30 Hairstyles with Face-Framing Layers for Trendy Looks
Face-framing layers are cut around your face to create strands of different lengths and refine your facial features or give your coif a new twist. Although sometimes coupled with bangs, those pieces work as a game-changer in and of themselves and even provide more versatility in styling and little upkeep when growing out. We have a collection of 30 Instagrammable looks to show all the magic the front pieces can cast on you.
1. Medium Locks with Bouncy Blowout. One might think that a good blowout makes a broad face only wider, but it doesn’t. Why? Thanks to the smartly placed strands that soften the jawline.
Face-framing layers are cut around your face to create strands of different lengths and refine your facial features or give your coif a new twist. Although sometimes coupled with bangs, those pieces work as a game-changer in and of themselves and even provide more versatility in styling and little upkeep when growing out. We have a collection of 30 Instagrammable looks to show all the magic the front pieces can cast on you.
1. Medium Locks with Bouncy Blowout. One might think that a good blowout makes a broad face only wider, but it doesn’t. Why? Thanks to the smartly placed strands that soften the jawline.
2. Volumized a la Rachel Coif. Of course, the classic style is shorter and flicked outward, but the iconic heavily textured front remains flattering and recognizable.
3. Midi Coif with Butterfly Front. Girls with thick manes can allow plenty of butterfly pieces and thinning out around the face to get a feathery look.
4. Long Mane with Swoopy Tiers. Brunettes can easily incorporate their new and old highlights into the bouncy pieces of a butterfly style to bring the play of light and shadow into the dark mane.
5. Long Flowy Blonde Balayage Mane. If you are after a boho vibe rather than tons of texture, ask your hairdresser to cut front pieces with a longer distance between them.
6. Long Flippy Textured Bangs. Girls with narrow faces should keep a round brush close at hand to flip out their bangs for some added width that can be further maximized with blonde highlights.
7. Curtain Bangs with Feathering Underneath. This amazing mane brings together long curtain bangs and feathered pieces that hit the chin level to create volume around the face and match the bouncy bottom.
8. Back and Forth Feathering for Round Face. This rooty platinum blonde lob has pieces starting just below the chin, which is good for elongation, but it also delivers more angles with the cheekbone-length bangs looking in another direction.
9. Gorgeous Blowout with Whipped-Up Locks. A shorter distance between tiers means more disconnection and bounce which is enhanced by texture and then converted into mega volume in this stunning blowout style.
10. Feathery Bangs in Sunny Blonde. Lavishly textured and made even more lightweight with feathering, these cheekbone-hitting curtain bangs jazzed up with bright blonde strokes play perfectly well with the fluffy pieces on the bottom.
11. Long Butterfly Shag with Caramel Highlights. This springy style adds soft light brown highlights to the front strands for an illuminating effect and accentuates the lower pieces with more splashes of caramel.
12. Long Shaggy Coif with Bangs. Look what a wonderful shape this thick mane gains with short pieces going from the cheekbones all the way down and how the cute shaggy bangs command attention to the eyes!
13. Long Bangs for Mid-Length Locks. Indeed, front pieces work great for different goals, and these textured and highlighted curtain bangs give nice vertical lines to the chubby face and fit well into the bottom of the shoulder-length shag.
14. Long Soft Wolfish Coif. Not all wolf crops are created with wild texture, and you can opt for a softer version with wispy bangs in the center and graduated edges that blend into side bits.
15. Shattered Midi Shag with Bangs. In fact, messy crops easily accommodate various styles of bangs, starting from a disheveled full fringe like this one and up to sculptured micro bangs.
16. Armpit-Length Gemini Coif. Certainly, adding a block of a contrasting color aka the ‘skunk stripe’ right to the front requires commitment, but you can also wear the front pieces with a side part to soften the look.
17. Flowy Long Thick Mane. These dreamy locks tinged with an ash blonde balayage don’t get the front pieces blended with the textured strands on the bottom to deliver distinct volume around the face.
18. Long Length with Flicks Throughout. This set of short feathers around the face chimes well with the choppy texture carved throughout the perimeter.
19. Money Pieces on Dirty Blonde Hair. Downdos are meant to play well with the money piece technique since it shapes your look and brightens it up in one go.
20. Feathered Ends for Long Straight Strands. There are many ways of adapting feathered coifs to your hair length and texture, for example, by combining long strands near the face with feathering at the ends.
21. Soft and Blended Blonde Locks. The best thing about face-framing feathers is that they can be customized to create a stunning definition or a softer look.
22. Honey Brown Three-Tier Coif. This picture shows how tiers can balance your facial features — the wispy side pieces hide the jaw and soften the overall look.
23. Shoulder-Length Coif with Graduation. In addition to extremely delicate sparkles of gold peeking out here and there, these brunette locks feature ethereal center-parted bangs flowing gradually into the strands along the face.
24. Bulk Removal for Thick Hair. This blonde mane full of babylights could have looked rather heavy in the front if it wasn’t for the sliced-out locks that debulk the style and open up the face.
25. Golden Blonde Wolf Shag with Sculptured Bangs. This stunningly textured style couldn’t be any choppier thanks to the sharply outlined curtain bangs stepping down to hit the cheekbones and make them really pop.
26. Long Shaggy Style with Movement. Shags don’t always require choppiness in the front, and you can opt for a softer version with toned-down feathering which still plays well with the overall texture.
27. Rhythmic Feathering for Butterfly Style. The color transition of this bombshell bronde style is beautifully emphasized by the disconnected feathers cascading down from the eye-grazing fringe to the very tips.
28. Chic Bouncy 90’s Blowout. You will definitely need a good blowout to showcase this voluminous mane that beautifully combines the thinned-out and lightened front pieces with the heavy blunt finish on the bottom.
29. Bright Red Head Full of Flicks. This glam look is definitely worth some heat styling efforts, as it offers a modern take on the 90’ blowouts.
30. Long Angled Bangs and Wispy Feathers. The lightweight feathers near the face add both movement and texture to these straight strands that are sparingly textured throughout the length to retain most of the body.
Once you see textured front pieces in all their diversity and beauty, you will inevitably give in to the temptation to get one of those inspiring looks. Well, we won’t stop you from experimenting but make sure to discuss your desires with a hairdresser in detail before taking the plunge.
