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FRINGE BENEFITS

24.06.10 Lauren Wilkinson

If you want to change your hair without sacrificing your current colour or length a fringe is the perfect new addition. Before you take the chop, make sure you’re getting it right and choose a style which will complement your face shape. Let ghd show you how.

Square shaped faces are best suited towards delicately layered fringes that have a bit of length to them. This wispy style gives the illusion of a rounder face and toning down hard features.

If your face is long and pointed then opt for an angled side swept fringe which stems from a side parting. This will balance the face, shortening the length of the face and creating a softer look.

Round faces can get away with most fringe style, but should always avoid longer styles which shorten the face.

If, like Christina Ricci, you have a heart shaped face then you can pull off an ultra stylish blunt fringe. The sharp, heavy style creates proportion for long chins.

Finally, if you have an oval shaped face, you can count yourself lucky. Oval faces are very

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When I was 11 years old, I threw a no-hitter in a Little League game. I’d say I was happy when it happened, but I’d be lying. It was actually a pretty ugly performance. The game ended with the score being something like 5-2 and I wouldn’t have even known I had pitched a no-hitter if my coach at the time hadn’t gone back through the box score of the game later that night and called me up after he discovered that I’d actually thrown a no-no thanks to a series of errors, walks, and wild pitches that allowed plenty of base-runners and even a couple runs but no actual hits. Do I look back now and brag about doing it? Um…yeah! But realistically, I threw what had to be one of the ugliest no-hitters in Little League history.

I bring this up because Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Edwin Jackson recently threw a no-hitter of his own. And while I wouldn’t exactly compare it to my Little League performance, it was (almost) as ugly. Jackson walked eight batters during the course of the game, hit another and threw a wild pitch. In the third inning of the game, he actually managed to load the bases—with no outs!—before working himself out of a jam. But regardless of the trouble that he ran into, he went on to claim a 1-0 victory and a no-hitter when it was all said and done.