What’s the Best Updo for Your Face Shape?

What’s the Best Updo for Your Face Shape?

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When you’re choosing the updo hairstyle for a special occasion, take into consideration not only your preferences and current trends, but first of all, your natural attributes, face shape being the most important. Not every girl is lucky enough to have an oval face. It is almost perfect face shape, and so it’s quite easy to choose the best updo to go with it: this can be almost every kind of hairdo that frames and enhances the beauty of oval face instead of covering it with bangs and hair layers. But what if you have one of the less easy to style face shapes?

Updos were made for round faces because this shape needs to lengthen a little bit, and high up buns add necessary volume to the crown of the head and make the whole head look much longer. Also, half-updos go well with round faces. If you like curls, you can pin the side sections in the back of your ears to not add any unnecessary width to your cheekbones and jaw. The same thing could be said about square faces. The only difference is that geometrical buns at the top of the head can sometimes enhance the width of your jaw, that is why you should refrain from making big and clean high buns if you have square face shape.

Heart face shape is another example of a framing, where width should be balanced by adding height to the hairstyle. Buns, as well as loops, look great when they are framing a heart face shape. Loops and bums styled above the forehead and ears will do justice to the triangular face shape, since they draw attention away from the jawline and focus on the forehead.

High updos won’t work well with face shapes, which are longer than wider, that is diamond and oblong face shape. But it doesn’t mean that you cannot wear any updo if you have one of those face shapes. You can go with a chignon and French twist, as long as you don’t plan to tease hair at the crown of the head. Beautiful cheekbones, which are the main characteristics of a diamond face shape, will be even more accentuated by half-updos pinned behind the ears. Side buns on both or just one side of the head are perfect for long faces.

“My Updo Doesn’t Look Good” – Tips And Solutions

“My Updo Doesn’t Look Good” – Tips And Solutions

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The beginning is often the most difficult point in the process of learning new things, and you should have some faith in your skills to endure your failures. But what if your efforts are futile, and no matter what you do, your updo does not look like it should?

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The first thing you need to know is that updos shouldn’t be made on very fresh hair, right after washing and drying. Shampoos and conditioners leave a slippery layer on the hair shaft, and that’s why it is difficult to discipline and anchor your updos made on fresh hair. Wash your hair at least a few hours or even a day before making any updo hairstyles. If you have oily hair and you cannot wait that long, use styling products like styling gels or creams, which dampen your hair and make it more manageable. Do not use all those products on the hair roots or your hair will become greasy in a blink of an eye. Hairspray is also a great finishing product to flatten and shape any fly-aways or hair strands.

When you are pinning your updo to the scalp, always try to use two bobby pins and cross them together to form the “X” shape. This “X” shape will prevent pins from falling out because one bobby pin is securing the other. Always prepare the double number of bobby pins. Use them to secure the bottom of your updo. If you have problems with hair strands sticking out of a bun, you can use French hairpins. Their design allows you to pin them right into the bun and hold the hair in the right position.

Most of the difficult updos require a lot of precision in the way your hands and fingers work during styling, and that is something you can learn only when you are practicing a lot. If you are annoyed by the fact that you cannot see the back of your head while working on an updo, you can use a second mirror, although most of the stylist doesn’t work that way, since seeing each of your movements in the opposite direction is even more confusing than doing it by feel only. Nevertheless, you should have a small handheld mirror in your purse to be able to check the condition of your hairstyle at any time.