Choosing the right hairstyle after 60 can be tricky, especially for women with round faces. While many cuts can slim and flatter your features, some styles actually emphasize fullness and create an even rounder appearance. Understanding which hairstyles to avoid can help you select a more flattering look that enhances your natural beauty rather than working against it.
1. Bowl Cut Disaster
The uniform length all around creates a perfect circle effect that mirrors and amplifies facial roundness. Without layers or angles to break up the silhouette, this retro style forms a helmet-like shape that sits heavily around your face, emphasizing fullness rather than creating balance.
2. Super Short Pixie
Contrary to popular belief, extremely short pixies can make round faces appear fuller. Without enough length on top to create height, this close-cropped style exposes the full circumference of your face, drawing attention to rounded cheeks and emphasizing the circular shape.
3. Chin-Length Bob Without Layers
Hitting precisely at the fullest part of your face, this blunt-cut style creates a horizontal line that emphasizes width. The lack of layers means hair tends to cup around your cheeks, creating a frame that outlines and draws attention to facial roundness.
4. Tight Curly Perm
Remember those ’80s perms? They’re particularly problematic for round faces. The all-over volume expands outward rather than upward, creating width instead of length. Those tight curls form a circular silhouette that mirrors and amplifies your facial shape.
5. Blunt Heavy Bangs
Straight-across thick bangs cut at eyebrow level horizontally slice your face, making it appear shorter and wider. This heavy fringe draws attention to the middle of your face, emphasizing fullness in the cheek area while removing the lengthening effect that your forehead provides.
6. Cabelo liso repartido ao meio
Splitting your hair down the middle creates perfect symmetry that highlights facial roundness. With no layers or angles to provide dimension, straight hair hanging evenly on both sides forms a curtain that outlines your face’s circular shape, especially when it falls at chin length.
7. Single-Length Shoulder Bob
One-length bobs hitting at the shoulders create a solid mass of hair with no movement or texture. Without layers to soften the edges, this style forms a heavy frame around your face, drawing the eye outward rather than creating the vertical lines that would slim your appearance.
8. Puffy Bouffant Styles
Voluminous styles with height but also significant width around the sides create an even rounder silhouette. The outward expansion of these retro-inspired looks mirrors facial fullness. When volume extends sideways rather than focusing on top, your face appears wider and more circular.
9. Penteado baixo elegante
Pulling hair tightly back into a pão baixo exposes your entire face without any softening elements. This severe style emphasizes every curve of your face’s circular shape. Without strands to frame or break up the roundness, your face becomes the central focus.
10. Short Curly Bob
When curly hair sits at chin length, it creates a hemisphere effect around your face. The outward expansion of curls at this particular length adds width precisely where you don’t want it. This bouncy style forms a circular frame that emphasizes rather than minimizes roundness.
11. Wispy Thin Bangs
Sparse, see-through bangs draw attention to your forehead without providing any structure. These insubstantial wisps create a horizontal line across your face while lacking the fullness needed to balance roundness. The result is an emphasized circular shape rather than a flattering frame.
12. Uniform Layerless Lob
The long bob without distinctive layers creates a solid curtain of hair that outlines your face’s shape. This one-dimensional style lacks the varied lengths that could otherwise create angles and dimension. Instead, it forms a smooth curve that mirrors and accentuates facial roundness.
13. Ear-Tucked Straight Style
Tucking straight hair behind both ears exposes the full width of your face without any softening elements. This pulled-back approach creates an unbroken circular outline of your facial shape. Without strands to break up the roundness, your face appears at its fullest circumference.
14. Blunt One-Length Midlength Cut
Hair falling at a uniform length between chin and shoulders creates a heavy curtain effect. Without layers to add movement and dimension, this solid mass of hair forms a thick frame that follows the curve of your face. The result emphasizes rather than minimizes circular facial contours.
15. Tight Slicked-Back Styles
Pulling hair severely back from your face without volume on top creates an unforgiving silhouette. This sleek approach exposes the full circumference of your face without any softening elements. Without height or framing pieces, your face appears at its roundest when completely revealed.