Everything you need to know about hair contouring

Surely it already sounds familiar to you from having seen it on many beauty blogs since many celebrities and influencers often use it, and it is the term “contouring“.

This term gained strength a few years ago, but it is still valid, since it is a very popular makeup technique since you can “shape” the features of your face thanks to makeup enhancing the parts you want to highlight and hiding the parts you don't want.

But did you know that there is also hair contouring?

What is hair contouring?

It is a technique that consists of creating a certain effect on your face using coloring techniques, creating “light and shadow” effects with different dark or light tones by strategically placing the highlights in certain parts of the hair.

This technique is inspired by highlights balayage, which consists of lightening the hair in another shade lighter than the root in a gradient manner.

How to apply hair contouring for each face type?

The most important thing about this technique is the previous analysis of your face, since depending on what type of features you have, the highlights will be applied differently.

elongated faces

• oval faces: The face is longer than it is wide, with very rounded contours.
• Diamond or rhombus shaped faces: These faces are characterized by having the forehead and jaw narrower than the cheekbones.
• rectangular faces: The face is much longer from forehead to chin than from temple to temple.

For this type of face, we want achieve a more horizontal and less elongated face. Therefore, darker highlights would be applied to the upper and frontal area, and lighter highlights in the area from the temples to the jaw.

The most important thing is to frame the face with lighter tones, and some lighter highlights in the jaw area to illuminate the ear area.

small faces

• round face: The length and width of the face is equal. They usually have a narrower forehead and a more rounded chin.
• square face: Like the round face, the length and width of the face is the same. In this case, the features are more marked and angled.

In this type of faces, what What we want is to give an effect of verticality to be able to lengthen it visually. To do this, we will apply lighter tones on the top of the head, and on the inner sides and around the contour of the face, we will use darker tones to give depth.

Can hair contouring be applied with natural hair extensions?

Do not doubt that color effects can be achieved with the help of extensions, whether balayage highlights, normal highlights, or without a doubt, the hair contouring.

The first thing you have to do is ask our stylists for advice on our salons in Madrid, Barcelona o Bilbao. They will analyze your face, and depending on the shape, they will apply the extensions in strategic places to achieve the desired effect.

Do you have a long face? The extensions In shades lighter than the natural tone, they will be placed in the temple area and along the jaw.

Do you have a round face? The extensions In lighter tones they will be placed on the top of the head and in the contour area of ​​the face, in darker tones.

Get a perfect hair contouring with the help of the adhesive extensions It is very simple, since they are available in bands of 4, 3 and 1 centimeter wide, so creating a wick effect without using coloring is perfect.

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