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While aging is inevitable, beautiful and something to be proud of, some haircuts can make us look older than we are, and not frame our features as well as others can. For this reason, we checked in with professional hair stylists and hair experts for three haircut suggestions to avoid if your goal is to maintain a youthful look, or just a trendy one for fall! Read on for tips and insight from Ghanima Abdullah, hair expert and cosmetologist at The Right Hairstyles, Gina Rivera, celebrity hair stylist and founder of Phenix Salon Suites.

Thick, Blunt Bangs

While this fringe ‘do can be seen as edgy and bold, Abdullah warns that it can add years to your look by drawing attention to wrinkles, rather than framing your face or emphasizing your cheekbones like another haircut can. “Thick, blunt bangs that come past the eyebrows on a blunt lob” should be avoided, she explains, as “these emphasize every sign of age in the face, and they don’t frame the face well.” Rather, she stresses, “they push all the attention to the eyes, with all their lines.”

Instead, Try Curtain Bangs

An alternative to this “popular, yet unflattering look” would be curtain bangs, she recommends. “These flatter just about any face at any age and neatly frame the face while drawing attention away from serious aging signs,” she continues. Curtain bangs, Abdullah notes, are a type of fringe cut that creates a soft,…