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Get the Right Bangs For Your Face Shape

BellaSugar — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:00:54 PST

No matter your face's shape, try some framing layers on for size – after all, bangs can serve as the baby steps to changing your look without committing to a full chop. Just click on your type, read my tips, then head off to the salon with a picture to get more bang for your buck! (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

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Heart-Shaped Faces

BellaSugar's Guide to Beautiful Bangs For Your Face Shape

BellaSugar — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:00:12 PST

I hope that you've enjoyed my series on bangs for your face shape. I know that I've had a lot of fun tracking down banged-up celebrities to feature (har har). Bangs can be a lot of fun and they're a great way to change your look without having to do anything traumatic or dramatic.

As we've seen, any type of face shape can wear bangs-it's just a matter of choosing the most flattering style. Check out the entire series here. Anna Wintour implores you to do so!

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Beautiful Bangs for Your Face Shape, Part IV: Heart

BellaSugar — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:21:57 PDT

Last but not least, it's the final installment in my beautiful bangs for your face shape series. Heart-shaped faces are suited to support lots of different bang styles since the forehead is often very high.

Again, side-swept or off-center long bangs are great for drawing attention to your eyes and cheekbones and away from your sharp chin. Also, short wispy bangs and fringe will work well on the different types of hair thickness.

Steer clear of blunt bangs if your face is very wide by the eyes and then very narrow down below. This will only make your face look longer.

A few heartthrobs with heart-shaped faces include Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson, Naomi Campbell, Victoria Beckham, Brittany Murphy and Jennifer Love Hewitt. I think that those of you with a heart-shaped faces are the luckiest of the bunch, since you have such rare bone structure.

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Beautiful Bangs for Your Face Shape, Part III: Oval

BellaSugar — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:00:13 PDT

Welcome to the third installment of Beautiful Bangs for Your Face Shape. Celebrities such as Sarah Michelle Gellar, Beyonce, Jessica Alba, Jennifer Garner, Hillary Swank and Sarah Jessica Parker all have oval/long shaped faces. The best types of bang styles for them-or for you-are longer bangs that fall a little bit below the eyebrows.

Yet perhaps one special celeb whose bangs have evolved dramatically over the years is Halle Berry. Curious about what I mean? Check out some of her past hairstyles here.

If you have an oval face shape, you are lucky, since you can play around with many different bang options. For example, if your hair is thick, try a blunt-cut short bang. If your hair is thin, then a billowy fringe or long wisps will look great too!

The goal is to add some width and fullness at the sides so that your face looks more symmetrical. Avoid creating too much volume at the top, or you will only make your face look too drawn-out and oblong. (My mom calls this the "egghead.")

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Beautiful Bangs for Your Face Shape, Part II: Square

BellaSugar — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:00:25 PDT

Welcome back to the second installment of Beautiful Bangs for Your Face Shape. Yesterday we talked about bangs for round faces and today we are looking at the best bang styles for those of you with square faces.

This rare face shape belongs to some seriously sexy A-list stunners such as Katie Holmes, Kate Walsh, Jessica Simpson, Sandra Bullock, Paris Hilton, Mandy Moore, Demi Moore, Audrey Hepburn and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Things to keep in mind if you have a square face is that layered bangs that fall to or below your eyebrows are very flattering, especially if they are swept off to the side. Fringey and wispy bangs look great, too, since they will soften the edges of your face shape.

Cuts to avoid are blunt bangs or airy bangs that come to your jawline (a common look for a chin-length bob), as these types of bangs will only cause your face to look sharp-and not in the good way.

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Beautiful Bangs For Your Face Shape, Part I: Round

BellaSugar — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:00:12 PDT

Welcome to my series on bangs for your face shape. In the past, I've covered blush colors for your skin tone, moisturizers for your skin type and eye shadows to enhance your eye color. Now with celebrities like Kate Moss and Carmen Electra making bangs look sexier than ever, I thought some information about which bang styles compliment your face shape might be helpful.

The first part of the series is about round faces. Celebs such as Cameron, Carmen, Christina, Kirsten and Kate are just a few famous femmes with round faces. (That's a lot of K sounds-I wonder if the shape of your face is correlated to the sound of your name!)

If you have a round face, you'll first want to start off with a haircut that flatters your face shape and then move onto the "fringe benefits" later.

What you're aiming for is long, side-swept bangs or wispy fringes. Both help take attention away from the sides of your face, creating an arch which will help elongate your face. Stay away from super-choppy bangs or short layers that add volume to the sides.

If you have a square, heart or oval shaped face, stay tuned for more beautiful bangs for your face shape later this week!

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Zooey Deschanel on Her Signature Bangs, Her Ultimate Haircut, and DIY Makeup

BellaSugar — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:54:00 PDT

Zooey Deschanel, known for her enviably cute strands and love of all things vintage, has just been named Pantene's new celebrity spokeswoman. And starting this August, she'll be representing the brand's rereleased Beautiful Lengths collection. The Beautiful Lengths program encourages women to donate their hair to create wigs for patients undergoing chemotherapy, while the products focus on growing lengthy, healthy hair (perfect for donation). In addition, the beauty brand plans to donate $1 million to the cause this year.

"I was really excited to learn about this program because when women lose their hair a lot of times they lose confidence," Zooey explains. "You can also encourage people to try a new fun short style. If I could cut my hair today I totally would. I love a Louise Brooks bob!" While Zooey won't be reaching for the shears anytime soon, she did offer some beauty advice she's garnered from doing her own styling and makeup on the road with her band, She & Him. To get all her DIY tips and top product picks, read more.

Fringe Benefits: The Most Flattering Bangs For Your Face Shape

Jaime Richards — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 06:00:55 PDT

When it comes to haircuts, one of the main goals is to choose a style that complements your bone structure, and when it comes to bangs, a similar approach rings true. "There are so many styles of bangs: short, over the eyebrows; long under the eyebrows; blunt; layered; tapered around the face; and asymmetric," explains Lavette Slater, The View's key hairstylist. But if you have a small forehead, for instance, full-on bangs can tend to hide your mug. If that's the case, Slater recommends parted or layered fringe feathered off of the face. Check out the rest of tips for getting the best bangs for your particular face shape when you keep reading.

How to Get the Most Flattering Bangs

Allure — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:41:54 PST

We're happy to present this story from our friends at Allure:

The year is starting off with a bang ... er, lots of bangs. More and more celebs are taking a page from Zooey Deschanel's book, and stepping out in long, statement-making fringe. There's Jessica Biel's ultra-trendy thick bangs, Taylor Swift's wispy style, and Olivia Wilde's side-swept ones. If you want to get in on the trend, there's more to consider than just the inevitability of growing them out. Each style of bangs works best with a certain face shape - so before you head to the salon with a picture of your favorite actress, find your most flattering fringe using these guidelines.

Tabatha Coffey's Top 4 Tips For Growing Out Your Hair

Guest Writer — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:14:00 PST

Editor's note: For the past few weeks, hairstylist Tabatha Coffey, of Shear Genius and Tabatha's Salon Takeover fame, has been sharing her professional expertise with us. For this week's post, Coffey gives her top tips for growing out your hair:

Want to grow out your hair or bangs? Well, as the Guns N' Roses song says, you're going to "need just a little patience." Patience, or rather a lack of it, is what keeps us from growing out our hair; because let's face it, there are a lot of awkward in-between stages that we have to pass through on the way to the length you want.

However, there are a few things you can do to facilitate growing out your hair that will help time pass quickly and ensure you look great at every stage of the growing-out process. So, with that said, here are my top tips for growing out your hair or bangs the right way! To see Coffey's four tips, just keep reading.