Hairstyles for Rectangle Face Shapes

Side Ponytail

If you thought that side ponytails went out of style when the 80s ended, you’re wrong. This simple and sweet hairstyle is making a huge comeback and how! The graceful structure of a rectangle shaped face is highlighted when paired with an elegant side ponytail like this one.

What You Need

  • Heat protectant
  • Straightening iron
  • Hair elastic
  • Bobby pins

How to Style

  1. Apply some heat protectant and straighten all your hair.
  2. Part your hair on one side.
  3. Gather all your hair onto one side and tie it into a low side ponytail.
  4. Pick up a thin section of hair from your ponytail and wrap it around the base of your ponytail to hide the hair elastic from view.
  5. Secure this wrapped section of hair with some bobby pins.

Top Chignon

When the ever-so-gorgeous Jessica Alba sports a hair look, you just need to take inspiration from her. Here, she has gone for her own chic version of a Chinese top knot that looks sleek as hell and gives her long neck and rectangular face a swan-like structure and grace.

What You Need

  • Fine toothed comb
  • Smoothening serum
  • Hair elastic
  • Bobby pins
  • Straightening iron
  • Hair spray

How to Style

  1. Rub some smoothening serum all over your fine toothed comb and use it to sleek back all your hair.
  2. Tie your hair into a ponytail right on top of your head.
  3. Twist your ponytail right till the end and roll into a high bun.
  4. Making sure you leave the ends out, secure the bun to your head with some bobby pins.
  5. Straighten out the ends that have been left out of the bun and spritz on some hair spray on them to make them stand stiff and finish off the look.

Braided Headband

 

Let’s face it, the flawless and gorgeous Elle Macpherson doesn’t need to do anything to her hair to enhance her beauty. But if you still want to, here’s a hairstyle that you need to check out. This braided headband style works perfectly to show off her rectangular facial structure, and the cascading curls on either side add a romantic vibe to the whole look.

What You Need

  • Heat protectant
  • 2 inch curling iron
  • Hair elastic
  • Bobby pins
  • Fine toothed comb
  • Smoothening serum

How To Style

  1. Prep your hair with some heat protectant and curl the lower half of all your hair.
  2. Pick up a big chunk of hair from near the nape of your neck and braid it right till the end.
  3. Secure the end of the braid with a hair elastic.
  4. Rub some smoothening serum all over the teeth of your fine toothed comb and use it to sleek back your hair.
  5. Place your braid across the crown of your head and secure it down with some bobby pins.
  6. Pin down the end of the braid under your hair on the opposite side.

Curled Up do

She’s beauty and she’s grace, she’s Ms. Kate Beckinsale! This gorgeous always nails her red carpet look – and how! Her curly high updo perfectly flaunts her high cheekbones and spectacularly defines her rectangular bone structure. It can be sported over a grand ball gown to finish off your fancy transformation.

What You Need

  • Hair elastic
  • 2 inch curling iron
  • Bobby pins
  • Hair spray

How to Style

  1. Brush back all your hair and tie it into a high ponytail.
  2. Picking up 2 inch sections of hair at a time, curl all the hair in your ponytail.
  3. Picking up one curl at a time, pin all the curls around the base of your ponytail to finish off the updo.

Poker Straight Hair

No list is complete without featuring Kim Kardashian in it, now, is it? To accentuate her jawline and hide some of her cheeks, she also gone for poker straight hair that is parted down to the middle. The glossy finish of her hair creates a sleek and sexy look.

What You Need

  • Heat protectant
  • Straightening iron
  • Rat tail comb
  • Smoothening serum

How to Style

  1. Apply heat protectant all over your washed and dried hair.
  2. Picking up small and 1 inch sections of hair at a time, straighten all your hair until it is poker straight.
  3. With the tail end of a rat tail comb, part your hair straight down the middle.
  4. Apply some smoothening serum all over your hair to get rid of any frizz and finish off the look.

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