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Round Face Shapes: Best and Worst Hairstyles

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Good Hairstyle for a Round Face: Long Layers and Natural Waves

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If you have a classic round face, you have soft, non-angular features. You may find you have more of a round face when you carry extra weight, but keep in mind many classic round-faced women are super-skinny and still have non-angular features.

A great option for round faces are long layers. Keep hair longer than the chin and ask for long layers cut into hair.

Gentle waves also deflect the roundness of the face so if you have natural wave in your hair (as most women do), allow your hair to do its natural "thing." Scrunch hair as it dries so it retains some of its wave or help along the wave by wrapping hair around the barrel of a large curling iron as Kate Winslet's stylist did here. (See "The Secret to Sexy, Beachy Waves").

See more long, wavy hairstyles

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