Choosing Glasses for a Round Face
With so many options to choose from, shopping for a new pair of glasses can be a little overwhelming. How do you know what will suit you? What colour should you go for? Understanding your face shape, and what glasses suit your face shape, is a useful tool to navigate all the designs available. This can help narrow down your options and encourage you to feel confident in what you pick. In this article, we’ll go through what you can think about when choosing glasses for a round face. Before we begin - these are not hard and fast set rules. The most important thing is that your new glasses make you feel good and feel like you. Think of this advice as a starting point to kick start your spectacles search!
What are the Features of a Round Face?
There’s no such thing as a fully round face, unless you’re the moon. What we consider as a round face is more of an approximation of roundness. Round faces tend to lean towards being soft and smooth. If you’ve got a round face, it’s likely that you have these features:
Soft and rounded angles and lines
Forehead is a similar width to jawline
Full cheeks that are the widest part of your face
Rounded chin that smoothly curves into your jawline
Length of face similar size to width of face (the side-to-side measurement)
Notable celebrities with round faces include Drew Barrymore, Ginnifer Goodwin, Seth Rogen, and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Forehead is a similar width to jawline
Full cheeks that are the widest part of your face
Rounded chin that smoothly curves into your jawline
Length of face similar size to width of face (the side-to-side measurement)
Notable celebrities with round faces include Drew Barrymore, Ginnifer Goodwin, Seth Rogen, and Leonardo DiCaprio.
What shape Glasses suit a Round Face?
When looking for a new pair of designer glasses to suit a round face, there are a couple of things to consider. The aim is looking for styles and materials that compliment your soft and round features. This isn’t a case of hiding them, but enhancing and celebrating what makes your face yours. To get you started, here’s some shapes and styles that suit round faces:
Round faces look great contrasted against glasses that have strong angles. Think about creating a complementary balance between the two. Styles that are large and bold with defined lines look fantastic when juxtaposed against soft roundness. Keep an eye out for square, boxy, and rectangular shapes. These styles can make your face look a little longer if that’s what you’re after. If you want to make a statement, go for a pair with a straight brow bar. Perfect for contrasting against softer edges.
Round faces look great contrasted against glasses that have strong angles. Think about creating a complementary balance between the two. Styles that are large and bold with defined lines look fantastic when juxtaposed against soft roundness. Keep an eye out for square, boxy, and rectangular shapes. These styles can make your face look a little longer if that’s what you’re after. If you want to make a statement, go for a pair with a straight brow bar. Perfect for contrasting against softer edges.
Do you love vintage-style? The upswept design of cat eye glasses can lift rounder faces upward, creating a dramatic-yet-flattering line.
Want something classic? Aviators and wayfarers basically suit everyone, including those with soft features.
Narrow and clear bridges create additional length on round faces, and are perfect for highlighting your eyes too.
When considering colours, think about bold shades as well as classic black. This is something you can have a lot of fun with! Our virtual try on tool is here to help you narrow down your short list.
There are some glasses styles that might not suit a round face quite like the above. These include:
Round or oval frames
Frameless or clear styles
Small designs
However, we’re not here to dictate what you want to wear. If your dream pair of glasses incorporates the styles featured above, go for it! Rules are made to be broken after all.