What do you get when you pair a killer set of chubby cheeks with a generously wide hairline. The round-shaped face. When choosing the most flattering short haircuts of any texture, round-shaped faces want to strike a balance that narrows the widest point, elongates the face, and softens the cheeks.
Having a rounded hairline and jawline characterizes this face shape. It’s pretty much a square-shaped face, but with much softer angles.
Because while you may love your best friend’s new sleek bob or your colleague’s fresh, one-length cut, those hairstyles might not be the best fit for your face shape. The round face shape doesn’t need any (cough) flat styling that exaggerates the features.
Does that mean you go ham on the styling? No. Don’t go too angular or oversoften the features with extreme layering–both will certainly accentuate the rounded effect. Keep it modest.
Look no further if you’re searching for a mini haircut to flatter your envy-worthy facial features and structure. These top 60 short hairstyles for round faces will make you fall in love.
1) Curly Bob
This style is all about letting ‘em curls run loose, wild, and free! And it completely balances the round faces and detracts attention from the width of it.
2) Shullet
Here’s one thing we never thought we’d say: the shullet is back, baby! To look as good as the beauty in this picture, make sure not to have too much volume on the sides; bonus points if you can cut eyebrows-grazing bangs.
3) Super Short Haircut With Side-Swept Bangs
This style is another round-shaped face short haircut that is gorgeous to wear all year long. The side part is very deep and angled, so much so that it opens up the face and lengthens it visually; hats off to whoever cut this pixie, it’s a masterpiece.
4) Soft Mullet for Round Chubby Faces
LOOK. AT. THOSE. BANGS. They are the pieciest piecey bangs you’ll ever see, perfect for creating a strong flattering line across the face; add on to that some short layers below the chin, and you’ve got a style that is as flattering as it is elegant.
5) Bob to Shag Transformation
Sign us up already! The heavy layering around the crown and flipped-out bangs are all the conviction we need to make the jump; the former elongates the face upwards while the latter diverts attention from the cheeks.
6) Very Short Pixie
Now that’s one sassy looking diva! A choppy pixie with bangs is great for making the lower face and chin appear slimmer; the layers on top add height rather seamlessly, while the sideburns are perfect for setting the frame.
7) Wavy Pixie With Baby Bangs
This pixie cut for round faces is styled as well as humanly possible. No, seriously. Everything–from the pointy bangs to the layered upper section–is so on point; it’s literally calling out your name to wear it.
8) Long Bob With Peachy Curls
We love cuts that include loose waves or curls so you can get the most texture and height from your shorter style. The middle part in this style is the icing on an already delicious caramel (face-framing) cake.
9) Neck-Length Bob With Flippy Bangs
A longer bob is a safe choice for those who appreciate length. Add long layers and incorporate some messy styling for extra body and texture.
10) Teeny-Tiny Ginger Bob
The secret to nailing this super flattering short bob is there for all to see–choppy micro bangs, flipped-out ends, intricate layering throughout, and tons of confidence. We love the choice of ginger hair color–it contrasts beautifully with the ultra light complexion, providing tasteful balance to the overall look.
11) Layered Short Hair
Layers are every round face beauty’s best friend. Throw in long bangs that graze over your eyes if you want to really play up the angles.
12) Bold Undercut Pixie
Long top, very short sides. This gal knows exactly what it takes to make her eyes pop while driving attention to her beautifully styled crown; confidence, ladies, confidence!
13) Shaggy Bob With Side Bangs
A messy edgy haircut with bangs is a great choice for those with fine hair and round faces. It gives a bold, sexy look, and it’s easy to style with just a drop of a styler.
14) Razored Bob
The razored layers bring the texture and height that you can’t always get with scissors.
15) Edgy Blonde Pixie
Deep side parts work well with chubby face short hairstyles because they create a bend diverting attention away from the symmetry of a bit plumper facial features. Throw in blonde, and you’ve got yourself a smooooking hot hairstyle worthy of the Hollywood cameras.
16) Classic Pixie
A short haircut with micro bangs isn’t sexy, right? This fantastic Audrey Hepburn pixie hairstyle disagrees in capital letters; it gives such an elegant touch!
17) Blunt Bob
It’s non-negotiable: if you’re going blunt, go long or go home. Below-the-chin length draws attention to your chin, not your cheeks, and the middle-part gives the illusion of length while creating symmetry around your face.
18) Asymmetrical Bob
Does anyone ever get tired of the compliments that come with the perfect cut? We didn’t think so; this style is peeeerfect: the longer length, asymmetry, and peek-a-boo styling work successfully with the round face.
19) Angled Lob
With pieces that are longer in the front, the round face will be elongated and framed in a more flattering style than a single-length lob; and before you ask, yes, the off-center parting is an angling masterstroke on its own.
20) Choppy Bob
Ladies endowed with thick, unruly tresses might love this short choppy bob with crossover fringe. It’s sure to make your hair lighter and more voluminous; at the same time, edgy bangs and layers work great for balancing the round face.
21) Messy Bob With Center Part
Low-maintenance cuts for round faces don’t get much better–and bolder–than this. Perfectly undone with an accurate middle part, this messy bob is all about volume and complementing the symmetry of a round face.
22) Dense Bob With Thick Bangs
Thick hair beauties, where are you at? This wavy bob is begging to be rocked, and it’s got everything going for it–heavy side-swept bangs that draw attention away from your cheeks, shadow roots and the interplay of hues that balance out your face shape, and then some; APPROVED!
23) One-Length Bob
Okay, maybe one-length cuts aren’t too bland and unflattering after all, especially if resting below the chin and spiced up with a side part. The parting in this cut might not be too deep, but it’s pronounced enough to have a lengthening effect.
24) Short French Bob With Wispy Bangs
Right length, right shape, right add-ons (read: glasses). The hairstylist didn’t come to play, and the outcome is a super flattering cut that invites “c’est magnifique” compliments at first glance; a wave-defining cream is all you need to create that oh-so-wispy messiness.
25) Wavy Textured Lob
Lobs are some of the most flattering face-framing cuts for round faces. And when the front pieces are elongated and styled using a sea salt spray, you get a moderately voluminous and texturized hairstyle that, at the same time, slims your face.
26) Shoulder-Length Bob
Oh, how sleek and sophisticated this style is. We want it ASAP!
27) Long Bob
Any length below the chin is a round face’s bread and butter. Messy styling up-top and an off-center part add the necessary asymmetry to take this cut closer to the ideal oval shape.
28) Top Knot
The key to the top knot: it can’t be too close to the crown. That will only make your face appear wider; round faces benefit from all things (high) above.
29) Cropped Box Bob
It might look boyish, but it certainly doesn’t give off masculine vibes. The ever-so-feminine cropped blunt bangs offset the rounded shape of your face and add dimension; besides, what’s wrong with making a bold statement?
30) Low-Maintenance Curls
Forget all the talk about curly hair looking meh with short cuts; the trick is finding a cut that will work with your natural texture. In this beauty’s case, meticulous layers create a lot of texture, which, in turn, allows the hair to frame the face; we’d be remiss if we didn’t point out just how deftly those loose curly bangs accentuate the eyes; PICTURE-PERFECT!
31) Wavy Bob for Fine Hair
A medium-length cut and textured ends. That’s all it takes to look this fabulous; sounds like a good-enough deal to take a plunge, no?
32) Blonde Curls
Have natural curls and are looking for an easy change that will slim your face? Side part your hair and style it asymmetrically; it’s the kind of edgy vibe that instantly calls for a biker jacket—put your worries aside and let’s hit the track!
33) Thick Bob With Deep Fringe
The choppy fringe of this dense bob lends a little more edge to it. The varied lengths and angles serve to soften the face in a manner few other bangs can; as for the voluminous crown, it works up the height just perfectly.
34) Pixie With Textured Crown
Yet another example of how texture, when done right, can take attention away from the plumpness of a round face. Ask your stylist to point cut the top to create amazing disarrangement; keep in mind that short pixies look best styled forward for an up-to-date finish.
35) Choppy Pixie With Mini Fringe
Instead of taking attention away from your face shape, maybe you want bangs that help define it? Try this micro bang style for a bit of that edgy definition, pair it with feathery or choppy layers for a super edgy style.
36) Sombre Bob
Trendy below-the-chin length, edgy off-center part, dark roots that add dimension to the blonde color–yes, this bob truly has it all.
37) Shaggy Lob
Look at how the jagged ends and layers elongate and slim down this pretty face. We can’t get enough!
38) Dimensional Blonde Haircut
When a shoulder-cut has this much dimension going on, there’s no way a round face shape would steal the limelight. The dark roots-to-blonde melt is a literal show-stopper.
39) Stunning Pink Bob
The middle part in this bob does the one job it’s supposed to do quite brilliantly: giving the illusion of length. Here, the lady plays up the volume to accentuate her center part; we can’t help but notice how poppy the hue is, your cheeks will have nothing on it.
40) Elegant Black Hairstyle
We’ll go right ahead and say it: any layered black hairstyle that grazes past the chin will almost always flatter a round face. Doubt us? Here’s an instant proof.
41) Ash Waves With Exaggerated Crown
Voluminous crown hairstyles are very chic and trendy. Add some highlights and be ready to turn heads!
42) Beachy Bob
Keep it simple with a few tousled waves, blunt ends, and a flattering blonde color set off by shadow roots. The compliments will flow your way from the moment you step outside, we guarantee it.
43) Sassy Curly Lob
This gorgeous curly hairstyle adds in some face framing layers to even out a rounded face. The middle part further balances this look, while the bangs draw attention to the eyes and brow line, upward from the chubby cheeks; is that what they call a triple WIN, because we’ll take it!
44) Bold Pixie
With that much volume at the top, your face is bound to look slimmer and more symmetrical. The height around the crown is accentuated further by the cropped sides, while the styled-back layers open up the face beautifully—much to your peepers delight!
45) Modern Short Bob
Why struggle to hide your face shape when you can simply let your favorite fine-tooth comb run wild? Comb your hair over to achieve an asymmetrical twist like the one below; thank us later!
46) Full-On Fringe
We know, the full fringe has its sceptics–especially when worn on a round face. However, this beauty makes a strong case for rocking it–the eyelash-grazing length accentuates her eyes like nobody’s business, all while complimenting a bigger forehead.
47) Wavy Lob
If you have naturally long thick hair, cut it mid-length and part it down the middle for a face-framing style that looks this hot.
48) Sleek Shoulder-Length Cut
You don’t need to look twice to pick out the star of this style: it’s definitely the neat, comb-over twist at the top! Let it open up your face for additional length, while the layers at the ends do all the softening; tousle it gently for a night out with friends, or leave it sleek for office errands.
49) Sweet Low Curls
All this hairstyle wants to do is bounce and then some. Lower curls towards the bottom guarantee just that; overall, you’ll evoke a sweet, young vibe that will earn you compliments, effortlessly.
50) Copper Brown Cut
Your short hairstyle for a round face can be soft, balmy, and touchable! Given a chance, we wouldn’t hesitate to run our fingers through this oh-so-fluffy head of hair.
51) Beige Bob With Curved Ends
Like we’ve mentioned severally, styling short haircuts for round faces is a game of angles and interest. And this bob is a queen at it– the curved ends and long, blunt bangs culminate into an asymmetrical masterpiece that any fine hair beauty would be proud of.
52) Razored Shag
Sure, scissors can get the job done (think: adding layers and texture for face elongation), but not without taking a good chunk of your time. A razor packs up volume wherever you want it, in half the time; show your stylist this photo and the rest, as they say, will be history.
53) Long Pixie With Bangs
Below-the-cheekbones length, long swept over bangs, thinned out layers. This pixie has all the makings of a chic, on-trend, functional round face short hairstyle; we can already see what the widest part of the face is, and it’s not the cheek area.
54) Edgy Pixie Cut for Chubby Faces
Lights, camera, voluuuuume! That’s all this platinum blonde Hollywood-worthy hairstyle has to say; go with a deep side part and intense layering at the crown to achieve the same kind of volume and texture.
55) Rounded Bob With Off-Center Parting
This cut might not have too many angles for asymmetry, but it boasts one that matters the most–courtesy of the diagonal part. That, coupled with some gentle tousling around the crown, make for a chic, face-flattering bob ready for business!
56) Side Swept Layered Cut
This hairstyle has tons of movement and is great for a girl who is constantly running her fingers through her hair and flipping it back and forth. It’s the ultimate I-don’t-need-a-part look; long layers deliver superbly in the elongation department.
57) Short Wispy Hairstyle
Have fine or thin hair and are afraid to test the waters? This cut says, “relax, I’ll take it from here”; the wispy choppy layers add some much-needed volume on the bottom of the hair, complimenting the round face shape quite well.
58) Micro Jagged Haircut
Overweight women, here comes your savior. This short pixie hairstyle is a perfect fit because it shifts focus from the chubby facial structure, all thanks to the intricate layering and choppy bangs.
59) Feathered Bob
Women over 50, we see you, we value you, and we think this is the coolest hairstyle you can possibly rock for your round chubby face. Its complimentary features are delivered by the heavy feathered side swoop and voluminous crown–two aspects that are especially easy to achieve if you have thick hair.
60) Tousled Bob
Now this is the kind of transformation we want to show our stylist! The waves will create a nice face-framing shape that is easy to style and super flattering; enough said.
Time To Take The Plunge
You came, you saw, you conqu….we’ll hold off on congratulating you for now until you actually pull off a short hairstyle for your sweet, plump, round face (retweets, anyone?). But with the options in this blog, we have no doubt that you’ll make the right pick.
The bottom line? Picking a round face short hairstyle isn’t about making your tresses trendy or choosing what catches your eye on Instagram. Instead, aim to find one that suits your bone structure; after all, this is the sort of style you’ll keep coming back to year after year.
The ultimate trick? Layers (just enough), angles, texture, and you’re set…for life.