Your face shape is also an important factor when choosing the right haircut because your haircut and style can highlight or hide certain facial features. For instance, we recommend that square shaped faces get neat haircuts that are longer on the top and shorter on the sides to help emphasize the jawline. And oblong or rectangular faces, on the other hand, would need hairstyle that voids volume - especially on top - so it won't elongate the face any further.
Here, we’ve collected 7 different hairstyles for the guys who have Round, Oval, Square, Oblong/Rectangular, Triangular, and Heart shaped faces and recommended haircuts for each from low to medium maintenance.
ROUND FACE
With a round face, you need to create the illusion of height and angles. Any type of hair style that gives volume. Best strategy would be to keep the sides short, like a fade, your crown longer and have a square line up. You can also experiment with messy v cut styles, side parts or layers for contrast. Avoid buzz cuts and bangs!
Low Maintenance: Comb over, spiky hair
Medium maintenance: Side parts,
High Maintenance: Pompadour, Faux cut, Quiff hairstyle
OVAL FACE
An oval face is symmetrical and balanced, so no need to do anything extra to get the greatest haircut. Any hair cut works! Try to avoid any type of style that makes you wear your hair down on your forehead known as bangs, as it will make your face look rounder.
SQUARE FACE
Square shaped faces give a masculine and angular look. Goes well with hairstyles that feature short, and tight sides. You can also add some volume and layers on top to give you a chiseled look.
High maintenance: Quiff cut, French cut
Low maintenance: Buzz cut, crew cut
OBLONG/ RECTANGLE FACE
If you have a rectangular or oblong face shape, you will realize that you will have a longer face than a wide face. Best thing to do is to balance its length. Should not be too long on the top and not too short on the sides. Texture haircut with a medium top and sides works best. Avoid having the combinations of long hair cuts and long beards.
Low maintenance: Buzz cut, crew cut
Medium maintenance: Slick back, side parts,
High maintenance: French cut
TRIANGLE FACE
Triangle face shape is asymmetrical, with a wider jawline and a smaller forehead to balance the triangle face shape.Try to add volume on the top to reduce the pointy look. Longer and fuller with short sides the better. Looks great with textures. Try to avoid short side fades.
Low maintenance: crew cut
Medium maintenance: Fringe
High maintenance: French cut, faux cut, Short pompadour
HEART SHAPE FACE
Heart shaped face mens forehead is the widest part of their face, its necessary to avoid aggressive fades and too high crowns. Try to experiment with longer tops, back and sides to let it naturally grow. This is also great for the guy with smaller heads.
Low maintenance: crew cut
Medium maintenance: Shaggy styles, messy tops
High maintenance: Long fringe
For more on what Hairstyle looks best based on your face shape, check out our blog on The Best Haircut for your Face Shape!
It is important understand that the purpose of going by face shape is to help emphasize or understate certain features to balance out your face. Just because you have a certain face shape, doesn't mean you're confined to styles that exaggerate certain features. Feel free to experiment with different hair styles until you find the one you're happiest with! Remember, you can always modify classic styles to help tailor them to you specifically!
Communication with your barber is also important! Your barber is the best person to discuss hair style with because you'd get a personalized recommendation. They're the experts! Everyone's hair and head shape is different, so don't get discouraged when you walk into your barber's with a reference photo and they can't get the exact same cut as the photo. After looking at your reference and discussing the style you want to achieve, your barber will - at least - achieve something similar, something as close as possible to the style but with your hair type.