How to Determine Your Facial Shape

STEP BY STEP ON HOW TO MEASURE THE REGIONS OF THE FACE.
WHAT FACE SHAPE ARE YOU?

Difficulty: Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• A HAIR BRUSH OR COMB
• A HAIR BAND
• A MIRROR
• PEN AND PAPER
• A MEASURING TAPE

1. Remove all of your make-up. With a brush or comb pull hair entirely away from face. You can either use a headband, a hairband,or if your hair is short, wrap your head in a towel. What ever method you use to do this with the objective is to have your face free from your hair.

2. 
   MEASURING THE LENGTH OF THE FACE

   TAKING THE MEASUREMENTS. Most likely you will be standing in front of your bathroom mirror while doing this. Make sure that you have your pen and paper available. You will need to write down what you measure.
   You are going to start by measuring the length of your face.
   Take the tape measure and as straight as possible hold it starting at the top of your forehead to the tip of your chin. On your paper label length and write down your measurement.

3. 

   Next you will measure the widest part of your face. Usually this is along the top of the cheekbone. If you place your fingers on your cheeks you can feel the bone. With the tape measure place it next to your hairline directly across where you have felt your cheek bone. Keep the tape as straight as possible bring it across your face to the other side of your hairline. On your paper label width and write down your measurement.

4. Having those two measurements we now can determine what your face shape is.
   OVAL,SQUARE,ROUND,HEART,OBLONG,TRIANGULAR,DIAMOND

5. 
   THE OVAL FACE SHAPE

   THE OVAL FACE SHAPE. It's considered to be the perfect face shape.
   The oval face shape is equal to 1 1/2 times the width with forehead and jaw
   the same width. Similar to the shape of an egg.

6. 
   THE SQUARE FACE SHAPE

   THE SQUARE FACE SHAPE. The square face is as wide as it is long and has strong angles.

7. 
   THE ROUND FACE SHAPE

   THE ROUND FACE SHAPE. The round face is as wide as it is long but has soften edges. The width is 2/3 or more of the length.

8. 
   THE HEART SHAPED FACE

   THE HEART SHAPED FACE. The heart shape face has width at the cheek and eye area with a narrow to pointy chin and sometimes a high forehead.

9. THE OBLONG SHAPED FACE. The oblong shape face is as long as it is wide and has straight sides.
   THE TRIANGULAR SHAPED FACE. The triangular face is narrow at the forehead and wide at the jaw line.
   THE DIAMOND SHAPED FACE. The diamond shaped face has a narrow forehead and narrow chin and is wide at the cheeks.

Tips & Warnings

• WHAT EVER FACE SHAPE YOU MAY HAVE, MAKE THE MOST OF IT BY WORKING WITH IT. ACCENTUATE THE GOOD QUALITIES AND MINIMIZE THE NOT SO GOOD QUALITIES.REBALANCE WITH THE USE OF COSMETICS. "THE ART AND BEAUTY OF RE-INVENTING YOURSELF.

Resources

• http://www.innovationscosmetics.com

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on 5/6/2008 Great stuff!