The shape of your eyeglass frames can significantly enhance your facial features. Your face shape is vital when considering the suitable eyeglass frames to wear. The jawline length, forehead, and cheekbones compose the shape of your face. Every face shape has ideal frames to balance the look.

Round Face Shape

Round faces are often more symmetrical than other faces due to their equal width and length. The angles are often softer, with slightly wider cheekbones. A round face has smooth lines and soft curves. The width from the jaw up to the brow has roughly equal width. The cheeks and chin are often full.

The ideal eyeglass frames for this face shape should be angular and bold with clean lines. You can add contrast to the structure of your face by wearing rectangular frames. Geometric and angular eyeglass frames create balance in your facial structure.

Square Face Shape

Square-shaped faces have an equally wide jaw, forehead, and cheekbones. It also has distinct angular lines. You add contrast to the angular features by wearing round frames. Oval frames balance and soften the square lines.

Triangle Face Shape

Triangle-shaped faces are expansive at the jaw and narrow gradually towards the forehead. You can add contrast and complement your features by playing with opposites. You can wear browline eyeglass frames to bring out the definition. Soften your cheekbones by wearing curved bottom eyeglass frames.

Heart Face Shape

Heart-shaped faces can be round or long. They are wide at the brow area as they narrow down towards the chin and have high cheekbones. Choose opposites when looking for eyeglass frames. Look for wide or winged-out frames that widen slightly at the forehead and have a round base to help complement and balance your facial feature.

You can add contrast and width to your facial features by choosing aviator frames. Balance your chin and forehead with oval or rectangular frames. You can also soften the angles on your face by wearing round frames.

Oval Face Shape

A slightly narrow chin and a narrow forehead create an oval face. Ideally, choose eyeglass frames that bring out a natural balance to your face and add angles to the subtle curves on your face. Frames wide as the broadest part of your face around the area around your eyes help add a subtle contrast to your facial features.

Add sharper angles to your face by wearing rectangular or square eyeglass frames. You can also add angular contrast and play around with geometric shapes. Browline eyeglass frames also complement a narrow silhouette due to the wideness of the eyeglass frames.

Diamond Face Shape

Diamond-shaped faces have a chin with an angular jawline and a narrow forehead. The cheekbone gets defined with full cheeks. Ideally, choose eyeglass frames to bring a soft contrast to your angular feature and draw attention to your eyes. Diamond-shaped faces look better with curved eyeglass frames that have delicate lines.

You can balance your angular features by wearing oval frames. Playing with opposites or drawing your eye to the browline can work by wearing browline or cat-eye glasses. Round eyeglass frames define your chin and forehead by bringing a soft contrast.

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