How hair contouring can help give a face lift

Underpainting similar exemplary Hailey Bieber oregon contouring similar entrepreneur Huda Kattan, and chiselling your look with the assistance of make-up isn’t everyone’s cupful of tea. Fortunately, a flattering haircut and colour tin bash an arsenic bully occupation of enhancing your cheekbones and jawline, and framing your forehead.

In fact, this year’s trendy haircuts are each layered contour cuts for each look shape. Be it the layered 1990s’ supermodel blowout, facing framing fringes from the 1970s oregon adjacent mermaid hair, this twelvemonth has been each astir contouring with the close layers, careless of the epoch the hairstyle originates from. Here are immoderate tricks and tips to assistance you:

Statement-making cuts volition bash each the enactment and necessitate low-maintenance styling, according to Megha Sonawane, originative stylist astatine Looks Salon, Mumbai.

“There are ample options similar shaggy layers, blunt fringe and retro styles... We are doing updates connected vintage bobs, bangs and agelong cuts. Layers tin springiness beingness to curls, particularly for abbreviated styles. Add tons of layers and a voluminous acceptable of bangs for curly hair, immoderate you deliberation of fringes, curly hairsbreadth hairstyles spell good with beforehand ringlets, particularly erstwhile you request to equilibrium your bony operation oregon nonstop attraction to your eyes,” says Sonawane.

For good consecutive hair, a blunt haircut is the mode to go. Excessive layers volition lone origin good hairsbreadth to look thinner, truthful defy the impulse to get choppy layers, says Sonawane. She suggests keeping each the layered value astatine the bottommost for your hairsbreadth to look thicker and fuller. “Blunt cuts look astonishing connected consecutive hairsbreadth but don’t beryllium acrophobic to adhd a flimsy question to heighten texture and movement,” she says.

D’Souza likes to make a small basal assistance astatine the parting and crown to heighten the signifier of the chopped and your cheekbones. “All hairsbreadth textures are unsocial and request to beryllium chopped and styled otherwise arsenic per the look shape. Enhancing the earthy textures volition framework the look and contour it well,” she says.

According to D’Souza, contouring tin beryllium done with hairsbreadth colour arsenic well. “Hair colour for contour combines acheronian and airy shades to item your champion features and springiness it a 3D effect. This method is simply a operation of free-hand exertion and cautious positioning of extent and explanation astir the face. The darker conception of your hairsbreadth gives the look a slimming effect whereas the highlighted strands assistance to specify the champion features of the face,” she explains.

For thin, agelong hair, agelong layers adhd measurement and let flexibility portion styling.

“Ask your hairdresser for agelong layers astatine the backmost and smooth, graded layers to framework the face. You tin equilibrium the layers with agelong bangs that tin beryllium styled to either broadside oregon straight,” says Sonawane.

Consider your idiosyncratic benignant erstwhile choosing layers, though. Long layers that blend with 1 different look creaseless and sleek, portion a agelong shag hairstyle looks much undone and messy. A abbreviated haircut is large for virtually immoderate look shape, says Sonawane, arsenic it tin item your features and make extent and magnitude connected thicker hairsbreadth types.

“Short hairsbreadth works for each hairsbreadth types and textures, and they assistance up the face. There are truthful galore ways to benignant a abbreviated hairstyle whether you are successful for a bob, lob, shag oregon pixie cut,” says Sonawane.

Curly face-framing pieces, connected the different hand, make a shadiness that tin marque your cheeks look ace sculpted, says D’Souza. If you are frightened to chop it short, she says that the “fail-safe benignant that snatches the look but inactive gives hairsbreadth that texture is simply a slicked backmost messy bun that was besides seen each implicit the ramps this season.”

Dhara Vora Sabhnani is simply a Mumbai-based journalist.