THE MAGIC OF KNOWING YOUR FACE SHAPE

Whether you believe it or not, knowing your face shape is the first step in creating your most beautiful look.

Do you know that knowing your face shape could dramatically help the way you shape your eye brows, and style your?

Our appearance is what makes us unique as individuals. Even though we are unique, certain characteristics such as jaw placement and forehead shape determines face shape.

There are six different face shapes: Oval face shape, Heart-Shaped face shape, Square face shape, Round face shape, and Long face shape, and Diamond face shape.

It is quite hard to be objective about your shape face, and we know they are lots of suggestions on how to figure it. But we have come up with the simplest way to do it

Firstly, start by pulling your hair back from your face with no makeup looking closely at the mirror.

Secondly, outline your face shape using a lipstick

You need to look out for the following shapes:

Oval shape has generally been accepted as the perfect face shape. This is bacause it has an almost perfect balance, equal distance from hairline to the eye brow, from the eyebrow to the tip of the jaw.

Oval shape allows you to wear any haircut style and to select your eyebrow shape according to your personal taste.

Eye Brow

We would advice anyone with this face shape to draw a perfect arch as shown above. This would help accomplish the face shape well.

Styling

You look best when styling your hair off your face. Most oval face shapes can wear slicked-backed looks as well.

Avoid

Covering up your "perfect" features with heavy bangs, or too forward-directed styles. Wearing your hair style on your face, will make you lose your face shape behind the hair. It may appear to add weight to your face.

Click here to view a celebritity with this face shape.

Dakore Egbuson and Rukky Sanda also has this face shape.

Ahh, a long shaped face.

Long Shaped face are certainly not short on stlye options, so take a breathe as a sign of relief.

You face features are ideal for chin lengths bobs, curls and waves because they help create illusion to the width.

Eye Brow

You need to make your eyebrow apppear oval.

Draw a flat brow shape by applying horrizontal line to your face.

This draws the eye from side to side and stops it from going up and down as shown above.

Styling

Make sure you ask your stylist to cut your hair shorter at the back so it does not look boring if you decide to adpot the bob.

Avoid

Stay away from anything extreme. Do not do hair length longer than collarbone and skull capping supper short cut. This will make your face look even longer!

Celebrity like stephanie okereke only get by with long hair because they propably visit their hair stlyist who helps them set and style to add fullness to the hair very often. So because most of us dont have such luxury or time, i will say keep to shoulder length to avoid any harm to your appearance.

click here to view celebrity with this face shape. Other celebirities you share face shape with are Ogo Okoye and Stephanie Okereke.

Alot of peole might not agree with this, but a lot of hairstyles actually suit a round face

Your goal is to create less volume around the face. You also want to minimize the appearance of roundness.

Golden Rule

Always remember that a round faces need a style that has longer pieces that fall onto your face to lengthen your cheeks, making them look slimmer and your cheekbones more structured.

Eye Brow

You face shape needs eye brow that would make your face look longer.

Hence, you need to have an high arch brow shape and a short tail so your face can appearmore oval.

To do this apply lines that go up the face. This will draw the eye more up and down and stops it from going side to side.

Styling

Try cuts that fall just below the chin. Features layers cut are also great because it makes your face appear slimmer and tend to remove bulk and weight from the sides.

Avoid

Do not go near a short blunt fridge. Curly short hair is also a no no for you. These will only emphazise your roundeness and make you look older than you are.

Click here to view a celebrity you share face shape with. Shola Shobowale and Choima Chukuka also are amongst others who has this face shape.

Dont Panic! You have a lovely pointy chin which tends to be the focal point of your face.

Your face shape features is ideal for short and long hair styles. However if you decide to wear shorter styles, make sure you leave the top layers soft and back layers full. And for long hair styles, go for long layers that would graze your cheeckbones.

You need to always draw attention to your eyes and cheeckbones.

Eye Brow

Emphazise the shape of your face by drawing a rounded shape to soften your face.

Styling

Ask your stylist to do this with sideswept bangs instead (like Ini Edo pictured here), brow-grazing fringe, a strong part and hair that falls at or below your jawline.

Avoid

Short, blunt-cut bangs and harsh, choppy layers. These will only emphasize your upper face and will make your top look too heavy.

Click here to view a celebrity with this face shape. Joke Silva, Uche Jombo and Liz Benson has a heart shaped face.

Surprisingly your style is very sexy. All you do need to do is play down your strong, angular jaw.

You can also get away with short, spiky cuts and long, sleek styles with layers that start at the jawline and continue downward.

Eye brow

Draw a strong angled eyebrow to balance a strong jawline.

Styling

Ask you stylist to make a fringe that touches the eyebrows and which is longer and layered at the sides. This does a great job in disguising your square bones.

Avoid

One-length bobs (especially chin-length), blunt-cut bangs and long straight hair with center parts. These will make your face look even more square.

Click here to view a celebrity with this face shape.

Also check out Judith Mazagwu and Monalisa Chinda's style!

We love this shape face because it is very defined. If you have this shape thank your God because makeup tend to do wonders on you.

A diamond face shape is a cross between a heart and a dramatic oval. People often mistake this with a round shaped face.

" Widest at the cheekbones, and narrow equally at the forehead and jaw line"

Because your face is very dramatic, you can try any styles.

Almost everything works with your face (as long as you are a true diamond). You can wear shorter styles.

Styling

However if you are a dramatic diamond shape like Genevieve Nnaji, you need to leave weight in the back nape area like a heart shaped face. This will achieve more balance between your dramatic cheekbones and more delicate chin line.

Eye Brow

A brow shape that works well with a diamond face is a rounded brow as it helps to soften the angular face

Click here to view picture of a celebrity that have this face shape.

Stella Damascus, Ngozi ezeonu also have this face shape.

Though theirs is not as dramatic as Genevieve Nnaji's.