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STEP 3: For men who want to tame their curls, a smoothing serum or
straightening pomade will help smooth out curls and waves. For best curl control
blow-dry your hair straight with a vent brush after application of the hair product.

How to Determine Your Face Shape

Cindy McKie is a professional hairstylist with over ten years experience in the industry.
She now works as a freelance writer.

Choosing the perfect hairstyle starts before you look at any photos or a visit your
hairdresser. In order to select the perfect cut for you, you’ll need to take a good, hard look
in the mirror and determine your face shape. Knowing the shape of your face helps you
choose hairstyles that compliment your good features and counter balances your not so
flattering features.

Measuring Your Face

Instructions

• STEP 1: Choose a bathroom with good lighting and stand in front of the mirror.
You’ll need a tape measure, a piece of paper and a pen to write down your
measurements.
• STEP 2: Start by measuring across the top of your cheekbones. Place the end of
your tape measure just past the outer corner of your eye. This is your start point.
Then, carefully lay the tape measure in a straight line across the bridge of your
nose to just past the outer corner of your other eye. This is your end point of
measurement. The tape measure should be resting on the top of the “apples” of
your cheeks, or just on top of your cheekbones.

Read the number at the end point and write down this measurement.
• STEP 3: Measure your jaw line next. Start on one side of your jaw at the base
near your ear. Run the measuring tape along your jaw line until you come to the
middle of your chin.

Multiple the number at the end point by two and write down this measurement.
• STEP 4: Measure your forehead now. Place the start point of the measuring tape
on one side of your forehead at the widest point halfway between your eyebrows
and your hairline. Run the measuring tape along your forehead until you come to
the same point on the opposite side of your head.

STEP 5: Finally, measure the length of your face. Start at the middle of your
hairline. Run the measuring tape down your face, over your nose, to the tip of