Round Shape Face

Your best bet are styles that fall right below your chin or add a little volume on top. Soft, graduated layers are also a great bet because they make your face appear slimmer and tend to remove bulk and weight from the sides. Bangs are flattering, but keep them long or sideswept. Go for wispy and tapered ends. These de-emphasize the roundness of your face.

Celebs who share your face shape: Fergie, Kate Bosworth, Oprah Winfrey, Cameron Diaz, Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Williams, Catherine Zeta-Jones

Avoid: One-length, blunt cuts if you have short hair. These only emphasize your round face.

Tools you need: A great Boar's Hair brush to keep hair tame.

Best

1) Your goal is to minimize the roundness of your face as much as possible. Kirsten Dunst, a classic round face, shows off a great cut for round faces here.

Why this cut works:

-                 The gentle waves help deflect from the roundness of her face. Extremely curly or flat hair only accentuates roundness. She has just the right amount of curl here.

-                     Kirsten's hair has layers, which are important on a round face. Styles that fall just below the chin helps elongate the face. You have to be careful with short haircuts, your head can appear rounder with a bob, especially if you were also blessed with a short neck.

-                     Wispy ends are more flattering to a round face than blunt, one-length ends that widen the face.

Kelly Clarkson, another classic round face, shows off a great hairstyle for women with round faces.

Why this style works:

-                     She allows the hair to grow below the chin, this helps elongate her face. When you have a round face, you want to avoid chin-length curly hair, or chin-length bobs.

-                     Kelly sports sleek, graduated layers from her lips down. This helps remove bulk and weight from the sides.

-                     Wispy, tapered ends de-emphasize roundness.

Short hair is tricky on round faces because they don't add length and many short cuts add width to the sides of the face -- a no-no for round faces. Avoid bobs if you have a round face, especially if you were also blessed with a short neck. Any blunt cut at the chin will accentuate roundness.

-                     If you opt for short hair, make sure you have layers cut in. Layers add height, which you need when your face is as wide as it is long.

Worst

Straight hair needs to have body to look good on a round face.

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