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Bangs for a low/short forehead

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Topic: Bangs for a low/short forehead
Posted By: Aurifera
Subject: Bangs for a low/short forehead
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 12:58pm
Time for a new haircut. :P

Here's my dilemma: I have short forehead with a square hairline! I look ridiculous with it pulled back since symmetrical hair just weirdens my face, but a lot of bangs make your forehead wider. I just have no idea what bangs would suit. :/ Am I really destined for vaguely ugly, boring hair for the rest of my life?

Erm... what else... my face is widest at the cheeks/ears (cheekbones), with a normal sized chin and a long nose. My hair is currently just past the shoulders, with slightly shorter layers and side bangs (god, I hate them: impossible to style, high maintenance) that have grown out, with the shortest just above my chin. It looks ok sometimes but is mostly just annoying.

What kind of bangs would suit someone with my head shape? Sorry for the lack of pictures.



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Posted By: loveshorthair
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 7:39pm

Have you tried short bangs?  Maybe something like these:

haircut photo



Posted By: Aurifera
Date Posted: January 11 2006 at 8:57pm
Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't know if those would work on me in reality. Those models look to have average foreheads rather than low ones. I don't like the piecey/blocky combo on the first one, and for the second one... on me, getting bangs that far above the eyebrows would mean that they'd be literally a couple of centimeters long. Eeep. The little tufts would probably flip up and look even sillier.

I'd discuss this in depth at the salon, but the only one I can afford has hair stylists that don't seem to have much time for long discussions... they basically prefer taking a quick glance at the photo you show them and take out the scissors while you 're voicing concerns. :/


Posted By: Hal
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 9:36am
Short bangs on a short forehead will make you look as though you have no forehead at all.  My sis in law has a short forehead and reciently got long sweeping one that come from one side and sweep over her eye.  They look very nice.


Posted By: sorun
Date Posted: January 12 2006 at 4:46pm
I have a low hairline too and only once someone tried to give me bangs and they were long and thick ones. I hated my look and tried to grow them back for years. I say think some more before having the cut. 

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Posted By: eatgreenjello
Date Posted: January 16 2006 at 11:58am
no forehead = no bangs.  I wish I could trade you my big ole forehead, because I don't like bangs. 


Posted By: runstupidrun_x
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 2:17am

I have a VERY short forehead, but i risked it and got just normal bangs...everyone says i look much better with them

That's how I have my hair now, at one point i had side bangs, and before that I had no bangs at all. Im sure bangs would suit you perfectly well...just make sure that you're certain you want them before you get them cut :P



Posted By: Susan W
Date Posted: January 30 2006 at 7:20am
Cutting bangs further back so you have a thick fringe is going to be the only way to make your forehead look higher.  Just make sure to think long on it first like said above to decide if that's a style you really want, and be careful you don't overdo it because as you know growing out part of them is a pain if you don't like it.

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