Top Hairstyles for the Diamond Face Shape
Messy Fringe Adding a messy, layered fringe to your look is a great way to balance out your face shape. Whether you opt for a blunt fringe or a side-swept fringe, the textured look adds volume to your forehead and helps highlight your prominent cheekbones. How to style: To add extra texture, Sanderson recommends spraying your damp hair with sea salt spray. Then, let your hair dry naturally or blow it dry. Once it’s dry, you’ll be left with a messy, tousled look. Meet the wikiHow Experts Frankie Sanderson is a master hairstylist and makeup artist. He’s also the founder of TheStudeo, which specializes in hairstyling, makeup, and personal image. Anjuli Yera, MD is a certified professional makeup artist with over 15 years of experience. She specializes in makeup artistry, airbrush application, and wedding makeup.
Side Part Parting your hair to the side creates more volume, which helps your forehead appear wider and brings balance to your face. To create a flattering part, Sanderson recommends placing your part over the arch of your eyebrow. He says this “helps create an oval-shaped face, which is typically the standard for beauty.” How to style: Use a comb to define a neat and straight part. Then, brush your hair to either side. If you have any flyaways, apply some pomade to smooth down your hair and keep it in place.
Textured Crop The textured crop or French crop involves keeping the top of your hair long, adding lots of choppy layers, and cutting a blunt fringe. You then cut the sides of your hair short, usually in a low, mid, or high fade. The layers and textured fringe add lots of volume and help your hairline appear wider. How to style: Run pomade through your hair or spritz it with sea salt spray for extra texture and to create tousled waves.
High Top Fade The high top fade adds volume to the top of your head, which helps balance out your narrow forehead. With this style, you grow your hair out long on top. Then, you dramatically fade the sides, either in a low, mid, or high taper. How to style: Use a hair pick to comb through your damp hair and reshape it as needed. Then, apply a pomade or styling cream to secure your hair in place.
Mid-length Shag The shag is a layered, mullet-like style that adds lots of dimension and movement. Start by growing your hair out to around your chin. Then, add a long fringe and lots of choppy layers that get longer as they reach the back of your head. This is a super flattering style for diamond faces, as the fringe helps widen your forehead, the face framing pieces highlight your cheekbones, and the long layers fill in your narrow jawline. How to style: For an even more tousled and textured look, spritz your damp hair with sea salt spray. Then, scrunch your hair with your hands as you blow-dry it.
Faux Hawk If you want a bold and edgy style, try the faux hawk. With this style, you leave your hair long on top and trim the sides in a low, mid, or high fade. Keeping the volume on top helps balance your face shape, while the short sides highlight your cheekbones. How to style: Use mousse or cream to brush your hair upward and create a textured and spiky look.
Crew Cut The crew cut creates some width along your hairline while emphasizing your prominent cheekbones. To achieve this style, simply cut your hair short on the top and buzz the sides into a low, mid, or high fade. As a plus, it’s a very low-maintenance style. How to style: Run pomade or mousse through your hair to add a bit of texture or light spikes.
Buzz Cut The buzz cut is another low-maintenance style that looks great on the diamond face shape. As the name implies, you simply buzz your entire head to a very short length, usually between ¼ to ½ inches (6-12 mm) long. The uniform look helps highlight your cheekbones, which is very flattering. How to style: If your hair is long enough, use a bit of pomade or gel to add texture, or to smooth out your hair.
Quiff The quiff adds a lot of volume to the top of your head, which helps balance out your diamond-shaped face. Simply keep your hair long on top and shorter on the sides. If you like a more dramatic look, opt for a low, mid, or high taper on the sides. How to style: Apply gel or mousse to your damp hair. Then, blow-dry your hair as you use a brush to pull it upward and back. Finish off the look with some wax to smooth down any stray hairs.
Pompadour The pompadour is another voluminous style that’s similar to the quiff. It also adds extra width to the top of your face to help balance out your diamond shape. To get the look, grow your hair out long on the top and opt for a low and subtle fade on the sides. How to style: Apply pomade to your damp hair, brushing it up from the roots to the tips. Then, use a brush to pull your hair upward and back as you dry it with a blow dryer. Use a bit more pomade to smooth back the top and sides.
Short Afro The short afro is a classic style that adds a lot of texture and volume, which is flattering on diamond-shaped faces. Simply let your hair grow out and then cut the front, sides, and back to a short, uniform length. How to style: Lightly dampen your hair with water. Then, run leave-in conditioner, shea butter, or coconut oil through your strands to keep them moisturized. Use a wide-tooth comb to detangle your hair and a pick to brush your hair upwards and add extra volume.
Comb Over The comb over is an asymmetrical style which actually helps to balance your face shape, as the extra volume you create with this look softens your features. To get this style, you just keep your hair long on top and then add a slight taper to the sides. Then, add a deep side part. How to style: Apply some pomade to your hair. Then, use a comb to brush most of it to one side (whichever you prefer).
Slick Back For a more sophisticated style, opt for the slick back. To get the look, simply keep the top of your hair longer and cut the sides to any length you like (a bit shorter or a complete taper). The sleek style helps to highlight your defined cheekbones. How to style: Run gel or pomade through your hair. Then, brush it back.
Undercut The undercut is a bold style where the sides of your hair are cut much shorter than the top, which creates a sharp line. Go for a buzz on the sides for an edgier look, or opt for a mid or high fade. The shorter sides emphasize your cheekbones, while the volume on top balances your forehead. How to style: Use pomade or mousse to pull your hair up into a quiff or pompadour. Or, slick the top of your hair back for a sleeker style. As another option, spritz your hair with sea salt spray to add more texture to your look.
Long Waves Longer styles look great on the diamond face shape, as the extra volume around your chin adds width and balance. Adding waves creates even more texture to soften your features, which is flattering. Simply grow out your hair to around your chin or shoulders. Then, add some loose, beachy waves. How to style: If you have natural waves, scrunch mousse or pomade through your damp hair and then dry it with a diffuser. To create waves, apply a sea salt or texturizing spray, or use a curling iron.
Long layers Adding layers to longer hair is another great way to balance your diamond face shape and accentuate your striking cheekbones. Opt for a chin or shoulder-length cut and then add long layers that hit around the chin and below. How to style: Add waves and texture for extra volume. Either spray your hair with a sea salt spray, or scrunch it with some mousse or pomade.
Man Bun The man bun is a great alternative if you don’t like wearing long hair down. Lifting your hair up highlights your cheekbones, while the added volume around your forehead helps balance your face. Simply grow your hair out long all over, or opt for a mid fade on the sides. How to style: Use a brush to pull your hair back toward the crown of your head. Then, use a hair tie to secure your hair into a bun.
Beard Styles for the Diamond Face Shape
Goatee The goatee is a chin-only beard that connects to a moustache. Adding your facial hair around your chin helps it appear wider, which helps balance your diamond face shape. Just keep your goatee cut close to your face. How to style: Brush and moisturize your beard with beard oil daily, and wash it regularly with beard shampoo.
Balbo Beard The balbo beard is like a combination of the chin strap and goatee, except the mustache and chin are separated. Growing out your facial hair along your jaw helps it appear wider and emphasizes your cheekbones, which is very flattering. Just keep your facial hair trimmed short and neat. How to style: Brush your beard, and then apply beard oil daily to keep it moisturized and healthy-looking. Wash it regularly with beard shampoo to keep it clean.
Short Box Beard The short box beard is a classic style that adds width to your jawline and emphasizes your sharp features. To get this style, grow out a full beard and mustache, keeping the length short. Then, trim a clean line under your cheeks and below your jaw. How to style: Brush your beard daily to keep it smooth and tangle-free. Then, moisturize it every day with beard oil. Don’t forget to wash it regularly with beard shampoo, too.
Garibaldi Beard The garibaldi beard is a long and full style, which adds lots of volume to the lower half of your face. With this style, you grow out the hair along your chin, jawline, sideburns, and upper lip. Then, keep your beard trimmed below your cheekbones and above your Adam’s apple, and give your moustache a neat shave. How to style: Apply beard oil and brush your beard daily. Then, use a bit of beard balm to shape your beard and add shine, as needed. Wash it regularly with beard shampoo, too.
Styling Tips for the Diamond Face Shape
Glasses frames To flatter your diamond face shape, opt for rectangle or oval frames. These styles have lots of width, which helps balance out your narrower forehead and chin. The sharp lines of rectangular frames highlight your bone structure, while rounded oval frames soften your features. Aviator and cat-eye frames are also flattering, as the angled frames highlight your cheekbones.
Hats Structured hats with medium brims are the best styles to add extra width to your face and balance it out. For instance, fedoras, outback or western hats, and Bozeman hats are all great options. Beanies are another great way to add volume to the top of your head.
How to Tell You Have a Diamond Face Shape
The diamond face shape is widest at the cheekbones. If you have a diamond face shape, you probably have high and prominent cheekbones, which form the widest part of your face. Your forehead and chin are narrower in comparison, which gives your face a diamond-like shape. Celebrity examples: Austin Butler, Lionel Messi, Cillian Murphy, Mahershala Ali, Zayn Malik, Kevin Bacon To determine your face shape, measure the width of your forehead, cheekbones, and chin. If your cheekbones are the widest measurements and your forehead and chin have similar measurements, you most likely have a diamond face shape. Alternatively, Dr. Yera suggests dividing your face into 2 horizontal halves to determine your face shape: First, she says to “analyse the hair line on your forehead and temples” to determine whether the top half is a “circular shape, a heart shape, a rectangle, square, diamond, oblong, or oval shape.” Then, Dr. Yera says to “look at the lower half of your face and determine its shape.” Finally, “join the 2 halves together” to find your face shape, she says. Still not sure what face shape you have? Check out our article on men’s face shapes, or take our Face Shapes Quiz!
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