Medium-length haircuts and hairstyles are the great compromise. If your hair has always been long, but you feel too much length makes your strands look finer and thinner, hair that falls to your shoulders or right above it can look polished and elegant with just a few styling tricks, strategic layers, and modern updates. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel to get an amazing and current-looking ‘do, just experiment with a few changes and you’ll avoid old-looking hairstyles. Here are four of the most flattering and chic medium-length hairstyle for older women.
Medium Shag Cut
The shag is a tribute to seventies-style hair, and is an excellent choice for many who want to make thinning hair look more voluminous. It’s defined by its many layers woven throughout the hair, with shorter pieces up from by your face to call attention to your facial features. The bottom of the hair is usually choppy as well, and it works with or without bangs. The overall effect of the medium shag cut is playful, so this one is perfect if your goal is to look more youthful.
Medium Cut With Chic Bangs
There are so many reasons why chic bangs that fall around your brows are a great idea to pair with medium-length hair. For starters, bangs can conceal signs of aging on your forehead like fine lines and wrinkles. They can soften the overall look of your skin and make you look more youthful. And, if your hair is thinning, bangs that suit your face can make you look like you have more hair, not less.
Medium Hair Cut To an Angle
When you cut layers into your hair, be mindful of the shape and direction of those layers. Angling hair around your face is like throwing a spotlight on your cheekbones, jawline, and a strong brow. It’s also completely customizable: you get to decide which where your angles end and how many of them you’ll need to create the choppy cut that makes the most of your hair type, whether it’s fine, thick, straight, or curly.
Medium Cut With Curtain Bangs
If short bangs aren’t quite your style, but you like the idea of a more sweeping hairdo with layers in the front of your medium haircut that soften your facial features, curtain bangs are a perfect alternative. Another sweet nod to the seventies, curtain bangs are lengthier than traditional bangs and start off slightly shorter in the front, lengthening as they make their way down the sides of your face to (usually) connect with other layers in your hair. They look glam paired with medium-length hair because the effect is cohesive, with no layer imposing on any other.
Medium-length hair is so flattering on so many different folks. Consider adding layers, textures, and bangs to your style to make it look incredibly modern and glam.
