Purpose
Virtual Hair Try On is a browser-based virtual hair-changing tool. Its core purpose is to let users preview a new hairstyle and new hair color with their own photo before actually cutting or coloring their hair. The official use case is positioned as making one clear decision: whether to cut, whether to color, whether to add bangs, whether to cut short, or whether to try a new style.
Main Capabilities
After users upload a photo, they can preview multiple hairstyle directions. The directions officially listed include:
- Bangs: curtain bangs, wispy bangs, blunt bangs, and face-framing layers.
- Short hair and cuts: short pixie cuts, cropped styles, classic bobs, lobs, and blunt cuts.
- Hair color: hair color, balayage, highlights, allowing comparison of directions such as dimensional blonde, rich brunette, and copper red.
The official description emphasizes that the preview keeps the same face and only changes the hair color, bangs, length, and style. The page also provides specific hairstyle filter pages, such as Textured Crop, Modern Side Part, Sharp Crew Cut, Butterfly Cut & V-Layers, Modern Pigtails, French Twist Updo, K-Pop & Korean Hairstyle, and more. Users can open the corresponding filter page to preview a specific style.
How to Use
The official process is as follows:
- Upload a photo. The official recommendation is to use a clear photo with a recognizable face and visible current hair; wearing glasses, having an expression, or a slight angle is also acceptable.
- Choose a hairstyle. Users can select bangs, short hair, bob, hair color, balayage, highlights, or another hairstyle direction.
- Generate a preview. The preview is designed to keep the face and overall appearance recognizable while changing the hair.
- Compare and save. Users can view a before-and-after comparison, download, regenerate, or upgrade to get more options.
The official description says the tool is a browser-based web tool that can be used on desktop or mobile without installing an app. After logging in, users can receive 10 Hair Credits, for one watermarked preview; a standard preview costs 10 credits, and a hairstyle reference preview costs 20 paid credits. Paid credit packs are 400 credits (40 standard previews or 20 reference previews, clean downloads without watermark, can use your own photo and an optional hairstyle inspiration image, credits never expire) and 1,800 credits (180 standard previews or 90 reference previews). Users can save liked high-resolution previews as salon references to show to a colorist or hairstylist.
Use cases
The officially described target users include:
- People who want to see the result before going to a salon or barbershop;
- People considering cutting bangs, cutting their hair short, or trying a bob or lob;
- People who want to compare different hair colors, balayage, and highlight effects;
- People who want to save previews as salon references to accurately explain their needs to a hairstylist;
- Both men and women can use it.
Officially, the tool is said to help avoid costly hair color or corrective haircut mistakes of $150–400 or more, as well as haircut regret that takes months to grow out.
Limitations and information not provided
The official materials do not provide the following: the specific time required to generate one preview, the format and size limits of uploadable images, supported languages, other charging methods besides credit packs, refund policy, data processing and privacy details, the exact accuracy of the preview or the degree of difference from the real result, or the specific conditions under which custom uploaded hairstyle inspiration images are supported (optional hairstyle inspiration images are mentioned only in the paid pack description). In addition, the official FAQ lists several question titles, but the corresponding answer text is not given in the provided materials, so the specific answers to these questions are not yet provided.
