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Side Swept Afro
An afro pushed and shaped toward one side, so the volume piles asymmetrically instead of sitting evenly round.
Try Side Swept Afro on your own photo. Free to download, iPhone, iOS 15.1 or later.
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Direction is everything: the coils get picked outward and then coaxed sideways by hand, so one side carries height while the other sits closer to the head. Often the cut supports it, with slightly less length left behind the low ear. The top line becomes a diagonal rather than a dome, and the visual mass moves well off center. Wind and pillows undo it, so it gets reset with a pick most mornings.
- Suitsround, square, oval face shapes. Banking the mass over one side leaves the two halves of the head unmatched, which pulls a round or square face in, and the diagonal top line adds apparent height.
- Hair typecoily, curly, thick. Needs real density to stay piled on one side, since a light afro falls back into a round shape as soon as your hands come away.
- UpkeepA trim every five to six weeks, plus a daily reset with a pick and a light hold cream to keep the direction.
- Ask forAsk for an afro cut slightly shorter on the low side, then shaped and swept across so the height sits above one brow.
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Free to download. iPhone, iOS 15.1 or later.