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Hair style help! Oval face shape

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MiMiChuna · 29/07/2023 10:14

My DD has a very oval-shaped face & I'm finding it hard to know what will suit her hair style wise. Me & all the women in my family previously (plus close friends thinking about it) are round faced.

She always wanted long princess hair growing up, like a lot of girls, and her face used to be rounder so it looked different.

Approaching adolescence now & in the past few yrs her face shape has TOTALLY changed! Her long hair now emphasises her newer oval face shape. She's made a few comments lately about this (I'd not noticed really until they started) and has said she wants a different hairstyle now but doesn't know what. I'm struggling to advise!

It'd be great to try something which rebalances her features & will suit a properly oval face structure (not what google says are oval but aren't) if anyone has been in this boat before? I'd love to give her a boost & showcase her amazing new growing-up face. Rather than risk a style mistake!

And if it's relevant, her hair is wavy :-)

Any pointers?

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WombatCowgirl · 29/07/2023 10:44

How about a curtain fringe/ bardot bangs if she wants to break up the oval a bit? Though I thought oval was meant to suit any style? Have you had a search on Pinterest? I'd take a Pinterest board tp the hairdresser full of ideas to the hairdresser and say " I'm hoping to draw attention to my eyes/ slim my jaw/ cover my forehead , these are the kind of styles I like, would any of these work?" If the hairdresser suggests something different, ask her to show you a picture in your daughter's hair colour and texture ( brunette, wavy or whatever). Basically, have ideas and take them for an expert opinion!

MiMiChuna · 29/07/2023 22:22

@WombatCowgirl ermmmm... I am her hairdresser! I've not had good experiences with hairdressers advice personally having a tricky-to-manage hair type myself.
Trying to think of someone well know similar facial shape... think Jamie Lee Curtis. She rocks a pixie / short cut, but my DD deffo doesn't want that, she wants something she can tie off her face for school.
I'll see if she can find some images she likes & see what might work from that.

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