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Rule of thumb for side parts?
  • sarahf

    Not body parts.  But is there a rule of thumb as far as how far over you can part your hair?  I recently visited the salon and I had my hair re-styled a little bit.  I wanted it parted pretty far over, but in typical fashion, I've since been obsessing that maybe I violated some unwritten rule (akin to those guidelines for eyebrow shaping).  It's almost as far over as you can go without going down the side of my head, if that matters...

  • lindygirl1960
    Just as long as you don't look like you are doing a girl's version of a comb-over.   ;;)
  • Mazenderan
    As far as I know, the rule was that it should only go as far as the highest point of your eyebrow arch.
  • sarahf
    Thanks guys.  @Mazenderan--I read that too.  I think actually it's close, but maybe just slightly to the outside of my eyebrow arch.
  • JamiSingsJamiSings

    I can't contribute anything to this except a joke your post reminded me off. Sorry for the semi-hijack. 


    A man goes into the barber and says, "I'm tired of looking like everyone else. I want you to part my hair from ear to ear."


    The barber does this with great reluctance and the man leaves. Two hours later he's back and throws himself into the chair.


    "Put it back the way it was." He says.


    "Tired of being a non-conformist?" Ask the barber.


    "No," replies the man, "I'm tired of people whispering up my nose!"


     

  • sarahf
    :D  Thanks, Jami
  • lindygirl1960
    I asked my favorite hair guru and he allows the rule of thumb, at least used to be, in direct line with the pupil of the eye BUT it really just depends on the individual. He says he has at least one client who parts her hair waaay to the side and, on her, it works.
  • sarahf
    Thanks, Lindygirl.  Yeah, the way my hairline is, the part is relatively set back from the face as I have a thick, sideswept bang section.  The part is very slightly to the outside of the iris/peak of eyebrow, but the sweep of bangs (the section that you actually see framing my face) starts right about at my pupil.
  • lindygirl1960
    I will have bangs for the rest of my life! I think I look odd without them.   :p
  • sarahf
    Yeah, I kind of have to have bangs.  It's not just my face but my hair type and growth pattern (clings to head, grows straight forward, relatively low hairline, and lots of it).  Without bangs or layers, my hair would look almost like two wedges on each side, thin and clinging to the head all along the sides of my head and thick at the ends.  Not pretty.
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