African American Stars Hairstyles Summer 2009

There are so many techniques for black hair style today. Short, long, in braids, sleek, straight, curly, funky, twisted, with a weave, you named it and each black hair style has its own unique style. The best black hair styles are designed to take advantage of black hair’s unique characteristics and therefore, it is always important not to neglect facial shape and overall body structure when consider a new black hair style.This is because some of the black hair styles can take your most beautiful facial features and make them even more stunning!


If you do have a heart shaped face, you can make it appear more oval by positioning the weight of the black hair style at chin level. For those with round faces, it is best to minimize the cheekbones with some height in the bang. For square faces, it is better to have a hair style with short edges and texture directed towards the face. And for those with triangular shaped faces, more height and fullness should be present at the crown. With these generalized hints on black hair styles, you should go to a beauty parlor to get your hair cut accordingly!

One thing to remember for the perfect black hair style is to take account of your build. For example, a close cropped black hair style does not suit one with a large frame. So remember to just make sure that your style and frame balance each other! The shape of the face too has to be taken into consideration when choosing the correct black hair style.

Basically, there are five face shapes; oval, round, square, heart and rectangular. Whatever face shape you may have, it is better to choose a hair style that makes your face appear more oval. The reason the oval face is identified as the best facial shape is because of the perfect symmetry of some of the facial features it has, like the distance from the lips to the bottom of the chin.