#1: Wavy Collarbone Lob With Soft Bangs and Caramel Foils
Here is the before. She has so much hair and it was weighing her down in the worst way. Instead of having volume, length was making it go flat on her body. Her new lob with layers has restored her previous volume. The bangs have even been point cut to hang free. They are also caramel brown mid-shaft foils. That’s perfect for balancing her rounder face. You have to have wavy or textured hair because there is no way thick straight hair is going to stay like this without a straightener. Also, it will need to be trimmed often because if they split it is going to look bad in the middle.
#2 Curly Brunette Lob With Rounded Layers and Cinnamon Highlights
Straight hair will not benefit from this style, show this to your stylist if you have natural curl and at least 3A texture, as this style relies on natural curl to maintain the shape. The layers of this style were cut and then rounded through the mid-lengths to keep the back of the style full and not triangular. The bangs of this style sit shorter and have looser curls, and curl away from the forehead, as opposed to sticking to it. The entire style is cut with the curl pattern maintained and Sprung, and as a result the cinnamon-colored bits of hair woven throughout darker curls attract light and reflect the most with their flat color. These pieces are likely hand-painted and it looks amazing. This cut is an absolute flatter for heart shaped and round faced people due to the height of the volume because this style is cut with curved fullness and volume, balanced with the collarbone length of the hair. Very curly and voluminous hair will look strong with this style, and straight/limper/thin curls will most likely fall flat by noon.
#3 Warm Brunette Wavy Lob With Shaggy Curtain Fringe and Sun-Kissed Ribbons
These bangs pack a punch. They hit the face framing layers and shorten the brow length. It’s tricky to cut the face framing layers, but I was able to get a lot of length through to the temples. This lob has natural layering and razor cuts that provide bounce to the hair with movements. The base of the hair is warm chocolate brown and is topped with a fine hand-painted caramel layer throughout to provide the hair with dimension. This looks great on hair that is of medium thickness or thicker as it won’t contain the shape to define the style and will lay flat. This is a great style for someone with natural curls and waves as it looks great with movement. This style looks great to frame an oval and round face the most due to how the length hits beneath the jaw. This style looks great on thinning hair as the highlights are concentrated more mid-lengths to ends where as the roots grow the length will maintain volume.
#4 Buttery Blonde Lob With Textured Fringe and Rooted Dimension
Bangs at this salon have a sneaky trick – they’re cut thin enough to show off skin using a technique called “point-cutting.” This light-weighted and modern technique helps compact your overall style. This is a lob with an inside layer razor to remove bulk. It is perfect for medium to straight hair and warm root to blonde ends. It is not recommended for curly, thick, or textured hair unless daily styling is acceptable. Long, straight fringe is complimentary to ovals and hearts and looks stunning. If you have fine hair this style will most likely mean your hair will appear greasy by the end of the day.
#5 Straight Dark Lob With Brow-Grazing Fringe and Subtle Caramel Threading
Notice that the bangs are not solid and seamless. They have been point-cut so that they can have separation at the brow line. Airy bangs look great on softer faced individuals and point cutting bangs is much more important than the length of the cut. This is a lob. Before point cutting the bangs, this medium length straight hair was a blunt cut with no layers. The color has a deep espresso base. With light caramel highlights put in by hand painting only through the mid length, it looks great on oval and heart face shapes. If you have a rounder face shape, this length collar bone cut with no length falling to the face will help to slim the face. Cape de rance bangs need to be touched up every three weeks to maintain this look. If you have any curl at the hairline, they will not lay perfectly flat without daily straightening.
#6 Cool Platinum Bob With Flicked Layers and Blended Side Fringe
Look carefully. These are slightly uplifted at the collar. This flip is perfect for medium density hair because there’s no need to backcomb or use a ton of hair products to create volume. The razored layers around the crown give this style movement and weight. This probably isn’t ideal for very curly or coarse hair because the ends being uplifted will probably create frizz. The color looks like expensive ash blonde and has fine babylight highlights with a gray base and toner. The long side fringe helps narrow the forehead for a more oval shape while the length sits just below the cheeks and helps widen your face. This style also won’t work well for those with a more defined jawline. This style mainly works for those with fine and flat hair. In order to get the style, you must blow dry and use a round brush with every single wash.
#7 Wavy Brunette Lob With Swept Bangs and Golden Caramel Pieces
Highlights around the face with the ends a bit darker leave the crown dark and are placed intentionally to catch more light there and draw the attention away from the roundness of the face and to the front of the face. Layer cut with face framing pieces that start just above the collarbone is designed to fall to one side but without adding volume. It has a lot of thick hair and looking at the style wouldn’t be great for those who have fine or thin hair. Long enough to be worn to the side, the fringe is great for face framing pieces and grows out fast which is great for the growing out process, but trimming is needed every 3 to 4 weeks because as they grow out, they tend to join together and lose the definition. People with straight hair should avoid this style, as this style curls and utilizes volume.
#8 Wavy Dark Bob With Shaggy Bangs and Warm Peek-a-Boo Ribbons
Copper ribbons only appear with the movement of the hair. It is this level of detail that makes this cut truly lovely. For this base color, this would look flat in most pictures, even with low lighting, without the copper ribbons. The colorist has put these copper ribbons under and throughout the mid-lengths, which maintains dark brunette and gives it something to grab while forming waves. This is a chin-to-jaw length bob with internal layers that have been razored. The hair is loose, lived-in and bent. The bangs are shaggy and intentional uneven. This style is better for those with medium to thick hair and natural texture. Fine hair will likely lose this shape with only product. For those with round or square face shapes, the length is perfect to hits at the widest part of the face and makes everything seem extra wide. For those with oval or heart face shapes, this length is great too, to play with. This hairstyle flatters many shapes the best but straight hair will ruin this style for sure. Movement in the hair really does fix the shape.
#9 Blonde Collarbone Lob With Layered Fringe and Buttery Highlights
Point cut bangs look cool and showcase your forehead. Straight thick bangs on top of medium weight hair, like this length, look like a ‘heavy helmet’. The lob barely falls past the collarbone with some ends shaped. This keeps the hair clean around the face, while the bangs hold all the softness. Round and square faces will love this style because it narrows and elongates the face without closing off the perimeter. It would be a bad choice on fine, thick, coarse hair type, unless your stylist sees fit to remove some weight internally. The warm butterscotch foils that frame the face and fill in the hair from root to tip are placed heavily, to create a darker blonde base. This style completely changes your hair in a ponytail.
#10 Jet Black Collarbone Lob With Soft Arched Bangs
Cutting bangs to just hit the brow bone keeps a face looking balanced and open. This collarbone-grazing lob has layers that are point cut and minimize the bulk of the hair without affecting the weight. The layers keep the appearance of the hair thick and full from the roots to the tips. The single-process black hair, while great for medium to thick hair, can look dull and lifeless on finer hair. On both oval and heart-shaped faces, the bangs soften but do not conceal the face, and the collar bone length of the cut frames and minimizes the appearance of the face. The hairstyle will work to conceal and balance a rounder face but will make it appear even wider. Black hair is one of the most difficult hair colors to maintain because it’s very noticeable when someone doesn’t get their hair glossed.
#11 Dark Chocolate Curly Lob With Loose Shag Bangs
This is a dry cut. Notice how there is no gap at the top. A dry cut means the stylist cuts the hair where it dries at rather than fighting against the curl pattern. A common cause for hair that dries shorter than it is cut is hair that is allowed to dry naturally and takes on its natural shape (aka springs) after being cut wet. This cut relies on a good amount of hair for the shape and weight to fall out towards the the sides of the face. Picture framers give this shape and help it from falling flat on the face. This won’t work on a bob that has looser curls than 3A. The deep espresso brown has warm chestnuts, but the tone is generally a solid. This haircut looks amazing on someone with an oval or heart shaped face. The shape is best avoided if you have a round face, which is characterized by extra fullness in the cheeks. It will be especially bad in humid weather.
#12 Silver Shaggy Lob With Full Fringe and Natural Texture
The center density contrasts nicely with the reduced thickness of the surrounding sections enabling the layers to merge evenly. It is a really great balance for this particular cut. This is a shag with a collarbone length cut designed for medium-density hair to show off natural waves. This won’t work on straight hair. This will work best on women with oval and round face shapes as the pieces around the jaw break up the width of the face without creating more. I love how natural silver was left untoned and unhighlighted. This will work best for women with natural silver hair as it will not lay as flat for women with warm, yellow gray hair. Short layers provide the illusion of fullness, but in longer hair, Phyllis, they will equal more frizz.
#13 Tousled Brunette Shag With Choppy Bangs and Bronze Ribbons
Lots of detail has gone into these layers. Notice how much shorter the crown layers are compared to the collarbone layers. This creates a rounded, full shape at the top and sides, while thinning at the ends. This is a razor cut shag not blunt layers and it works well with medium to thick hair otherwise it can look stringy and lose volume. Fine hair will lay flat by noon. The bangs are choppy and sit above the brow and flatter a rounder face shape. What I like about this is some warm bronze highlights placed on the face and mid lengths. This leaves the root and the rest of the hair dark. This adds texture and depth to the cut without highlights, messy hair would look flat. This is a great cut for people with natural wave or curls. If you have straight hair, a lot of work is needed to style it either with a diffuser or straightening it to get the look with a lot of curls. This is not a wash-and-go hairstyle.
#14 Rich Mahogany Bob With Soft Tapered Bangs
Check out the bangs. They’ve been point-cut and tapered to blend the side layers. There’s also mahogany brown. It’s flat single-process brown with cherry hints. You can tell the color is brown. From medium lengths to longer lengths hair can sometimes be boring and flat. Lots of angles create a great frame for faces that are oval or even round. It works less for square faces. This haircut actually creates a strong jaw line for square faces and needs to be that length from the chin to the collar. It relies on the length to create movement. This style really works best with thick and coarse hair. You can’t get the look otherwise. No amount of product will change that.
#15 Chin-Length Bob With Side-Swept Bangs and Sandy Blonde Highlights
Internal layers are razor cut so they move while maintaining weight. This inhibits stringy ends on medium-density hair such as this. The bangs are cut to meet on an angled line across the forehead to shorten the face and accentuate the eyes. This style will not hold it’s natural shape on thick, course hair and will need to be manipulated daily. This color is a warm-toned sand with fine, foil highlights with a warm brown base. Highlights have been strategically placed around the face to brighten and frame within the rest of the hair being a lot darker. The nape is also darker which gives a nice contrast as the hair grows out. This style will not complement a round face due to the chin length line making the face appear wider. Straight hair with subtle waves will work well with this style.
#16 Flippy Ash Blonde Lob With Feathered Layers and Dimensional Lowlights
This style uses a technique that takes the most practice, but the hardest part to recreate, as the style is flipped on one side, courtesy of an end-flipped round brush. There’s a lot of density to the hair, but it’s balanced with some fine layers that start below the chin. Cooler ash blonde with darker lowlights, and root and interior highlights, with a natural grow out in between from partial foils, gives these some color. Oval and heart face shapes like the included feathered bangs, which are less than full fringe. The layers should puff rather than flip with thicker and/or course hair, so it is best to skip this style.
#17 Beachy Blonde Lob With Piecey Curtain Bangs and Lived-In Waves
Note the thin, triangular bang section that does not extend and covers her face. This collarbone length lob with long layers with point cutting adds movement. The texture is natural with not perfectly spaced waves. The color is a natural rooted blonde with white bang highlights and balayage through the lengths. This medium density hair has natural bounce and a lot of curl. This style requires daily styling on straight hair to hold the shape. Curtain bangs that meet the cheek bone are a good option to shorten the length of a longer or oval face. Round faces may feel wider with this much horizontal texture at the jawline. The texture in thicker hair that is pulled with texture spray in the right areas holds the shape.
#18 Dark Brunette Lob With a Deep Side Part and Feathered Bangs
The bangs aren’t really bangs. They’re slightly blended pieces chopping off angles, and are perfect to grow out. This is a medium density bob with internal layers cut to a natural length around the back, finished off with some extra length through the collarbone. This style gives lots of volume along the crown without the use of back-combing or build up of hair products. It looks good on both round and oval face shapes, but will make long and narrow faces flat. Avoid the heavy diagonal fringe if you have a long and narrow face. With a dark brunette shade on this style, it looks great without dimension, but will grow gray roots in about three weeks.
#19 Polished Blonde Bob With Soft Fringe and Fine Highlights
The fringe/bangs are cut to around eye level, no block of hair across the forehead, and are thinned to separate and soften. A lot of the work is done by this one length bob, which ends right at the shoulders. This cut requires medium/thick hair to keep a clean rounded edge, as thin hair will expose the hair. The hair color is a few shades of warm caramel and is a balanced base to blend and soften the regrowth line. Babylights are not too harsh and give volume to the hair. The length will widen the face due to the length, so this cut is flattering for an oval or heart shaped face. Round faces should avoid this look as it can overemphasize the round shape. This is a straight finish cut so it requires a blowout with a round brush every time you wash your hair.
#20 Curly Shag Lob With Shaggy Bangs and Warm Auburn Pieces
These bangs are pretty cool. The stylists actually used the natural curl to cut the bangs when they were dry. This helps with the integration of the bangs to the layering, so they don’t look like a separate element on the forehead. This will only work on curl patterns beginning at 2B. Straight hair will not work with this. This style has a lot of flexibility, with the shag style, thick and medium hair doesn’t get a lot of bulk because of this inner-layer short layering style. The hand-painted auburn pieces are great because they have warmth amidst the dark brunette base, all without a color appointment. Round and oval face shapes will appreciate this, because the bangs and face-framing curls help balance the shape. This style will not be great for fine low-density hair. And of course you have to worry about not controlling the humidity as it will also rebel against you and your hair style.
#21 Warm Chestnut Bob With Seamless Side Bangs
You might be underestimating this cut, but for good reason. The layers are cut to be shorter than the surface, so as long as there’s enough density, the shape will hold without a round brush. This cut works best for medium to thick hair, fine hair will be flat by lunch and bangs will be separating. The copper highlights really pop and shine through the mid-shaft and lower. It really looks great on her skin because it’s warm, and you know a lot better than yellow! The length of the cut Helen got really helps elongate and frame the face, especially for rounder faces, whereas most of the time hair cuts tend to focus on elongating the neck. It’s not for you if you want low maintenance color, because the copper will definitely begin to fade little by little. To avoid a brass disaster, you will definitely have to come in for regular glossing.
#22 Textured Lob With Wispy Bangs and Warm Highlights
Some impressive technique implemented here. With razored layers at mid lengths, the hair is now jagged, and this style works beautifully with textured hair. The elongated bangs and feathered pieces framing the face are more intentional than the after-thought styles that simply have one length bangs. I would say this works with any face shape, but especially with those who have rounded faces. This is because the length of the cut is below the jawline and on a rounded face the length opticaly breaks up the face and can make it appear smaller with less width. The balayge caramel highlights within dark brunette works especially well with this style because the dark base grows out naturally with no harsh line, meaning this style will work with most hair types, but not if you have very fine straight hair.
#23 Layered Lob With Curtain Bangs and Honey Brunette Dimension
This silhouette splits the bangs off to the side to help contrast against rounder faces. The length drops below the chin while adding an internal layer to provide dimension and movement to the hair and a full head of hair. The layers begin up at the crown and can be cut at that point to avoid heavy looking hair. Medium density hair look good in this style because this style avoids excessive volume. If you have thin hair, this style is a winner. If you have thick hair, stay away from this cut hairstyle because your hair will quickly spread losing the defined shape.
#24 Choppy Collarbone Cut With Copper Ribbon Highlights
Razor work begins here along the cheekbone in a fan-like shape giving more movement in the mid-lengths and adding volume that give a appearance of thicker hair, even on medium density hair. Copper ribbons are woven through a dark chocolate base. This is done free hand and woven without a foil, so it looks modern as opposed to the traditional highlight way of doing it. This is great for round and oval face shapes as it adds angles to the cheekbones. The curtain bangs are cut to naturally separate and create framing without covering. This is a great picture for people with natural wave or curled/textured hair. This looks best on wavy hair, straight hair will look unfinished.
#25 Shoulder-Length Shag With Face-Framing Pieces and Toffee Balayage
These hairstyles are differentiated by one significant layer. Look for the shortest layers that sit just above your cheekbones and fall away slightly. Those are point cut to fall open and widen your mid-face. This style is great for those with oval and long face shapes. The color is a hand-painted balayage using neutral shades of toffee and ash on a brunette base. This style is quite sophisticated. It won’t look lived in on straight hair, except if it was styled that way intentionally. That is because the Texas layers are straight, blunt cuts that give this style its shape. Thin hair or flat hair at the roots will make this style lose its shape. So this style is better suited on medium to thick hair.
