How to Choose the Best Haircut for Your Face Shape | GQ

Where do you turn when looking for the best haircut suitable to your face shape? None other than Matty Conrad. The award-winning barber shares his guide to every face shape's perfect hairstyles in GQ's new series, "Grooming Guide." What face shape are you?
Director: Sam Dennis
Director of Photography: Callum Gunn
Editor: Phil Ceconi
Host: Matty Conrad
Producer: Shelby Boamah
Senior Producer: Noel Howard
Camera Operator: Oliver Smith
Audio: Alex Shamku
Grip/Gaffer: Nick Taillefer
Production Assistant: Samantha Buzza
Post Production Supervisor: Rachael Knight
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Rob Lombardi
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
00:00 9 Basic Face Shapes
00:27 Oval
01:40 Round
03:54 Square
05:59 Oblong
07:45 Rectangle
09:08 Triangle
10:10 Diamond
11:58 Heart
13:46 Pear
15:38 Find YOUR Face Shape
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[@ArneyO7]

This guy could draw any shape around my head and id believe him

[@NeM3sSiS]

Haha, true mate

[@idioticfun1901]

True. Robert Pattinson is square faced lol

[@LokiBeckonswow]

haha so true

[@marcmelin9447]

Crazy I was thinking the same thing 😂

[@JeffLuk87]

This bullshitter could sell ice to inuits

[@jfabs]

Please do "How To Choose the Best Face Shape for Your Haircut" next.

[@rogerlambert7642]

Ha ha ha ha 😊

[@takeuchi5760]

yeah don't look at the shapes they say, just look at which face is your face most similar to.

[@violin245]

Yes I would find this very helpful

[@xufreee]

Love this comment

[@alalalavaladu3670]

Face off 2

[@ALSMASCULI]

Watching this I am more aware that I have no idea what face shape I have

[@ghostkill221]

Noone does, half the time the examples changed whenever people tilted their chin up. I mean "follow guidelines unless you shouldn't" isn't a real rule

[@vitor_kelps1548]

Neither does those guys, I saw 3 videos, Di Caprio has a Retangular, a Round, and a Oval face...

[@Vwerlg]

and our eyes and cameras are two different things 😂

[@sergiomuniz350]

Here here

[@notproductiveproductions3504]

That’s why I jokingly claim to have an octagonal face

[@jonathanriojas2177]

Apparently I’m all face shapes based upon how I’m feeling and what I decide looks like it lines up better.

[@krunchy4skin03]

Feels like astrology 😅

[@kylepower8689]

😂@@krunchy4skin03

[@stocktonnash]

Dude is just drawing random shapes on faces.

[@sonnyblaze7211]

Most useless video ever 🤣

[@DrVonNostrand]

💯

[@Truther2001]

Without the slight bit of accuracy!

[@Trujones]

This video just bought me another hour in character customizations in my games

[@inedibledorito]

Aka me getting ready in the morning smh...

[@maloxi1472]

As a 3d character artist, I can somehow relate 🤭

[@KrazzeeKane]

Spent a solid 25 minutes trying to figure out my face shape before I finally gave up and decided that mine must be the unlisted one: "The Weird Shaped Head" lol

[@vaibhavnegi3728]

fr!

[@shn3340]

Yep. Or I feel like it's combination

[@hhiippiittyy]

Amoeboid Or muffin. You got a muffin shaped head.

[@yp3776]

Ask a barber they’ll be able to tell you

[@notproductiveproductions3504]

Aka the “never get a buzzcut” skull

[@jeremyp5210]

He should also do a version of this video with styles for different types of hairlines

[@markskilbeck]

This guy is making it up as he goes

[@TheJubanne1]

Lmao 😂

[@amarug]

My hair started falling out about 15 years ago and after desperate ways to comb and whatever, I decided to just shave it all off. To my amazement, even at the moment when I shaved it all off I realized how well it "balanced" with my face and instead of being shocked and having to "get used to it" over a period of time, I kinda liked it instantly. Ironically, only after I got rid of my hair, for the first time in my life, I started to get called "hot" and got x times more dates. That never happened, even before it had started thinning. Strange how it goes sometimes ...

[@valderesapenas294]

Bald with beard or bald w bald face

[@MrGameControler]

One of the hottest guys I know is bald with no facial hair (or maybe a light stubble on some days), it helps being handsome and muscular though

[@oakcode]

So your point is that you spent your lifetime without figuring out what you can do useful out of your hair and you looked bad all the time so u didnt get any dates? Have you ever tried uzing things like creativity,articles,eyes,mirrors,combs,products and different styles? jeez

[@amarug]

@@oakcode lol 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@amarug]

@@valderesapenas294 very short beard

[@jaysibiri]

PSA: face shapes are nonsense. It doesn’t take into account head shape or hair type/density. Just try different things until you find something you enjoy.

[@JohnDoe-ei5kg]

EXACTLY, how do people not realize that hair type plays a huge role in all this. This video is nonsense. But it's GQ so sadly people will take it as truth

[@hhiippiittyy]

Honestly even your physique and style will play heavily.

[@lgolem09l]

they don't even fit with the actors in the example shot at the beginning

[@anywallsocket]

It’s clearly based on some symmetry differences, but it’s overly elaborated

[@Oh_So_Based]

"face shapes are nonsense" thats definitely cope. I agree w everything else you said tho

[@Heljhammack]

I love this guy! Glad he’s back

[@spb78art]

I love Matty's sense of humour. "If you don't have a blowdryer, ask your partner. If you don't have a partner, it's because you don't have a blowdryer" lmao

[@DannySaleemYo]

Game of the year. That was fantastic! Thanks for posting!

[@HealthyBearded]

Matty back with some more 🔥🔥

[@fancypigeon1031]

Basically everyone has a pointy chin (except Leafyishere) so we're all triangles, but then if you draw the triangle rounder you're an oval but if you make the triangle sharper then its a square.

[@jpsluckhaus]

The tip at the end about trying to fit a shape to my face answered a lifelong question I've had. Thank you

[@mikejohnstonbob935]

Wow. Astrology for faces.

[@racistape]

Facial Astrology, that's brilliant

[@OMDAT]

Anyone else immediately looked into a mirror trying to figure out their face shape?

[@ifeellikeimbigmeechlarryho7900]

I think i have all three of them

[@atticustay1]

Yes and I can’t figure it out lol

[@Crzyrednckmexican]

A.I can help

[@rahmanhakim1]

​@@Crzyrednckmexicanknow any tools or website?

[@wilsonpang272]

i just take a selfie on snap and trace the outline

[@juanvillanueva2848]

Kind of needed this haha

[@jakubwysocki736]

Bro, I’m bald.

[@sterlingwooten2153]

Better get rich😂

[@THEREALTAMPATON]

Got to love a barber giving an opinion on hair styles whilst wearing a hat!

[@FreeWilly22]

And a giant beard covering the jaw and chin area he keeps referencing😂😂😂

[@zaidlacksalastname4905]

​@@FreeWilly22definitely compensation

[@mattyconradgrooming]

It’s my favourite hat 🤷🏻‍♂️. That’s like yelling at a guy with abs for wearing a shirt.

[@bajablast9176]

​@@mattyconradgroomingyeah but in a haircut video it would make sense to lose it. Clown 🤡

[@alexanderjosmith]

Yeah well he can't cut his own hair ig

[@OC-CPA]

These all look basically the same to me, and I have no clue what face shape I would be considered to have.

[@kirapurinton]

Can you do another video on this for men with medium to long hair?

[@musicmind7582]

How am I an oval, a diamond and a chad square face at once -_-

[@hhiippiittyy]

That's called a loaf. You got yourself a loaf-head.

[@musicmind7582]

@@hhiippiittyy nooooooooooooooo

[@carljohnson13690]

These editors taking out the japanese jazz, love the music choices.

[@Zowimir]

Love Matty, the more Matty content the better!

[@j.w.novotny4357]

"Here's a bunch of handsome celebrities... their haircuts accentuate their handsomeness or represent bold, confident choices... your haircut accentuates your ugliness"

[@17an28]

This guy is entertaining lol

[@mcsushi89]

"this is the grooming guide" 0:17 I was not ready for this

[@ryanhodor1833]

Cillian has a rectangular/diamond face shape and Timothee has a heart face shape. Their jaws compared to others are so wide that they give the illusion that they’re the widest parts of their face, but they’re not. In any picture of Timmy, it’s obvious his jaw is wide, but it’s not wider than his cheekbones or forehead that the jaw tapers up to. It’s a textbook heart shaped face. Cillian’s jaw is also wide but his cheekbones are wider. They’re the most prominent part of his face. His forehead and jaw are about the same width. The point is that for both of these men, their faces don’t expand the lower they go. They have wide jaws, but they’re not the widest parts of their faces. Not triangular.

[@stans.5072]

next video which sunglassess for each type of faceplease

[@kohort1]

I feel like you can mix the examples up and a lot of them will still fit.

[@cliffordchristensen1439]

This would be so useful if I had any hair up top 😂

[@alvinkoeswanto8622]

I like how he said Harry Style's hairstyle without twisting his tongue.

[@user-ux1vj9vx7s]

Because it’s not a tongue twister, dipshit

[@Mystikalskydaddy]

never in my life did i think there was finally a video made for me

[@SpArK4GrL]

My husband has a lovely heart shaped face, and had a great flowy hairstyle when he was younger. He also loved a full beard. He joined the military and can no longer have the flowy styles (he also started losing his hairline after basic but doesn’t feel ready to go bald) nor the beard. I wish the poor guy had some options! He’s always disappointed in how his hair ends up cut.

[@butterbean2257]

What kind of balding? I got the widows peak coming in and can just push it back into a middle part and I’m happy. It’s a little different if it’s male-pattern baldness. At that point your options are try propecia or minoxidil like the other guy said, go to turkey and get a hair transplant, or embrace it.

[@SpArK4GrL]

@@elenagrabor285 He was on a cheaper brand for awhile and then stopped. And I know it only works when you stay on top of it 😅 But it’s his hair!

[@SpArK4GrL]

@@butterbean2257 He has a widows peak and male patterned baldness, so double whammy. The top of his younger brother’s head was bald by college, same with his dad. He got lucky and had a few more years of a full head of hair but it’s receding now at almost 30.

[@michaelhockus8208]

this dude knows his stuff

[@AstrumIncognita]

I have no evidence of that

[@luckyday8522]

I’ve always suspected I was a perfect blend of Chalamet and Styles, thanks for confirming

[@reviewramble]

Is there an app that detects face shape?

[@robreynolds721]

When you are bald and have a set hair style regardless of your head shape 😢

[@NarrowboatNogginTheNog]

I feel/share your pain

[@lred1383]

skill issue

[@thomascraig6814]

@@lred1383How is that a skill issues?

[@achirasilva2567]

@@thomascraig6814 bruh he just learned that term and uses it everywhere lol

[@BrandonDyckMusic]

Can you do one for glasses and face shape?

[@maxprofane]

What if I have oblong round peary triangular face shape? Either my face fits all those descriptions or face shapes are subjective.

[@javierperez-corona3541]

Please do tutorial on how to change face shape

[@zanderryz]

This was great

[@user-yo2yy9lk6e]

As someone with thinning hairline.. I didnt choose my haircut, my haircut choose me.

[@machoibericodecrianza5549]

Great video

[@dha588]

I was just thinking about getting a new haircut. I wonder how KZbin read my mind without me googling any haircuts. 😊

[@achirasilva2567]

they read your WhatsApp msgs

[@Bibe35]

I mean... the angularity of the jaw is affected by the angle at which they took the picture, too.

[@bpdub21]

for real. especially on that example of Justin Beiber that he used.

[@skullzalliances]

Bro loves balance even more than Thanos

[@matchinu]

Is there an app for this?

[@TooCosmic]

Not enough people know what genuinely compliments them

[@mboss7733]

Wow I'm very relieved that I'm not the only one who has no idea what my face shape is.

[@essj3334]

I've never really known what the shape of face is and what my best hairstyle is.

[@thaisgregorio2734]

Some of these face shapes seem the same to me and could be bundled together

[@JohnDoe-ei5kg]

Yeah I think most of this video is nonsense. But since it's GQ, sadly people will take it as truth

[@tachytack]

​@@JohnDoe-ei5kgbrody just said the exact same thing twice on different comments

[@leonrussell9607]

​@@JohnDoe-ei5kgits basic barbering

[@TayWoode]

Everyone one of these type of videos that show how to measure your face type always end up being different shapes for me, they even seem to disagree about celebrities face shapes, apparently DiCaprio here has a square face but another video said he’s round 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@vitor_kelps1548]

And in another one he's Oval, but he seems to be more round than square though

[@JakeBodenhamer]

"The Grooming Guide" is crazy

[@reachlin]

what's the best hair style for a giant head and small body?

[@DmanDmax]

Ok, now I just need to figure out my face shape.

[@blastaFinn]

Nice informative video, time to change my style!

[@Lina0102s]

So educational video,and I want it this video with female version.Necessary!!!

[@a.foster199]

Thanks for the advice, Paul Rudd!

[@dbd4596]

Finally found it after scrolling for a whole minute

[@DK-ox7ze]

I have an oval shape but not much hair, and my hairline is quite receded, giving my head more height. What hair style would you recommend for me?

[@MikeSmith-vb8ul]

The theme is pretty straightforward -- pointed chin = soft sides & few angles. Blunt/no angles chin = short sides & more angles.

[@houseofshavesbarbershop]

Very helpful

[@Harris.L]

Arg! How to know which one your are ?

[@abelnodarse1841]

Great video thanks

[@whodatboi2567]

Can we get a video for facial hair styles for bald men' face shape?

[@thebreakfastmenu]

Okay but what about taking into account hair types and hairlines? Those are massive variables.

[@crackcobaine]

this is the grooming guide? sign me up!

[@AnthonyWilliams_83]

Don't know why I'm watching this when I'm bald

[@kingraytbh]

If we could send in pictures to see what we are would be so easy

[@Daddy-abood]

does a middle part works with oval face shape ? btw great video ❤❤

[@Beardmaneats]

Does this apply if I’m bald? 😅

[@hillbillysamurai]

Gonna get put on watchlist cuz im watching "The Grooming Guide"

[@mungus.]

This video should be called “Uncle Doug speaks on face shape”

[@AndyGilleand]

He says that maybe the haircut looked bad because of my face shape. I say it looked bad because the person who did it didn't even get close to matching the image 😂

[@hungsu]

Still dunno what my face shape is. This was entertaining yet somehow I am at square one

[@porkerpete7722]

Don't worry about it. Experiment and youll find what looks best for you.

[@josephusaquila5439]

Watched the whole video but you see....I have a Phineas type of head/face shape. Any suggestions of the best haircut?

[@alanrodrigopinnercatano4601]

Love the explanation and the video !!!

[@jackkelly9048]

New Personality quiz just dropped

[@WhozaCardoza]

When you procrastinate the project and have to wing it in front of the class

[@marcosolivsilv]

I feel like face shape is something like astrology.

[@Brett.Simpson]

Rule 1: Never trust a barber who wears a butcher's apron and a sheriff Buford T. Justice hat.

[@Str8UpFax]

Ive got inverted triangle though what do we do for that

[@theshell2387]

Possibly diamond?

[@michaelkoppenhoefer5910]

Best hair style for different types of balding

[@Football__Junkie]

What am I suppose to do with an incongruent heptagonal face shape or a parallelogram face shape?

[@wormholeavoider]

"Jason Derulo, James Harden... Jamie Kennedy!" LMAO

[@yeasinbhuiyan5025]

My forehead is 6inch . cheekbone is 6 inch. Jawline 4.5 ( 9 inch) And face length is 8 inch I think my face shape is heart ❤️ Can any one tell. Am I correct plz

[@himanshpandey2977]

I either grow my hair to non manageable lengths or go buzz. Nothing in between.

[@kinjaz966]

He just started roasting while giving pro tips

[@svenvanbeers]

What if you have a combination of face shapes? which aspects should you focus on? for instance, I have a slightly longer face with a big jaw

[@69BALLS]

Bald

[@fuvusion]

bro I needed that video, now I know why I loooked like a child having a square face

[@robelbelay4065]

All the shapes looked so similar except a few to me

[@FMFvideos]

My face is round like a full moon!

[@abimanyu4636]

Next how to choose the best haircut for your hair type, because my hair is curly, and i have oval shape face

[@TheSaladin777]

They’re all attractive people it doesn’t count

[@KD....]

You think Zach galifianakis is attractive? Lmaoo

[@hhiippiittyy]

@@KD.... For an ugly guy, yeah.

[@dannyvandermill9046]

Which hair

[@KD....]

Pretty convenient the dude has a hat on.

[@mungus.]

Ur face rocks dude

[@laurenzroth8388]

how is the pointy end of the triangle timothees forehead and not his chin??