A well groomed beard can help with this as well. On a guy with a round face shape it helps great the illusion of having a strong jaw line. You want that contrast between the top and the sides. On a man with a round face shape, I like to do the opposite that I would on a guy with a rectangle face shape. A cut where the top and sides are proportionate and some hair falls over the forehead looks best on a guy with a rectangle shaped face. If you have a rectangle face shape (long and narrow) what you really don't want is a big contrast between the top and sides-this will create the illusion that your face is even longer. The only thing that you have to worry about if you're a guy with a square face shape is that the shorter you go, the more it will look like a military hairstyle. If you are one of the lucky guys who already have a square face shape, pretty much any haircut from longer to short will look good, but neat and clean haircuts are going to look the best. I'll get into that as I talk about each face shape individually.

This doesn't necessarily mean every guy who sits in my chair gets a square haircut, but there are little tricks I can do to create the illusion of a square face. When a man has less of a square face, the idea is to get a cut that creates more of an illusion of a square. These aren't written in stone-hard fast rules, even stylists have some disagreement on which styles look best for each face shape. Today I'm going to talk more about face shapes and which hair styles I think look best for each particular shape. It's not just a matter of the thicker hair being thinned out by adding texture, a hairstyle that looks good on a guy with really thick hair may make the guy with thinner hair just look like he's trying to hard to hide his hair loss or to cover something up. I wouldn't give the same haircut to a teenager that I would to a older man who's hair is thinning. The same haircut on a guy with curly hair is going to look a lot different on a man with straight hair, or even one with a little wave in his hair. Hair texture, thickness, your face shape, and what you do for a living can make a big difference in finding something that looks good on you.

There are a few things men need to consider when choosing a hairstyle.

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