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Flatter your cheekbones and angles with frames that soften your features.
If your fuller, higher cheekbones happen to be the widest part of your face, and you have both a narrower forehead and smaller chin, you have a diamond face.
Like the gemstone, your strong facial angles go with anything. “Diamond faces lend themselves well to a wide range of frame styles,” says Natalie Martin, a Tampa, Florida–based optician and regional learning specialist for National Vision.
Whether you want to soften your features or draw attention to them, Martin offers these tips to find the best glasses for your face shape.
Not sure if you have a diamond face? Use this guide to find out.
1. Balance Your features
Since lines and angles define your face, “frames with rounded corners are a must for diamond faces,” says Martin.
Fortunately, you’ll have lots of styles to choose from. Martin says she often recommends patients try round, oval, and cat-eye frames.
“Rounded rims soften a pronounced jawline, chin, and cheekbones,” she explains. In contrast, square or rectangle frames with sharp corners could add more heaviness to the middle of your face, so you may want to avoid those styles.
For women, cat-eye frames are especially fun because they have a uniquely-shaped upswept brow that plays up cheekbones. And being curved, they also add a nice counterpoint to your features.
“Cat-eyes give personality and lift the face up a little bit,” says Martin.
For men, rectangular frames with rounded corners offer a comparable look. “The width of a rectangular frame is a good counterbalance for your prominent jawline and narrow forehead,” she notes. “Just remember to choose styles with rounded corners.”
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2. Pay Attention to Proportions
Go too small or too big (or too narrow or wide) with your frames and you could end up accentuating your face in a way that you don’t like.
“Pay attention to how your frames balance out the proportions of your face,” says Martin, “especially when the middle part of your face is also the widest, as is the case with a diamond face shape.”
Here, there’s nothing more valuable than the experienced eye of your America’s Best optician. They’ve been specially trained to help you select frames that flatter and fit perfectly.
“If you’ve selected a style that, once on, just looks off, they’ll be able to show you frames that are in proportion to your facial features — and that match the look you’re going for,” she says.
3. Go Glam
What does every celebrity rock that diamond face shapes can too? Aviators. The classic frames — with their distinctive brow bar connecting the lenses at the top — help counterbalance your narrower forehead.
Aviators are a can’t miss choice if you’re building up an eyeglass wardrobe or looking for prescription sunglasses.
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