Best Glasses Styles for Men's Face Shape

Looking for some guidance on what shape of glasses frame you should choose? Taking your face shape into account is a smart way to narrow down your options and find a men’s glasses style that complements your natural features. Our glasses frames for men’s face shapes cover a huge range of styles, so you’ll still have plenty of options available after you figure out your face shape.

Men’s frames for oval faces

Men’s glasses for oval faces cover almost all styles. Oval faces have balanced features with a long-but-round profile. Oval faces have a narrow chin, wider cheekbones and a narrower forehead. Men’s glasses for oval faces are the most varied of the bunch — because the evenly-balanced nature of this face shape means almost any frame shape could work.

St Michel$55

Glasses for Oval Faces
Safari$51

Sunglasses for Oval Faces

Men’s frames for square faces

Square faces have evenly-proportioned features and solid angles. Men with this face shape have strong jawlines and wider foreheads. Glasses for men with a square face shape usually have rounded, or oval lens shapes to contrast with and balance out the sharper angles of this type of face.

Ledger$55

Glasses for Square Faces
Hidden$33

Sunglasses for Square Faces

Men’s frames for round faces

Round faces are pretty self-explanatory; they are evenly proportioned with softer curves around the edges. The main factor that makes round face shapes different from oval face shapes is the shorter overall length. Glasses frames for men with round faces feature sharper angles and tall lenses, to create an elongating effect.

Sebastian$69

Glasses for Round Faces
Nevada$69

Sunglasses for Round Faces

Men’s frames for heart faces

Heart-shaped faces have high cheekbones, narrow chins and wider foreheads. The defining feature of heart-shaped faces is that they are wider at the top and get narrower at the bottom of the face. Glasses for men wi th this face shape are smaller and more top-heavy than other types of frames.

Ledger$55

Glasses for heart faces
Hidden$33

Sunglasses for heart faces

Men’s frames for diamond faces

Diamond-shaped faces have full cheeks and narrower foreheads and chins. Men’s glasses for this face shape are usually lighter and more rounded. Browline-style frames are also great for adding weight to the top of diamond faces, balancing out their features.

Borderline$54

Glasses for diamond faces
The Hamptons$83

Sunglasses for diamond faces