Jen Booth shows a five-second fingertip test to find your ideal bang style. Place fingers across your forehead: three or fewer means skip heavy bangs, four gives you options, five or more works with fuller fringes. Align with your cowlick for easier styling.
Before you get bangs, you have to try this. It only takes 5 seconds and most women were never taught it. So place your fingers sideways across your forehead from your eyebrow to your hairline. Now count the number of fingers it takes to cover that area. If you have 3 fingers or less, you have a shorter forehead, so skip the heavy blunt fringe. It can actually crowd your features. Try wispy, see-through bangs or long curtain bangs that open the face up. If you have 4 fingers like me, you're right in the middle. You have the most flexibility, so choose based on your face shape and how much styling you actually want to do. And if you have 5 fingers or more, this is where bangs get exciting. You know, a fuller fringe visually shortens the forehead and completely rebalances your proportions. And one more pro tip, Check your front hairline. A strong cowlick means your bangs need to be cut with it, not against it. I have a very strong one, and that's the difference between bangs you love and bangs you fight every morning. And here's the part I really want you to hear. You know, most of us choose our hair by looking at someone else's hair, but the question isn't, do I like her bangs? It's, will those bangs, or what will those bangs do on You know, your face has a design, your coloring has a design, and once you know yours, you stop chasing what's beautiful on everyone else and you start discovering what was made for you. That is one of the tests inside The Beauty Code and what we do at the salon. And if this has changed how you think about bangs, wait until you see the rest.
