A lot goes into choosing the right pair of glasses or sunglasses frames, but one of the most essential factors is understanding which glasses suit your face. Depending on whether you’re an oval, heart or diamond, choosing the best glasses for your face shape can make all the difference.
Understanding Different Face Shapes
The right pair of frames can completely change or enhance your features. We all have different face shapes, so there’s no one frame that fits all.
But there is a frame for every face! Whether you have a square, diamond, heart, oval or round-shaped face, an understanding of which glasses details, shapes, and options are available makes it much easier to choose the best style of glasses frames for your face shape.
Our guide will help you identify your face shape and recommend the right glasses frame style for you. But remember, these are only our recommendations; choosing your glasses frames ultimately comes down to your personality and preferences and, ultimately, it should also be fun!
Glasses Frames For Round Faces
Round faces are all about full cheeks, smooth chins, and soft curves. There are very few angels or sharp lines with round faces, which means you want to incorporate these into your style of frames. Rectangular, square and geometric frames with bold lines, wide bridges and thin frames are a great choice as they make your face appear longer and narrower.
Top tip: Make sure the bottom of your frames sits just above your cheeks to flatter those beautiful features.
Glasses Frames For Square Faces
Square face shapes are the opposite of round, as they have more angular features than curved ones. With square faces, you’ll have a strong jawline, and your forehead is often the widest point. You, therefore, want frames wider than your cheekbones to balance the width of your face. Oversized, round, and oval glasses styles with a sleek, rimless or half-rimmed frame are ideal for square faces as they soften sharp features.
Top tip: Look for glasses frames that sit high on your nose to add length to your face shape.
Glasses Frames Oval Faces
If you have an oval face shape, you’re in luck, as lots of styles flatter your features. Oval faces tend to be longer, with a rounded forehead and chin, and your cheekbones representing the highest and widest point. This is perfect for large, bold, wide, rectangle, square, horn and oversized frames that balance the length and width of your face.
Top tip: Avoid frames with heavy detail or thin and narrow frames that can elongate an oval face further. Wider and bolder frames are the most compatible style and, let’s face it, a lot more fun!
Glasses Frames For Diamond Faces
Diamond faces are the rarest face shape with a narrow forehead, angular jawline and full, defined cheeks – often the widest part of the face. When choosing frames, you want to ensure you keep these features balanced. Although diamond-shaped faces suit most styles of frames, thinner or lighter frames are best – think delicate rather than bold with oval or rimless styles.
Top tip: Diamond faces can still have fun with frames by opting for cat-eye and horn-shaped styles. But keep them simple to avoid drawing attention away from your natural features.
Glasses Frames For Heart Faces
An extremely versatile face shape, a heart-shaped face is complemented by lots of different frame styles. A typical heart face has a wide forehead, narrow chin, and high cheekbones. With these features, look for frames with wingtips that are wider than your forehead, as these will help keep your features in proportion. You can also get away with thick frames with curved bottoms, which add width to faces with narrow chins. If you have a heart-shaped face, look for oval, Wayfarer, and rectangle glasses.
Top tip: Frames with low-set temples will draw people’s attention away from your forehead and emphasise the lower half of your face.
Find The Right Frames For You
Now you know which frame styles best suit your face shape, it’s time for the fun part – picking your frames! Our frame finder has a frame to match every face. Browse from our range of brands, including Elton John, Goodlookers, Ray-Ban, and more, to find your favourite frames. Do you need prescription lenses? No problem. At Lensology, we can reglaze and fit any type of lens into your newly found perfect frames. Simply request a pack, add your prescription and choose your lens type and coatings, and we’ll sort the rest.
Finding The Right Size of Frames
Determining your face shape is just one stage of finding the right style of glasses frames. The next step is knowing whether you have a small or large face shape, and finding the right size of frame to complement your facial features.
Frames For Small Faces
Choosing the right pair of frames for small faces is important, as you don’t want your glasses to overwhelm your face and drown your features. Comfort is also a big factor, so look for thinner, lighter frames. Oval, rectangle, and cat-eye styles can enhance your face shape, but aim to keep the width of your frames under 50mm.
Frames For Larger Faces
With large faces, balance is key, and you’ll want to find a pair of frames that balances your forehead, chin, and cheekbones. Larger-shaped faces often suit larger glasses frames, such as oversized, rectangular, and oval, with a frame width of at least 56mm.
Reglaze Your Frames
If you’ve already found the perfect frames for your face, here’s the good news – you can keep them! Whether you have a new prescription, fancy some new lenses, or want to replace a damaged lens, Lensology can reglaze your lenses and fit them into your existing frames. No fuss, no stress and a lot cheaper than buying a new pair of specs. Simply request a pack, complete the prescription, and send us your frames. We’ll sort the rest!
