Side Bangs: Types, Hair Cutting and Styling Tips

For several years, slanting bangs have been one of the leading trends of the beauty industry. Such a design haircut is very spectacular and stylish: bangs on the side gives the appearance of gloss, freshness, playfulness and some flirtatiousness.

According to leading stylists, almost every woman can find the best option for oblique bangs due to the abundance of her modifications. The only exception, perhaps, is considered to be narrow elongated faces: with such a hairstyle, they will already have and will lose any attractiveness.

In order to choose exactly your version, you should take into account the features of the face. It’s no secret that many people choose a hairstyle according to a beautiful picture in a magazine - this is the wrong approach, since each face has its own characteristic features (shape, oval, cheekbones and chin line), so that bangs that look spectacular on one girl can turn another into gray mouse.

If you are the owner of a rounded face with delicate features, you can use any options for oblique bangs in combination with long hair. A large number of diagonals will lengthen the oval and make it more subtle, by the way, such an effect can even visually increase a woman’s height.

For girls with a wide forehead or a triangular face, it is better to give preference to shortened bangs diagonally, for example, a stylish look of a square, complemented by a bang to the side. So in the lower part of the face will appear the missing volume, and the upper corner will be visually cut off. Milling cut in this version is not worth it.

For rectangular and square faces, the best choice will be the average length - so that the bottom edge of the bangs touches the cheekbones line, and the most successful haircut to this style will be a bob or any other volumetric hairstyle. In this case, you can smooth the massiveness and angularity of the jaw.

If the hair is very thick and tough, then it is advisable to choose a torn fringe to the side, however, and on thin unruly strands this option will also look pretty nice. But with curly strands, it is better to give preference to haircuts without bangs, otherwise you will have to style your haircut daily, stretch the strands with ironing and fix them with styling tools, and in rainy and foggy weather, it will curl, destroying the entire style you have designed and created.

The undoubted advantage of oblique bangs is the almost complete absence of restrictions on its use. And this applies to both the density of the strands and their length. Thanks to this feature, any young lady can always choose the option that will suit her.

With oblique bangs, you can:

• change the symmetry of facial features by disguising minor defects and defects in appearance;

• give coarse and heavy features lightness, refinement and femininity;

• slightly adjust the ovals of round, as well as square and rectangular faces;

• to make the look more playful and flirty, and the look - the most expressive.

The undoubted advantages of a bang on one side should also include the fact that for a long time she retains her aesthetics and form, therefore the owner of such an element is free from the necessity of frequent visits to beauty salons (bang correction is carried out simultaneously with trimming the entire haircut about once every 3-4 months).

There are practically no drawbacks to such a bang. The only thing that should be remembered by its owner is that oblique fringe imposes increased requirements for clean hair. Such strands are often straightened with hands, moving away from the eyes, so they quickly get dirty and get an unpleasant greasy appearance. Therefore, you will have to wash your hair almost every day and, accordingly, every time you put the bang back on, because after each moisturizing it loses its shape and direction.

There are several basic modifications bangs to the side.

This is the best choice for young ladies who like to change their image and style frequently. Such a bang can be quite quickly and completely painless for the appearance to grow again, mixing with the main shock of hair.

Most often, a long bang cut from the eyebrow line to the chin so that it passes through the face. As a rule, such a bang is complemented with long curls, however, it will be appropriate on asymmetrical shortened haircuts.

An extended bang can be laid every day in different ways: it is stabbed, closed in the form of a soft wave or woven into a braid - in any case, the woman looks charming and refined. This is a very stylish and effective option that adds volume and pomp to curls, but keep in mind that the bangs cover part of the face and create a fair amount of noise to your eyesight, which is often not entirely comfortable.

This style is more often used by owners of short haircuts, for example, bob, square and pixie. Such a design strands is considered a good alternative to the direct cut. Oblique bangs do not hide the forehead at all, in this way it does not add weight to the upper part of the face, respectively, does not distract attention from the eyes and cheekbones.

This is a very fashionable and stylish bang, which has not been out of the trends in hairdressing for years. Ragged bangs are a combination of strands of different lengths, while it is important that it matches not only the overall style of the haircut, but also the woman’s inner “I”. As a rule, such curls are chosen by bold, bold and resolute women. By the way, in recent years, such bangs are among the TOP trends of men's haircuts - they adorn every teenager who considers himself a real fashionist and wants to make an indelible impression on his peers.

Unfortunately, it is not always possible to visit a professional hairdresser, and sometimes there is no desire. There is nothing terrible in this: it is quite possible to cut oblique bangs at home in just a few minutes, completely changing your image.

You will need a standard set of tools:

• sharply ground scissors;
• comb with a divider handle;
• clamp;
• thinning scissors;
• frequent scallop;
• ironing

For starters, you should consider the features of creating a long bang, which will help smooth out the massive jaw, large cheeks, heavy chin and even a long pointed nose.

Step by step scheme of work is as follows:

• for a start it is necessary to separate the small oblique strand in front in such a way that the resulting part will acquire a triangular shape, then carefully comb it;
• holding the future bang with two fingers, it is necessary to “try on” it and calculate the desired length;
• without releasing the curl, the strand is moved forward (approximately at eye level);
• they cut the curl, holding the hair a little, strictly vertically - so that they are perpendicular to the shear;
• the bangs are cut according to the “fence” type, progressively increasing the length left.

If all actions are performed correctly, then the cutoff place will be skew, that is, the line will be located diagonally. Trimmed bangs are combed, laid down and sprayed with a weak lacquer lacquer.

A short oblique strand is cut in a slightly different way.

• To begin with, the hair should be washed a little and carefully combed with a comb, directing it forward. Then you need to grab the future bangs with your fingers and, holding in your hands, start a haircut from the longest tip. Hold the strand middle and index fingers of his left hand, and cut with simple scissors along an oblique line. Moving the diagonal, first cut off the shortened part of the bang, and then move to the long one.
• At the final stage, the hair is slightly milled, while scissors should be held vertically.
• The bangs are dried and laid using styling products and a round comb.

Looks very effectively torn slanting bangs to the side. It makes the look more airy, which is why such bangs are relevant for owners of angular faces with coarse features. Such bangs are sheared on straight strands - graduation is practically invisible on curls, and the strands turn out to be bitten.

To decorate a tattered beveled bang at home, you should comb it with a comb, and then select a strand above the line of the forehead and divide it into upper and lower parts. Both layers are clipped, holding the scissors evenly perpendicular to the direction of the cut, the “fence” must be clearly defined, because its sections are cut unevenly, changing the length of something more or less - this way you will get a well-shaped strand. Then it must be combed forward and shaped into any shape, after which it must be laid using styling tools.

The most difficult in the care of oblique bangs - it is the need every day to give it a stylish and tidy look. For girls with straight thick hair it will be quite easy. All that is required of them - is to process the air conditioner and comb a hair dryer with a brush. No additional measures are needed here.

But even from time to time they want to try something new and unusual, which is why stylists offer several ways to style such a bang.

• An elongated lateral bang, if desired, can always be woven into a braid, and also assembled into a bun or horse tail. If the hair is loose, then braid it braided on the side or make a tourniquet over the forehead line. In this case, the hairstyle turns out very gentle and romantic.

• In torn bangs, it will be correct to use texturizing "styling" preparations.

• Short bangs require regular styling with a hairdryer and a round brush.

If you still doubt that you need oblique bangs, just study our photo selection and make sure that absolutely any haircut from such a supplement will only win.

A high tail in combination with an elongated bang looks very sexy and spectacular, and a bob with shortened side strands will take you to America in the 1930s.Hair with graded torn oblique bangs looks quite stylish - such women always look bold and resolute.

And ladies with long wavy curls, complemented by a multi-layered bang, laid to the right or left, makes the "bow" romantic and noble.

Oblique bangs on elongated and medium curls look very impressive, however, on short ones, it can be in place. In the first two cases, she will emphasize the femininity of the image, while the second appearance is rather the image of a flighty and playful girl.

If we talk about long hair, with lateral bangs, it is desirable to combine haircuts such as shaggy and aurora.

To date, the most popular styles of short hairstyles that blend harmoniously with oblique bangs are garcon, page, as well as a bob and a cap, each of which has a great variety of various modifications: from smooth to textured and even extra creative.

Obviously, with this design of the strands in every girl with short hair is found the very highlight that makes her desirable and inviting to the opposite sex.

The oblique bangs with square bob look especially impressive, in this case the woman gets the opportunity to divert attention from too thin lips, hides her too high forehead, visually shortens her nose and narrows her wide round face.

On the pages of glossy magazines and TV screens, it is increasingly possible to meet fashion models whose haircuts with bangs laid on their sides suggest a short-shaven back of the head and slightly elongated locks on the front, laid in one direction. This hairstyle makes a woman really gorgeous, but you need to keep in mind that she needs frequent styling, otherwise her appearance will be far from the glamorous image.

On the hair of medium length, the side bangs look no less elegant, according to image makers, it is ideally combined with this length of curls. In this case, the owner of this hairstyle can create a variety of styling every day, forming a stylish, daring and slightly naughty "bows".

Oblique bangs at medium length make the owner of the hair romantic and incredibly tender. Moreover, such haircuts are performed on the hair of any structure: they look good on thick and rare curls, because thanks to some tricks they can hide all the flaws.

Ripped bangs look best with female haircuts pixie and page, with a particularly stylish image becomes, if you additionally obmelirovat or toned strands.

How to cut the bangs to the side, see the following video.