21 Coiffures pour Visage Allongé
If you’re feeling self conscious about a long forme du visage, getting the right coupes de cheveux can drastically change the way you see votre visage. The key things to look for are styles that have more volume near the sides of votre visage than on top of your head, which will make cheeks look wider. Many types of frange, from long and side swept to blunt frange at brow level will also make votre visage look shorter by concealing your forehead. With so many options of coiffures to flatter your long forme du visage, we’ve compiled our 20 favourites to help narrow down your search.







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1Mid Length Cut With Deep Side Part
Model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley’s blond style pictured here is the perfect mid-length option for flatteur long faces. Layers give hair body and fullness that widen the appearance of the face, while a deep side part sweeps a bang across the forehead.
2Long Waves With Blunt frange
For women with longer faces who are in love with mermaid locks, wearing hair with some texture is the best way to prevent votre visage from being elongated. Blunt frange that hit just below the brow are the perfect addition to this look, because they conceal the forehead, therefore shortening the face and emphasizing the eyes.
3Face Framing frange
By covering part of the forehead and adding volume at the sides of the face, these long, centre-parted frange help flatter long face shapes even when hair is tied back in a queue de cheval.
4cheveux longs With Thick Texturized frange
This long style keeps hair relatively flat at the crown of the head to avoid adding length to the face, but uses waves to create volume throughout the rest of the hair. If blunt frange are too much work for you, try these texturized frange that land below brow level, shortening the face and creating a rounded silhouette thanks to gradual lengthening at the sides.
5bouclé carré With Deep Side Part
This chic carré is styled with boucles that begin several inches below the roots, adding volume and bounce without making votre visage appear longer. These side swept frange are slightly shorter than what’s usually recommended for women with longer faces, but the deep side part keeps them flatteur.
6Medium Cut With Flicked Layers
Layers generally help to widen the appearance of the face, and the outward flick seen styled here adds an extra visual cue to draw the eye in a horizontal direction.
7Medium Cut With Big Waves
By cutting some long layers into thick, medium length hair, your naturally long face will look fuller at the cheeks. Subtle face framing mèches help add to the effect, and are a better choice than ombré colour that draws the eye downwards.
8Long Bang pixie
Hair that’s cut shorter than carré length can be difficult when flatteur long faces, as it’s harder to create the illusion of width at cheek level. If you’re set on trying a pixie cut, we’d recommend going for this sophisticated style that has enough length in the front pieces to sweep over the forehead, and avoid styling hair so that’s slicked down at the sides.
9Medium Almost-Blunt Cut
Kept at a fairly uniform length all around, some texturizing at the ends and a side swept bang give this coupes de cheveux a round shape that creates the same illusion in the face.
10Long Glamour boucles
Si vous avez a long face, and you want to wear vos cheveux long with no frange, face framing boucles are a must. Sarah Jessica Parker styles her cheveux longs with volumizing boucles that begin around cheek level, instantly widening her face, while mèches add an extra pop.
11Bouncy Layers
Leave it to a southern girl like Carrie Underwood to wear collarbone length hair like she’s the belle of the ball. These bouncy layers are both glamour and fun, and this is one of the best bang-free ways to balance out an oblong face.
12Long carré With Waves
For women with cheveux épais and a longer forme du visage, this ondulé style with a deep side part makes a very flatteur and surprisingly facile à entretenir choice. While Anne Hathaway is dressing up the look here, this coiffures translates beautifully to everyday wear.
13Chin Length carré With Retro Waves
One of the best styles for rounding off facial features, this chin length carré uses retro waves and dimensional colour to draw the eye out at the cheeks.
14Modern Pageboy With frange
If you like a chin length carré without any waves, try this lisse style with textured ends that create a round shape, and side sweeping frange to conceal some of the forehead.
15Long Bang carré
For a more casual and easier to style coupes de cheveux than the chin length carré, try this slightly longer style. The long bang in front helps to draw the eye to the cheeks, but doesn’t need to be blowdried and flat ironed every morning.
16ondulé Lob
The lob coupes de cheveux with long layers that everyone’s after isn’t off limits if you have an oblong face, just aim to add boucles and waves rather than styling hair flat.
17Lob With Deep Side Part
If you feel less interested in adding boucles and waves to your lob, or your boucles are in a flatter next-day style, move your part to one side to create the instant illusion of wider cheeks.
18Short Cut With boucles
This shorter style does a wonderful job of balancing out a long face thanks to curled hair drawn across the forehead in a deep side part.
19Triangle carré
A blunt, chin length cut that’s worn in boucles tends to create a triangle shape that some women avoid. As long as you aren’t trying to minimize a square jaw, this triangle frame will help to reshape votre visage, and is gaining popularity as a retro-inspired trend.
20Thick vintage boucles
These springy boucles land at chin length to create a audacieux, vintage feel while adding the appearance of fullness at the cheeks.