Square face have similar issues.  With highlighting properly you can elongate the face to create that slimmer look. When considering Highlights for a round face consider lighter colors at the top of your head and the hairline.  Also, consider adding shading to the sides of your face with darker tones underneath your ears toward the ends of your hair, to give the oblong look we all want.

Square-Shaped Face: Since a Square-Shaped face have wide features with a prominent jaw line, you  should consider highlights and low lights on the corners of your face.  This  will create lots of dimension and layers around your face. You can create an oblong face with highlighting at the top of the head and shading down the sides to soften your strong features to a slimmer face shape.

Rectangle-Shaped Face: This shape being a mix of the oblong and the Square shape you should consider adding volume to the sides as well as highlights from the temple down.  Another great way to bring in balayage to bring width to your face shape.

Diamond-Shaped Face: With amazing cheek bones and narrowing forehead and chin, you can balance this look by adding light and volume from the cheekbones down.

Oval-Shaped Face: One of the luckier shapes is Oval which is considered to be one of the more balanced shapes. They can make any hairstyle work for their face shape but when highlighting you should consider adding more highlights to the sides. This along with adding extra volume on the sides highlights near your ears will create a visual of width to your face shape.

So no matter your face shape there is the perfect Highlight to embellish your natural beauty.