Do bangs ever look good or suit women?

Yes. Great for older women hiding wrinkles and for round faces. They’re called fringes now.

Better than the obligatory omnipresent middle part.

Good for five-heads and round faces

Some women look gorgeous with bangs.

Depends on the style...their face shape... ect... but I think bangs can look nice

I know a 70 year old who still has bangs like she did 50 years ago. What's with that!

Yes, dumbass.

Explanation : it's 2018 and hairstyles have improved.

In theory more than practice. It's a hard look to pull off if the texture and thickness of the hair isn't right. Usually, a woman needs thick, silky, straight hair to pull it off. Often, grey hair comes in wiry and thin, so it can be difficult for older women. Textured bangs can be styled straight, but once wind or humidity get to it (which is almost always) the look is ruined. A lot of the styles in print and media with blunt bangs are partial or full wigs. I like the way it looks when it's done well. Generally, the quality blunt bangs and pageboy wigs look better than the real thing.

R5, she'd look good if her hair were combed with an egg beater.

@ZooeyDeschanel

Louise Brooks - she looked great in bangs. She probably invented them.

r12 see r4

No, they don't. Trust me, ladies.

I thought Chan Marshall/Cat Power looked good with them

These ladies look lovely.

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Usually. Depends on face shape among other things.

Didn’t look so bad on DL fave Madame Fields.

If you aren't a woman, you shouldn't care about this.

But... bangs + blunt cut = my hair is on purpose to make me appear intelligent when I'm really just a dumb cunt.

Bangs were Bettie Page's signature. Jane Wyman looked cute in bangs.

Short bangs would suit Anne Hathaway, not the long ones she had in TDWP.

Every woman I know who got bangs couldn't wait to grow them back out.

I missed out on the hairstyling gene but my guess is it could be a good way to hide a receding hairline.

I think they look good on a small number of women. I know people tell fat girls to get bangs but it loos bad most of the time.

Example:

I’ve tried to get bangs for years. The rejection hurts.

Naomi Campbell looks good with bangs.

R28 - she can pull it off, the wannabasian with red hair should just accept the fact that a haircut won't help her pass that math test.

Kim

Bangs are the shit

ONJ

Bangs hide a multitude of sins, so they're useful but I have no respect for them. Also, hate them on men.

Dina’s bangs saved Y&R.

Bangs are preferable to Dangling Tendrils and The King Charles Spaniel.

I'm beautiful!

They always look good.

They were adorbs on Rhoda Penmark.

Yes. It’s a youthful look for many older women.

Rebekah Mercer NEEDS bangs. Sade and Rachel Dolezal too come to think on it. Jane Seymour looks great with bangs.

So they are fashionably called fringes now? That sounds better.

Fringe is usually how Brits & Aussies refer to them. I usually don't hear this in the States.

Little Jane Withers rocked bangs while tormenting Shirley Temple.

No. Watch that Julia Roberts thing on Amazon Prime. Two really bad wigs, the worse being the one with bangs. Worst part is, the storytelling isn't good enough that I can get past it. Bye, Homecoming.

Goldie Hawn is a good example of framing your face to cover the wrinkles

They're terrific.

In South Korea & Japan 'pattsun' (blunt bangs) with sidelocks form an integral part of a 'hime-katto' (princess cut). This style is considered a classy feminine style, one that many young woman want for reasons both trendy and traditional. In the Japanese Heian court era noblewomen turning 20 ritually had their hair cut in this style, signalling that a girl had reached maturity/ideal childbearing age and should be considered a lady. Many Kpop/Jpop models and 'idols' (famous pin-up celebrities) who want to come across as glamorous or classically-pretty still wear their hair this way, and you will also notice many fictional characters from Asia with it.

'Hime-katto' is a staple fashion of 'goth-loli' subculture, aka gothic girls & women who want to style themselves with old-fashioned/European Victorian elegance mixed with a 'cute' appeal like a doll.

Longish ones: hot.

Short ones make a woman who's aiming for Bettie Page look like a 1920s German boarding school inmate.

Mosr women look good in bangs. Most men do not.

The premise behind your question is most illogical.

I hope they come back. The 80s was the decade of the bang. Remember how popular they were with the New Romantic styles and all the rage until 1985? bangs then were always styled with heavy products. Then they went out of fashion for a couple of years and were back with a vengeance with the 1990 preppy age, that style looked great just blow dried with minimal product added. Brenda Walsh also took the vixen angle with the same look:

Re R49 and R 50:

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Joan.

I'd argue that short bangs suit no-one. They're like a pixie cut - if you're totally gorgeous (like Audrey Hepburn) you might be able to carry it off, but you'll always look better with another style.

Agree that bangs work well to balance round faces and/or very high foreheads.

I actually think they look nicer on men for their softening effect.

They make most adult women look too twee or childlike, unless they're gaunt/angular or supermodels.

The way Debbie Harry wore her bangs in the Denis video was a of the forerunner to The Flat Head.

An updo with curly bangs seems so chic to me.

Kind of French and [italic]Colette[/italic]-ish, somehow. It’s sexy and elegant at the same time.

I think side swept bangs are flattering on most women. They don't cover the whole forehead (there's the open space on the side), they don't look heavy, and there's some movement to the look.

I think Jane Pauley looks great with this haircut. It flatters many women her age who have high foreheads and delicate features.

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Oh yeah. Love a Birkin bang. That haircut came back into vogue 10-12 years ago and I had it and adored it. Wish my hair could still pull it off.

If Sharon Tate had liked them, it’s good enough for me.

Louise Brooks dumped her bangs when she got older, but maybe it was so that people wouldn't recognize her.

R40 - that is hilarious about Rebekah Mercer. I guess she has no one in her life to tell her she needs a bit of a makeover.

Bangs can be so matronly if not done right, but you can't tell some people.

Noone who doesn’t have Down Syndrome looks good with bangs.

Jessie goes back and forth

VIdal Sassoon perfected the bang.

"Joan"

R55, is that her Mouseketeer look?

Didn't hurt the Beatles.

Can be used to great comedic effect.

Why do you gay guys even care of what women wear or use? Do you wish to be them? Ahahaha.

Claudette Colbert anyone?

I think Maisie Williams looks good in bangs.

r78 I have no idea who Maisie Williams is, but she looks unfortunate. Like a mannequin or a blow-up doll.

A lot of crossdressing wigs have exaggerated straight or side-bangs; I guess to hide the seams?

The bulky bang was an unfortunate 1940s style.

Yes Claudette as Cleo.

Not if they look like this. I don't know what she or SMG were thinking with that hairstyle.

Re: r83

In general, bangs shouldn’t look like you got carried away, cutting them yourself.

Bette banged in Dead Ringer.

R83 Courteney wore a frontal hairpiece for that movie, because she refused to have her hair cut like that.

Bette's bangs in Dead Ringer were a plot point.

Yes, bangs do suit women!

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R86 That was smart of her. If it were me, i would have refused to do that look at all.

Jessica biel looks pretty here

Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber

I respectfully disagree about Jane Pauley R62 / R63 . I think she could have done so much better with her hair and hair style.

It's true. And it's been a source of great sorrow for me, but I'm working on it in therapy.

Mamie Eisenhower

Cher

you mean a bang to the forehead with an axe?

I have a normal shaped face. Not a huge forehead, or anything out of the ordinary.

Bangs look great on me. For whatever reasons, bangs make my cheekbones “pop”.

I can go with or without them. I usually go without them, because they are extra work.

R51 I know that was Brenda's signature look but i liked this hairstyle better.

Jill Clayburgh did bangs for Starting Over.

Jill was cute.

she ruined that movie about the pill addiction

ruined.

I think they're probably flattering to certain face shapes or something but I couldn't identify specifically how. And there's this comparison

She looks better with.

Glenda Jackson

There's something to be said for a signature look

Joanne Woodward as Rachel Rachel

Meryl.

Bangs look so much better on men that women dissuade them from wearing the style...

Bangs very effectively distracted us from knowing young Meghan McCain had no soul.

Diane Keaton Manhattan bangs.

Miss Tammy Cruise has worn bangs, no

Dawn famously wore straight bangs since the 90s. Finally grew them out into a more modern style last year.

Dawn looks fantastic with this style, it's completely appropriate for her age (60) and way more flattering than the dreaded messy center part that makes Madonna and Sarah Jessica Parker look so uncouth.

Jane Fonda Klute bangs