Choosing a Frame for Your Face Shape
Ever have trouble trying to figure out what kind of frame is best for your face? With our guide, you'll learn there's a frame style for everyone — and we can tell you what best fits you!
It is likely that you have one of the following face shapes: oval, square, round, heart, or diamond. By looking at a mirror and taking a close look at your facial features, you can determine which one matches you.
Which Glasses Shapes Suit Oval Faces?
Many different glasses shapes suit oval faces. A face with an oval shape features higher and slightly wider cheekbones that are slightly narrower towards the forehead. This long, rounded face shape allows you to pull off almost any style — especially oversized and wide frames. With an oval face shape, feel free to go bold with a funky color, texture or frame shape. Square, wayfarer, tortoise, and rectangular — the possibilities are endless!
Our only advice is to steer clear of narrow frames and frames with heavy design elements. They might add a bit of unnecessary length to your oval face.
Our suggestions for oval faces:
Rectangle, Oval, Square, Round, Wayfarer, and Horn
Which Glasses Shapes Suit Square Faces?
Many different kinds of glasses shapes suit square faces. If you have a square-shaped face, many great pairs of eyeglasses can flatter your features. When it comes to proportion, square faces are widest along the jaw and forehead. Due to this shape being defined by a strong jawline, glasses that sit high on the nose add length that flatters this face.
To draw focus to your strongest features, choose a dark and rounded, rather than angular, frame. A round eyeglass frame will soften as well as add contrast to your angular features, making your face stand out. Frameless and semi-frameless styles are a great place to start.
Our suggestions for square faces:
Which Glasses Shapes Suit Round Faces?
There are many glasses shapes that suit round faces. Out of all of them, angular frames work especially well. With a proportion that's relatively equal in width and length, round faces should look to sharp-angled frames to add a little extra definition and depth.
Avoid small and round frames so your features don’t become lost. And by choosing a pair of frames that are more angular and wider, you can add the illusion of length to your face. Full-frame and semi-frameless glasses are great styles to consider.
Our suggestions for round faces:
Rectangle, Square, and Wayfarer
Which Glasses Suit Heart Shaped Faces?
There are many glasses that fit heart-shaped faces. Heart-shaped faces are widest at the forehead with a narrow chin and high cheekbones.
So, to look your best and brightest, find round or oval-shaped eyeglass frames that are thin and lightly colored. Avoid bottom-heavy frames, oversized frames, and frames with a lot of design elements. The goal is to draw attention to the top of the face and add balance to the width of your face. Also, consider frames that are slightly wider than your forehead to add even more beauty and balance to your facial features. If you're looking to soften your angular features, a frameless style is especially flattering.
Our suggestions for heart-shaped faces:
Which Glasses Suit Diamond Shaped Faces?
Many glasses frames suit diamond-shaped faces. Diamond-shaped faces are the rarest face shape and are characterized by their full cheeks and narrow forehead and jawline. The best look for your face shape is a frameless or oval frame style with a strong brow line. These shapes will help balance your face and highlight your best features.
Play up your unique features with fun and funky frames — like a horn frame or cat eye frame — but keep them delicate to prevent them from accentuating anything you might not want them to.
Our suggestions for diamond-shaped faces: