Look Great in Glasses: How to Choose the Right Shape for your Face
How to Choose the Right Shape for your Face
When you have to wear glasses, you want to find the right frame for your face. One way to get the right type of frame is to try on a number of different pairs, but it may help to narrow down your choices beforehand. You need to figure out what shape your face is and determine your coloring to know what frame style would look the very best on your face.
According to the Vision Council of America, or the VCA, there are three things to remember when deciding on a frame. The frame shape you choose looks best on you if it is in contrast with your face shape, as well as in scale with your face size. Also, a pair of glasses should compliment your best facial feature. An example of this would be to choose a blue pair of eyeglass frames to compliment your blue eyes. Determining what will look best on you can be figured out simply enough, or ask your optician to help you use these guidelines to choose the eyewear that’s best for you.
There are seven main face shapes. Determining what you have is important to figuring out how to look great in glasses.
Round
A person with a round face will want to find glasses to help the face look thinner and longer. This can be done by choosing a pair of angular narrow glasses, a clear bridge, and frames that are wide, such as in a rectangular shape.
Drew Barrymore - Round Face
Oblong
People with an oblong face want to make their face look shorter and more balanced, and can do this with a frame that has a top to bottom depth, a decorative frame or a pair that has a low bridge.
Gwenyth Paltrow - Oblong Face
Oval
Those with an oval shaped face should try and keep a natural balance by choosing a pair of glasses that are at least as wide if not a bit wider than the broadest area of the face.
Cameron Diaz - Oval Face
Diamond
If you have a diamond shaped face, it is narrow around the eyes and the jaw line, while the cheekbones can be very high. Frames with a distinctive brow line or with a lot of details will look good on a diamond shaped face. Rimless, oval or cat-eye frames look good, too.
Sofia Loren - Diamond Face
Square
Those with a square face have a broad forehead and jaw line, and the width and length of the face are in proportion to one another. Narrower frames look best on this type of face, as well as narrow oval frames or ones that have more width to them than they do depth.
Demi Moore - Square Face
Another factor when determining how to look great in glasses is to go by the coloring of your skin. For warm colors, you will want to find frames that are camel, peach, bright red, golden, copperish, orange, coral, warm blue, or khaki. Cool colors look best with frame shades in blue, magenta, pink bluish-gray, rose-brown, black, or plum.
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