Face types are different for all people. There are triangular, oval, rectangular, round, square and rhomboid faces. To look like every day from the cover of a fashion magazine and stop spending money on unnecessary accessories, just examine your face and choose the perfect makeup, the right haircut and clothes. In this article, we will talk about the intricacies of a round face, as well as the secrets of makeup and hair styling for this type of appearance.
Type definition
Probably, many people at least once in their life wondered how to determine their type of face. There are two main ways.
- Go to the large mirror and take the felt-tip pen. With your shoulders squared, look at your reflection. Then circle the contours of the face on the mirror without touching the hair and ears. Try to make the outline as accurate as possible. Then consider carefully the resulting figure.
- Using a centimeter, determine your widest part of the face. If the width of the forehead, cheeks and chin are approximately the same, therefore, you are the owner of a square or round face. If the widest part is the forehead, then the whole face tapers down smoothly, which means that, most likely, you are the owner of a triangular type face.
People with a protruding chin usually have a square face. Chubby people, as a rule, look younger than their years, they often become the soul of the company. This type of face has a smooth contour and the same distance from the center to any point of the oval line, an unexpressed chin, a low forehead, and the cheeks pay the most attention to themselves.
Makeup
The round face looks kind and pretty. To achieve perfect harmony, a round face can be “extended” due to the correct application of makeup.
Eyebrows
Since the eyebrows on the face are a horizontal line and visually can make the face wider, they must be drawn at a glance. This option involves the location of the eyebrows not parallel to the eyes, but at an angle above them.
The ideal eyebrow for chubby beauties is long, clearly designed and with a pronounced kink. Try not to pluck your eyebrows into a string, the more natural the better.
Tone
You can sculpt a face using powder and foundation. For visual extension of a round type of face, it is recommended to use tones of two shades, which should not be too contrasting with each other.
A light tone is applied to the chin, central part of the forehead and back of the nose, and dark is applied to the temples, cheekbones, side of the nose and forehead. When applying, do not forget to carefully shade the borders to create a soft effect.
Visually reduce thick cheeks using compact powder, which is applied to them in a small amount. In this case, the tone should be darker than the shade of your skin by a couple of tones.
We correct the full nose by applying dark shades of foundation or powder on its side walls. In the case when it is necessary to slightly shorten the nose, a dark tone is applied to its tip.
For 50-year-old women, the main rule in applying tone is naturalness. Therefore, it is worth giving preference to light BB creams that do not create a mask effect. It is also worth using a concealer that will hide age spots and perfectly mask the dark circles under the eyes.
Before applying tone, do not forget to moisturize your skin with your favorite cream or SPF agent to protect against ultraviolet rays.
Cheekbones
The easiest option to emphasize the cheekbones is to use blush, which is applied with light movements obliquely from the forehead to the chin, avoiding horizontal lines.
Correctly applying makeup will help the following action: smile and gently apply a little blush of delicate peach shades on the protruding parts of the cheeks. Another way to apply blush is to pull the cheeks up to form dimples and apply blush on the protruding parts of the cheeks.
Eyes
For chubby ladies, it is important to focus on the eyes. Any horizontal lines should be avoided; the arrows should not be long with sharp tails. It is preferable to apply thin neat lines along the border of the upper eyelid with eyeliner.
For girls with green eyes, shades of violet, copper and lilac shades are suitable. On brown eyes sand, dark green, chocolate color schemes will look good. Gray eyes are perfectly combined with golden, beige and pink tones, and blue eyes with shades of bronze, lavender and dark chocolate.
Professional makeup artists advise choosing chubby women shades of dark tones that will visually deepen the eye socket. Proper shading during application will help to avoid the effect of horizontal lines. One of the winning eye makeup options is Smokey Ice.
On chubby women, long, thick, curled upper eyelashes look very beautiful, the lower ones can be emphasized with shadows.
Lips
On a round face, it is strictly forbidden to use a lip liner. It is better to use glitter with mother of pearl or matte lipstick in light shades.
Day makeup for a round face consists in applying tone and adjusting the contours with the maximum effect of naturalness. Therefore, it is best to replace the foundation with powder in order to avoid the effect of a dense mask on the face.
Evening make-up
Evening make-up is a bright make-up, implying a full emphasis on the eyes, but at the same time looking neat under artificial lighting. A step-by-step technique for applying evening makeup for a round face looks like this.
- First we sculpt the face with a light and dark foundation or powder, narrow the cheeks, brighten the forehead, apply the concealer under the eyes, extend the chin according to the above scheme. Do not forget to shade thoroughly in order to avoid clear artificial boundaries.
- Make eyebrows: Using tweezers, remove excess hair and draw a clear outline, lifting the outer tip of the arc.
- Apply Highlighter to highlight the upper part of the cheekbones, the center of the nose and forehead.
- Beautifully highlight eyes for evening makeup - Perhaps the most difficult stage. First, apply a base for the eyeshadow on the moving eyelid. Further throughout the eyelid, apply dark shadows, as if slapping them with a flat brush. Then with a clean brush, blend the border of the applied shadows along the orbital line. In the inner corners and under the eyebrows, add a few shades of light shades, gently blend. Paint over the mucous membrane and the intermuscular space with a soft black pencil. After that, if desired, you can apply a thin line of eyeliner for the growth of the eyelashes of the upper eyelid. At the end, we make up the eyelashes with curling mascara.
- Lips Make up with light beige lipstick with a light glossy effect.
Haircut and styling
Many people envy the owners of a round face, because despite their age, they will always look visually younger than their girlfriends with narrow faces. If you choose the right hairstyle for a round face, you can visually lengthen it and smooth your full cheeks. To stretch your face, you need to adhere to vertical lines in the hairstyle, for example, due to the volume on the back of the head.
Uneven, clipped ladder locks and a slightly creative mess will help to stretch your face. It is impossible to allow volume on the sides and lateral fleeces, which visually increase the contours of the face. It is also undesirable to collect hair back without bangs, but a randomly left neat lock of hair near the face stretches the oval and makes it visually higher.
Bukley and curls will not give beauty, but, perhaps, will aggravate the situation by increasing the total volume of the head, at the same time and rounding the face even more. If you really want curls, then you need to style your hair with a light wave from the chin.
Straight bangs creates the effect of weighting the face. The extravagant pixie is one of the ultra-short haircuts that suits chubby charm. Thanks to the open neck, it lengthens and stretches the face.
Horse tails will open a round face, and due to the high climb to the crown, visually make the girl taller.
Direct parting is contraindicated for owners of a round face, and hair set to one side will correct the roundness of the contour. The choice of haircuts and styling with asymmetry will soften the full features or emphasize the advantages of a chubby girl.
A bob haircut with a length below the chin line is not the best option for owners of a round face, but if there is a slanting bang, it looks very impressive.
The Greek style of styling, in which hair is braided on both sides of the head, emphasizes the beauty of a pretty round face.
Styling long hair behind the ears, as well as a low bun with strands left on the sides, will help to give the right oval shape.
Owners of curly hair need to be cut so as to emphasize the cheekbones, while hiding the fullness of the oval.
Hats
Women with a round face are more pretty due to the flowing, almost childish features. Chubby women should be especially careful when choosing a headdress. It should be combined not only with facial features, but also with clothes and body type.
Today hats, caps and hats are not just an item for warming the head, but also a fashion accessory with which you can emphasize your style and hide flaws.
Stylists advise trying on hats before buying, because you can immediately evaluate whether this accessory is suitable for you or not.Experts in the fashion and beauty industry recommend items for the round face that include elements of clothing for the head of a not too tight-fitting style, opening the forehead and covering the cheeks on the sides.
For chubby fashionistas, miniature berets that are worn slightly to the side are ideal, and voluminous beanie hats visually lengthen the face. Also, visually stretch out to chubby girls will help winter hats with pompons or a cap with earflaps with long or short ears on the sides.
The trumpet hat has recently been at the peak of popularity. It wraps around the head and neck, while highlighting the volume under the chin, thereby stretching the face. A bonnet, fedora hats, a high baseball cap, and a down scarf are also ideal for owners of round face shapes.
There are also hats that are literally contraindicated for a round face:
- headphone hats;
- knitted tight caps to the eyebrows;
- classic berets.
Before choosing a hat, it is also advisable to pay attention to your color type. For example, fair-haired girls are ideally suited for warm colors, and red-haired girls with dark skin - gold and lemon.
Accessories
Jewelry
Well-chosen jewelry is the perfect finishing touch to any look.
Owners of a round face should opt for thin, oval or teardrop-shaped earrings stretching their faces, or on small, barely noticeable earrings. It is recommended to ignore round massive accessories for the ears.
Elongated chains with graceful small pendants will fit your neck. Short jewelry under the neck, as well as large chubby stones should be avoided.
Glasses
Round-faced girls need to avoid horizontal lines. They should buy glasses in almost any frame except round. Rectangular glasses in an elegant thin frame that protrude beyond the line of the widest part of the face will look very stylish.
Another ideal option is the cat-eye frame. It is advisable to choose the arms without decor, a clear geometric shape. The color of the frame should ideally match the color of hair and skin.
Scarves and scarves
It is better to choose a scarf or scarf from dense fabric, and you need to tie it freely, not under the throat, leaving the neck space open.
A scarf on the head should leave part of the hair open and create volume on the top of the head, thereby visually stretching the face.
Secrets to Troubleshooting
If you have wide cheekbones, full cheeks and a square chin, that is, with all the flaws of a round face, do not be discouraged - there are several secrets to eliminate them:
- make a hairstyle from hair below the length of the chin line;
- avoid horizontal lines in makeup;
- close eyes and a small nose are corrected in the following way: brightening the bridge of the nose, darken the sides of the nose - this will visually increase the distance between the eyes;
- with a wide arrangement of the eyes, the nose is darkened;
- so that a round face is not striking, makeup artists advise focusing on lips or eyes, while lipstick should choose muted shades - beige or pink, a transparent or pearlescent shine may also be an ideal option;
- the primer will smooth the surface of the face, and also hide the pores or fine wrinkles and perfectly matte the skin;
- corrector-pencils help hide pigmentation, thin skin and even allergies, they have different colors, each of which works on a specific problem: white brighten dark spots on the skin, green helps to cope with acne, pink will block dark circles under the eyes, beige corrector helps refresh skin tone;
- concealer is an important thing for masking vascular nets and bruises under the eyes, it is applied with gentle movements and small portions, and careful shading is very important in this matter;
- Correction of a round face consists in its visual lengthening and always occurs according to the classical pattern: the side parts of the face are darkened, and the forehead, chin and part under the eyes, on the contrary, are lightened, attracting attention to the center;
- for chubby ladies, the correct eye makeup is done with shades of dark shades, and the upper part of the eye is covered with a light tone, carefully blending the border between them;
- the direction of the eyebrow hairs can be fixed with a special gel or wax, and a too high kink will only emphasize the roundness of the face, and a small elegant bend will give an excellent lengthening effect;
- Before applying makeup, the face must be thoroughly cleaned and moisturized, it is also recommended to apply a base for makeup, which will help create an even effect of the foundation;
- the headbands are suitable for women with wide cheekbones and optically lengthen their facial features.
Beautiful examples
- Cameron Diaz is a beautiful owner of a round face. Due to the bright accent on the eyes and slight asymmetry in the styling, round facial features are not striking.
- The sex symbol of Mila Kunis is always on top thanks to the right makeup and hairstyle for a round oval face.
- Miranda Kerr - Victoria Secret angel, prefers soft curls, and due to the fact that she removes hair on one side, making styling asymmetric, her face visually lengthens.
- Sculpting a round face: you can get an excellent result while observing the whitening and darkening technique for the desired areas.
- Head accessories that help visually hide the imperfections of a round face.
- A ponytail with hair is one of the favorite evening hairstyles for owners of round faces.
- Pixies are perfect. Choose a pixie if you are an extravagant round-faced person.
- Elongated earrings - the right solution for chubby beauties.
- Avoid vertical lines when choosing glasses.
- Eyebrows at once help the round shape to visually stretch out.
- Eyes bulging are masked very easily: choose a neutral color mascara and apply it over the entire length of the eyelid.
- Dark lipstick is not suitable for thin lips, visually making them even thinner.
- With a short and full neck, try to open it with hairstyles collected upstairs.
- Smooth hair combed on the sides is contraindicated for chubby girls.
- Visually reduce the big nose will help styling with soft curls, combed on one side.
- Round eyes highlight by stretching in the outer corners of the eye.
You can see how easily and quickly you can make-up correction for a round face in the next video.
And from this video you will learn how to choose the best hairstyle for a round type of face.