HairAI Studio.
Cut hair to chin length (4-5 inches) with subtle layers for movement. The bob has a slight A-line shape, longer in front, shorter in back. Add face-framing layers around the cheekbones. Style with round brush for smooth, polished finish. The look is sophisticated, effortlessly chic, and distinctly Parisian.
Free to try. Available worldwide on iPhone & Android.
The French bob is the chin-length, blunt, micro-fringed cut that has belonged to Jeanne Damas, Caroline de Maigret, and approximately every woman in a French film since 1962. Cut sharp at the chin (sometimes a touch above), heavy fringe just above the brow, with no layers anywhere — the shape is a perfect helmet, intentionally. It looks easier than it is.
Oval and heart-shaped faces wear it best — the chin line is exposed, so the cut is genuinely unforgiving to round faces or strong jaws. Straight to lightly wavy hair is the natural home; thick hair benefits from internal weight removal but no face-framing layers, ever. The whole point is the line: clean, blunt, intentional.
Low daily maintenance once you accept that the cut runs your life — you don't grow out a French bob, you just commit to it. Air-dry with a smoothing cream, or blow-dry straight in under five minutes. Trim every six weeks. The look traces back to the silent-film era (Louise Brooks, again) but the modern French bob is associated with the 1960s — Jane Birkin's daughter Lou Doillon, Anna Karina in Vivre Sa Vie. Ask for 'chin-length, very blunt, with a micro fringe just above the brow' — describing it as a 'short bob' will get you a bob, not a French bob.
Front-facing, natural light. The model handles bangs, hats, glasses, beards — even bad bathroom lighting.
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