Understanding these shapes helps in choosing flattering haircuts, glasses, and makeup to enhance facial features, creating illusions of balance or highlighting specific areas, as described in guides from Maximum FX Salon, Gabrielle Arruda, and AskMags, com. I taught my students that both facial expression and eye contact are vital cogs in the gears of good communication. To accentuate that facial expression, I remove the natural background and place it on a black background. The 7 common face shapes are Oval, Round, Square, Heart, Diamond, Oblong (Rectangle), and Triangle (Pear), each defined by specific proportions and angles in the forehead, cheekbones, jawline, and chin, with the oval shape considered a balanced ideal for styling.
Then with people who have more smooth features, the light just bounces off of their face in really weird and awkward ways when you try to take a picture of them. I didn’t (and still don’t) like the standard “say cheese pictures; I wanted to capture the candid facial expression. What I want is to capture a human face and show the feelings and the state of mind of that person at that moment. I want the viewer to be alone with the portrait without any other elements that might disturbs his or her attention.