Styles to Flatter Your Triangle Face Shape
or Pear Face Shape

Your face is broad and square at the jaw-line, tapering to a relatively narrow forehead. 

If your jaw-line is rounded, rather than square, you have a pear face shape.

If you are male, you may have a chiselled looking face.

Your main style aims are...

...To minimise your jaw-line and add width at your temples.

Hairstyles for Your Triangle Face Shape

Go for…

• Styles that add a little height and width at the temples

• Cover part or all of the ears

• Keep hair close to the head at the jaw-line

• Side parting

• Irregular layers and wispy styles

• Long bangs (fringe) swept to the side

• Full and fluffy bangs (fringe)

Avoid...

• Adding width at the jaw-line

• Center parting

• Hair close to the temples

• Very short on top

Eyeglasses for Your Face Shape

Your best styles have the following characteristics...

• Frames that have design detail and color at the top of the frame

• Frames that are heavy at the top

• Frames with cat-eye or oval shapes

• Frames slightly wider than your temples

Hats

• Any style that adds width at the forehead

• Asymmetric brims and crowns with some height are good to draw attention upwards

Makeup Tips

• Apply a darker shade of foundation on the chin and jaw areas

• Apply a lighter shade of foundation at the sides of your forehead

• Apply blush from the apple (ball) of your cheekbones in a V shape towards your temples

Earrings

• Wear earrings that are longer than they are wide

• Avoid triangular shapes

Examples of Triangle Shape Face

Celebrities with This Face Shape

Famous people with your face shape include...

• Billie Piper

• Minnie Driver

More Examples of Oval Shape Faces

Here are examples of readers with this face shape...

>> This woman has a pear face shape

>> Peggy Jo either has a triangle or a square shaped face

>> This man has a pear face shape