13 Head-Turning Bob Hairstyles with Bangs
Who doesn’t love a bob haircut? Long, short, layered, textured — there is literally a beautiful bob out there for every face shape and hair type. Add a sweet set of bangs to the mix, and you’ve got one hot look! If you are looking for a fab new haircut, here are 13 sultry bob hairstyles with bangs to get you inspired.
Ruby Red
Without a doubt, this beautiful bob is an attention getter. With the ruby red lowlights strategically placed in the fringe and around her face, this softly layered bob is a stunner.
How to Style:
1.Starting with clean, wet hair, apply a root lifter in the crown to give some volume. Then apply a smoothing serum starting at the ends. This will help speed up drying time as well as prevent frizz when drying.
2.Blow dry in sections starting at the bottom. Use a small paddle brush for the bottom part of the hair, using the curve of your head as your guide. By pulling your hair from side to side as you are drying, you will achieve the straightness at the bottom without the volume.
3. As you move up, start to use a small to medium size round brush. Take the round brush and pull sections of the hair from the root out. This will give you volume as well as smooth the hair.
4.When hair is completely, dry take a dime-sized amount of polishing cream, emulsify into your hands and run it through your hair to add definition and shine.
5. Top off this beautiful style with a lightweight hairspray.
Recommended Products:
You will see that I will recommend a lot of Aquage products because they WORK! For volume, use their Uplifting Foam. The smoothing serum I use on almost everyone is Silkening Oil. Finish off with their Detailing Creme and Finishing Spray.
Best Face Shape & Hair Type:
This is such a versatile style for every face shape. I would recommend this type of cut and style for normal to fine hair because it will add volume and movement.
Tip:
Ask your stylist to place red lowlights throughout your hair. To put the focus on bringing out your eyes, have them concentrate the placement a little heavier in the fringe and around your face.
Peek-A-Boo Baby
The compliments won’t stop with these peek-a-boo bangs! With the blunt edges, cut out fringe and warm coppery hue, you are sure to exude confidence.
How to Style:
1. Apply a quarter-sized amount of straightening gel to damp, towel dried hair.
2. Using a small to medium paddle brush, begin drying your hair, starting with the bangs.
3. Brush and blow dry bangs forward. If you have any cowlicks in the front I recommend taking the brush and moving your bangs back in forth in the opposite direction as you dry. This will help get that “bump” out of the bang and help them to lay smooth.
4. After hair is 100% dry, use your flat iron to seal the cuticle and get that sexy, glossy look.
5. Starting with small sections at the bottom, use a heat protecting spray. Spray about six inches away from hair. You do not want to saturate the strand.
6. Run your flat iron from roots to ends, going over each section no more than two times. You don’t want to burn or damage your hair!
7. When done smoothing the hair, finish with a lightweight pomade to add definition.
Recommended Products:
Paul Mitchell’s Straight Works is ideal for this style. The best heat protectant spray I have ever used is Aquage’s Beyond Shine. It’s ultra lightweight so it does not leave a greasy residue on your hair. Pravana’s Detail Shine & Define is an excellent pomade to smooth flyaways and add definition to this sharp cut.
Best Face Shape & Hair Type:
This style is suitable for round and oval face shapes. Any hair type could rock this cut and style. It can add weight to thin, fine hair or minimize weight from thick, course hair.
Tip:
Let your stylist know that you want your bangs cut at an angle. Going from short to long, have the bangs start out short right above your brow, gradually getting longer on the other side.
Beach Babe Waves
This full fringe adds an edge to this beach-waved beauty. Along with a few sun-kissed highlights, this bob will certainly add a pep in your step.
How To Style:
1. Apply a texturizing spray to damp hair.
2. Use a small paddle brush to smooth your bangs with the hair dryer.
3. Dry the rest of your hair using only your fingers.
4. Once hair is dry, use a flat iron to straighten your bangs.
5. For the rest of your hair, you are going to take random pieces, apply a heat protectant and wrap them around a clipless curling iron. This is going to give you that effortless wave that you naturally get at the beach.
6. Be careful when wrapping your hair around the iron. Start from the root and wrap hair around holding onto the end of your hair. Only leave your hair around the iron for about five seconds.
7. After curling random pieces of hair, put a small amount of serum on fingertips and gently break up the waves. The serum will help prevent the hair from getting frizzy.
Recommended Products:
You will fall in love with Paul Mitchell’s Awapuhi’s Wild Ginger Texturizing Sea Spray. Not only does is smell delicious but it gives you amazing results. The Awapuhi Styling Treatment Oil is a great serum to finish off these beautiful beach waves.
Best Face Shape & Hair Type:
This beautiful cut and style is perfect for all face shapes and hair types
Tip:
When creating this style, don’t worry about the waves being perfectly uniform. It’s meant to look undone and sexy!
Long Layered Bob
With a few subtle highlights and a softly textured fringe, this long layered bob is as classic as they come.
How To Style:
1.Add approximately a quarter-sized amount of thickening lotion throughout clean, damp hair.
2. Comb through to distribute product evenly.
3. Using a small paddle brush, blow dry bangs forward. Do this before you begin to dry the rest of your hair. This will prevent your bangs from separating.
4. Continue drying the rest of your hair with a large paddle brush, keeping the heat from the dryer going down the hair strands. I recommend using a concentrator on the end of your hair dryer. Many professional hair dryers come with them and they help with the air flow so that if kept in the same direction as the hair, it will ensure a smoother more polished look.
5. Once hair is completely dry, smooth down any flyaways with a flat iron and a mist of light hairspray.
Recommended Products:
Paul Mitchell’s Thicken Up will help plump up the cuticle giving you that thick, luscious hair that we all crave. When you need a light and flexible hairspray, you can’t go wrong with Aquage’s Finishing Spray.
Best Face Shape & Hair Type:
This amazing style works best on round, oval and heart shaped faces. All hair types work with this cut and style.
Tip:
When asking your stylist for this cut, ask for long layers that are cut blunt on the ends and softly textured bangs.
Flirty Fringe
A surprise pop of color adds some spunk to this chin-length bob. Along with the side-swept, flirty fringe, this style is sophisticated enough for the office yet sassy enough for the evening.
How To Style:
1.While hair is still damp, apply a volumizing spray at the roots.
2. Blow dry using a medium sized round brush.
3. Section hair off. Starting off at the bottom, roll hair under with the round brush while drying.
4. Take a large section from the bang area and roll it back towards the crown with the round brush while drying. This will give it that nice, subtle flip in the front without making it look like a curl.
5. Finish off with a medium hold hairspray.
Recommended Products:
Aveda’s Volumizing Tonic and Brilliant Medium Hold Spray are excellent tools to help you to achieve this style. I love the ceramic round brushes by Cricket. They don’t snag or pull the hair and give a nice polished look.
Best Face Shape & Hair Type:
This style is perfect for all face shapes and hair types.
Tip:
Ask your stylist for a chin-length bob with long layers. For the fringe, ask for a longer side-swept bang. If you love the color shining through in the bang, ask for a few peek-a-boo pieces of whatever color you desire!
Pastel Princess
This pastel blonde is icing on the cake. It turns this basic bob and bangs combo into a serious show stopper!
How To Style:
1. Apply a straightening cream to clean, damp hair.
2. Blow dry with a small to medium size paddle brush.
3. Once hair is completely dry, you can run a smoothing iron through to tame any stray hairs.
4. Use a dime-sized amount of a very lightweight pomade throughout hair to add detail and shine.
Recommended Products:
I love Biomega’s BeHave for a smoothing elixir. It has a creamy consistency, smells beautiful and smooths the cuticle for a straight, silky finish. To add shine and separation to the hair, use Biomega’s Text Me. It’s pliable, lightweight and very easy to work with.
Best Face Shapes & Hair Types:
This cut and style works best for round and oval face shapes. If you have fine or thin hair, this cut will help give you the fullness you desire.
Tip:
Ask your stylist for a blunt cut with a small amount of layering at the bottom.
Cleopatra-“esque”
Cleopatra wore this bold, blunt bob and she was the Queen of Egypt! Be the queen of your castle with this dazzling haircut.
How to Style:
1. Apply a smoothing serum to clean, damp hair.
2. Blow dry (using a directional nozzle) with a smoothing brush. Start with the bangs and work your way through the rest of your hair.
3. After hair is completely dry, take small sections starting in the back and run your flat iron through from roots to ends. Make sure to apply a heat protectant before flat ironing. The goal is to get hair as smooth as possible.
4. Run a small amount of smoothing serum on the top layer of hair. This will tame flyaways and give you a beautiful, glossy finish.
Recommended Products:
Moroccan Oil is the only product you need for this beauty. It’s a great product that can be used on both wet and dry hair. A boar bristle flat brush is a perfect smoothing brush and Denman makes a great one.
Best Face Shapes & Hair Types:
This particular length of bob is fab for oval, long and square shaped faces. The look also works great with all hair types.
Tip:
Just tell your stylist that you want to look like the Queen of Egypt!
Sexy & Simple
This tapered style is totally to die for! A short, layered bob like this one is trendy without trying too hard. The deep, side-swept bangs keep the look fun and fresh.
How To Style:
1. Apply a root lifter to clean, damp hair.
2. Part off the bang area starting at the left temple (or right temple) and blow dry bangs forward. This will allow the bangs to fall softly across the forehead.
3. Continue drying hair with a small to medium round brush.
4. Run the smoothing iron over any areas that need it.
5. Finish off with a small amount of pomade.
Recommended Products:
Biomega’s Up All Night will give you the lift and movement you need for this style. Aquage’s Transforming Paste is a combination of hairspray polymers and pomade. It gives you the hold of a hairspray, yet the definition and separation of a pomade.
Best Face Shapes & Hair Types:
This cut and style is great for all face shapes. Normal to thick hair would work best for this cut and style.
Tip:
For this tapered bob, ask your stylist for shorter layers and a heavier bang.
Curly Girly
This multi toned curly girl bob is hot to trot. The full, fab fringe will draw direct attention to those gorgeous eyes.
How To Style:
1. Apply a generous amount of texturizing spray to clean, damp hair.
2. Blow dry bangs forward with a small paddle brush.
3. Blow dry the rest of the hair using your fingers.
4. Once hair is completely dry, take a one-inch curling iron and curl small pieces of hair in random directions.
5. After hair is curled, use a dime-sized amount of pomade and run fingers through hair to break up the curls. This will give it a more random, organic look.
6. Spritz hair with hairspray.
Recommended Products:
Use Aquage’s Sea Salt Texturizing spray while hair is damp. To break up the curls, I would recommend using Paul Mitchell’s Wax Works.
Best Face Shapes & Hair Types: This cut and style looks great on round, oval and square shaped faces. All hair types can wear this.
Tip:
Ask your stylist for short layers with a very heavy bang. As far as the color, ask for the base color to be a vibrant red. Let your stylist know that you want some dimension and ask for different shades of red to be foiled throughout.
Stack Attack
This beautifully stacked bob has everything you want — fabulous color, beautiful bangs and tantalizing texture.
How To Style:
1. Apply a quarter-sized amount of styling cream to clean, damp hair.
2. Blow dry the bang area forward first with a small paddle or smoothing brush. This will allow you to softly sweep the bangs across your forehead and get rid of any cowlicks. Dry the rest of the hair thoroughly.
3. Once hair is completely dry, apply a heat protectant and run a flat iron through the hair.
4. Take random pieces of hair on the sides and bend some up and under. This will give you that piecey, undone look.
5. Take a dime-sized amount of pomade and go over the pieces that you flipped up and under to accentuate the texture.
Recommended Products:
Paul Mitchell’s The Cream is a great lightweight styling cream that not only gives hair hold and moisture, but protects hair from UV damage as well. Aquage Beyond Shine is a fab heat protectant.
Best Face Shapes & Hair Types:
All face shapes and hair types can rock this look!
Tip:
This style looks best with some texture cut into it. In addition to asking your stylist for a stacked bob, make sure she texturizes the ends for you.
Retro Doll
This retro beauty is a mixture of sweet and sass! This bob shows off a modern sleek style with a 40′s wave.
How To Style:
1. Apply a styling gel to clean, damp hair.
2. Blow dry hair smooth with a small round brush.
3. Once hair is dry, grab a large barrel curling iron. Take the top section of hair and gently bump under the ends.
4. To get this fabulous retro wave, take a section of hair from behind the ear and curl towards the face.
5. Use a dime-sized amount of pomade to smooth down flyaways and accentuate the wave on the side. Use your fingers to really mold the wave in a C shape going inward towards the cheek.
Recommended Products:
Aquage’s Molding Mega Gel is has fantastic hold without being sticky or flaky. To smooth this style down, I would use Paul Mitchell’s Wax Works.
Best Face Shapes & Hair Types:
Oval faces would look best in this cut. If you have normal to fine hair, this style is a great fit.
Tip:
When applying styling products to hair, start off with a smaller amount so that you don’t overload your hair. Add more product if needed as you go.
Foxy Brown
Texture, layers, side-swept bangs…what more could you ask for? You are sure to look “Foxy” in this beautiful brown bob.
How To Style:
1. Apply a texturizing cream to clean, damp hair.
2. Blow dry with your fingers.
3. Once hair is completely dry, apply a light hold hairspray over the entire head.
4. Take a smoothing iron and start flipping up random pieces of hair.
5. Once you achieve the desired style, take a dime-sized amount of pomade and go over the flipped out pieces. This will keep the style in place as well as accentuate the texture.
Recommended Products:
Pravana’s Twist Fiber Paste is easy to use and will last all day and night.
Best Face Shapes & Hair Types:
This cut and style is suitable for all face shapes and hair types.
Tip:
This look isn’t meant to be perfectly coiffed. The more undone, the better! Ask your stylist for a lot of texture when getting this cut.
Copper Goddess
This stylish bob has such a beautiful shape with the light layers and soft fringe. The bright, copper color gives this classic shape a little extra pizazz.
How To Style:
1. Apply a volumizing foam to clean, damp hair.
2. Blow dry using a small round brush. Dry bangs first in a forward motion. Make sure to dry the rest of the hair in a downward motion. This will give you the volume and smoothness that makes this style so beautiful.
3. Run a smoothing iron through hair to really close the cuticle. This will ensure maximum shine.
4. Finish off with a lightweight hairspray.
Recommended Products:
Paul Mitchell’s Awapuhi Wild Ginger Hydrowhip is fantastic. It smells amazing and gives a soft, flexible hold. Top the look off with Aquage’s Finishing Spray.
Best Face Shapes & Hair Types:
If you have an oval, heart or square shaped face, this cut is perfect for you. This cut and style will make anyone with fine or thin hair look thicker and fuller.
Tip:
Use a color protecting shampoo and conditioner to help maintain the vibrancy of this color. Ask your stylist for soft layers when getting this cut.
First things first, find an amazing stylist that you feel comfortable with. Communication is key when explaining what you want out of your haircut. Schedule regular trims and color touch-ups to maintain your gorgoues style. Also, use professional products on your hair. You possibly just spent hundreds of dollars on a brand new cut and color…spend the extra 40 or 50 dollars to keep it looking that way!
