10 Best Ways to Look Your Best Based on Your Body Shape and Face Shape
Our face and body shapes can help us choose the most suitable hairstyles, clothing and accessories. Here are ten tips to help you highlight your best qualities.
10. Find out what your face shape is.
The first step is to figure out what shape you fit into (more or less). For faces, these are usually oval, round, heart-shaped, square, diamond-shaped, or oblong. This flowchart from the beauty department can help you define the shape of your face, whether you are a boyfriend or a girl.
9. Choose the best hairstyle for your face.
The right haircut can make your face thinner, longer, wider, or in any other direction you want. This table offers haircuts for women and this is the male version .
8. Choose the best sunglasses (or glasses) for your face.
The shape of your face also affects how glasses and sunglasses look on you . If you have a round face, it is best to use a larger, angular style, while people with a square face will benefit from frames that are not too heavy. Sunglass Hut will even show you sunglasses that fit different face shapes.
7. Choose jewelry that best suits your face shape.
Anything you wear on your face can either improve the shape of your face or counteract it, including earrings and necklaces. Mystic Beauty explains which jewelry complements the shape of your face and why. (Hint: avoid earrings that are the same shape as your face.)
6. Choose the best beard style for your face shape.
This is for the guys. Birchbox recommends grooming “optimal beard” by combining face shape and beard style to create a graduated oval shape. For example, if you have a square face, the hair on the chin should be thicker and the hair on the sides shorter. Check out their guide here .
5. Buy tops with a nice neckline or shirt collar.
The collars and neckline of the shirts are also in harmony with the shape of your face (or vice versa). According to this article from Black Lapel, a pointed collar where the ends of the collar are not set too wide works best for round faces, while a wider collar is best for angular faces.
Likewise, certain cleavage styles are more suited to certain face shapes, as evidenced by the drawing posted on Gurl :
4. Determine the shape of your body.
As in the case of facial shapes, we all more or less approach different body types. Shop Your Shape has a female body type guide shown above, as well as a calculator with which you can enter your measurements and get the result.
Men can check out this Fashion Beans article, which describes five categories of body shapes: trapezoid, inverted triangle, rectangle, triangle, or oval.
Both sites offer clothing options that best suit your figure.
There is also a theory according to which there are three main body types – ectomorph, mesomorph and endomorph – for both men and women. You can take thistest on Bodybuilding.com to see which one works best for you and how it might affect your diet and exercise.
3. Choose a bag that suits your body shape.
When you carry a bag, you want it to fit your body so that you look balanced. The image above from the Scentsy blog is a start, but you can also consider your height (if you are short, a long rectangular bag can make you look taller, for example, while a round bag can be useful for slim and tall women.) … To some extent, these proposals for the shape and size of bags can be useful for men and their portfolios or “men’s wallets.”
2. Use technology to find clothes that work best for you.
The previously mentioned Fitbay offers clothing for men and women based on body shape and what other Fitbay users with a similar body type find to suit them best. You can also find the womenswear brands that suit you best based on your own measurements on Find Your Fit .
1. Look your best in pictures depending on your body type.
Finally, if you are photographing and want to look your best, you can trick your camera into looking taller, shorter, slimmer, or wider simply by the way you tilt yourself and choose your clothing color and background. Most importantly, these tips can help you feel more comfortable in front of the camera, regardless of your body type.
Remember, these are just guidelines – create however you want! However, guidelines are there if you don’t know what flatter you and want to use your own shape to make tough decisions about style and dress.